Thousands of people are homeless in San Francisco, and even more throughout the Bay Area. Despite years of concern and millions of dollars of investment, the problem persists.
Who are the people who live on the streets and on the edge of homelessness? Why have we failed to create lasting change? And are there solutions that offer hope for the future? As part of a collaboration with dozens of Bay Area news organizations, KQED is exploring these questions, and more.
As El Niño-Fueled Rains Fall, L.A.'s Homeless Turn to Alternate Shelters
How One Homeless Man in Oakland Found Himself Back Home
San Francisco's Homeless Navigation Center Draws Interest From Around World
A Year After 'The Jungle,' San Jose's New Approach to Homelessness
S.F. Pulls Plug on Controversial Bayview Homeless Shelter
With Few Places Left to Go, Southland's Homeless Often End Up on L.A.'s Skid Row
Reaching Out to the Homeless Woman Sleeping on Your San Francisco Doorstep
S.F. Startup Hopes Homeless Gift Card Will Spark Conversations and Donations
Homeless Man Helps Shelters Provide a Basic Need: Wi-Fi
Skid Row in Los Angeles: A City Within a City
California's Homeless Kids Face Health, Learning Difficulties
Santa Clara County's Homeless Hope for Hotel Rooms After Shelter Closes
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That includes stints couch surfing at friends’ homes and most recently living along the Arroyo Seco, a mostly dry streambed that snakes through Pasadena and East Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are long lines for everything, you got 600 people you gotta feed every night, tempers are flying,” says Reina. “People are using drugs, and it’s filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He avoids the crowded shelters in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/29/with-few-places-left-to-turn-southlands-homeless-often-end-up-on-l-a-s-skid-row\" target=\"_blank\">downtown L.A.’s teeming Skid Row\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco has dropped a divisive plan to build a shelter in a neighborhood that has the second-highest homeless population in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have withdrawn an application for state funding to help construct a 100-bed shelter in the Bayview-Hunters Point district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, executive director of the city's Human Services Agency, wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/a/kqed.org/file/d/0BzbsC36--LzqQldNcUVxeTRtTFE/view?pli=1\" target=\"_blank\">letter \u003c/a>to the state Department of Housing and Community Development on Tuesday, acknowledging that the city would not move forward on the project because it would cost too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago the city estimated that it would take about $1 million to convert a warehouse next to Mother Brown's Dining Room on Jennings Avenue into a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Works, however, estimated construction would cost $4 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would have required $3 million from the city's general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We made the decision that for $3 million we would rather pursue other alternatives to helping the homeless rather than a shelter,\" Rhorer said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's basically a public policy decision,\" Rhorer added, saying he'd rather see the funding put toward supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 19 percent of San Francisco's homeless residents live in District 10, which encompasses the Bayview, according to the city's latest \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">homeless count\u003c/a>. That report found that 1,272 people were living on the streets in the district last January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood has only one other shelter. The Providence Baptist Church on McKinnon Avenue is open for homeless people overnight but not during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhood's homeless people are served by the United Council of Human Services, which runs Mother Brown's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10755243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10755243 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In this file photo from April 2014, Calvin Henderson attended breakfast service at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. "I've been up all night," he said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this file photo from April 2014, Calvin Henderson attended breakfast service at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. 'I've been up all night,' he said. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gwendolyn Westbrook, the council's CEO, was outraged by the city's decision not to move forward on the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's despicable,\" Westbrook said in an interview. \"The city has money for everything else. They'd rather have people living and dying on the streets out here than give them a bed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"I have seniors here who come every single night to get a hot meal and then they're back out on the street, sleeping in a car, sleeping on the sidewalk. It's ridiculous. All we wanted to do was get some people off the street until we could get them in housing. Since there's no housing in San Francisco, they'll just sleep on the sidewalk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal for the shelter was a source of controversy for the last few years, chronicled in this \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/20/controversy-over-bayview-homeless-shelter-highlights-fears-of-displacement/\" target=\"_blank\">article \u003c/a>by KQED's Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents and business owners said it would have hurt efforts to revitalize the Bayview, an area that has struggled with violence and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen echoed those concerns, and applauded the city's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While there are undoubtedly a significant number of individuals that are in desperate need of emergency shelter and long term housing, the plan for 2115 Jennings Avenue was flawed from its inception,\" Cohen said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For years, the Bayview community has been forced to carry a bulk of many of San Francisco's supportive services. 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"content": "\u003cp>Joe Parra is like a lot of guys you meet on Skid Row. He’s not from Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was (on the streets) in the South Bay, like in the Torrance and Carson area,” says Parra. “And then it got harder and I had to stay in Bellflower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those cities are a good 20 miles from Skid Row. They’re also woefully thin on homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230522157\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Parra might be able to get a hotel voucher for a couple nights or directions to a local food bank. But often they’ll get steered to Skid Row. And if they’re lucky, like Parra, they will eventually qualify for a space in one of its tightly packed \u003ca href=\"http://skidrow.org\">supportive housing apartments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services and that supportive network behind it just wasn’t happening in other areas outside Skid Row,” says Ryan Navales, an outreach coordinator at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mission dishes out around 3,000 meals a day on Skid Row, and runs a temporary shelter and a host of drug and alcohol rehab programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers,” says Navales. “And there’s 88 different mayors, I think, in L.A. County, and so there’s a real need for the services to be regionalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the critical mass of homeless services remains concentrated in Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737200\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find housing and services in their own communities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-1440x938.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-1180x768.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-960x625.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find housing and services in their own communities. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s left a lot of communities ill-prepared to deal with sudden spikes of homelessness. And when there are services, there can be resistance to expanding them for fear of becoming a magnet for more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re throwing bait out right now for people to come here, and we’re attracting people,” says Redondo Beach Mayor Steve Aspel at a recent City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re not trying to boot the homeless out...But it’s not the city of Redondo Beach’s responsibility to take care of the entire South Bay'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city just formed a homelessness task force after this year’s L.A. County homeless count recorded a surge in Redondo Beach’s homeless population. Redondo Beach police say 911 calls involving homeless individuals are up some 400 percent since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is mulling a number of actions, from expanding existing services to cracking down on nuisance laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspel echoes a sentiment you hear a lot and not just in Redondo Beach: Homelessness is a problem exported from outside the city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not like trying to boot the homeless out of town,” says Aspel. “But it’s not the city of Redondo Beach’s responsibility to take care of the entire South Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a person does end up on the street, it’s usually in the streets of where they live, in an area where they have ties to friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most homeless have three or four reasons to connect them to a community. They used to live there, they got family there, they work there, something that draws them to that community,\" says Todd Palmquist of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"One of Skid Row's dozens of sidewalk encampments.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-1440x877.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-960x585.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Skid Row's dozens of sidewalk encampments. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody likes to see the guy with the shopping cart sitting in front of McDonald's, but there's a reason why he or she is there. And there's a reason that maybe we can help get them to the next step rather than saying we just want to get rid of them,” says Palmquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worlds away from the fetid streets of Skid Row are the leafy, well-manicured avenues of Claremont, an affluent suburb about 45 minutes east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also home to a new public-private partnership that aims to house the chronically homeless in rental homes. Four men just moved into the pilot house about four months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked into other homeless programs for indigent men all around Southern California,” says Marty, who asked that we not publish his last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"B98yAyTKAW5IazGbQOnG1lp4MzSaH2xW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marty shares the cozy three-bedroom house with three other men who, like him, were all living on the streets of the Claremont area. He says women and kids usually have priority when it comes to shelter and supportive housing like this. If you’re a single male, you can fall through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, you can get food here and there,” says Marty. “The resources are gone by the time you try to get something, and that's what makes CHAP different. CHAP is geared toward helping the indigent person alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHAP is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapclaremont.org/about.html\">Claremont Homeless Advocacy Program, \u003c/a>a volunteer group that aims to get homeless people into stable housing, get them job training, get them help staying sober and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of transitional housing, wraparound services is really a regional issue,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/government/departments-divisions/human-services\">Claremont Director of Human Services Ann Turner\u003c/a>, who works closely with CHAP. “Financially it's a bigger obligation than any one single municipality can commit on their own. So how do we collectively work together?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities like Claremont rely on county funding to sustain whatever services they have available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Los Angeles County supervisors pledged an additional $100 million for long-term housing and other aid across the region. The city of L.A., meanwhile, declared a homelessness “state of emergency,” an action that enables it to tap into alternative resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until that, there really has not been a unified statement saying here's what we want to do,” says Palmquist. “And I think as a result, other communities in the area would say, 'Well, it’s not a priority for them, why should we take it as a priority?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redondo Beach police lieutenant and homeless task force member Wayne Windman says it’s an attitude that is changing -- at least in his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please don’t for a second think this committee was thinking (that) we have to get rid of these people,” Windman says. “We have to deal with the issue. You have to get people into housing to get long-term services to get them out of these environments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Redondo Beach and a host of other cities across the L.A. region is to provide enough of those services so that homeless individuals can get back on track and stay in their own hometowns.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services and that supportive network behind it just wasn’t happening in other areas outside Skid Row,” says Ryan Navales, an outreach coordinator at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mission dishes out around 3,000 meals a day on Skid Row, and runs a temporary shelter and a host of drug and alcohol rehab programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers,” says Navales. “And there’s 88 different mayors, I think, in L.A. 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And when there are services, there can be resistance to expanding them for fear of becoming a magnet for more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re throwing bait out right now for people to come here, and we’re attracting people,” says Redondo Beach Mayor Steve Aspel at a recent City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re not trying to boot the homeless out...But it’s not the city of Redondo Beach’s responsibility to take care of the entire South Bay'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city just formed a homelessness task force after this year’s L.A. County homeless count recorded a surge in Redondo Beach’s homeless population. Redondo Beach police say 911 calls involving homeless individuals are up some 400 percent since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is mulling a number of actions, from expanding existing services to cracking down on nuisance laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspel echoes a sentiment you hear a lot and not just in Redondo Beach: Homelessness is a problem exported from outside the city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not like trying to boot the homeless out of town,” says Aspel. “But it’s not the city of Redondo Beach’s responsibility to take care of the entire South Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a person does end up on the street, it’s usually in the streets of where they live, in an area where they have ties to friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most homeless have three or four reasons to connect them to a community. They used to live there, they got family there, they work there, something that draws them to that community,\" says Todd Palmquist of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"One of Skid Row's dozens of sidewalk encampments.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-1440x877.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-960x585.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Skid Row's dozens of sidewalk encampments. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody likes to see the guy with the shopping cart sitting in front of McDonald's, but there's a reason why he or she is there. And there's a reason that maybe we can help get them to the next step rather than saying we just want to get rid of them,” says Palmquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worlds away from the fetid streets of Skid Row are the leafy, well-manicured avenues of Claremont, an affluent suburb about 45 minutes east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also home to a new public-private partnership that aims to house the chronically homeless in rental homes. Four men just moved into the pilot house about four months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked into other homeless programs for indigent men all around Southern California,” says Marty, who asked that we not publish his last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marty shares the cozy three-bedroom house with three other men who, like him, were all living on the streets of the Claremont area. He says women and kids usually have priority when it comes to shelter and supportive housing like this. If you’re a single male, you can fall through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, you can get food here and there,” says Marty. “The resources are gone by the time you try to get something, and that's what makes CHAP different. CHAP is geared toward helping the indigent person alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHAP is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapclaremont.org/about.html\">Claremont Homeless Advocacy Program, \u003c/a>a volunteer group that aims to get homeless people into stable housing, get them job training, get them help staying sober and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of transitional housing, wraparound services is really a regional issue,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/government/departments-divisions/human-services\">Claremont Director of Human Services Ann Turner\u003c/a>, who works closely with CHAP. “Financially it's a bigger obligation than any one single municipality can commit on their own. So how do we collectively work together?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities like Claremont rely on county funding to sustain whatever services they have available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Los Angeles County supervisors pledged an additional $100 million for long-term housing and other aid across the region. 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"content": "\u003cp>\"It is an iconic neighborhood in San Francisco,\" says my husband, David, describing our street on Russian Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've got the Golden Gate Bridge just to your left, Fisherman's Wharf down the hill, the cable car just around the corner,\" he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And together we face an iconic San Francisco dilemma: how to help a woman who often sleeps -- sitting up -- on our front doorstep, a blanket over her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her name is Sofia. She won't tell us her last name. She says she's 73 years old. Over the past seven months, we've made at least a dozen phone calls to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230312356\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time, I tell outreach workers about Sofia's silver-gray hair, her long pink skirt, the white socks that peek out from under her blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's usually there sometime between 2 and 2:30 a.m.,\" I say in a call I made from work last month. \"She tends to leave around 6:30. And if she's not on my door, she's usually on one of the doorsteps around that block.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city has made contact with Sofia, privacy laws prevent employees from telling me. So, when I didn't see her for a couple of weeks, I thought, \"Maybe -- finally -- she's gotten some help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YPsvtQndCs4B2muFmRUeR41elVWaFQLd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a few days ago, around 1:30 a.m., we found her in the doorway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sofia, I’ve been trying to call people to come out and help,\" I say, as she wearily pulls the blanket off her head. \"Has anyone come out and helped you?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one has come out to talk to you?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, the answer is no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From New Hampshire to San Francisco in the '60s\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia is smart, and enjoys reading at the library. She seems suspicious of people, though, explaining that most who offer her help just want to take her money.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Sofia was evicted from her apartment about six years ago and has been on the streets ever since\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Still, after a few minutes, she agrees to tell us a bit of her story. And, like our neighborhood, it's also classic San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia says she grew up in New Hampshire and came here in the late 1960s. \"I came for the music,\" she says, smiling. \"I liked all of it. The Mamas and Papas, the Beach Boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia says she lived at the center of hippie culture -- in the Haight-Ashbury -- and worked as a nurse at the neighborhood's famous free clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What kind of people did you help?\" I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mostly it was people on drugs,\" she says, laughing. \"We had a living room where everybody would come in that was on drugs, and we'd have to feed 'em all because they were all so hungry, you know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After an Eviction, Trouble at Shelters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia tells us she never married, doesn't have kids and her friends are dead or have moved away. She says she was evicted from her apartment about six years ago and has been on the streets ever since. She has been to shelters, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But it's really horrible,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why?\" David asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, people don't sleep at night. You know, they're swearing at each other. You're in a room, like, with a hundred other people, maybe. And people steal things,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints like these keep many of the homeless on the streets. And they're why, earlier this year, the city opened a new shelter called the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">Navigation Center.\u003c/a> Unlike traditional shelters, it's open 24/7 and staffed with counselors who try to steer homeless people into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737126\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-800x428.jpg\" alt=\"Beds at San Francisco's new Navigation Center homeless shelter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737126\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-800x428.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-400x214.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-1440x771.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-1180x632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-960x514.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-280x150.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beds at San Francisco's new Navigation Center homeless shelter. \u003ccite>(NavigationCenter.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A number of homeless advocates I've spoken with tell me Sofia would be a good candidate. But she says she's never heard of it and doesn't trust the city anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told you, I don't get involved in these things,\" Sofia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think some people have good intentions,\" David says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Very few,\" she sighs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, I went to City Hall to speak with San Francisco's interim homeless czar, Sam Dodge. The mayor appointed him to replace \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dufty-out-as-homeless-czar-deputy-to-take-6567096.php\">Bevan Dufty\u003c/a>, who announced his retirement earlier this month. I told Dodge that I'm not convinced the outreach team is looking for Sofia or keeping track of her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge said his office may have a file on her and may have spoken with her. But, again, because of privacy laws, he can't say. And if she doesn't want help, the city can't make her get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not a kind of system where you can simply abduct people against their will,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also spoke about Sofia with San Francisco Chronicle columnist \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/author/c-w-nevius/\">Chuck Nevius\u003c/a>. He's spent the last decade taking the city to task on homelessness. My frustration did not surprise him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of us in San Francisco have had the same experience you had. Which is, you go to this homeless person, and you talk to them, and you say, 'Wait a minute -- he or she is making perfect sense. They're actually very bright. This is not someone who should be out on the street.' And these are people we can have an immediate impact with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevius says the city's outreach team needs to be more persistent with people like Sofia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't walk up to them and say, 'Would you like to go to a shelter?' and they say, 'No.\" And you say, 'OK, fine.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia says she's fine sleeping outside. But David and I don't believe it. We've heard her whimper in fear and seen her run across the street to hide, leaving her bags strewn on our steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll keep calling the city but we're now looking at other options -- church leaders, mental health counselors -- anyone willing to talk to Sofia in the middle of the night and help her get off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's usually there sometime between 2 and 2:30 a.m.,\" I say in a call I made from work last month. \"She tends to leave around 6:30. And if she's not on my door, she's usually on one of the doorsteps around that block.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city has made contact with Sofia, privacy laws prevent employees from telling me. 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You know, they're swearing at each other. You're in a room, like, with a hundred other people, maybe. And people steal things,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints like these keep many of the homeless on the streets. And they're why, earlier this year, the city opened a new shelter called the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">Navigation Center.\u003c/a> Unlike traditional shelters, it's open 24/7 and staffed with counselors who try to steer homeless people into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737126\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-800x428.jpg\" alt=\"Beds at San Francisco's new Navigation Center homeless shelter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737126\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-800x428.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-400x214.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-1440x771.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-1180x632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-960x514.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-280x150.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beds at San Francisco's new Navigation Center homeless shelter. \u003ccite>(NavigationCenter.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A number of homeless advocates I've spoken with tell me Sofia would be a good candidate. But she says she's never heard of it and doesn't trust the city anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told you, I don't get involved in these things,\" Sofia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think some people have good intentions,\" David says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Very few,\" she sighs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, I went to City Hall to speak with San Francisco's interim homeless czar, Sam Dodge. The mayor appointed him to replace \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dufty-out-as-homeless-czar-deputy-to-take-6567096.php\">Bevan Dufty\u003c/a>, who announced his retirement earlier this month. I told Dodge that I'm not convinced the outreach team is looking for Sofia or keeping track of her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge said his office may have a file on her and may have spoken with her. But, again, because of privacy laws, he can't say. And if she doesn't want help, the city can't make her get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not a kind of system where you can simply abduct people against their will,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also spoke about Sofia with San Francisco Chronicle columnist \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/author/c-w-nevius/\">Chuck Nevius\u003c/a>. He's spent the last decade taking the city to task on homelessness. My frustration did not surprise him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of us in San Francisco have had the same experience you had. Which is, you go to this homeless person, and you talk to them, and you say, 'Wait a minute -- he or she is making perfect sense. They're actually very bright. This is not someone who should be out on the street.' 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Like many homeless shelters in the state and country, it was a total Internet dead-zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205679706″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to do anything these days without the Internet, and it’s no different for the homeless. Imagine having to go all the way down to a city library and wait in line just to check your email. An Internet connection makes it easier to sign up for government services and support. Many job postings and housing opportunities are listed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But being connected means more than all that, says Wayne Samuelson, another resident of the shelter. Samuelson is a Marine veteran. He’s been homeless on and off since the early ’90s. Without the Internet, he says you are left behind. It’s like you live in another era.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re behind the times, like primitive.’\u003ccite>Shelter resident Wayne Samuelson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Everybody is wired up,” Samuelson says, “People are like, ‘Are you connected?’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean? Am I a gangster?’ Oh, Internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuelson says many modern tech trends have passed him by. “About a month ago, I finally figured out what a selfie stick was,” he says. “I saw these people walking around with these sticks. Are they backscratchers? What the heck are people doing with the sticks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he saw someone put a camera on the end of the stick and take a picture, a selfie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital divide usually isn’t comical. Samuelson became homeless after losing his job as a museum security guard, and he has been at the Next Door shelter for a few weeks. Since there’s no Internet, he can’t go on Craigslist to look for jobs. Instead, he’s been going door to door and scouring help-wanted ads in newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re behind the times,” Samuelson says, “like primitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 334 beds at Next Door. Shelter director Kathy Treggiari shows me the living quarters. They are bare bones. People are sleeping, reading, lying on the beds with their eyes open. One man has emptied out two plastic bags on a bunk. He’s reorganizing all his worldly possessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You don’t get away here.’\u003ccite>Shelter director Kathy Treggiari\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At night, the place is packed. Usually, every single bed is filled. “You don’t get away here,” Treggiari whispers, “You’re sleeping besides someone who can talk to themselves, smell. It’s scary. You know them, or you don’t know them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treggiari says the shelter lost tons of city funding after the 2008 financial crisis. She says she had to scrounge for bedding and cleaning supplies. Eventually, she was forced to closed the computer lab, and the Internet disappeared right here in the heart of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treggiari says the shelter “is a world unto itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelter resident Scott Nelson tells me how people crowded windows on one side of the room, hoping to pick up some shred of Wi-Fi signal from nearby businesses. “We were trying to use the Monarch Hotel across the street,” he says, “It was real sketchy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527355\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10527355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-800x919.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Nelson says Wi-Fi should be available to everyone, like a public utility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-800x919.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-400x459.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-1440x1654.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-1180x1355.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-960x1103.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Nelson says Wi-Fi should be available to everyone, like a public utility. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scott Nelson has been at the shelter for almost 120 days. He says the Internet should be available for everyone. “It’s a required thing,” Nelson says, “and cities should provide it as a vital utility, sort of like water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the economy has improved since 2008, Internet is still scarce for the homeless. Some shelters in California have computers, but most don’t have Wi-Fi. Many have no Internet at all. That was the case at Next Door until just a few weeks ago. That was when Darcel Jackson found a way to actualize his idea to have tech companies help get Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What got Jackson thinking about how tech companies could help the homeless was an article he’d read about Greg Gopman. The former tech CEO had \u003ca href=\"http://greggopman.com/the-stupidest-thing-i-ever-did/\">written a screed\u003c/a> against the poor and homeless on Facebook. He called them hyenas — lower parts of society who should keep to themselves. Gopman wrote, “It’s a burden having them so close to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a year later, Gopman had decided to\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ex-tech-CEO-who-blasted-degenerates-hosts-6129315.php\"> hold a town hall meeting\u003c/a> on homelessness, looking for solutions, seeking redemption. Jackson decided to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting wasn’t very accommodating for the poor, Jackson says. For one, you had to submit questions using a smartphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really wasn’t geared for homeless people,” Jackson says. “It was for people to pat themselves on the back about what they’d already been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t stop Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, Jackson approached Gopman and told him about his idea to put Wi-Fi in shelters. Gopman liked it, and together they contacted a local Internet provider, MonkeyBrains, which donated time and equipment. How much did it all cost? About $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527359\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 423px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10527359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Samuelson says he got a job because he could check Craigslist at the homeless shelter.\" width=\"423\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-800x473.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-400x236.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-1440x851.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-960x568.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Samuelson says he got a job because he could check Craigslist at the homeless shelter. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for six grand the whole shelter, 334 beds, was connected. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One night Darcel Jackson was lying in bed at a homeless shelter, wondering what local tech companies could do for the poor. How could they help people like him get jobs and find housing? Then it hit him — an idea so simple and cheap you probably assumed someone had already done it years ago. Darcel thought tech companies could get Wi-Fi for people in homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson was staying at\u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/programs/nextdoor.html\"> Next Door\u003c/a>, a shelter in the middle of San Francisco. Not only was there no Wi-Fi, there weren’t even computers. Like many homeless shelters in the state and country, it was a total Internet dead-zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205679706″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205679706″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to do anything these days without the Internet, and it’s no different for the homeless. Imagine having to go all the way down to a city library and wait in line just to check your email. An Internet connection makes it easier to sign up for government services and support. Many job postings and housing opportunities are listed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But being connected means more than all that, says Wayne Samuelson, another resident of the shelter. Samuelson is a Marine veteran. He’s been homeless on and off since the early ’90s. Without the Internet, he says you are left behind. It’s like you live in another era.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re behind the times, like primitive.’\u003ccite>Shelter resident Wayne Samuelson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Everybody is wired up,” Samuelson says, “People are like, ‘Are you connected?’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean? Am I a gangster?’ Oh, Internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuelson says many modern tech trends have passed him by. “About a month ago, I finally figured out what a selfie stick was,” he says. “I saw these people walking around with these sticks. Are they backscratchers? What the heck are people doing with the sticks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he saw someone put a camera on the end of the stick and take a picture, a selfie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital divide usually isn’t comical. Samuelson became homeless after losing his job as a museum security guard, and he has been at the Next Door shelter for a few weeks. Since there’s no Internet, he can’t go on Craigslist to look for jobs. Instead, he’s been going door to door and scouring help-wanted ads in newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re behind the times,” Samuelson says, “like primitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 334 beds at Next Door. Shelter director Kathy Treggiari shows me the living quarters. They are bare bones. People are sleeping, reading, lying on the beds with their eyes open. One man has emptied out two plastic bags on a bunk. He’s reorganizing all his worldly possessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You don’t get away here.’\u003ccite>Shelter director Kathy Treggiari\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At night, the place is packed. Usually, every single bed is filled. “You don’t get away here,” Treggiari whispers, “You’re sleeping besides someone who can talk to themselves, smell. It’s scary. You know them, or you don’t know them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treggiari says the shelter lost tons of city funding after the 2008 financial crisis. She says she had to scrounge for bedding and cleaning supplies. Eventually, she was forced to closed the computer lab, and the Internet disappeared right here in the heart of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treggiari says the shelter “is a world unto itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelter resident Scott Nelson tells me how people crowded windows on one side of the room, hoping to pick up some shred of Wi-Fi signal from nearby businesses. “We were trying to use the Monarch Hotel across the street,” he says, “It was real sketchy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527355\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10527355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-800x919.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Nelson says Wi-Fi should be available to everyone, like a public utility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-800x919.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-400x459.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-1440x1654.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-1180x1355.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-960x1103.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Nelson says Wi-Fi should be available to everyone, like a public utility. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scott Nelson has been at the shelter for almost 120 days. He says the Internet should be available for everyone. “It’s a required thing,” Nelson says, “and cities should provide it as a vital utility, sort of like water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the economy has improved since 2008, Internet is still scarce for the homeless. Some shelters in California have computers, but most don’t have Wi-Fi. Many have no Internet at all. That was the case at Next Door until just a few weeks ago. That was when Darcel Jackson found a way to actualize his idea to have tech companies help get Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What got Jackson thinking about how tech companies could help the homeless was an article he’d read about Greg Gopman. The former tech CEO had \u003ca href=\"http://greggopman.com/the-stupidest-thing-i-ever-did/\">written a screed\u003c/a> against the poor and homeless on Facebook. He called them hyenas — lower parts of society who should keep to themselves. Gopman wrote, “It’s a burden having them so close to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a year later, Gopman had decided to\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ex-tech-CEO-who-blasted-degenerates-hosts-6129315.php\"> hold a town hall meeting\u003c/a> on homelessness, looking for solutions, seeking redemption. Jackson decided to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting wasn’t very accommodating for the poor, Jackson says. For one, you had to submit questions using a smartphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really wasn’t geared for homeless people,” Jackson says. “It was for people to pat themselves on the back about what they’d already been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t stop Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, Jackson approached Gopman and told him about his idea to put Wi-Fi in shelters. Gopman liked it, and together they contacted a local Internet provider, MonkeyBrains, which donated time and equipment. How much did it all cost? About $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527359\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 423px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10527359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Samuelson says he got a job because he could check Craigslist at the homeless shelter.\" width=\"423\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-800x473.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-400x236.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-1440x851.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-960x568.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Samuelson says he got a job because he could check Craigslist at the homeless shelter. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for six grand the whole shelter, 334 beds, was connected. People with their own smartphones, tablets or some other device could look for work, get services, talk to friends and family. Suddenly, Jackson could message his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got an 8-year-old son,” Jackson says. “Facebook is the way we communicate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Jackson has big plans. He’s working with Gopman to create a nonprofit, Shelter Tech. He had some smartphones donated and is trying to get Wi-Fi in public housing projects and other shelters around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Internet has made a big difference at Next Door, says Wayne Samuelson. People are more connected, empowered, happier. According to MonkeyBrains, about 100 to 150 people are on the Internet at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuelson says, “I hear them talking. ‘Do you have any movies on your phone? Well, show me because I want to watch some movies.’ It brings joy into a very dull and mundane life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Skid Row can feel like a chaotic airport terminal -- people carting their possessions down the street and jaywalking in front of speeding cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s always someone yelling or screaming, and there's often the howl of sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60,000 homeless people live in the city of Los Angeles. But you might never know it until you start motoring south, past Disney Concert Hall, past City Hall, Pershing Square and newly renovated million-dollar condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when you’ll begin the slow descent into Skid Row, arguably the largest concentration of homeless people in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199499800\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By some estimates, there are several thousand people living on the streets of Skid Row on any given night. Many are camped out in tents and other makeshift shelters on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Young kids are not often the face of homelessness. Yet, in California more than half a million children don’t have a stable home. Instead of using the shelter system, parents with kids often shuttle between the homes of friends and relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s called “doubling up,” says Melissa Schoonmaker, homeless education consultant at the Los Angeles County Office of Education. And she says it has a big impact on the development and health of small children. They face poor nutrition, lack of health care and immunizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193883257″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193883257″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the lack of stability that really affects the kids, says Yanira Rodriguez, a preschool teacher in the Pomona Unified School District who has taught many homeless children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime a child is moved, it can feel to that child like a death because it’s so traumatic,” says Rodriguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra Scott spent their 41st anniversary on Dec. 14 in a place they can finally call home — even temporarily. After being homeless for a year, the couple moved into a motel room paid for by the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After living under the bleachers, in the flowerbeds and beneath different trees in Sunnyvale’s Fair Oaks Park for most of the year, Patrick Scott said he was looking forward to sitting in a bath for a whole day, just letting the water run, fully aware that there’s a drought in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the little things that you miss the most,” Patrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra, both 62 years old, became homeless last December because Patrick retired as a cook one year before he was eligible for Social Security benefits. Sandra was unemployed after being injured at work in 2005, and expensive hospital stays exhausted most of their savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2550px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\" alt=\"Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg 2550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-400x517.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-1440x1863.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they were forced to leave their apartment in Sunnyvale, a relative offered to help, but they said they wanted to work out their money problems on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County, even with its enormous wealth per capita because of Silicon Valley’s boom, had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year, according to the 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Of the 7,567 homeless, 75 percent lived on the streets or in their cars. Of New York City’s 67,810 homeless, only 5 percent were unsheltered this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past decade, Santa Clara County has opened three shelters from Dec. 1 to March 31 to provide overnight lodging for homeless during the winter months. But the closing of one of them — the Sunnyvale Armory — this past spring has left homeless in the northern part of the county searching for alternatives as the cold winter temperatures set in. The old Sunnyvale Armory site is being converted to low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a countywide search for a replacement shelter bore no fruit, the county’s Board of Supervisors approved a new comprehensive winter plan to deal with the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for the loss of 125 beds in the Sunnyvale Armory, 56 beds are being added to other shelters, including the Boccardo Reception Center, the Commercial Street Inn in San Jose, Hotel de Zink in Palo Alto and Project WeHOPE in East Palo Alto. In addition, the county is offering 90 motel beds — like the ones the Scotts obtained — the largest number the county has ever offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Nsn2V61GQGJ3Rgo0xcCXCwwiyHd0nl0y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the county approved $1 million to assist the homeless, an increase of close to $400,000 compared with last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the increase is to pay for the motel beds, which cost an average of $850 per week for one person — nearly twice as much as a shelter bed — according to Bob Dolci, the county’s homeless concerns coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 90 motel beds, 54 are dedicated to homeless families. InnVision Shelter Network, a provider of shelter and supportive services for the homeless, referred families on a first-come, first-serve basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 36 motel beds are reserved for homeless individuals and are overseen by Downtown Streets Team, an organization that helps the homeless find jobs and housing. Members on the Downtown Streets Team “volunteer” up to 20 hours per week on cleaning jobs, and instead of payment, receive grocery gift cards and case management services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only team members, or those on the wait list to get on the team, are eligible for motel beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the Scotts — both team members — were able to move into a motel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is for “people to see those on the team getting into a motel, getting housing and building better lives, and say, ‘I can do that too,' ” said Chris Richardson, Downtown Streets Team’s program director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, those who wanted to stay in the Sunnyvale Armory had to line up each afternoon and join a lottery for a bed every day. Under the new program, the lucky ones are placed into a motel or a shelter for 90 to 120 days. Demand still far exceeds supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2667px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\" alt=\"In the vicinity of giant tech companies in Silicon Valley, San Jose’s “Jungle” was one of the country’s largest homeless encampments. This site, where about 300 people lived, was shut down on Dec. 4, 2014. 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(Graphic by Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I sure can use a motel room where I can come back anytime I want,” said Clint, a 62-year-old homeless veteran who wouldn’t give his last name, while he was eating a free breakfast at a church in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clint was given a bed at a church in San Jose after he underwent heart surgery in September. He unzipped the top of his sweater and revealed a 4-inch-long scar on his chest that was still fresh. But he has to leave by 5:30 in the morning and come back after 8:00 at night, under church rules. He spends most of his days reading in the library or wandering aimlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Rosado, 40, was ecstatic when he was told by the Downtown Streets Team to move into a motel last week. For the past month, he had been sleeping in his brother’s truck after getting off work at a Mountain View Safeway at 11:30 p.m. When it got really cold, he stayed at work for extra hours or took a bus ride to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosado almost lost his chance at a motel bed after being kicked off the Downtown Streets Team in early November for not showing up for his shifts. Rosado said the schedule conflicted with his two other jobs — one at Safeway and another part-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the team took Rosado back and put him on the wait list for a motel bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being homeless in Silicon Valley means constantly having to figure out where to get a night’s sleep. While some sleep in their cars, some sleep on “Motel 22″ — the only bus that runs 24 hours a day in Silicon Valley. Others scatter to wherever they can get a few hours of undisturbed sleep. One of those places — the San Jose “Jungle” along Coyote Creek — was \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/09/san-jose-homeless-encampment-shut-down/\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled on Dec. 4\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolci acknowledged that the new homeless program helped fewer people, but said those who received hotel rooms were more likely to get off the streets permanently. They won’t have to constantly look for a place to sleep and will have time, with the help of case managers, to look for employment and permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is geared to hopefully solve some homelessness problems and end it,” Dolci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the new program proves effective, the county will continue it next year while still looking for a replacement for the Sunnyvale Armory, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Collins, shelter director at InnVision Shelter Network, described this year as a “trial period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all learning this together,” Collins said. “We are all optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scotts, with their retirement benefits kicking in early next year, hope the motel will be the last stop in their homeless journey. They have been accepted to the low-income apartment complex currently being built at the old Sunnyvale Armory site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being homeless, it hurts,” Patrick said. “But in the morning, you get up, tie your shoes and get life going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on KQED News Associate site \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>. It's part of a special reporting series on \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/15/special-report-living-in-silicon-valley-profiles-of-communities-in-transition/\" target=\"_blank\">South Bay communities in transition\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra Scott spent their 41st anniversary on Dec. 14 in a place they can finally call home — even temporarily. After being homeless for a year, the couple moved into a motel room paid for by the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After living under the bleachers, in the flowerbeds and beneath different trees in Sunnyvale’s Fair Oaks Park for most of the year, Patrick Scott said he was looking forward to sitting in a bath for a whole day, just letting the water run, fully aware that there’s a drought in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the little things that you miss the most,” Patrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra, both 62 years old, became homeless last December because Patrick retired as a cook one year before he was eligible for Social Security benefits. Sandra was unemployed after being injured at work in 2005, and expensive hospital stays exhausted most of their savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2550px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\" alt=\"Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg 2550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-400x517.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-1440x1863.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they were forced to leave their apartment in Sunnyvale, a relative offered to help, but they said they wanted to work out their money problems on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County, even with its enormous wealth per capita because of Silicon Valley’s boom, had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year, according to the 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Of the 7,567 homeless, 75 percent lived on the streets or in their cars. Of New York City’s 67,810 homeless, only 5 percent were unsheltered this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past decade, Santa Clara County has opened three shelters from Dec. 1 to March 31 to provide overnight lodging for homeless during the winter months. But the closing of one of them — the Sunnyvale Armory — this past spring has left homeless in the northern part of the county searching for alternatives as the cold winter temperatures set in. The old Sunnyvale Armory site is being converted to low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a countywide search for a replacement shelter bore no fruit, the county’s Board of Supervisors approved a new comprehensive winter plan to deal with the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for the loss of 125 beds in the Sunnyvale Armory, 56 beds are being added to other shelters, including the Boccardo Reception Center, the Commercial Street Inn in San Jose, Hotel de Zink in Palo Alto and Project WeHOPE in East Palo Alto. In addition, the county is offering 90 motel beds — like the ones the Scotts obtained — the largest number the county has ever offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the county approved $1 million to assist the homeless, an increase of close to $400,000 compared with last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the increase is to pay for the motel beds, which cost an average of $850 per week for one person — nearly twice as much as a shelter bed — according to Bob Dolci, the county’s homeless concerns coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 90 motel beds, 54 are dedicated to homeless families. InnVision Shelter Network, a provider of shelter and supportive services for the homeless, referred families on a first-come, first-serve basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 36 motel beds are reserved for homeless individuals and are overseen by Downtown Streets Team, an organization that helps the homeless find jobs and housing. Members on the Downtown Streets Team “volunteer” up to 20 hours per week on cleaning jobs, and instead of payment, receive grocery gift cards and case management services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only team members, or those on the wait list to get on the team, are eligible for motel beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the Scotts — both team members — were able to move into a motel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is for “people to see those on the team getting into a motel, getting housing and building better lives, and say, ‘I can do that too,' ” said Chris Richardson, Downtown Streets Team’s program director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, those who wanted to stay in the Sunnyvale Armory had to line up each afternoon and join a lottery for a bed every day. Under the new program, the lucky ones are placed into a motel or a shelter for 90 to 120 days. Demand still far exceeds supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2667px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\" alt=\"In the vicinity of giant tech companies in Silicon Valley, San Jose’s “Jungle” was one of the country’s largest homeless encampments. This site, where about 300 people lived, was shut down on Dec. 4, 2014. 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(Graphic by Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I sure can use a motel room where I can come back anytime I want,” said Clint, a 62-year-old homeless veteran who wouldn’t give his last name, while he was eating a free breakfast at a church in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clint was given a bed at a church in San Jose after he underwent heart surgery in September. He unzipped the top of his sweater and revealed a 4-inch-long scar on his chest that was still fresh. But he has to leave by 5:30 in the morning and come back after 8:00 at night, under church rules. He spends most of his days reading in the library or wandering aimlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Rosado, 40, was ecstatic when he was told by the Downtown Streets Team to move into a motel last week. 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They won’t have to constantly look for a place to sleep and will have time, with the help of case managers, to look for employment and permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is geared to hopefully solve some homelessness problems and end it,” Dolci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the new program proves effective, the county will continue it next year while still looking for a replacement for the Sunnyvale Armory, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Collins, shelter director at InnVision Shelter Network, described this year as a “trial period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all learning this together,” Collins said. “We are all optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scotts, with their retirement benefits kicking in early next year, hope the motel will be the last stop in their homeless journey. 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