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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of RV dwellers across San Francisco could be ticketed or towed if they do not move their vehicles every two hours beginning Nov. 1, when the city’s new parking enforcement goes into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048307/sf-just-voted-to-ban-long-term-rv-parking-what-happens-to-the-people-inside\">signed legislation\u003c/a> for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">new parking restrictions\u003c/a> in July as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-signs-legislation-to-address-rv-and-vehicular-homelessness-restore-public-spaces-in-san-francisco\">wider effort\u003c/a> to clear streets of RVs, tents and homeless encampments. But many people living in vehicles and homeless advocates have tried to delay enforcement, saying it will put \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047562/please-just-let-us-be-san-francisco-rv-crackdown-advances-despite-families-pleas\">intense pressure and financial strain\u003c/a> on extremely low-income residents while dispersing RVs across the city. Right now, many are clustered in the Bayview neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say they’re leading with compassion, but to me, they’re actually starting from a punitive standpoint to basically evict everybody in RVs and trailers from the city,” said Zach Bollinger, who lives in an RV near Lake Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the enforcement deadline, the city started a permitting process for people who live in RVs, allowing them to park without being subject to the two-hour parking limit. 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In the latest budget cycle, the city allocated funding for 65 additional housing vouchers specifically for RV families looking to move out of their vehicles, and is now in the process of moving those families into their new homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Oct. 30, just one family had been moved out of an RV and into housing. Bouck said that should increase once the parking enforcement begins.[aside postID=news_12062042 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1.jpg']Meanwhile, the city said it will be offering single adults with RV permits housing vouchers, non-congregate shelter beds and permanent supportive housing units. So far, many have largely been offered temporary shelter, said Bollinger, who works as a rideshare driver and photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, the RV offers more independence and privacy than a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to receive our permits, we also have to sign up to receive services like shelter or housing,” he said. “The cost of living is really high. You know, moving for street sweeping, having to find places to fill and dump tanks, dispose of garbage, that kind of stuff sucks to do. But I have a lot less worries about having to make the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 9% of the city’s unhoused population lives in vehicles, according to \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2024_PIT_Slide_Brief.pdf\">2024 federal data\u003c/a>. While a small portion of the homeless population overall, the number of people living in vehicles increased 37% from 2022 to 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families are disproportionately affected by the RV ban. The city’s \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2024_PIT_Slide_Brief.pdf\">2024 Point-in-Time count\u003c/a> found about 130 unsheltered families in the city, and 90% of those families lived in vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10, which includes the Bayview neighborhood, saw the largest increase in unsheltered homelessness between 2022 and 2024, largely due to an increase in people living in vehicles. There, local supervisor Shamann Walton and other community leaders have pushed for a safe parking site for families living in RVs. The city walked back a plan to keep a pandemic-era parking site open, sending many families to other streets with parking restrictions and often a lack of water hook-ups or sanitation services. Today, the city has no active safe parking programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the Bayview, the city’s west side, where Bollinger frequently parks, had the second-highest portion of homeless residents living in vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have gone back and forth over how to handle lines of RVs in residential areas, which increased after the coronavirus pandemic. In 2024, former Mayor London Breed similarly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007425/san-francisco-bans-overnight-parking-for-rvs-on-most-city-streets\">attempted to impose an RV ban\u003c/a>, then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">reversed course\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014339/sfs-overnight-rv-parking-ban-has-yet-to-be-enforced-as-advocates-try-to-reverse-it\">RV dwellers and homeless advocates pushed back\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This comes down to being very aristocratic,” Bollinger said. “It’s not meeting the needs of the homeless population in general. It’s really just so that we can say, ‘look at our beautiful, wonderful city’ when it’s not solving any economic issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For nearly 10 years, progressive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> Jewish groups have maintained close ties with a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank — providing support, facilitating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043918/feds-detain-2-palestinian-men-at-sfo-in-us-to-speak-at-interfaith-gathering\">faith-based cultural exchanges\u003c/a> and spreading awareness about encroaching settler violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following reports of Israel’s plans to demolish the village, Umm al-Khair, advocates are now calling for its protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an unjust takeover,” said Seth Morrison, a member of the Face-to-Face Jewish-Palestinian Reparations Alliance, based out of Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, and a leader in the Bay Area’s Jewish Voice for Peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is essential that the Israeli Embassy know that many Americans, both Jewish and non-Jewish, are aware of this criminal action and are demanding that it change,” Morrison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Israeli government and military personnel delivered 13 demolition orders and one stop-work order to Umm al-Khair, according to Chase Carter, communications director of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. The orders included plans to dismantle a community center — “a central hub for everyone in the community, men, women and children” — as well as the center’s playground, 11 homes and a greenhouse. The stop-work order paused construction on a new house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these demolition orders go through, the entire community is at risk of being forcibly displaced, permanently,” said Carter, whose organization has brought people from the Bay Area, including members of Kehilla Community Synagogue, to visit Umm al-Khair and other villages in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062243\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-03-KQED.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-03-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-03-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents took photos of the alleged demolition orders and stop-work order, delivered by Israeli Civil Administration employees and Israeli soldiers, on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of residents of Umm al-Khair)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A core community of [the region] and of the nonviolent civil resistance movement, that is connected to so many of us here in the Bay Area, will be gone,” Carter said. “And that is a huge blow to our movement and solidarity activists that are trying to stay steadfast in the struggle to bring peace and justice to the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the Israeli government nor the Israeli Consul General of San Francisco responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8IgggCoLZ8c\">video\u003c/a> posted Tuesday on YouTube, Eid Al-Hathaleen, an activist who lives in Umm al-Khair, said residents were given four days to appeal the orders in Israeli court. Lawyers for residents, Morrison told KQED on Thursday, said the “cases will be extremely hard,” and the likelihood of “stopping the demolitions legally is less than 20%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am extremely troubled by reports that the Israeli Government has resumed the demolition of Palestinian homes in Umm al-Khair,” Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Oakland, said in a statement. “No one should live under the threat of demolition, displacement, or death. I call on the State Department to use all available levers to stop the killing and displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residents of Umm al-Khair first took refuge among the rural, olive tree-dotted landscape of the South Hebron Hills in 1948, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/2011-11-11/ty-article/west-bank-settlement-is-outdoing-its-neighboring-bedouin-village/0000017f-e545-df5f-a17f-ffdf19140000\">losing\u003c/a> their homes during the creation of the state of Israel. They purchased the land from Palestinians in the nearby city of Yatta and built a small agrarian community. Israel conquered the land during the Six-Day War in 1967 and has occupied it since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1980, Israel set up a settlement, Carmel, abutting the village. The U.N. Security Council has condemned these settlements as a violation of \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm\">international law\u003c/a>, which Israel has disputed. Carmel, which has grown to engulf Umm al-Khair, has drawn international \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/opinion/01kristof.html?_r=2\">criticism\u003c/a> for its expansion into neighboring communities and for the stark disparities in living conditions between the village and the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-02-KQED.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Civil Administration employees and Israeli army personnel delivered the alleged demolition orders and stop-work order to Umm al-Khair residents on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Umm al-Khair residents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kehilla Rabbi Emeritus David Cooper, who has visited the village multiple times since 2016, said tensions between the growing settlement and the Palestinian residents of Umm al-Khair ratcheted up after Hamas’ attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning that Umm al-Khair was set to be demolished felt like discovering that a “next-door neighbor’s house” was being torn down, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No authority, no reason, nothing. … The neighborhood next to me is being erased,” Cooper said. “It feels as immediate as that to me, and there is no justification for it whatsoever.”[aside postID=news_12061703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SamiHamdiGetty.jpg']Kehilla’s connection with the village began with a series of trips organized by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence to conduct what Cooper called “nonviolent co-resistance work.” The congregation and the Jewish-Palestinian reparations group organized multiple delegations to visit Umm al-Khair, and they meet monthly with residents of the village on Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eid Al-Hathaleen and his cousin Awdah were Umm al-Khair’s primary points of contact with the Bay Area. Earlier this year, the congregation invited them to the U.S. as part of an inter-faith humanitarian mission that made headlines when the activists, both of whom held visitor visas, were detained at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043918/feds-detain-2-palestinian-men-at-sfo-in-us-to-speak-at-interfaith-gathering\">San Francisco International Airport by U.S. immigration agents\u003c/a>. Despite outcry from their local sponsors and from officials, the men were refused entry and sent home the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One month later, Awdah Al-Hathaleen, a prominent activist featured in the Oscar-winning documentary \u003cem>No Other Land\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050131/activists-mourn-palestinian-man-killed-in-west-bank-after-being-denied-entry-at-sfo\">was killed by an Israeli settler\u003c/a>. In the Bay Area, his friends and allies mourned the loss and worried about what it signaled for the village’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation was already bad before October 2023, but it escalated dramatically after,” Philip Weintraub, another Kehilla member, told KQED in July. “We’re most fearful for the survival of the village — that was most important to Awdah — the protection and safety of the residents of Umm Al-Khair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-05-KQED.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-05-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-05-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli army personnel delivered demolition orders on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, for more than a dozen structures in Umm al-Khair, including a greenhouse that activists said was essential for sustaining the village. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Umm al-Khair residents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week’s demolition orders follow a temporary injunction \u003ca href=\"https://peacenow.org.il/en/peace-now-to-court-settlers-flout-injunction-move-into-illegal-outpost-near-palestinian-village-of-umm-al-kheir\">issued\u003c/a> earlier this month by the Jerusalem District Court forbidding settlers from inhabiting seven prefabricated homes just steps from Umm al-Khair, on the grounds that the houses were built without authorization and in violation of zoning designations, according to reporting from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-issues-demolition-orders-for-13-buildings-in-west-bank-palestinian-hamlet/\">\u003cem>Times of Israel\u003c/em>.\u003c/a> This notice has been violated, and the homes are occupied, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, President Donald Trump said in an \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7327689/trump-israel-gaza-deal-interview-transcript/\">interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em> that any Israeli attempt to annex parts of the occupied West Bank will not be tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries,” he said, in a conversation about the administration’s role in the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal. “Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-07-KQED.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-07-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-07-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli army personnel brought the alleged demolition orders along with Civil Administration employees on Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Umm al-Khair, a village in the West Bank. \u003ccite>(Photos courtesy of Umm al-Khair residents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day before the interview was published, however, the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, voted in favor of annexing land in the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from June 18 to Sept. 25, Israeli authorities have approved the construction of 20,000 new housing units in the West Bank, according to a U.N. \u003ca href=\"https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/161860\">report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the Trump administration’s assurances, Morrison said the situation in Umm al-Khair tells another story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, what is happening is de facto an annexation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is essential that the Israeli Embassy know that many Americans, both Jewish and non-Jewish, are aware of this criminal action and are demanding that it change,” Morrison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Israeli government and military personnel delivered 13 demolition orders and one stop-work order to Umm al-Khair, according to Chase Carter, communications director of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. The orders included plans to dismantle a community center — “a central hub for everyone in the community, men, women and children” — as well as the center’s playground, 11 homes and a greenhouse. The stop-work order paused construction on a new house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these demolition orders go through, the entire community is at risk of being forcibly displaced, permanently,” said Carter, whose organization has brought people from the Bay Area, including members of Kehilla Community Synagogue, to visit Umm al-Khair and other villages in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062243\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-03-KQED.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-03-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-03-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents took photos of the alleged demolition orders and stop-work order, delivered by Israeli Civil Administration employees and Israeli soldiers, on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of residents of Umm al-Khair)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A core community of [the region] and of the nonviolent civil resistance movement, that is connected to so many of us here in the Bay Area, will be gone,” Carter said. “And that is a huge blow to our movement and solidarity activists that are trying to stay steadfast in the struggle to bring peace and justice to the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the Israeli government nor the Israeli Consul General of San Francisco responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8IgggCoLZ8c\">video\u003c/a> posted Tuesday on YouTube, Eid Al-Hathaleen, an activist who lives in Umm al-Khair, said residents were given four days to appeal the orders in Israeli court. Lawyers for residents, Morrison told KQED on Thursday, said the “cases will be extremely hard,” and the likelihood of “stopping the demolitions legally is less than 20%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am extremely troubled by reports that the Israeli Government has resumed the demolition of Palestinian homes in Umm al-Khair,” Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Oakland, said in a statement. “No one should live under the threat of demolition, displacement, or death. I call on the State Department to use all available levers to stop the killing and displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residents of Umm al-Khair first took refuge among the rural, olive tree-dotted landscape of the South Hebron Hills in 1948, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/2011-11-11/ty-article/west-bank-settlement-is-outdoing-its-neighboring-bedouin-village/0000017f-e545-df5f-a17f-ffdf19140000\">losing\u003c/a> their homes during the creation of the state of Israel. They purchased the land from Palestinians in the nearby city of Yatta and built a small agrarian community. Israel conquered the land during the Six-Day War in 1967 and has occupied it since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1980, Israel set up a settlement, Carmel, abutting the village. The U.N. Security Council has condemned these settlements as a violation of \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm\">international law\u003c/a>, which Israel has disputed. Carmel, which has grown to engulf Umm al-Khair, has drawn international \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/opinion/01kristof.html?_r=2\">criticism\u003c/a> for its expansion into neighboring communities and for the stark disparities in living conditions between the village and the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-02-KQED.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Civil Administration employees and Israeli army personnel delivered the alleged demolition orders and stop-work order to Umm al-Khair residents on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Umm al-Khair residents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kehilla Rabbi Emeritus David Cooper, who has visited the village multiple times since 2016, said tensions between the growing settlement and the Palestinian residents of Umm al-Khair ratcheted up after Hamas’ attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning that Umm al-Khair was set to be demolished felt like discovering that a “next-door neighbor’s house” was being torn down, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No authority, no reason, nothing. … The neighborhood next to me is being erased,” Cooper said. “It feels as immediate as that to me, and there is no justification for it whatsoever.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kehilla’s connection with the village began with a series of trips organized by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence to conduct what Cooper called “nonviolent co-resistance work.” The congregation and the Jewish-Palestinian reparations group organized multiple delegations to visit Umm al-Khair, and they meet monthly with residents of the village on Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eid Al-Hathaleen and his cousin Awdah were Umm al-Khair’s primary points of contact with the Bay Area. Earlier this year, the congregation invited them to the U.S. as part of an inter-faith humanitarian mission that made headlines when the activists, both of whom held visitor visas, were detained at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043918/feds-detain-2-palestinian-men-at-sfo-in-us-to-speak-at-interfaith-gathering\">San Francisco International Airport by U.S. immigration agents\u003c/a>. Despite outcry from their local sponsors and from officials, the men were refused entry and sent home the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One month later, Awdah Al-Hathaleen, a prominent activist featured in the Oscar-winning documentary \u003cem>No Other Land\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050131/activists-mourn-palestinian-man-killed-in-west-bank-after-being-denied-entry-at-sfo\">was killed by an Israeli settler\u003c/a>. In the Bay Area, his friends and allies mourned the loss and worried about what it signaled for the village’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation was already bad before October 2023, but it escalated dramatically after,” Philip Weintraub, another Kehilla member, told KQED in July. “We’re most fearful for the survival of the village — that was most important to Awdah — the protection and safety of the residents of Umm Al-Khair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-05-KQED.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-05-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-05-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli army personnel delivered demolition orders on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, for more than a dozen structures in Umm al-Khair, including a greenhouse that activists said was essential for sustaining the village. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Umm al-Khair residents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week’s demolition orders follow a temporary injunction \u003ca href=\"https://peacenow.org.il/en/peace-now-to-court-settlers-flout-injunction-move-into-illegal-outpost-near-palestinian-village-of-umm-al-kheir\">issued\u003c/a> earlier this month by the Jerusalem District Court forbidding settlers from inhabiting seven prefabricated homes just steps from Umm al-Khair, on the grounds that the houses were built without authorization and in violation of zoning designations, according to reporting from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-issues-demolition-orders-for-13-buildings-in-west-bank-palestinian-hamlet/\">\u003cem>Times of Israel\u003c/em>.\u003c/a> This notice has been violated, and the homes are occupied, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, President Donald Trump said in an \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7327689/trump-israel-gaza-deal-interview-transcript/\">interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em> that any Israeli attempt to annex parts of the occupied West Bank will not be tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries,” he said, in a conversation about the administration’s role in the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal. “Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-07-KQED.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-07-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-Umm-al-Khair-07-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli army personnel brought the alleged demolition orders along with Civil Administration employees on Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Umm al-Khair, a village in the West Bank. \u003ccite>(Photos courtesy of Umm al-Khair residents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day before the interview was published, however, the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, voted in favor of annexing land in the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from June 18 to Sept. 25, Israeli authorities have approved the construction of 20,000 new housing units in the West Bank, according to a U.N. \u003ca href=\"https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/161860\">report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the Trump administration’s assurances, Morrison said the situation in Umm al-Khair tells another story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, what is happening is de facto an annexation. Since the Gaza genocide started, settler violence against Palestinians has increased a hundredfold,” he said. “Numerous people have been killed, they’ve taken over more land, they’ve built more illegal settlements. And this is part of that initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a> is headed for approval on Tuesday, according to new polls from California’s two most trusted independent pollsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2025/\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> and UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies found a majority of voters ready to support the ballot initiative, which would temporarily change California’s congressional maps in an attempt to give Democrats more seats in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IGS found support for the measure at 60% for likely voters, while the PPIC poll found 56% of the electorate backing it. The surveys found just 1% to 2% of voters undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats in California, led by Gov. 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Gavin Newsom speaks about California redistricting plans at a press conference at the Democracy Center, Japanese American Museum on August 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Newsom spoke about a possible California referendum on redistricting to counter the legislative effort to add five Republican House seats in the state of Texas. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both polls found voters’ positions on Proposition 50 directly related to their political party affiliations. The IGS survey shows more than 90% of Democrats planning to vote yes and more than 90% of Republicans saying they will vote no. Likely voters not affiliated with either party were split 57%–39%, according to the IGS poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to know how people are likely to vote, you really just need to ask their party registration on this one,” IGS poll director Mark DiCamillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC also found a stark partisan split, PPIC poll director Mark Baldassare said. It’s unusual, he said, for a ballot measure to be viewed through such a partisan lens, but Baldassare said the polls show California voters are connecting the measure to national politics and view it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5582302/californians-redistricting-vote-could-hinge-on-how-they-feel-about-newsom-and-trump\">as a choice between Trump and Newsom\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"2025 California Special Election\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50,Learn about Proposition 50' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Aside-2025-Special-Election-Voter-Guide-Proposition-50-1200x675-1.png]“If you look at the people who would vote yes on Proposition 50, that is the people that support this change in the redistricting process, 95% of them disapprove of President Trump, 86% of them approve of Gov. Newsom,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IGS similarly found Proposition 50 preferences directly related to the views voters have of Newsom and Trump, DiCamillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IGS poll also identified differences in how voters plan to cast their ballots: Democrats were motivated to vote early, said DiCamillo, and are outpacing Republicans two-to-one in returning their ballots early. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s contentious \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sf-family-zoning-plan\">rezoning plan\u003c/a> is unlikely to produce the number of homes the city is required to build to meet state requirements, according to projections in a report released Thursday by the city’s chief economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is on the hook to make way for 82,000 new homes by 2031, and risks losing state funding and control over housing development if a local rezoning plan is not adopted by January 2026. The report could add another hurdle for the housing proposal, which has already been a major test for Mayor Daniel Lurie, who had never served in public office before this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report suggests that Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan could lead to a “significant increase in the city’s housing supply.” But even optimistic modeling projected only about 14,600 new units, due to construction costs and the plan’s dependency on market conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The context for housing development in San Francisco has changed profoundly in the past several years,” the report read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nevertheless, under both scenarios considered in this report, the proposed rezoning would lead to a significant increase in the city’s housing supply, and have broadly positive effects on housing prices and the city’s broader economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Office of Economic Analysis reviews all new legislation introduced at the board and will report on its economic effects if it’s determined to have a significant impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062183 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/240214-CoastalCommission-56-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/240214-CoastalCommission-56-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/240214-CoastalCommission-56-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/240214-CoastalCommission-56-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses line Lawton Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on Feb. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Family Zoning Plan increases citywide capacity for about 39,000 additional homes, meeting the state target of 36,200 units in the city’s more residential \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057448/on-sfs-west-side-a-push-to-protect-historic-landmarks-amid-plans-for-more-housing\">western\u003c/a> and northern neighborhoods. The plan does not include blueprints for actual developments, but instead permits more units to be built on some 92,000 parcels in the city to allow denser and taller housing in areas where development is restricted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/FZP-Factsheet-Capacity-Calculations.pdf\">financial feasibility\u003c/a> analysis by the Planning Department found that the plan could produce about 19,000 units of moderate and above moderate income units, meeting the state-mandated target of 16,000 for these income categories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report analyzes market trends before and after the 2010s, when housing production sharply increased following a post-recession low. But the chief economist points out that housing is now more expensive to build than before the coronavirus pandemic, with no clear signals that could change or revert back any time soon.[aside postID=news_12059533 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg']“An expansive rezoning effort, like the proposed Family Zoning plan, will be challenged to match the 2010s levels of new housing development in the city, even under an optimistic high-growth scenario,” the report read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Housing and Community Development, in its preliminary review in September, said the city’s rezoning plan is largely compliant. It’s unclear how they will view the latest report or whether it will affect the city’s standing with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city fails to pass a rezoning plan by January, state officials could withhold local funding and take over San Francisco’s housing production approval processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too many parents are already afraid their kids won’t be able to afford to live in San Francisco,” said Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office. “Mayor Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan will help build the housing we need and meet our obligations under state law — we just need to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) organizers who support the rezoning proposal have been pushing for more permissive rules to allow for more density and housing across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still should be doing family zoning, but we need to do a lot more to actually produce the housing we need as a city,” said Jane Natoli, Organizing Director at YIMBY Action in San Francisco, who stressed that the plan needs to pass. “I am concerned because we have a target that we’re supposed to be moving toward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critics of the plan, which span from homeowners fearful of changes in their neighborhoods to housing watchdogs who say the plan doesn’t do enough to protect renters and small businesses, said the latest findings match some of their concerns, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>The problem isn’t zoning; it’s financing, construction costs, and an outdated RHNA formula driven by politics rather than real demand,” said Lori Brooks with Neighborhoods United SF, using an acronym that stands for Regional Housing Needs Allocation and refers to the number of homes each jurisdiction must build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some supervisors are simultaneously pushing for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058853/san-francisco-public-bank-supporters-eye-2026-ballot-measure\">public bank that could help finance the thousands of affordable units\u003c/a> that are already approved in San Francisco, but are stalled in the development pipeline due to a lack of funding. Other datasets show \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-megaprojects-stalled-20812460.php\">private development has also slowed\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12061468 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251015-FAIRFAXRECALL-24-BL-KQED.jpg']“Instead of focusing on what’s actually needed — preserving existing rent-controlled housing, supporting small businesses, and building truly affordable homes — this plan upzones nearly the entire west and northeast sides of the city with no guardrails, no affordability guarantees, and silences the voice of residents in how their communities should grow,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report casts two projections based on a high-growth scenario and a low-growth scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-growth scenario assumes that the city’s housing process returns to pre-pandemic levels by 2030 and grows until 2045, projecting a 10% increase in housing prices over the next five years. Under that model, the report found the plan could add 14,646 additional housing units, beyond what the city’s existing zoning might produce, over the next 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low-growth scenario assumes that San Francisco housing prices increase only at the U.S. long-term rate of 1.8% annually, and that housing prices won’t reach pre-pandemic levels until 2041. That projection would lead to only 8,504 new units in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also highlights changes to the housing market that have occurred in westside and northern neighborhoods, which are a focus of the rezoning plan to increase density. Condos downtown and in the South of Market neighborhood have experienced price drops of nearly 40% since 2016, while the Richmond and Sunset have fallen only slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042431\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-10-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jeff Bellisario, executive director of the Bay Area Council, said he’s projecting insignificant shifts in construction and labor costs in the years ahead. But other market factors could pose a challenge for the city in its effort to build thousands of new affordable homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real question is, where do rents go in the city? They have been increasing in the last 12 months. Do they continue on an upward trajectory?” he said. “Even if costs continue to move in an upward fashion or stay elevated, that may not matter if developers are able to recapture that via rents or if their condos are for-sale units via higher home prices. So I think that’s really the equation to think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report notes that the amount of housing that will be produced as a result of rezoning, and its economic impact on the city, depends on the future housing market conditions, creating uncertainty in the projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If market conditions were such that the 36,000 unit target was achieved, as a result of the rezoning, the economic impact on the city would likely be significantly more positive than the estimates in this report,” it read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Planning Commission approved the city’s zoning plan in September. In the weeks since, supervisors have put forward amendments, including to prohibit demolition of buildings with more than two rent-controlled units and to incentivize developers to replace lost commercial space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those amendments were not included in the city economist’s latest report, but could lower the housing production projections even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the amendments, some are improvements, but they do not go far enough to protect tenants, small businesses, or neighborhood-serving corridors,” Brooks, of Neighborhoods United SF, said. “A responsible housing plan must balance production with protection and preservation. This one does not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“An expansive rezoning effort, like the proposed Family Zoning plan, will be challenged to match the 2010s levels of new housing development in the city, even under an optimistic high-growth scenario,” the report read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Housing and Community Development, in its preliminary review in September, said the city’s rezoning plan is largely compliant. It’s unclear how they will view the latest report or whether it will affect the city’s standing with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city fails to pass a rezoning plan by January, state officials could withhold local funding and take over San Francisco’s housing production approval processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too many parents are already afraid their kids won’t be able to afford to live in San Francisco,” said Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office. “Mayor Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan will help build the housing we need and meet our obligations under state law — we just need to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) organizers who support the rezoning proposal have been pushing for more permissive rules to allow for more density and housing across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still should be doing family zoning, but we need to do a lot more to actually produce the housing we need as a city,” said Jane Natoli, Organizing Director at YIMBY Action in San Francisco, who stressed that the plan needs to pass. “I am concerned because we have a target that we’re supposed to be moving toward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critics of the plan, which span from homeowners fearful of changes in their neighborhoods to housing watchdogs who say the plan doesn’t do enough to protect renters and small businesses, said the latest findings match some of their concerns, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>The problem isn’t zoning; it’s financing, construction costs, and an outdated RHNA formula driven by politics rather than real demand,” said Lori Brooks with Neighborhoods United SF, using an acronym that stands for Regional Housing Needs Allocation and refers to the number of homes each jurisdiction must build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some supervisors are simultaneously pushing for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058853/san-francisco-public-bank-supporters-eye-2026-ballot-measure\">public bank that could help finance the thousands of affordable units\u003c/a> that are already approved in San Francisco, but are stalled in the development pipeline due to a lack of funding. Other datasets show \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-megaprojects-stalled-20812460.php\">private development has also slowed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Upon returning from the trip, prosecutors allege, Azevedo agreed to use his power as a San Leandro city council member to help obtain a contract for an Oakland-based housing company that aimed to manufacture modular homes made from shipping containers. In exchange, Azevedo would receive a percentage of the sales from units the city purchased, the filing alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo has acknowledged his participation in a 2023 Vietnam trip that Thao and other East Bay officials also attended. The trip was sponsored by the Vietnamese American Business Association, led by David Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing company described in the court filing is not explicitly named.[aside postID=news_12022612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg'] A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052003/san-leandro-lawsuit-documents-shed-light-on-company-at-center-of-oakland-fbi-probe\">lawsuit filed by former San Leandro City Manager\u003c/a> Francis Robustelli in June alleges Azevedo and fellow San Leandro City Councilmember Victor Aguilar invited her to the Oakland showroom of Evolutionary Homes in 2023. 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So far this year, at least 100 scholars and recent graduates across the UC system have had their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037114/student-visa-cancellations-uc-berkeley-beyond-could-hurt-us-innovation\">visas or exchange visitor status revoked\u003c/a> “with no valid justification,” according to the union. Some students and graduate workers have had their visas revoked and reinstated, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/08/international-students-california-universities/\">according to \u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF postdoctoral researcher Atreya Dey, who is from India, said the union began circulating the petition after first hearing that peoples’ exchange visitor status or student visas had been revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think since there’s so many attacks on immigrants happening right now, the UC needs to take some steps to protect basically its core working research group,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the UC system, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/uc-workforce-diversity\">61.5% of postdoctoral scholars\u003c/a> are international workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-12-KQED-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-12-KQED-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-12-KQED-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-12-KQED-1536x949.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-12-KQED-1920x1187.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UAW 4811 is calling on the UC to establish a legal defense fund for those affected by changes to their immigration status; provide financial assistance for people who lose a job, fellowship or living accommodations based on a status change; and deny immigration officials access to university property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California has long been at the forefront of the fight for immigrant rights in higher education,” the petition reads. “UC must live up to this history by joining other universities in their opposition to the Trump Administration’s blatantly illegal attacks on higher education and immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW 4811 graduate students are currently in contract negotiations with the UC, bargaining over fair pay and job security on behalf of graduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/frequently-asked-questions-university-employees-about-possible-federal-immigration-enforcement#questiontwo\">said on its website\u003c/a> that while it cannot broadly prohibit immigration officers from coming onto campus, it does limit public access to certain areas, including those restricted by key card or locked doors, such as dormitories.[aside postID=news_12056908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-03-1020x680.jpg']Access to other areas that are generally unlocked can also be restricted, such as lecture halls where class is in session, hospital exam and inpatient rooms, laboratories and kitchens and food preparation areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson Rachel Zaentz said the university system provides “know your rights” information cards that detail the information students are legally obligated to provide if stopped by federal immigration enforcement agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“International students can reach out to their International Student Services Office for legal and resource referrals,” Zaentz wrote via email. “ [UC Immigrant Legal Services Center California] is also available for legal consultations and referrals for UC’s international students with immigration related questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dey said so far, the UC hasn’t responded to the petition or taken any “concrete steps” in ongoing negotiations on immigration-related demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The petition is just to get the university to do something to protect its workers, which they haven’t really done much,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dey’s current F-1 visa, a non-immigrant visa for full-time students, expires next year. He had planned to apply for an H1-B visa to continue biomedical research at the UC’s San Francisco campus, but after the Trump administration introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/h-1b-specialty-occupations\">new $100,000 fee\u003c/a> for people applying from outside the country in September, he said he’s more worried about how changing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058586/silicon-valley-dreams-at-risk-current-h-1bs-sidestep-trumps-100k-fee-for-now\">restrictions to H1-B\u003c/a> and other work visas could prevent him from continuing his research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UCSF sees, at least it seems like they see, that my research is important, but they have so far still not taken any concrete steps to protect immigrants like me,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San José’s plan to limit how immigration authorities can use public properties is modeled after the “ICE Free Zones” executive order issued by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson earlier this month. Trump sent the National Guard to Chicago in early October, but a court has paused the deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council on Tuesday approved asking city staff to inventory the myriad properties that could be “commandeered for civil immigration enforcement activities like staging, processing, or establishing an operational base” and to have the city attorney’s office draft a policy to restrict those activities. The policy is expected to come back to the council for another approval vote later in the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisors, in a coordinated effort, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060893/south-bay-leaders-aim-to-create-ice-free-zones\">approved a similar plan\u003c/a> to restrict federal agents from using facilities and land for immigration enforcement last week. San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood on Tuesday also \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/bilalmahmood/status/1983244608722354479\">said\u003c/a> he wants to see a similar plan put in place there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents and immigrant support organizations in the South Bay, such as Amigos de Guadalupe, broadly supported the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dilza Gonzalez, head of organizing for the nonprofit Sacred Heart Community Services, said city leaders have a responsibility to protect all residents, regardless of background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048135\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-scaled-e1752857672682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents guard outside of a federal building and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in downtown Los Angeles as demonstrations continue after a series of immigration raids began last Friday, June 13, 2025, in Los Angeles. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard and the Marines against the wishes of city leaders. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, many of our immigrant communities, and anybody that speaks a different language or doesn’t look American enough…we are in constant fear of getting kidnapped, of getting taken away from our families,” Gonzalez told the council. “You need to show us and our families that San José stands with them, not against them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While officials say the local rules and policies are aimed primarily at making sure immigrant residents feel supported by their local leaders, it’s unclear how much the restrictions would thwart federal immigration authorities’ work on the ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>About 112,000 San Francisco residents who are expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">lose their November food stamp benefits\u003c/a> due to a suspension by the federal government will get some relief through an $18 million public-private partnership announced by Mayor Daniel Lurie Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the city’s Human Services Agency will mail letters to recipients of CalFresh, California’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, with instructions to access pre-paid gift cards that will cover their full benefits for November, Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your mayor and your leaders will not let this federal government shutdown prevent you from putting food on the table for your family,” Lurie said at a press conference announcing the initiative on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of the initiative’s cost will come from a $400 million reserve that San Francisco lawmakers set up in this year’s budget to help the local government address potential federal and state funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crankstart, the family foundation of venture capitalist Michael Moritz and writer Harriet Heyman, paid for the other half. The cards will be redeemable at citywide grocery stores in partnership with the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66293_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with gray hair wearing a black face mask holds out cauliflower heads as a man using a can walks past in a paved outdoor area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66293_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66293_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66293_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66293_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66293_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66293_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers distribute food items at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. Volunteers at the food distribution events often help set up, build grocery bags, distribute food, check in participants, manage the line and help with other tasks as needed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SNAP benefits are set to lapse nationwide in November for the first time since the program was created in 1964 as the federal government shutdown enters its fifth week. Millions of Californians are expected to miss out on benefits; already, some restaurants around the Bay Area are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">offering free or discounted meals\u003c/a> to affected families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, no end to the shutdown appears to be in sight as Democrats and Republicans remain in a standoff over the 2026 spending plan and discussions over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058393/bay-area-lawmakers-say-gop-to-blame-as-shutdown-threatens-affordable-care-act\">expiring federal health care subsidies\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12062018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty1.jpg']“While the situation in Washington remains uncertain, here in San Francisco, we are taking care of each other,” Lurie said Wednesday. “This city stands with our workers, our kids and our seniors, and we’ll keep doing what it takes to ensure San Franciscans remain safe and healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as San Francisco aims to close the gap, experts say the SNAP suspension could represent a loss of $20 million a month in benefits, meaning more is needed to help low-income families in the city cope with loss of food benefits while keeping up with the cost of living in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an exponential amount of need at the moment that isn’t being met with the matched resources,” said Pegah Faed, executive director of Safe and Sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faed’s organization supports \u003ca href=\"https://sffamilyservicesalliance.org/\">an alliance of family services groups\u003c/a> in San Francisco that \u003ca href=\"https://donate.safeandsound.org/campaign/739731/donate\">announced a fund to help families\u003c/a> at risk of losing access to SNAP and the federal supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, known as WIC. It is considering giving direct cash or vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates from these organizations hope the fund will draw in more donations the same way they saw people pool resources to help families in need during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12061018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1031437072-scaled-e1761153823511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe and Sound joins an alliance of family service groups in San Francisco, announcing a new fund to help families at risk of losing access to SNAP and the federal WIC nutrition program. It is considering offering direct cash assistance or vouchers. \u003ccite>(Rawpixel/iStock / Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faed said it was too soon to announce an initial amount or a fundraising goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The collective awareness of how important this particular moment and time is to support those who are receiving these benefits is at an all-time high,” Faed said. “Everyone is trying to do their part because no child, no individual should have to go a day without knowing where their next meal is coming from.”[aside postID=news_12061005 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1457114961-2000x1333.jpg']Lurie’s announcement came a day after the Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved giving $10 million to local food banks and food assistance programs to offer some relief to residents who rely on CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indefinite delay to SNAP benefits could result in 13,000 to 19,000 more people seeking food assistance daily from the Alameda County Community Food Bank, on top of the 60,000 who already rely on it, according to its communications director, Michael Altfest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061030/california-national-guard-to-support-food-banks-as-federal-shutdown-drags-on\">deploying National Guard units\u003c/a> to food banks across the state, where there’s expected to be an influx of clients as more people go without federal support next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Tuesday, the state joined 21 others in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061823/california-sues-trump-administration-over-suspension-of-snap-benefits-during-shutdown\">suing the Trump administration\u003c/a>, seeking a temporary restraining order to halt the suspension of SNAP benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said his office would continue to monitor the federal shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my entire career, and now as mayor, it has never been acceptable to throw up our hands and expect kids, parents and seniors to just figure it out,” he said. “And in this city, we will not stand by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“While the situation in Washington remains uncertain, here in San Francisco, we are taking care of each other,” Lurie said Wednesday. “This city stands with our workers, our kids and our seniors, and we’ll keep doing what it takes to ensure San Franciscans remain safe and healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as San Francisco aims to close the gap, experts say the SNAP suspension could represent a loss of $20 million a month in benefits, meaning more is needed to help low-income families in the city cope with loss of food benefits while keeping up with the cost of living in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an exponential amount of need at the moment that isn’t being met with the matched resources,” said Pegah Faed, executive director of Safe and Sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faed’s organization supports \u003ca href=\"https://sffamilyservicesalliance.org/\">an alliance of family services groups\u003c/a> in San Francisco that \u003ca href=\"https://donate.safeandsound.org/campaign/739731/donate\">announced a fund to help families\u003c/a> at risk of losing access to SNAP and the federal supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, known as WIC. It is considering giving direct cash or vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates from these organizations hope the fund will draw in more donations the same way they saw people pool resources to help families in need during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12061018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1031437072-scaled-e1761153823511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe and Sound joins an alliance of family service groups in San Francisco, announcing a new fund to help families at risk of losing access to SNAP and the federal WIC nutrition program. It is considering offering direct cash assistance or vouchers. \u003ccite>(Rawpixel/iStock / Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faed said it was too soon to announce an initial amount or a fundraising goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The collective awareness of how important this particular moment and time is to support those who are receiving these benefits is at an all-time high,” Faed said. “Everyone is trying to do their part because no child, no individual should have to go a day without knowing where their next meal is coming from.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">government shutdown\u003c/a> has reached its second month. And the 5.5 million Californians who use CalFresh — the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps — have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">their November SNAP payments delayed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s still unclear how SNAP payments will be distributed this month. On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump’s administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596121/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown\">use the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s contingency fund to provide SNAP payments\u003c/a> in November after all, having previously claimed that it could not tap this fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the White House warned that payments would still only be half of people’s regular benefits, and that there could be lengthy delays before EBT cards are reloaded. And on Nov. 4, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/04/us/trump-shutdown-news#cities-nonprofits-food-stamp-snap-payments\">Trump again threatened to withhold SNAP payments\u003c/a> entirely — before a judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">ruled a second time that the White House must pay these benefits in full by Nov. 7\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 6, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">some CalFresh recipients have begun to see benefits payments\u003c/a> arrive in full onto their EBT cards, but it’s not yet clear how these funds will continue to roll out, especially since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b\">the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block the judge’s order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the Bay Area,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\"> food banks\u003c/a> are working to meet the needs of thousands of people who have seen their access to food greatly reduced aleady, with the Thanksgiving holidays fast approaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you don’t need the services of a food bank right now, you might be wondering how to best support your local nonprofit providing food assistance to your neighbor, either by volunteering your time or donating to them financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for how Bay Area food banks say you can most effectively support them during the shutdown. And remember: The quickest way to offer your support is by visiting an organization’s website and signing up there to volunteer or make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t feel you need to wait until the holidays to volunteer or donate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The holidays are definitely busier times when we tend to get more volunteers coming in,” said Elizabeth Gomez, vice president of impact at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>. “But the truth is that we need volunteers every day of the year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Thanksgiving holiday is a particularly popular time to volunteer at food banks around the country, SNAP payments are typically paid onto recipients’ EBT cards in the first ten days of the month — meaning that with the shutdown delays, many people’s urgency around accessing food will start early in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062023 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would-be volunteers should also seek out opportunities at smaller locations in their communities, such as schools, community centers, senior centers and soup kitchens. \u003ccite>(Maskot/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ACCFB has already seen a 12% increase since July in people using its food distribution sites, Gomez said. And now, the CalFresh delays “couldn’t come at a worse time,” she said. “This is November: It’s a time for family, for food, for togetherness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people on CalFresh are particularly relying on these funds to feed their families at the holidays, noted Gomez, “especially during the winter months when not only our food prices go up, but electricity bills go up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be open to different volunteer roles …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Food banks — and the programs they distribute to — have a wide variety of volunteer roles to be filled, from warehouse roles like stocking shelves, packing boxes and cleaning facilities to “front of house” opportunities where volunteers work directly with members of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a volunteer sorts donated food for the SF Marin food bank\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers sort donated apples at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. The organization’s workers voted to unionize in 2020 following a growing sense among employees that management was ignoring institutional problems. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Different organizations may have different needs. Cody Jang, senior associate director of community engagement at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\">San Francisco-Marin Food Bank\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036573/volunteer-bay-area-non-profits-what-helps-opportunities\">told KQED earlier this year\u003c/a> that one of the organization’s biggest needs is for volunteers with a valid driver’s license and their own vehicle to deliver food door-to-door through\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/programs/home-delivered-groceries-seniors/\"> the home-delivered grocery program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/\">Berkeley Food Network\u003c/a>, the most crucial volunteer role is that of greeter, executive director Andrew Crispin said: people who welcome clients, “letting them know what’s on the menu, letting them know that this is a safe space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and volunteering at different places\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since\u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/what-difference-between-food-bank-and-food-pantry\"> the SF-Marin Food Bank itself is “much more of a warehouse” \u003c/a>where “we get the food, we build a menu each week, and then we push it out to partners,” Jang also suggested would-be volunteers seek out opportunities at these smaller locations in their communities: “schools, community centers, senior centers, soup kitchens, all kinds of different places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only does donating volunteer hours to one of these smaller pantries help “with the chain of getting food to those in need,” your work there is more likely to impact your actual neighbors, Jang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Know that donating money has greater impact than donating food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>‘We definitely need volunteers both at our distribution sites and at our warehouses, but also quite honestly, we need people’s financial support,” said Leslie Bacho, CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/\">Second Harvest of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12061440 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/013_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9229_qed.jpg']Donating money rather than food gives food banks far more flexibility, as these nonprofits are able to negotiate special deals for the food they buy in bulk — at much better prices than you can access as a private customer at a store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can really stretch people’s dollars far,” Bacho said. “And believe me, they are really needed in this moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every dollar, we’re able to turn that into $2 of purchasing power,” ACCFB’s Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And especially at a time when CalFresh benefits are decreasing, we need to do everything that we can to secure additional funds to purchase nutritious food for our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>See if your employer will match your donation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some companies will match whatever you donate to a food bank, so it’s worth inquiring with your employer. \u003ca href=\"https://donate.accfb.org/search/Donate\">ACCFB’s donation page \u003c/a>even allows you to type in your company’s name to see if they’ll match the amount you give.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be aware of any guidelines for donating food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Food banks will typically welcome nonperishable, unopened food. And you’ll want to make sure your product can be accepted at the particular food bank you want to donate to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Needed-Food-items-2025.pdf\">ACCFB has a list of foods “our community loves” \u003c/a>to guide food donations, which include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12060770 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ready-to-eat meals, especially in easy-open cans or pouches\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chilis, stews, ravioli and soups\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chicken, tuna and salmon\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Snacks for children (like healthy lunch snacks, bars, and fruit or veggie pouches)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nonperishable fruit (in cups, bowls or cans)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Peanut butter\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cereal (boxes or single-serve bowls)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nutrition and protein bars\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ACCFB-General-Donation-Guidelines-new-logo-Oct21.pdf\">Items the food bank asks people \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to donate:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Soda, carbonated drinks, energy drinks or alcohol\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Items with major dents or damage\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Produce that’s overripe, moldy, wilted or extremely bruised\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Items that have been previously thawed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ice cream\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some food banks may also accept products needed by the community, like detergent, period supplies, diapers or other personal care items, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/three-non-food-items-food\">Feeding America suggests \u003c/a>you contact your local organization directly to check.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Host a food drive to collect physical donations …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While food banks across the country paused their traditional food drives at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re once again an option for people wanting to support their local food bank with food donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with white hair and a warm coat picks through a huge box of ears of corn in a paved outdoor area where lots of other people are also circulating.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers distribute food items at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ACCFB also welcomes\u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/get-involved/fundraise/food-drive/#large\"> “large-scale food drives”\u003c/a> in which groups like schools and larger businesses commit to collecting over 400 lbs. of food, i.e., at least three completely full food drive barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… or start a virtual food drive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ACCFB has a tool that allows supporters to \u003ca href=\"https://donate.accfb.org/vfd\">host virtual food drives online\u003c/a>, inviting donors to “shop” for the food bank’s most needed fresh items, like milk, eggs and produce, which can’t be collected in a typical food drive’s barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thanks to our bulk purchasing power, the money you’d spend in a grocery store to fill just one food drive barrel is enough to fill 3–4 virtual barrels,” ACCFB’s website said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ffenzi\">Francesca Fenzi\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">government shutdown\u003c/a> has reached its second month. And the 5.5 million Californians who use CalFresh — the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps — have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">their November SNAP payments delayed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s still unclear how SNAP payments will be distributed this month. On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump’s administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596121/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown\">use the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s contingency fund to provide SNAP payments\u003c/a> in November after all, having previously claimed that it could not tap this fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the White House warned that payments would still only be half of people’s regular benefits, and that there could be lengthy delays before EBT cards are reloaded. And on Nov. 4, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/04/us/trump-shutdown-news#cities-nonprofits-food-stamp-snap-payments\">Trump again threatened to withhold SNAP payments\u003c/a> entirely — before a judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">ruled a second time that the White House must pay these benefits in full by Nov. 7\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 6, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">some CalFresh recipients have begun to see benefits payments\u003c/a> arrive in full onto their EBT cards, but it’s not yet clear how these funds will continue to roll out, especially since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b\">the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block the judge’s order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the Bay Area,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\"> food banks\u003c/a> are working to meet the needs of thousands of people who have seen their access to food greatly reduced aleady, with the Thanksgiving holidays fast approaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you don’t need the services of a food bank right now, you might be wondering how to best support your local nonprofit providing food assistance to your neighbor, either by volunteering your time or donating to them financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for how Bay Area food banks say you can most effectively support them during the shutdown. And remember: The quickest way to offer your support is by visiting an organization’s website and signing up there to volunteer or make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t feel you need to wait until the holidays to volunteer or donate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The holidays are definitely busier times when we tend to get more volunteers coming in,” said Elizabeth Gomez, vice president of impact at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>. “But the truth is that we need volunteers every day of the year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Thanksgiving holiday is a particularly popular time to volunteer at food banks around the country, SNAP payments are typically paid onto recipients’ EBT cards in the first ten days of the month — meaning that with the shutdown delays, many people’s urgency around accessing food will start early in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062023 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would-be volunteers should also seek out opportunities at smaller locations in their communities, such as schools, community centers, senior centers and soup kitchens. \u003ccite>(Maskot/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ACCFB has already seen a 12% increase since July in people using its food distribution sites, Gomez said. And now, the CalFresh delays “couldn’t come at a worse time,” she said. “This is November: It’s a time for family, for food, for togetherness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people on CalFresh are particularly relying on these funds to feed their families at the holidays, noted Gomez, “especially during the winter months when not only our food prices go up, but electricity bills go up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be open to different volunteer roles …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Food banks — and the programs they distribute to — have a wide variety of volunteer roles to be filled, from warehouse roles like stocking shelves, packing boxes and cleaning facilities to “front of house” opportunities where volunteers work directly with members of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a volunteer sorts donated food for the SF Marin food bank\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers sort donated apples at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. The organization’s workers voted to unionize in 2020 following a growing sense among employees that management was ignoring institutional problems. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Different organizations may have different needs. Cody Jang, senior associate director of community engagement at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\">San Francisco-Marin Food Bank\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036573/volunteer-bay-area-non-profits-what-helps-opportunities\">told KQED earlier this year\u003c/a> that one of the organization’s biggest needs is for volunteers with a valid driver’s license and their own vehicle to deliver food door-to-door through\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/programs/home-delivered-groceries-seniors/\"> the home-delivered grocery program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/\">Berkeley Food Network\u003c/a>, the most crucial volunteer role is that of greeter, executive director Andrew Crispin said: people who welcome clients, “letting them know what’s on the menu, letting them know that this is a safe space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and volunteering at different places\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since\u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/what-difference-between-food-bank-and-food-pantry\"> the SF-Marin Food Bank itself is “much more of a warehouse” \u003c/a>where “we get the food, we build a menu each week, and then we push it out to partners,” Jang also suggested would-be volunteers seek out opportunities at these smaller locations in their communities: “schools, community centers, senior centers, soup kitchens, all kinds of different places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only does donating volunteer hours to one of these smaller pantries help “with the chain of getting food to those in need,” your work there is more likely to impact your actual neighbors, Jang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Know that donating money has greater impact than donating food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>‘We definitely need volunteers both at our distribution sites and at our warehouses, but also quite honestly, we need people’s financial support,” said Leslie Bacho, CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/\">Second Harvest of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Donating money rather than food gives food banks far more flexibility, as these nonprofits are able to negotiate special deals for the food they buy in bulk — at much better prices than you can access as a private customer at a store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can really stretch people’s dollars far,” Bacho said. “And believe me, they are really needed in this moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every dollar, we’re able to turn that into $2 of purchasing power,” ACCFB’s Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And especially at a time when CalFresh benefits are decreasing, we need to do everything that we can to secure additional funds to purchase nutritious food for our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>See if your employer will match your donation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some companies will match whatever you donate to a food bank, so it’s worth inquiring with your employer. \u003ca href=\"https://donate.accfb.org/search/Donate\">ACCFB’s donation page \u003c/a>even allows you to type in your company’s name to see if they’ll match the amount you give.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be aware of any guidelines for donating food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Food banks will typically welcome nonperishable, unopened food. And you’ll want to make sure your product can be accepted at the particular food bank you want to donate to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Needed-Food-items-2025.pdf\">ACCFB has a list of foods “our community loves” \u003c/a>to guide food donations, which include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ready-to-eat meals, especially in easy-open cans or pouches\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chilis, stews, ravioli and soups\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chicken, tuna and salmon\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Snacks for children (like healthy lunch snacks, bars, and fruit or veggie pouches)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nonperishable fruit (in cups, bowls or cans)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Peanut butter\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cereal (boxes or single-serve bowls)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nutrition and protein bars\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ACCFB-General-Donation-Guidelines-new-logo-Oct21.pdf\">Items the food bank asks people \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to donate:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Soda, carbonated drinks, energy drinks or alcohol\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Items with major dents or damage\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Produce that’s overripe, moldy, wilted or extremely bruised\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Items that have been previously thawed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ice cream\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some food banks may also accept products needed by the community, like detergent, period supplies, diapers or other personal care items, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/three-non-food-items-food\">Feeding America suggests \u003c/a>you contact your local organization directly to check.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Host a food drive to collect physical donations …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While food banks across the country paused their traditional food drives at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re once again an option for people wanting to support their local food bank with food donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with white hair and a warm coat picks through a huge box of ears of corn in a paved outdoor area where lots of other people are also circulating.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers distribute food items at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ACCFB also welcomes\u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/get-involved/fundraise/food-drive/#large\"> “large-scale food drives”\u003c/a> in which groups like schools and larger businesses commit to collecting over 400 lbs. of food, i.e., at least three completely full food drive barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… or start a virtual food drive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ACCFB has a tool that allows supporters to \u003ca href=\"https://donate.accfb.org/vfd\">host virtual food drives online\u003c/a>, inviting donors to “shop” for the food bank’s most needed fresh items, like milk, eggs and produce, which can’t be collected in a typical food drive’s barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thanks to our bulk purchasing power, the money you’d spend in a grocery store to fill just one food drive barrel is enough to fill 3–4 virtual barrels,” ACCFB’s website said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ffenzi\">Francesca Fenzi\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Californians will decide Nov. 4 on a ballot measure that could reshape how our state is represented in Congress: Proposition 50 would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">redraw California’s congressional district lines\u003c/a> to help Democrats pick up five additional seats in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s response to the growing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5501537/texas-california-gerrymandering-redistricting\">national fight over redistricting\u003c/a>, sparked by President Donald Trump’s push for Republicans in Texas to redraw their maps. If Proposition 50 passes, the state’s political map will look different from Sonoma down to San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district, all across this country,” Newsom said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io2HutlGdHk\">during a press conference\u003c/a> in August. “It’s not good enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil and talk about the way things should be. We have got to meet fire with fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators voted to put Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">redistricting plan on the ballot\u003c/a>. If Proposition 50 passes, it would temporarily suspend California’s independent redistricting commission through 2030 – an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting move for a state that typically redraws its lines after the census once every 10 years after the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new map would likely flip five of California’s 52 congressional districts from Republican representation to Democratic. It would also make several existing Democratic seats less competitive by bringing blue-leaning areas like Sonoma and Sacramento counties into more traditionally red areas, like Modoc and Kings counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle graze in a Modoc County pasture. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the final week of campaigning ahead of Election Day, those in favor of Proposition 50 argue that redistricting in the Golden State is a necessary counterpunch to Texas’ gerrymandering — and a way to stand up to President Trump on principle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argue that the state’s established citizen redistricting commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060736/recall-redux-democrats-and-republicans-bring-back-familiar-arguments-in-prop-50-battle\">should be the one orchestrating this process\u003c/a> to keep things nonpartisan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In collaboration with The California Newsroom and KQED’s The California Report, journalists across the state spoke with residents, business leaders and legislators from each of the five congressional districts that could change under Proposition 50 to understand what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 3\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: Democratic residents in the blue bubble of Lake Tahoe say it’s time to have one of their own in Washington.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Tahoe is a blue dot in California’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers conservative Placer and El Dorado counties and spans down the Eastern Sierra to Death Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has long had a Republican representative in Congress, but this mountainous area that draws outdoor lovers year-round usually votes blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa May Duggan, a Democrat known locally as Tee May, has been writing postcards to voters across the state, urging them to support Proposition 50. She’s lived in Tahoe for 48 years and said the region faces a lot of the same challenges as other parts of California that are often overshadowed by issues surrounding Lake Tahoe itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tee May Duggan writes postcards to California voters urging their support on Proposition 50 at her Tahoe Vista home on Oct. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laura Fitzgerald/CapRadio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine if we had another vote in Congress for things for our community that didn’t involve the lake?” Duggan asked. She wants a representative who will work to boost the region’s housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duggan also wants to feel like she’s part of California, the part that reflects her values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know I live in a blue dot. I want to live in a blue district too,” Duggan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duggan could get her wish if Proposition 50 passes. California’s redistricting proposal would shrink the 3rd Congressional District and tie in parts of bluer Sacramento County, making it easier for a Democratic candidate to win the seat, currently held by Republican Kevin Kiley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents say, regardless of party, they want their representative to pay more attention to the region’s unique challenges, including wildfire prevention, skyrocketing insurance rates, rural health care access and management of federal land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the cuts to the U.S. Forest Service do not serve this area,” said Truckee Town Councilmember Courtney Henderson. “No matter what the boundary looks like or who that representative is, they have to have deep working knowledge of what happens on the ground and in rural communities and a lot of this district is very rural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>— \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/about/bios/laura-fitzgerald/\">\u003cem>Laura Fitzgerald\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, CapRadio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 22\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick Take: Farmers fear losing Republican Rep. David Valadao will put them at the mercy of regulation-crazed Dems; others say the congressman needs to pay the political price for supporting Medicaid cuts.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 50 passes, Rep. David Valadao of the Central Valley would be one of five Republicans on the chopping block — and that worries farmers in his district, which comprises a significant portion of California’s rich agricultural belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kings County is one of \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/final-maps/\">three agricultural counties\u003c/a> that make up District 22, represented by Valadao. Dairy farms, vineyards and crops help make California one of the world’s leading agricultural exporters, bringing in \u003ca href=\"https://plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov/wordpress/?p=27335\">billions of dollars\u003c/a> a year and providing \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/transportation-planning/documents/new-state-planning/transportation-economics/socioeconomic-forecasts/2019/2019-pdf/kingsfinal-a11y.pdf\">tens of thousands\u003c/a> of jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a point of pride for Charles Meyer, who grows a cornucopia of crops on his 1,500-acre Stratford farm in Kings County, including wheat, Pima cotton, alfalfa, almonds and pistachios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Meyer stands in his Kings County cotton field on Oct. 10, 2025. He said he opposes Proposition 50 — and Democratic leadership in general — because he feels their environmental regulations are slowly edging farmers out of business. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You become attached to the ground,” he said. “It’s like our boys in the military, they give their life for the country. We feel about our ground about like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer wants elected leaders who feel that way, too. Valadao, who \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/about/\">used to be a dairy farmer\u003c/a>, was first elected to Congress in 2012. But if voters approve Proposition 50 next month, District 22 would stretch out \u003ca href=\"https://aelc.assembly.ca.gov/proposed-congressional-map\">almost twice as long\u003c/a> to gain Democratic voters from neighboring counties and give them a better shot at winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want anything that would help Democrats gain power,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because California Democrats have pushed a slew of environmental regulations aimed at protecting air, \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/water_issues/irrigated_lands/background_history/\">water\u003c/a> and ecosystems. They also restrict things like \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sgma/about_sgma.html\">groundwater\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/docs/Fertilizer_Law_and_Regs.pdf\">fertilizer use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer calls that regulatory overreach, and he blames Democrats for rising farming costs and slumping profits: “When they gain power, negative things happen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Meyer holds pima cotton he grew on his Stratford, California farm. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a common opinion. Signs reading “Vote No on Prop. 50” line Kings County’s highways, alongside banners to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democrats, however, support the new map. Karla Orosco, a retired science teacher, was among a dozen people recently holding up signs in favor of Proposition 50 and other Democratic priorities in nearby Lemoore. She’s part of a “bridge brigade” that hangs signs on overpasses throughout Kings County. None of the dozen volunteers canvassing in Lemoore that day was a farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they said they’re angry that Valadao hasn’t hosted an in-person town hall in \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1424\">more than a year\u003c/a>, and that he voted to cut Medicaid — even though he said he wouldn’t, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/how-many-congressional-district-get-medi-cal-premium-subsidy-through-covered-california/\">two-thirds of his constituents\u003c/a> rely on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to hurt a lot of people, and it’s going to wake a lot of people up when the healthcare premiums go up,” Orosco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/people/kerry-klein\">\u003cem>Kerry Klein\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KVPR\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 48\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: In a largely red area of San Diego County, Democrats see Proposition 50 as a way to reach new voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego County, four out of five congressional seats are held by Democrats. But in the more rural northeast part of the county, Republicans have been on a winning streak that has lasted more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Darrell Issa, who holds California’s 48th District seat, has represented the area through multiple redistricting cycles. If Proposition 50 passes in November, Issa’s district would become almost unrecognizable, shifting from a double-digit advantage for Republicans to a 10-point lead for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056383\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa speaks to media outside of a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Democratic Party activists say the district already has more liberal-leaning voters than even residents in the area might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people find out that they actually have Democrats or like-minded people as their neighbors, they’re surprised,” said Andi McNew, who was canvassing in the small city of Poway in favor of Proposition 50. “While the MAGA people are loud with their flags and stuff, it kind of keeps Democrats afraid and scared. And they shouldn’t be scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNew said this perception leads people — and the Democratic Party — to write these areas off as “red,” and not invest in getting out the vote. But because Proposition 50 is a statewide referendum, every vote counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s so sad to see Democrats give up on these areas and not run … for these local seats, because we can win them,” McNew said.[aside postID=news_12061445 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED.jpg']San Diego County Democratic Party Chair Will Rodriguez-Kennedy said his group is going “all in” on Proposition 50 messaging to reach “everyone, everywhere, all at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party is expanding efforts to reach voters who speak different languages. He said activists on the ground have asked for Spanish-language material, which they’ve been delivering to locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Martinez is one of those activists. She volunteers with the Fallbrook Democratic Club, which covers the area northeast of Camp Pendleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fifty percent of our Democratic base here [in Fallbrook] is of Hispanic and or Indigenous [heritage],” Martinez said. “So, maybe in the past … their needs and their wants and their voices have not been addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez said targeted outreach makes a big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do get a lot of ‘thank yous,’” Martinez said. “We get people telling us that in the entire 20 years or so that they’ve lived in this community, no one has ever given them any voter information in their native language of Spanish. So I see that as a huge success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/staff/jake-gotta\">\u003cem>Jake Gotta\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KPBS\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 1\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: Folks in California’s largest Congressional District worry their rural way of life could be threatened by wealthy Bay Area representation under Proposition 50.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s 1st Congressional District is the state’s largest by geography: It stretches from Modoc County in the northeast corner of the state to the Klamath National Forest in the west, and down south to the city of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s vast, Modoc is the third-least populated county in the state. It’s part of a congressional district created to include counties that depend on natural resources like ranching, timber and farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Proposition 50, that would change: Modoc would still be clustered with like-minded Siskiyou and Shasta counties, but it would be in the same congressional district — District 2 — as Marin County on the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents are concerned that the new maps would further reduce their political power in a super-blue state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist and rancher Valerie Coe moved to Modoc County in the 1990s. She’s concerned that Modoc will be forgotten in the proposed changes, and likes current Congressman Doug LaMalfa, a Republican.[aside label=\"2025 California Special Election\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50,Learn about Proposition 50' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Aside-2025-Special-Election-Voter-Guide-Proposition-50-1200x675-1.png]“The representation we have now is a gentleman who is a farmer himself, and so he understands the challenges we face in agriculture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 50 is approved, Modoc County Democrats hope that Jared Huffman, who currently represents District 2 and calls Marin County home, would become the area’s new congressman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t get what’s going on on the ground in rural areas at all,” said Geri Byrne, a rancher and county supervisor. Huffman isn’t a farmer and represents Bay Area cities like San Rafael and Petaluma, along with more rural cities on the coast like Fort Bragg and Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman told Jefferson Public Radio he’s aware of the skeptics and knows what he’s up against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to take the time and make the effort to humanize myself, to show that I do care,” Huffman said. “I’m not some caricature of an urban elite that knows nothing about rural America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico, also in District 1, is a bright blue dot in a sea of red. If Proposition 50 is approved, it would stay in District 1, but would be clustered into the same district as some wealthy Bay Area cities like Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico and Santa Rosa voted for Kamala Harris and agreed on seven out of the 10 propositions on the 2024 ballot. But Chico resident Walt Stile said political affinity doesn’t equate to a connection, and that people in Santa Rosa aren’t likely to care about issues that Chico faces, like flooding in the Sacramento River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people in Santa Rosa even know where Chico is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when Chico resident Denise Katsikas thinks of Santa Rosa, her first thought is fancy wineries and wealth. (In 2023, Santa Rosa, with its many vineyards, was ranked \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2023/11/07/santa-rosa-ranks-among-top-25-most-expensive-places-to-live-in-the-us-according-to-us-news-world-report/\">eighth out of the 25 most expensive places to live\u003c/a> in the United States, according to a U.S. News & World Report.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m closer to being evicted from my home that’s not paid off than I am to being a billionaire,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Katsikas is in favor of Proposition 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/people/roman-battaglia\">\u003cem>Roman Battaglia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, Jefferson Public Radio and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/people/sarina-grossi\">\u003cem>Sarina Grossi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, North State Public Radio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 41\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick Take: Welcome to the horsey hamlet of Norco, where voters want to protect their way of life, and “Gavin Newsom” is a dirty word. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life in Norco, a rural city of about 25,000 in Riverside County, is built around horses. Locals call it “Horsetown USA.” Just ask resident Don Pettinger, who rides his reddish-brown horse, “Rusty,” through his neighborhood — the sidewalks in Norco are horse trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does Norco stand for? It stands for the equestrian lifestyle … being able to get our horse and go ride,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pettinger and many others in Norco worry they’ll lose their equestrian way of life if Proposition 50 passes. That’s because Norco would be shifted from a staunchly conservative district into one that’s solidly Democratic, urban and possibly unsympathetic to what Pettinger and others here hold dear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3-1536x1112.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Norco’s Main Street — which boasts a “Horsetown, USA” sign in addition to horse trails instead of sidewalks — is seen on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Madison Aument/KVCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we get a representative here who is representing Los Angeles or parts of Pomona or something like that, she’s not going to be used to our lifestyles, or whoever that Congress person is,” he said. “We need someone who knows who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norco’s current representative, Republican Ken Calvert, \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/about-ken/biography\">was born and raised in Corona\u003c/a>, which is just one town over. He’s represented District 41 for more than 30 years. Pettinger abhors the idea of Proposition 50 taking Calvert away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more an issue of a power grab by the governor and the state trying to put their will in place so that they can help control Congress for whoever might control the White House next,” Pettinger said. “And it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calvert has served on the House Appropriations Committee for more than a decade. Norco City Councilmember Kevin Bash said over the years, the congressman has delivered funding to the region for several big infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He built \u003ca href=\"https://www.rctc.org/community-celebrates-completion-of-mayor-berwin-hanna-bridge-and-hamner-widening-projects/\">two bridges\u003c/a> for us,” Bash said. “He’s put together a \u003ca href=\"https://kesq.com/news/2024/03/06/millions-in-federal-funding-for-infrastructure-projects-could-be-on-its-way-to-the-coachella-valley/\">recycled water treatment plant\u003c/a> to help the Navy, to help our lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bash worries that without Calvert, Norco might not get what it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet conversations with Bash and many other Republicans in town often turn away from Congress and focus instead on state politics, where Democrats hold the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, they say state policies that require high-density housing threaten Norco’s way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our biggest enemy is the state of California,” Bash said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as many California Republicans see it, Gov. Newsom — who launched Proposition 50 in response to gerrymandering efforts in Texas — \u003cem>is \u003c/em>the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Democrats in Norco see Proposition 50’s proposed map as an opportunity to get rid of Calvert. Chair of the Riverside County Democratic Party Joy Silver said after more than 30 years, it’s about time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ken Calvert, I think, is just one of those guys who touts the party line,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Calvert voted to cut Medicaid, by way of voting for the Big Beautiful Bill, and he holds an “\u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/calvert-evo.house.gov/files/migrated/UploadedFiles/Calvert_Amnesty.pdf\">enforcement-first\u003c/a>” stance on immigration. Local Democrats also say he’s notorious for not hosting town hall events. According to Calvert’s website, the last town hall was held \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-announces-telephone-town-hall\">in 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t matter much to Don Pettinger. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators voted to put Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">redistricting plan on the ballot\u003c/a>. If Proposition 50 passes, it would temporarily suspend California’s independent redistricting commission through 2030 – an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting move for a state that typically redraws its lines after the census once every 10 years after the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new map would likely flip five of California’s 52 congressional districts from Republican representation to Democratic. It would also make several existing Democratic seats less competitive by bringing blue-leaning areas like Sonoma and Sacramento counties into more traditionally red areas, like Modoc and Kings counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle graze in a Modoc County pasture. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the final week of campaigning ahead of Election Day, those in favor of Proposition 50 argue that redistricting in the Golden State is a necessary counterpunch to Texas’ gerrymandering — and a way to stand up to President Trump on principle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argue that the state’s established citizen redistricting commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060736/recall-redux-democrats-and-republicans-bring-back-familiar-arguments-in-prop-50-battle\">should be the one orchestrating this process\u003c/a> to keep things nonpartisan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In collaboration with The California Newsroom and KQED’s The California Report, journalists across the state spoke with residents, business leaders and legislators from each of the five congressional districts that could change under Proposition 50 to understand what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 3\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: Democratic residents in the blue bubble of Lake Tahoe say it’s time to have one of their own in Washington.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Tahoe is a blue dot in California’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers conservative Placer and El Dorado counties and spans down the Eastern Sierra to Death Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has long had a Republican representative in Congress, but this mountainous area that draws outdoor lovers year-round usually votes blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa May Duggan, a Democrat known locally as Tee May, has been writing postcards to voters across the state, urging them to support Proposition 50. She’s lived in Tahoe for 48 years and said the region faces a lot of the same challenges as other parts of California that are often overshadowed by issues surrounding Lake Tahoe itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tee May Duggan writes postcards to California voters urging their support on Proposition 50 at her Tahoe Vista home on Oct. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laura Fitzgerald/CapRadio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine if we had another vote in Congress for things for our community that didn’t involve the lake?” Duggan asked. She wants a representative who will work to boost the region’s housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duggan also wants to feel like she’s part of California, the part that reflects her values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know I live in a blue dot. I want to live in a blue district too,” Duggan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duggan could get her wish if Proposition 50 passes. California’s redistricting proposal would shrink the 3rd Congressional District and tie in parts of bluer Sacramento County, making it easier for a Democratic candidate to win the seat, currently held by Republican Kevin Kiley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents say, regardless of party, they want their representative to pay more attention to the region’s unique challenges, including wildfire prevention, skyrocketing insurance rates, rural health care access and management of federal land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the cuts to the U.S. Forest Service do not serve this area,” said Truckee Town Councilmember Courtney Henderson. “No matter what the boundary looks like or who that representative is, they have to have deep working knowledge of what happens on the ground and in rural communities and a lot of this district is very rural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>— \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/about/bios/laura-fitzgerald/\">\u003cem>Laura Fitzgerald\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, CapRadio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 22\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick Take: Farmers fear losing Republican Rep. David Valadao will put them at the mercy of regulation-crazed Dems; others say the congressman needs to pay the political price for supporting Medicaid cuts.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 50 passes, Rep. David Valadao of the Central Valley would be one of five Republicans on the chopping block — and that worries farmers in his district, which comprises a significant portion of California’s rich agricultural belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kings County is one of \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/final-maps/\">three agricultural counties\u003c/a> that make up District 22, represented by Valadao. Dairy farms, vineyards and crops help make California one of the world’s leading agricultural exporters, bringing in \u003ca href=\"https://plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov/wordpress/?p=27335\">billions of dollars\u003c/a> a year and providing \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/transportation-planning/documents/new-state-planning/transportation-economics/socioeconomic-forecasts/2019/2019-pdf/kingsfinal-a11y.pdf\">tens of thousands\u003c/a> of jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a point of pride for Charles Meyer, who grows a cornucopia of crops on his 1,500-acre Stratford farm in Kings County, including wheat, Pima cotton, alfalfa, almonds and pistachios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Meyer stands in his Kings County cotton field on Oct. 10, 2025. He said he opposes Proposition 50 — and Democratic leadership in general — because he feels their environmental regulations are slowly edging farmers out of business. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You become attached to the ground,” he said. “It’s like our boys in the military, they give their life for the country. We feel about our ground about like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer wants elected leaders who feel that way, too. Valadao, who \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/about/\">used to be a dairy farmer\u003c/a>, was first elected to Congress in 2012. But if voters approve Proposition 50 next month, District 22 would stretch out \u003ca href=\"https://aelc.assembly.ca.gov/proposed-congressional-map\">almost twice as long\u003c/a> to gain Democratic voters from neighboring counties and give them a better shot at winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want anything that would help Democrats gain power,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because California Democrats have pushed a slew of environmental regulations aimed at protecting air, \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/water_issues/irrigated_lands/background_history/\">water\u003c/a> and ecosystems. They also restrict things like \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sgma/about_sgma.html\">groundwater\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/docs/Fertilizer_Law_and_Regs.pdf\">fertilizer use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer calls that regulatory overreach, and he blames Democrats for rising farming costs and slumping profits: “When they gain power, negative things happen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Meyer holds pima cotton he grew on his Stratford, California farm. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a common opinion. Signs reading “Vote No on Prop. 50” line Kings County’s highways, alongside banners to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democrats, however, support the new map. Karla Orosco, a retired science teacher, was among a dozen people recently holding up signs in favor of Proposition 50 and other Democratic priorities in nearby Lemoore. She’s part of a “bridge brigade” that hangs signs on overpasses throughout Kings County. None of the dozen volunteers canvassing in Lemoore that day was a farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they said they’re angry that Valadao hasn’t hosted an in-person town hall in \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1424\">more than a year\u003c/a>, and that he voted to cut Medicaid — even though he said he wouldn’t, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/how-many-congressional-district-get-medi-cal-premium-subsidy-through-covered-california/\">two-thirds of his constituents\u003c/a> rely on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to hurt a lot of people, and it’s going to wake a lot of people up when the healthcare premiums go up,” Orosco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/people/kerry-klein\">\u003cem>Kerry Klein\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KVPR\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 48\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: In a largely red area of San Diego County, Democrats see Proposition 50 as a way to reach new voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego County, four out of five congressional seats are held by Democrats. But in the more rural northeast part of the county, Republicans have been on a winning streak that has lasted more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Darrell Issa, who holds California’s 48th District seat, has represented the area through multiple redistricting cycles. If Proposition 50 passes in November, Issa’s district would become almost unrecognizable, shifting from a double-digit advantage for Republicans to a 10-point lead for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056383\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. 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Huffman isn’t a farmer and represents Bay Area cities like San Rafael and Petaluma, along with more rural cities on the coast like Fort Bragg and Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman told Jefferson Public Radio he’s aware of the skeptics and knows what he’s up against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to take the time and make the effort to humanize myself, to show that I do care,” Huffman said. “I’m not some caricature of an urban elite that knows nothing about rural America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico, also in District 1, is a bright blue dot in a sea of red. If Proposition 50 is approved, it would stay in District 1, but would be clustered into the same district as some wealthy Bay Area cities like Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico and Santa Rosa voted for Kamala Harris and agreed on seven out of the 10 propositions on the 2024 ballot. But Chico resident Walt Stile said political affinity doesn’t equate to a connection, and that people in Santa Rosa aren’t likely to care about issues that Chico faces, like flooding in the Sacramento River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people in Santa Rosa even know where Chico is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when Chico resident Denise Katsikas thinks of Santa Rosa, her first thought is fancy wineries and wealth. 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Locals call it “Horsetown USA.” Just ask resident Don Pettinger, who rides his reddish-brown horse, “Rusty,” through his neighborhood — the sidewalks in Norco are horse trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does Norco stand for? It stands for the equestrian lifestyle … being able to get our horse and go ride,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pettinger and many others in Norco worry they’ll lose their equestrian way of life if Proposition 50 passes. That’s because Norco would be shifted from a staunchly conservative district into one that’s solidly Democratic, urban and possibly unsympathetic to what Pettinger and others here hold dear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3-1536x1112.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Norco’s Main Street — which boasts a “Horsetown, USA” sign in addition to horse trails instead of sidewalks — is seen on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Madison Aument/KVCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we get a representative here who is representing Los Angeles or parts of Pomona or something like that, she’s not going to be used to our lifestyles, or whoever that Congress person is,” he said. “We need someone who knows who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norco’s current representative, Republican Ken Calvert, \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/about-ken/biography\">was born and raised in Corona\u003c/a>, which is just one town over. He’s represented District 41 for more than 30 years. Pettinger abhors the idea of Proposition 50 taking Calvert away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more an issue of a power grab by the governor and the state trying to put their will in place so that they can help control Congress for whoever might control the White House next,” Pettinger said. “And it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calvert has served on the House Appropriations Committee for more than a decade. Norco City Councilmember Kevin Bash said over the years, the congressman has delivered funding to the region for several big infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He built \u003ca href=\"https://www.rctc.org/community-celebrates-completion-of-mayor-berwin-hanna-bridge-and-hamner-widening-projects/\">two bridges\u003c/a> for us,” Bash said. “He’s put together a \u003ca href=\"https://kesq.com/news/2024/03/06/millions-in-federal-funding-for-infrastructure-projects-could-be-on-its-way-to-the-coachella-valley/\">recycled water treatment plant\u003c/a> to help the Navy, to help our lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bash worries that without Calvert, Norco might not get what it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet conversations with Bash and many other Republicans in town often turn away from Congress and focus instead on state politics, where Democrats hold the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, they say state policies that require high-density housing threaten Norco’s way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our biggest enemy is the state of California,” Bash said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as many California Republicans see it, Gov. 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