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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Business boosters in Solano County are decrying the loss of a major shipbuilding contract that had promised to bring thousands of jobs to the underemployed region but say it hasn’t completely derailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-forever\">California Forever’s plan\u003c/a> to build its proposed mega-development. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Saronic, an autonomous shipbuilding defense start-up, \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/saronic-technologies/saronic-to-build-port-alpha-americas-next-generation-shipyard-in-brownsville-texas-f71c15565ec6\">announced\u003c/a> it would build its Port Alpha naval shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, instead of on California Forever-owned land in Collinsville. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As California’s most vocal advocates for new industries, high-wage jobs, and homes people can afford, our coalition is extremely frustrated that California lost this historic opportunity,” company officials said in a \u003ca href=\"https://californiaforever.com/statement-from-labor-and-business-coalition-on-saronic-shipyard-going-to-texas/\">joint statement\u003c/a> with other business advocacy groups. “Shipbuilding is in California’s heritage, and California was the natural home for Port Alpha.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-40-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-40-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-40-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-40-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Waterfront in the town of Collinsville in Solano County on May 13, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The company had been courting the shipbuilding start-up since late last year, hoping to ink a deal valued at $3.2 billion. Earlier this month, officials from California Forever were working with Gov. Gavin Newsom on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089233/california-forevers-bid-to-win-manufacturing-jobs-divides-solano-county-residents\">legislation\u003c/a> that would smooth regulatory reviews if it secures a deal with a major manufacturer. That legislation, a trailer bill to the state budget, has not yet been published or approved by lawmakers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>With Saronic out of the picture, the company will have to successfully finalize a deal with another manufacturer in order for that legislation, if approved, to have an effect. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of California Forever, however, are celebrating the news and pointing to the loss of the deal as evidence company officials had over-promised on what they could deliver. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California Forever just suffered a massive loss and I couldn’t be happier,” Michael Jefferson, a member of California ForNever, posted on the group’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/775318240797761\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. “We are one major step forward in stopping this abject top-down travesty.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Jefferson, a resident of Suisun City, led a campaign to recall the entire city council. He has said the city has mishandled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059985/california-forever-clears-first-hurdle-in-suisun-city-annexation\">proposal to annex\u003c/a> some of California Forever’s land and bolster its tax base. This November, a number of council seats are up for reelection, and Jefferson is \u003ca href=\"https://michaeljefferson4suisunmayor.crd.co/\">vying \u003c/a>to win the mayor’s seat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But for proponents of the project hoping to attract new businesses to the county, which has the highest unemployment rate in the Bay Area, the news is shattering.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a devastating outcome,” said Chris Rico, president of Solano County’s Economic Development Corporation. “We have the location, workforce, infrastructure and maritime heritage in this community. The only thing we couldn’t deliver was a clear and predictable path to build at the speed Saronic required.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some, like Vacaville Mayor John Carli, say recalcitrance on the part of some local electeds likely contributed to that slow pace and led to the loss of the contract. Last spring, when the company announced interest in developing a shipyard, the county’s Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037142/california-forevers-shipbuilding-plans-need-more-details-solano-county-officials-say\">criticized the plan for lacking details\u003c/a>. Earlier this year, Supervisor Mitch Mashburn, a vocal critic, called the proposal a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thereporter.com/2026/01/27/mashburn-calls-maritime-zone-a-nothingburger/\">nothingburger.\u003c/a>” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Carli called that attitude “a profound dereliction of duty.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You don’t win 10,000 jobs by insulting the company bringing them,” Carli said. “Solano County deserves leaders who fight to open doors, not lock them from the inside.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An aerial view of the Suisun Slough in Suisun City, Solano County, on Aug. 4, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the joint \u003ca href=\"https://californiaforever.com/statement-from-labor-and-business-coalition-on-saronic-shipyard-going-to-texas/\">statement\u003c/a> published by California Forever and other business groups, the company said it had “easily the best site and was one of two finalists for a 10,000 job opportunity,” and pinned some of the blame for the lost deal on the failure to pass special legislation in time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Today’s news was really a gut punch to everyone who has worked so hard to take advantage of this opportunity,” said Joshua Arce, executive director for the California Alliance for Jobs, a signatory to California Forever’s joint statement. “It’s disappointing to say the least.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Company officials say they will continue to work with the state to pass the trailer bill and attract other manufacturers to the future shipbuilding site. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Calls to rejuvenate the shipbuilding industry locally have come all the way from the federal government. 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"content": "\u003cp>New permanent supportive housing in San Francisco must prohibit on-site drug use in order to receive full city funding, after a controversial vote this week at the Board of Supervisors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The board voted 7-4 to approve the ordinance, authored by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, that enables evictions on the basis of drug use in city-funded housing projects. The plan has drawn criticism from public health and homelessness advocates who say it could send more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034006/san-francisco-mans-housing-struggle-relapse-put-him-back-on-streets\">drug users to the street if they relapse\u003c/a>, a common experience for people recovering from substance-use disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But proponents say it will create environments where more people in recovery can succeed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This responds to real needs of [permanent supportive housing] residents themselves, people who may or may not be in recovery, but who simply want to live in a drug-free residential community,” Dorsey, who identifies as a former drug addict himself, said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has around 9,600 site-based permanent supportive housing units, most of which follow the state’s Housing First approach, which attempts to keep people housed regardless of drug use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12034108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, California, on April 10, 2024. 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But almost all of the city’s upcoming permanent supportive housing projects receive some form of state funding, making them ineligible for drug-free housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy would apply specifically to new city-funded permanent supportive housing projects. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have not secured funding for all of the projects in the pipeline, but we almost always pursue state funding for 100% affordable projects, including PSH,” said Anne Stanley, communications manager for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. “Projects need to be fully funded through local dollars in order for the [drug-free] ordinance to apply.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If someone living in a drug-free building were to get caught using drugs, Dorsey said eviction would be uncommon. But those who do violate the policy could be evicted or relocated to a new building or homeless shelter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We should expect evictions under this ordinance to be exceedingly rare,” he said. “The self-selection of residents who voluntarily opt into drug-free residential communities largely solves in advance for scenarios that involve persistent drug relapses or habitual returns to use.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the plan said it builds on the work the city is doing to prop up more sober-living options, such as Hope House and James Baldwin Place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But opposing members on the Board of Supervisors raised concerns about unintended outcomes from the policy change. Supervisor Jackie Fielder put forward an amendment that would have removed shelters from the list of places someone relapsing could be relocated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Shelter is not housing. Shelter is a rough place for someone struggling with substance-use disorder to be. A person is not considered housed when they’re in shelter, they’re still considered homeless,” Fielder said on Tuesday. “People should be offered the option for treatment and if they participate in treatment, be able to return to their unit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The amendment failed to pass, despite research showing that relapse is a common part of the recovery journey for many people who have struggled with substance use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We don’t want somebody who doesn’t have the linear progression of being sober and falls off the wagon a couple of times to have to go back to square one and have to start in the coordinated entry system at shelter,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who supported Fielder’s amendment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The version of the ordinance passed this week comes after years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082132/following-newsoms-veto-lawmaker-returns-with-drug-free-homeless-housing-bill\">advocacy at the state level\u003c/a> to allow for more state-funded drug-free housing, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">months of discussions\u003c/a> about the local proposal with neighbors, local leaders and medical professionals, including some who previously opposed Dorsey’s measure for putting additional risk on vulnerable residents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An individual with a substance-use disorder evicted from housing because of relapses should be moved to a setting with more intensive services,” a May 4 letter from members of the San Francisco-Marin Medical Society said. “The ordinance as currently written does not contain minimum guardrails that, at the very least, would ensure that the evicted individual is not relegated to an undetermined setting with less support and possibly homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12072183\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Signs promoting dignity and welcome hang on a door inside St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake requirements. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>New permanent supportive housing in San Francisco must prohibit on-site drug use in order to receive full city funding, after a controversial vote this week at the Board of Supervisors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The board voted 7-4 to approve the ordinance, authored by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, that enables evictions on the basis of drug use in city-funded housing projects. The plan has drawn criticism from public health and homelessness advocates who say it could send more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034006/san-francisco-mans-housing-struggle-relapse-put-him-back-on-streets\">drug users to the street if they relapse\u003c/a>, a common experience for people recovering from substance-use disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But proponents say it will create environments where more people in recovery can succeed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This responds to real needs of [permanent supportive housing] residents themselves, people who may or may not be in recovery, but who simply want to live in a drug-free residential community,” Dorsey, who identifies as a former drug addict himself, said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has around 9,600 site-based permanent supportive housing units, most of which follow the state’s Housing First approach, which attempts to keep people housed regardless of drug use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12034108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, California, on April 10, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are currently just over 1,400 total permanent supportive housing units in San Francisco in various stages of development, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. But almost all of the city’s upcoming permanent supportive housing projects receive some form of state funding, making them ineligible for drug-free housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But those who do violate the policy could be evicted or relocated to a new building or homeless shelter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We should expect evictions under this ordinance to be exceedingly rare,” he said. “The self-selection of residents who voluntarily opt into drug-free residential communities largely solves in advance for scenarios that involve persistent drug relapses or habitual returns to use.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the plan said it builds on the work the city is doing to prop up more sober-living options, such as Hope House and James Baldwin Place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But opposing members on the Board of Supervisors raised concerns about unintended outcomes from the policy change. Supervisor Jackie Fielder put forward an amendment that would have removed shelters from the list of places someone relapsing could be relocated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Shelter is not housing. Shelter is a rough place for someone struggling with substance-use disorder to be. A person is not considered housed when they’re in shelter, they’re still considered homeless,” Fielder said on Tuesday. “People should be offered the option for treatment and if they participate in treatment, be able to return to their unit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The amendment failed to pass, despite research showing that relapse is a common part of the recovery journey for many people who have struggled with substance use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We don’t want somebody who doesn’t have the linear progression of being sober and falls off the wagon a couple of times to have to go back to square one and have to start in the coordinated entry system at shelter,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who supported Fielder’s amendment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The version of the ordinance passed this week comes after years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082132/following-newsoms-veto-lawmaker-returns-with-drug-free-homeless-housing-bill\">advocacy at the state level\u003c/a> to allow for more state-funded drug-free housing, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">months of discussions\u003c/a> about the local proposal with neighbors, local leaders and medical professionals, including some who previously opposed Dorsey’s measure for putting additional risk on vulnerable residents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An individual with a substance-use disorder evicted from housing because of relapses should be moved to a setting with more intensive services,” a May 4 letter from members of the San Francisco-Marin Medical Society said. “The ordinance as currently written does not contain minimum guardrails that, at the very least, would ensure that the evicted individual is not relegated to an undetermined setting with less support and possibly homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12072183\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Signs promoting dignity and welcome hang on a door inside St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake requirements. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The policy does not prohibit alcohol or marijuana or medication-assisted recovery treatment like methadone or buprenorphine, which assist in opioid-use disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other homelessness advocates said the plan creates new barriers to building housing that is affordable to extremely low-income residents, at a time when rents in the city are skyrocketing, evictions are increasing and the city is on the hook to build thousands of affordable housing units to meet state requirements. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This unnecessarily creates obstacles for backfilling Trump HUD cuts, and for projects in the pipeline,” Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director for the Coalition on Homelessness, said in a letter to the Board of Supervisors. “We can and should do sober housing, have done sober housing and simply need to recognize that by doing so we don’t want to drive up evictions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has seen a downward trend in overdose deaths this year, according to new data from the Department of Public Health. From January to June 2026, there were a total of 262 overdose deaths, around 27% fewer compared to the same time period last year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This downward trend is encouraging, but the number of people that continue to die of overdose is still unacceptable,” Deputy Director of Public Health Naveena Baba said during a press conference on Wednesday. “It is not enough to prevent deaths. We want people to flourish.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Health officials attributed the changes in overdose deaths to a number of interventions in the city, including ramping up access to medication-assisted treatment. The city’s trajectory also mirrors nationwide trends of a decreasing rate of overdose deaths, Baba said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy also comes as Mayor Daniel Lurie has initiated various changes to the city’s drug response, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">shift away from harm reduction\u003c/a> practices that aim to reduce health and social risks involved with drug use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under his administration, the city has stopped handing out safe smoking supplies and people seeking access to other harm reduction services now must participate in counseling. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now that the ordinance has passed, Dorsey said city leaders can still work together to finalize details around implementation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For 30 years, an empty, blighted lot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-oakland\">East Oakland\u003c/a> has been home to weeds, dumped trash, a billboard and a debt so large no buyer would come near it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Alameda County leaders voted to hand the tax-defaulted property at 8215 MacArthur Blvd. to a Black community initiative and nonprofit housing developer for only $10.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county hopes the sale of the 15,000-square-foot parcel — a quarter of a football field — can become a model by which blighted property can be transformed into affordable housing and serve as part of a broader effort to keep Black residents in East Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Today is historic,” Treasurer-Tax Collector Henry Levy told the Board of Supervisors, noting it was the county’s first transfer of its kind in about a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The parcel had been “stuck,” county officials said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After going into tax default in 1995, the county sold it a decade later to a nonprofit that was supposed to build affordable housing on it, but which dissolved in 2013 without ever doing so. Because the taxes are owed by an entity that no longer exists, the debt kept compounding into nothing: as of June 30 of this year, back taxes, penalties and city liens totaled roughly $1.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12090941\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sweet fennel grows above the fencing at the lot at 8215 MacArthur Blvd., in East Oakland, on July 14, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In April, an appraiser valued the land at $900,000, meaning the debt now exceeds what the dirt is worth. That is the legal hinge of the deal. Because a sale could not cover the debt, the county is free, under Chapter 8 of the state tax code, to set whatever price it sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to describe it as giving up [on collecting back taxes],” said Casey Farmer, the county’s Chapter 8 program manager. “The only way to get that property really back to paying taxes or back to good public use is to find a new owner to take on that property.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nobody, she said, would take it. The county tried to auction it off in 2013, starting at $634,255, and it did not sell, nor did it sell again in 2023. Several lots within half a mile also sit empty.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s just not a very attractive property,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland has continued spending to clear weeds and debris under its nuisance abatement program, and neighbors have asked both the city and county to address the blight.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Farmer said her office approached several organizations in the neighborhood to take over the lot, and each declined — some could not afford the lot, some considered it too small, and many did not want to contend with the Clear Channel billboard, which stands directly on the property. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Finally, the county found a partner in the Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation. According to Regina Davis, BCZ’s deputy CEO of real estate, two neighbors brought the lot to the nonprofit’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They also made the county aware of us, and that’s how we started working together,” Davis said. “People bring things to us because they believe that we can make something happen that is both fair, equitable, and innovative.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The parcel is BCZ’s sixth acquisition along MacArthur, she said. The zone spans 60 by 60 blocks — stretching from the Oakland hills to the baywater, and High Street to the city’s border with San Leandro. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For 30 years, an empty, blighted lot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-oakland\">East Oakland\u003c/a> has been home to weeds, dumped trash, a billboard and a debt so large no buyer would come near it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Alameda County leaders voted to hand the tax-defaulted property at 8215 MacArthur Blvd. to a Black community initiative and nonprofit housing developer for only $10.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county hopes the sale of the 15,000-square-foot parcel — a quarter of a football field — can become a model by which blighted property can be transformed into affordable housing and serve as part of a broader effort to keep Black residents in East Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Today is historic,” Treasurer-Tax Collector Henry Levy told the Board of Supervisors, noting it was the county’s first transfer of its kind in about a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The parcel had been “stuck,” county officials said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After going into tax default in 1995, the county sold it a decade later to a nonprofit that was supposed to build affordable housing on it, but which dissolved in 2013 without ever doing so. Because the taxes are owed by an entity that no longer exists, the debt kept compounding into nothing: as of June 30 of this year, back taxes, penalties and city liens totaled roughly $1.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12090941\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sweet fennel grows above the fencing at the lot at 8215 MacArthur Blvd., in East Oakland, on July 14, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In April, an appraiser valued the land at $900,000, meaning the debt now exceeds what the dirt is worth. That is the legal hinge of the deal. Because a sale could not cover the debt, the county is free, under Chapter 8 of the state tax code, to set whatever price it sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to describe it as giving up [on collecting back taxes],” said Casey Farmer, the county’s Chapter 8 program manager. “The only way to get that property really back to paying taxes or back to good public use is to find a new owner to take on that property.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nobody, she said, would take it. The county tried to auction it off in 2013, starting at $634,255, and it did not sell, nor did it sell again in 2023. Several lots within half a mile also sit empty.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s just not a very attractive property,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland has continued spending to clear weeds and debris under its nuisance abatement program, and neighbors have asked both the city and county to address the blight.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Farmer said her office approached several organizations in the neighborhood to take over the lot, and each declined — some could not afford the lot, some considered it too small, and many did not want to contend with the Clear Channel billboard, which stands directly on the property. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Finally, the county found a partner in the Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation. According to Regina Davis, BCZ’s deputy CEO of real estate, two neighbors brought the lot to the nonprofit’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They also made the county aware of us, and that’s how we started working together,” Davis said. “People bring things to us because they believe that we can make something happen that is both fair, equitable, and innovative.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The parcel is BCZ’s sixth acquisition along MacArthur, she said. The zone spans 60 by 60 blocks — stretching from the Oakland hills to the baywater, and High Street to the city’s border with San Leandro. Divided into 12 districts, the zone is anchored by hubs of cultural, commercial and community spaces. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12090940\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A pedestrian walks past the lot at 8215 MacArthur Blvd., in East Oakland, on July 14, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A $10 price tag, she said, is not the same as a cheap project.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you think, ‘You’re getting the property for $10’ — yeah, but still we have to raise $40 million in order to build it,” Davis said. “That’s a process. That’s the other long part of putting together the financial stack, so that it’s also affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To compete for the tax credits that finance affordable housing, she said, a project generally needs to be around 100 units. The housing plan for the site has not been determined, and the first step will not be a rendering, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the meantime, BCZ will clear and activate the lot, as it did at Liberation Park, a “so-called hub for community empowerment” the nonprofit turned into an outdoor market, community roller rink and future affordable housing site. Davis said BCZ hosted roughly a hundred events a year there before a single building went up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12090942\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sweet fennel grows above the fencing surrounding the lot at 8215 MacArthur Blvd., in East Oakland, on July 14, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The sale still needs sign-off from the California State Controller, a review the county expects to take a month or more.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county is eyeing about 10 more abandoned, tax-defaulted parcels — mostly vacant land — for the same treatment. Some are small enough for infill housing; state law also permits transfers for open space, such as a park or community garden. Farmer said the office hopes to move them over the next year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nate Miley, whose district includes the lot, said he hopes it becomes a template for turning the county’s stuck, tax-defaulted lots into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said at the hearing that “these things take time, but anything worth having is worth pursuing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Buying a house amid San Francisco’s spiraling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">affordability crisis\u003c/a> can be daunting in even the most traditional of circumstances. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867110/for-some-parolees-facing-homelessness-communal-houses-fill-the-gap\">group of formerly incarcerated residents\u003c/a> living in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood is taking on the challenge by trying to buy their beloved Victorian rental, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/template.house/\">Template House\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their vision is to transition the property to a local land trust, ensuring the unique house can exist in perpetuity and offer a shot at communal living for people with experience in the criminal justice system. But as home prices across the city continue to rise because of the artificial intelligence boom, the deadline for the group to raise the money it needs to complete the deal is looming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that I really want to do is to take this building off the speculative market. I want this house to be returned to this use case, and a land trust locks it in, in a way that’s really powerful,” said Zarinah Agnew, 44, who runs The Second Life Project, part of the nonprofit District Commons, which is helping steward the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Commons runs several communal homes in San Francisco. Template House was formed in 2019 with the specific goal of offering communal living for people exiting prison. The owners, local couple Jessy Kate and Robbie Schingler, supported the vision behind the abolitionist cooperative and agreed to give residents seven years to buy the four-bedroom house and its shady backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those seven years are now almost up. The five residents are furiously fundraising $1.4 million to purchase the $2 million house. They have secured roughly $63,000 so far through donations, largely from individuals, plus $100,000 in a low-interest loan, with the help of the consulting firm Land and Power, which has helped tenants purchase their buildings in California and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew sits inside Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their deadline to close on the house is at the end of this year. While the owners support the vision and have kept the price stable to support the sale even as the housing market explodes, they plan to put it on the market if the current residents can’t meet their goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most, if not all, residents, that would mean moving out of the communal house and likely out of the city to find equivalent rents. Resident Eldridge Cruse, 56, said he pays $1,450 per month for his bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates of the model say the need is more pressing than ever. In addition to the AI boom pushing rents to nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=1\">$4,000 for a one-bedroom\u003c/a>, a shift toward tougher-on-crime policing and prosecution both locally and nationally is occurring, which can leave people who have been arrested or incarcerated facing more barriers to accessing stable housing.[aside postID=news_12087973 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-13-BL-KQED.jpg']In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/arrests-drug-seizures-and-federal-drug-trafficking-charges-surge-san-francisco-through\">arrests have surged in recent years\u003c/a> even as crime rates overall have \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/PoliceCommission7826_-__Crime_Trends_Notes.pdf\">decreased\u003c/a>. Public safety dominated political discussions and campaigns coming out of the pandemic, and the city has moved to put programs like a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/08/nonprofit-keeps-95-clients-jail-court-sf-courts-want-kill/\">pretrial diversion program\u003c/a> on the chopping block. That has the potential to increase the jail population and create an even larger number of people with barriers to securing leases and closing housing deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Template House is currently a permanent home for five residents. But the house often keeps a bed or two open for people in an emergency who are looking for a place to sleep while figuring out their next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had two young guys come in from ICE detention who just needed a place to be. If they didn’t have an address, they were going to remain incarcerated,” said Agnew, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “It’s a way of being able to offer solidarity and pay it forward, so it’s nice to have a couple of empty beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cruse, one of the original full-time tenants at Template House, the space has been an unexpectedly critical part of his journey reacclimating back into everyday society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruse arrived at Template House after spending 29 years in prison for being involved in a murder. Released without parole after his case was overturned in 2019, he didn’t qualify for transitional housing or other step-down programs. He connected with Agnew after a series of phone calls with lawyers and friends, and she offered him a place to crash at one of the other communal homes part of District Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he arrived, he immediately recognized some of the men he knew in prison sitting around a common area, and said he felt waves of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eldridge Cruse carries a pot of soup to the backyard for a dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to keep alive is that spirit of coming home to someplace that brings comfort instead of anxiety. And my success since I’ve been here has been attributed to me having such a soft landing,” said Cruse, who now is an assistant director at a homeless shelter in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Cruse arrived in 2019, District Commons proceeded to add another house to their community of cooperatives at the Haight-Ashbury building that’s now Template House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group landed on a strategy to work with Agnew’s nonprofit to purchase the house. Part of the thinking was that some people exiting incarceration might not have ample savings to put into buying a house and fundraising with the nonprofit could allow them to personally save in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also more straightforward to fundraise for a nonprofit than for individuals. And, residents can learn about the process of homeownership and the financial steps to get there, while avoiding some of the financial pressure to manage the dynamics of San Francisco’s unforgiving housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and friends gather for a backyard dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can deal with the social aspect of this, but the management aspect, I leave it to the professionals,” Cruse said. “Who knows? Maybe one day I will be able to do it. But as of this time, it is very important for those who do know how to do this correctly that they do take the lead in it. And one day, then we’re able to take on those responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone in the house has lived experience in prison, and integrating different life and financial backgrounds is part of the group’s theory of success, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is always some difficulty that can come with living in co-ops. It’s never quite as rosy as some might try to portray,” said Jeremy Mack, who lived at the house for around two years during graduate school and does not have direct personal experience with the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But ultimately, spaces like Template are filling such an important gap that exists in the city and in the Bay Area at large, and are really a beautiful oasis in a landscape right now that is increasingly carceral, that is increasingly difficult to navigate, and expensive for people who are coming out of incarceration,” Mack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087368\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and friends gather for a backyard dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Template housemates say their long-term vision is a model of “mutually stewarded autonomy,” where they learn to run and manage the house together and ultimately take it off the market long-term by transferring it to a land trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Community Land Trust is a sort of legal structure that can outlive your lifetime,” Agnew said. “We talked about whether people wanted to do a shared ownership model, but everybody said that that was too stressful and would be a lot of admin… People really wanted to focus on the family and home dynamic more than the operations and logistics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruse said he already knows there’s demand, based on conversations he has with other formerly incarcerated people he knows and meets, whether that’s at backyard barbecues he co-hosts or just through community networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, residents and their allies are hurrying to recruit potential donors and lenders in the next six months to make the model feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Template is our step forward to see if we can create this cooperative, self-managing ownership structure as an alternative to halfway houses at scale,” he said. “This is just the beginning of something that is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Commons runs several communal homes in San Francisco. Template House was formed in 2019 with the specific goal of offering communal living for people exiting prison. The owners, local couple Jessy Kate and Robbie Schingler, supported the vision behind the abolitionist cooperative and agreed to give residents seven years to buy the four-bedroom house and its shady backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those seven years are now almost up. The five residents are furiously fundraising $1.4 million to purchase the $2 million house. They have secured roughly $63,000 so far through donations, largely from individuals, plus $100,000 in a low-interest loan, with the help of the consulting firm Land and Power, which has helped tenants purchase their buildings in California and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew sits inside Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their deadline to close on the house is at the end of this year. While the owners support the vision and have kept the price stable to support the sale even as the housing market explodes, they plan to put it on the market if the current residents can’t meet their goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most, if not all, residents, that would mean moving out of the communal house and likely out of the city to find equivalent rents. Resident Eldridge Cruse, 56, said he pays $1,450 per month for his bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates of the model say the need is more pressing than ever. In addition to the AI boom pushing rents to nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=1\">$4,000 for a one-bedroom\u003c/a>, a shift toward tougher-on-crime policing and prosecution both locally and nationally is occurring, which can leave people who have been arrested or incarcerated facing more barriers to accessing stable housing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But the house often keeps a bed or two open for people in an emergency who are looking for a place to sleep while figuring out their next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had two young guys come in from ICE detention who just needed a place to be. If they didn’t have an address, they were going to remain incarcerated,” said Agnew, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “It’s a way of being able to offer solidarity and pay it forward, so it’s nice to have a couple of empty beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cruse, one of the original full-time tenants at Template House, the space has been an unexpectedly critical part of his journey reacclimating back into everyday society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruse arrived at Template House after spending 29 years in prison for being involved in a murder. Released without parole after his case was overturned in 2019, he didn’t qualify for transitional housing or other step-down programs. He connected with Agnew after a series of phone calls with lawyers and friends, and she offered him a place to crash at one of the other communal homes part of District Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he arrived, he immediately recognized some of the men he knew in prison sitting around a common area, and said he felt waves of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eldridge Cruse carries a pot of soup to the backyard for a dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to keep alive is that spirit of coming home to someplace that brings comfort instead of anxiety. And my success since I’ve been here has been attributed to me having such a soft landing,” said Cruse, who now is an assistant director at a homeless shelter in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Cruse arrived in 2019, District Commons proceeded to add another house to their community of cooperatives at the Haight-Ashbury building that’s now Template House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group landed on a strategy to work with Agnew’s nonprofit to purchase the house. Part of the thinking was that some people exiting incarceration might not have ample savings to put into buying a house and fundraising with the nonprofit could allow them to personally save in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also more straightforward to fundraise for a nonprofit than for individuals. And, residents can learn about the process of homeownership and the financial steps to get there, while avoiding some of the financial pressure to manage the dynamics of San Francisco’s unforgiving housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and friends gather for a backyard dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can deal with the social aspect of this, but the management aspect, I leave it to the professionals,” Cruse said. “Who knows? Maybe one day I will be able to do it. But as of this time, it is very important for those who do know how to do this correctly that they do take the lead in it. And one day, then we’re able to take on those responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone in the house has lived experience in prison, and integrating different life and financial backgrounds is part of the group’s theory of success, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is always some difficulty that can come with living in co-ops. It’s never quite as rosy as some might try to portray,” said Jeremy Mack, who lived at the house for around two years during graduate school and does not have direct personal experience with the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But ultimately, spaces like Template are filling such an important gap that exists in the city and in the Bay Area at large, and are really a beautiful oasis in a landscape right now that is increasingly carceral, that is increasingly difficult to navigate, and expensive for people who are coming out of incarceration,” Mack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087368\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and friends gather for a backyard dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Template housemates say their long-term vision is a model of “mutually stewarded autonomy,” where they learn to run and manage the house together and ultimately take it off the market long-term by transferring it to a land trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Community Land Trust is a sort of legal structure that can outlive your lifetime,” Agnew said. “We talked about whether people wanted to do a shared ownership model, but everybody said that that was too stressful and would be a lot of admin… People really wanted to focus on the family and home dynamic more than the operations and logistics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruse said he already knows there’s demand, based on conversations he has with other formerly incarcerated people he knows and meets, whether that’s at backyard barbecues he co-hosts or just through community networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, residents and their allies are hurrying to recruit potential donors and lenders in the next six months to make the model feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Template is our step forward to see if we can create this cooperative, self-managing ownership structure as an alternative to halfway houses at scale,” he said. “This is just the beginning of something that is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It focuses on a controversial mechanism. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12090758/california-peach-growers-hope-next-farm-bill-will-do-more-for-specialty-crops\">California peach growers hope next farm bill will do more for specialty crops\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s a sweltering morning in June off State Route 70 in Marysville as Sarb Johl watches one of his employees use an excavator to push dead peach trees into ginormous, dry piles. “He’s picking up the trees that have already been pushed out of the ground so they can be burned,” Johl said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Like a lot of farmers in Yuba and Sutter counties, Johl grows peaches — and not the kind that you buy fresh at the store or farmers’ market. These peaches are grown specifically for canning. But Johl was forced to rip out over half of his peach acres after one of the last canneries in the state, Del Monte Foods, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/del-monte-files-for-bankruptcy-as-its-canned-fruit-and-vegetable-sales-slide\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a> and then closed earlier this year. That left growers like Johl \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article314486736.html\">without a buyer\u003c/a> for their fruit — and facing a dire economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When the processor goes out, basically you got no place to go,” Johl said. In April, the United States Department of Agriculture threw farmers a lifeline by creating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/news/2026-05-05/california-lawmakers-secure-federal-aid-for-yuba-sutter-peach-farmers-affected-by-major-cannery-closure\">$9 million program\u003c/a> to fund the removal of thousands of acres of trees. Now, farmers like Johl need to invest in growing another crop, likely a type of nut, and they’re hoping the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088977/a-lifeline-for-californias-small-farms-just-expired-what-comes-next\">new farm bill\u003c/a> will provide some help to make the transition. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But it may not be that simple. “So historically, the farm bill has sort of left out specialty crop growers,” said \u003ca href=\"https://jsayre.ucdavis.edu/\">James Sayre\u003c/a>, an agricultural economist at UC Davis. Sayre said that specialty crops — like some fruits, vegetables and nuts — have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to the massive piece of agriculture legislation. He said that’s partially because a lot of the bill is dedicated to what are called \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12047\">Title I crops\u003c/a> — think big commodities like corn, wheat and soybeans. Title I crops are federally subsidized with insurance programs and direct payments to farmers when prices fall. These crops are grown across many Midwestern states, while specialty crops are concentrated in California. Sayre said that means lawmakers from big commodity-growing regions have more votes in Congress and therefore more political power.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One silver lining is that California Sen. Adam Schiff has a seat on the Senate’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.agriculture.senate.gov/\">Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee\u003c/a>. It’s the first time in 30 years that a lawmaker from the Golden State is at the table. 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Among the general homeless population in the Bay Area, a little \u003ca href=\"https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1571/2025-09/santa-clara-county-point-in-time-count-2025-final-report.pdf?VersionId=aGEbcN9xWzAZ0Kv8FEcDq5fBpwvhDJlr\">less than 10%\u003c/a> of unhoused residents \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">surveyed\u003c/a> in recent years self-identified as LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area housing nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://lifemoves.org/\">LifeMoves\u003c/a>, which oversees more than two dozen interim shelters, is piloting a new training model for the staff at all their sites to better support their LGBTQ+ residents. The New Haven Inn, an LGBTQ-focused shelter for over seven years, is one of the first LifeMoves sites to implement it before the model rolls out to all other sites by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New Haven Inn offers the same resources as other LifeMoves sites, including intensive case management, housing and employment specialists, and on-site therapists. But at this San José shelter, pride flags are strung up in the backyard over picnic tables, and the kitchen is decorated with colorful tissue paper hearts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building feels more like a large, welcoming house than a typical homeless shelter. The dorm-style rooms are divided into sections with two people each. 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"content": "\u003cp>Solano County residents and local officials have mixed feelings about a draft legislative deal with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-forever\">California Forever\u003c/a> that could speed environmental approvals for proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037142/california-forevers-shipbuilding-plans-need-more-details-solano-county-officials-say\">shipbuilding\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048321/california-forever-wants-to-build-a-manufacturing-town\">advanced manufacturing projects\u003c/a> on company-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some are lauding the move as a way to bring jobs to a county with the \u003ca href=\"https://vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/indicators/unemployment\">highest unemployment rate\u003c/a> in the Bay Area. Others are concerned it could fast-track the projects without sufficient environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m skeptical,” Mayor Edwin Okamura said. His city, Rio Vista, neighbors California Forever’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059985/california-forever-clears-first-hurdle-in-suisun-city-annexation\">new mega-development\u003c/a>. “I feel like…they’re finding a workaround to getting approvals on their project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the bill’s authors — former Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg and former Senate majority leader Bob Hertzberg, who joined California Forever’s team in mid-April as “special counsel” — the draft legislation provides several mechanisms to speed environmental and regulatory approvals for the two proposed projects: a shipyard in Collinsville and the Solano Foundry, an advanced manufacturing site seven miles away. It would also extend to any workforce housing included on either site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It asks for the proposed shipyard to rely on a 2008 environmental impact report the county has already approved for that site. And, it requires any challenges to the two projects under the landmark California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) be resolved \u003ca href=\"https://lci.ca.gov/ceqa/judicial-streamlining/\">within 270 days\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a catch: in order to trigger those mechanisms, the company first has to sign a deal with a major manufacturer that promises to bring thousands of jobs to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067288\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250513-CALIFORNIAFOREVERANNEXEXPLAINER-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250513-CALIFORNIAFOREVERANNEXEXPLAINER-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250513-CALIFORNIAFOREVERANNEXEXPLAINER-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250513-CALIFORNIAFOREVERANNEXEXPLAINER-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The intersection of Highway 12 and Highway 113 in Solano County outside of Suisun City on May 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since late last year, California Forever has been in talks \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/california-forever-drone-ship-factory-solano-21041261.php\">with Saronic\u003c/a>, an autonomous shipbuilding \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/technology/drone-ship-builder-saronic-valuation-more-than-doubles-9-billion-after-funding-2026-03-31/\">defense startup\u003c/a> valued at more than $9 billion, to see if it might open its $3.2 billion naval shipyard called Port Alpha in Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to create the environment where any of these companies that want to come to California to create these high-wage jobs can actually happen,” Hertzberg told KQED. “And we’re not going to be in a situation where it takes 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft legislation has not been published yet, but company officials said it will be included in a trailer bill to the state’s budget, which lawmakers approved this week. The use of a trailer bill, or a secondary piece of legislation the state can enact to implement the state budget after it has been approved, has been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/02/california-trailer-bills-sneaky-law/\">criticized \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-criticism-fast-trackbills/44203421\">by some\u003c/a> as a way to sidestep public input.[aside postID=news_12069959 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed.jpg']Sarah Soroken, a resident of Rio Vista and member of Solano Together, a coalition opposed to California Forever, said she’s deeply concerned this legislation could allow the project to be approved without proper oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why transparency in a public process is so important,” she said. “Because if we let decisions happen behind closed doors, there may be factors taken into account that really don’t prioritize the health and well-being of the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job seekers, however, are eager for a change. Last week, labor groups across the state \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aeEocOpjB-RKTsxRoGZxSNh-NC-W9SIy/view?pli=1\">called on\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders to approve the proposed draft legislation and bring jobs to Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Kowalski, a union pipe fitter and plumber based in Vacaville, said he has spent most of his career traveling outside the county for work. He pointed to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/fairfield-budweiser-anheuser-busch-closing/\">Budweiser plant\u003c/a> shutting down in Fairfield, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000877/californias-fuel-fears-threaten-benicias-just-transition-to-green-economy\">Valero plant \u003c/a>shutting down in Benicia and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-24/jelly-belly-to-lay-off-close-to-70-employees\">Jelly Belly\u003c/a>, the candy company based in Fairfield, closing its corporate-commercial operations there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no real industry here,” he said. “With [the Foundry] and the housing that California Forever would like to bring to Solano County, it’s needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036285\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, speaks during a town hall meeting in Rio Vista on Dec. 5, 2023, for the proposed California city backed by Silicon Valley investors on farmland in eastern Solano County. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Hertzberg told KQED that California Forever would still need to complete environmental impact reports and would need county approval on its projects. But those approvals, they acknowledged, can take years to negotiate, especially with property, sales or other tax-sharing agreements. The draft legislation includes a provision requiring binding arbitration to protect the county from any costs the project could incur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is currently pursuing plans for nearby Suisun City to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043295/suisun-city-proposes-annexing-most-of-california-forevers-new-city\">annex some of its land, \u003c/a>including the Foundry site. City Manager Bret Prebula said this legislation would not impact the city’s involvement in that process. Instead, he said, it could free the annexation deal and the development from being caught in bureaucracy that he argued goes beyond common sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say the majority of people in the state would tell you there’s too much bureaucracy broadly in the state of California,” he said. “This is trying to move towards … a place of what is common sense bureaucracy and what is just process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Hertzberg said they spent months listening to local elected officials about their concerns, which the legislation attempts to assuage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Okamura said he wasn’t approached by Steinberg or Hertzberg during that tour, even though his city would be the most impacted. And while he agreed, in principle, with the idea of speedy approvals, he said that in practice, it could lead to bad outcomes, especially for his small town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043300\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Welcome to Suisun City’ on Highway 12 in Suisun City on May 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“By no means am I a NIMBY; I want that to be very clear,” Okamura said. “I support the shipyard. I don’t support not mitigating challenges that my community will have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Rico, president and CEO of the Solano Economic Development Corporation, said his county desperately needs these jobs and this project could be a catalyst to turn things around for the county’s economic health. He noted that similar deals have previously been struck to expedite approvals for the Oakland A’s stadium, the Golden State Warriors Arena and the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, among other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re willing to give CEQA exemptions to [sports] stadiums, we should be willing to give a CEQA exemption to a manufacturer that’s going to bring 10,000 jobs and a $3.2 billion investment,” he said. “It’s kind of a no-brainer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sarah Soroken, a resident of Rio Vista and member of Solano Together, a coalition opposed to California Forever, said she’s deeply concerned this legislation could allow the project to be approved without proper oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why transparency in a public process is so important,” she said. “Because if we let decisions happen behind closed doors, there may be factors taken into account that really don’t prioritize the health and well-being of the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job seekers, however, are eager for a change. Last week, labor groups across the state \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aeEocOpjB-RKTsxRoGZxSNh-NC-W9SIy/view?pli=1\">called on\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders to approve the proposed draft legislation and bring jobs to Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Kowalski, a union pipe fitter and plumber based in Vacaville, said he has spent most of his career traveling outside the county for work. He pointed to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/fairfield-budweiser-anheuser-busch-closing/\">Budweiser plant\u003c/a> shutting down in Fairfield, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000877/californias-fuel-fears-threaten-benicias-just-transition-to-green-economy\">Valero plant \u003c/a>shutting down in Benicia and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-24/jelly-belly-to-lay-off-close-to-70-employees\">Jelly Belly\u003c/a>, the candy company based in Fairfield, closing its corporate-commercial operations there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no real industry here,” he said. “With [the Foundry] and the housing that California Forever would like to bring to Solano County, it’s needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036285\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-39-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, speaks during a town hall meeting in Rio Vista on Dec. 5, 2023, for the proposed California city backed by Silicon Valley investors on farmland in eastern Solano County. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Hertzberg told KQED that California Forever would still need to complete environmental impact reports and would need county approval on its projects. But those approvals, they acknowledged, can take years to negotiate, especially with property, sales or other tax-sharing agreements. The draft legislation includes a provision requiring binding arbitration to protect the county from any costs the project could incur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is currently pursuing plans for nearby Suisun City to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043295/suisun-city-proposes-annexing-most-of-california-forevers-new-city\">annex some of its land, \u003c/a>including the Foundry site. City Manager Bret Prebula said this legislation would not impact the city’s involvement in that process. Instead, he said, it could free the annexation deal and the development from being caught in bureaucracy that he argued goes beyond common sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say the majority of people in the state would tell you there’s too much bureaucracy broadly in the state of California,” he said. “This is trying to move towards … a place of what is common sense bureaucracy and what is just process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Hertzberg said they spent months listening to local elected officials about their concerns, which the legislation attempts to assuage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Okamura said he wasn’t approached by Steinberg or Hertzberg during that tour, even though his city would be the most impacted. And while he agreed, in principle, with the idea of speedy approvals, he said that in practice, it could lead to bad outcomes, especially for his small town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043300\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Welcome to Suisun City’ on Highway 12 in Suisun City on May 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“By no means am I a NIMBY; I want that to be very clear,” Okamura said. “I support the shipyard. I don’t support not mitigating challenges that my community will have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Rico, president and CEO of the Solano Economic Development Corporation, said his county desperately needs these jobs and this project could be a catalyst to turn things around for the county’s economic health. He noted that similar deals have previously been struck to expedite approvals for the Oakland A’s stadium, the Golden State Warriors Arena and the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, among other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re willing to give CEQA exemptions to [sports] stadiums, we should be willing to give a CEQA exemption to a manufacturer that’s going to bring 10,000 jobs and a $3.2 billion investment,” he said. “It’s kind of a no-brainer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a controversial move, state regulators on Friday approved major changes to California’s cap-and-invest program at a lengthy board meeting that transpired over the course of two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to create a $4 billion fund for big polluters to invest in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/nc-MDIF%20FAQ_April%202026.pdf\">decarbonization projects\u003c/a>. Climate, affordable housing and transit advocates, however, worry the move might mean significantly less money for their programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom lauded the effort, saying it advances affordability while keeping the state on track to meet its climate targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s nation-leading cap-and-invest program has proven that we can cut pollution, create jobs, and invest in a cleaner future at the same time,” he wrote. “These are real results that Californians can see and feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators said they were doing their best to strike a balance that also keeps oil and gas companies viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>There is no direction to us, as an agency, to maximize one trade-off versus another,” said Rajinder Sahota, deputy executive officer for climate change and research at CARB. “What we’re trying to do is balance all of the pieces that we’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for a petroleum pipeline in Richmond on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vote comes months after the board faced pressure from the oil and gas industry, which warned that compliance with current rules would drive them out of California and increase energy prices. The war in Iran has sent gas prices soaring to \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA\">over $6 a gallon\u003c/a> in California, and in the past six months, two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000877/californias-fuel-fears-threaten-benicias-just-transition-to-green-economy\">refineries\u003c/a> have closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, climate, housing and transit advocates argued they also face an uncertain future with cuts from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073333/trump-scraps-a-cornerstone-climate-finding-as-california-prepares-for-court\">federal government\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069177/newsoms-final-budget-disappoints-housing-homeless-advocates\">tightening state budgets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Smith, with Southern California Edison, told regulators the proposal was the “most direct and substantial affordability action for electric customers this year and likely for years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think the overall proposal strikes the right balance between affordability and stringency to keep us on track for our shared climate goals,” he said.[aside postID=news_12037646 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-09_qed.jpg']California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040286/how-california-cap-and-trade-works-and-how-newsom-wants-to-change-it\">cap-and-invest\u003c/a> program currently works similarly to a carbon tax: It sets a cap on the amount of greenhouse gases oil refineries, steel and paper factories, cement plants and other big polluters are allowed to emit. Every year, the cap lowers, helping the state meet its ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/11/16/california-releases-worlds-first-plan-to-achieve-net-zero-carbon-pollution/\">40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 85% below 1990 levels\u003c/a> by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators issue credits, or allowances, to companies for every ton of greenhouse gases they emit. Allowances are then sold to companies at auctions held four times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revenue generated from those auctions goes into California’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), which has collected more than $31 billion since its first auction in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, CARB proposed dramatically lowering the number of allowances so the state could stay on track to meet its climate goals by 2030. Fewer allowances would have theoretically resulted in higher prices at auctions and potentially more money for the GGRF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But leaders from the oil and gas industry pushed back on that proposal, warning that cutting too much, too quickly would lead to higher prices for consumers, especially at a time of market volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contra Costa County Fire Department firefighters outside the Martinez Refining Company as smoke billows from the refinery on Feb. 2, 2025, in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Contra Costa County Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In April, regulators returned with a new proposal to create a first-of-its-kind program called the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/nc-MDIF%20FAQ_April%202026.pdf\">Manufacturing Decarbonization Incentive \u003c/a>(MDI), which would offer back those allowances if the polluting companies invest in decarbonization projects, such as replacing fossil-fuel-powered equipment with clean alternatives, working on carbon sequestration, methane reduction, and other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But climate, affordable housing and transit advocates are skeptical as to whether those projects will truly materialize. They also worry that this new program could lower the value of allowances at auction, potentially resulting in less money for GGRF programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state’s high-speed rail program is the largest recipient of the current GGRF funds, 20% goes towards the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program, which provides grants and loans for affordable housing projects near public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Thursday’s public comment period, which lasted eight hours, Natalie Spivak, an advocate with nonprofit Housing California, pointed out that the program is the state’s largest ongoing source of funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AHSC has an incredible track record of producing over \u003ca href=\"https://sgc.ca.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/06-13/\">22,000 affordable homes\u003c/a>, creating jobs, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” she said. “Increasing allowances to oil and gas companies without any guarantee that consumer prices will fall is not the way to create affordability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit agencies voiced concerns, too. Fifteen percent of the GGRF goes towards a variety of public transit programs and agencies. According to officials from the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency, it has received more than $600 million in cap-and-invest funding since 2015. That has gone into replacing light rail vehicles and improving transit service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beverly Greene, chief government affairs officer for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, said the change could eliminate funding to support construction of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053738/bart-slams-vta-for-cost-cutting-secrecy-in-12-7b-silicon-valley-extension\">BART Silicon Valley extension project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We respectfully urge you to oppose the proposed program changes and instead protect the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund programs,” she said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regulators pushed back, arguing that the new decarbonization program might not dramatically lower funds for the GGRF. They also argued that the legislature controls where those GGRF funds go, not them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excavator operator moves material during early work on VTA’s BART to Silicon Valley Phase II Extension project at the West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nothing that we’re doing here is setting the priority for how the legislature may decide to appropriate funds,” Sahota said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before voting on the measure, CARB members agreed to include an amendment requiring a vote to review the decarbonization projects before the allowances are issued to companies. Another amendment directed CARB staff to talk to the governor’s office about the importance of sustained funding for public transit and affordable housing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many are concerned about what the vote could mean for the future of funding for affordable housing, climate programs and transportation. Following the vote, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie urged the board to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision puts our efforts to save transit, build affordable housing and drive our economic recovery at risk,” he said in an emailed statement. “Since that work helps achieve our emissions goals, those goals will be jeopardized, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s nation-leading cap-and-invest program has proven that we can cut pollution, create jobs, and invest in a cleaner future at the same time,” he wrote. “These are real results that Californians can see and feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators said they were doing their best to strike a balance that also keeps oil and gas companies viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>There is no direction to us, as an agency, to maximize one trade-off versus another,” said Rajinder Sahota, deputy executive officer for climate change and research at CARB. “What we’re trying to do is balance all of the pieces that we’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for a petroleum pipeline in Richmond on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vote comes months after the board faced pressure from the oil and gas industry, which warned that compliance with current rules would drive them out of California and increase energy prices. The war in Iran has sent gas prices soaring to \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA\">over $6 a gallon\u003c/a> in California, and in the past six months, two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000877/californias-fuel-fears-threaten-benicias-just-transition-to-green-economy\">refineries\u003c/a> have closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, climate, housing and transit advocates argued they also face an uncertain future with cuts from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073333/trump-scraps-a-cornerstone-climate-finding-as-california-prepares-for-court\">federal government\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069177/newsoms-final-budget-disappoints-housing-homeless-advocates\">tightening state budgets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Smith, with Southern California Edison, told regulators the proposal was the “most direct and substantial affordability action for electric customers this year and likely for years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think the overall proposal strikes the right balance between affordability and stringency to keep us on track for our shared climate goals,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040286/how-california-cap-and-trade-works-and-how-newsom-wants-to-change-it\">cap-and-invest\u003c/a> program currently works similarly to a carbon tax: It sets a cap on the amount of greenhouse gases oil refineries, steel and paper factories, cement plants and other big polluters are allowed to emit. Every year, the cap lowers, helping the state meet its ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/11/16/california-releases-worlds-first-plan-to-achieve-net-zero-carbon-pollution/\">40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 85% below 1990 levels\u003c/a> by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators issue credits, or allowances, to companies for every ton of greenhouse gases they emit. Allowances are then sold to companies at auctions held four times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revenue generated from those auctions goes into California’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), which has collected more than $31 billion since its first auction in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, CARB proposed dramatically lowering the number of allowances so the state could stay on track to meet its climate goals by 2030. Fewer allowances would have theoretically resulted in higher prices at auctions and potentially more money for the GGRF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But leaders from the oil and gas industry pushed back on that proposal, warning that cutting too much, too quickly would lead to higher prices for consumers, especially at a time of market volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contra Costa County Fire Department firefighters outside the Martinez Refining Company as smoke billows from the refinery on Feb. 2, 2025, in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Contra Costa County Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In April, regulators returned with a new proposal to create a first-of-its-kind program called the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/nc-MDIF%20FAQ_April%202026.pdf\">Manufacturing Decarbonization Incentive \u003c/a>(MDI), which would offer back those allowances if the polluting companies invest in decarbonization projects, such as replacing fossil-fuel-powered equipment with clean alternatives, working on carbon sequestration, methane reduction, and other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But climate, affordable housing and transit advocates are skeptical as to whether those projects will truly materialize. They also worry that this new program could lower the value of allowances at auction, potentially resulting in less money for GGRF programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state’s high-speed rail program is the largest recipient of the current GGRF funds, 20% goes towards the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program, which provides grants and loans for affordable housing projects near public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Thursday’s public comment period, which lasted eight hours, Natalie Spivak, an advocate with nonprofit Housing California, pointed out that the program is the state’s largest ongoing source of funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AHSC has an incredible track record of producing over \u003ca href=\"https://sgc.ca.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/06-13/\">22,000 affordable homes\u003c/a>, creating jobs, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” she said. “Increasing allowances to oil and gas companies without any guarantee that consumer prices will fall is not the way to create affordability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit agencies voiced concerns, too. Fifteen percent of the GGRF goes towards a variety of public transit programs and agencies. According to officials from the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency, it has received more than $600 million in cap-and-invest funding since 2015. That has gone into replacing light rail vehicles and improving transit service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beverly Greene, chief government affairs officer for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, said the change could eliminate funding to support construction of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053738/bart-slams-vta-for-cost-cutting-secrecy-in-12-7b-silicon-valley-extension\">BART Silicon Valley extension project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We respectfully urge you to oppose the proposed program changes and instead protect the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund programs,” she said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regulators pushed back, arguing that the new decarbonization program might not dramatically lower funds for the GGRF. They also argued that the legislature controls where those GGRF funds go, not them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excavator operator moves material during early work on VTA’s BART to Silicon Valley Phase II Extension project at the West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nothing that we’re doing here is setting the priority for how the legislature may decide to appropriate funds,” Sahota said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before voting on the measure, CARB members agreed to include an amendment requiring a vote to review the decarbonization projects before the allowances are issued to companies. Another amendment directed CARB staff to talk to the governor’s office about the importance of sustained funding for public transit and affordable housing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many are concerned about what the vote could mean for the future of funding for affordable housing, climate programs and transportation. Following the vote, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie urged the board to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision puts our efforts to save transit, build affordable housing and drive our economic recovery at risk,” he said in an emailed statement. “Since that work helps achieve our emissions goals, those goals will be jeopardized, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When it comes to affording rent or a home mortgage in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>, every candidate in the race for governor seems to have a personal stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Porter wants her three teenage children to eventually move off her couch. Antonio Villaraigosa wants reliable home insurance. Matt Mahan doesn’t want to fight with his wife over their mortgage, as his parents did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the affordability crisis literally drives \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078787/grass-is-really-greener-for-many-californians-leaving-the-state\">residents out\u003c/a> of the state, the candidates have made housing a central point of their campaigns. That’s a sea change from previous elections, said Laura Foote, executive director for YIMBY Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody up there was expected to have a plan and demonstrate how they were going to execute on delivering more affordable housing in California,” she said. “That’s a crazily different place than we were eight years ago, 10 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each candidate is trying to stand out in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082125/inside-californias-billionaire-tax-fight-and-the-wide-open-governors-race\">most competitive primary\u003c/a> for California governor in two decades. But many are hitting the same broad talking points: lower the cost of construction, make homeownership more accessible and reduce homelessness. Where they differ is in the details of how they’ll get there. Meanwhile, some voters feel discouraged by key issues they say are missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Peoples-McGill drove to Oakland from Altadena earlier this month to attend a debate sponsored by the Housing Action Coalition and other housing nonprofits. She runs the Rebuild Center for Altadenans, which assists survivors of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/la-fires\">2025 Los Angeles wildfires\u003c/a>. She was disappointed none of the candidates had visited her center, much less mentioned wildfires in their comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037128 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The burnt remains of St. Mark’s Church in Altadena, California, on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Altadena can happen anywhere in this country, anywhere in the state of California,” she said, “and for [the candidates] to really not be involved in that was a little shattering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have, however, been plenty of proposals about how to reform the state’s home insurance industry. As top insurance companies, including Allstate, State Farm and American International Group (AIG) have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-you\">left the state\u003c/a> or pulled back from offering new policies, more Californians are seeking coverage through the state’s FAIR Plan, a self-proclaimed “insurer of last resort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of March, more than 684,000 homes and businesses across the state have policies under the FAIR Plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfpnet.com/key-statistics-data/\">according to the insurer\u003c/a>. That’s a 152% increase in active policies compared to September 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But insurance experts say it’s a dangerous sign. Last year, private insurance companies gave the FAIR Plan\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026808/fair-plan-bailout-from-insurance-companies-policyholders-following-la-fires\"> $1 billion\u003c/a> to stay solvent and help pay customer claims from the Los Angeles fires. Industry observers told KQED that a large fire could wipe out the FAIR Plan’s reserves.[aside postID=news_12082915 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260423_-XAVIERBECERRA_EG_039-KQED.jpg']“I’m on the un-FAIR plan,” former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at a forum held by the California Association of Realtors in March. “If my house [burns] down, I won’t be able to get a fraction rebuilding that house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If homeowners do need to rebuild — the need to do it faster and cheaper, as well as to create new housing — is one issue candidates across the aisle agree upon. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3743-1.html\">study published\u003c/a> last year by the research group RAND showed California is the most expensive state to construct apartments. Candidates repeatedly mentioned that finding as an argument to bring down the cost to build market-rate and subsidized homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also an issue that’s received interest from the California Legislature, as well as Congress. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076687/how-federal-housing-reform-could-impact-californians\">federal bill\u003c/a> with bipartisan support is slowly making its way to the White House, which would incentivize manufactured housing projects across the country. In California, lawmakers are working on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075043/its-expensive-to-build-housing-california-lawmakers-say-factory-built-is-the-future\">package of bills\u003c/a> that would support the industry locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Assemblymember Buffy Wicks is spearheading California’s bill package, which focuses on making it easier to get factory-built housing off the ground. The Democrat said it’s an innovation that hasn’t been widely successful because there hasn’t been steady support from the building industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fights are so hard politically,” she said. “I want someone, in terms of my next governor, who has the spine of steel to take those fights head on and to prioritize housing as where they are going to spend their political capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wick hasn’t endorsed any candidate in the race so far. But Democratic candidates Katie Porter, billionaire Tom Steyer and former state attorney general Xavier Becerra have all argued that modular and factory-built construction could hasten building timelines and streamline the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081061\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FTP_9P3A3948_1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FTP_9P3A3948_1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FTP_9P3A3948_1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FTP_9P3A3948_1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Steyer, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for California, left, and Katie Porter, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for California, during a gubernatorial debate at KRON Studios in San Francisco, California, on April 22, 2026. California will hold its primary election on June 2, where the top two finishers advance to the general election in November regardless of party affiliation. \u003ccite>(Jason Henry/Nexstar via Bloomberg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other candidates are focusing on what the state can do now to incentivize and ease the path of traditional building methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond has campaigned on building 2 million affordable homes on school district-owned surplus property. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco wants to end the “over-regulation of our building industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>British American political commentator Steve Hilton and Mahan, mayor of San Jose, have both talked about capping fees that cities often impose on developers to offset the impact of new development. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/LIHTCImpactFees2026.pdf\">study from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a> found that these “impact” fees contribute to less than 5% of total development costs, but can nonetheless deter it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070650/these-fees-make-affordable-housing-more-expensive-developers-want-to-slash-them\">state legislature\u003c/a> has passed modest reforms, but Hilton has argued for a more straightforward fix: capping fees at 3% of a project’s construction costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had hundreds of bills on this in the past few years, and it’s barely moved the needle,” Hilton said at a March forum. “A secret exemption here and a little incentive there, and it just makes it more and more complicated, more and more bureaucratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072284\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton and Matt Mahan participate in the California gubernatorial candidate debate on Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bringing down the cost of construction may be critical in a state where it is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/comparing-rent-vs-owning-a-home-in-nations-largest-metros/\">more expensive\u003c/a> to own than rent in many cities. Several of the gubernatorial candidates shared support for a $25 billion bond headed to the November ballot that would support more middle-class homeownership. Thurmond has supported existing state-sponsored down-payment assistance programs, including the California Dream For All program and CalHome, and talked about expanding funding for those programs — something \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066291/this-program-helps-californians-buy-affordable-homes-advocates-want-more-funding\">advocates have been calling for\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to protecting the interests of renters, the candidates are divided on the best course. Steyer, Becerra, Villaraigosa and Thurmond have said they are in favor of some form of government-imposed rent caps, including extending and enforcing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069513/tenants-crushed-after-california-renter-protections-bill-stalls-in-the-legislature\">Tenant Protections Act\u003c/a>, a 2019 law that limits annual rent increases and restricts evictions. It’s set to expire in 2030, within the next governor’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter, a former state representative, has bucked that trend. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XO676pq-gg\">KQED Town Hall\u003c/a>, Porter said that she opposes rent control. And while she said she supports the Tenant Protection Act, she argued that it can slow down construction and force people to stay put, regardless of whether moving would benefit their family or lifestyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a rent-controlled unit, it works really, really well for you — now, you’re stuck there,” she said. “Decide to have a couple kids, better get bunk beds because you can’t leave it, right?”[aside label=\"From the 2026 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/governor,Learn about the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]Zach Murray, statewide campaign coordinator for the tenants rights group, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), said he was unsatisfied with the conversation around the expiring Tenant Protection Act and how renters could be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats are not seriously addressing the concrete [affordability] needs, the needs for affordable housing, the needs for utilities, the needs for greater cost reductions across the board,” he said. “When we get legislators and a governor who takes those needs seriously, then I think we’ll begin to see change in our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates have argued that measures that limit evictions can also help prevent homelessness — an area where the state has recently been making strides. Unsheltered homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/16/following-9-drop-in-unsheltered-homelessness-governor-newsom-announces-new-investments-to-create-more-shelter-and-services-with-stronger-accountability/\">fell 9% last year,\u003c/a> according to preliminary data from the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2024 audit from the \u003ca href=\"https://information.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2023-102.1/index.html#section1\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> found that Gov. Gavin Newsom spent about $24 billion to address homelessness and housing during the previous five fiscal years. On \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KygOFVgDmPU&t=2s\">KQED’s Political Breakdown podcast\u003c/a>, Bianco said the current administration threw money at homelessness but didn’t show consistent results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Newsom thinks] he’s so great because he gave more money than any other person in history to the homeless,” the Republican candidate said. “The amount of money means absolutely nothing. I’m going to measure [solving homelessness] by fewer tents on our sidewalks. That’s how you judge whether or not you’re doing something right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco, Steyer, Mahan and Villaraigosa have advocated for emergency interim shelters as a more cost-effective way to get people off the streets. During the Housing Action Coalition’s forum in May, Mahan spoke about his experience as mayor, creating 23 interim housing sites with “no-encampment zones” surrounding the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody loves the idea of a no-encampment zone, but that’s how we got community buy-in,” he said. “When we built interim housing and got people stabilized indoors and connected to case management, calls for service for crime — 911 — for blight — 311— plummeted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving St. in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To get more permanently affordable homes built, several candidates have proposed streamlining applications for state funding, so developers aren’t piecing together financing from various sources and can cut down construction costs by getting homes built faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That desire could come at an opportune time as the state prepares to consolidate its myriad agencies overseeing housing and homelessness programs into one department, called the California Housing and Homelessness Agency. It is set to open this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Housing Action Coalition’s May forum in Oakland, land use expert Alex Schafran said he was amazed to see a governor’s debate focused exclusively on housing. However, it also struck him that there was consensus onstage and among many attendees, “including people who used to not get along 10 years ago and are now starting to find ways to work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will be critical, Shafran said, because the eventual governor will likely still need to work alongside his or her former rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whoever wins still has a lot of work to do in a really difficult and expensive environment,” he said. “Now the hard part really begins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody up there was expected to have a plan and demonstrate how they were going to execute on delivering more affordable housing in California,” she said. “That’s a crazily different place than we were eight years ago, 10 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each candidate is trying to stand out in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082125/inside-californias-billionaire-tax-fight-and-the-wide-open-governors-race\">most competitive primary\u003c/a> for California governor in two decades. But many are hitting the same broad talking points: lower the cost of construction, make homeownership more accessible and reduce homelessness. Where they differ is in the details of how they’ll get there. Meanwhile, some voters feel discouraged by key issues they say are missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Peoples-McGill drove to Oakland from Altadena earlier this month to attend a debate sponsored by the Housing Action Coalition and other housing nonprofits. She runs the Rebuild Center for Altadenans, which assists survivors of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/la-fires\">2025 Los Angeles wildfires\u003c/a>. She was disappointed none of the candidates had visited her center, much less mentioned wildfires in their comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037128 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-29-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The burnt remains of St. Mark’s Church in Altadena, California, on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Altadena can happen anywhere in this country, anywhere in the state of California,” she said, “and for [the candidates] to really not be involved in that was a little shattering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have, however, been plenty of proposals about how to reform the state’s home insurance industry. As top insurance companies, including Allstate, State Farm and American International Group (AIG) have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-you\">left the state\u003c/a> or pulled back from offering new policies, more Californians are seeking coverage through the state’s FAIR Plan, a self-proclaimed “insurer of last resort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of March, more than 684,000 homes and businesses across the state have policies under the FAIR Plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfpnet.com/key-statistics-data/\">according to the insurer\u003c/a>. That’s a 152% increase in active policies compared to September 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But insurance experts say it’s a dangerous sign. Last year, private insurance companies gave the FAIR Plan\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026808/fair-plan-bailout-from-insurance-companies-policyholders-following-la-fires\"> $1 billion\u003c/a> to stay solvent and help pay customer claims from the Los Angeles fires. Industry observers told KQED that a large fire could wipe out the FAIR Plan’s reserves.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m on the un-FAIR plan,” former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at a forum held by the California Association of Realtors in March. “If my house [burns] down, I won’t be able to get a fraction rebuilding that house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If homeowners do need to rebuild — the need to do it faster and cheaper, as well as to create new housing — is one issue candidates across the aisle agree upon. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3743-1.html\">study published\u003c/a> last year by the research group RAND showed California is the most expensive state to construct apartments. Candidates repeatedly mentioned that finding as an argument to bring down the cost to build market-rate and subsidized homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also an issue that’s received interest from the California Legislature, as well as Congress. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076687/how-federal-housing-reform-could-impact-californians\">federal bill\u003c/a> with bipartisan support is slowly making its way to the White House, which would incentivize manufactured housing projects across the country. In California, lawmakers are working on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075043/its-expensive-to-build-housing-california-lawmakers-say-factory-built-is-the-future\">package of bills\u003c/a> that would support the industry locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Assemblymember Buffy Wicks is spearheading California’s bill package, which focuses on making it easier to get factory-built housing off the ground. The Democrat said it’s an innovation that hasn’t been widely successful because there hasn’t been steady support from the building industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fights are so hard politically,” she said. “I want someone, in terms of my next governor, who has the spine of steel to take those fights head on and to prioritize housing as where they are going to spend their political capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wick hasn’t endorsed any candidate in the race so far. But Democratic candidates Katie Porter, billionaire Tom Steyer and former state attorney general Xavier Becerra have all argued that modular and factory-built construction could hasten building timelines and streamline the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081061\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FTP_9P3A3948_1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FTP_9P3A3948_1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FTP_9P3A3948_1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FTP_9P3A3948_1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Steyer, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for California, left, and Katie Porter, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for California, during a gubernatorial debate at KRON Studios in San Francisco, California, on April 22, 2026. California will hold its primary election on June 2, where the top two finishers advance to the general election in November regardless of party affiliation. \u003ccite>(Jason Henry/Nexstar via Bloomberg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other candidates are focusing on what the state can do now to incentivize and ease the path of traditional building methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond has campaigned on building 2 million affordable homes on school district-owned surplus property. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco wants to end the “over-regulation of our building industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>British American political commentator Steve Hilton and Mahan, mayor of San Jose, have both talked about capping fees that cities often impose on developers to offset the impact of new development. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/LIHTCImpactFees2026.pdf\">study from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a> found that these “impact” fees contribute to less than 5% of total development costs, but can nonetheless deter it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070650/these-fees-make-affordable-housing-more-expensive-developers-want-to-slash-them\">state legislature\u003c/a> has passed modest reforms, but Hilton has argued for a more straightforward fix: capping fees at 3% of a project’s construction costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had hundreds of bills on this in the past few years, and it’s barely moved the needle,” Hilton said at a March forum. “A secret exemption here and a little incentive there, and it just makes it more and more complicated, more and more bureaucratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072284\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton and Matt Mahan participate in the California gubernatorial candidate debate on Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bringing down the cost of construction may be critical in a state where it is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/comparing-rent-vs-owning-a-home-in-nations-largest-metros/\">more expensive\u003c/a> to own than rent in many cities. Several of the gubernatorial candidates shared support for a $25 billion bond headed to the November ballot that would support more middle-class homeownership. Thurmond has supported existing state-sponsored down-payment assistance programs, including the California Dream For All program and CalHome, and talked about expanding funding for those programs — something \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066291/this-program-helps-californians-buy-affordable-homes-advocates-want-more-funding\">advocates have been calling for\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to protecting the interests of renters, the candidates are divided on the best course. Steyer, Becerra, Villaraigosa and Thurmond have said they are in favor of some form of government-imposed rent caps, including extending and enforcing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069513/tenants-crushed-after-california-renter-protections-bill-stalls-in-the-legislature\">Tenant Protections Act\u003c/a>, a 2019 law that limits annual rent increases and restricts evictions. It’s set to expire in 2030, within the next governor’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter, a former state representative, has bucked that trend. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XO676pq-gg\">KQED Town Hall\u003c/a>, Porter said that she opposes rent control. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco’s\u003c/a> Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) could lose about $10 million dollars from the city’s general fund, due to budget cuts meant to address a gaping deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to city officials who presented the department’s budget outlook at a Board of Supervisors hearing on Wednesday. The proposed cuts come as San Francisco faces a nearly $643 million budget shortfall over the next two years, and the mayor’s office is looking to trim hundreds of millions of dollars in spending across city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan alarmed some advocates, who say the city could desperately use more funding for its homelessness response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like it is a decrease in the [homelessness] budget, but it is not a decrease, and services will not be cut,” Sophia Kittler, the mayor’s budget director, said to supervisors about the funding changes at Wednesday’s hearing. She stressed that the city is not proposing any cuts to actual homeless services, and rather moving funding around to meet the goal of reducing the general fund deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a one-time revenue that is going away,” Kittler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid cuts to services, Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office wants to replace that revenue with an increase in funding from another source: a business tax known as Proposition C, or Our City, Our Home, that was created to support homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055819\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at the Main Library in San Francisco at an event celebrating a new partnership between city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But advocates say that if the city has a surplus of Proposition C funds, the mayor’s office should direct more money to shelters and permanent supportive housing, rather than using it to back-fill other cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does seem like, then, if it’s not a service reduction, we could be doing more, because we have money,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the hearing. “Since we’re not losing services, but we have surplus, we could actually be doing more to address homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was not the only supervisor to question why the city is not directing the recent surplus in Proposition C funds toward homeless services.[aside postID=news_12081330 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-SF-OVERDOSE-GETTY-SS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I do believe the best way to solve homelessness is actually to prevent it from happening in the first place,” Supervisor Connie Chan said. “That means to increase subsidies, particularly rental subsidies. And of course, rapid rehousing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco has steadily increased over the last two decades, as the cost of housing in the city has skyrocketed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,300 people were homeless in the city according to the 2024 Point-in-Time count, a federal survey, and more than 4,300 of those individuals were living in a homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials said last year that the number of tents on sidewalks had decreased, there are hundreds of people waiting on the list for a San Francisco shelter bed on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HSH department officials said they have also cut 8 vacant positions as part of the proposed spending reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget proposal arrives a year after the city reallocated some Proposition C funding set aside for permanent supportive housing to temporary shelter, a controversial decision that marked a shift in the city’s approach to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Public Works employees clean up debris after a sweep of an encampment on Merlin Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Jan. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Revenue generated from Proposition C came in higher than budgeted the last two fiscal years, according to Shireen McSpadden, HSH director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s budget proposal, which is not yet finalized, also includes one-time funding for the mayor’s homelessness plan, called the Breaking the Cycle initiative, through funds appropriated in the last budget cycle. That program funding ends in fiscal year 2027-28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McSpadden presented data showing the city’s overall shelter inventory has increased consistently in recent years, totalling nearly 5,000 emergency and transitional housing beds. During Lurie’s time as mayor, the city has opened new shelter facilities like Hope House and Jerrold Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But homelessness advocates who also spoke at the meeting pointed to how the city has simultaneously lost hundreds of non-congregate shelter beds, which offer people more space and, often, stability than a crowded shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed to the closures of shelters like the Adante and Monarch hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and housing researchers at the hearing urged the city to invest more in the city’s permanent supportive housing inventory, pointing to evidence that many people are more likely to successfully exit homelessness once they have stable housing with support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests sleep on cots arranged throughout the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, where the Gubbio Project is operating overnight shelter during Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you put all your eggs into the basket of shelter, you see people off the street at first. Then shelters become less efficient because shelter [beds] don’t turn over,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “When you do a deep investment in housing… you have a much more efficient system because the shelter beds turn over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts like Ryan Finnigan, deputy director of research at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, said that permanent supportive housing can fall short when it’s under-resourced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, funding for subsidized units in San Francisco has not kept up with costs for ongoing maintenance, adequate staffing and other needs to keep those housing options efficient, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are limited opportunities for people to move from shelter programs into permanent housing solutions,” Finnigan said. “Undermining the effectiveness of permanent supportive housing leads to lower effectiveness to other programs in the overall homeless system, including shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I do believe the best way to solve homelessness is actually to prevent it from happening in the first place,” Supervisor Connie Chan said. “That means to increase subsidies, particularly rental subsidies. And of course, rapid rehousing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco has steadily increased over the last two decades, as the cost of housing in the city has skyrocketed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,300 people were homeless in the city according to the 2024 Point-in-Time count, a federal survey, and more than 4,300 of those individuals were living in a homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials said last year that the number of tents on sidewalks had decreased, there are hundreds of people waiting on the list for a San Francisco shelter bed on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HSH department officials said they have also cut 8 vacant positions as part of the proposed spending reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget proposal arrives a year after the city reallocated some Proposition C funding set aside for permanent supportive housing to temporary shelter, a controversial decision that marked a shift in the city’s approach to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Public Works employees clean up debris after a sweep of an encampment on Merlin Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Jan. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Revenue generated from Proposition C came in higher than budgeted the last two fiscal years, according to Shireen McSpadden, HSH director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s budget proposal, which is not yet finalized, also includes one-time funding for the mayor’s homelessness plan, called the Breaking the Cycle initiative, through funds appropriated in the last budget cycle. That program funding ends in fiscal year 2027-28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McSpadden presented data showing the city’s overall shelter inventory has increased consistently in recent years, totalling nearly 5,000 emergency and transitional housing beds. During Lurie’s time as mayor, the city has opened new shelter facilities like Hope House and Jerrold Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But homelessness advocates who also spoke at the meeting pointed to how the city has simultaneously lost hundreds of non-congregate shelter beds, which offer people more space and, often, stability than a crowded shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed to the closures of shelters like the Adante and Monarch hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and housing researchers at the hearing urged the city to invest more in the city’s permanent supportive housing inventory, pointing to evidence that many people are more likely to successfully exit homelessness once they have stable housing with support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests sleep on cots arranged throughout the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, where the Gubbio Project is operating overnight shelter during Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you put all your eggs into the basket of shelter, you see people off the street at first. Then shelters become less efficient because shelter [beds] don’t turn over,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “When you do a deep investment in housing… you have a much more efficient system because the shelter beds turn over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts like Ryan Finnigan, deputy director of research at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, said that permanent supportive housing can fall short when it’s under-resourced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, funding for subsidized units in San Francisco has not kept up with costs for ongoing maintenance, adequate staffing and other needs to keep those housing options efficient, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are limited opportunities for people to move from shelter programs into permanent housing solutions,” Finnigan said. “Undermining the effectiveness of permanent supportive housing leads to lower effectiveness to other programs in the overall homeless system, including shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">\u003cem>How We Get By\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a KQED series exploring how people are coping with rising costs in the Bay Area and California. Find the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">\u003cem>full series here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauren Fierro and her husband spent years contemplating whether to have children. There were lots of uncertainties, but the biggest was whether they could afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Fierro discovered she was pregnant, her husband thought it was time to buy a home, but she wasn’t so sure. They started weighing their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staying in Oakland meant taking on a mortgage they could barely afford. Leaving meant giving up the walkable neighborhoods, proximity to restaurants and other amenities she’d grown to appreciate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lived walking distance to the farmers market, so it’s incredibly convenient, and we didn’t really want to give that up,” Fierro said, adding that to leave their apartment, ”It had to be for the perfect location, perfect house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Bay Area families have faced the same question: leave in search of affordability or stay and absorb the cost of living in one of the nation’s most expensive regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/\">public school enrollment data\u003c/a> shows many families have moved inland, fueling growth in certain districts within more affordable counties like Sacramento, Placer and Fresno. Meanwhile, many Bay Area districts are shrinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Median Home Price in the Bay Area and Central Valley\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-oDGOJ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/oDGOJ/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And families are still trying to make the Bay Area work — often by sacrificing space, walkability, commute times or financial flexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elk Grove realtor Charles Velasco has seen that tension play out in real time. During the pandemic, when work-from-home policies allowed desk employees to untether from their offices, he noticed a spike in Bay Area families looking for more affordable, family-friendly housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data bears that out, with Elk Grove seeing a 2.4% spike in enrollment since 2020, and it was the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2026/declining-school-enrollment-california/756174\">fastest-growing school district in the state\u003c/a> last year. The county’s median home price — $550,000, or more than $1 million less than San Francisco’s — was an obvious draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"School Enrollment in the Bay Area and Central Valley\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-xcC48\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/xcC48/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people were realizing they’re paying $3,000 to $6,000 a month in rent in the Bay Area,” he said. “With a low interest rate, they could buy out in Elk Grove.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as mortgage rates have risen and employers have implemented stricter in-office requirements, Velasco said he has seen fewer families looking to leave the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For families considering staying in the region, that leaves a familiar question: What are they willing to compromise to continue living here?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kiara and Gabriel Medina\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeowners or Renters: Homeowners, bought in 2025\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Percentage of Income Spent on Housing: 35%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Location: Martinez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Sacrificed to Make It Work: Commute\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiara Medina and her husband always wanted to be homeowners. Last year, they started looking. At the time, they were living with her husband’s family in Brentwood, but they were eager to live on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/home-values/403105/bay-area-ca/\">Zillow\u003c/a>, the median sale price for a single-family home in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metro area is a little more than $1 million. Medina and her husband knew they didn’t want to spend more than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079730 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01248_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01248_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01248_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01248_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiara Medina waters her front yard at her home in Martinez on April 9, 2026. The couple, Kiara and Gabriel Medina, bought their single-family Martinez home to start their own family. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old grew up in the East Bay and still has family in Brentwood, so she and her husband wanted to find something nearby. The couple saw a listing in Martinez for an older home with warped floors and termite damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was within their budget and the perfect size to start a family, so they decided to buy. The neighborhood was near restaurants, shops and a historic downtown district. What’s more, it was filled with young families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There [were] just so many young families, young moms pushing strollers, young dads carrying their kids,” she said. “If you go to the farmers market, there’s a huge spectrum of ages, but a ton of young people with young kids, which was very encouraging and promising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01213_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01213_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01213_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01213_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Medina brushes out spider webs in his front yard at his home in Martinez on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the quaint city on the shore of the Carquinez Strait became a popular destination for eager homebuyers looking for an affordable option. Average home prices surged from about $584,000 in 2017 to $874,000 in June 2022, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/home-values/12592/martinez-ca/\">Zillow\u003c/a>. Average home prices have since dropped to $761,000 as more people return to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina and her husband hope to have children soon. When they do, she’s grateful they live only a 30-minute drive from her family. But Medina now faces a three-hour round-trip commute three days a week to San Francisco. It’s worth it, she said, for the opportunity to own a home and gain equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are like, why the heck do you live in Martinez? That commute must be atrocious. And I do it with a smile on my face because I willingly chose not to rent in San Francisco or in Oakland or in Berkeley,” she said. “We chose to buy because that’s what we wanted our future to look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Aparna and Andy Simmons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeowners or Renters: Homeowners, bought in 2024\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Percentage of Income Spent on Housing: 23%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Location: East Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Sacrificed to Make It Work: Walkability \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aparna and Andy Simmons were ready to buy a home in 2024, after spending four years renting an apartment in San Francisco’s Cole Valley neighborhood. They had gotten married the year before and wanted to have children soon. Buying a home seemed like the next logical step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had hoped to find one in the city, but with a budget of under $1 million, they were quickly priced out of their preferred areas. As they looked, they would send listings to their other recently married friends, hoping they could all find homes nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-affordibiltyyoungparents00338_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-affordibiltyyoungparents00338_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-affordibiltyyoungparents00338_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-affordibiltyyoungparents00338_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Simmons (right) watches his wife Aparna Simmons (left) hold their son Kiran Cole (center) in their home in Oakland on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all got married at the same time, within a few months of each other, and wanted to have kids around the same time,” she said, “just having that community and having our kids grow up with friends — like built-in friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the timing didn’t work out. Some friends weren’t quite ready to commit to buying a home. So they decided to look on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found a home in Redwood Heights, a small neighborhood in the hills of East Oakland. The home had everything they wanted for their family: a backyard for a future pet, a pool and great views of San Francisco. Most importantly, it had space for their son, Kiran, who was born in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079723\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00287_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00287_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00287_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00287_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Simmons (left) holds his son Kiran Cole’s (right) foot in their home in Oakland on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the neighborhood isn’t as conveniently located as Simmons would like it to be. When they first moved there almost two years ago, she wasn’t worried about their ability to continue seeing their friends, who live all over the Bay Area. Both of them work from home and have no trouble driving to activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Aparna Simmons said she is reevaluating her priorities. Some features of the home, like the pool, aren’t as important as living in a neighborhood where they can walk to restaurants, parks, farmers’ markets, yoga classes and other activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realize that is something we really want in our next place,” she said. “There’s things here that we’re like, ‘OK, this isn’t as important actually,’ and we prefer having it be walkable instead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Logan and Heidi Truman\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeowners or Renters: Renters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Percentage of Income Spent on Housing: 11%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Location: San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Sacrificed to Make It Work: Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some might say the Truman family has an unconventional living situation. Logan and Heidi Truman, and their two sons, aged 11 and 13, cram into a studio apartment in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Truman found the rent-controlled studio near Golden Gate Park when she started a year-long residency program there at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then that year turned into a full-time position,” Logan Truman said. “And so she stayed, and then I moved in. It just was easier to stay and make it work than to try and figure something else out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heidi Truman (left) and husband Logan talk in their kitchen in the studio apartment they share with their sons in San Francisco on March 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they had children, they managed within the tight space. Logan Truman converted a walk-in closet into a room for the boys, with a closet on one end and a bunk bed on the other. He built a fold-up wall bed in their living room, which becomes their bedroom at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have considered moving elsewhere, to a home with more space, but the best solution always seems to be to stay put. Because their apartment is rent-controlled, yearly increases are incremental, and they’re protected from big price jumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can afford it,” he said. “So, we take the money that we earn above that, and we’re aggressively saving and maybe someday we can retire and own our own place, but not yet. We stay where we’re at, we keep working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan Truman said sacrificing space has taught his family how to live modestly and value experiences over material objects. Rather than buy books, they borrow from the library. If they want to go camping or skiing, they rent their equipment. They’re judicious about the appliances they keep in their kitchen: an Instant Pot, a toaster and a kettle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12081787 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-14-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logan and Heidi Truman and their son, Baron, 11, stand in the walk-in closet converted to a bedroom at their studio apartment in San Francisco on March 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Owning fewer items helps them save money, and it benefits the environment, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spend some of the money they save on family vacations. They recently took a seven-day cruise to Alaska with both sets of grandparents. Before that, they spent two weeks in Britain. Eventually, they’d like to travel to Scandinavia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan Truman said their living situation has made his children more grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve told them that there’s no room for animosity in the house — it just doesn’t fit,” he said. “So we have to get along. You can’t get away from anybody. You have to be respectful, you have to be courteous, you have to be kind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kate Knuttel and Matt Quisenberry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeowners or Renters: Renters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Percentage of Income Spent on Housing: almost 50%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Location: American Canyon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Sacrificed to Make It Work: Affordability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Knuttel and her partner, Matt Quisenberry, wanted to move to American Canyon, even if it meant living paycheck-to-paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until two years ago, they and their four children crowded into a two-bedroom, one bathroom rental in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were three kids in one room and then us and the baby in the other room,” she said. “We were all very close. Luckily, there wasn’t too much fighting over the bathroom at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00015_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00015_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00015_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00015_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Knuttel (left) talks to her daughter Chloe (right), 6, about dinner time in their home in American Canyon on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her kids had some friends who lived nearby, but Knuttel didn’t feel safe letting them play in the street unsupervised. She and her partner yearned to find a place near other young families where her kids could thrive. And, they were starting to feel the pinch of living in a small space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, before her youngest daughter was born, she and her partner, Matt Quisenberry, looked into buying a home in American Canyon, where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when they looked into how much their monthly mortgage payments would be, it was more expensive than their rent. So, they scrapped their plans for homeownership and opted to rent there instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00034_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00034_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00034_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00034_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Knuttel-Quisenberry home is decorated their children’s photos and art in American Canyon on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They found a single-family home with three bedrooms and two bathrooms — a perfect set-up for their teenage children, who wanted more space for themselves. The kids enrolled in American Canyon schools and found others to play with in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so fortuitous to get to this spot,” she said. “We’re so close to everything because it’s a small town. The kids have friends, they can run around in the street. It’s really great, and it feels amazing to have this and it’s not ours forever, but yeah, it feels good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their living situation is not without its challenges. Because American Canyon is so suburban, Knuttel said there aren’t many things to do in the area. Their rent is also more expensive than what they were paying in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00443_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00443_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00443_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00443_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Quisenberry (right) helps his kids Landon (left) and Chloe (center) examine a small insect found in strawberries in American Canyon on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quisenberry and Knuttel make just enough for the family to get by, but not enough to save.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two years, Knuttel and Quisenberry said they have spent more than they make. So, they’ve become proficient at managing debt. They use 0% credit cards to give them more time to pay off expenses. But they feel certain this period will pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once [our youngest daughter is] in public school, we will be out of that decline,” Quisenberry said. “We’re just waiting it out. We’re continuing to acquire debt, but we’re managing it more intelligently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lauren Fierro and Jimmy Phillips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeowners or Renters: Homeowners, bought in 2025\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Percentage of Income Spent on Housing: 26.2%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Location: East Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Sacrificed to Make It Work: Affordability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00105_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00105_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00105_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00105_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Lauren Fierro (left) and Jimmy Phillips (right) on a shelf with baby shoes in their home in Oakland on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, Fierro and Phillips found what they were looking for: a storybook-style home in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fierro admires its charm and quirky character, but it’s the neighborhood that captured her heart. On the first Friday of every month, neighbors host block parties and regularly check in on Fierro and her baby, Audrey, who was born in January, sharing clothes and toys their children have since outgrown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their neighborhood gave her family the best of both worlds: The safety and security of living near other young families and proximity to downtown Oakland. But that convenience came at a cost.[aside postID=news_12078480 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AffordabilitySeriesIntro_Lede.jpg']Their mortgage is more expensive than what they were paying in rent. Their utility bill is higher, too. Their 100-year-old home lacks insulation, which became a problem when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000299/a-delight-mare-bay-area-sizzles-march-heat-wave-could-shatter-records\">recent heat wave\u003c/a> disrupted the region’s normally temperate climate. They bought a portable air conditioner for Audrey’s room so the baby didn’t overheat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to be really mindful about the amount of power and gas that we use, and we also just try to be mindful about really living within our means,” Fierro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their family doesn’t eat out or go on trips as often as they did before moving into the house. Though Fierro and Phillips came from big families and would like to have more children, they said it would be impossible on top of their other living expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, they are doing whatever they can to continue living in the city. It’s not affordable, Fierro said, and it often feels like an unfair burden to shoulder so their daughter can have access to a supportive neighborhood and a big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a price that we shouldn’t have to pay, but we are making work because we want this desperately for her,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Bay Area families have faced the same question: leave in search of affordability or stay and absorb the cost of living in one of the nation’s most expensive regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/\">public school enrollment data\u003c/a> shows many families have moved inland, fueling growth in certain districts within more affordable counties like Sacramento, Placer and Fresno. Meanwhile, many Bay Area districts are shrinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Median Home Price in the Bay Area and Central Valley\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-oDGOJ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/oDGOJ/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And families are still trying to make the Bay Area work — often by sacrificing space, walkability, commute times or financial flexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elk Grove realtor Charles Velasco has seen that tension play out in real time. During the pandemic, when work-from-home policies allowed desk employees to untether from their offices, he noticed a spike in Bay Area families looking for more affordable, family-friendly housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data bears that out, with Elk Grove seeing a 2.4% spike in enrollment since 2020, and it was the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2026/declining-school-enrollment-california/756174\">fastest-growing school district in the state\u003c/a> last year. The county’s median home price — $550,000, or more than $1 million less than San Francisco’s — was an obvious draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"School Enrollment in the Bay Area and Central Valley\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-xcC48\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/xcC48/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people were realizing they’re paying $3,000 to $6,000 a month in rent in the Bay Area,” he said. “With a low interest rate, they could buy out in Elk Grove.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as mortgage rates have risen and employers have implemented stricter in-office requirements, Velasco said he has seen fewer families looking to leave the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For families considering staying in the region, that leaves a familiar question: What are they willing to compromise to continue living here?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kiara and Gabriel Medina\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeowners or Renters: Homeowners, bought in 2025\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Percentage of Income Spent on Housing: 35%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Location: Martinez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Sacrificed to Make It Work: Commute\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiara Medina and her husband always wanted to be homeowners. Last year, they started looking. At the time, they were living with her husband’s family in Brentwood, but they were eager to live on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/home-values/403105/bay-area-ca/\">Zillow\u003c/a>, the median sale price for a single-family home in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metro area is a little more than $1 million. Medina and her husband knew they didn’t want to spend more than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079730 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01248_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01248_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01248_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01248_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiara Medina waters her front yard at her home in Martinez on April 9, 2026. The couple, Kiara and Gabriel Medina, bought their single-family Martinez home to start their own family. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old grew up in the East Bay and still has family in Brentwood, so she and her husband wanted to find something nearby. The couple saw a listing in Martinez for an older home with warped floors and termite damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was within their budget and the perfect size to start a family, so they decided to buy. The neighborhood was near restaurants, shops and a historic downtown district. What’s more, it was filled with young families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There [were] just so many young families, young moms pushing strollers, young dads carrying their kids,” she said. “If you go to the farmers market, there’s a huge spectrum of ages, but a ton of young people with young kids, which was very encouraging and promising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01213_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01213_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01213_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS01213_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Medina brushes out spider webs in his front yard at his home in Martinez on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the quaint city on the shore of the Carquinez Strait became a popular destination for eager homebuyers looking for an affordable option. Average home prices surged from about $584,000 in 2017 to $874,000 in June 2022, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/home-values/12592/martinez-ca/\">Zillow\u003c/a>. Average home prices have since dropped to $761,000 as more people return to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina and her husband hope to have children soon. When they do, she’s grateful they live only a 30-minute drive from her family. But Medina now faces a three-hour round-trip commute three days a week to San Francisco. It’s worth it, she said, for the opportunity to own a home and gain equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are like, why the heck do you live in Martinez? That commute must be atrocious. And I do it with a smile on my face because I willingly chose not to rent in San Francisco or in Oakland or in Berkeley,” she said. “We chose to buy because that’s what we wanted our future to look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Aparna and Andy Simmons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeowners or Renters: Homeowners, bought in 2024\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Percentage of Income Spent on Housing: 23%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Location: East Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Sacrificed to Make It Work: Walkability \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aparna and Andy Simmons were ready to buy a home in 2024, after spending four years renting an apartment in San Francisco’s Cole Valley neighborhood. They had gotten married the year before and wanted to have children soon. Buying a home seemed like the next logical step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had hoped to find one in the city, but with a budget of under $1 million, they were quickly priced out of their preferred areas. As they looked, they would send listings to their other recently married friends, hoping they could all find homes nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-affordibiltyyoungparents00338_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-affordibiltyyoungparents00338_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-affordibiltyyoungparents00338_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-affordibiltyyoungparents00338_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Simmons (right) watches his wife Aparna Simmons (left) hold their son Kiran Cole (center) in their home in Oakland on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all got married at the same time, within a few months of each other, and wanted to have kids around the same time,” she said, “just having that community and having our kids grow up with friends — like built-in friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the timing didn’t work out. Some friends weren’t quite ready to commit to buying a home. So they decided to look on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found a home in Redwood Heights, a small neighborhood in the hills of East Oakland. The home had everything they wanted for their family: a backyard for a future pet, a pool and great views of San Francisco. Most importantly, it had space for their son, Kiran, who was born in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079723\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00287_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00287_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00287_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260325-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00287_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Simmons (left) holds his son Kiran Cole’s (right) foot in their home in Oakland on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the neighborhood isn’t as conveniently located as Simmons would like it to be. When they first moved there almost two years ago, she wasn’t worried about their ability to continue seeing their friends, who live all over the Bay Area. Both of them work from home and have no trouble driving to activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Aparna Simmons said she is reevaluating her priorities. 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Logan and Heidi Truman, and their two sons, aged 11 and 13, cram into a studio apartment in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Truman found the rent-controlled studio near Golden Gate Park when she started a year-long residency program there at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then that year turned into a full-time position,” Logan Truman said. “And so she stayed, and then I moved in. It just was easier to stay and make it work than to try and figure something else out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heidi Truman (left) and husband Logan talk in their kitchen in the studio apartment they share with their sons in San Francisco on March 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they had children, they managed within the tight space. Logan Truman converted a walk-in closet into a room for the boys, with a closet on one end and a bunk bed on the other. He built a fold-up wall bed in their living room, which becomes their bedroom at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have considered moving elsewhere, to a home with more space, but the best solution always seems to be to stay put. Because their apartment is rent-controlled, yearly increases are incremental, and they’re protected from big price jumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can afford it,” he said. “So, we take the money that we earn above that, and we’re aggressively saving and maybe someday we can retire and own our own place, but not yet. We stay where we’re at, we keep working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan Truman said sacrificing space has taught his family how to live modestly and value experiences over material objects. Rather than buy books, they borrow from the library. If they want to go camping or skiing, they rent their equipment. They’re judicious about the appliances they keep in their kitchen: an Instant Pot, a toaster and a kettle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12081787 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-14-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260326-AffordabilitySeriesIntroTrumanFamily-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logan and Heidi Truman and their son, Baron, 11, stand in the walk-in closet converted to a bedroom at their studio apartment in San Francisco on March 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Owning fewer items helps them save money, and it benefits the environment, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spend some of the money they save on family vacations. They recently took a seven-day cruise to Alaska with both sets of grandparents. Before that, they spent two weeks in Britain. Eventually, they’d like to travel to Scandinavia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan Truman said their living situation has made his children more grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve told them that there’s no room for animosity in the house — it just doesn’t fit,” he said. “So we have to get along. You can’t get away from anybody. You have to be respectful, you have to be courteous, you have to be kind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kate Knuttel and Matt Quisenberry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeowners or Renters: Renters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Percentage of Income Spent on Housing: almost 50%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Location: American Canyon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Sacrificed to Make It Work: Affordability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Knuttel and her partner, Matt Quisenberry, wanted to move to American Canyon, even if it meant living paycheck-to-paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until two years ago, they and their four children crowded into a two-bedroom, one bathroom rental in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were three kids in one room and then us and the baby in the other room,” she said. “We were all very close. Luckily, there wasn’t too much fighting over the bathroom at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00015_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00015_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00015_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00015_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Knuttel (left) talks to her daughter Chloe (right), 6, about dinner time in their home in American Canyon on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her kids had some friends who lived nearby, but Knuttel didn’t feel safe letting them play in the street unsupervised. She and her partner yearned to find a place near other young families where her kids could thrive. And, they were starting to feel the pinch of living in a small space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, before her youngest daughter was born, she and her partner, Matt Quisenberry, looked into buying a home in American Canyon, where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when they looked into how much their monthly mortgage payments would be, it was more expensive than their rent. So, they scrapped their plans for homeownership and opted to rent there instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00034_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00034_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00034_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00034_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Knuttel-Quisenberry home is decorated their children’s photos and art in American Canyon on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They found a single-family home with three bedrooms and two bathrooms — a perfect set-up for their teenage children, who wanted more space for themselves. The kids enrolled in American Canyon schools and found others to play with in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so fortuitous to get to this spot,” she said. “We’re so close to everything because it’s a small town. The kids have friends, they can run around in the street. It’s really great, and it feels amazing to have this and it’s not ours forever, but yeah, it feels good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their living situation is not without its challenges. Because American Canyon is so suburban, Knuttel said there aren’t many things to do in the area. Their rent is also more expensive than what they were paying in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00443_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00443_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00443_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260331-AFFORDIBILTYYOUNGPARENTS00443_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Quisenberry (right) helps his kids Landon (left) and Chloe (center) examine a small insect found in strawberries in American Canyon on March 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quisenberry and Knuttel make just enough for the family to get by, but not enough to save.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two years, Knuttel and Quisenberry said they have spent more than they make. 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