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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When it comes to eviction court, tenants are far less likely than property owners to be represented by an attorney. That makes it especially difficult for them to understand their rights and navigate the complex system. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The right to counsel is something that tenant advocates are pushing for across the country, and more cities and states are considering it, especially in light of the economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this episode of Sold Out, we’ll go to Fresno in California’s Central Valley, where rents are rising, and meet tenant advocates who have organized to push for a right to counsel. And we’ll also visit New York, where this movement took off, and speak to the activists behind it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6308765795&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h5>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LANDLORD V. TENANT [TRANSCRIPT]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ERIKA KELLY, EDITOR\u003c/strong>: I’m Erika Kelly, the editor of Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America, here to say thank you for listening to the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our team is wrapping up the season, and we’d love to know what you thought about it, what you liked, what you didn’t like. Most importantly, we’d like to know a little more about you, our listener. What issues or stories [do] you want to hear more of in the future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head over to \u003ca href=\"https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6755022/f959eb5782fc\">kqed.org/soldoutsurvey\u003c/a> to leave us some feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks so much!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(KQED music in)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY SOLOMON, HOST\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey, I’m Molly Solomon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN BALDASSARI, HOST\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And I’m Erin Baldassari. From KQED this is Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This season we’ve been exploring evictions. If you’ve been following along, you already know the system is stacked against tenants. And that evictions have devastating consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nowhere is that more clear than in eviction court. It’s where most cases end up, and it’s where a push for reform is growing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On today’s episode: a fight to balance the scales. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: City streets. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Molly Solomon is walking and speaks into her recorder.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MOLLY IN FRESNO\u003c/strong>: OK. We’re on O Street, downtown Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>MOLLY\u003c/strong>: Last fall I drove out to California’s Central Valley, and pulled up to a mid-century modern building in the middle of downtown, the Fresno County Superior Courthouse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY IN FRESNO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is already a line of people that are getting ready to check in through the front door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A security guard milled around outside. The crisp early morning air was starting to warm as the sun peeked out from behind the building. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m trying to look for Robert Cortez. He’s going to help me out today check out eviction court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you Robert? Hi, I’m Molly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT CORTEZ\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hi, nice to meet you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert is an attorney who represents tenants. His law firm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.centralcallegal.org/\">Central California Legal Services\u003c/a>, handles the vast majority of eviction defense cases in Fresno.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We head up to the fourth floor where eviction hearings start every Tuesday morning at 8:30. Today, there are about 20 cases on the docket. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A gray and tan building with various columns, and two people passing in front of it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fresno County Superior Courthouse in downtown Fresno. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So 90% of the time we’re in 404, which is just down the hall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The room is small, no windows. There are a few rows of benches that are about half full. It’s not as packed as it was before the pandemic. Many hearings are still happening on Zoom. Robert points out some lawyers in the room. He calls them the regulars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: A\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bout four or five regular landlord attorneys are here every day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert tells me one of the attorneys also serves as a debt collector for the landlords he represents. He collects past due rent from tenants who’ve been evicted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He gets these unrepresented clients to agree to these deals that are payment plans basically. And they go on for years, like five, six, seven years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I couldn’t record inside the courtroom while trials were underway. But I’ll say — you didn’t miss much. There’s a reason you never see TV shows about eviction courts. There’s not a lot of drama. Usually, you don’t call witnesses or present evidence. And a lot of times, evictions aren’t even decided in the courtroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Music out)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The action is out in the hallway.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: Door opens and closes.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’ll see a lot of dealmaking out here in the hallways. A lot of times attorneys will come outside and, you know, see if there’s a deal to be made. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s how most cases end up: in deals or settlements. And that’s what Robert’s trying to do for his client Lea Esparza. Lea came to Robert after the court had already issued a default judgment against her, which is basically an automatic win for the landlord. It happens when tenants don’t show up or don’t file their paperwork in time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Lea’s case, she tried to file her paperwork. The problem was she’d hired a paralegal off of Craigslist to help her fill it out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LEA ESPARZA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She charged me $500 and she didn’t turn in the paperwork. That’s why we ended up with the lockout.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the sheriff is scheduled to come to the residence on Thursday. So what I’m trying to get the judge to do is delay that sheriff.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LEA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, they said they were going to come at 6 a.m. and lock me out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in) \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lea had to stop working about a year ago after she was diagnosed with cancer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LEA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am battling cervical cancer and I’m also battling — I just had a surgery three months ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says after this morning’s hearing she’s going back to the hospital for another surgery. And if her eviction goes through, she doesn’t know where she and her kids will go.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LEA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I got four daughters and myself and like I said, I do, I am battling my health, so I don’t think I have anywhere to go. I don’t got family around here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert has just come out of a small mediators’ room with the landlord’s attorney. He and Lea huddle in a corner of the hallway, and keep their voices low. He’s got good news: Lea can stay through the end of the year, 109 more days. He’s also gotten her rent payments lowered to about $2 a day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of this work is delaying the inevitable. Sometimes eviction is inevitable. But we just try to get as much time as possible, so the client’s not on the street.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lea will\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">eventually \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have to leave. But the deal is way better than what she could have negotiated on her own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most people don’t have someone like Robert on their side. These eviction cases move quickly and play out in courtrooms every day. And wherever you go, there’s the same imbalance: Landlords have attorneys. And tenants don’t.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JOHN POLLOCK\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that kind of representational imbalance yields the kind of results you would expect, which is it’s just completely one-sided.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> John Pollock is with the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://civilrighttocounsel.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Their data shows that across the country, 81% of landlords have a lawyer, but only 3% of tenants do.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JOHN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tenants always lose, and half of them don’t even participate in the process because it is such a hopeless, disempowering process right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He says many tenants get pushed into deals that are on the landlord’s terms. And that’s why Pollock says tenants need attorneys, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sold Out theme song begins.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>MOLLY\u003c/strong>: Think of it this way: We grant defendants a right to an attorney in criminal cases. Why should it be any different for housing court?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JOHN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From our perspective, these are very serious proceedings on par with criminal ones in terms of the consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, the eviction protections put in place during the pandemic are expiring. And, eviction courts are filling up again. As they do, the calls for change are getting louder. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because tenants and their allies say the current system isn’t fair, and it needs to change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sold Out theme song ends.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 657px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336.png 657w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336-160x82.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sold Out: Rethinking Housing In America is a five-part series reimagining what housing could be by examining California, the epicenter of the nation’s housing affordability crisis.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a windy morning last spring, a couple dozen people gathered outside Fresno City Hall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were tenants, faith leaders and housing advocates. And they were there to call attention to evictions in their neighborhoods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A SPEAKER AT CITY HALL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is a home when one is renting from a landlord who abuses their power dynamic and refuses to fix these conditions and then threatens to evict tenants who complain? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They directed their protest to the city council, which was meeting inside the gleaming stainless steel building. On their agenda was a proposal to help tenants avoid eviction. Outside, a local pastor, D.J. Criner, took the mic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>D.J. CRINER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you going to hold landlords just as accountable as landlords think they’re holding residents? Are you going to give individuals an opportunity to have legal aid? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Renters held signs and shared their stories about the rent going up, about being forced to move, about worrying for their children. One of them was Jessica Ramirez, a mother of five who was born and raised in Fresno.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was evicted a few years ago and didn’t have an attorney to help her out. Now with that on her record, it’s almost impossible to find new housing. Speaking to the crowd, she held up her eviction papers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JESSICA RAMIREZ\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is why I’m here today, I’m here to raise my voice. You know, this voice that I have is not for one, but for many.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She shared how she and her family had to live in their car. How her kids had to bathe themselves in the restrooms of a public park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JESSICA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, many out here in this world. You know, I live. This is a struggle. I’m in pain. You know, you guys don’t know how it is, living in the streets. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pastor Criner called on the city council to protect renters like Jessica. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>D.J.\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is about a call to action. Speak for this young lady and mother of five that is praying for an opportunity to raise her children in the same decent housing you’re able to raise yours in. So we studied the problem. We found the solution. We wrote the proposal, and the money has already been found. The question is now, are you listening and are you going to do something about it?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fresno City Hall is in the middle of downtown. It’s densely packed with tall office buildings. But you don’t have to drive far before you’re surrounded by farmland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresno sits at the center of California’s San Joaquin Valley. Founded as a railroad town, it’s grown into an agricultural powerhouse. It’s also been an affordable city in an extremely unaffordable state, at least until recently.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CLIPS FROM FRESNO RENT NEWSCASTS\u003c/b>: “\u003cem>The real estate market is buzzing in the valley.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“According to a story in The Los Angeles Times called Fresno the hottest market in the country.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>\u003cem>Monthly rent in Fresno has soared over the last year — experts cite high demand and low inventory.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the last year alone, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article258073823.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rents spiked 28%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Now, the average one-bedroom is over \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/fresno-ca\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1,400 a month\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/article252425493.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And home prices are way up, too\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Driving around Fresno, you can almost feel the hype. Everywhere you go, there are these advertisements for new housing developments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alexandra Alvarado has felt it, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ALEXANDRA ALVARADO\u003c/b>:\u003cb> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Central Valley has this myth of affordability that, like, people can just come in and afford it and be able to buy houses.\u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s always lived around Fresno. She grew up in a small town nearby, moved here for college. Alexandra is now a community organizer with a group called \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://faithinthevalley.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faith in the Valley\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — the same group that organized the tenant protest outside City Hall. She says the idea of Fresno as an affordable place … is part of what’s driving up prices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ALEXANDRA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Especially during the pandemic, when people were working from home, we were running across stories of people from the bay or from LA that were saying, oh, I could buy two houses in Fresno.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresno might be cheaper than San Francisco or Los Angeles, but it’s also \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209826869.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">one of the poorest cities in the country\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fresnocitycalifornia/INC110219\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One in four families\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> here live below the federal poverty line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As prices rise, it’s becoming harder for people to find safe housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ALEXANDRA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What they end up being pushed to is what they can afford.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>[HOST]\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An investigation\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by local newspaper The Fresno Bee found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article249299005.html\">some tenants were living in terrible conditions\u003c/a>: with no heat, leaky pipes, and mold. And when they complained, they were often threatened with an eviction.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even before the pandemic, there are anywhere from three [thousand] to 4,000 eviction filings in Fresno each year. That’s according to a 2019 report from two researchers at Fresno State University.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AMBER CROWELL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So that’s a lot of people. And it was, you know, 200 or 300 families a month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s Amber Crowell. She wrote the report with her colleague Janine Nkosi. They also work on housing advocacy with Faith in the Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Janine and Amber spent months observing eviction hearings at the Fresno courthouse, the same place I met up with Robert and Lea. And they saw a lot of the same disparities that I did. Landlords had lawyers, and tenants didn’t. Here’s Janine:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANINE NKOSI\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could literally cry right now when I think about it. Three, like maybe three people, were able to get some type of legal representation in housing court.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">most recent data from Eviction Lab\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003ca href=\"https://evictionlab.org/map/#/2016?geography=counties&bounds=-122.192,35.603,-116.28,37.847&type=er&locations=06019,-119.443,36.916\">Fresno has one of the highest eviction rates in the state\u003c/a>. Far higher than in Los Angeles and San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s only one legal aid organization in Fresno. And about half of the residents here are renters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANINE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The challenges that we are experiencing, they are not so different than what folks in the Bay Area, right, or Northern California, are experiencing, or in Southern California, but they are happening at an accelerated rate. We have the highest need and the fewest amount of resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>[HOST]\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Janine and Amber found inspired a growing coalition of renters, faith leaders and students — one that only grew as economic shutdowns during the pandemic made it harder for tenants to pay their rent, tenants like Shar Thompson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SHAR THOMPSON\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m a single mom that works two jobs. So, you know, it’s really tough.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shar works part time at Costco. When her shift ends in the afternoon, she heads to her second job at Walmart, where she works overnight stocking shelves. Shar’s from the Central Valley. She grew up in a small farming town nearby called Coalinga.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SHAR\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you drive down I-5 and smell the fresh air of cow manure, that’s Coalinga. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She moved to Fresno during the pandemic and was having trouble paying her rent. She found Faith in the Valley when she Googled local rent assistance programs.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then she started showing up at meetings, learning about her rights as a tenant, and discovered what was possible when she worked alongside other renters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SHAR\u003c/b>: There’s passion behind it from everybody. And I love the fact that we’re all from different walks of life, but we all have the same main goal and that’s to make a whole new housing system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: Shar and the ot\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">her Fresno renters had specific demands for the city. They wanted every tenant fighting an eviction to have an attorney: a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leadershipcounsel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Fresno-Right-to-Counsel-Coalition-Community-Proposal.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> right to counsel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But they took it even further. They wanted the city to connect tenants with rent relief. And create a diversion program to help tenants and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">landlords avoid the courtroom altogether. By early last year, their proposal was ready for the city council.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SPEAKER AT CITY COUNCIL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you. Last item — that’s public item that we have is 4-B, it’s a workshop to discuss right-to-counsel proposal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907097 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stares pensively off into the distance, she wears a green shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno renter Jessica Ramirez. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessica Ramirez, the same renter who spoke outside City Hall, called into this meeting, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JESSICA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am one of many that are speaking out asking for help because I know it only takes one eviction on someone’s record to change their lives forever.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s pushback from landlords and within City Hall. Here’s City Council member Garry Bredefeld.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>GARRY BREDEFELD\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I know. Imagine, I guess we’re pretty flush with money at the City of Fresno, and now we’re going into the rental tenant defense business. I don’t see any way that I will support these kinds of things. I don’t think this is what we should be doing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>[HOST]\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Renters continued to pressure the city for months to vote on their proposal. But eventually, it became clear: A true right to counsel was not going to pass. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here’s Amber Crowell, the eviction researcher at Fresno State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AMBER\u003c/b>: It was tough. It was a tough battle. And we didn’t get everything we wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What they got was something of a compromise. The city calls it the Eviction Protection Program. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not for all tenants — just the ones who are being wrongfully evicted, like if their landlord’s retaliating against them, or illegally locking them out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amber and other housing activists think only a small number of tenants will qualify or even know the program exists, leaving many still vulnerable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But City Councilmember Tyler Maxwell is more optimistic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TYLER MAXWELL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can tell you, it is an uphill battle to get where we’re at today. I’m happy we’re able to get our foot in the door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He helped introduce the Eviction Protection Program. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article258184263.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s already helped 180 people get free legal help.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly all of them were able to avoid trial. For the few who did go, most were able to get the eviction off their record. And that’s important, because having an eviction on your record can lock you out of new housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural in downtown Fresno. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The program is only funded for one year and Tyler hopes they’ll extend it. But a right to counsel is still a pretty radical idea for Fresno, and he thinks there’s always going to be some people questioning whether it’s worth it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TYLER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why are we giving away free things? You know, why? Why are we providing something for free for people? You know they need to pick themselves up from the bootstraps, which, representing a district like I do, I know that’s a bunch of B.S. — picking yourself up by the bootstraps doesn’t work when you can’t afford the bootstraps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story isn’t over. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A couple months ago, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article256467491.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">150 people showed up at City Hall to demand the city use federal COVID dollars\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to pass a true right to counsel, rent control and more eviction protections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amber Crowell and Janine Nkosi say renters in Fresno can’t back down now, even if it feels like a battle between David and Goliath. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AMBER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The groups that represent property owners are much more powerful politically than the groups that represent tenants. And so that’s just an ideology that we’re always fighting against.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANINE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, it’s always a battle between individual rights versus, like, collective care and collective responsibility. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They say it’s a battle worth fighting. And you can’t win anything if you don’t ask for it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANINE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are made to believe that these are big asks, but we should be dreaming much, much bigger than we ever have been. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fresno isn’t the only place to fight for a right to counsel. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming up on Sold Out: where the movement first began.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CROWD CHANTING\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Housing is a human right. Fight, fight, fight.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY DILLARD\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good morning, good morning, good morning. My name is Randy Dillard and we are facing an eviction crisis in the Bronx.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randy Dillard wears a bright orange T-shirt. On it is a fist thrust in the air. He energizes the crowd outside New York City Hall in lower Manhattan. It’s 2013 and he’s part of a tenants group in the South Bronx.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Representation for tenants in housing court should be a right.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randy was familiar with housing court. Before he was an organizer, he worked as a bricklayer. A single dad with five kids, Randy was on Section 8, but his apartment was not up to code. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have mold all over the apartment. We had leaks coming from up above into an open-light fixture in the bathroom that could have started a fire. We had to put plastic bags up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said the leaks were so bad, sometimes they had to use an umbrella inside the house to keep from getting wet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because of the conditions, Randy’s home failed a Section 8 inspection, so the government program stopped making payments to his landlord. And then he developed emphysema and ended up in the hospital. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they was getting ready to put me on a breathing machine ’cause my lungs was getting ready to collapse. I almost, almost died.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was in the hospital for two months. Three days after he got out, he got a knock on his door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My landlord’s lawyer served me with eviction papers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randy says going to housing court to fight his eviction was confusing and scary. When he got there, he was met with long lines and little information.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It leaves you numb, and empty inside. As soon as you get there first, you don’t know what to look for and you’ve got a long line of people. And some of them are emotional, crying, you know, while you waiting in line to go through the metal detector to get in there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At that time, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://newsettlement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CDP.WEB_.doc_Report_CASA-TippingScales-full_201303.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">about 2,000 tenants were showing up at the Bronx housing court \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">every day. It was the busiest eviction courtroom in all five boroughs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, Randy did end up getting an attorney. He found someone through a legal help group in his neighborhood. His case took almost two years, but he eventually won, an outcome he says would have been impossible without his attorney. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think no tenant should have to go through what me and my kids went through, and no tenant should have to stand before a judge and not know what their rights are. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Randy got involved with the group \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://newsettlement.org/casa/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Action for Safe Apartments, or CASA\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CASA and a coalition of housing groups pressured the city to adopt a right to counsel. Organizers made the moral case that no one should have to face something as life-altering as losing your home without the benefit of an attorney.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Susanna Blankley was the group’s director at the time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SUSANNA BLANKLEY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It meant the right to not face eviction alone. It meant the right to know that you would be protected. It meant the right to have power within the court system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The coalition kept pushing, whipping up support wherever they could. First at a neighborhood board meeting, then City Council hearings, delivering a petition with 7,000 signatures to the mayor’s office. They even got the chief judge of the New York court system to testify in support of a right to counsel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until finally, after three years of organizing, New York City tenants made history. And won something that didn’t exist anywhere else in America: a right to counsel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the program rolled out in 2017, it guaranteed most low-income tenants access to an attorney if they’re facing eviction. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the legislation at CASA’s offices in the Bronx. Standing beside him was Randy Dillard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds from the moments when Mayor Bill de Blasio was signing the legislation.) \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reason why I’m here today, you wouldn’t be able to see me if I didn’t have an attorney. That’s why I’m standing up here. That’s why I’ve been fighting with the coalition and with CASA to make this possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In a video of the signing, Randy has this big smile on his face. Afterward, de Blasio turns to him and hands him the pen. He still has it today, framed on his wall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I introduced the mayor and I, and I spoke. They let me speak. It was powerful. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was something that I had never imagined. Something that big that I will be a part of. I never looked at it starting out when we was fighting for it. I only looked at it, that is something that needed to be done. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/EKYbCM890xsxzEyOiQa3O9?domain=www1.nyc.gov\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And early results show it’s working.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Since a right to counsel passed in 2017, more than half a million New Yorkers have gotten legal representation. And 84% of them were able to stay in their homes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fewer evictions means fewer households falling into homelessness.\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4408380/PDF/Cost-Benefit-Impact-Studies/SRR%20Report%20-%20Eviction%20Right%20to%20Counsel%20%203%2016%2016.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A cost-benefit analysis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on New York City predicted it would save $320 million, most of it in emergency shelter costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When a tenant is guaranteed an attorney, it also changes the way landlords use eviction courts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/EKYbCM890xsxzEyOiQa3O9?domain=www1.nyc.gov\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2013, eviction filings have dropped by about 40%, and bogus cases are thrown out quickly.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Again, here’s Susanna Blankley:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SUSANNA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ve seen filings go down. It means landlords are suing people less. You see people show up to court way more because they believe that they have a chance to win. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It might not be surprising to hear that landlords don’t welcome the right-to-counsel laws. Sam Gilboard is the senior manager of public policy at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apartmentalize.naahq.org/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=apt22&utm_term=national-apartment-association&utm_content=responsive-search&gclid=Cj0KCQiA64GRBhCZARIsAHOLriL66LfyCp8d1UMwyleBNAQfzwlSf7ohYlCMaPJNOEqaQm5f-RJEuUoaAiYpEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Apartment Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SAM GILBOARD\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It prolongs an already lengthy process. When you have a right to counsel, you’re prolonging an experience that is stressful. It’s costly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam says landlords try to avoid evictions whenever possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SAM\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evictions are the only legal pathway that a housing provider has to dealing with issues of nonpayment or breach of lease. It’s a last-resort measure that is used in only the most dire of circumstances. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Gilboard advocates for different solutions — like more rental assistance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But landlord opposition isn’t the only challenge. Legal defense programs are expensive. New York City budgeted $166 million for right to counsel this year. And not every city has that kind of money.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brandi Snow is the legal director with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centralcallegal.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Central California Legal Services.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BRANDI SNOW\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It obviously costs money to pay lawyers to do that, somebody has to pay for it. And there is a resistance in some places to the idea of using taxpayer money to assist those who didn’t pay their rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other issue is bandwidth, and having enough tenant attorneys to make sure they can actually take those cases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BRANDI\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you’re lacking enough attorneys for it now, you’ve created this right to something that you can’t provide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But that isn’t stopping this idea from taking off.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BRANDI\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the country, you’re seeing more of these right-to-counsel programs pop up that are doing amazing things. You know, New York has it, Cleveland has it, San Francisco has this also, and so does LA.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington became the first state\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to pass it. John Pollock with the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel says that’s a big deal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JOHN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s everything. It’s the fact that we went from having no jurisdiction with the right to counsel, to having 13. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, you know, from a movement standpoint, I think it’s really come to a high point.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the last year, 11 more states have introduced the idea. John says the pandemic is driving a lot of the interest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even President Joe Biden is paying attention. Right to counsel and other court diversion programs were the focus of a White House summit last year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that’s the biggest win for tenants like Randy Dillard, who started this fight — that it didn’t stop with New York City.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: For other cities to follow, to me, is a great achievement, and I never knew that I would ever be a part of something so great. I feel good. I really do. And you know, knowing that somebody like me that was getting ready to go in front of a judge can sleep a little bit peaceful at night because they got somebody fighting for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s a reminder that movements don’t happen overnight. They’re usually built on small victories. But sometimes they turn into something bigger that shifts the power and changes the narrative, and gives tenants the right to a fighting chance to stay in their homes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sold Out theme song begins.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Next time on Sold Out: We go to the root of the problem — how to keep people housed when they can’t pay the rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>KEMANIE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knowing that we had the housing voucher, we thought it was going to be easier because it was a guarantee.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>EVA ROSEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be really hard to find a place to live with that voucher at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>EUGENE ZINCHIK\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s like dealing with the DMV. It’s, you know, we’ve all been there, but you know, we don’t really want to do that, unless we have to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Erin Baldassari.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I’m Molly Solomon. You’ve been listening to Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you like what you hear, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — and tell a friend about the show!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sold Out is a production of KQED. This episode was written and reported by us: Molly Solomon and Erin Baldassari.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adhiti Bandlamudi produced this episode. Kyana Moghadam is our senior producer. Brendan Willard is our sound engineer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our team is wrapping up the season, and we’d love to know what you thought about it, what you liked, what you didn’t like. Most importantly, we’d like to know a little more about you, our listener. What issues or stories [do] you want to hear more of in the future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head over to \u003ca href=\"https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6755022/f959eb5782fc\">kqed.org/soldoutsurvey\u003c/a> to leave us some feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks so much!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(KQED music in)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY SOLOMON, HOST\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey, I’m Molly Solomon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN BALDASSARI, HOST\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And I’m Erin Baldassari. From KQED this is Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This season we’ve been exploring evictions. If you’ve been following along, you already know the system is stacked against tenants. And that evictions have devastating consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nowhere is that more clear than in eviction court. It’s where most cases end up, and it’s where a push for reform is growing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On today’s episode: a fight to balance the scales. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: City streets. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Molly Solomon is walking and speaks into her recorder.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MOLLY IN FRESNO\u003c/strong>: OK. We’re on O Street, downtown Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>MOLLY\u003c/strong>: Last fall I drove out to California’s Central Valley, and pulled up to a mid-century modern building in the middle of downtown, the Fresno County Superior Courthouse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY IN FRESNO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is already a line of people that are getting ready to check in through the front door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A security guard milled around outside. The crisp early morning air was starting to warm as the sun peeked out from behind the building. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m trying to look for Robert Cortez. He’s going to help me out today check out eviction court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you Robert? Hi, I’m Molly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT CORTEZ\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hi, nice to meet you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert is an attorney who represents tenants. His law firm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.centralcallegal.org/\">Central California Legal Services\u003c/a>, handles the vast majority of eviction defense cases in Fresno.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We head up to the fourth floor where eviction hearings start every Tuesday morning at 8:30. Today, there are about 20 cases on the docket. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A gray and tan building with various columns, and two people passing in front of it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7937-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fresno County Superior Courthouse in downtown Fresno. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So 90% of the time we’re in 404, which is just down the hall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The room is small, no windows. There are a few rows of benches that are about half full. It’s not as packed as it was before the pandemic. Many hearings are still happening on Zoom. Robert points out some lawyers in the room. He calls them the regulars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: A\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bout four or five regular landlord attorneys are here every day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert tells me one of the attorneys also serves as a debt collector for the landlords he represents. He collects past due rent from tenants who’ve been evicted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He gets these unrepresented clients to agree to these deals that are payment plans basically. And they go on for years, like five, six, seven years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I couldn’t record inside the courtroom while trials were underway. But I’ll say — you didn’t miss much. There’s a reason you never see TV shows about eviction courts. There’s not a lot of drama. Usually, you don’t call witnesses or present evidence. And a lot of times, evictions aren’t even decided in the courtroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Music out)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The action is out in the hallway.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: Door opens and closes.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’ll see a lot of dealmaking out here in the hallways. A lot of times attorneys will come outside and, you know, see if there’s a deal to be made. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s how most cases end up: in deals or settlements. And that’s what Robert’s trying to do for his client Lea Esparza. Lea came to Robert after the court had already issued a default judgment against her, which is basically an automatic win for the landlord. It happens when tenants don’t show up or don’t file their paperwork in time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Lea’s case, she tried to file her paperwork. The problem was she’d hired a paralegal off of Craigslist to help her fill it out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LEA ESPARZA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She charged me $500 and she didn’t turn in the paperwork. That’s why we ended up with the lockout.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the sheriff is scheduled to come to the residence on Thursday. So what I’m trying to get the judge to do is delay that sheriff.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LEA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, they said they were going to come at 6 a.m. and lock me out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in) \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lea had to stop working about a year ago after she was diagnosed with cancer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LEA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am battling cervical cancer and I’m also battling — I just had a surgery three months ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says after this morning’s hearing she’s going back to the hospital for another surgery. And if her eviction goes through, she doesn’t know where she and her kids will go.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LEA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I got four daughters and myself and like I said, I do, I am battling my health, so I don’t think I have anywhere to go. I don’t got family around here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert has just come out of a small mediators’ room with the landlord’s attorney. He and Lea huddle in a corner of the hallway, and keep their voices low. He’s got good news: Lea can stay through the end of the year, 109 more days. He’s also gotten her rent payments lowered to about $2 a day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROBERT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of this work is delaying the inevitable. Sometimes eviction is inevitable. But we just try to get as much time as possible, so the client’s not on the street.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lea will\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">eventually \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have to leave. But the deal is way better than what she could have negotiated on her own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most people don’t have someone like Robert on their side. These eviction cases move quickly and play out in courtrooms every day. And wherever you go, there’s the same imbalance: Landlords have attorneys. And tenants don’t.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JOHN POLLOCK\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that kind of representational imbalance yields the kind of results you would expect, which is it’s just completely one-sided.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> John Pollock is with the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://civilrighttocounsel.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Their data shows that across the country, 81% of landlords have a lawyer, but only 3% of tenants do.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JOHN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tenants always lose, and half of them don’t even participate in the process because it is such a hopeless, disempowering process right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He says many tenants get pushed into deals that are on the landlord’s terms. And that’s why Pollock says tenants need attorneys, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sold Out theme song begins.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>MOLLY\u003c/strong>: Think of it this way: We grant defendants a right to an attorney in criminal cases. Why should it be any different for housing court?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JOHN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From our perspective, these are very serious proceedings on par with criminal ones in terms of the consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, the eviction protections put in place during the pandemic are expiring. And, eviction courts are filling up again. As they do, the calls for change are getting louder. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because tenants and their allies say the current system isn’t fair, and it needs to change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sold Out theme song ends.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 657px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336.png 657w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336-160x82.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sold Out: Rethinking Housing In America is a five-part series reimagining what housing could be by examining California, the epicenter of the nation’s housing affordability crisis.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a windy morning last spring, a couple dozen people gathered outside Fresno City Hall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were tenants, faith leaders and housing advocates. And they were there to call attention to evictions in their neighborhoods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A SPEAKER AT CITY HALL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is a home when one is renting from a landlord who abuses their power dynamic and refuses to fix these conditions and then threatens to evict tenants who complain? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They directed their protest to the city council, which was meeting inside the gleaming stainless steel building. On their agenda was a proposal to help tenants avoid eviction. Outside, a local pastor, D.J. Criner, took the mic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>D.J. CRINER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you going to hold landlords just as accountable as landlords think they’re holding residents? Are you going to give individuals an opportunity to have legal aid? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Renters held signs and shared their stories about the rent going up, about being forced to move, about worrying for their children. One of them was Jessica Ramirez, a mother of five who was born and raised in Fresno.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was evicted a few years ago and didn’t have an attorney to help her out. Now with that on her record, it’s almost impossible to find new housing. Speaking to the crowd, she held up her eviction papers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JESSICA RAMIREZ\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is why I’m here today, I’m here to raise my voice. You know, this voice that I have is not for one, but for many.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She shared how she and her family had to live in their car. How her kids had to bathe themselves in the restrooms of a public park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JESSICA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, many out here in this world. You know, I live. This is a struggle. I’m in pain. You know, you guys don’t know how it is, living in the streets. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pastor Criner called on the city council to protect renters like Jessica. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>D.J.\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is about a call to action. Speak for this young lady and mother of five that is praying for an opportunity to raise her children in the same decent housing you’re able to raise yours in. So we studied the problem. We found the solution. We wrote the proposal, and the money has already been found. The question is now, are you listening and are you going to do something about it?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fresno City Hall is in the middle of downtown. It’s densely packed with tall office buildings. But you don’t have to drive far before you’re surrounded by farmland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresno sits at the center of California’s San Joaquin Valley. Founded as a railroad town, it’s grown into an agricultural powerhouse. It’s also been an affordable city in an extremely unaffordable state, at least until recently.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CLIPS FROM FRESNO RENT NEWSCASTS\u003c/b>: “\u003cem>The real estate market is buzzing in the valley.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“According to a story in The Los Angeles Times called Fresno the hottest market in the country.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>\u003cem>Monthly rent in Fresno has soared over the last year — experts cite high demand and low inventory.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the last year alone, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article258073823.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rents spiked 28%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Now, the average one-bedroom is over \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/fresno-ca\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1,400 a month\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/article252425493.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And home prices are way up, too\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Driving around Fresno, you can almost feel the hype. Everywhere you go, there are these advertisements for new housing developments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alexandra Alvarado has felt it, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ALEXANDRA ALVARADO\u003c/b>:\u003cb> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Central Valley has this myth of affordability that, like, people can just come in and afford it and be able to buy houses.\u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s always lived around Fresno. She grew up in a small town nearby, moved here for college. Alexandra is now a community organizer with a group called \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://faithinthevalley.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faith in the Valley\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — the same group that organized the tenant protest outside City Hall. She says the idea of Fresno as an affordable place … is part of what’s driving up prices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ALEXANDRA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Especially during the pandemic, when people were working from home, we were running across stories of people from the bay or from LA that were saying, oh, I could buy two houses in Fresno.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresno might be cheaper than San Francisco or Los Angeles, but it’s also \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209826869.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">one of the poorest cities in the country\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fresnocitycalifornia/INC110219\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One in four families\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> here live below the federal poverty line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As prices rise, it’s becoming harder for people to find safe housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ALEXANDRA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What they end up being pushed to is what they can afford.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>[HOST]\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An investigation\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by local newspaper The Fresno Bee found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article249299005.html\">some tenants were living in terrible conditions\u003c/a>: with no heat, leaky pipes, and mold. And when they complained, they were often threatened with an eviction.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even before the pandemic, there are anywhere from three [thousand] to 4,000 eviction filings in Fresno each year. That’s according to a 2019 report from two researchers at Fresno State University.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AMBER CROWELL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So that’s a lot of people. And it was, you know, 200 or 300 families a month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s Amber Crowell. She wrote the report with her colleague Janine Nkosi. They also work on housing advocacy with Faith in the Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Janine and Amber spent months observing eviction hearings at the Fresno courthouse, the same place I met up with Robert and Lea. And they saw a lot of the same disparities that I did. Landlords had lawyers, and tenants didn’t. Here’s Janine:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANINE NKOSI\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could literally cry right now when I think about it. Three, like maybe three people, were able to get some type of legal representation in housing court.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">most recent data from Eviction Lab\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003ca href=\"https://evictionlab.org/map/#/2016?geography=counties&bounds=-122.192,35.603,-116.28,37.847&type=er&locations=06019,-119.443,36.916\">Fresno has one of the highest eviction rates in the state\u003c/a>. Far higher than in Los Angeles and San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s only one legal aid organization in Fresno. And about half of the residents here are renters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANINE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The challenges that we are experiencing, they are not so different than what folks in the Bay Area, right, or Northern California, are experiencing, or in Southern California, but they are happening at an accelerated rate. We have the highest need and the fewest amount of resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>[HOST]\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Janine and Amber found inspired a growing coalition of renters, faith leaders and students — one that only grew as economic shutdowns during the pandemic made it harder for tenants to pay their rent, tenants like Shar Thompson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SHAR THOMPSON\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m a single mom that works two jobs. So, you know, it’s really tough.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shar works part time at Costco. When her shift ends in the afternoon, she heads to her second job at Walmart, where she works overnight stocking shelves. Shar’s from the Central Valley. She grew up in a small farming town nearby called Coalinga.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SHAR\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you drive down I-5 and smell the fresh air of cow manure, that’s Coalinga. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She moved to Fresno during the pandemic and was having trouble paying her rent. She found Faith in the Valley when she Googled local rent assistance programs.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then she started showing up at meetings, learning about her rights as a tenant, and discovered what was possible when she worked alongside other renters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SHAR\u003c/b>: There’s passion behind it from everybody. And I love the fact that we’re all from different walks of life, but we all have the same main goal and that’s to make a whole new housing system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: Shar and the ot\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">her Fresno renters had specific demands for the city. They wanted every tenant fighting an eviction to have an attorney: a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leadershipcounsel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Fresno-Right-to-Counsel-Coalition-Community-Proposal.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> right to counsel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But they took it even further. They wanted the city to connect tenants with rent relief. And create a diversion program to help tenants and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">landlords avoid the courtroom altogether. By early last year, their proposal was ready for the city council.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SPEAKER AT CITY COUNCIL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you. Last item — that’s public item that we have is 4-B, it’s a workshop to discuss right-to-counsel proposal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907097 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stares pensively off into the distance, she wears a green shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7983-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno renter Jessica Ramirez. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessica Ramirez, the same renter who spoke outside City Hall, called into this meeting, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JESSICA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am one of many that are speaking out asking for help because I know it only takes one eviction on someone’s record to change their lives forever.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s pushback from landlords and within City Hall. Here’s City Council member Garry Bredefeld.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>GARRY BREDEFELD\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I know. Imagine, I guess we’re pretty flush with money at the City of Fresno, and now we’re going into the rental tenant defense business. I don’t see any way that I will support these kinds of things. I don’t think this is what we should be doing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>[HOST]\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Renters continued to pressure the city for months to vote on their proposal. But eventually, it became clear: A true right to counsel was not going to pass. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here’s Amber Crowell, the eviction researcher at Fresno State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AMBER\u003c/b>: It was tough. It was a tough battle. And we didn’t get everything we wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What they got was something of a compromise. The city calls it the Eviction Protection Program. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not for all tenants — just the ones who are being wrongfully evicted, like if their landlord’s retaliating against them, or illegally locking them out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amber and other housing activists think only a small number of tenants will qualify or even know the program exists, leaving many still vulnerable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But City Councilmember Tyler Maxwell is more optimistic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TYLER MAXWELL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can tell you, it is an uphill battle to get where we’re at today. I’m happy we’re able to get our foot in the door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He helped introduce the Eviction Protection Program. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article258184263.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s already helped 180 people get free legal help.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly all of them were able to avoid trial. For the few who did go, most were able to get the eviction off their record. And that’s important, because having an eviction on your record can lock you out of new housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_7874-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural in downtown Fresno. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The program is only funded for one year and Tyler hopes they’ll extend it. But a right to counsel is still a pretty radical idea for Fresno, and he thinks there’s always going to be some people questioning whether it’s worth it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TYLER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why are we giving away free things? You know, why? Why are we providing something for free for people? You know they need to pick themselves up from the bootstraps, which, representing a district like I do, I know that’s a bunch of B.S. — picking yourself up by the bootstraps doesn’t work when you can’t afford the bootstraps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story isn’t over. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A couple months ago, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article256467491.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">150 people showed up at City Hall to demand the city use federal COVID dollars\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to pass a true right to counsel, rent control and more eviction protections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amber Crowell and Janine Nkosi say renters in Fresno can’t back down now, even if it feels like a battle between David and Goliath. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AMBER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The groups that represent property owners are much more powerful politically than the groups that represent tenants. And so that’s just an ideology that we’re always fighting against.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANINE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, it’s always a battle between individual rights versus, like, collective care and collective responsibility. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They say it’s a battle worth fighting. And you can’t win anything if you don’t ask for it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANINE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are made to believe that these are big asks, but we should be dreaming much, much bigger than we ever have been. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fresno isn’t the only place to fight for a right to counsel. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming up on Sold Out: where the movement first began.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CROWD CHANTING\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Housing is a human right. Fight, fight, fight.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY DILLARD\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good morning, good morning, good morning. My name is Randy Dillard and we are facing an eviction crisis in the Bronx.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randy Dillard wears a bright orange T-shirt. On it is a fist thrust in the air. He energizes the crowd outside New York City Hall in lower Manhattan. It’s 2013 and he’s part of a tenants group in the South Bronx.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Representation for tenants in housing court should be a right.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randy was familiar with housing court. Before he was an organizer, he worked as a bricklayer. A single dad with five kids, Randy was on Section 8, but his apartment was not up to code. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have mold all over the apartment. We had leaks coming from up above into an open-light fixture in the bathroom that could have started a fire. We had to put plastic bags up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said the leaks were so bad, sometimes they had to use an umbrella inside the house to keep from getting wet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because of the conditions, Randy’s home failed a Section 8 inspection, so the government program stopped making payments to his landlord. And then he developed emphysema and ended up in the hospital. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they was getting ready to put me on a breathing machine ’cause my lungs was getting ready to collapse. I almost, almost died.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was in the hospital for two months. Three days after he got out, he got a knock on his door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My landlord’s lawyer served me with eviction papers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randy says going to housing court to fight his eviction was confusing and scary. When he got there, he was met with long lines and little information.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It leaves you numb, and empty inside. As soon as you get there first, you don’t know what to look for and you’ve got a long line of people. And some of them are emotional, crying, you know, while you waiting in line to go through the metal detector to get in there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At that time, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://newsettlement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CDP.WEB_.doc_Report_CASA-TippingScales-full_201303.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">about 2,000 tenants were showing up at the Bronx housing court \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">every day. It was the busiest eviction courtroom in all five boroughs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, Randy did end up getting an attorney. He found someone through a legal help group in his neighborhood. His case took almost two years, but he eventually won, an outcome he says would have been impossible without his attorney. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think no tenant should have to go through what me and my kids went through, and no tenant should have to stand before a judge and not know what their rights are. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Randy got involved with the group \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://newsettlement.org/casa/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Action for Safe Apartments, or CASA\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CASA and a coalition of housing groups pressured the city to adopt a right to counsel. Organizers made the moral case that no one should have to face something as life-altering as losing your home without the benefit of an attorney.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Susanna Blankley was the group’s director at the time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SUSANNA BLANKLEY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It meant the right to not face eviction alone. It meant the right to know that you would be protected. It meant the right to have power within the court system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The coalition kept pushing, whipping up support wherever they could. First at a neighborhood board meeting, then City Council hearings, delivering a petition with 7,000 signatures to the mayor’s office. They even got the chief judge of the New York court system to testify in support of a right to counsel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until finally, after three years of organizing, New York City tenants made history. And won something that didn’t exist anywhere else in America: a right to counsel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the program rolled out in 2017, it guaranteed most low-income tenants access to an attorney if they’re facing eviction. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the legislation at CASA’s offices in the Bronx. Standing beside him was Randy Dillard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds from the moments when Mayor Bill de Blasio was signing the legislation.) \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reason why I’m here today, you wouldn’t be able to see me if I didn’t have an attorney. That’s why I’m standing up here. That’s why I’ve been fighting with the coalition and with CASA to make this possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In a video of the signing, Randy has this big smile on his face. Afterward, de Blasio turns to him and hands him the pen. He still has it today, framed on his wall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I introduced the mayor and I, and I spoke. They let me speak. It was powerful. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was something that I had never imagined. Something that big that I will be a part of. I never looked at it starting out when we was fighting for it. I only looked at it, that is something that needed to be done. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/EKYbCM890xsxzEyOiQa3O9?domain=www1.nyc.gov\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And early results show it’s working.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Since a right to counsel passed in 2017, more than half a million New Yorkers have gotten legal representation. And 84% of them were able to stay in their homes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fewer evictions means fewer households falling into homelessness.\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4408380/PDF/Cost-Benefit-Impact-Studies/SRR%20Report%20-%20Eviction%20Right%20to%20Counsel%20%203%2016%2016.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A cost-benefit analysis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on New York City predicted it would save $320 million, most of it in emergency shelter costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When a tenant is guaranteed an attorney, it also changes the way landlords use eviction courts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/EKYbCM890xsxzEyOiQa3O9?domain=www1.nyc.gov\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2013, eviction filings have dropped by about 40%, and bogus cases are thrown out quickly.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Again, here’s Susanna Blankley:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SUSANNA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ve seen filings go down. It means landlords are suing people less. You see people show up to court way more because they believe that they have a chance to win. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It might not be surprising to hear that landlords don’t welcome the right-to-counsel laws. Sam Gilboard is the senior manager of public policy at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apartmentalize.naahq.org/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=apt22&utm_term=national-apartment-association&utm_content=responsive-search&gclid=Cj0KCQiA64GRBhCZARIsAHOLriL66LfyCp8d1UMwyleBNAQfzwlSf7ohYlCMaPJNOEqaQm5f-RJEuUoaAiYpEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Apartment Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SAM GILBOARD\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It prolongs an already lengthy process. When you have a right to counsel, you’re prolonging an experience that is stressful. It’s costly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam says landlords try to avoid evictions whenever possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SAM\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evictions are the only legal pathway that a housing provider has to dealing with issues of nonpayment or breach of lease. It’s a last-resort measure that is used in only the most dire of circumstances. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Gilboard advocates for different solutions — like more rental assistance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But landlord opposition isn’t the only challenge. Legal defense programs are expensive. New York City budgeted $166 million for right to counsel this year. And not every city has that kind of money.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brandi Snow is the legal director with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centralcallegal.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Central California Legal Services.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BRANDI SNOW\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It obviously costs money to pay lawyers to do that, somebody has to pay for it. And there is a resistance in some places to the idea of using taxpayer money to assist those who didn’t pay their rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other issue is bandwidth, and having enough tenant attorneys to make sure they can actually take those cases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BRANDI\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you’re lacking enough attorneys for it now, you’ve created this right to something that you can’t provide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But that isn’t stopping this idea from taking off.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BRANDI\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the country, you’re seeing more of these right-to-counsel programs pop up that are doing amazing things. You know, New York has it, Cleveland has it, San Francisco has this also, and so does LA.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington became the first state\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to pass it. John Pollock with the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel says that’s a big deal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JOHN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s everything. It’s the fact that we went from having no jurisdiction with the right to counsel, to having 13. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, you know, from a movement standpoint, I think it’s really come to a high point.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the last year, 11 more states have introduced the idea. John says the pandemic is driving a lot of the interest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even President Joe Biden is paying attention. Right to counsel and other court diversion programs were the focus of a White House summit last year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that’s the biggest win for tenants like Randy Dillard, who started this fight — that it didn’t stop with New York City.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RANDY\u003c/b>: For other cities to follow, to me, is a great achievement, and I never knew that I would ever be a part of something so great. I feel good. I really do. And you know, knowing that somebody like me that was getting ready to go in front of a judge can sleep a little bit peaceful at night because they got somebody fighting for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s a reminder that movements don’t happen overnight. They’re usually built on small victories. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:00 p.m. March 6\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier versions of this story included outdated enrollment impact estimates, which were supplied by UC Berkeley officials to CalMatters. The story has been updated to reflect revised numbers from UC Berkeley, which indicate a less dire impact on new students than the university’s past statements and projections had suggested. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley will be able to enroll almost all the roughly 9,200 students it planned for this coming academic year, even though the California Supreme Court Thursday refused to strike down a lower court’s order that the university cut its campus enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the undergraduates we planned to enroll will be enrolled next year,” said Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor of public affairs at UC Berkeley, during a phone interview with CalMatters Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the lower court said UC Berkeley must whittle down its campus enrollment by about 3,000 students, that still leaves room for new students to attend online in the fall or start their classes next spring, when the campus population declines as other students graduate early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By asking roughly 1,000 new students to take all their classes online in the fall and another 650 to begin their UC Berkeley educations in spring of 2023, the university won’t have to leave any students behind in the 2022-23 academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the campus will miss some enrollment targets. Because some of the 125 graduate school programs hadn’t yet sent out their admissions offers, the enrollment cap means 400 fewer new graduate students in engineering, business and law programs will attend the university next year, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a different degree of fallout than campus officials warned could happen. That UC Berkeley has to cut its campus population at all stems from Alameda Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/uc-berkeley-admissions-cuts-prioritize-californians/\">order last year to hold UC Berkeley’s enrollment at 2020-21 levels\u003c/a>, after residents in the city of Berkeley sued the university, challenging the impact the school’s enrollment growth would have on city services, scarce local housing and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basis of that suit and court decisions, the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act, centers anew the state’s marquee environmental protection law as either a source of ire for backers of urban density and housing developers or as a chief weapon to preserve communities and the surrounding environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a statement from UC Berkeley said the state Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene “is devastating news for the thousands of students who have worked so hard for and have earned a seat in our fall 2022 class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new press statement from Mogulof on Friday said, “[T]he harm caused by this court decision extends beyond the students who should be offered an in-person seat in our fall 2022 class. It impacts prospective students generally, our campus operations, and the university’s ability to serve students by meeting the enrollment targets set by the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision wasn’t unanimous. In a dissenting statement, Justice Goodwin Liu wrote that he would have granted UC Berkeley’s request to block the enrollment cap. He urged the sides to try to quickly resolve the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Phil Bokovoy, president of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, the group that brought the suit against UC Berkeley, said he was “pleased” with the Supreme Court’s decision but that “we’d like to assure deserving California high school students that we are as disappointed as they are that UC has tried to use them as pawns in UC’s attempts to avoid mitigating the impacts from the massive enrollment increases over the past few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Liu’s comments, \u003ca href=\"http://saveberkeleysneighborhoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Press-release-Save-Berkeleys-Neighborhoods-offers-partial-relief-to-UC-5-March-22.pdf\">Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods proposed a compromise deal\u003c/a> in a press release on Saturday, March 5. The group’s proposal would allow UC Berkeley to enroll a total of 43,347 students, instead of the 42,347 allowed under the Supreme Court’s ruling, but it would be conditional. The group would require that 90% of new undergraduates be California residents (in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://pages.github.berkeley.edu/OPA/our-berkeley/100-students.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">73% \u003c/a>of newly matriculated students were), and UC Berkeley would not be allowed to seek further legal action on this matter in the courts or state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof told KQED that UC Berkeley officials take issue with the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this small group of litigants is asking for is authority to determine enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley,” Mogulof said. He went on to say, “Enrollment decisions of the universities should not be in the hands of a small group of private citizens who have no accountability and no expertise in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After telling CalMatters that all the undergraduates the university had planned to enroll will be able to attend, Mogulof emailed a short time later to clarify that most of, but not all, the students would be able to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of this is exact,” he said. “These are all rounded numbers that fluctuate year to year. Yes, we usually hover around 9,500 new undergrads a year. … This year, before the court ruling, we originally planned on on 9,310 … and now we’re looking at 9,144 plus an expanded wait list of 150 that will provide us with more flexibility in potentially enrolling additional students if, for example, there is a legislative fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question becomes where might those students who would have been admitted to Berkeley end up going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now those fears are largely neutralized because the enrollment cap isn’t reducing the total number of new students the university will be able to enroll this coming academic year. There’s still tumult for students and the university, though. For the 1,650 students who’ll have to start online or in the fall, the start of their academic careers “is going to look nothing like what they wanted and hoped for,” Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus has some wiggle room with the enrollment cap because the campus population typically goes down marginally in the spring as students graduate early or attend off-campus programs in cities like Sacramento and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its new students starting this fall and in person, the university will also prioritize in-state students over students who don’t have residency in California. In the past few years, about a quarter of undergraduates have typically come from out of state. But UC Berkeley will aim to lower that ratio substantially for this year — just 9% of students, or 641, will be nonresidents, and the remaining 6,334 new students will be Californians. Overall, 7,171 of the new 9,144 undergraduates, about 79%, who are expected to enter next year will be Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This follows a CalMatters analysis that the campus could find a way to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/uc-berkeley-admissions-cuts-prioritize-californians/\">enroll more Californians by excluding some out-of-state students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley said Friday its in-person campus population has to go down by roughly 2,600 students, not the 3,000 it previously estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers and legal scholars had previously said that if the state Supreme Court kept Seligman’s order in place, it would open the door for other communities to sue campuses for their enrollment growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an enormous limit on what any UC school, any Cal State school, any public school system can do,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s law school, in a conversation with CalMatters before the Supreme Court issued its decision Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Thursday’s court decision wasn’t about the full merits of the case but instead was about Seligman’s decision to cap enrollment. A state court of appeals is expected to hear the full case later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers could try to fast-track a bill to exempt campus enrollment from the state’s environmental quality act, a lawmaker said last month. But UC Berkeley is supposed to inform students by March 24 whether they’re admitted and some were already informed Feb. 11. Meanwhile, May 1 is the deadline for students to put down deposits to attend the campus — and the typical deadline for colleges across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers “don’t need much time to put that together,” texted Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento. “We’re on the case and aware of the deadlines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a law would be a “missed opportunity,” said UC Davis law professor Chris Elmendorf, because it wouldn’t address what he says is the environmental act’s major flaw: It views population growth of any kind as pollution in urban settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KMGguyqRPfNjmRTNEkFK_E0pUNRnEfSnerfTcRN_qE/edit\">student government implored the state Legislature\u003c/a> today to exempt campus enrollment from the environmental act’s restrictions. In the past, Berkeley students were critical of the university’s housing plans because they threatened to displace lower-income city residents. The campus has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/12/16/student-housing-uc-berkeley-walnut-street-demolition\">demolished an eight-unit rent-controlled building\u003c/a> to make room for a new student housing complex. The students fear less revenue from fewer students will make it harder for the campus to meet its student housing goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the act’s backers say it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/02/ceqa-advances-environmental-justice-so-why-all-the-hate/\">protects communities from pollution\u003c/a> and is unfairly pilloried by public agencies and developers who want to build housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley argued in court filings that if it could not enroll the 3,000 students previously expected to be excluded this fall, it would lose out on $57 million in annual tuition payments for at least four years. The actual hit to UC’s bottom line will be much less now that it can enroll almost every student it sought for this coming fall. The students starting in the spring and the lower number of graduate students will lead to revenue declines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the current lawsuit technically concerns a housing and academic development for the Goldman School of Public Policy, the larger issue is whether UC Berkeley failed to adequately measure the impact its enrollment growth would have on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley said in its 2005 multiyear construction plan that its 2020 enrollment would be around 33,000 students. But the campus actually hit nearly 43,000 students in the fall of 2020. While the campus far exceeded its enrollment caps, UC Berkeley built fewer housing slots for students than it had anticipated. By 2020 the campus said it would have 10,790 beds but to date can house just 9,800 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit brought forth by Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods argues UC Berkeley never did a proper assessment of how that added enrollment growth affects the surrounding area. And without that analysis, the campus can’t proceed with any other construction plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seligman agreed. And the state Supreme Court agreed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley contends budget shortfalls caused by the Great Recession and declining state support for much of that period meant less money to invest in student housing. The campus also spent “a significant amount of its housing reserves to seismically retrofit three of our existing residential facilities,” said Mogulof, the UC Berkeley spokesperson. And, he said, while the campus had identified land for as many as \u003ca href=\"https://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">5,000 beds in a 2017 report\u003c/a>, those properties already included existing structures like parking lots and academic buildings that would have to be torn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the past year have proposed or approved \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/\">$7 billion in campus housing loans and grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other legal scholars say enrollment growth isn’t an issue that’s relevant to the case. “The trial court’s ruling was wrong on many levels. The court had no jurisdiction in deciding the Goldman School case to impose limits on Berkeley’s student population; that was simply not at issue,” wrote Chemerinsky in a Sacramento Bee essay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public officials, most prominently Gov. Gavin Newsom, said students will be locked out of an elite education. Denying enrollment at UC Berkeley “would be irreparably damaging” and “also undermine the State’s broad interest in expanding access to higher education, especially at the State’s flagship undergraduate institutions,” Newsom’s brief to the state Supreme Court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public data suggests nearly all UC Berkeley applicants admitted as first-year students end up at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, just 5%, or 656, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admit-destinations\">UC Berkeley’s admitted freshmen didn’t attend a college\u003c/a>, or their college destinations were unknown. Nearly half — 45% — who were admitted ended up attending the university. The remaining half largely made their way to strong institutions, including 16% to other UCs and 24% to selective private universities that typically have strong financial aid packages for students with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those stats apply to a normal year, not when a large campus like UC Berkeley is unable to enroll the 3,000 new freshmen and transfer students officials previously feared would lose a spot. Given the popularity of the whole UC system, other campuses within the system would have struggled to accommodate those students, which could have affected enrollment capacity at other public and private colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bokovoy, of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, pointed out during a Zoom press conference following the state Supreme Court’s decision that in the past decade, the percentage of students receiving the federal Pell grant intended for students with lower incomes dropped from 33% to 27% at UC Berkeley. He argued high rents in the community and insufficient student housing have pushed students with lower incomes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, Bokovoy wrote in an email that the group “would like a legally binding agreement that ties enrollment growth to the production of housing on land UC already owns” — which would mean the campus can’t add more students until it builds more housing. In past conversations, he cited the \u003ca href=\"https://lrdp.ucsc.edu/settlement-agreement.pdf\">2008 legal settlement between UC Santa Cruz and local government\u003c/a> that tied campus enrollment growth to more housing as a model for what UC Berkeley could pursue. But that deal also came with an enrollment cap of 19,500 students for what ended up being 15 years. At the time of the deal, UC Santa Cruz’s enrollment was around 16,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several times Bokovoy denied a UC Berkeley claim that he is pushing for an enrollment cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley won’t agree to any enrollment cap, Mogulof said. The campus struck a deal last year with the city of Berkeley that \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/07/14/uc-berkeley-payment-settlement-agreement\">it will pay the city $4 million a year\u003c/a> regardless of whether the campus reaches its housing production goals. The city was an initial plaintiff in the lawsuit against UC Berkeley but settled with the campus before Seligman issued his enrollment cap. \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-02-18-Amicus-Curiae-Letter-Supreme-Court-Case-No.-S273160.pdf\">The city never sought an enrollment cap\u003c/a>; in fact, its legal team wrote to the state Supreme Court in a request to side with the UC campus and lift the enrollment cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another campus, UC Davis, made a promise to tie enrollment growth to more housing but \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/gq0jfianaphpgtafrzvoqe3hq5fwxlz8\">the penalty for missing its targets is $500 per bed\u003c/a>, according to a legal deal it made with the local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bokovoy said UC Berkeley could expand its campus elsewhere in the Bay Area and not in the city of Berkeley, such as in nearby Richmond. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-suspends-plans-to-build-Global-Campus-9187281.php\">Early plans for a satellite campus\u003c/a> there fell through in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, if community groups target other campuses for their enrollment growth, those lawsuits may be short-lived if the court of appeals overturns Seligman’s ruling once it hears the full UC Berkeley case later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky, the UC Berkeley law school dean, said the UC Berkeley case introduces larger questions about the state’s main environmental law at the center of the lawsuit and the role courts play in university affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real question of how much do we want the courts in the name of [the environmental law] to be controlling enrollment in the UC system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Haley Gray contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By asking roughly 1,000 new students to take all their classes online in the fall and another 650 to begin their UC Berkeley educations in spring of 2023, the university won’t have to leave any students behind in the 2022-23 academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the campus will miss some enrollment targets. Because some of the 125 graduate school programs hadn’t yet sent out their admissions offers, the enrollment cap means 400 fewer new graduate students in engineering, business and law programs will attend the university next year, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a different degree of fallout than campus officials warned could happen. That UC Berkeley has to cut its campus population at all stems from Alameda Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/uc-berkeley-admissions-cuts-prioritize-californians/\">order last year to hold UC Berkeley’s enrollment at 2020-21 levels\u003c/a>, after residents in the city of Berkeley sued the university, challenging the impact the school’s enrollment growth would have on city services, scarce local housing and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basis of that suit and court decisions, the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act, centers anew the state’s marquee environmental protection law as either a source of ire for backers of urban density and housing developers or as a chief weapon to preserve communities and the surrounding environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a statement from UC Berkeley said the state Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene “is devastating news for the thousands of students who have worked so hard for and have earned a seat in our fall 2022 class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new press statement from Mogulof on Friday said, “[T]he harm caused by this court decision extends beyond the students who should be offered an in-person seat in our fall 2022 class. It impacts prospective students generally, our campus operations, and the university’s ability to serve students by meeting the enrollment targets set by the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision wasn’t unanimous. In a dissenting statement, Justice Goodwin Liu wrote that he would have granted UC Berkeley’s request to block the enrollment cap. He urged the sides to try to quickly resolve the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Phil Bokovoy, president of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, the group that brought the suit against UC Berkeley, said he was “pleased” with the Supreme Court’s decision but that “we’d like to assure deserving California high school students that we are as disappointed as they are that UC has tried to use them as pawns in UC’s attempts to avoid mitigating the impacts from the massive enrollment increases over the past few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Liu’s comments, \u003ca href=\"http://saveberkeleysneighborhoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Press-release-Save-Berkeleys-Neighborhoods-offers-partial-relief-to-UC-5-March-22.pdf\">Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods proposed a compromise deal\u003c/a> in a press release on Saturday, March 5. The group’s proposal would allow UC Berkeley to enroll a total of 43,347 students, instead of the 42,347 allowed under the Supreme Court’s ruling, but it would be conditional. The group would require that 90% of new undergraduates be California residents (in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://pages.github.berkeley.edu/OPA/our-berkeley/100-students.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">73% \u003c/a>of newly matriculated students were), and UC Berkeley would not be allowed to seek further legal action on this matter in the courts or state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof told KQED that UC Berkeley officials take issue with the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this small group of litigants is asking for is authority to determine enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley,” Mogulof said. He went on to say, “Enrollment decisions of the universities should not be in the hands of a small group of private citizens who have no accountability and no expertise in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After telling CalMatters that all the undergraduates the university had planned to enroll will be able to attend, Mogulof emailed a short time later to clarify that most of, but not all, the students would be able to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of this is exact,” he said. “These are all rounded numbers that fluctuate year to year. Yes, we usually hover around 9,500 new undergrads a year. … This year, before the court ruling, we originally planned on on 9,310 … and now we’re looking at 9,144 plus an expanded wait list of 150 that will provide us with more flexibility in potentially enrolling additional students if, for example, there is a legislative fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question becomes where might those students who would have been admitted to Berkeley end up going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now those fears are largely neutralized because the enrollment cap isn’t reducing the total number of new students the university will be able to enroll this coming academic year. There’s still tumult for students and the university, though. For the 1,650 students who’ll have to start online or in the fall, the start of their academic careers “is going to look nothing like what they wanted and hoped for,” Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus has some wiggle room with the enrollment cap because the campus population typically goes down marginally in the spring as students graduate early or attend off-campus programs in cities like Sacramento and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its new students starting this fall and in person, the university will also prioritize in-state students over students who don’t have residency in California. In the past few years, about a quarter of undergraduates have typically come from out of state. But UC Berkeley will aim to lower that ratio substantially for this year — just 9% of students, or 641, will be nonresidents, and the remaining 6,334 new students will be Californians. Overall, 7,171 of the new 9,144 undergraduates, about 79%, who are expected to enter next year will be Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This follows a CalMatters analysis that the campus could find a way to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/uc-berkeley-admissions-cuts-prioritize-californians/\">enroll more Californians by excluding some out-of-state students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley said Friday its in-person campus population has to go down by roughly 2,600 students, not the 3,000 it previously estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers and legal scholars had previously said that if the state Supreme Court kept Seligman’s order in place, it would open the door for other communities to sue campuses for their enrollment growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an enormous limit on what any UC school, any Cal State school, any public school system can do,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s law school, in a conversation with CalMatters before the Supreme Court issued its decision Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Thursday’s court decision wasn’t about the full merits of the case but instead was about Seligman’s decision to cap enrollment. A state court of appeals is expected to hear the full case later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers could try to fast-track a bill to exempt campus enrollment from the state’s environmental quality act, a lawmaker said last month. But UC Berkeley is supposed to inform students by March 24 whether they’re admitted and some were already informed Feb. 11. Meanwhile, May 1 is the deadline for students to put down deposits to attend the campus — and the typical deadline for colleges across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers “don’t need much time to put that together,” texted Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento. “We’re on the case and aware of the deadlines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a law would be a “missed opportunity,” said UC Davis law professor Chris Elmendorf, because it wouldn’t address what he says is the environmental act’s major flaw: It views population growth of any kind as pollution in urban settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KMGguyqRPfNjmRTNEkFK_E0pUNRnEfSnerfTcRN_qE/edit\">student government implored the state Legislature\u003c/a> today to exempt campus enrollment from the environmental act’s restrictions. In the past, Berkeley students were critical of the university’s housing plans because they threatened to displace lower-income city residents. The campus has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/12/16/student-housing-uc-berkeley-walnut-street-demolition\">demolished an eight-unit rent-controlled building\u003c/a> to make room for a new student housing complex. The students fear less revenue from fewer students will make it harder for the campus to meet its student housing goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the act’s backers say it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/02/ceqa-advances-environmental-justice-so-why-all-the-hate/\">protects communities from pollution\u003c/a> and is unfairly pilloried by public agencies and developers who want to build housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley argued in court filings that if it could not enroll the 3,000 students previously expected to be excluded this fall, it would lose out on $57 million in annual tuition payments for at least four years. The actual hit to UC’s bottom line will be much less now that it can enroll almost every student it sought for this coming fall. The students starting in the spring and the lower number of graduate students will lead to revenue declines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the current lawsuit technically concerns a housing and academic development for the Goldman School of Public Policy, the larger issue is whether UC Berkeley failed to adequately measure the impact its enrollment growth would have on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley said in its 2005 multiyear construction plan that its 2020 enrollment would be around 33,000 students. But the campus actually hit nearly 43,000 students in the fall of 2020. While the campus far exceeded its enrollment caps, UC Berkeley built fewer housing slots for students than it had anticipated. By 2020 the campus said it would have 10,790 beds but to date can house just 9,800 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit brought forth by Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods argues UC Berkeley never did a proper assessment of how that added enrollment growth affects the surrounding area. And without that analysis, the campus can’t proceed with any other construction plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seligman agreed. And the state Supreme Court agreed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley contends budget shortfalls caused by the Great Recession and declining state support for much of that period meant less money to invest in student housing. The campus also spent “a significant amount of its housing reserves to seismically retrofit three of our existing residential facilities,” said Mogulof, the UC Berkeley spokesperson. And, he said, while the campus had identified land for as many as \u003ca href=\"https://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">5,000 beds in a 2017 report\u003c/a>, those properties already included existing structures like parking lots and academic buildings that would have to be torn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the past year have proposed or approved \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/\">$7 billion in campus housing loans and grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other legal scholars say enrollment growth isn’t an issue that’s relevant to the case. “The trial court’s ruling was wrong on many levels. The court had no jurisdiction in deciding the Goldman School case to impose limits on Berkeley’s student population; that was simply not at issue,” wrote Chemerinsky in a Sacramento Bee essay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public officials, most prominently Gov. Gavin Newsom, said students will be locked out of an elite education. Denying enrollment at UC Berkeley “would be irreparably damaging” and “also undermine the State’s broad interest in expanding access to higher education, especially at the State’s flagship undergraduate institutions,” Newsom’s brief to the state Supreme Court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public data suggests nearly all UC Berkeley applicants admitted as first-year students end up at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, just 5%, or 656, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admit-destinations\">UC Berkeley’s admitted freshmen didn’t attend a college\u003c/a>, or their college destinations were unknown. Nearly half — 45% — who were admitted ended up attending the university. The remaining half largely made their way to strong institutions, including 16% to other UCs and 24% to selective private universities that typically have strong financial aid packages for students with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those stats apply to a normal year, not when a large campus like UC Berkeley is unable to enroll the 3,000 new freshmen and transfer students officials previously feared would lose a spot. Given the popularity of the whole UC system, other campuses within the system would have struggled to accommodate those students, which could have affected enrollment capacity at other public and private colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bokovoy, of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, pointed out during a Zoom press conference following the state Supreme Court’s decision that in the past decade, the percentage of students receiving the federal Pell grant intended for students with lower incomes dropped from 33% to 27% at UC Berkeley. He argued high rents in the community and insufficient student housing have pushed students with lower incomes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, Bokovoy wrote in an email that the group “would like a legally binding agreement that ties enrollment growth to the production of housing on land UC already owns” — which would mean the campus can’t add more students until it builds more housing. In past conversations, he cited the \u003ca href=\"https://lrdp.ucsc.edu/settlement-agreement.pdf\">2008 legal settlement between UC Santa Cruz and local government\u003c/a> that tied campus enrollment growth to more housing as a model for what UC Berkeley could pursue. But that deal also came with an enrollment cap of 19,500 students for what ended up being 15 years. At the time of the deal, UC Santa Cruz’s enrollment was around 16,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several times Bokovoy denied a UC Berkeley claim that he is pushing for an enrollment cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley won’t agree to any enrollment cap, Mogulof said. The campus struck a deal last year with the city of Berkeley that \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/07/14/uc-berkeley-payment-settlement-agreement\">it will pay the city $4 million a year\u003c/a> regardless of whether the campus reaches its housing production goals. The city was an initial plaintiff in the lawsuit against UC Berkeley but settled with the campus before Seligman issued his enrollment cap. \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-02-18-Amicus-Curiae-Letter-Supreme-Court-Case-No.-S273160.pdf\">The city never sought an enrollment cap\u003c/a>; in fact, its legal team wrote to the state Supreme Court in a request to side with the UC campus and lift the enrollment cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another campus, UC Davis, made a promise to tie enrollment growth to more housing but \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/gq0jfianaphpgtafrzvoqe3hq5fwxlz8\">the penalty for missing its targets is $500 per bed\u003c/a>, according to a legal deal it made with the local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bokovoy said UC Berkeley could expand its campus elsewhere in the Bay Area and not in the city of Berkeley, such as in nearby Richmond. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-suspends-plans-to-build-Global-Campus-9187281.php\">Early plans for a satellite campus\u003c/a> there fell through in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, if community groups target other campuses for their enrollment growth, those lawsuits may be short-lived if the court of appeals overturns Seligman’s ruling once it hears the full UC Berkeley case later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky, the UC Berkeley law school dean, said the UC Berkeley case introduces larger questions about the state’s main environmental law at the center of the lawsuit and the role courts play in university affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real question of how much do we want the courts in the name of [the environmental law] to be controlling enrollment in the UC system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The past few years have been long and stressful for Dahbia Benakli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2019, she got divorced. With no one to help take care of her two young daughters, she was forced to quit her job as a preschool teacher. Her father helped her buy a car so she could drive for Uber and DoorDash to make rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and ride-hailing work dried up. Together with unemployment insurance, Benakli was making just over $2,000 a month — almost half of which she was using to pay the rent for the one-bedroom Walnut Creek apartment she’s lived in for the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2021, as officials began easing COVID-19 restrictions, Benakli began planning a trip to visit her parents in Algeria, where she grew up. She hadn’t been back in five years, and she couldn’t wait to return, with her daughters in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s also when Benakli says the new landlord and owner of her building began harassing her and other tenants in an effort to push them out, even though she insists she had consistently paid her rent on time and had not in any way violated her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new owner — a local real estate investor named Steven Pinza, president of the Pinza Group — sent Benakli a letter, ordering her to move out by July 31, under the pretense of having to conduct major building repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a kitchen and a living room, with a woman and her two daughters.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dahbia Benakli with her two daughters in their small one-bedroom apartment in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“While we wish these repairs were not necessary or could be done without you moving out, it is not possible,” he wrote. “We have received multiple opinions, including from our insurance representatives, which state that these must be remediated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza sent these notices to tenants in 11 of the building’s 18 units. Many of those tenants, Benakli said, were people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza gave them the option to temporarily relocate for two months at their own expense “while renovations are made,” then pay an additional $600 per month when they returned — a proposition she could not afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"housing\"]Upon receiving the letters, most of the tenants moved out. But, as the July 31 deadline approached, Benakli and two of her neighbors decided not to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Pinza refused to accept her July rent payments, removed the tables and chairs in the courtyard, and informed her and her neighbors that anything left outside — like toys and bikes — would be thrown away. And a sudden barrage of loud construction work began just outside their doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My 7-year-old was like, ‘Mom, is he going to kick us to the street? Mom, what’s going to happen?’” said Benakli. “It’s horrible for her to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza did not respond to requests for comment, despite multiple attempts to reach him by phone and email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of California cities are moving to deter property owners from harassing their renters. Tenants’ advocates across the state say the frequency of reports of owner harassment has spiked during the pandemic — particularly after the enactment of federal and local eviction moratoriums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, for instance, Centro Legal de la Raza, a nonprofit immigrant and tenants’ rights group, reported a 70% jump in owner harassment complaints between March 2020 and June 2021. And the Concord-based nonprofit Monument Impact said the number of calls it received from renters roughly tripled during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-4-scaled-e1638575283263.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898079 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-4-scaled-e1638575283263.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of a gray apartment building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli keeps the window shades in her apartment closed most of the day in case the property owner walks by. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, a spate of cities throughout California — including Oakland, Los Angeles and Richmond — recently have implemented stronger tenant anti-harassment laws. Richmond’s ordinance, for example, bans property owners from refusing lawful rent payments or using “coercion, fraud or intimidation” to push tenants out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without being able to lean on any similar ordinance in Walnut Creek, Benakli and her neighbors sought help from the local chapter of a tenants’ rights group called Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), and \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/concord-ca/concord-tenants-locked-battle-property-manager-will-appeal-council\">held a small protest outside Pinza’s home in Walnut Creek\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACCE Legal Director Leah Simon-Weisberg says Pinza has been on her group’s radar for some time, having a reputation for buying apartment buildings in the area and evicting tenants to remodel them and raise rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He tends to just make money by pushing people out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a group of tenants in a Concord apartment building that Pinza managed appealed to city leaders for help, \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/concord-ca/concord-tenants-locked-battle-property-manager-will-appeal-council\">alleging that he raised their rents by 30%, threatened some of the tenants and tried to evict them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-2-scaled-e1638577421940.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898077 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-2-scaled-e1638577421940.jpg\" alt=\"A women does the hair of the girl in a bathroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli works on her daughter Leah’s hair in their bathroom. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Benakli says she decided to stay in her apartment and face potential eviction proceedings in court because she and her kids didn’t have anywhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing that Pinza would empty out her apartment if she left for any length of time, Benakli decided to cancel her trip to Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really afraid that if we go, he comes and leaves our stuff [on] the street,” she said. “He was so harassing, he was so rude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month she found out both of her parents had contracted COVID-19. And while her mother eventually recovered, her father died in July. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The past few years have been long and stressful for Dahbia Benakli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2019, she got divorced. With no one to help take care of her two young daughters, she was forced to quit her job as a preschool teacher. Her father helped her buy a car so she could drive for Uber and DoorDash to make rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and ride-hailing work dried up. Together with unemployment insurance, Benakli was making just over $2,000 a month — almost half of which she was using to pay the rent for the one-bedroom Walnut Creek apartment she’s lived in for the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2021, as officials began easing COVID-19 restrictions, Benakli began planning a trip to visit her parents in Algeria, where she grew up. She hadn’t been back in five years, and she couldn’t wait to return, with her daughters in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s also when Benakli says the new landlord and owner of her building began harassing her and other tenants in an effort to push them out, even though she insists she had consistently paid her rent on time and had not in any way violated her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new owner — a local real estate investor named Steven Pinza, president of the Pinza Group — sent Benakli a letter, ordering her to move out by July 31, under the pretense of having to conduct major building repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a kitchen and a living room, with a woman and her two daughters.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dahbia Benakli with her two daughters in their small one-bedroom apartment in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“While we wish these repairs were not necessary or could be done without you moving out, it is not possible,” he wrote. “We have received multiple opinions, including from our insurance representatives, which state that these must be remediated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza sent these notices to tenants in 11 of the building’s 18 units. Many of those tenants, Benakli said, were people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza gave them the option to temporarily relocate for two months at their own expense “while renovations are made,” then pay an additional $600 per month when they returned — a proposition she could not afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Upon receiving the letters, most of the tenants moved out. But, as the July 31 deadline approached, Benakli and two of her neighbors decided not to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Pinza refused to accept her July rent payments, removed the tables and chairs in the courtyard, and informed her and her neighbors that anything left outside — like toys and bikes — would be thrown away. And a sudden barrage of loud construction work began just outside their doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My 7-year-old was like, ‘Mom, is he going to kick us to the street? Mom, what’s going to happen?’” said Benakli. “It’s horrible for her to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza did not respond to requests for comment, despite multiple attempts to reach him by phone and email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of California cities are moving to deter property owners from harassing their renters. Tenants’ advocates across the state say the frequency of reports of owner harassment has spiked during the pandemic — particularly after the enactment of federal and local eviction moratoriums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, for instance, Centro Legal de la Raza, a nonprofit immigrant and tenants’ rights group, reported a 70% jump in owner harassment complaints between March 2020 and June 2021. And the Concord-based nonprofit Monument Impact said the number of calls it received from renters roughly tripled during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-4-scaled-e1638575283263.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898079 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-4-scaled-e1638575283263.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of a gray apartment building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli keeps the window shades in her apartment closed most of the day in case the property owner walks by. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, a spate of cities throughout California — including Oakland, Los Angeles and Richmond — recently have implemented stronger tenant anti-harassment laws. Richmond’s ordinance, for example, bans property owners from refusing lawful rent payments or using “coercion, fraud or intimidation” to push tenants out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without being able to lean on any similar ordinance in Walnut Creek, Benakli and her neighbors sought help from the local chapter of a tenants’ rights group called Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), and \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/concord-ca/concord-tenants-locked-battle-property-manager-will-appeal-council\">held a small protest outside Pinza’s home in Walnut Creek\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACCE Legal Director Leah Simon-Weisberg says Pinza has been on her group’s radar for some time, having a reputation for buying apartment buildings in the area and evicting tenants to remodel them and raise rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He tends to just make money by pushing people out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a group of tenants in a Concord apartment building that Pinza managed appealed to city leaders for help, \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/concord-ca/concord-tenants-locked-battle-property-manager-will-appeal-council\">alleging that he raised their rents by 30%, threatened some of the tenants and tried to evict them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-2-scaled-e1638577421940.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898077 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-2-scaled-e1638577421940.jpg\" alt=\"A women does the hair of the girl in a bathroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli works on her daughter Leah’s hair in their bathroom. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Benakli says she decided to stay in her apartment and face potential eviction proceedings in court because she and her kids didn’t have anywhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing that Pinza would empty out her apartment if she left for any length of time, Benakli decided to cancel her trip to Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really afraid that if we go, he comes and leaves our stuff [on] the street,” she said. “He was so harassing, he was so rude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month she found out both of her parents had contracted COVID-19. 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A framed photo of him now hangs in her kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Benakli and her daughters, along with their two neighbors, are still holding out in their apartments, waiting for Pinza to take them to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they haven’t heard anything from him since the end of July, and haven’t paid rent since then either, despite being willing to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear why Pinza hasn’t moved forward with eviction proceedings, although advocates at ACCE say it may be out of concern that he doesn’t have the legal grounds to evict them and could lose in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A women sits at a table, with a photo of a man behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-800x776.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1020x990.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-160x155.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1536x1491.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-2048x1987.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1920x1863.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli sits in her kitchen, below a portrait of her father, who recently died from CovId-19. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If he becomes human and, you know, come and talk to us and give us some more time and we’ll work it out,” Benakli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, she said she’s ready for whatever comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the uncertainty of her living situation, Benakli says things feels a bit more stable now. 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"content": "\u003cp>For parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the fear of dying with no solid plan in place for their children’s care runs deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a clawing specter — that haunting, grinding specter — in your mind: What’s going to happen when you pass?” said Jeff Peck, founder and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigwaveproject.org/farm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Wave Project\u003c/a>, a community led by parents for their adult children in Half Moon Bay.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michelle Garcia Winner, speech language pathologist\"]‘Humans are born to contribute to something greater than themselves. If a person only has a five-minute attention span and they can help for five minutes, that’s awesome, right? Because they feel like they’re part of something.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all began two decades ago, with Peck and his son starting Special Olympics basketball teams in this small coastal community a half hour’s drive south of San Francisco. Peck’s daughter, Elizabeth, has emotional and intellectual disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing over six feet tall, silver hair under his baseball cap, Peck has an easy but direct way of coaching. On a foggy Saturday on a field in Half Moon Bay, Peck instructs a small group of adults huddled around him to protect the ball. Then he tells them, “When I say rebound … ,” and everyone — including his daughter — screams, “Rebound!” at the tops of their lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea with these teams was for everyone to get a chance to hold the ball, to pass the ball, to aim for the backboard and, generally, have a good time with each other. The Pecks started with seven basketball players; now there are around 60, on four teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young men play basketball on a field on a foggy day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1834\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-800x573.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1020x731.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-160x115.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1536x1100.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-2048x1467.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1920x1376.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel (with the ball) and Matthew Hearn play basketball on a field at Big Wave. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They started when they were 8. Some of them are 30. Some of them started when they were 20. Now they’re in their 40s, but they keep coming back because that’s the community which they created,” Peck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As families sat in the bleachers over the years, the parents began to wonder whether these friendships could develop into something more permanent, a self-sustaining community of some kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all different levels of ability on the basketball court, and the higher, better players would help the lesser players. That’s what this population is,” said Big Wave Project board member \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigwaveproject.org/kim-gainza/\">Kim Gainza\u003c/a>, mother of Emmy, who will live at Big Wave. “They support each other and help each other, and if somebody makes a basket, everybody in the gym is cheering,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gainza summarized those conversations about the future:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Well, what’s your plan for Joey when you’re no longer here?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Well, I don’t know.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘What’s your plan for Emmy when you’re no longer here?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An idea takes root\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Peck bought a windy, grassy plot of land, about 20 acres, across from the Half Moon Bay Airport. At the time, he was mainly interested in providing a comfortable place for sports, with a little farming on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are rows of crops here: strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. Colorful chickens go about their business in a large coop. Big Wave sells fresh eggs, mainly to their families. To raise money, they also sell baskets of goodies from their garden — lavender products, flowers and eggs every second and fourth Saturday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A bed of strawberry plants grows.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave sells produce like strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the parents’ ambition for the place grew. Today, it includes plans for apartments, a community café staffed by residents, and office space to rent out for income. The idea is to provide a place where their adult children and other residents who join will soon be able to live independently, in a community of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want your child to be safe, but you want your child to have opportunity, a community. You want them to have a full life,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating an intentional community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is no small feat. Peck did well for himself as a contractor, which allowed him to buy this land 20 years ago. But it’s taken numerous hearings, environmental reviews and permit applications to get to the point where Big Wave could break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, there were vociferous, local objections to the development. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Sabrina Brennan\u003c/a>, a former San Mateo County harbor commissioner who opposed the project, said they ran the gamut\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\">: \u003c/strong>from concerns about the property being in a \u003ca href=\"///Users/pollystryker/Downloads/Skelly%20BigWaveWelness%202021%2010.18.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tsunami inundation zone\u003c/a> (mitigated in consultation with the county) and too close to \u003ca href=\"http://fitzgeraldreserve.org/visit\">Fitzgerald Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, to concerns that Big Wave’s residents would be too far away from social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major point of contention was Big Wave’s original proposal to build a large office park nearby, the proceeds of which would support the nonprofit, according to Gainza. Big Wave eventually dropped those plans to get approval from the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">California Coastal Commission\u003c/a> and San Mateo County for the mixed-use development now under construction, with permits approved in 2018 and 2020. Loans, donations and grants will cover costs instead. Concerns raised in a lawsuit by a local sanitary district were settled in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"> \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn a statement, Big Wave spokesperson Sarah Sherwood wrote that Big Wave “has been through years of examination and regulation, including the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and full approval and permits from the California Coastal Commission (2015), which Big Wave supports, as it advocates for adults with disabilities, the environment and the natural beauty of the Coast.” She added, “100 percent of all profits from farm sales, and any mom and pop businesses on the property go directly to our nonprofit, to serve the needs of adults with developmental disabilities, such as (autism), Down’s (syndrome) and brain injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green light finally came during the pandemic. Now 68, Peck knows he has a limited window of time to establish something financially sustainable that can outlast him and the other original parents. “All of the revenue from these commercial assets [will] go to keep the operating costs low,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core group of families paid about $60,000 each for their adult child to have a place at Big Wave, although costs have risen with construction prices and county requirements, like a traffic light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the 57 apartments where Elizabeth and other adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities will live, there will be office space for rent, with some tenants already slated, like a martial arts academy, a florist, a culinary academy and a public café. The café will be overseen by Julie and Paul Shenkman, who run the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.samschowderhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam’s Chowder House\u003c/a> nearby. They’re Big Wave parents, too, and their child Sam will live at Big Wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a breakfast-lunch café. It’ll be muffins and coffee and sandwiches and soups. It will provide a place for the kids to have a job,” Julie Shenkman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model is kind of like a co-op, or an intentional community or commune, with a board — including residents — to run it all. Peck knows this is a big, expensive experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life’s work,” he said. “When you have children that look at the world differently, you get an insight into life and death and history and spirituality and wisdom that you wouldn’t get otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Support for kids, but not for adults \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/RC/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Developmental Services\u003c/a> serves more than 350,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a sizable — and vulnerable — population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This state is more generous than many others. But still, parents have to know how to work the system, according to Michelle Garcia Winner, a San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>-based speech language pathologist who’s worked with people on the autism spectrum for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there are plenty of programs for \u003cem>kids\u003c/em> with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), but fewer that are available for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t ever see our government being able to manage the needs of adults in a meaningful way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Winner said overcoming isolation and finding purpose is very important for the IDD community, just as it is for the rest of us. “Humans are born to contribute to something greater than themselves. If a person only has a five-minute attention span and they can help for five minutes, that’s awesome, right? Because they feel like they’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Lawrence Fung, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, is the proud father of a neurodiverse teenager. He directs the \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Neurodiversity Project\u003c/a>, which runs several programs including a specialized employment program for people with autism called \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/NaW.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neurodiversity at Work\u003c/a>. It pairs people on the autism spectrum with jobs well-suited to their skill sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of neurodiverse people have significant strengths that can contribute much to society, if they are discovered,” Fung said. He added that it’s important for people like his son to be able to find work and build a strong sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tale of two brothers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two boys grin as they show off toy airplanes in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-800x591.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1020x754.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1536x1135.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-2048x1513.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1920x1419.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew (left) and Daniel Hearn as children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nancy Cadigan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Cadigan Hearn is in his mid-30s, 6 feet, 3 inches tall, with wavy brown hair and black-rimmed glasses. He’s also just 11 months older than his brother Daniel, one of the family members who keeps a close eye on Matthew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asperger’s was the term … that Matt was diagnosed with until they kind of changed it to being on the autistic spectrum,” Daniel said. The two of them have been a part of the Big Wave Project for more than a decade. Daniel coaches the Cougars, one of four teams at Big Wave. “Some of them can’t catch the ball thrown at full speed and some can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matt is the big man on the court. He is there to get rebounds and blocks and hopefully throw the ball back up if he catches a rebound,” said Daniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what position he likes to play, Matt said, “Due to my height, I was either a power forward or center, so I was having to get in the scrimmage and be a bit of a punching bag at times.” Matthew floats through the teams and is thinking about becoming a coach himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel knows the fear of what could happen to his brother Matthew one day, if the brothers get separated or, worse, if Daniel dies. Matthew lives now with an uncle in South San Francisco, but those who don’t have family willing to step up can face grim alternatives, like group homes that can feel institutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said people like his brother shouldn’t be warehoused in grim assisted-living facilities, as they often are in California. “What is schizophrenia? What is autism? What is Down syndrome?” he asks. “These [are] things that affect the community and shouldn’t be hidden away, you know? Something that’s so public … and accepting and welcoming [like Big Wave] is just so awesome,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave, Daniel said, has given Matthew an opportunity to explore and grow as a member of a community. “Matt has his own social circle here, people asking for advice and him really just holding his own audience when talking to a group of people. It was cool to walk into a situation where it’s not, ‘Oh, this is Daniel’s brother.’ It’s like, ‘No, I’m Matt’s brother. This is his space.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave meets people where they are. It’s OK here for Matthew to work out issues he’s struggling with, without being condemned or dismissed or patronized, said Daniel. “He’s started a bad habit of slapping his forehead when playing basketball. He’ll miss a shot and get really angry and call himself, ‘Stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And I’m like, ‘Where did that come from? Why are you doing that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A weather beaten sign outdoors says, \"Welcome to Bid Wave: Join Us Saturday Mornings, 2nd + 4th\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave has been a place for members to gather for two decades. The farm portion of the land sells eggs, lavender, vegetables and cut flowers. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel said he’s grateful to Matthew for teaching him more empathy and patience. But it’s also important, Daniel said, that Matthew have a space where he gets to be the big brother. Matthew has training as a peer counselor, something he uses with this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, if someone’s having a bad day, he’ll go over and chat with them,” Daniel said. “He’ll usually take them aside or have that kind of conversation to see how they’re doing and see how they’re feeling and talk it out, help them kind of process what they’re going through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers share a lot of history, much of it traumatic. Their mother died of brain cancer in 2009. Daniel guides Matthew through the grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He still feels that same kind of guilt, like, ‘Oh, I wish I could have been more supportive of things,’ and I just have to reinforce that ‘I feel the same way. You know, it’s totally fine that you feel that way. And that just means that you’re a good person.’” [aside tag=\"disability, community\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew gets philosophical when thinking about his mother. “Not that I’m a big religion person, but I do like to think that some part of us that makes us unique does move on when our time here passes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After their mother died, their father went through alcohol and opioid addiction. He was eventually institutionalized. And then, he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matthew has similar guilt [about] my mom [and] my dad of, ‘Oh, maybe I could have talked him out of drinking,’” Daniel said. “We did the best we could. And it’s stuff we talk about, you know? Guilt is there. And it’s OK to be guilty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave has been a critical solace and support to the brothers, and Daniel said he hopes to move into one of the planned caretaker apartments, to help his brother transition to independent living. He’s looking forward to helping Matthew do things like navigate his first fire drill, and cooking for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does Matthew hope for, as he gets ready to move into Big Wave once construction is finished?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am just hoping I can be a part of a community that accepts me for what I am, and not having me be something I am not,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all began two decades ago, with Peck and his son starting Special Olympics basketball teams in this small coastal community a half hour’s drive south of San Francisco. Peck’s daughter, Elizabeth, has emotional and intellectual disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing over six feet tall, silver hair under his baseball cap, Peck has an easy but direct way of coaching. On a foggy Saturday on a field in Half Moon Bay, Peck instructs a small group of adults huddled around him to protect the ball. Then he tells them, “When I say rebound … ,” and everyone — including his daughter — screams, “Rebound!” at the tops of their lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea with these teams was for everyone to get a chance to hold the ball, to pass the ball, to aim for the backboard and, generally, have a good time with each other. The Pecks started with seven basketball players; now there are around 60, on four teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young men play basketball on a field on a foggy day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1834\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-800x573.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1020x731.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-160x115.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1536x1100.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-2048x1467.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1920x1376.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel (with the ball) and Matthew Hearn play basketball on a field at Big Wave. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They started when they were 8. Some of them are 30. Some of them started when they were 20. Now they’re in their 40s, but they keep coming back because that’s the community which they created,” Peck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As families sat in the bleachers over the years, the parents began to wonder whether these friendships could develop into something more permanent, a self-sustaining community of some kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all different levels of ability on the basketball court, and the higher, better players would help the lesser players. That’s what this population is,” said Big Wave Project board member \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigwaveproject.org/kim-gainza/\">Kim Gainza\u003c/a>, mother of Emmy, who will live at Big Wave. “They support each other and help each other, and if somebody makes a basket, everybody in the gym is cheering,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gainza summarized those conversations about the future:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Well, what’s your plan for Joey when you’re no longer here?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Well, I don’t know.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘What’s your plan for Emmy when you’re no longer here?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An idea takes root\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Peck bought a windy, grassy plot of land, about 20 acres, across from the Half Moon Bay Airport. At the time, he was mainly interested in providing a comfortable place for sports, with a little farming on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are rows of crops here: strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. Colorful chickens go about their business in a large coop. Big Wave sells fresh eggs, mainly to their families. To raise money, they also sell baskets of goodies from their garden — lavender products, flowers and eggs every second and fourth Saturday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A bed of strawberry plants grows.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave sells produce like strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the parents’ ambition for the place grew. Today, it includes plans for apartments, a community café staffed by residents, and office space to rent out for income. The idea is to provide a place where their adult children and other residents who join will soon be able to live independently, in a community of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want your child to be safe, but you want your child to have opportunity, a community. You want them to have a full life,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating an intentional community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is no small feat. Peck did well for himself as a contractor, which allowed him to buy this land 20 years ago. But it’s taken numerous hearings, environmental reviews and permit applications to get to the point where Big Wave could break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, there were vociferous, local objections to the development. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Sabrina Brennan\u003c/a>, a former San Mateo County harbor commissioner who opposed the project, said they ran the gamut\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\">: \u003c/strong>from concerns about the property being in a \u003ca href=\"///Users/pollystryker/Downloads/Skelly%20BigWaveWelness%202021%2010.18.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tsunami inundation zone\u003c/a> (mitigated in consultation with the county) and too close to \u003ca href=\"http://fitzgeraldreserve.org/visit\">Fitzgerald Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, to concerns that Big Wave’s residents would be too far away from social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major point of contention was Big Wave’s original proposal to build a large office park nearby, the proceeds of which would support the nonprofit, according to Gainza. Big Wave eventually dropped those plans to get approval from the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">California Coastal Commission\u003c/a> and San Mateo County for the mixed-use development now under construction, with permits approved in 2018 and 2020. Loans, donations and grants will cover costs instead. Concerns raised in a lawsuit by a local sanitary district were settled in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"> \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn a statement, Big Wave spokesperson Sarah Sherwood wrote that Big Wave “has been through years of examination and regulation, including the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and full approval and permits from the California Coastal Commission (2015), which Big Wave supports, as it advocates for adults with disabilities, the environment and the natural beauty of the Coast.” She added, “100 percent of all profits from farm sales, and any mom and pop businesses on the property go directly to our nonprofit, to serve the needs of adults with developmental disabilities, such as (autism), Down’s (syndrome) and brain injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green light finally came during the pandemic. Now 68, Peck knows he has a limited window of time to establish something financially sustainable that can outlast him and the other original parents. “All of the revenue from these commercial assets [will] go to keep the operating costs low,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core group of families paid about $60,000 each for their adult child to have a place at Big Wave, although costs have risen with construction prices and county requirements, like a traffic light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the 57 apartments where Elizabeth and other adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities will live, there will be office space for rent, with some tenants already slated, like a martial arts academy, a florist, a culinary academy and a public café. The café will be overseen by Julie and Paul Shenkman, who run the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.samschowderhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam’s Chowder House\u003c/a> nearby. They’re Big Wave parents, too, and their child Sam will live at Big Wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a breakfast-lunch café. It’ll be muffins and coffee and sandwiches and soups. It will provide a place for the kids to have a job,” Julie Shenkman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model is kind of like a co-op, or an intentional community or commune, with a board — including residents — to run it all. Peck knows this is a big, expensive experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life’s work,” he said. “When you have children that look at the world differently, you get an insight into life and death and history and spirituality and wisdom that you wouldn’t get otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Support for kids, but not for adults \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/RC/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Developmental Services\u003c/a> serves more than 350,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a sizable — and vulnerable — population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This state is more generous than many others. But still, parents have to know how to work the system, according to Michelle Garcia Winner, a San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>-based speech language pathologist who’s worked with people on the autism spectrum for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there are plenty of programs for \u003cem>kids\u003c/em> with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), but fewer that are available for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t ever see our government being able to manage the needs of adults in a meaningful way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Winner said overcoming isolation and finding purpose is very important for the IDD community, just as it is for the rest of us. “Humans are born to contribute to something greater than themselves. If a person only has a five-minute attention span and they can help for five minutes, that’s awesome, right? Because they feel like they’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Lawrence Fung, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, is the proud father of a neurodiverse teenager. He directs the \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Neurodiversity Project\u003c/a>, which runs several programs including a specialized employment program for people with autism called \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/NaW.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neurodiversity at Work\u003c/a>. It pairs people on the autism spectrum with jobs well-suited to their skill sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of neurodiverse people have significant strengths that can contribute much to society, if they are discovered,” Fung said. He added that it’s important for people like his son to be able to find work and build a strong sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tale of two brothers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two boys grin as they show off toy airplanes in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-800x591.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1020x754.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1536x1135.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-2048x1513.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1920x1419.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew (left) and Daniel Hearn as children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nancy Cadigan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Cadigan Hearn is in his mid-30s, 6 feet, 3 inches tall, with wavy brown hair and black-rimmed glasses. He’s also just 11 months older than his brother Daniel, one of the family members who keeps a close eye on Matthew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asperger’s was the term … that Matt was diagnosed with until they kind of changed it to being on the autistic spectrum,” Daniel said. The two of them have been a part of the Big Wave Project for more than a decade. Daniel coaches the Cougars, one of four teams at Big Wave. “Some of them can’t catch the ball thrown at full speed and some can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matt is the big man on the court. He is there to get rebounds and blocks and hopefully throw the ball back up if he catches a rebound,” said Daniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what position he likes to play, Matt said, “Due to my height, I was either a power forward or center, so I was having to get in the scrimmage and be a bit of a punching bag at times.” Matthew floats through the teams and is thinking about becoming a coach himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel knows the fear of what could happen to his brother Matthew one day, if the brothers get separated or, worse, if Daniel dies. Matthew lives now with an uncle in South San Francisco, but those who don’t have family willing to step up can face grim alternatives, like group homes that can feel institutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said people like his brother shouldn’t be warehoused in grim assisted-living facilities, as they often are in California. “What is schizophrenia? What is autism? What is Down syndrome?” he asks. “These [are] things that affect the community and shouldn’t be hidden away, you know? Something that’s so public … and accepting and welcoming [like Big Wave] is just so awesome,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave, Daniel said, has given Matthew an opportunity to explore and grow as a member of a community. “Matt has his own social circle here, people asking for advice and him really just holding his own audience when talking to a group of people. It was cool to walk into a situation where it’s not, ‘Oh, this is Daniel’s brother.’ It’s like, ‘No, I’m Matt’s brother. This is his space.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave meets people where they are. It’s OK here for Matthew to work out issues he’s struggling with, without being condemned or dismissed or patronized, said Daniel. “He’s started a bad habit of slapping his forehead when playing basketball. He’ll miss a shot and get really angry and call himself, ‘Stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And I’m like, ‘Where did that come from? Why are you doing that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A weather beaten sign outdoors says, \"Welcome to Bid Wave: Join Us Saturday Mornings, 2nd + 4th\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave has been a place for members to gather for two decades. The farm portion of the land sells eggs, lavender, vegetables and cut flowers. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel said he’s grateful to Matthew for teaching him more empathy and patience. But it’s also important, Daniel said, that Matthew have a space where he gets to be the big brother. Matthew has training as a peer counselor, something he uses with this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, if someone’s having a bad day, he’ll go over and chat with them,” Daniel said. “He’ll usually take them aside or have that kind of conversation to see how they’re doing and see how they’re feeling and talk it out, help them kind of process what they’re going through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers share a lot of history, much of it traumatic. Their mother died of brain cancer in 2009. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of students at California State University may lose out on affordable housing because the Cal State system misread the fine print of a new state student housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The error — uncovered by CalMatters and acknowledged by Cal State officials — is straightforward but costly. In filling out paperwork required to get its portion of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/09/affordable-student-housing/\">$2 billion Gov. Gavin Newsom set aside for student housing\u003c/a>, Cal State incorrectly assumed that it could use that money — and only that money — to build dorms and apartments for lower-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, state rules allow Cal State to combine this limited pot of state money with outside funds, such as dollars from bonds the university regularly issues. Using a mix of funds allows a campus to either build larger structures to include more beds or combine projects to house more students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequence for Cal State’s blunder: Unless state lawmakers intervene, as many as 3,000 students will be deprived of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters discovered the discrepancy by reviewing building applications, official correspondence and other documents related to the three-year, $2 billion Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program that the Legislature approved in this year’s state budget. Over that three-year period, Cal State is slated to receive $600 million from the grant program to build housing at low rents for students.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Phil Ting\"]‘If CSU erroneously submitted their application based on a bureaucratic misunderstanding, we should give them every opportunity to correct it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The error comes after a Cal State vice chancellor implored the state to change the rules to accommodate more flexible spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state housing program is seen as one way to defray much of the costs of college attendance. More than half of Cal State and UC students from California don’t pay for tuition, but campus rent can tack on as much as $11,000 a year for Cal State students, though federal grants can help cover those expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably hundreds of thousands of California university and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/09/affordable-student-housing/\">community college students struggle to afford a stable place to live\u003c/a>. University housing is typically cheaper than off-campus housing in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-fixing-cal-state-s-snafu-may-be-difficult\">Fixing Cal State’s snafu may be difficult\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Cal State paperwork snafu directly affects the initial $150 million portion of funds carved out for the university system in this year’s state budget. Applications for using the funds were due by Oct. 31. Because the deadline came and went, a do-over for Cal State is tricky, said Rebecca Kirk, a project manager at the Department of Finance, an agency of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration that is overseeing management of the student housing grant money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because that initial filing round had an established deadline of October 31, that was kind of the cutoff on the initial rounds,” she said in an interview. Fixing the error would be “a pretty significant potential change” to the proposals, Kirk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has until March 1 of next year to submit to the Legislature a list of recommended housing projects the state should fund. From there, lawmakers and the governor will ultimately decide what gets funded in either the state’s budget process or a standalone bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether lawmakers could allow Cal State to come up with new construction plans to make better use of the money. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB169\">The law governing these funds\u003c/a> is silent on whether lawmakers can deviate from what campuses initially proposed in their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If CSU erroneously submitted their application based on a bureaucratic misunderstanding, we should give them every opportunity to correct it,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco who is chair of the Assembly’s budget committee, one of the two committees that will receive the Department of Finance’s recommendations. “Student housing is too important of an issue to let bureaucracy stand in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed at which the decisions have to be made is intentional: The law prioritizes affordable student housing projects that can start construction by the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal State system owned up to its error when asked by CalMatters. The university “misinterpreted” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Higher-Education-Student-Housing-Grant-Program-FAQs.pdf\">the guidance that the Department of Finance gave campuses\u003c/a> as “intending for the program to fund the student housing grant project in its entirety,” Vi San Juan, Cal State’s vice chancellor in charge of construction, wrote in a statement. The Department of Finance’s guidance, shared with the state’s public higher education systems Oct. 7, said that “proposals that include funding contributions from other sources will be considered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk said the system could revise its remaining proposals that aren’t funded in the first year of the program in the funding rounds for 2022 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-mixing-state-and-outside-funds-can-mean-more-student-housing\">Mixing state and outside funds can mean more student housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The potentially massive setback for students comes as a result of a misunderstanding of the rules by the Cal State system that has persisted for weeks. On Nov. 8, Robert Eaton, the Cal State vice chancellor who oversees financing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108/video?time%5Bassembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108%5D=7177.313904\">mistakenly told lawmakers in a public hearing that the student housing grant program’s funds cannot be combined with other money\u003c/a>. He then urged lawmakers to change the program’s rules to allow for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so “would spread the grant dollars over a larger number of projects, thereby potentially providing affordability benefits to an even greater number of students,” Eaton said. The Cal State system can easily borrow money through its existing construction bond program. Eaton said that already about a third of Cal State’s $8.8 billion construction bond debt is for financing student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say now’s an especially ripe time to plan for housing construction because borrowing rates are so low. The savings from near-zero interest plus state housing dollars drive down the cost of construction, which leads to student savings because campuses can charge less for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack McGrory, a Cal State trustee, said in an interview that if the system were allowed to use a mix of funds, it could build 5,000 to 6,000 beds rather than the roughly 3,300 it proposed. McGrory, a building developer in San Diego, spoke with CalMatters before it became clear that the flexibility Cal State sought was already built into the state student housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tactic the University of California knew to pursue in its state student housing applications. UCLA, for example, wants to use $35 million in state grant money and $29 million of its own \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UCLA-SB169-Suppl-App.pdf\">to build 179 doubles with private bathrooms\u003c/a>. Because of the new housing grant’s affordability rules, rents per student will be $600 a month when the project is completed in 2025 — about a third of what UCLA typically charges for such accommodations, the UC application said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UCB-SB169-Suppl-App.pdf\">UC Berkeley plans to use $100 million in state housing money\u003c/a> in conjunction with about $200 million in UC bond money to bring down the rents students will eventually pay. Mixing the two pots of funds would allow the campus to add 300 additional beds at rents of $1,100 — about a third less than what other campus students pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community college system, California’s largest public university system, does not typically build student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-a-history-of-housing-shortages\">A history of housing shortages\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California’s foray into financing student housing is new. Previously, lawmakers approved some money for campuses to cover short-term rent or hotel fees for students experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers’ growing interest in student housing is a reflection of their bid to have the UC and Cal State enroll more California students. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The error comes after a Cal State vice chancellor implored the state to change the rules to accommodate more flexible spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state housing program is seen as one way to defray much of the costs of college attendance. More than half of Cal State and UC students from California don’t pay for tuition, but campus rent can tack on as much as $11,000 a year for Cal State students, though federal grants can help cover those expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably hundreds of thousands of California university and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/09/affordable-student-housing/\">community college students struggle to afford a stable place to live\u003c/a>. University housing is typically cheaper than off-campus housing in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-fixing-cal-state-s-snafu-may-be-difficult\">Fixing Cal State’s snafu may be difficult\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Cal State paperwork snafu directly affects the initial $150 million portion of funds carved out for the university system in this year’s state budget. Applications for using the funds were due by Oct. 31. Because the deadline came and went, a do-over for Cal State is tricky, said Rebecca Kirk, a project manager at the Department of Finance, an agency of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration that is overseeing management of the student housing grant money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because that initial filing round had an established deadline of October 31, that was kind of the cutoff on the initial rounds,” she said in an interview. Fixing the error would be “a pretty significant potential change” to the proposals, Kirk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has until March 1 of next year to submit to the Legislature a list of recommended housing projects the state should fund. From there, lawmakers and the governor will ultimately decide what gets funded in either the state’s budget process or a standalone bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether lawmakers could allow Cal State to come up with new construction plans to make better use of the money. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB169\">The law governing these funds\u003c/a> is silent on whether lawmakers can deviate from what campuses initially proposed in their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If CSU erroneously submitted their application based on a bureaucratic misunderstanding, we should give them every opportunity to correct it,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco who is chair of the Assembly’s budget committee, one of the two committees that will receive the Department of Finance’s recommendations. “Student housing is too important of an issue to let bureaucracy stand in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed at which the decisions have to be made is intentional: The law prioritizes affordable student housing projects that can start construction by the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal State system owned up to its error when asked by CalMatters. The university “misinterpreted” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Higher-Education-Student-Housing-Grant-Program-FAQs.pdf\">the guidance that the Department of Finance gave campuses\u003c/a> as “intending for the program to fund the student housing grant project in its entirety,” Vi San Juan, Cal State’s vice chancellor in charge of construction, wrote in a statement. The Department of Finance’s guidance, shared with the state’s public higher education systems Oct. 7, said that “proposals that include funding contributions from other sources will be considered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk said the system could revise its remaining proposals that aren’t funded in the first year of the program in the funding rounds for 2022 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-mixing-state-and-outside-funds-can-mean-more-student-housing\">Mixing state and outside funds can mean more student housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The potentially massive setback for students comes as a result of a misunderstanding of the rules by the Cal State system that has persisted for weeks. On Nov. 8, Robert Eaton, the Cal State vice chancellor who oversees financing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108/video?time%5Bassembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108%5D=7177.313904\">mistakenly told lawmakers in a public hearing that the student housing grant program’s funds cannot be combined with other money\u003c/a>. He then urged lawmakers to change the program’s rules to allow for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so “would spread the grant dollars over a larger number of projects, thereby potentially providing affordability benefits to an even greater number of students,” Eaton said. The Cal State system can easily borrow money through its existing construction bond program. Eaton said that already about a third of Cal State’s $8.8 billion construction bond debt is for financing student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say now’s an especially ripe time to plan for housing construction because borrowing rates are so low. The savings from near-zero interest plus state housing dollars drive down the cost of construction, which leads to student savings because campuses can charge less for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack McGrory, a Cal State trustee, said in an interview that if the system were allowed to use a mix of funds, it could build 5,000 to 6,000 beds rather than the roughly 3,300 it proposed. McGrory, a building developer in San Diego, spoke with CalMatters before it became clear that the flexibility Cal State sought was already built into the state student housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tactic the University of California knew to pursue in its state student housing applications. UCLA, for example, wants to use $35 million in state grant money and $29 million of its own \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UCLA-SB169-Suppl-App.pdf\">to build 179 doubles with private bathrooms\u003c/a>. Because of the new housing grant’s affordability rules, rents per student will be $600 a month when the project is completed in 2025 — about a third of what UCLA typically charges for such accommodations, the UC application said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UCB-SB169-Suppl-App.pdf\">UC Berkeley plans to use $100 million in state housing money\u003c/a> in conjunction with about $200 million in UC bond money to bring down the rents students will eventually pay. Mixing the two pots of funds would allow the campus to add 300 additional beds at rents of $1,100 — about a third less than what other campus students pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community college system, California’s largest public university system, does not typically build student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-a-history-of-housing-shortages\">A history of housing shortages\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California’s foray into financing student housing is new. Previously, lawmakers approved some money for campuses to cover short-term rent or hotel fees for students experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers’ growing interest in student housing is a reflection of their bid to have the UC and Cal State enroll more California students. The state plans to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-college-budget/\">up enrollment by 15,000 students at the two systems next year\u003c/a> — and more students means more pressure to house them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2021/11/uc-housing-crisis-students-hotels/\">UC students have resorted to living in hotels\u003c/a> because campuses have no space for them and nearby apartments off-campus are either too expensive or unavailable. Eight UC campuses this fall had \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Nov%208%20LAO%20Student%20Housing%20Handout.pdf\">7,500 students on housing wait lists\u003c/a>. The Cal State system reported 8,700 students wait-listed for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two UC campuses — at Davis and Santa Cruz — are locked into legally binding deals with their local governments to expand enrollment only if they can add an equal amount of new beds. 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An influential lawmaker in higher education, Sacramento Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, proposed such a bill this year but it was heavily revised and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1377&cversion=20210AB137798AMD\">excluded the loan aspect when it finally passed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said his campus would benefit from added state investment because it’s coming close to maxing out the amount of money it can borrow from the bond market. UC San Diego wants to build enough student housing to offer a four-year housing guarantee to all undergraduates with rents that are at least 20% below market rate. The campus has been in a construction frenzy to get there: Khosla said the campus has built 6,000 new beds since 2013 and plans another 10,000 by 2030. 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Gavin Newsom already has signed some of the biggest housing bills in years, including a measure that allows more than one house to be built on the single-family lots that comprise the vast majority of California’s developable land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The housing affordability crisis is undermining the California Dream for families across the state, and threatens our long-term growth and prosperity,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/16/governor-newsom-signs-historic-legislation-to-boost-californias-housing-supply-and-fight-the-housing-crisis/\">Newsom said in a bill-signing statement \u003c/a>on Sept. 16 . “Making a meaningful impact on this crisis will take bold investments, strong collaboration across sectors and political courage from our leaders and communities to do the right thing and build housing for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David Garcia, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley\"]‘Lawmakers are willing to take on the traditional sacred cows of housing and single-family zoning.’[/pullquote]Two days after Californians gave him a vote of confidence by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-recall-election-results/\">rejecting the recall\u003c/a>, Newsom chose to return to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/housing-costs-high-california/\">the state’s housing crisis as his first significant policy action\u003c/a>, with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">700-odd bills on his desk\u003c/a> awaiting action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what do these new laws mean for housing affordability in a state whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article253695308.html\">median home prices\u003c/a> have already shot past $800,000?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not as much as the governor promoted, according to Dan Dunmoyer, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://cbia.org/\">California Building Industry Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to build, like, 500,000 homes next year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It shows the governor is walking the walk as it relates to this housing crisis,” said Kendra Noel Lewis, executive director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance, who has been campaigning to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article248544635.html\">allow duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes\u003c/a> throughout the city. “This takes a little pressure off at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of criteria for eligible homes is pretty lengthy, and notably excludes those in environmentally sensitive areas and in historic districts, as well as those that are subject to deed restrictions or rent control, or that have been occupied by a tenant in the last three years. To split a lot, neither of the parcels can be smaller than 1,200 square feet, and the homeowner must sign an affidavit that they will remain in the house for the subsequent three years — designed as a guardrail against potential speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a city could deny some projects, specifically those that pose a threat to health or safety, it would have to issue findings that meet a whole host of criteria, too, according to Moira O’Neill, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given current land and construction costs, the Terner Center estimates the new law could lead to about\u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SB-9-Brief-July-2021-Final.pdf\"> 660,000 new housing units across the state over several years\u003c/a> — a sizable fraction of the 1.8 million to 3.5 million units that experts say California needs to meet its housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it would be up to eligible homeowners to decide to turn their houses into duplexes or fourplexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite opponents’ warnings that the law will radically remake the traditional single-family neighborhoods the state is so famous for, the same study estimates less than 5% of the state’s 7.5 million single-family lots will be changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ritu Raj Sharma, a senior planner with Bay Area-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.dahlingroup.com/\">DAHLIN Group Architecture Planning\u003c/a>, predicts that mostly older homeowners will take advantage of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will give them an opportunity to stay in the same neighborhoods without having to move out, because previously, the option was you would cash out and move to a different neighborhood or a different state,” Sharma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new law doesn’t cap the cost of the new units, leading vocal opponents to argue it will only exacerbate the state’s affordability crisis. The law’s supporters, however, argue that adding a unit affordable to a middle-class family opens up a less expensive unit for a family one step below them on the economic ladder. And \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/08/california-housing-crisis-zoning-bill/\">keeping it illegal to build housing in most areas of the state won’t necessarily block gentrification\u003c/a>, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A historic investment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In signing the bill to address the California housing crisis, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cagovernor/status/1439325049702391809?s=11\">Newsom also promoted the $10.3 billion for housing in his “California Comeback Plan,”\u003c/a> which he said would produce 40,000 housing units. That plan also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/05/newsom-end-homelessness-pandemic-lessons/\">includes $12 billion to create more than 44,000 new housing units\u003c/a> and treatment beds for people experiencing homelessness.\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Living unmedicated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Eugenia Hunter has a hard time recalling how long she’s been staying in the tent she calls home at the bustling intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. Craft coffee shops and weed dispensaries are plentiful here, and one-bedroom apartments push $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least the rats aren’t all over me in here,” the 59-year-old Oakland native said on a bright August afternoon, stretching her arm to grab the zipper to her front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hot inside and the stench of wildfire smoke hung in the air. Still, after sleeping on a nearby bench for the better part of a year, she felt safer here, Hunter explained as she rolled a joint she’d use to ease the pain from also living with what she said is untreated pancreatic cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887857 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg\" alt=\"Woman with no hair sits in door of a tent on a bedframe, looking tired.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Hunter lives in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood surrounded by upscale apartments and hip eateries. She can’t find a place she can afford on the $930 per month she receives in federal disability payments. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hunter has been hospitalized repeatedly, including once last summer after she overdosed on alcohol and lay unconscious on a sidewalk until someone stopped to help. But she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, California’s health insurance program for low-income and disabled people, largely because it would force her to leave her tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My stuff keeps on getting taken when I’m not around and, besides, I’m waiting until I got a place to live to start taking my medication again,” Hunter said, tearing up. “I can’t get anything right out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter’s long and complex list of ailments, combined with her mistrust of the health care system, make her an incredibly difficult and expensive patient to treat. But she is exactly the kind of person California intends to prioritize under an ambitious experiment to move Medi-Cal beyond traditional doctor visits and hospital stays into the realm of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887890 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tents alongside a cement sidewalk in an urban park surrounded by buildings.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staying in a tent in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood has been a safer experience for Eugenia Hunter than sleeping on a nearby bench, which was her living situation for most of the year. However, she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, largely because it would force her to leave her tent. When she has left her tent in the past, her belongings have been stolen. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries. And they will receive \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">services that aren’t typically covered by health insurance plans\u003c/a>, such as getting security deposits paid, receiving deliveries of fruits and vegetables, and having toxic mold removed from homes to reduce asthma flare-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, California is plowing nearly $6 billion in state and federal money into the plan, which will target just a sliver of the 14 million low-income Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal: unhoused individuals or those at risk of losing their homes; heavy users of hospital emergency rooms; children and seniors with complicated physical and mental health conditions; and people in — or at risk of landing in — expensive institutions like jails, nursing homes or mental health crisis centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is trumpeting the first-in-the-nation initiative as the centerpiece of his ambitious health care agenda — and vows it will help fix the mental health and addiction crisis on the streets and get people into housing, all while saving taxpayer money. His top health care advisers have even \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">cast it as an antidote to California’s worsening homelessness crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the first-term Democrat, who faces a Sept. 14 recall election, is making a risky bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not have the evidence to prove this approach will work statewide, nor the workforce or infrastructure to make it happen on such a large scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11883165\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/041021_FacebookVaccine_AW_09-1020x680.jpeg\"]Critics also fear the program will do nothing to improve care for the millions of other Medi-Cal enrollees who won’t get help from this initiative. Medi-Cal has been slammed for failing to provide basic services, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2018-111.pdf\">including vaccinations for kids\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2018-122.pdf\">timely appointments for rural residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/Newsom_begins_mental_health_care_crackdown_with_county_sanctions.pdf\">adequate mental health treatment\u003c/a> for Californians in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the managed-care insurance companies responsible for most enrollees’ health will nonetheless be given massive new power as they implement this experiment. The insurers will decide which services to offer and which high-needs patients to target, likely creating disparities across regions and further contributing to an unequal system of care in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will leave a lot of people behind,” said Linda Nguy, a policy advocate at the Western Center on Law & Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen health plans excel in even providing basic preventative services to healthy people,” she said. “I mean, do your basic job first. How can they be expected to successfully take on these additional responsibilities for people with very high health needs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This revolution in Medi-Cal’s scope and mission is taking place alongside a parallel initiative to hold insurance companies more accountable for providing quality health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']If California’s experiment succeeds, other states will likely follow … but if the richest state in the country can’t pull off better health outcomes and cost savings, the movement to put health insurers into the business of social work will falter.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health officials are forcing Medi-Cal managed-care plans to reapply and meet stricter standards if they want to continue doing business in the program. Together, these initiatives will fundamentally reinvent the biggest Medicaid program in the country, which serves about one-third of the state population at a cost of $124 billion this fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/CalAIM-Proposal-03-23-2021.pdf\">experiment succeeds\u003c/a>, other states will likely follow, national Medicaid experts say. But if the richest state in the country can’t pull off better health outcomes and cost savings, the movement to put health insurers into the business of social work will falter.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What it takes to provide ‘whole person care’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Newsom signed the “California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal” initiative into law in late July — “CalAIM” for short — he celebrated it as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to completely transform the Medicaid system in California.” He declined an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11877000\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49414_028_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Beginning next year, public and private managed health care plans will pick high-needs Medi-Cal enrollees to receive nontraditional services from among \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/MCP-ECM-and-ILOS-Contract-Template-Provisions.pdf\">14 broad categories, including housing and food benefits, addiction care and home repairs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach is known as “whole person care,” and insurers will be required to assign patients a personal care manager to help them navigate the system. Insurers will receive incentive payments to offer new services and boost provider networks and, over time, the program will expand to more people and services. For instance, members of Native American tribes will eventually be eligible to receive treatment for substance use disorder, and incarcerated people will be enrolled in Medi-Cal automatically upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurers — currently 25 are participating — will focus most intensely on developing housing programs to combat the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">worsening homelessness epidemic\u003c/a>. The state was home to at least 162,000 unhoused people in 2020, a 6.8% increase since Newsom took office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jacey Cooper, director of Medicaid for California\"]‘If you generally focus on [the most vulnerable], you will be able to yield better health outcomes for those individuals and, ultimately, cost savings.’[/pullquote]Jacey Cooper, the state’s Medicaid director, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">all Medi-Cal members will eventually be eligible for housing services\u003c/a>. Initially, though, they will be available only to the costliest patients. State Medi-Cal expenditure data shows that 1% of Medi-Cal enrollees, many of the unhoused patients who frequently land in hospitals, account for a staggering 21% of overall spending. And 5% account for 44% of the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really need to focus on your top 1% to 5% of utilizers — that’s your most vulnerable,” Cooper said. “If you generally focus on that group, you will be able to yield better health outcomes for those individuals and, ultimately, cost savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials do not have a savings estimate for the program, nor a projection of how many people will be enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, Cooper said, builds on more than \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">25 successful regional experiments underway since 2016\u003c/a>. From Los Angeles to rural Shasta, big and small counties have provided vulnerable Medi-Cal patients with different services based on their communities’ needs, from job placement services to providing a safe place for an unhoused person to get sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">interim data from the experiments\u003c/a> that showed patients hospitalized due to mental illness were more likely to receive follow-up care, obtain treatment for substance abuse, avoid hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and see improvements in chronic diseases like diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argued that data — even though it is not comprehensive — is enough to prove the initiative will work on a statewide scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11870625\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43040_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]However, studies of similar programs elsewhere have yielded mixed results. New York provided housing services to high-cost Medicaid enrollees with chronic diseases and mental health and substance use disorders and found major reductions in hospital admissions and emergency department visits between 2012 and 2017, and saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/supportive_housing/evaluation.htm\">15% reduction in Medicaid spending.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Camden, New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/despite-new-doubts-hotspotting-help-for-heavy-health-care-users-marches-on/\">an early test of the “whole person care” approach\u003c/a> provided expensive Medicaid patients with intensive care coordination, but not nontraditional services. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1906848\">study concluded in 2020 that it hadn’t lowered hospital readmissions\u003c/a> — and thus didn’t save health care dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found we just couldn’t help people with housing as quickly as they needed help,” said Kathleen Noonan, CEO of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. “Many of these clients have bad credit, they may have a record, and they’re still using. Those are huge challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may find success where the coalition hadn’t because it will offer social services, she said, which the coalition has also started doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will take time. California will have five years to prove to the federal government it can save money and improve health care quality. Insurers will be required to track health outcomes and savings, and can boost services over time or drop programs that don’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the regional experiments have failed to serve low-income Black and Latino residents, according to the interim assessments conducted by Nadereh Pourat, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. She concluded that they have \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">primarily benefited white, English-speaking, middle-aged men\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11877585\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49286_002_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Cooper said \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/CalAIM-Proposal-03-23-2021.pdf\">the statewide initiative will tackle “systemic racism,” \u003c/a>initially as it targets \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/racial-inequalities-homelessness-numbers/\">unhoused individuals, who are disproportionately Black\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Eugenia Hunter, who is African American, and whose many untreated mental and physical illnesses, intertwined with her addictions, mean it will take a herculean effort — and cost — to get her off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter has gone without a stable housing situation for at least three years. Or maybe it’s five; her mental illness clouds her memory, and she erupts in anger when pressed for details. She eases her frustration sometimes with sleep, sometimes by smoking crystal meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stack of unopened health insurance letters sat beside Hunter one evening in late August. Her eyes were glassy when she struggled to remember when she received a cancer diagnosis — if she ever did at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bringing stakeholders on board\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Health insurers will not be required to offer social services to patients like Hunter because federal law requires nontraditional Medicaid services to be optional. But California is enticing insurers with bigger payouts and higher state rankings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are asking the plans and providers to stretch. We’re asking them to reform,” Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jacey Cooper, director of Medicaid for California\"]‘We are asking the plans and providers to stretch. We’re asking them to reform.’[/pullquote]The state is urging insurers to start with the roughly 130,500 Medi-Cal patients already enrolled in the local experiments. To prepare, they are cobbling together networks of nonprofits and social service organizations to provide food, housing and other services — much as they do with doctors and hospitals contracted to deliver medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">Services will also vary by insurer and region.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inland Empire Health Plan, for example, will offer some patients home repairs that reduce asthma triggers, such as mold removal and installing air filters. But Partnership HealthPlan of California will not offer those benefits in its wildfire-prone Northern California region because it doesn’t have an adequate network of organizations equipped to provide those services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with nearly all of California’s Medi-Cal managed-care plans, executives said they support the dual goals of helping patients get healthier while saving money, but “it is a lot to take on,” said Richard Sanchez, CEO of CalOptima, which serves Orange County and will start modestly, primarily with housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Nearly all the health plans will offer housing services right away, focusing on three categories of aid: helping enrollees secure housing and rent subsidies; providing temporary rent and security deposit payments; and helping tenants stay housed.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last thing I want to do is make promises that we can do all these things and not come through,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the health plans will offer housing services right away, focusing on three categories of aid: helping enrollees secure housing and rent subsidies; providing temporary rent and security deposit payments; and helping tenants stay housed, like intervening with a landlord if a patient misses rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Robert Moore, chief medical officer of Partnership HealthPlan\"]‘It’s a great deal of money for a small number of members … we are building something extraordinarily ambitious quickly, without the infrastructure in place to make it successful.’[/pullquote]Partnership HealthPlan, which serves 616,000 Medi-Cal patients in 14 Northern California counties, will prioritize its most at-risk enrollees with housing services, food deliveries and a “homemaker” benefit to help them cook dinner, do laundry and pay bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great deal of money for a small number of members and, frankly, there’s no guarantee it’s going to work,” said Dr. Robert Moore, the plan’s chief medical officer. “We are building something extraordinarily ambitious quickly, without the infrastructure in place to make it successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if offering new services costs more money than it saves, it’s a worthwhile investment, said John Baackes, CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan, the largest Medi-Cal plan, which serves more than 2 million patients in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When somebody has congestive heart failure, their diet should be structured around alleviating that chronic condition,” he said, explaining his plan to offer patients healthful food. “What are we going to do — let them eat ramen noodles for the rest of their lives?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, two plans are available to serve Hunter. The Alameda Alliance for Health, a public insurer established by the county, and Anthem Blue Cross, a private insurance company, will expand housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='healthcare, health care']“People like Eugenia Hunter are exactly who we want to serve, and we’re prepared to go out and help her,” said Scott Coffin, CEO of the Alameda Alliance for Health, who is also on a local street medicine team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they’d have to find her first — chaos and homeless encampment sweeps force her to move her tent frequently. And then they’d have to win her trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one moment, Hunter angrily described how health plans have tried to enroll her in services, but she declined, mistrustful of their motives. In the next moment, fighting back voices in her head, she said she desperately wants care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone is going to help me?” she asked. “All I want to do is pay my rent and succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kaiser Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at Kaiser Family Foundation, an endowed nonprofit providing information on health issues.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Living unmedicated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Eugenia Hunter has a hard time recalling how long she’s been staying in the tent she calls home at the bustling intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. Craft coffee shops and weed dispensaries are plentiful here, and one-bedroom apartments push $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least the rats aren’t all over me in here,” the 59-year-old Oakland native said on a bright August afternoon, stretching her arm to grab the zipper to her front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hot inside and the stench of wildfire smoke hung in the air. Still, after sleeping on a nearby bench for the better part of a year, she felt safer here, Hunter explained as she rolled a joint she’d use to ease the pain from also living with what she said is untreated pancreatic cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887857 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg\" alt=\"Woman with no hair sits in door of a tent on a bedframe, looking tired.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Hunter lives in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood surrounded by upscale apartments and hip eateries. 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But she is exactly the kind of person California intends to prioritize under an ambitious experiment to move Medi-Cal beyond traditional doctor visits and hospital stays into the realm of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887890 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tents alongside a cement sidewalk in an urban park surrounded by buildings.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staying in a tent in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood has been a safer experience for Eugenia Hunter than sleeping on a nearby bench, which was her living situation for most of the year. However, she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, largely because it would force her to leave her tent. When she has left her tent in the past, her belongings have been stolen. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries. And they will receive \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">services that aren’t typically covered by health insurance plans\u003c/a>, such as getting security deposits paid, receiving deliveries of fruits and vegetables, and having toxic mold removed from homes to reduce asthma flare-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, California is plowing nearly $6 billion in state and federal money into the plan, which will target just a sliver of the 14 million low-income Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal: unhoused individuals or those at risk of losing their homes; heavy users of hospital emergency rooms; children and seniors with complicated physical and mental health conditions; and people in — or at risk of landing in — expensive institutions like jails, nursing homes or mental health crisis centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Longtime South Lake Tahoe resident Bill Schaeffer has been unhoused, on and off, for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just two weeks ago, in a stroke of luck, a local support group for unhoused people helped him move into a small affordable unit in town.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Chelsea Cunningham, South Lake Tahoe resident\"]‘If it burns, then I can’t afford to live in Tahoe anymore, which is unfortunate, because I was born and raised there.’[/pullquote]“It was like hitting the lottery to find a place for $350 a month, which I can afford on my social security check,” said Schaeffer, 68, who first settled by the lake nearly 50 years ago. “Bought a lot of things to fix it up. Hopefully it’ll still be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886590/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin\">the Caldor Fire\u003c/a> burning in the Tahoe basin, Schaeffer is once again temporarily without a home. Since Monday, when all 22,000 South Lake Tahoe residents were ordered to leave, he’s been staying at an evacuation center in Carson City, across the border in Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I lose my place to live, then I’m going to probably be forced back to being homeless again,” he said, noting that rents here, like elsewhere throughout California, have risen to be “sky high.” While tiny by big-city standards, the \u003ca href=\"https://6cb80729-440c-4afe-b99d-5ce53610bec0.filesusr.com/ugd/f089b3_c27be1a605434fd894ff1cd5cdcb5234.pdf\">unhoused population in and around South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a> has increased with the rents, numbering roughly 110 at last official count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1898px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887574 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Man with long gray hair and beard reclines on a grassy lawn, facing the camera and holding a cellphone.\" width=\"1898\" height=\"1760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg 1898w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-800x742.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1020x946.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1536x1424.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1898px) 100vw, 1898px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Lake Tahoe resident Bill Schaeffer, 68, who was formerly unhoused, evacuated on Monday, just two weeks after moving into an affordable housing unit in town. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tahoe is known for its million-dollar ski villas and sleek Airbnbs — and, more recently, as a pandemic escape for city dwellers. But thousands of lower-income workers live here year round, keeping this tourist destination operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if their homes are lost in the fire, many fear they won’t have the luxury of moving back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That concern was evident this week among some residents staying in the evacuation center in Carson City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is José Mora, a 37-year-old construction worker from South Lake Tahoe\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> who waited until Monday’s evacuation order to flee in his car with just a bag of clothes. Mora moved here as a young child from his native Jalisco, Mexico, a region many of South Lake’s Latino residents come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southlaketahoecitycalifornia\">The Latino community here\u003c/a>, which has grown markedly in recent years, now makes up more than 30% of the city’s population. Many work low-wage construction and service jobs, which only since the pandemic have more widely come to be recognized as “essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora says if the area is hit hard by the fire, he’ll likely have to relocate in search of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it burns, it’s going to be hard, a lot of years to recover, and it’s not going to be the same,” he said. “It’s going to take years to be where we’re at right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887577 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Four people, one holding a dog, stand on a grassy island alongside a parking lot in front of a large camping tent.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-2048x1509.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1920x1415.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cunningham family, who left their homes in South Lake Tahoe and Meyers on Monday, are waiting out the blaze at the Carson City evacuation center. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s the same possibility 34-year-old Chelsea Cunningham foresees. A South Lake Tahoe native, she lives with her husband in a trailer they rent for $600 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it burns, then I can’t afford to live in Tahoe anymore, which is unfortunate, because I was born and raised there,” she said. “Tahoe has changed drastically over the course of my time being there. And it makes me sad to say that I can’t live in the place where I was born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham evacuated earlier this week with her parents, who live in nearby Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11886903 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg']Her father, Clay Cunningham, says he’s frustrated fire managers didn’t expect the blaze to breach the summit and cascade into the basin, as it did Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that they just really were overly confident,” he said. “They really thought they had a handle on this. That’s what they kept saying on the news. 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And just nothing they told us really came out to be what was really happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notwithstanding, Cunningham credited the heroic work of fire crews, who have so far successfully steered the flames away from South Lake and protected scores of houses in neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he says, there’s a real possibility the blaze could wipe out a large chunk of the region’s increasingly scarce and pricey housing stock, leaves those on the lower end of the economic spectrum in the lurch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real housing shortage in Lake Tahoe,” he said. “So now when you get rid of this much more housing, where’s everybody gonna live?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there are already plenty of restaurants and other businesses around town that can’t find enough employees to stay open full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gonna put a real damper on business in Lake Tahoe when there’s no housing — you’ll have no employees to take care of people when they come up here.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Since Monday, when all 22,000 South Lake Tahoe residents were ordered to leave, he’s been staying at an evacuation center in Carson City, across the border in Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I lose my place to live, then I’m going to probably be forced back to being homeless again,” he said, noting that rents here, like elsewhere throughout California, have risen to be “sky high.” While tiny by big-city standards, the \u003ca href=\"https://6cb80729-440c-4afe-b99d-5ce53610bec0.filesusr.com/ugd/f089b3_c27be1a605434fd894ff1cd5cdcb5234.pdf\">unhoused population in and around South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a> has increased with the rents, numbering roughly 110 at last official count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1898px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887574 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Man with long gray hair and beard reclines on a grassy lawn, facing the camera and holding a cellphone.\" width=\"1898\" height=\"1760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg 1898w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-800x742.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1020x946.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1536x1424.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1898px) 100vw, 1898px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Lake Tahoe resident Bill Schaeffer, 68, who was formerly unhoused, evacuated on Monday, just two weeks after moving into an affordable housing unit in town. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tahoe is known for its million-dollar ski villas and sleek Airbnbs — and, more recently, as a pandemic escape for city dwellers. But thousands of lower-income workers live here year round, keeping this tourist destination operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if their homes are lost in the fire, many fear they won’t have the luxury of moving back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That concern was evident this week among some residents staying in the evacuation center in Carson City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is José Mora, a 37-year-old construction worker from South Lake Tahoe\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> who waited until Monday’s evacuation order to flee in his car with just a bag of clothes. Mora moved here as a young child from his native Jalisco, Mexico, a region many of South Lake’s Latino residents come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southlaketahoecitycalifornia\">The Latino community here\u003c/a>, which has grown markedly in recent years, now makes up more than 30% of the city’s population. Many work low-wage construction and service jobs, which only since the pandemic have more widely come to be recognized as “essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora says if the area is hit hard by the fire, he’ll likely have to relocate in search of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it burns, it’s going to be hard, a lot of years to recover, and it’s not going to be the same,” he said. “It’s going to take years to be where we’re at right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887577 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Four people, one holding a dog, stand on a grassy island alongside a parking lot in front of a large camping tent.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-2048x1509.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1920x1415.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cunningham family, who left their homes in South Lake Tahoe and Meyers on Monday, are waiting out the blaze at the Carson City evacuation center. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s the same possibility 34-year-old Chelsea Cunningham foresees. A South Lake Tahoe native, she lives with her husband in a trailer they rent for $600 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it burns, then I can’t afford to live in Tahoe anymore, which is unfortunate, because I was born and raised there,” she said. “Tahoe has changed drastically over the course of my time being there. And it makes me sad to say that I can’t live in the place where I was born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham evacuated earlier this week with her parents, who live in nearby Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Her father, Clay Cunningham, says he’s frustrated fire managers didn’t expect the blaze to breach the summit and cascade into the basin, as it did Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that they just really were overly confident,” he said. “They really thought they had a handle on this. That’s what they kept saying on the news. That’s why a lot of people were not prepared. And just nothing they told us really came out to be what was really happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notwithstanding, Cunningham credited the heroic work of fire crews, who have so far successfully steered the flames away from South Lake and protected scores of houses in neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he says, there’s a real possibility the blaze could wipe out a large chunk of the region’s increasingly scarce and pricey housing stock, leaves those on the lower end of the economic spectrum in the lurch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real housing shortage in Lake Tahoe,” he said. “So now when you get rid of this much more housing, where’s everybody gonna live?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there are already plenty of restaurants and other businesses around town that can’t find enough employees to stay open full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gonna put a real damper on business in Lake Tahoe when there’s no housing — you’ll have no employees to take care of people when they come up here.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ylvie Fraley describes the home she lived in with her mother and younger sister in the Santa Cruz Mountains community of Bonny Doon as “incredibly unique.” Her mom, Leigh-Anne Lehrman said “it was built by hippies, for sure.” Not only was it a beautiful home, but it had become a community gathering space — the place every high school after-prom party was hosted, every graduation, and every birthday, even special occasions for those outside their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of Aug. 15, 2020, the power went out at Fraley’s home as rare \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833586/photos-rare-august-thunderstorm-sees-lightning-streak-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lightning storms\u003c/a> approached. Then 18 years old, she was home with her younger sister while her mom stayed in Woodside undergoing cancer treatment. Fraley, bored without electricity, busied herself by walking through the house collecting items, just in case they would need to leave — if the lightning storms ignited a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only reason we took anything was because I was bored and had nothing else to do except to walk through the house and put stuff in a trash bag,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is familiar with fire — in 2017, Fraley’s grandfather lost his North Bay home in the deadly and massively destructive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire/\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>. Still, when Fraley and her sister left in the early hours of Aug. 16, after her mom sent a neighbor to look for them, they fully expected to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time many people woke up on Aug. 16, the widespread lightning storms had ignited numerous fires in and around the Santa Cruz Mountains, blazes that would later become known as the CZU Lightning Complex fires. In a March 2021 community meeting, Cal Fire said the CZU fires were the largest in the recorded history of Santa Cruz County. They killed one person, forced the evacuation of over 77,000 people in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties and destroyed 911 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after the CZU fires began, just a few miles away from Fraley’s home in the San Lorenzo Valley, Antoñia Bradford rushed around her house gathering her kids and dogs while frantically texting her husband who was in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I packed up my five kids and my two dogs and grabbed my father’s ashes and some paintings,” Bradford said, but, “the way that we were reading things, the fire was moving away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days later, Bradford’s home – and Fraley’s – had been transformed into rubble and ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Can’t Abandon This Community’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over 10 months after the CZU fires, many are still working to process and rebuild their lives — both physically and emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford, who has lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 13 years and appreciates how down-to-earth people are, is still mourning the losses. But she is committed to staying and rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even express how challenging it is. The grief is so deep,” she said. “I can’t abandon this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leigh-Anne Lehrman, CZU fires survivor\"]‘Of all the things we lost in 2020, and there were a lot of them, the thing that I miss the most — that I don’t think I’ll ever, ever replicate in my life — is our community up there.’[/pullquote]A few days before KQED spoke to her, Bradford said a neighbor had dropped off soup for her — someone she had never met before. “The people here are amazing, and I feel like I would be really hard pressed to find that anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leigh-Anne Lehrman, Fraley’s mom, ranked the loss of community as the one she feels most keenly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the things we lost in 2020, and there were a lot of them, the thing that I miss the most — that I don’t think I’ll ever, ever replicate in my life — is our community up there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Priced Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fraley and Lehrman, who were renters, said they were priced out after losing their home to the CZU fires. Lehrman said they had a hard time finding a place, even though they had financial assistance in the form of insurance money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rent’s just shot up,” she said, adding that they were lucky to have found the place they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehrman said it was the 40th place she contacted before someone responded. If they didn’t have the insurance money, she said there’s no way they would be able to afford it. Since the fire, she’s been renting a place in Aptos for $6,500 per month. The Bonny Doon home she rented before it burned cost $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the cost of rent that’s kept her away from her close-knit community. Lehrman said she hasn’t been back to the neighborhood since the fires for personal reasons. “I’ve chosen not to ever go back up there,” she said. She doesn’t want to ruin the memories she has.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Gone in an Instant’ – Loss of Home, and Income\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For others, the fires took away not only a home, but a source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am 76 years old, disabled, a lung cancer survivor, and I will probably end up living in a trailer,” said CZU fires survivor Catherine Wilson. She has owned her home since she was 23. “I worked my whole life to have the property I had in Boulder Creek,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Catherine Wilson, CZU fires survivor\"]‘I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people.’[/pullquote]Wilson’s property consists of a third of an acre with an 800-square-foot one-bedroom house that she used as her own residence, and a smaller one-bedroom cabin she rented out. Both structures were completely destroyed by fire. She told KQED she had no mortgage payments and said the cabin rent basically served as her pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson had insurance for both structures – but despite receiving policy limits for both homes, she said it may not be enough to rebuild even one structure. Even if she is able to rebuild one house, she said she’ll probably have to sell because she’s lost her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson stands on the Boulder Creek property where her home and a smaller cabin once stood, on April 9, 2021. Both were destroyed by the CZU fires last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance, but got sent to the Small Business Administration since FEMA said she was a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SBA then bounced her back and forth between its homeowner and business sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I qualified for $40,000 but it had to be spent only on personal property and only after I have used my insurance proceeds,” she said. “Here’s the thing: I need a house before I can buy any personal property to put into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson holds the only item she was able to recover from her home – a sword – after the CZU fires destroyed both her home and her rental cabin last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson is continuing to work on the rebuilding process, but she’s not sure if she’ll ever be able to get back to the life she had before — a secure residence she could live in, and a small income from her rental property that provided enough to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 50 years to get those things,” she said. “And they were gone in an instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges to Rebuilding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilson said there are many CZU fire survivors worse off than she is, and she worries that for many, the county approvals and regulations necessary to rebuild will prove insurmountable barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the challenging topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains, many fire survivors must undergo a geologic survey of their properties – conducted by the county – before they can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire-burned soil doesn’t hold together and doesn’t cling to the hillside,” said Kirsten Flynn, a fire survivor who has been working to rebuild a family home in Boulder Creek that was used as a rental for the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager for Santa Cruz County, echoed Flynn in describing how after a big fire, the ground is unable to absorb water and rainfall can create rivers of mud and debris flows, “which have the capability of taking out cars, houses and lives — anything in its path.” So these geologic surveys are essential to ensure the ground is ready to be rebuilt on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoppin said the risk from debris flow can be greater than the fire itself. A more in-depth explanation of debris flow can be found on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcounty.us/FireRecovery/DebrisFlow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flynn and many others hoping to rebuild, the geologic surveys have delayed them from moving to the next step in the process. Depending on the complexity of a property, survey fees can add up to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kirsten Flynn, CZU fire survivor on the complicated rebuilding process\"]‘It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played.’[/pullquote]In addition to the geologic survey, homeowners must also pass a county-conducted fire safety check to ensure the fire department would be able to safely access the building in a future emergency, in addition to an environmental health assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the fire safety, environmental and geologic pre-clearances cost her $1,254. But for final clearances it can cost much more. Bradford said costs can skyrocket to over $5,000 if the county requires advanced surveys by an outside geologist in addition to the county review fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s issues beyond what we can control,” Flynn said. “It’s not like just getting a plan and building something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things slightly more complicated, the environmental health assessment is conducted by the same overburdened county department that has been handling the county’s response to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A catastrophe [the fire] occurred, on top of a global pandemic,” said Flynn. “For different reasons. The county is struggling and the fire victims are struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to clearly track all of the labyrinthine steps she’s had to go through, Flynn created a graphic to share with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played,” she said, describing the nightmare process of getting all the checks needed to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11876469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg 631w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7-160x122.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CZU fires survivor Kirsten Flynn created this flow chart to illustrate the complexity of the rebuilding process. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kirsten Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For others, like Brian and Emma Dean, who lost their Boulder Creek home to the CZU fires, the cost of materials is proving another barrier to rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Deans got insurance money and are in the process of rebuilding – but because of the significant increase in the cost of lumber (\u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lumber-price-outlook-futures-shortage-demand-commodity-inflation-2021-6-1030537230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up 400% at some points over the past year\u003c/a>), the insurance doesn’t cover their current rebuilding cost estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of June, Brian Dean estimated they’re short up to $300,000 – almost double the original rebuilding estimate they received. They’re waiting for lumber prices to go down before they attempt to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Emma Dean hold a photo of their house at the property in Boulder Creek on April 9, 2021, where the home stood before it was destroyed by the CZU Lighting Complex fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of all of this are proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/03/06/santa-cruz-community-pushes-for-answers-on-fire-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft fire safety rules from the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finalized, those regulations could significantly impact how fire survivors across the state can rebuild. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, the regulations could result in new guidelines on how wide the region’s notoriously narrow, winding residential roads need to be in order to safely accommodate emergency vehicles – and additional costs could wind up being the responsibility of homeowners. Public comment on the draft regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/04/27/coast-line-comment-period-opened-on-fire-safe-regs/\">just closed on June 22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that the longer you wait, the more politics there will be,” Brian Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California’s drought continues to worsen and temperatures increase over the summer, fuel moisture levels in many areas are far lower than usual for this time of year. Researchers who have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975505/bone-dry-bay-area-forests-portend-fierce-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measuring moisture levels\u003c/a> in the forest and chaparral of the Santa Cruz Mountains said levels are lower than they’ve ever seen since they began measuring eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1975505 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/06/RS50133_GettyImages-610889522-qut-1020x627.jpg']In mid-April, Santa Cruz County launched a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>, which provides resources and information on ongoing recovery efforts, as well as how to prepare for a disaster. The site will also be a home for information on county efforts on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Chief Nate Armstrong said San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties have taken proactive steps regarding prevention efforts. And one of the biggest local efforts is through education, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=311054987312700&ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online webinars\u003c/a> as well as an increase in defensible space inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bradford, who is still mourning the loss of her home while working to rebuild, she would like to see more community efforts for fire preparation. With this in mind, she started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/735503167085946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook group\u003c/a> dedicated to fire prevention in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re choosing to live here,” she said. “We need to be proactive about what fire safety means and really engaging with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford feels like the county and state have already forgotten the people that lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of my anxiety around all of this — I’m not seeing a proactive stance taken by the state, taken by the county to protect us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to Help: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3/About/HowYouCanHelp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information on donating and volunteering\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/680978849295753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SLV Support Group for Home Loss-CZU Lightning Complex fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wilson’s property consists of a third of an acre with an 800-square-foot one-bedroom house that she used as her own residence, and a smaller one-bedroom cabin she rented out. Both structures were completely destroyed by fire. She told KQED she had no mortgage payments and said the cabin rent basically served as her pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson had insurance for both structures – but despite receiving policy limits for both homes, she said it may not be enough to rebuild even one structure. Even if she is able to rebuild one house, she said she’ll probably have to sell because she’s lost her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson stands on the Boulder Creek property where her home and a smaller cabin once stood, on April 9, 2021. Both were destroyed by the CZU fires last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance, but got sent to the Small Business Administration since FEMA said she was a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SBA then bounced her back and forth between its homeowner and business sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I qualified for $40,000 but it had to be spent only on personal property and only after I have used my insurance proceeds,” she said. “Here’s the thing: I need a house before I can buy any personal property to put into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson holds the only item she was able to recover from her home – a sword – after the CZU fires destroyed both her home and her rental cabin last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson is continuing to work on the rebuilding process, but she’s not sure if she’ll ever be able to get back to the life she had before — a secure residence she could live in, and a small income from her rental property that provided enough to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 50 years to get those things,” she said. “And they were gone in an instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges to Rebuilding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilson said there are many CZU fire survivors worse off than she is, and she worries that for many, the county approvals and regulations necessary to rebuild will prove insurmountable barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the challenging topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains, many fire survivors must undergo a geologic survey of their properties – conducted by the county – before they can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire-burned soil doesn’t hold together and doesn’t cling to the hillside,” said Kirsten Flynn, a fire survivor who has been working to rebuild a family home in Boulder Creek that was used as a rental for the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager for Santa Cruz County, echoed Flynn in describing how after a big fire, the ground is unable to absorb water and rainfall can create rivers of mud and debris flows, “which have the capability of taking out cars, houses and lives — anything in its path.” So these geologic surveys are essential to ensure the ground is ready to be rebuilt on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoppin said the risk from debris flow can be greater than the fire itself. A more in-depth explanation of debris flow can be found on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcounty.us/FireRecovery/DebrisFlow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flynn and many others hoping to rebuild, the geologic surveys have delayed them from moving to the next step in the process. Depending on the complexity of a property, survey fees can add up to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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