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"content": "\u003cp>Six months into his term, San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is abandoning his headline-making campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in that time, but homelessness experts and nonprofit leaders are optimistic about the shift in priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Lurie vowed to help end unsheltered homelessness by significantly expanding the city’s shelter capacity in his first six months, a lofty goal that some homelessness advocates warned at the time was likely both unattainable and unproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his election, though, Lurie doubled down on the plan in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">an executive order\u003c/a>, and in May, he announced he’d raised nearly $40 million toward the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the six-month mark, Lurie has fallen short, with just 400 beds opening during his term so far. Now, the pivot suggests he is coming to terms with advocates’ warnings that the huge investment in short-term housing might not be the best way to address San Francisco’s homelessness and behavioral health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Lurie’s chief of homelessness policy, Kunal Modi, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/07/07/we-promised-the-city-1500-shelter-beds-heres-what-were-doing-instead/\">op-ed published by the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on Monday that the administration will focus on “making our system more effective, not building toward a specific number of beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Modi said that while San Francisco’s unsheltered homeless population needs places to sleep, many also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045893/sf-supervisors-preserve-millions-for-homeless-prevention-housing-in-budget\">need wraparound services\u003c/a> like drug treatment options, mental health care and more permanent housing support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates expressed optimism about the Lurie administration’s pivot, but they’re also urging the mayor not to bow to constituent pressure and initiatives that are more focused on the public’s perception of homelessness than on systemic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without access to resources like those wraparound services, many people who are placed in short-term shelters remain homeless, said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.[aside postID=news_12046854 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/021_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg']Right now, only 13% of people who make use of San Francisco’s different shelter types move into permanent housing, according to Friedenbach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their health outcomes are still diminished. They don’t have the stability. They don’t have that opportunity for the transformation that often takes place once folks leave homelessness behind and have a safe and dignified home,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you really want to do is make sure that folks have housing so that they can move out of shelter and then that bed can be available for someone else,” Friedenbach said. “You want to invest in prevention. That really has been our recommendation all along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach said that ideally, when the city adds a shelter bed, it should also be adding two to three longer-term housing exits for people to move into next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, San Francisco has overinvested in shelter beds compared to other types of supportive housing, she said, which often results in a short-term reprieve from street homelessness, followed by a strong resurgence. Similarly, San Franciscans who go into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036307/sf-expand-combination-shelter-opioid-treatment-program-homeless-residents\">drug treatment\u003c/a> but don’t have a suitable housing option to transition to often end up back on the street, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The systems that work the best … really concentrate on system flow,” Friedenbach said. “We’ve done massive expansion to shelter over the past few years, and that has not resulted in a dramatic difference, but it’s been quite expensive. You [have] got to have this more balanced approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman standings preparing a document, wearing a blue dress, and a man and woman beside her in a large crowded hall.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Friedenbach (right) from the Coalition on Homelessness helps people lining up to place questions for the speakers in the first in a series of town hall city budget meetings at Tenderloin Community School, in San Francisco, with then-mayor Ed Lee and then-supervisor Jane Kim on March 16, 2011. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Modi said Lurie’s office would aim to improve the existing homelessness services system by investing in programs that support people who are within the first 48 hours of getting housed, coordinating street teams and upping the number of shelter, short-term and permanent supportive housing options that offer clinical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Friedenbach and Homeless Oversight Commission co-chair Christin Evans commended Lurie’s pivot, but they also warned that other policies in the pipeline to reduce visible homelessness could similarly backfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to Lurie’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">ban on long-term RV parking\u003c/a> as an example. The new ordinance would allocate $3 million for enforcement of a two-hour limit on large vehicle parking on all city streets, along with funding for housing subsidies and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">vehicle buyback option\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12045893 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED.jpg']“He’s getting constituent pressure. The visible homelessness signs have clearly been a priority of his,” she said. But of the RV ban, she added, “It’s not as much about actually reducing homelessness, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy probably won’t significantly decrease the number of unhoused San Franciscans, Evans said, but it could increase the strain on shelters and housing resources. Many people living in vehicles also won’t likely be willing to accept the housing offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not really a rational choice for somebody to make to switch out of a vehicle where they have privacy, a private bathroom, and move into a congregate shelter where they’re in a very crowded situation,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those resources, I don’t know that that should be our priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both she and Friedenbach also worry about the mayor’s request for the Board of Supervisors to weaken its legislative check on Proposition C spending, which is mostly aimed at homeless family housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members look for vehicles and RVs serving as shelters during a point-in-time homeless population count in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2024. Teams spread out through San Francisco to count sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The measure, which instituted an additional tax on businesses and people who make more than $50 million a year, passed in 2018, creating the Our City, Our Home Fund to help pay for access to permanent housing, with large portions of the revenue funding family and youth housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s original budget proposal this spring would have used unspent money and interest earned on the Our City, Our Home Fund \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045893/sf-supervisors-preserve-millions-for-homeless-prevention-housing-in-budget\">to fund additional adult shelter beds\u003c/a>, but he faced pushback from homelessness advocates who said the focus on young people was important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children, when they experience homelessness, are more likely to become homeless themselves later in life if they experience that homelessness longer than six months,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After negotiations, the revised budget retains much of the family homelessness support, but Lurie has still asked supervisors to remove a requirement that a supermajority of the board approve changes in how he allocates leftover Our City, Our Home funding in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the past three years, mayors keep proposing moving money … three years ago, it was $60 million from family and youth housing. This year, $88.5 million being taken away primarily from family youth housing and moving it over primarily to single adult shelter,” Friedenbach said ahead of a rally opposing the policy change, which was scheduled for a vote on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families have doubled in San Francisco in homelessness, and this is where we’re failing and we need the most resources,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Critics claim its ever-broadening scope and lengthy review process have slowed development and made it too expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget that is connected to [those reforms] is a budget that builds,” Newsom said Monday. “It’s not just a housing package, it’s also about infrastructure, it’s also about high speed rail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, however, reforming CEQA has been a divisive issue among state Democrats, due to its ardent support among labor, \u003ca href=\"https://ceja.org/what-we-do/green-zones/ceqa-case-studies/\">environmental\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ceqaworks.org/\">groups\u003c/a> and others, who have heralded it as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://w.ecovote.org/california-environmental-quality-act-the-myths-vs-the-facts/\">most important tools\u003c/a> to fight pollution and sprawl. And they often point to \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3956250\">studies \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">calling into question\u003c/a> whether it truly stops development from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Baker, state policy director for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group, said he was particularly concerned with the provisions in SB 607, which he called “the worst rollback of environmental and public health protections” the state has seen in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Side-stepping the legislative process in a fast-track budget deal that has had zero transparency for such significant changes to the one law that gives our communities voice in the planning decisions that affect them is just simply a disgrace to our democracy,” he said. “This is the way you do bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-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 Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the state seeks to make housing more affordable and meet its energy goals, Wiener said it needs to be easier for projects to get approved and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high costs devastating our communities stem directly from our extreme shortage of housing, childcare, affordable healthcare, and so many of the other things families need to thrive,” he said in a statement shortly after the Legislature’s vote. “These bills get red tape and major process hurdles out of the way, allowing us to finally start addressing these shortages and securing an affordable California and a brighter future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legislators have taken a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">Swiss cheese\u003c/a>” approach to CEQA reform, bypassing the more onerous requirements by exempting \u003ca href=\"https://www.scag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/ceqa_exemptions_for_housing_projects_-_project_eligibility_review_matrix.pdf\">certain kinds of development\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/california-lawmakers-ceqa-exemption-environmental-law-capitol-annex-renovation\">even\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">specific\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-stadium-bills-failures-20170411-story.html\">projects\u003c/a>. But the two bills included in this year’s budget aim to make bolder moves: AB 609 exempts all urban housing development from individually going through the review process, while SB 607 exempts another nine categories of projects from review under the law, if they meet certain criteria, and narrows its scope for a variety of projects by avoiding what Wiener described as “repetitive” studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-14/newsom-announces-support-for-ceqa-exemption-bills\">publicly supported these bills\u003c/a> when he included them in his revised budget in May, but his strongest endorsement came last week, when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB102\">required\u003c/a> the bills to be included in two “trailer bills” — AB 130 and SB 131 — and approved, or the budget would be repealed entirely.[aside postID=news_12046283 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-24-BL_qed.jpg']“It was too urgent, too important to allow the process to unfold as it has for the last generation, invariably falling prey to all kinds of pratfall and I was too concerned that that would indeed occur again if we allowed this process to unfold in the traditional way,” Newsom said, addressing criticism that the bills were fast-tracked. “If we can’t address this issue, we’re going to lose trust, and that’s just the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, a land-use and housing law expert at the UC Davis School of Law, called the maneuver “pretty bold.” The governor typically remains on the sidelines during legislative battles, he said, especially those involving controversial housing bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t really get involved in arm-twisting in the legislature, [but he] did the most intensive form of arm-twisting which is available to him,” Elmendorf said. “Because we need a budget. And in fact, if the budget isn’t passed on time, legislators don’t get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arm-twisting is partly what concerns environmental groups that wanted more public discussion about what these bills would do before they got signed into law. Asha Sharma, state policy manager for the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, said she wanted to see Newsom taking a stronger stance to uphold environmental protections in California, especially amidst \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history\">federal\u003c/a> rollbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is really the only way that we have any type of voice or say in what these projects look like,” she said. “It is really concerning that that is where [Newsom’s] priorities are, especially in such a precarious moment at a federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1997px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg 1997w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1997px) 100vw, 1997px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother and daughter watch the construction from the balcony of their new home, which they helped to build in the Central Commons development in Fremont, California, on June 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates argue that protecting the environment is at the heart of the two bills featured in the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language from Wick’s bill is included in trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB130\">AB 130\u003c/a>, which exempts infill housing — homes built within an existing city — from lengthy CEQA reviews. If it’s easier for developers to build homes in denser areas, Wicks argues it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by longer commutes to \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/\">far-off\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://unu.edu/article/suburban-living-worst-carbon-emissions-new-research\">suburbs\u003c/a>. Apartments also tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11731\">use less energy\u003c/a> than detached homes, according to the US Energy Information Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these places that are already urban, already developed, already have infrastructure … that type of housing development is by far the most environmentally beneficial,” said Matthew Lewis, spokesperson for the housing lobbying group, CA YIMBY. “What these bills do is they basically codify that by saying, we recognize that these types of homes are good for the environment and therefore do not have to go through these extensive environmental processes.”[aside postID=news_12011579 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-45-KQED.jpg']Trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB131\">SB 131\u003c/a>, which includes Wiener’s bill, makes more technical changes to CEQA reviews, but ultimately tries to avoid redundancies in the process. Among other provisions, the bill includes a number of CEQA exemptions for certain categories of development, including high-speed rail, trails and wildfire mitigation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also exempts advanced manufacturing facilities in industrial areas, a feature Wiener hopes will spur the production of electronics and semiconductors in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a new kind of manufacturing that we’re trying to reshore into the US, whether it’s semiconductors, electronics, other kinds of advanced technology that we want to be produced here,” Wiener told KQED. “And the last thing we want is for California to get skipped over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental groups say this exemption is precisely what concerns them about the bill. Semiconductor factories often require significant amounts of water to fabricate microchips and can release hazardous chemicals into the air and water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley garnered international esteem for its semiconductor and microprocessor facilities, but now has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live\">23 toxic Superfund sites,\u003c/a> a designation the Environmental Protection Agency gives to the worst hazardous waste sites in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are examples across the state of how the communities surrounding these facilities have just really experienced a lot of health harm,” Raquel Mason, senior legislative manager with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, said at a press conference opposing the bill. “This is why CEQA [was created], so that we can have this review and make sure that there’s safety and health considerations for projects exactly like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to housing, however, some advocates argue those reviews can result in more process than progress. They have criticized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002905/it-was-a-sleepy-year-for-housing-legislation-here-are-some-that-made-it-through\">recent legislation as being ineffective\u003c/a> because they made too many concessions to environmental groups and often fell into an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html\">everything bagel black hole\u003c/a> of qualifications — an idea central to the burgeoning \u003ca href=\"https://www.abundancenetwork.com/the-movement/\">Abundance\u003c/a> movement. That Newsom fought to get Wicks’ and Wiener’s bills passed so quickly is telling, Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEQA has been the third rail of California politics for decades, but Lewis argued the state no longer has the luxury to delay the housing it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is just fundamentally irresponsible to be blocking homes in California cities in 2025 when we’re seeing the incredible heat waves across the country. We’re seeing wildfires, we’re seeing flooding, we’re seeing storms destroy entire communities, all because of the pollution caused from sprawl and traffic and other pollution,” he said. “It’s time to get over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Baker, state policy director for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group, said he was particularly concerned with the provisions in SB 607, which he called “the worst rollback of environmental and public health protections” the state has seen in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Side-stepping the legislative process in a fast-track budget deal that has had zero transparency for such significant changes to the one law that gives our communities voice in the planning decisions that affect them is just simply a disgrace to our democracy,” he said. “This is the way you do bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-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 Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the state seeks to make housing more affordable and meet its energy goals, Wiener said it needs to be easier for projects to get approved and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high costs devastating our communities stem directly from our extreme shortage of housing, childcare, affordable healthcare, and so many of the other things families need to thrive,” he said in a statement shortly after the Legislature’s vote. “These bills get red tape and major process hurdles out of the way, allowing us to finally start addressing these shortages and securing an affordable California and a brighter future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legislators have taken a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">Swiss cheese\u003c/a>” approach to CEQA reform, bypassing the more onerous requirements by exempting \u003ca href=\"https://www.scag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/ceqa_exemptions_for_housing_projects_-_project_eligibility_review_matrix.pdf\">certain kinds of development\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/california-lawmakers-ceqa-exemption-environmental-law-capitol-annex-renovation\">even\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">specific\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-stadium-bills-failures-20170411-story.html\">projects\u003c/a>. But the two bills included in this year’s budget aim to make bolder moves: AB 609 exempts all urban housing development from individually going through the review process, while SB 607 exempts another nine categories of projects from review under the law, if they meet certain criteria, and narrows its scope for a variety of projects by avoiding what Wiener described as “repetitive” studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-14/newsom-announces-support-for-ceqa-exemption-bills\">publicly supported these bills\u003c/a> when he included them in his revised budget in May, but his strongest endorsement came last week, when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB102\">required\u003c/a> the bills to be included in two “trailer bills” — AB 130 and SB 131 — and approved, or the budget would be repealed entirely.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB131\">SB 131\u003c/a>, which includes Wiener’s bill, makes more technical changes to CEQA reviews, but ultimately tries to avoid redundancies in the process. Among other provisions, the bill includes a number of CEQA exemptions for certain categories of development, including high-speed rail, trails and wildfire mitigation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also exempts advanced manufacturing facilities in industrial areas, a feature Wiener hopes will spur the production of electronics and semiconductors in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a new kind of manufacturing that we’re trying to reshore into the US, whether it’s semiconductors, electronics, other kinds of advanced technology that we want to be produced here,” Wiener told KQED. “And the last thing we want is for California to get skipped over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental groups say this exemption is precisely what concerns them about the bill. Semiconductor factories often require significant amounts of water to fabricate microchips and can release hazardous chemicals into the air and water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley garnered international esteem for its semiconductor and microprocessor facilities, but now has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live\">23 toxic Superfund sites,\u003c/a> a designation the Environmental Protection Agency gives to the worst hazardous waste sites in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are examples across the state of how the communities surrounding these facilities have just really experienced a lot of health harm,” Raquel Mason, senior legislative manager with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, said at a press conference opposing the bill. “This is why CEQA [was created], so that we can have this review and make sure that there’s safety and health considerations for projects exactly like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to housing, however, some advocates argue those reviews can result in more process than progress. They have criticized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002905/it-was-a-sleepy-year-for-housing-legislation-here-are-some-that-made-it-through\">recent legislation as being ineffective\u003c/a> because they made too many concessions to environmental groups and often fell into an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html\">everything bagel black hole\u003c/a> of qualifications — an idea central to the burgeoning \u003ca href=\"https://www.abundancenetwork.com/the-movement/\">Abundance\u003c/a> movement. That Newsom fought to get Wicks’ and Wiener’s bills passed so quickly is telling, Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEQA has been the third rail of California politics for decades, but Lewis argued the state no longer has the luxury to delay the housing it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is just fundamentally irresponsible to be blocking homes in California cities in 2025 when we’re seeing the incredible heat waves across the country. We’re seeing wildfires, we’re seeing flooding, we’re seeing storms destroy entire communities, all because of the pollution caused from sprawl and traffic and other pollution,” he said. “It’s time to get over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amid a generationally divided debate, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> City Council on Thursday unanimously voted to overturn a more-than-century-old housing policy, allowing small apartment buildings in most of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045685/berkeley-considers-middle-housing-plan-that-could-reshape-neighborhoods\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> will permit three-story buildings with up to eight units on a typical 5,000-square-foot lot, not including accessory dwelling units. The actual number will vary on lot size. The changes will apply citywide, except in Berkeley’s hills neighborhoods, which were excluded while the city studies evacuation routes in the high fire-risk zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal must come back to the council for a second reading in July and is expected to be implemented in November. It comes four years after former Councilmember Lori Droste introduced a resolution to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/2021-02-23%20Item%2029%20Resolution%20to%20End%20Exclusionary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end exclusionary zoning\u003c/a> in the city that came in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996229/berkeley-first-city-to-sanctify-single-family-zoning-considers-historic-reversal-allowing-small-apartments\">wake of George Floyd’s murder\u003c/a> and a nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910087/remembering-george-floyd-and-the-racial-reckoning-he-sparked\">racial reckoning\u003c/a> that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has championed the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current proposal\u003c/a>, said the changes would allow more opportunities for young people, families and middle-income residents to live in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are actually trying to create more starter-home opportunities for middle-class workers, for people of color, for people who have historically not had an opportunity to own a home and build multi-generational wealth,” Kesarwani said. “That is actually at the root of what I believe we are striving for with this entire ordinance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous vote, just before midnight, followed a nearly six-hour meeting punctuated by a sometimes raucous crowd. More than 100 people spoke during public comment, with opinions split roughly 60–40 in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters included students, renters, parents with small children in tow and millennials, who advocated for more diverse housing options to meet the needs of young people and families trying to gain or keep a toehold in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone wants to or can live in a single-family home,” said Nina Ichikawa, who identified herself as a third-generation Cal grad. “By just sticking to one type of housing, we’re limiting what Berkeley has to offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They confronted a group composed largely of homeowners, who had bought into Berkeley decades ago and were worried the proposal would have the opposite of its intended effect, driving out more working families and changing the city beyond recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In] 1973, Berkeley citizens passed the neighborhood preservation ordinance,” said resident Clifford Fred. “Now, 52 years later, you’re poised to pass the neighborhood destruction ordinance, I’m afraid to say.”[aside postID=news_12045685 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-03-BL-KQED.jpg']But hills resident Andrea Horbinski said the city shouldn’t be frozen in amber and should be allowed to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people who want to keep it as a necropolis for current homeowners, people who bought in the ’60s and ’70s,” Horbinski said. “Is it a tomb or is it a living community? A living community is what we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also pointed to Berkeley’s role in \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/rootsraceplace\">pioneering exclusionary zoning\u003c/a> as a driver of manufactured housing scarcity and rising costs. In 1916, the city became the first in the country \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">to adopt single-family zoning\u003c/a>, which was designed to protect property values from a perceived “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">invasion\u003c/a>” of lower-cost housing — and \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh\">the people who lived there\u003c/a> — that would devalue homeowners’ investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reforming exclusionary zoning, said Councilmember Ben Bartlett, a co-author of the Middle Housing proposal, is “the equity issue of our time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot keep deluding ourselves that we don’t have a scarcity problem,” Bartlett said. “You have to realize land is the foundation of wealth. And yet it remains out of reach due to the same scarcity that we prescribed, that we invented in our zoning code here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May, the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">typical\u003c/a>” Berkeley home sold for $1.4 million, according to Zillow, up more than 270% from a quarter-century ago. As home prices have risen, racial segregation in housing \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/bay-segregation-map\">has persisted\u003c/a>. In Berkeley, the portion of Black residents has dropped from \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">24% in 1970\u003c/a> to around \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">7% last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many opponents, however, refuted the idea that Middle Housing would lead to greater diversity and criticized the lack of any dedicated, affordable housing in the proposal — though projects would be subject to the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-02-25%20Item%2014%20Inclusionary%20Housing%20Ordinance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affordable housing impact fees\u003c/a> that apply to all residential developments over 5,000 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no affordability in your plan. There’s no Section 8 support in your plan. There’s no guarantee of rent control in your plans, although many of these lots have houses on them,” said Negeene Mosaed, chair of the Berkeley Tenant Union. “You are not protecting the community. You are destroying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosaed pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/Anti-Eviction%20Mapping%20Project_UpzoningReport_REV_FINAL_03-22-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 study\u003c/a> by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project that found allowing more development could lead to “speculation, increased land values, and displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By expanding the buildable potential of properties in Berkeley, resident Janis Ching said it would incentivize developers to outbid would-be homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This ordinance is going to commodify our land,” she said. “It’s going to make it difficult for homebuyers to compete with developers who want to build different types of housing, and also, it’s going to put pressure on people to sell and leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Davila, a former city council member, called the proposal and its promises for greater equity a “facade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this is all a fake,” she said. “People are going to get displaced and what’s going to be left? A white Berkeley or a Berkeley of billionaires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents pointed to the loss of open space, trees and other natural habitats for urban animals, along with concerns that three-story buildings would shade solar panels on single-story rooftops.[aside postID=news_12045703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg']The ordinance allows buildings to cover 60% of the lot in most districts. It also requires the building height to step down to 22 feet in the rear of the property, partly, staff said, to address concerns about loss of light on neighbors’ properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Councilmember Mark Humbert acknowledged some tradeoffs would have to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is a bigger hit to our quality of life: losing a few hours of direct sunlight in the winter or losing our children to another state when they can’t afford a home in California?” he asked. “What really makes life in Berkeley less pleasant: a few more cars parked on the streets — hopefully more bicycles in foyers — or seeing more and more human beings forced to sleep on our streets?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even Duncan McDuffie, a real estate developer and \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh\">key architect of Berkeley’s original plan\u003c/a>, recognized that eventually, the zoning would need to change to reflect the city’s changing needs. At an annual dinner in the banquet room of the Hotel Shattuck \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">on Jan. 21, 1916\u003c/a>, he said city planning “must be rigid enough to direct the growth of the community and elastic enough to meet changing conditions. It should be a living thing — never fully completed but always being realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council directed staff to develop objective design standards and to return with a report two years after adoption or after 25 applications for Middle Housing projects have been filed, whichever comes first. The report is expected to assess the ordinance’s effectiveness and impact on equity, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amid a generationally divided debate, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> City Council on Thursday unanimously voted to overturn a more-than-century-old housing policy, allowing small apartment buildings in most of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045685/berkeley-considers-middle-housing-plan-that-could-reshape-neighborhoods\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> will permit three-story buildings with up to eight units on a typical 5,000-square-foot lot, not including accessory dwelling units. The actual number will vary on lot size. The changes will apply citywide, except in Berkeley’s hills neighborhoods, which were excluded while the city studies evacuation routes in the high fire-risk zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal must come back to the council for a second reading in July and is expected to be implemented in November. It comes four years after former Councilmember Lori Droste introduced a resolution to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/2021-02-23%20Item%2029%20Resolution%20to%20End%20Exclusionary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end exclusionary zoning\u003c/a> in the city that came in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996229/berkeley-first-city-to-sanctify-single-family-zoning-considers-historic-reversal-allowing-small-apartments\">wake of George Floyd’s murder\u003c/a> and a nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910087/remembering-george-floyd-and-the-racial-reckoning-he-sparked\">racial reckoning\u003c/a> that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has championed the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current proposal\u003c/a>, said the changes would allow more opportunities for young people, families and middle-income residents to live in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are actually trying to create more starter-home opportunities for middle-class workers, for people of color, for people who have historically not had an opportunity to own a home and build multi-generational wealth,” Kesarwani said. “That is actually at the root of what I believe we are striving for with this entire ordinance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous vote, just before midnight, followed a nearly six-hour meeting punctuated by a sometimes raucous crowd. More than 100 people spoke during public comment, with opinions split roughly 60–40 in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters included students, renters, parents with small children in tow and millennials, who advocated for more diverse housing options to meet the needs of young people and families trying to gain or keep a toehold in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone wants to or can live in a single-family home,” said Nina Ichikawa, who identified herself as a third-generation Cal grad. “By just sticking to one type of housing, we’re limiting what Berkeley has to offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They confronted a group composed largely of homeowners, who had bought into Berkeley decades ago and were worried the proposal would have the opposite of its intended effect, driving out more working families and changing the city beyond recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In] 1973, Berkeley citizens passed the neighborhood preservation ordinance,” said resident Clifford Fred. “Now, 52 years later, you’re poised to pass the neighborhood destruction ordinance, I’m afraid to say.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But hills resident Andrea Horbinski said the city shouldn’t be frozen in amber and should be allowed to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people who want to keep it as a necropolis for current homeowners, people who bought in the ’60s and ’70s,” Horbinski said. “Is it a tomb or is it a living community? A living community is what we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also pointed to Berkeley’s role in \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/rootsraceplace\">pioneering exclusionary zoning\u003c/a> as a driver of manufactured housing scarcity and rising costs. In 1916, the city became the first in the country \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">to adopt single-family zoning\u003c/a>, which was designed to protect property values from a perceived “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">invasion\u003c/a>” of lower-cost housing — and \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh\">the people who lived there\u003c/a> — that would devalue homeowners’ investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reforming exclusionary zoning, said Councilmember Ben Bartlett, a co-author of the Middle Housing proposal, is “the equity issue of our time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot keep deluding ourselves that we don’t have a scarcity problem,” Bartlett said. “You have to realize land is the foundation of wealth. And yet it remains out of reach due to the same scarcity that we prescribed, that we invented in our zoning code here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May, the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">typical\u003c/a>” Berkeley home sold for $1.4 million, according to Zillow, up more than 270% from a quarter-century ago. As home prices have risen, racial segregation in housing \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/bay-segregation-map\">has persisted\u003c/a>. In Berkeley, the portion of Black residents has dropped from \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">24% in 1970\u003c/a> to around \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">7% last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many opponents, however, refuted the idea that Middle Housing would lead to greater diversity and criticized the lack of any dedicated, affordable housing in the proposal — though projects would be subject to the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-02-25%20Item%2014%20Inclusionary%20Housing%20Ordinance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affordable housing impact fees\u003c/a> that apply to all residential developments over 5,000 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no affordability in your plan. There’s no Section 8 support in your plan. There’s no guarantee of rent control in your plans, although many of these lots have houses on them,” said Negeene Mosaed, chair of the Berkeley Tenant Union. “You are not protecting the community. You are destroying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosaed pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/Anti-Eviction%20Mapping%20Project_UpzoningReport_REV_FINAL_03-22-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 study\u003c/a> by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project that found allowing more development could lead to “speculation, increased land values, and displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By expanding the buildable potential of properties in Berkeley, resident Janis Ching said it would incentivize developers to outbid would-be homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This ordinance is going to commodify our land,” she said. “It’s going to make it difficult for homebuyers to compete with developers who want to build different types of housing, and also, it’s going to put pressure on people to sell and leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Davila, a former city council member, called the proposal and its promises for greater equity a “facade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this is all a fake,” she said. “People are going to get displaced and what’s going to be left? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The ordinance allows buildings to cover 60% of the lot in most districts. It also requires the building height to step down to 22 feet in the rear of the property, partly, staff said, to address concerns about loss of light on neighbors’ properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Councilmember Mark Humbert acknowledged some tradeoffs would have to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is a bigger hit to our quality of life: losing a few hours of direct sunlight in the winter or losing our children to another state when they can’t afford a home in California?” he asked. “What really makes life in Berkeley less pleasant: a few more cars parked on the streets — hopefully more bicycles in foyers — or seeing more and more human beings forced to sleep on our streets?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even Duncan McDuffie, a real estate developer and \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh\">key architect of Berkeley’s original plan\u003c/a>, recognized that eventually, the zoning would need to change to reflect the city’s changing needs. At an annual dinner in the banquet room of the Hotel Shattuck \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">on Jan. 21, 1916\u003c/a>, he said city planning “must be rigid enough to direct the growth of the community and elastic enough to meet changing conditions. It should be a living thing — never fully completed but always being realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council directed staff to develop objective design standards and to return with a report two years after adoption or after 25 applications for Middle Housing projects have been filed, whichever comes first. The report is expected to assess the ordinance’s effectiveness and impact on equity, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is backing down — somewhat — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">his effort\u003c/a> to sweep money set aside for homeless prevention programs and permanent housing to instead fund temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">community groups and experts\u003c/a> warned that the mayor’s plan, proposed last month, could inadvertently inflate the need for temporary shelter if more permanent housing is not available for people to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s way better than where we started,” said Christin Evans, co-chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “If you put all your investment into shelter, you aren’t ending homelessness. You’re perpetuating homelessness and warehousing people. So we need more housing that people can exit shelter into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 14 hours of tense closed-door negotiations, the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee at 2 a.m. Thursday voted to move the amended $16 billion budget proposal forward to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also preserved funding for 57 of 100 filled jobs that Lurie had proposed to cut to help balance the city’s nearly $800 million deficit. Lurie had proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">eliminating around 1,400 positions\u003c/a>, most of which are currently vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passing this budget also required painful decisions that were, unfortunately, necessary to set up our entire city for success,” Lurie said in a statement on Thursday morning. “Leadership means making those tough decisions, and this group of city leaders did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie delivers remarks on a progress report of his first 100 days in office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s initial plan would have reappropriated nearly $88 million from the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to generate revenue for homeless services by taxing the city’s wealthiest businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about 50% of Proposition C dollars are slated for permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of negotiations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts\">protests\u003c/a> from community advocates, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reallocate $34 million toward shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of services, a lot of restorations that we are used to being able to make possible that won’t be reflective of this budget,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the marathon hearing. “But most certainly we did work hard to do everything we could to continue critical services.”[aside postID=news_12045555 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12045887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ggbridge_003_qed.jpg']This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is backing down — somewhat — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">his effort\u003c/a> to sweep money set aside for homeless prevention programs and permanent housing to instead fund temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">community groups and experts\u003c/a> warned that the mayor’s plan, proposed last month, could inadvertently inflate the need for temporary shelter if more permanent housing is not available for people to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s way better than where we started,” said Christin Evans, co-chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “If you put all your investment into shelter, you aren’t ending homelessness. You’re perpetuating homelessness and warehousing people. So we need more housing that people can exit shelter into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 14 hours of tense closed-door negotiations, the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee at 2 a.m. Thursday voted to move the amended $16 billion budget proposal forward to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also preserved funding for 57 of 100 filled jobs that Lurie had proposed to cut to help balance the city’s nearly $800 million deficit. Lurie had proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">eliminating around 1,400 positions\u003c/a>, most of which are currently vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passing this budget also required painful decisions that were, unfortunately, necessary to set up our entire city for success,” Lurie said in a statement on Thursday morning. “Leadership means making those tough decisions, and this group of city leaders did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie delivers remarks on a progress report of his first 100 days in office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s initial plan would have reappropriated nearly $88 million from the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to generate revenue for homeless services by taxing the city’s wealthiest businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about 50% of Proposition C dollars are slated for permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of negotiations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts\">protests\u003c/a> from community advocates, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reallocate $34 million toward shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of services, a lot of restorations that we are used to being able to make possible that won’t be reflective of this budget,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the marathon hearing. “But most certainly we did work hard to do everything we could to continue critical services.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:15 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley postponed its recent ban on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995878/ai-raising-the-rent-san-francisco-could-be-the-first-city-to-ban-the-practice\">rent-setting algorithms\u003c/a>, several months after a leading property management software company \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/03/realpage-sues-berkeley-over-impending-ban-on-rent-pricing-algorithms\">sued \u003c/a>the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to push back the ban — originally intended to go into effect this spring — in an effort to avoid a costly legal battle with RealPage, the Texas-based company that filed suit in April, arguing the ban violates its First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deferral, to March 2026, follows \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-03-11%20Item%2018%20Adopt%20an%20Ordinance%20to%20Prohibit.pdf\">a warning from\u003c/a> City Attorney Farimah Brown that the pending litigation poses “significant costs for the City,” which already faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/24/berkeley-budget-deficit-spending-cut-hiring-freeze\">a $27 million budget deficit\u003c/a>. RealPage has tentatively agreed to suspend its lawsuit if the city repeals the ban or delays enforcement of it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The postponement action is intended to give the Council time to facilitate a resolution of the RealPage litigation and to determine a path forward for the ordinance without the time pressure imposed by litigation deadlines,” Brown told KQED in an email. “Council will likely be debating a range of possible next steps in the months to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance, which the council overwhelmingly approved in March, would bar landlords from using the algorithmic software sold by companies like RealPage that offer pricing and occupancy recommendations based on proprietary rental data. Tenants’ advocates argue the tools allow landlords to collude on pricing decisions, driving up rents and vacancy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These recommendations allow landlords to manipulate the market and the practice amounts to illegal price-fixing,” the city’s Housing Advisory Commission, which sponsored the ordinance, wrote in its \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-03-11%20Item%2018%20Adopt%20an%20Ordinance%20to%20Prohibit.pdf\">March report\u003c/a> to the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, 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increases, increased rates of eviction, and artificial housing scarcity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 60% of Berkeley’s residents are renters, over half of whom are considered lower income and pay a significant portion of their income on rent, according to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The use of these algorithmic devices is widespread in markets throughout the country and has helped fuel the national housing affordability crisis,” the commission wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley is the first city to be sued by RealPage over such a prohibition, even though similar bans have recently been adopted in a growing number of cities across the country, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995878/ai-raising-the-rent-san-francisco-could-be-the-first-city-to-ban-the-practice\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, which led the charge last year, followed by \u003ca href=\"https://stateline.org/2025/03/28/cities-lead-bans-on-algorithmic-rent-hikes-as-states-lag-behind/\">Philadelphia, Minneapolis\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-bans-algorithmic-rent-price-fixing/3825140/\">San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage did not respond to KQED’s questions about the litigation, and specifically why it sued Berkeley and not other larger, more well-resourced cities.[aside postID=news_11995878 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg']In its lawsuit, the company contends that Berkeley’s ban is based on “misinformation” and illegally prevents the company from communicating data-driven pricing recommendations to its clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, it argues that the “misguided” ordinance could ultimately have a “detrimental” impact on housing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage’s software is simply intended “to optimize revenue — not to maximize rents,” the company said. “It makes rental price recommendations in all directions: higher, lower, 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 5:15 p.m. June 26 \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Californians widely demanding action on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/homelessness\">homelessness\u003c/a>, the budget state lawmakers are close to passing for the next fiscal year includes no new funding for one of the state’s largest \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/homeless-housing-assistance-and-prevention-grant-program\">homelessness services programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">$12 billion shortfall\u003c/a>, the current budget guts the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention grant program, though it does earmark an additional $500 million for the program in the following budget year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said the future funding is “contingent on stronger accountability measures.” And she noted that while the state has so far awarded more than $3 billion to the program, only $1.9 billion has been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011525/newsom-announces-830-million-in-homelessness-spending-with-strings\">Gov. Gavin Newsom urged local governments\u003c/a> across the state to crack down on homeless encampments following a Supreme Court ruling expanding cities’ ability to fine and jail people living outside, even if no shelter is available. And last month, he reiterated that call, urging cities and counties to do more to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">clear encampments from streets and sidewalks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts come as cities and municipalities try to build and preserve shelters and housing for those living on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, addressing homelessness is primarily a local issue,” Tara Gallegos, deputy director of communications for Gov. Gavin Newsom, said in a statement to KQED, responding to questions from cities about the elimination of HHAP funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2024–25 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, California, on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement Wednesday, Carolyn Coleman, CEO and executive director for the League of California Cities, and Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties decried the budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Investing no new money this year and only half as much for next year will stop progress in its tracks,” they wrote. “More tents will pop up alongside highways, train tracks and rivers and more families will struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its inception six years ago, the HHAP program has provided funding to support constructing permanent housing, improving shelters and \u003ca href=\"https://hacsj.org/2021/04/15/landlord-incentives-for-homeless-veterans-program/\">incentivizing landlords\u003c/a> to rent to people experiencing homelessness, among other services. Carolyn Coleman, CEO and executive director for the League of California Cities, said the program has become an important tool for cities because its funding can support a variety of services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why HHAP has been so effective is because it has some flexibility that can be tailored to fit the local circumstances,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Alejo, a Monterey County supervisor, said his county has used the grant funding for a number of projects — most recently to partner with the city of Watsonville and open a \u003ca href=\"https://pajaronian.com/tiny-village-project-moves-forward-after-second-appeal-denied/\">navigation center\u003c/a> there, which would provide people experiencing homelessness room and board while they get help from case workers connecting them with public benefits and healthcare. The center is scheduled to open later this year, but Alejo said the project could be at risk if funding dries up.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']“We had to build working relationships, we had to build trust, but having the resources helped us to help that collaboration transition … into shelters and permanent supportive housing,” he said. “If the legislature continues not having a single dollar for the next round of homelessness funding through HHAP, all these projects and all this collaboration will definitely be at risk in the coming months ahead of us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/hhap-data-dashboard-and-downloads\">state data\u003c/a>, local governments received more than $600 million during the first round of HHAP funding in 2019. Most of those dollars went toward opening navigation centers and operating costs for new and existing housing and shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the fifth and latest cycle of funding, the state awarded almost $870 million, though only half of that money has been earmarked for specific uses and a little more than a tenth has been spent already. The sixth cycle, which was budgeted last year, includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/calich/hhap-6-nofa.pdf\">$760 million\u003c/a> and is expected to be awarded to cities later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">federal data\u003c/a>, California is home to the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, but earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/02/24/governor-newsom-announces-stronger-accountability-measures-launches-new-tool-measuring-local-progress-in-tackling-homelessness/#:~:text=Reversing%20decades%20of%20inaction,seen%20during%20the%20Newsom%20Administration.\">announced\u003c/a> the state had dramatically slowed the increase in people living on the streets to 3% last year — far lower than the national increase of 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edie Irons, a spokesperson for the homelessness policy organization, All Home, said those numbers aren’t cause for celebration but they do demonstrate the state’s investments are beginning to work. For the first year since 2018, the number of people sleeping outside, as opposed to in a shelter, held relatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">steady\u003c/a> between 2023 and 2024, increasing less than half a percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants local governments to use the money that has been doled out before the state sets aside additional funds. So far, the state has awarded more than $3 billion to the program, with only $1.9 billion spent so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of an encampment on Alameda Avenue in Oakland is cleared on March 4, 2025. A shipping container barrier now surrounds the property. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Governor expects local governments to use the unprecedented funding already provided to them — including the billions in funding that has been allocated to locals but not yet spent — to get people off the streets and connected to the help they need,” Gallegos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/02/24/governor-newsom-announces-stronger-accountability-measures-launches-new-tool-measuring-local-progress-in-tackling-homelessness/#:~:text=Reversing%20decades%20of%20inaction,seen%20during%20the%20Newsom%20Administration.\">announced that California had dramatically slowed\u003c/a> the growth of homelessness to a statewide increase of 3%. While the state is still home to the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\"> federal data\u003c/a>, its rate is far lower than the national rate of 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not great news — we want to see an actual reduction,” Irons said. “But holding the line in the state with the largest homeless population in the country is an accomplishment, sadly. And we won’t be able to sustain that progress or improve upon it without more funding to continue the solutions that are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the remaining weeks before the budget is finalized, housing advocates are hoping to strike the right deal with lawmakers and the governor to secure HHAP funding for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> A previous version of this story misstated the name of the CEO of the California State Association of Counties. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 5:15 p.m. June 26 \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Californians widely demanding action on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/homelessness\">homelessness\u003c/a>, the budget state lawmakers are close to passing for the next fiscal year includes no new funding for one of the state’s largest \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/homeless-housing-assistance-and-prevention-grant-program\">homelessness services programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">$12 billion shortfall\u003c/a>, the current budget guts the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention grant program, though it does earmark an additional $500 million for the program in the following budget year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said the future funding is “contingent on stronger accountability measures.” And she noted that while the state has so far awarded more than $3 billion to the program, only $1.9 billion has been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011525/newsom-announces-830-million-in-homelessness-spending-with-strings\">Gov. Gavin Newsom urged local governments\u003c/a> across the state to crack down on homeless encampments following a Supreme Court ruling expanding cities’ ability to fine and jail people living outside, even if no shelter is available. And last month, he reiterated that call, urging cities and counties to do more to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">clear encampments from streets and sidewalks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts come as cities and municipalities try to build and preserve shelters and housing for those living on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, addressing homelessness is primarily a local issue,” Tara Gallegos, deputy director of communications for Gov. Gavin Newsom, said in a statement to KQED, responding to questions from cities about the elimination of HHAP funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2024–25 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, California, on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement Wednesday, Carolyn Coleman, CEO and executive director for the League of California Cities, and Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties decried the budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Investing no new money this year and only half as much for next year will stop progress in its tracks,” they wrote. “More tents will pop up alongside highways, train tracks and rivers and more families will struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its inception six years ago, the HHAP program has provided funding to support constructing permanent housing, improving shelters and \u003ca href=\"https://hacsj.org/2021/04/15/landlord-incentives-for-homeless-veterans-program/\">incentivizing landlords\u003c/a> to rent to people experiencing homelessness, among other services. Carolyn Coleman, CEO and executive director for the League of California Cities, said the program has become an important tool for cities because its funding can support a variety of services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why HHAP has been so effective is because it has some flexibility that can be tailored to fit the local circumstances,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Alejo, a Monterey County supervisor, said his county has used the grant funding for a number of projects — most recently to partner with the city of Watsonville and open a \u003ca href=\"https://pajaronian.com/tiny-village-project-moves-forward-after-second-appeal-denied/\">navigation center\u003c/a> there, which would provide people experiencing homelessness room and board while they get help from case workers connecting them with public benefits and healthcare. The center is scheduled to open later this year, but Alejo said the project could be at risk if funding dries up.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We had to build working relationships, we had to build trust, but having the resources helped us to help that collaboration transition … into shelters and permanent supportive housing,” he said. “If the legislature continues not having a single dollar for the next round of homelessness funding through HHAP, all these projects and all this collaboration will definitely be at risk in the coming months ahead of us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/hhap-data-dashboard-and-downloads\">state data\u003c/a>, local governments received more than $600 million during the first round of HHAP funding in 2019. Most of those dollars went toward opening navigation centers and operating costs for new and existing housing and shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the fifth and latest cycle of funding, the state awarded almost $870 million, though only half of that money has been earmarked for specific uses and a little more than a tenth has been spent already. The sixth cycle, which was budgeted last year, includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/calich/hhap-6-nofa.pdf\">$760 million\u003c/a> and is expected to be awarded to cities later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">federal data\u003c/a>, California is home to the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, but earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/02/24/governor-newsom-announces-stronger-accountability-measures-launches-new-tool-measuring-local-progress-in-tackling-homelessness/#:~:text=Reversing%20decades%20of%20inaction,seen%20during%20the%20Newsom%20Administration.\">announced\u003c/a> the state had dramatically slowed the increase in people living on the streets to 3% last year — far lower than the national increase of 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edie Irons, a spokesperson for the homelessness policy organization, All Home, said those numbers aren’t cause for celebration but they do demonstrate the state’s investments are beginning to work. For the first year since 2018, the number of people sleeping outside, as opposed to in a shelter, held relatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">steady\u003c/a> between 2023 and 2024, increasing less than half a percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants local governments to use the money that has been doled out before the state sets aside additional funds. So far, the state has awarded more than $3 billion to the program, with only $1.9 billion spent so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of an encampment on Alameda Avenue in Oakland is cleared on March 4, 2025. A shipping container barrier now surrounds the property. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Governor expects local governments to use the unprecedented funding already provided to them — including the billions in funding that has been allocated to locals but not yet spent — to get people off the streets and connected to the help they need,” Gallegos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/02/24/governor-newsom-announces-stronger-accountability-measures-launches-new-tool-measuring-local-progress-in-tackling-homelessness/#:~:text=Reversing%20decades%20of%20inaction,seen%20during%20the%20Newsom%20Administration.\">announced that California had dramatically slowed\u003c/a> the growth of homelessness to a statewide increase of 3%. While the state is still home to the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\"> federal data\u003c/a>, its rate is far lower than the national rate of 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not great news — we want to see an actual reduction,” Irons said. “But holding the line in the state with the largest homeless population in the country is an accomplishment, sadly. And we won’t be able to sustain that progress or improve upon it without more funding to continue the solutions that are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the remaining weeks before the budget is finalized, housing advocates are hoping to strike the right deal with lawmakers and the governor to secure HHAP funding for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> A previous version of this story misstated the name of the CEO of the California State Association of Counties. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Aimee Baldwin is worried her home is in danger of being seen as the “scruffy house” on the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s often a jumble of loose lumber and supplies the artist uses for projects in front of the garage, plants that need to be potted and a sprawling garden she describes as “chaotic” — a mix of California native flowers and shrubs that spill from the front yard and run down the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the backyard are the persimmon and Asian pear trees her grandparents, Frank and Jackie Kee, planted after they moved to Francisco Street in the mid-1950s, near what is now the North Berkeley BART station. Back then, it was a blue-collar neighborhood — her grandfather worked as a gardener at a Japanese-owned plant nursery — with a set of train tracks running through the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, those tracks have been converted into a greenway, complete with a pocket community garden Baldwin helps tend. Recently, the 960 square-foot house across from hers sold for $1.1 million, and the new owners are renovating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of wonder how much are people going to start to look down on me for having things a little funky and weird,” she said, “when other people are clearly working on fixing up their house and fixing up their yard and trying to make it look nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045597 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aimee Baldwin walks along the West Street Pathway near her home on June 23, 2025. Her neighborhood gardening group helped plant native species along the path. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baldwin is concerned not only for the changes already underway but also about what might come if the Berkeley City Council votes Thursday to allow more duplexes, fourplexes and small apartments in most neighborhoods throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure is approved, it would be a historic reversal of more than a century of city planning. In 1916, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">set aside\u003c/a> parts of the city as single-family neighborhoods, a provision \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Planning_Problems_of_Town_City_and_Regio/lnmiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=chinese&pg=PA189&printsec=frontcover\">first applied\u003c/a> to Elmwood Park to combat a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">perceived invasion\u003c/a> “by flats, apartment houses and stores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has already essentially outlawed single-family zoning by allowing homeowners to build both accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, on their properties and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house\">subdivide lots to build up to two duplexes\u003c/a> in most urban neighborhoods, Berkeley’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> would go further. It would allow greater flexibility in home design and increase the number of units permitted in each building.[aside postID=news_11996949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/005_KQED_Housing_Berkeley_ShadowStandards_02272020__qed-1-1020x680.jpg']The ordinance would allow three-story buildings, with the number of units determined by lot size. A typical 5,000-square-foot property could potentially have five to seven units, not including ADUs. Neighborhoods in the Berkeley hills, with steep, narrow, winding roads, are excluded because of fire-safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has long championed the proposal, said the idea is to promote more housing on existing lots, with the expectation that the new homes will be more accessible to middle-income earners who don’t qualify for deed-restricted affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to think about the future of our city and what kind of community we want to be,” Kesarwani said. “I believe that we need to be a city that has housing opportunities for our middle-class workers. And really, the only way we can do that cost-effectively is through middle housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin’s block already has a diverse mix of single-family homes, duplexes and the occasional low-rise apartment building, making it emblematic of the kind of development the city’s proposed Middle Housing ordinance seeks to promote. Despite this mix, the neighborhood maintains a suburban feel, she said. Baldwin is concerned that the plan could pressure the remaining working-class families to sell, driving them out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is middle housing getting us, besides what I fear is the opportunity for basically really large profiteering companies to come and strip our neighborhood of the community that we have,” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her fears were echoed in \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">letters sent to the council\u003c/a> ahead of Thursday’s meeting. Some residents, like Clifford Fred, are concerned about the sheer volume of development that could be unleashed, writing: “Berkeley city officials are turning what used to be a beautiful, low-rise, human-scaled city into an ugly warren of high rises and massive buildings stretching relentlessly from the Oakland border to the Albany border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are more apprehensive about where the new homes and apartments would be built. The proposed Middle Housing ordinance would allow greater density in parts of the city that have historically allowed duplexes and apartments, and less density in the city’s existing single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would only further exacerbate disparities in development, wrote a group of residents, including Eugene Turitz of Friends of Adeline and Wilhelimenia Wilson, executive director of Healthy Black Families Inc., in a joint letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Middle Housing] is discriminatory because of its predictable consequences, as neighborhoods in the ‘flats’ become repositories of excessive densities — with no additional amenities like parks or neighborhood-supporting services,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear, however, how developers will respond to Berkeley’s Middle Housing proposal, should it be adopted. In September, Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/09/19/sacramento-first-in-california-to-allow-multi-unit-housing-in-every-neighborhood/#:~:text=The%20Missing%20Middle%20Housing%20(MMH,and%20proximity%20to%20public%20transit.\">approved\u003c/a> a similar ordinance, becoming the first in the state to do so, though Santa Rosa is considering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/3495/Missing-Middle-Housing\">proposal\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since going into effect in October, Sacramento has received 19 applications, most for duplexes with ADUs, Nguyen Nguyen, an associate planner for the city, wrote in an email to KQED. Of those, nine have been approved and six are in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen said staff are seeing projects that otherwise would not have been allowed without the new ordinance, but added that developers tend to prefer projects on vacant lots over properties with existing homes that would first need to be demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders proposing projects under the ordinance have also tended to be less experienced than typical developers, he said. “They are usually a local property owner or local entrepreneur or small real estate investor who needs extra hand-holding and technical assistance,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financing is also a challenge, according to Nguyen. Projects proposing three or more units are reviewed under the Commercial Building Code, which creates higher construction and permitting costs. Projects with four or more units require a licensed professional, which adds more cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s experience, though nascent, aligns with predictions from a study David Garcia \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Missing-Middle-Development-Math-Final-June-2024.pdf\">published last year\u003c/a> for UC Berkeley’s Terner Center on Housing Innovation. In it, he found that most forms of “middle housing” — buildings with two and 10 units — are not financially feasible, except for duplexes under the right conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign promoting homes at North Berkeley BART in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are so many other factors that go into whether or not a missing middle housing project can work in real life. So, it’s not just the zoning,” Garcia told KQED. “It’s all these other little rules that dictate what can be built on the sites — whether that’s setbacks, height restrictions, roof pitch materials, easements, things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers who pursue middle housing projects often find themselves mired in site-by-site problem-solving, Garcia said, making the projects unappealing to large, corporate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no economies of scale there,” Garcia said. “A traditional large developer is not really gonna get out of bed for anything lower than 100 units. And that’s not what we’re talking about here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Klein, director of planning and development in Berkeley, thinks it unlikely his department will be overwhelmed with applications. In the first three years after the state’s lot-split law, SB 9, went into effect, developers submitted 17 applications, 12 of which were deemed eligible. Of those dozen, five single-family homes and one ADU have been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we get 10 middle housing projects a year, I think that’ll be a success,” Klein said. “I think we’ll be excited about that. Adding maybe an average of three units per project. That’s 40 units a year. That would be great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some proponents of the ordinance say it doesn’t go far enough and want to see it strengthened by removing density limits to allow for \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">more units\u003c/a> within the same building envelope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Matthews, a longtime Berkeley resident and former candidate for City Council District 3, near her home in Berkeley on June 23, 2025, where she’s been involved in community housing advocacy. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In South Berkeley, resident and real estate agent Deborah Matthews shares concerns about limiting development in the city’s historically exclusionary neighborhoods — but also acknowledges the demographic shift that has already taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-history-of-gentrification-in\">downzoning efforts\u003c/a> in the 1960s, which limited new apartments in residential neighborhoods, have already driven up home prices and pushed out many lower- and middle-income families, including many Black residents. Berkeley’s Black population peaked in 1970 at \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">about 24%\u003c/a> of the population. In 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">just over 7%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exodus is felt on Sunday strolls through South Berkeley, as much as it is heard. Where gospel music once rang out from churches, now there is silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a wonderful celebration,” Matthews said, recalling her weekly walks some three decades ago. “You would interact with people that would walk by. They’d stop and start talking with you, and people would kind of do a little rhythm dance or hand clapping or just something that they enjoyed about listening to that music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 25 years, the price of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">typical\u003c/a>” Berkeley home rose more than 270%, from around $385,000 in January 2000 to just over $1.4 million in May 2025, according to Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Middle Housing ordinance doesn’t specifically address homeownership, the city is considering separate proposals to allow homeowners to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-05-14%20Item%2028%20Increasing%20Entry%20Level%20Homeownership%20Opportunities%20Implementation%20of%20AB%201033_0.pdf\">convert ADUs into condominiums\u003c/a> and to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-01-21%20Item%2026%20Expanding%20Homeownership.pdf\">subdivide lots\u003c/a> that don’t qualify under the state’s lot split law. Taken together with Middle Housing, Matthews said, it will allow more opportunity for homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m hoping is that it will provide an opportunity, first of all, for homeownership and access to people who haven’t had it before, or who feel that they’ve been left out for a number of years — and rightfully so,” she said. “That assumption, that feeling, that lack of being able to participate in the housing market, it has been very accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said the final proposal should provide that opportunity throughout the city, rather than concentrating development in areas that have already borne the brunt of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley must implement inclusionary housing development in more than a ceremonial process,” Matthews said. “Middle Housing must be an equitable action throughout our city, providing housing in every district and neighborhood to meet residents’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, those tracks have been converted into a greenway, complete with a pocket community garden Baldwin helps tend. Recently, the 960 square-foot house across from hers sold for $1.1 million, and the new owners are renovating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of wonder how much are people going to start to look down on me for having things a little funky and weird,” she said, “when other people are clearly working on fixing up their house and fixing up their yard and trying to make it look nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045597 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aimee Baldwin walks along the West Street Pathway near her home on June 23, 2025. Her neighborhood gardening group helped plant native species along the path. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baldwin is concerned not only for the changes already underway but also about what might come if the Berkeley City Council votes Thursday to allow more duplexes, fourplexes and small apartments in most neighborhoods throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure is approved, it would be a historic reversal of more than a century of city planning. In 1916, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">set aside\u003c/a> parts of the city as single-family neighborhoods, a provision \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Planning_Problems_of_Town_City_and_Regio/lnmiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=chinese&pg=PA189&printsec=frontcover\">first applied\u003c/a> to Elmwood Park to combat a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">perceived invasion\u003c/a> “by flats, apartment houses and stores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has already essentially outlawed single-family zoning by allowing homeowners to build both accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, on their properties and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house\">subdivide lots to build up to two duplexes\u003c/a> in most urban neighborhoods, Berkeley’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> would go further. It would allow greater flexibility in home design and increase the number of units permitted in each building.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The ordinance would allow three-story buildings, with the number of units determined by lot size. A typical 5,000-square-foot property could potentially have five to seven units, not including ADUs. Neighborhoods in the Berkeley hills, with steep, narrow, winding roads, are excluded because of fire-safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has long championed the proposal, said the idea is to promote more housing on existing lots, with the expectation that the new homes will be more accessible to middle-income earners who don’t qualify for deed-restricted affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to think about the future of our city and what kind of community we want to be,” Kesarwani said. “I believe that we need to be a city that has housing opportunities for our middle-class workers. And really, the only way we can do that cost-effectively is through middle housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin’s block already has a diverse mix of single-family homes, duplexes and the occasional low-rise apartment building, making it emblematic of the kind of development the city’s proposed Middle Housing ordinance seeks to promote. Despite this mix, the neighborhood maintains a suburban feel, she said. Baldwin is concerned that the plan could pressure the remaining working-class families to sell, driving them out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is middle housing getting us, besides what I fear is the opportunity for basically really large profiteering companies to come and strip our neighborhood of the community that we have,” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her fears were echoed in \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">letters sent to the council\u003c/a> ahead of Thursday’s meeting. Some residents, like Clifford Fred, are concerned about the sheer volume of development that could be unleashed, writing: “Berkeley city officials are turning what used to be a beautiful, low-rise, human-scaled city into an ugly warren of high rises and massive buildings stretching relentlessly from the Oakland border to the Albany border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are more apprehensive about where the new homes and apartments would be built. The proposed Middle Housing ordinance would allow greater density in parts of the city that have historically allowed duplexes and apartments, and less density in the city’s existing single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would only further exacerbate disparities in development, wrote a group of residents, including Eugene Turitz of Friends of Adeline and Wilhelimenia Wilson, executive director of Healthy Black Families Inc., in a joint letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Middle Housing] is discriminatory because of its predictable consequences, as neighborhoods in the ‘flats’ become repositories of excessive densities — with no additional amenities like parks or neighborhood-supporting services,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear, however, how developers will respond to Berkeley’s Middle Housing proposal, should it be adopted. In September, Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/09/19/sacramento-first-in-california-to-allow-multi-unit-housing-in-every-neighborhood/#:~:text=The%20Missing%20Middle%20Housing%20(MMH,and%20proximity%20to%20public%20transit.\">approved\u003c/a> a similar ordinance, becoming the first in the state to do so, though Santa Rosa is considering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/3495/Missing-Middle-Housing\">proposal\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since going into effect in October, Sacramento has received 19 applications, most for duplexes with ADUs, Nguyen Nguyen, an associate planner for the city, wrote in an email to KQED. Of those, nine have been approved and six are in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen said staff are seeing projects that otherwise would not have been allowed without the new ordinance, but added that developers tend to prefer projects on vacant lots over properties with existing homes that would first need to be demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders proposing projects under the ordinance have also tended to be less experienced than typical developers, he said. “They are usually a local property owner or local entrepreneur or small real estate investor who needs extra hand-holding and technical assistance,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financing is also a challenge, according to Nguyen. Projects proposing three or more units are reviewed under the Commercial Building Code, which creates higher construction and permitting costs. Projects with four or more units require a licensed professional, which adds more cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s experience, though nascent, aligns with predictions from a study David Garcia \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Missing-Middle-Development-Math-Final-June-2024.pdf\">published last year\u003c/a> for UC Berkeley’s Terner Center on Housing Innovation. In it, he found that most forms of “middle housing” — buildings with two and 10 units — are not financially feasible, except for duplexes under the right conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign promoting homes at North Berkeley BART in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are so many other factors that go into whether or not a missing middle housing project can work in real life. So, it’s not just the zoning,” Garcia told KQED. “It’s all these other little rules that dictate what can be built on the sites — whether that’s setbacks, height restrictions, roof pitch materials, easements, things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers who pursue middle housing projects often find themselves mired in site-by-site problem-solving, Garcia said, making the projects unappealing to large, corporate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no economies of scale there,” Garcia said. “A traditional large developer is not really gonna get out of bed for anything lower than 100 units. And that’s not what we’re talking about here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Klein, director of planning and development in Berkeley, thinks it unlikely his department will be overwhelmed with applications. In the first three years after the state’s lot-split law, SB 9, went into effect, developers submitted 17 applications, 12 of which were deemed eligible. Of those dozen, five single-family homes and one ADU have been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we get 10 middle housing projects a year, I think that’ll be a success,” Klein said. “I think we’ll be excited about that. Adding maybe an average of three units per project. That’s 40 units a year. That would be great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some proponents of the ordinance say it doesn’t go far enough and want to see it strengthened by removing density limits to allow for \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">more units\u003c/a> within the same building envelope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Matthews, a longtime Berkeley resident and former candidate for City Council District 3, near her home in Berkeley on June 23, 2025, where she’s been involved in community housing advocacy. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In South Berkeley, resident and real estate agent Deborah Matthews shares concerns about limiting development in the city’s historically exclusionary neighborhoods — but also acknowledges the demographic shift that has already taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-history-of-gentrification-in\">downzoning efforts\u003c/a> in the 1960s, which limited new apartments in residential neighborhoods, have already driven up home prices and pushed out many lower- and middle-income families, including many Black residents. Berkeley’s Black population peaked in 1970 at \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">about 24%\u003c/a> of the population. In 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">just over 7%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exodus is felt on Sunday strolls through South Berkeley, as much as it is heard. Where gospel music once rang out from churches, now there is silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a wonderful celebration,” Matthews said, recalling her weekly walks some three decades ago. “You would interact with people that would walk by. They’d stop and start talking with you, and people would kind of do a little rhythm dance or hand clapping or just something that they enjoyed about listening to that music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 25 years, the price of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">typical\u003c/a>” Berkeley home rose more than 270%, from around $385,000 in January 2000 to just over $1.4 million in May 2025, according to Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Middle Housing ordinance doesn’t specifically address homeownership, the city is considering separate proposals to allow homeowners to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-05-14%20Item%2028%20Increasing%20Entry%20Level%20Homeownership%20Opportunities%20Implementation%20of%20AB%201033_0.pdf\">convert ADUs into condominiums\u003c/a> and to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-01-21%20Item%2026%20Expanding%20Homeownership.pdf\">subdivide lots\u003c/a> that don’t qualify under the state’s lot split law. Taken together with Middle Housing, Matthews said, it will allow more opportunity for homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m hoping is that it will provide an opportunity, first of all, for homeownership and access to people who haven’t had it before, or who feel that they’ve been left out for a number of years — and rightfully so,” she said. “That assumption, that feeling, that lack of being able to participate in the housing market, it has been very accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said the final proposal should provide that opportunity throughout the city, rather than concentrating development in areas that have already borne the brunt of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley must implement inclusionary housing development in more than a ceremonial process,” Matthews said. “Middle Housing must be an equitable action throughout our city, providing housing in every district and neighborhood to meet residents’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A company with ties to the tech industry is seeking to bypass regulatory and environmental red tape to build an independently governed, AI-focused city within \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/_FrontierValley/status/1934346142986469864\">thread posted on X\u003c/a> Sunday from Frontier Valley, the company’s founder, James Ingallinera, called on President Donald Trump to declare a national security emergency and immediately approve development on a 512-acre parcel of federally owned land at Alameda Point, the former site of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/BRAC-Bases/California/Former-Naval-Air-Station-Alameda/\">Naval Air Station Alameda\u003c/a>. The goal, Ingallinera said, is to accelerate the development of AI and robotics and to foster technology supremacy for the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the Manhattan project of our time,” Ingallinera said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/_FrontierValley/status/1934346177388106033\">promotional video\u003c/a> filmed at Alameda Point. “If we fail to rise to the occasion right now, then China will crush us, and that will be the end of America as the world’s greatest superpower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingallinera is proposing to build a city full of AI-focused startups and robotics manufacturers, housing for 10,000 residents, a commercial district, statues of American pioneers and a waterside park. The company drafted an executive order for Trump to sign that the company claims would allow development to proceed on the parcel, which is \u003ca href=\"https://alamedapointinfo.com/sites/default/files/resolution_14780_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently designated as a nature reserve (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda city officials, however, told KQED they were never contacted by the company and only learned of its plans through its weekend post on X. Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft called the plans a “head scratcher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They haven’t talked to the city at all,” she said, adding that a development of that size would be challenging to build on land that is subject to sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044737 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda Point on Sept. 11, 2023. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to build a medical clinic and a National Cemetery Columbarium for 300,000 veterans and spouses at Alameda Point, on 624 acres of the former Naval Air Station. The project is funded by Congress and will be constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/ Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Veterans Affairs currently owns about 624 acres of the former Naval Air Station and \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/san-francisco-health-care/programs/va-alameda-point-development/#:~:text=Facilities%20on%20the%20site%20will,many%20Veterans%20residing%20in%20the\">plans to build\u003c/a> a medical clinic and a National Cemetery Columbarium, an above-ground burial site which could hold the remains of 300,000 veterans and spouses at Alameda Point. The project was authorized and funded by Congress and is planned to be constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big deal that we need a new veterans administration clinic and the burial spaces,” Ashcraft said. “They’re very much needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The columbarium and medical clinic, however, will account for only a fifth of the federal agency’s land. The remaining 512 acres, which Frontier Valley wants to build on, are a former aircraft landing strip and the nesting grounds for several bird populations, including the endangered California Least Tern.[aside postID=news_12024017 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250114_Mare-Island2_DMB_00817-1020x680.jpg']According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-ingallinera-4172a021/\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, Ingallinera has founded a series of startups and was most recently an advisor for the Carboncopies Foundation, a research organization studying whether the human brain can be scanned and simulated digitally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither he nor other members of Frontier Valley responded to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his promotional video shares little detail about his background, it paints a picture of sluggish bureaucracy slowing down the country’s progress in developing competitive AI technology, including humanoid robots. In it, he claims that because this new city would be built on federal land, it would \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>have total independence from the surrounding Bay Area and the state of California, avoiding the failures of many previous governance structures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged the White House to transfer the 512-acre parcel from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Defense. Neither federal agency responded to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Marcus, an AI expert, disagreed with Ingallinera’s characterization that red tape is holding back the development of humanoid robots and said the real bottleneck is software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044743 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Ingallinera, founder of Frontier Valley, urged former President Donald Trump on X to declare a national security emergency and fast-track AI and robotics development on 512 acres of federal land at Alameda Point. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/ Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s mostly a (very hard) software problem, not a hardware problem,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “Companies can utterly work on that to a fair degree without a lot of red tape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda is moving forward with its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Alameda-Point\">mixed-use development\u003c/a> on Alameda Point, adjacent to where Frontier Valley is proposing to build its city. It had planned to develop a portion of the former airstrip into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/projects/northwest-territories-regional-shoreline-alameda-point\">158-acre open-space park\u003c/a> that would be operated by the East Bay Regional Park District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Sarah Henry, a spokesperson for the city of Alameda, told KQED that “no reasonable fact” supports a proposed declaration of a national security emergency at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is in full support of the VA facility and regional parks project, which will serve Bay Area veterans, residents and visitors for many decades to come,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingallinera is proposing to build a city full of AI-focused startups and robotics manufacturers, housing for 10,000 residents, a commercial district, statues of American pioneers and a waterside park. The company drafted an executive order for Trump to sign that the company claims would allow development to proceed on the parcel, which is \u003ca href=\"https://alamedapointinfo.com/sites/default/files/resolution_14780_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently designated as a nature reserve (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda city officials, however, told KQED they were never contacted by the company and only learned of its plans through its weekend post on X. Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft called the plans a “head scratcher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They haven’t talked to the city at all,” she said, adding that a development of that size would be challenging to build on land that is subject to sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044737 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda Point on Sept. 11, 2023. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to build a medical clinic and a National Cemetery Columbarium for 300,000 veterans and spouses at Alameda Point, on 624 acres of the former Naval Air Station. The project is funded by Congress and will be constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/ Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Veterans Affairs currently owns about 624 acres of the former Naval Air Station and \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/san-francisco-health-care/programs/va-alameda-point-development/#:~:text=Facilities%20on%20the%20site%20will,many%20Veterans%20residing%20in%20the\">plans to build\u003c/a> a medical clinic and a National Cemetery Columbarium, an above-ground burial site which could hold the remains of 300,000 veterans and spouses at Alameda Point. The project was authorized and funded by Congress and is planned to be constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big deal that we need a new veterans administration clinic and the burial spaces,” Ashcraft said. “They’re very much needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The columbarium and medical clinic, however, will account for only a fifth of the federal agency’s land. The remaining 512 acres, which Frontier Valley wants to build on, are a former aircraft landing strip and the nesting grounds for several bird populations, including the endangered California Least Tern.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-ingallinera-4172a021/\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, Ingallinera has founded a series of startups and was most recently an advisor for the Carboncopies Foundation, a research organization studying whether the human brain can be scanned and simulated digitally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither he nor other members of Frontier Valley responded to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his promotional video shares little detail about his background, it paints a picture of sluggish bureaucracy slowing down the country’s progress in developing competitive AI technology, including humanoid robots. In it, he claims that because this new city would be built on federal land, it would \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>have total independence from the surrounding Bay Area and the state of California, avoiding the failures of many previous governance structures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged the White House to transfer the 512-acre parcel from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Defense. Neither federal agency responded to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Marcus, an AI expert, disagreed with Ingallinera’s characterization that red tape is holding back the development of humanoid robots and said the real bottleneck is software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044743 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Ingallinera, founder of Frontier Valley, urged former President Donald Trump on X to declare a national security emergency and fast-track AI and robotics development on 512 acres of federal land at Alameda Point. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/ Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s mostly a (very hard) software problem, not a hardware problem,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “Companies can utterly work on that to a fair degree without a lot of red tape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda is moving forward with its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Alameda-Point\">mixed-use development\u003c/a> on Alameda Point, adjacent to where Frontier Valley is proposing to build its city. It had planned to develop a portion of the former airstrip into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/projects/northwest-territories-regional-shoreline-alameda-point\">158-acre open-space park\u003c/a> that would be operated by the East Bay Regional Park District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Sarah Henry, a spokesperson for the city of Alameda, told KQED that “no reasonable fact” supports a proposed declaration of a national security emergency at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is in full support of the VA facility and regional parks project, which will serve Bay Area veterans, residents and visitors for many decades to come,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Teachers in San Francisco looking for affordable housing could have more options by the end of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction began earlier this year on the city’s second subsidized housing development for teachers and school staff. The site, located at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition, will offer 75 apartments, with preference for employees of San Francisco’s Unified School District and Community College District. It’s slated to finish construction by the end of 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re breaking ground on our future,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday. “A future for our families and teachers, and a future where building housing in San Francisco is not the exception, it is the expectation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event marked the early stages of construction for the educator workforce housing, as well as a second affordable housing development for families at 850 Turk Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news--san-francisco-announces-two-new-affordable-educator-housing-projects-0\">city\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://a46.asmdc.org/press-releases/20200928-governor-newsom-signs-legislation-spur-production-affordable-housing\">state\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\"> leaders\u003c/a> have proposed solutions to the state’s housing shortage and the impact of high rents and home prices on educators, many of whom are forced to commute from outside of San Francisco. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/press-release/new-study-shows-californias-educators-are-stretched-thin-due-to-financial-pressures-with-four-in-10-thinking-of-leaving-the-profession\">survey\u003c/a> released in January by the California Teachers Association, more than 80% of the nearly 2,000 public school educators statewide said their salaries could not keep up with the rising cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044983 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie breaks ground alongside members of the team behind a new housing project during a groundbreaking ceremony at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025. The event marked the start of 2 affordable housing developments — one with 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and another at 850 Turk that will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To meet the need in San Francisco, officials have passed \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/resource/sb423-application\">streamlining\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017695/san-francisco-wants-to-make-it-cheaper-for-developers-to-build-housing-downtown\"> bills\u003c/a> and used state programs to bring new homes online faster. But the process has been slow going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the developer MidPen Housing completed the city’s first affordable housing development for teachers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981429/applications-to-open-for-san-franciscos-first-affordable-housing-project-for-educators\">Shirley Chisholm Village\u003c/a> in the Outer Sunset. It took almost seven years to get the project’s permits approved and construction completed. When applications opened last April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/teacher-housing-demand-19578185.php\">more than 900 people\u003c/a> applied for a spot in the 135-unit building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the years since construction started at Shirley Chisholm Village, a lot has changed for the city and the developer, said Lauren Fuhry, project manager for MidPen Housing, which is also developing the Golden Gate site. Fuhry said the nonprofit was able to secure financing in Aug. 2023 and started construction in January — a relatively short timeline compared to the previous project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that really helped Golden Gate kind of streak forward is there were some changes at the state level in laws around permit timelines,” Fuhry said. “Golden Gate directly benefited from permit submissions having explicit deadlines for how long the city has to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The affordable housing development, located at 750 Golden Gate Ave., will have 75 affordable apartments, with preference for employees of the San Francisco Unified School District and Community College District. The development is slated to finish construction by the end of 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Baker Architects)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project is also being built on state-owned excess land. It replaces a parking lot for the Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city took advantage of the governor’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/public-lands-affordable-housing-development\">Surplus Land Act\u003c/a>, which aims to repurpose underused public land for affordable housing by offering it to developers at a low cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about projects like this, land cost is often a really significant cost,” Tomiquia Moss, secretary of the state’s Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, told KQED. “When we’re able to offer state land at a deeply discounted rate, it allows the developers to focus on the other parts of the financing stack that they have to put together.”[aside postID=news_12037474 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Though the Shirley Chisholm Village took years to complete, officials are seeing success in what was built. Today, the apartments are 100% occupied, according to Anne Stanley, a spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 90% of the 135 units are occupied by SFUSD educators and employees, with the remaining set aside for members of the general public with mobility, hearing or visual impairments, Stanley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more project is in the city’s teacher housing pipeline, but awaits funding: 2205 Mission Street. It’s the third teacher housing project \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news--san-francisco-announces-two-new-affordable-educator-housing-projects-0\">San Francisco officials \u003c/a>have vowed to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mission Local, that project, developed by the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), received about $12 million in funding from Proposition I in 2023 but has failed to get other financing needed to start construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MEDA remains committed to this project, which will bring much-needed housing for our educators,” Juan Mesa, the nonprofit’s spokesperson, said in a statement. “We continue to work with public and private partners to secure funding for 2205 Mission Street, exploring solutions to make this vision a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/press-release/new-study-shows-californias-educators-are-stretched-thin-due-to-financial-pressures-with-four-in-10-thinking-of-leaving-the-profession\">survey\u003c/a> released in January by the California Teachers Association, more than 80% of the nearly 2,000 public school educators statewide said their salaries could not keep up with the rising cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044983 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie breaks ground alongside members of the team behind a new housing project during a groundbreaking ceremony at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025. The event marked the start of 2 affordable housing developments — one with 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and another at 850 Turk that will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To meet the need in San Francisco, officials have passed \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/resource/sb423-application\">streamlining\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017695/san-francisco-wants-to-make-it-cheaper-for-developers-to-build-housing-downtown\"> bills\u003c/a> and used state programs to bring new homes online faster. But the process has been slow going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the developer MidPen Housing completed the city’s first affordable housing development for teachers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981429/applications-to-open-for-san-franciscos-first-affordable-housing-project-for-educators\">Shirley Chisholm Village\u003c/a> in the Outer Sunset. It took almost seven years to get the project’s permits approved and construction completed. When applications opened last April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/teacher-housing-demand-19578185.php\">more than 900 people\u003c/a> applied for a spot in the 135-unit building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the years since construction started at Shirley Chisholm Village, a lot has changed for the city and the developer, said Lauren Fuhry, project manager for MidPen Housing, which is also developing the Golden Gate site. Fuhry said the nonprofit was able to secure financing in Aug. 2023 and started construction in January — a relatively short timeline compared to the previous project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that really helped Golden Gate kind of streak forward is there were some changes at the state level in laws around permit timelines,” Fuhry said. “Golden Gate directly benefited from permit submissions having explicit deadlines for how long the city has to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The affordable housing development, located at 750 Golden Gate Ave., will have 75 affordable apartments, with preference for employees of the San Francisco Unified School District and Community College District. The development is slated to finish construction by the end of 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Baker Architects)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project is also being built on state-owned excess land. It replaces a parking lot for the Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city took advantage of the governor’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/public-lands-affordable-housing-development\">Surplus Land Act\u003c/a>, which aims to repurpose underused public land for affordable housing by offering it to developers at a low cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about projects like this, land cost is often a really significant cost,” Tomiquia Moss, secretary of the state’s Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, told KQED. “When we’re able to offer state land at a deeply discounted rate, it allows the developers to focus on the other parts of the financing stack that they have to put together.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Though the Shirley Chisholm Village took years to complete, officials are seeing success in what was built. Today, the apartments are 100% occupied, according to Anne Stanley, a spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 90% of the 135 units are occupied by SFUSD educators and employees, with the remaining set aside for members of the general public with mobility, hearing or visual impairments, Stanley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more project is in the city’s teacher housing pipeline, but awaits funding: 2205 Mission Street. It’s the third teacher housing project \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news--san-francisco-announces-two-new-affordable-educator-housing-projects-0\">San Francisco officials \u003c/a>have vowed to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mission Local, that project, developed by the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), received about $12 million in funding from Proposition I in 2023 but has failed to get other financing needed to start construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MEDA remains committed to this project, which will bring much-needed housing for our educators,” Juan Mesa, the nonprofit’s spokesperson, said in a statement. “We continue to work with public and private partners to secure funding for 2205 Mission Street, exploring solutions to make this vision a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Medical debt. Messy divorce. Wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When hard life moments meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s sky-high housing costs, homelessness can quickly become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case for Nina, a mother who sought legal aid at the nonprofit Open Door Legal two years ago after facing domestic abuse by her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for them, realistically, my daughter and I would have probably been evicted, and we would have ended up living on the streets or in a shelter,” said Nina, who lives in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina, who did not use her full name for safety reasons, told KQED she was trying to get child support when her husband refused to pay “even a single penny” after he left her and her daughter, who has a disability. Legal aid helped her navigate restraining orders, threats of eviction, and obtain child support, keeping her and her daughter housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an effort to direct more dollars toward temporary shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is proposing to shift funding away from programs that help lower-income residents fight costly legal cases and other homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Tirtanadi stands outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nasicmento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will affect residents all over the city. Homeowners who suffer wrongful foreclosures, domestic violence survivors and much more,” said Adrian Tirtanadi, executive director of Open Door Legal, which is slated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043582/he-says-legal-aid-fights-poverty-in-sf-now-hes-starting-a-hunger-strike\">to lose nearly half of its city-supported funding\u003c/a> under Lurie’s budget proposal. He’s since started a hunger strike to stress the urgency of the budget cuts. “It will especially, or maybe most profoundly, make the homeless crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">Lurie has warned tough cuts lie ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now proposing significant cuts across the board to balance the budget, which include eliminating about 1,400 mostly vacant positions and roughly $100 million in grants and contracts. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is slated to be hit hardest with cuts of about $83.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his budget announcement. “The budget I’m introducing today faces the $800 million deficit head-on.”[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. We really need more housing exits,” said Christin Evans, a small-business owner in San Francisco and vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “The population of people that are on the waitlist for family shelter has been growing substantially, and it’s outpacing the ability to provide adequate shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget invests $91.2 million over three years to open and operate about 630 new shelter beds, plus an additional $31.6 million to maintain the city’s current shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for prevention, the mayor’s budget preserves existing funding for right-to-counsel programs aimed at tenants facing eviction and other housing stabilization programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to pioneer a right-to-counsel program in 2019, after voters passed the No Eviction Without Representation Act that gave all residents facing eviction the right to legal defense.[aside postID=news_12042895 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-29-BL-KQED.jpg']Between 2005 and 2019, San Francisco’s homeless population grew nearly 49%, according to federal data, fueled in part by soaring home prices. But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As budget negotiations continue this month, Tirtanadi of Open Door Legal is preparing to lose about 44% of the center’s operating budget. He has started the process of laying off nearly 15 staff members, which he estimates will translate to serving roughly 900 fewer families annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that could mean turning away clients like Nina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does the city expect us to do? We have ongoing cases, some of them have trials coming up,” Tirtanadi said. “It’s like being in the middle of surgery and putting down the tools and saying, ‘Ah, we ran out of money.’ You know? It’s just not ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. We really need more housing exits,” said Christin Evans, a small-business owner in San Francisco and vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “The population of people that are on the waitlist for family shelter has been growing substantially, and it’s outpacing the ability to provide adequate shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget invests $91.2 million over three years to open and operate about 630 new shelter beds, plus an additional $31.6 million to maintain the city’s current shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for prevention, the mayor’s budget preserves existing funding for right-to-counsel programs aimed at tenants facing eviction and other housing stabilization programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to pioneer a right-to-counsel program in 2019, after voters passed the No Eviction Without Representation Act that gave all residents facing eviction the right to legal defense.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Between 2005 and 2019, San Francisco’s homeless population grew nearly 49%, according to federal data, fueled in part by soaring home prices. But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As budget negotiations continue this month, Tirtanadi of Open Door Legal is preparing to lose about 44% of the center’s operating budget. He has started the process of laying off nearly 15 staff members, which he estimates will translate to serving roughly 900 fewer families annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that could mean turning away clients like Nina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does the city expect us to do? We have ongoing cases, some of them have trials coming up,” Tirtanadi said. “It’s like being in the middle of surgery and putting down the tools and saying, ‘Ah, we ran out of money.’ You know? It’s just not ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Mallory Myers’ wife was offered a job at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin\u003c/a> in the summer of 2023, the option to live in on-site housing was an attractive incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staff housing area, a community of around 20 to 25 manufactured homes tucked just behind the prison’s rear barbed wire fence, offered a rare and affordable exception to one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple purchased a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home from another employee for $136,700, packed up their belongings and moved from the East Coast in September of that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They quickly grew to love their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We had patrol vehicles that were 24–7,” Myers said, looking back. “They have to do perimeter checks constantly,” Myers said. “So it was very safe, very quiet. The neighbors are wonderful people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the following spring, FCI Dublin abruptly shut down after years of turmoil that saw the prison’s former warden and seven other officers charged with crimes related to the sexual abuse of inmates. All but one were convicted. In December, the Bureau of Prisons announced the facility would not reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Myers and her wife were one of 21 households to receive an official eviction notice ordering them to remove their homes from the government’s land by September, according to a union representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042803 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallory Myers, the spouse of a staff member, pets her dog at their home next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But because manufactured homes are expensive to move, and many mobile home parks won’t accept them, the couple is faced with accepting a fraction of the home’s initial price from someone who will haul it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent hot summer day, they and other neighbors gathered on the porch of a home within sight of the now deserted prison yard and shared their stories. They had jumped at what appeared to be a wise investment, and were now scrambling to find a way to minimize the financial damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when we sell this house, we are still going to take a huge hit. We’re going to be paying on this house for many years,” said Tammy LaMirand, who worked in food service at the prison and said she got a loan from a family member to buy her home next door to Myers. “There’s a few of us in that situation. But the people that got [loans] from the banks, they’re going to have to go through foreclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wife of a prison chaplain said their family purchased a home for $95,000 within two months of Dublin closing.[aside postID=news_12041857 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The chaplain has since transferred to another prison while his family continues living at FCI Dublin and while they figure out what to do next, said the woman, who asked to be identified as “Shef,” an abbreviation of her first name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial stress, it’s already expensive here,” she said. “Now you have to pay two mortgages. It’s a lot to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One employee, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, told KQED he purchased his home six months before Dublin shut down. He recently transferred to work at another prison in a county that won’t allow manufactured homes more than 20 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now owes more than $175,000 and is going through the foreclosure process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agency basically put us in the position of inviting us to acquire a decades-old manufactured home that was dilapidated,” the employee said. “But then announcing to us six months later, oh by the way we’re closing, and we’ve been planning on closing for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had a significant emotional, mental, physical toll on me and my family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A neighborhood of mobile homes next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, local union representatives contacted attorneys with the American Federation of Government Employees seeking support in filing a federal lawsuit in an attempt to prevent the evictions and around 80 to 90 employee layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Canales, president of the Council of Prison Locals C-33, local 3584, said some staff are waiting to hear what union attorneys say before moving their homes, in the hopes they will be able to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people, as of now, are not leaving,” Canales told KQED in a text message. “So far, no mobile home has been moved from [the] lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, declined to comment on any potential legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the staff housing at FCI Dublin provided a mutually beneficial exchange between the Bureau of Prisons and the prison’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. The prison was a low-security women’s facility with a history of staff sexual abuse scandals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Incoming hires purchased mobile homes from departing staff and rented the land beneath them from the government with the expectation that they could one day sell the homes to another employee once they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system afforded FCI Dublin’s teachers, maintenance workers, correctional officers and other staff an affordable housing investment. And with many workers commuting to Dublin because of the high cost of living in the area, it gave the perpetually short-staffed prison a reliable resource: nearby employees who could respond quickly should the need arise during off hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the homes, and the employees’ investment in them, only held their worth while the prison operated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969931-april-2024-brief/\">April 2024 brief filed in federal court\u003c/a> as part of a class action lawsuit, attorneys for the Bureau of Prisons disclosed the agency had “been considering the closure of FCI Dublin for many years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees say that information was never shared with prospective hires who were offered a chance to purchase on-site mobile homes. As FCI Dublin shuts down permanently, some say the agency took advantage of them by allowing them to purchase homes attached to a facility they knew could close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The spouse of a correctional officer washes dishes at their home in the mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked about the employees’ claims, a BOP spokesperson said the office does not comment on matters subject to legal proceedings or that are pending before the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They could have told them two years ago, hey, we were going to be shutting down staff housing and gave all these people ample time to do what they needed to do for their families and make these adjustments,” said Susan Canales, the union local’s secretary treasurer and Edward Canales’ wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had she known the prison would close, Myers said, she and her wife would have never moved to Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel scammed and victimized for having been allowed to move here under the guise of this incentive,” Myers said. “You know, there were so many times that they could have just provided us even a slip of paper saying that, hey, there’s a chance this place is going to close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re collateral damage’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The staff housing area at FCI Dublin is made up of two neat rows of manufactured homes and a basketball court and a picnic table area surrounded by dried grass. At the end of one road, a section of the fence that fell down months ago serves as a reminder of the maintenance that’s been abandoned since the inmates left last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2024, amidst a federal class action lawsuit filed on behalf of women at the prison, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">a federal judge appointed a special master\u003c/a> to oversee Dublin and gave her full access to the facility and its records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten days later, the Bureau abruptly announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983151/infamous-womens-prison-plagued-by-sex-abuse-closes\">shutting the prison down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A neighborhood of mobile homes next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Bureau’s then-Director Collette S. Peters said the agency had provided a tremendous amount of resources to address FCI Dublin’s culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure and employee misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite these steps and resources, we have determined that FCI Dublin is not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is to close the facility. This decision is being made after ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of those unprecedented steps and additional resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peters said the agency was committed to mitigating the impact on inmates, employees and external stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No employees will lose their jobs as a result of this action,” Peters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, there were around 185–200 employees at the facility, the union said. Some left for other institutions. Those who stayed continued doing different tasks with the expectation — and hope — that it would be used for another purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, visible from a mobile home community in Dublin on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in December, the agency announced the closure was permanent, citing a very difficult budget situation and significant maintenance and repair backlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six other facilities across the country would also deactivate, according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of this decision, the position you occupy has been identified to be abolished and you will be considered a potentially displaced employee,” Acting Warden Charles Hubbard wrote in a Dec. 5 letter to Dublin’s remaining 151 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some staff said they believe another factor was at play in the closure: the agency’s desire to eliminate the stigma of years of officer misconduct and bad press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a lot of cases in other institutions, the same type of cases, and they’re still open. But here, the warden was incarcerated, and they want everything to go away,” said one employee who worked as an educator at the prison and who asked not to be named. “They don’t want to hold themselves accountable for what happened here. And I don’t think that’s fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentina Stone, 14, gets ready for a school dance with the help of her mother, a correctional officer, at their home in the mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing on a neighbor’s porch, she said she didn’t know her plans for the future, but worried she might have to move right before her 14-year-old daughter starts high school in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m her sole provider,” she said. “My goal was to sell my mobile home and get that money and put it down for a down payment for a house. Now I can’t sell it. I don’t have a down payment. It’s her and I up here in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, she helped her daughter get ready for a middle school dance, knowing that it could be one of her last as a student of Dublin schools, after having grown up here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We follow policy. We pay our taxes. Yet I’m losing my house, my career, my community. She’s losing her high school. How is that fair? It’s not fair. We are hardworking people,” she said. “From the warden down, we were all punished. But what about the warden — up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Hubbard informed the union that employees with mobile homes on the prison’s property would have to remove them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Canales (left), union president for FCI Dublin correctional officers, and Jose Lau, vice president, stand in the prison staff mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no method at this time that would permit me to acquire the mobile homes on behalf of the government,” Hubbard wrote in a follow-up email to Edward Canales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, union officials reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027154/ice-weighs-turning-fci-dublin-into-detention-center-union-leaders-say\">conducted an assessment of the facility\u003c/a>. Rumors circulated that ICE or a private prison company could soon convert FCI Dublin into an immigrant detention facility, raising hope that new employees might be interested in taking over the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a BOP spokesperson refuted those rumors this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FCI Dublin remains under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice and there are no plans to reopen it,” Randilee Giamusso told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, some employees have tried selling their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallory Myers, the spouse of a staff member, stands in the half-renovated bathroom at their home next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zillow ads posted in April show bright photos of two of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6700-Goodfellow-Ave-APT-11-Dublin-CA-94568/153076247_zpid/\">staff’s mobile homes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6700-Goodfellow-Rd-23-Dublin-CA-94568/449414793_zpid/\">asking prices that are fractions\u003c/a> of those of other nearby homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are images of side-by-side bathroom sinks, wood laminate flooring and clean carpet. One of the ads boasts new windows, new siding, granite countertops and plenty of lighting — with the caveat: this home must be moved from its current location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants to come and buy it and move; they want to buy it and stay,” said Shef, the wife of a former FCI Dublin chaplain. “So anybody that comes in and shows interest, if they find out we have to move it, then they lose interest. So we can’t sell it to anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the name, most mobile homes — or manufactured homes as they’re referred to if built after 1975 — are difficult and expensive to relocate. And many mobile home parks won’t accept homes that have been moved from another lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>There’s no available spaces. Almost all parks are full. And if there are available spaces, many parks will only take newer homes,” said Bruce Stanton, an attorney specializing in mobile home law. “That’s a real problem. That’s why very few homes, once they’re sited in a park, are ever moved.”[aside postID=news_12027154 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“It’s also very expensive to move homes. It could cost $15,000 to $20,000 to disassemble a home, truck it someplace else and reset it,” Stanton said. “Mobile homes are not really mobile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the employees started boarding buses daily to work at USP Atwater, a high-security federal prison for men just outside the Central Valley town of Merced. They would ride the bus for nearly two hours, work for three and then come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency offered employees 15-minute meetings with human resources staff to help identify other jobs they might be interested in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 80 to 90 employees at Dublin received Reduction in Force notices on or around June 4, a union representative said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While most of our staff have accepted positions at other BOP institutions, retired, or resigned, approximately 30 staff have yet to act and will be impacted,” a BOP spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees in the staff housing area received notices that same day, saying their housing was being terminated and that they must have their houses emptied of their personal property and vacated on or before Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they consider their options, some have reached out to attorneys seeking legal advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of people, I’d say 70%, are saying that they’re going to wait to see as far as what our attorneys say,” Edward Canales said. “They’re also looking for other attorneys that might take the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, LaMirand, Myers and one other employee told KQED they are considering selling their homes to a Southern California company that has offered to purchase them for a fraction of their value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to come out not owing anything. That’s taking away from my kids’ college,” LaMirand said. “This hits us financially. It hits everybody financially, but this really hits us — hard. So, yeah, we’re collateral damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Mallory Myers’ wife was offered a job at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin\u003c/a> in the summer of 2023, the option to live in on-site housing was an attractive incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staff housing area, a community of around 20 to 25 manufactured homes tucked just behind the prison’s rear barbed wire fence, offered a rare and affordable exception to one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple purchased a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home from another employee for $136,700, packed up their belongings and moved from the East Coast in September of that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They quickly grew to love their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We had patrol vehicles that were 24–7,” Myers said, looking back. “They have to do perimeter checks constantly,” Myers said. “So it was very safe, very quiet. The neighbors are wonderful people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the following spring, FCI Dublin abruptly shut down after years of turmoil that saw the prison’s former warden and seven other officers charged with crimes related to the sexual abuse of inmates. All but one were convicted. In December, the Bureau of Prisons announced the facility would not reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Myers and her wife were one of 21 households to receive an official eviction notice ordering them to remove their homes from the government’s land by September, according to a union representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042803 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallory Myers, the spouse of a staff member, pets her dog at their home next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But because manufactured homes are expensive to move, and many mobile home parks won’t accept them, the couple is faced with accepting a fraction of the home’s initial price from someone who will haul it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent hot summer day, they and other neighbors gathered on the porch of a home within sight of the now deserted prison yard and shared their stories. They had jumped at what appeared to be a wise investment, and were now scrambling to find a way to minimize the financial damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when we sell this house, we are still going to take a huge hit. We’re going to be paying on this house for many years,” said Tammy LaMirand, who worked in food service at the prison and said she got a loan from a family member to buy her home next door to Myers. “There’s a few of us in that situation. But the people that got [loans] from the banks, they’re going to have to go through foreclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wife of a prison chaplain said their family purchased a home for $95,000 within two months of Dublin closing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The chaplain has since transferred to another prison while his family continues living at FCI Dublin and while they figure out what to do next, said the woman, who asked to be identified as “Shef,” an abbreviation of her first name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial stress, it’s already expensive here,” she said. “Now you have to pay two mortgages. It’s a lot to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One employee, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, told KQED he purchased his home six months before Dublin shut down. He recently transferred to work at another prison in a county that won’t allow manufactured homes more than 20 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now owes more than $175,000 and is going through the foreclosure process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agency basically put us in the position of inviting us to acquire a decades-old manufactured home that was dilapidated,” the employee said. “But then announcing to us six months later, oh by the way we’re closing, and we’ve been planning on closing for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had a significant emotional, mental, physical toll on me and my family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A neighborhood of mobile homes next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, local union representatives contacted attorneys with the American Federation of Government Employees seeking support in filing a federal lawsuit in an attempt to prevent the evictions and around 80 to 90 employee layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Canales, president of the Council of Prison Locals C-33, local 3584, said some staff are waiting to hear what union attorneys say before moving their homes, in the hopes they will be able to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people, as of now, are not leaving,” Canales told KQED in a text message. “So far, no mobile home has been moved from [the] lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, declined to comment on any potential legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the staff housing at FCI Dublin provided a mutually beneficial exchange between the Bureau of Prisons and the prison’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. The prison was a low-security women’s facility with a history of staff sexual abuse scandals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Incoming hires purchased mobile homes from departing staff and rented the land beneath them from the government with the expectation that they could one day sell the homes to another employee once they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system afforded FCI Dublin’s teachers, maintenance workers, correctional officers and other staff an affordable housing investment. And with many workers commuting to Dublin because of the high cost of living in the area, it gave the perpetually short-staffed prison a reliable resource: nearby employees who could respond quickly should the need arise during off hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the homes, and the employees’ investment in them, only held their worth while the prison operated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969931-april-2024-brief/\">April 2024 brief filed in federal court\u003c/a> as part of a class action lawsuit, attorneys for the Bureau of Prisons disclosed the agency had “been considering the closure of FCI Dublin for many years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees say that information was never shared with prospective hires who were offered a chance to purchase on-site mobile homes. As FCI Dublin shuts down permanently, some say the agency took advantage of them by allowing them to purchase homes attached to a facility they knew could close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The spouse of a correctional officer washes dishes at their home in the mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked about the employees’ claims, a BOP spokesperson said the office does not comment on matters subject to legal proceedings or that are pending before the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They could have told them two years ago, hey, we were going to be shutting down staff housing and gave all these people ample time to do what they needed to do for their families and make these adjustments,” said Susan Canales, the union local’s secretary treasurer and Edward Canales’ wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had she known the prison would close, Myers said, she and her wife would have never moved to Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel scammed and victimized for having been allowed to move here under the guise of this incentive,” Myers said. “You know, there were so many times that they could have just provided us even a slip of paper saying that, hey, there’s a chance this place is going to close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re collateral damage’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The staff housing area at FCI Dublin is made up of two neat rows of manufactured homes and a basketball court and a picnic table area surrounded by dried grass. At the end of one road, a section of the fence that fell down months ago serves as a reminder of the maintenance that’s been abandoned since the inmates left last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2024, amidst a federal class action lawsuit filed on behalf of women at the prison, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">a federal judge appointed a special master\u003c/a> to oversee Dublin and gave her full access to the facility and its records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten days later, the Bureau abruptly announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983151/infamous-womens-prison-plagued-by-sex-abuse-closes\">shutting the prison down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A neighborhood of mobile homes next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Bureau’s then-Director Collette S. Peters said the agency had provided a tremendous amount of resources to address FCI Dublin’s culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure and employee misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite these steps and resources, we have determined that FCI Dublin is not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is to close the facility. This decision is being made after ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of those unprecedented steps and additional resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peters said the agency was committed to mitigating the impact on inmates, employees and external stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No employees will lose their jobs as a result of this action,” Peters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, there were around 185–200 employees at the facility, the union said. Some left for other institutions. Those who stayed continued doing different tasks with the expectation — and hope — that it would be used for another purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, visible from a mobile home community in Dublin on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in December, the agency announced the closure was permanent, citing a very difficult budget situation and significant maintenance and repair backlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six other facilities across the country would also deactivate, according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of this decision, the position you occupy has been identified to be abolished and you will be considered a potentially displaced employee,” Acting Warden Charles Hubbard wrote in a Dec. 5 letter to Dublin’s remaining 151 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some staff said they believe another factor was at play in the closure: the agency’s desire to eliminate the stigma of years of officer misconduct and bad press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a lot of cases in other institutions, the same type of cases, and they’re still open. But here, the warden was incarcerated, and they want everything to go away,” said one employee who worked as an educator at the prison and who asked not to be named. “They don’t want to hold themselves accountable for what happened here. And I don’t think that’s fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentina Stone, 14, gets ready for a school dance with the help of her mother, a correctional officer, at their home in the mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing on a neighbor’s porch, she said she didn’t know her plans for the future, but worried she might have to move right before her 14-year-old daughter starts high school in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m her sole provider,” she said. “My goal was to sell my mobile home and get that money and put it down for a down payment for a house. Now I can’t sell it. I don’t have a down payment. It’s her and I up here in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, she helped her daughter get ready for a middle school dance, knowing that it could be one of her last as a student of Dublin schools, after having grown up here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We follow policy. We pay our taxes. Yet I’m losing my house, my career, my community. She’s losing her high school. How is that fair? It’s not fair. We are hardworking people,” she said. “From the warden down, we were all punished. But what about the warden — up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Hubbard informed the union that employees with mobile homes on the prison’s property would have to remove them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Canales (left), union president for FCI Dublin correctional officers, and Jose Lau, vice president, stand in the prison staff mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no method at this time that would permit me to acquire the mobile homes on behalf of the government,” Hubbard wrote in a follow-up email to Edward Canales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, union officials reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027154/ice-weighs-turning-fci-dublin-into-detention-center-union-leaders-say\">conducted an assessment of the facility\u003c/a>. 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