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"content": "\u003cp>Jocelyn Foreman was full of nervous energy and dread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a crisp morning in early March. She arrived at the Pleasant Hill Community Center to find a handful of men and women in a semicircle outside the sandstone-colored building, clutching folders and holding cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were there for a foreclosure auction, poised to bid on the house that Foreman rents: a single-story, 1,500-square-foot tract home in Pinole. It’s a simple home — set back from the street — with a steep sloping backyard, worn carpets and a roof that leaks when it rains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jocelyn Foreman\"]‘I thought I was breaking the cycle. And then I felt like my dreams and my memories were being auctioned away.’[/pullquote]A man with a clipboard started the bidding at $175,000. A woman in a maroon sweatshirt and another man offered competing bids. First $176,000. Then $177,000. Then $180,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just kept going higher and higher and higher,” Foreman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bidding finally stopped at $600,000. Foreman’s stomach dropped. “And I just thought, ‘Oh my God.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman had hoped she would be able to buy the house and continue living there thanks to a new state law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840140/california-law-prioritizes-people-over-corporate-home-buyers\">signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall\u003c/a>, that is designed to prevent pandemic profiteering — and give tenants like her a path to homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law, which allows tenants and nonprofits a 45-day window to match any bid made at a foreclosure auction, provides no money to fund the purchases. So that means Foreman will have to find a way to raise the money herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Foreman, 50, a Black mother of five and grandmother of three, the house in Pinole is much more than a place to rent. She’d been homeless for the better part of the past 20 years, and it was only after she began renting the home in 2018 that she had been able to pay her bills on time and find stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was breaking the cycle,” she said. “And then I felt like my dreams and my memories were being auctioned away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman chased after the woman with the winning bid, to find out who her new landlord would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said, “Wedgewood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman knew the name. The Redondo Beach real estate firm drew national scrutiny last year after a group of Black homeless mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\">occupied a vacant house the company owned in West Oakland\u003c/a>. The occupiers, who called themselves Moms 4 Housing, sought to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said had led to rising rents and growing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite that controversy, and a global pandemic that’s caused mass unemployment, Wedgewood has continued to buy houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a review of public documents by KQED reveals the company went on a spending spree during the pandemic — funneling at least $152.6 million through a network of shell companies to purchase no fewer than 276 properties throughout California. All but 15 of those properties are single-family homes, like Foreman’s three-bedroom house in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11868185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-800x410.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-1020x522.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-160x82.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-1536x787.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>Some houses have been quickly flipped for a profit. For example, Wedgewood bought a single-story, shell-pink bungalow in North Berkeley last September for $1.15 million and then sold it for $1.71 million in March, after installing new appliances and slapping on a fresh coat of slate-gray paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the system we’re up against,” said Steve King, the executive director of the nonprofit Oakland Community Land Trust. “Trying to carve out ways that we can retain some of these properties in the community’s hands, that’s the real challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood declined multiple requests for a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we know is we bought a house and it is occupied,” company founder and CEO Greg Geiser wrote in an email. Geiser added that he knew someone wanted to match the firm’s offer, but that neither he, nor the company, knew who that was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood’s buying binge continued after the law went into effect in January, KQED found, with the company acquiring at least 102 homes. The properties were purchased across 22 California counties and, in almost every case, the company paid in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern California based real estate investment corporation, Wedgewood, purchased this home in Berkeley in Sept. 2020. It was photographed on March 31, 2021. It’s one of more than 200 properties the company purchased throughout the state during the coronavirus pandemic, even as prices for single-family homes soared. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That has left Foreman in a race against time. She has until April 18 to match Wedgewood’s bid on the house in Pinole. But the odds are not in her favor. With bad credit and no savings, she doesn’t qualify for a mortgage. Nor would the $2,100 she pays in rent cover the mortgage payments for a $600,000 home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she’s going to need cash — and a lot of it — or she’s afraid she’ll be forced to leave. Foreman reached out to a nonprofit legal aid organization who helped launch \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\">an online fundraising effort\u003c/a> on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The House That Moms Built\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When they occupied the house in West Oakland, the women behind Moms 4 Housing argued Wedgewood’s rise was part of a fundamental shift in the housing market marked by a seismic transfer of wealth from individuals to corporations. That shift, they said, began in the wake of the Great Recession, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/end-sight-us-foreclosure-crisis#endnote1\">nearly 10 million people lost their homes\u003c/a> through foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]Cash-rich investors and Wall Street private-equity giants, like Blackstone, seized on the crisis as an opportunity to buy cheap, foreclosed homes. On the other side were homeowners, who lost an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://furmancenter.org/files/publications/HousingandtheGreatRecession.pdf\">$7 trillion in home equity\u003c/a> between 2006 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, deputy director of the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, said speculators “were the ones that had a lot of cash on hand at the time and who were realizing there was a great opportunity to make a lot of money even as people were suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After armed sheriffs’ deputies came to evict the moms, Wedgewood \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\">agreed to sell the home\u003c/a> to the Oakland Community Land Trust, a nonprofit created in the wake of the Great Recession to buy foreclosed homes and keep them permanently affordable. The home will soon become a transitional shelter for homeless mothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy also inspired state Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat who represents Oakland, to introduce legislation reforming the foreclosure process so tenants like Foreman would have the opportunity to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I introduced and passed SB 1079, my purpose was to give individual homeowners the ability to compete against corporate [purchasers],” Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman pulls weeds from her front yard in Pinole on March 19, 2021. Foreman would like to landscape the yard if she is able to purchase the property. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the moms won their fight, there’s no guarantee the new law will help Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without any funding attached to the law, tenants of foreclosed properties must raise the entire amount themselves, or secure a traditional mortgage — something that can be difficult for someone with bad credit, little savings or who does not have the ability to borrow from friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California Properties Purchased by Wedgewood During the Pandemic\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Xdu2z\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Xdu2z/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"780\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would-be homeowners could also partner with a nonprofit or land trust to buy the home, as the Oakland moms group did with the Oakland Community Land Trust. But Ian Winters, the executive director of the Northern California Community Land Trust, said that even for groups like his, raising the amount needed on short notice is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very, very, very few housing organizations and very few nonprofit organizations that are sitting on a giant pile of cash that can afford to regularly shell out $600,000 or $700,000 to purchase a property at auction,” he said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nMoney aside, Winters said, his organization still wants to help. So the land trust is working to secure financing to buy Foreman’s property and turn it into permanent, affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this arrangement, Foreman would eventually secure a traditional mortgage to buy the home at an affordable price, but the trust would maintain ownership of the land. This way, if it’s ever sold, it would still be affordable for the next resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 5, however, the \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\">$14,916 Foreman had raised online\u003c/a> was still a far cry from the $250,000 the land trust estimates it needs to keep the $600,000 home affordable for Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Legacy Lost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before Foreman moved in, the house in Pinole had been in the same family for more than 30 years. Reginald Mayfield, a longshoreman for 51 years, bought the house in 1984 and spent his retirement years there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the few years before his death in 2018, at age 82, he had planned a major rehab of the 1970s home, and took out a loan on the house. It was a project he planned to complete with his daughter, Rochelle Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent a lot of time going to stores, just doing a lot of window shopping, with him,” she said. “I would grumble, but it was fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868044\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-800x1333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-800x1333.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-1020x1700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-160x267.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-922x1536.jpg 922w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-1229x2048.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-scaled.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of Reginald Mayfield, far left, was taken in 1960. He was part of a men’s club called The Notables. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Rochelle Mayfield.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she didn’t grow up at the house, Rochelle said it represented one piece of the legacy her grandparents left for her. They moved to the Bay Area from Texas and Louisiana, as part of the Great Migration, when millions of Southern Black families migrated to the North and West in search of better lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayfield’s grandparents settled in Oakland and Berkeley, picking up war-time jobs and starting their own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that both sets of grandparents had in common was that they bought property,” Mayfield said. “And for Black folks at that time to be able to do that, it’s extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Foreman and her teenage children were couch surfing — something they had done on and off since 2002 — when she first heard about the Pinole house. A coworker told her that his uncle, Reginald Mayfield, had just passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman at the time had two jobs. The first was at the Berkeley Unified School District, connecting families in need with food, employment or housing resources. She was also moonlighting as an in-home caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she still couldn’t find a place to live that would accommodate her teenage children and didn’t require a brutal commute to her job and to her kids’ school in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard about the vacant home, she contacted Rochelle Mayfield, who was sympathetic to Foreman’s plight and agreed to rent to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a chance on her,” Mayfield said, “when she needed someone to take a chance on her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman met Mayfield in Oct. 2018 in the parking lot of a Whole Foods to hand over the deposit. Foreman’s car payment was due the same day, so she had to choose: give up her car or put the deposit down?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She handed over the check, and then, after Mayfield left, opened the trunk of her car. There, in neat stacks, were all of her belongings. She took a picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because in my mind,” Foreman said, “this was going to be the last time I was doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Foreman said she hasn’t looked back: “I’ve been on my feet ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After handing over the deposit in 2018 for the house she was preparing to rent, Jocelyn Foreman took a picture of the trunk of her car. There, in bags, were all of her belongings. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Jocelyn Foreman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is, until she got a notice, in February 2020, posted on the front door of her home, saying the house would be sold at a foreclosure auction the following month. Mayfield had been having a hard time making the mortgage payments on both the Pinole home and a house in Richmond she inherited from her mother, where she also lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the pandemic, the house in Pinole didn’t actually sell until March, 2021, when Wedgewood made the winning bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to answer questions about whether it intends to resell Foreman’s house or rent it out. California law prevents evictions for nonpayment of rent during the pandemic, but it won’t protect Foreman if Wedgewood decides to sell the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the company said that, in general, Wedgewood sells the homes it buys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a real estate company that buys distressed housing and then heavily invests in renovating and restoring the homes as needed,” Wedgewood said in an emailed statement. “We then sell, in partnership with agents throughout the state, to new homeowners, the majority of which are owner-occupants, who have a vested interest in their home and community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Driving Up Prices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On its website, Wedgewood describes itself as a “leading acquirer of distressed residential real estate.” The company was founded in 1985 by Geiser with a fix-and-flip business model of buying up cheap foreclosed homes and selling them for a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDisy8SWak&ab_channel=WedgewoodLLC\">At a Florida real estate conference in 2015\u003c/a>, Geiser called house flipping “hot and sexy” and claimed his company had bought and sold 3,000 homes in the past year, averaging about 250 foreclosure home purchases a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day we cover every foreclosure sale from Denver to Seattle up through Idaho down to San Diego,” he told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Geiser bristles at the suggestion that his firm is driving up housing prices by flipping property: “That view is just plain inaccurate,” he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern California-based real estate investment corporation, Wedgewood, purchased this home in Oakland in July 2020. It’s one of more than 200 properties the company purchased throughout the state during the coronavirus pandemic, even as prices for single-family homes soared. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the houses the company has bought in the last year is a 1912 Victorian on a quiet residential street in North Oakland. Like the house in Pinole, the previous owners’ heirs lost it to the bank after the homeowner passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood repainted the tan and brown house in sage green with a golden yellow trim and installed new appliances. But when the new homeowners moved in, they discovered a host of other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the homeowners, who declined to give her name, said new lighting fixtures had been installed incorrectly and had to be reinstalled. The electrical wiring had to be updated so the house was safe to inhabit. The chimney was caving in and had to be removed. And the foundation also needed work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 2, public records linked Wedgewood to at least 143 properties it has purchased in the Bay Area and 719 across the state, the majority of which are single-family homes. The homes are, on average, about 60 years old, and often located in more affordable cities or more affordable neighborhoods, including many communities of color, where residents have seen rents and home prices grow astronomically in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company operates using an extensive network of shell companies, including Catamount Properties 2018, LLC, which flipped the North Oakland property. It’s one of at least 40 active entities in California controlled by Wedgewood, according to the California Secretary of State’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bidders place offers on a house in Castro Valley at a foreclosure auction at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland on Thursday, March 25, 2021. A representative for Wedgewood bid aggressively on the home, but it ultimately sold to another bidder. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a recent foreclosure auction in Oakland, a woman in sneakers and a gray sweatshirt represented the company. She bid aggressively on a single-family home in Castro Valley. It ultimately sold to another bidder for $661,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some bidders shook their heads at the eye-popping price, others, like Robert Kramer, a veteran at foreclosure sales, said it doesn’t matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market (for single-family homes) is going up,” Kramer said. “By the time you get them fixed up and back on the market, there’s typically a pretty healthy profit there — 20% or more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foreclosure rate in California is significantly down from its peak in 2010, and has even declined during the pandemic, largely because of a federal moratorium on foreclosures for federally-backed mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kramer said that means bidders are pushing the prices for foreclosed homes even higher, which makes it difficult for would-be homeowners like Foreman, as well as nonprofit affordable housing providers and community land trusts, to match the winning bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way foreclosure auctions are structured in California, it’s like the Wild Wild West,” said King, of the Oakland Community Land Trust. “The system is plainly not set up for those properties to be transitioned to some community use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Plea for Funding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Winters, of the Northern California Community Land Trust, says that in order for Skinner’s SB 1079 to be effective, there needs to be funding. Most properties that go to foreclosure have deferred maintenance issues that need to be resolved to ensure the house continues to be livable, not to mention the accumulated cost of unpaid taxes and other fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there needs to be a subsidy, he says, to ensure that those homes are affordable to would-be homeowners, like Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There does need to be a revolving pool of money that helps the nonprofit housing sector acquire the property, stabilize it, get it back into use,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s network of community land trusts is lobbying the Legislature for dedicated funding to implement SB 1079 over the next five years. And Sen. Skinner is hoping to create a fund to enable those purchases through this year’s budget process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868041\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman stands on the front porch of her house in Pinole, arms open wide in appreciation, on March 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without a subsidy from the state, Winters is relying on the community to come together to fundraise for a subsidy for Foreman’s house, which will ensure it can remain affordable. And even though the land trust has agreed to help Foreman, it hasn’t secured the loan yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those details are being worked out, Foreman is guardedly optimistic. She doesn’t like thinking about where she and her family will go if they can’t raise the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve said repeatedly to myself, ‘I’m not going anywhere,’” she said. “My grandson is not sleeping on somebody’s floor. That’s not going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jocelyn Foreman was full of nervous energy and dread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a crisp morning in early March. She arrived at the Pleasant Hill Community Center to find a handful of men and women in a semicircle outside the sandstone-colored building, clutching folders and holding cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were there for a foreclosure auction, poised to bid on the house that Foreman rents: a single-story, 1,500-square-foot tract home in Pinole. It’s a simple home — set back from the street — with a steep sloping backyard, worn carpets and a roof that leaks when it rains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A man with a clipboard started the bidding at $175,000. A woman in a maroon sweatshirt and another man offered competing bids. First $176,000. Then $177,000. Then $180,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just kept going higher and higher and higher,” Foreman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bidding finally stopped at $600,000. Foreman’s stomach dropped. “And I just thought, ‘Oh my God.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman had hoped she would be able to buy the house and continue living there thanks to a new state law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840140/california-law-prioritizes-people-over-corporate-home-buyers\">signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall\u003c/a>, that is designed to prevent pandemic profiteering — and give tenants like her a path to homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law, which allows tenants and nonprofits a 45-day window to match any bid made at a foreclosure auction, provides no money to fund the purchases. So that means Foreman will have to find a way to raise the money herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Foreman, 50, a Black mother of five and grandmother of three, the house in Pinole is much more than a place to rent. She’d been homeless for the better part of the past 20 years, and it was only after she began renting the home in 2018 that she had been able to pay her bills on time and find stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was breaking the cycle,” she said. “And then I felt like my dreams and my memories were being auctioned away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman chased after the woman with the winning bid, to find out who her new landlord would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said, “Wedgewood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman knew the name. The Redondo Beach real estate firm drew national scrutiny last year after a group of Black homeless mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\">occupied a vacant house the company owned in West Oakland\u003c/a>. The occupiers, who called themselves Moms 4 Housing, sought to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said had led to rising rents and growing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite that controversy, and a global pandemic that’s caused mass unemployment, Wedgewood has continued to buy houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a review of public documents by KQED reveals the company went on a spending spree during the pandemic — funneling at least $152.6 million through a network of shell companies to purchase no fewer than 276 properties throughout California. All but 15 of those properties are single-family homes, like Foreman’s three-bedroom house in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11868185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-800x410.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-1020x522.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-160x82.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-1536x787.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>Some houses have been quickly flipped for a profit. For example, Wedgewood bought a single-story, shell-pink bungalow in North Berkeley last September for $1.15 million and then sold it for $1.71 million in March, after installing new appliances and slapping on a fresh coat of slate-gray paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the system we’re up against,” said Steve King, the executive director of the nonprofit Oakland Community Land Trust. “Trying to carve out ways that we can retain some of these properties in the community’s hands, that’s the real challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood declined multiple requests for a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we know is we bought a house and it is occupied,” company founder and CEO Greg Geiser wrote in an email. Geiser added that he knew someone wanted to match the firm’s offer, but that neither he, nor the company, knew who that was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood’s buying binge continued after the law went into effect in January, KQED found, with the company acquiring at least 102 homes. The properties were purchased across 22 California counties and, in almost every case, the company paid in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern California based real estate investment corporation, Wedgewood, purchased this home in Berkeley in Sept. 2020. It was photographed on March 31, 2021. It’s one of more than 200 properties the company purchased throughout the state during the coronavirus pandemic, even as prices for single-family homes soared. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That has left Foreman in a race against time. She has until April 18 to match Wedgewood’s bid on the house in Pinole. But the odds are not in her favor. With bad credit and no savings, she doesn’t qualify for a mortgage. Nor would the $2,100 she pays in rent cover the mortgage payments for a $600,000 home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she’s going to need cash — and a lot of it — or she’s afraid she’ll be forced to leave. Foreman reached out to a nonprofit legal aid organization who helped launch \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\">an online fundraising effort\u003c/a> on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The House That Moms Built\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When they occupied the house in West Oakland, the women behind Moms 4 Housing argued Wedgewood’s rise was part of a fundamental shift in the housing market marked by a seismic transfer of wealth from individuals to corporations. That shift, they said, began in the wake of the Great Recession, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/end-sight-us-foreclosure-crisis#endnote1\">nearly 10 million people lost their homes\u003c/a> through foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cash-rich investors and Wall Street private-equity giants, like Blackstone, seized on the crisis as an opportunity to buy cheap, foreclosed homes. On the other side were homeowners, who lost an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://furmancenter.org/files/publications/HousingandtheGreatRecession.pdf\">$7 trillion in home equity\u003c/a> between 2006 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, deputy director of the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, said speculators “were the ones that had a lot of cash on hand at the time and who were realizing there was a great opportunity to make a lot of money even as people were suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After armed sheriffs’ deputies came to evict the moms, Wedgewood \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\">agreed to sell the home\u003c/a> to the Oakland Community Land Trust, a nonprofit created in the wake of the Great Recession to buy foreclosed homes and keep them permanently affordable. The home will soon become a transitional shelter for homeless mothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy also inspired state Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat who represents Oakland, to introduce legislation reforming the foreclosure process so tenants like Foreman would have the opportunity to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I introduced and passed SB 1079, my purpose was to give individual homeowners the ability to compete against corporate [purchasers],” Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman pulls weeds from her front yard in Pinole on March 19, 2021. Foreman would like to landscape the yard if she is able to purchase the property. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the moms won their fight, there’s no guarantee the new law will help Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without any funding attached to the law, tenants of foreclosed properties must raise the entire amount themselves, or secure a traditional mortgage — something that can be difficult for someone with bad credit, little savings or who does not have the ability to borrow from friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California Properties Purchased by Wedgewood During the Pandemic\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Xdu2z\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Xdu2z/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"780\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would-be homeowners could also partner with a nonprofit or land trust to buy the home, as the Oakland moms group did with the Oakland Community Land Trust. But Ian Winters, the executive director of the Northern California Community Land Trust, said that even for groups like his, raising the amount needed on short notice is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very, very, very few housing organizations and very few nonprofit organizations that are sitting on a giant pile of cash that can afford to regularly shell out $600,000 or $700,000 to purchase a property at auction,” he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nMoney aside, Winters said, his organization still wants to help. So the land trust is working to secure financing to buy Foreman’s property and turn it into permanent, affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this arrangement, Foreman would eventually secure a traditional mortgage to buy the home at an affordable price, but the trust would maintain ownership of the land. This way, if it’s ever sold, it would still be affordable for the next resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 5, however, the \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\">$14,916 Foreman had raised online\u003c/a> was still a far cry from the $250,000 the land trust estimates it needs to keep the $600,000 home affordable for Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Legacy Lost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before Foreman moved in, the house in Pinole had been in the same family for more than 30 years. Reginald Mayfield, a longshoreman for 51 years, bought the house in 1984 and spent his retirement years there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the few years before his death in 2018, at age 82, he had planned a major rehab of the 1970s home, and took out a loan on the house. It was a project he planned to complete with his daughter, Rochelle Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent a lot of time going to stores, just doing a lot of window shopping, with him,” she said. “I would grumble, but it was fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868044\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-800x1333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-800x1333.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-1020x1700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-160x267.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-922x1536.jpg 922w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-1229x2048.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-scaled.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of Reginald Mayfield, far left, was taken in 1960. He was part of a men’s club called The Notables. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Rochelle Mayfield.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she didn’t grow up at the house, Rochelle said it represented one piece of the legacy her grandparents left for her. They moved to the Bay Area from Texas and Louisiana, as part of the Great Migration, when millions of Southern Black families migrated to the North and West in search of better lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayfield’s grandparents settled in Oakland and Berkeley, picking up war-time jobs and starting their own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that both sets of grandparents had in common was that they bought property,” Mayfield said. “And for Black folks at that time to be able to do that, it’s extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Foreman and her teenage children were couch surfing — something they had done on and off since 2002 — when she first heard about the Pinole house. A coworker told her that his uncle, Reginald Mayfield, had just passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman at the time had two jobs. The first was at the Berkeley Unified School District, connecting families in need with food, employment or housing resources. She was also moonlighting as an in-home caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she still couldn’t find a place to live that would accommodate her teenage children and didn’t require a brutal commute to her job and to her kids’ school in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard about the vacant home, she contacted Rochelle Mayfield, who was sympathetic to Foreman’s plight and agreed to rent to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a chance on her,” Mayfield said, “when she needed someone to take a chance on her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman met Mayfield in Oct. 2018 in the parking lot of a Whole Foods to hand over the deposit. Foreman’s car payment was due the same day, so she had to choose: give up her car or put the deposit down?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She handed over the check, and then, after Mayfield left, opened the trunk of her car. There, in neat stacks, were all of her belongings. She took a picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because in my mind,” Foreman said, “this was going to be the last time I was doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Foreman said she hasn’t looked back: “I’ve been on my feet ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After handing over the deposit in 2018 for the house she was preparing to rent, Jocelyn Foreman took a picture of the trunk of her car. There, in bags, were all of her belongings. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Jocelyn Foreman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is, until she got a notice, in February 2020, posted on the front door of her home, saying the house would be sold at a foreclosure auction the following month. Mayfield had been having a hard time making the mortgage payments on both the Pinole home and a house in Richmond she inherited from her mother, where she also lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the pandemic, the house in Pinole didn’t actually sell until March, 2021, when Wedgewood made the winning bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to answer questions about whether it intends to resell Foreman’s house or rent it out. California law prevents evictions for nonpayment of rent during the pandemic, but it won’t protect Foreman if Wedgewood decides to sell the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the company said that, in general, Wedgewood sells the homes it buys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a real estate company that buys distressed housing and then heavily invests in renovating and restoring the homes as needed,” Wedgewood said in an emailed statement. “We then sell, in partnership with agents throughout the state, to new homeowners, the majority of which are owner-occupants, who have a vested interest in their home and community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Driving Up Prices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On its website, Wedgewood describes itself as a “leading acquirer of distressed residential real estate.” The company was founded in 1985 by Geiser with a fix-and-flip business model of buying up cheap foreclosed homes and selling them for a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDisy8SWak&ab_channel=WedgewoodLLC\">At a Florida real estate conference in 2015\u003c/a>, Geiser called house flipping “hot and sexy” and claimed his company had bought and sold 3,000 homes in the past year, averaging about 250 foreclosure home purchases a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day we cover every foreclosure sale from Denver to Seattle up through Idaho down to San Diego,” he told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Geiser bristles at the suggestion that his firm is driving up housing prices by flipping property: “That view is just plain inaccurate,” he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern California-based real estate investment corporation, Wedgewood, purchased this home in Oakland in July 2020. It’s one of more than 200 properties the company purchased throughout the state during the coronavirus pandemic, even as prices for single-family homes soared. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the houses the company has bought in the last year is a 1912 Victorian on a quiet residential street in North Oakland. Like the house in Pinole, the previous owners’ heirs lost it to the bank after the homeowner passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood repainted the tan and brown house in sage green with a golden yellow trim and installed new appliances. But when the new homeowners moved in, they discovered a host of other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the homeowners, who declined to give her name, said new lighting fixtures had been installed incorrectly and had to be reinstalled. The electrical wiring had to be updated so the house was safe to inhabit. The chimney was caving in and had to be removed. And the foundation also needed work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 2, public records linked Wedgewood to at least 143 properties it has purchased in the Bay Area and 719 across the state, the majority of which are single-family homes. The homes are, on average, about 60 years old, and often located in more affordable cities or more affordable neighborhoods, including many communities of color, where residents have seen rents and home prices grow astronomically in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company operates using an extensive network of shell companies, including Catamount Properties 2018, LLC, which flipped the North Oakland property. It’s one of at least 40 active entities in California controlled by Wedgewood, according to the California Secretary of State’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bidders place offers on a house in Castro Valley at a foreclosure auction at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland on Thursday, March 25, 2021. A representative for Wedgewood bid aggressively on the home, but it ultimately sold to another bidder. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a recent foreclosure auction in Oakland, a woman in sneakers and a gray sweatshirt represented the company. She bid aggressively on a single-family home in Castro Valley. It ultimately sold to another bidder for $661,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some bidders shook their heads at the eye-popping price, others, like Robert Kramer, a veteran at foreclosure sales, said it doesn’t matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market (for single-family homes) is going up,” Kramer said. “By the time you get them fixed up and back on the market, there’s typically a pretty healthy profit there — 20% or more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foreclosure rate in California is significantly down from its peak in 2010, and has even declined during the pandemic, largely because of a federal moratorium on foreclosures for federally-backed mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kramer said that means bidders are pushing the prices for foreclosed homes even higher, which makes it difficult for would-be homeowners like Foreman, as well as nonprofit affordable housing providers and community land trusts, to match the winning bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way foreclosure auctions are structured in California, it’s like the Wild Wild West,” said King, of the Oakland Community Land Trust. “The system is plainly not set up for those properties to be transitioned to some community use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Plea for Funding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Winters, of the Northern California Community Land Trust, says that in order for Skinner’s SB 1079 to be effective, there needs to be funding. Most properties that go to foreclosure have deferred maintenance issues that need to be resolved to ensure the house continues to be livable, not to mention the accumulated cost of unpaid taxes and other fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there needs to be a subsidy, he says, to ensure that those homes are affordable to would-be homeowners, like Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There does need to be a revolving pool of money that helps the nonprofit housing sector acquire the property, stabilize it, get it back into use,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s network of community land trusts is lobbying the Legislature for dedicated funding to implement SB 1079 over the next five years. And Sen. Skinner is hoping to create a fund to enable those purchases through this year’s budget process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868041\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman stands on the front porch of her house in Pinole, arms open wide in appreciation, on March 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without a subsidy from the state, Winters is relying on the community to come together to fundraise for a subsidy for Foreman’s house, which will ensure it can remain affordable. And even though the land trust has agreed to help Foreman, it hasn’t secured the loan yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those details are being worked out, Foreman is guardedly optimistic. She doesn’t like thinking about where she and her family will go if they can’t raise the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve said repeatedly to myself, ‘I’m not going anywhere,’” she said. “My grandson is not sleeping on somebody’s floor. That’s not going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A LOT has happened since we brought you SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">five-part series\u003c/a>, which aired in September and October last year, dove into solutions to the country’s growing housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"housing\"]We received tons of comments and questions from listeners, so we decided to sit down and answer some of them, and bring you an update episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re planning a second full season of SOLD OUT for this fall. But in the meantime, we want to keep answering your questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So get in touch on Twitter at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/e_baldi?lang=en\">@e_baldi\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/solomonout\">@solomonout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also email us at \u003ca href=\"mailto:msolomon@kqed.org\">msolomon@kqed.org\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"mailto:ebaldassari@kqed.org\">ebaldassari@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the latest on some of the big stories we talked about last season:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Homeless Housing During COVID\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Our first episode, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Corona\u003c/a>,” looked at Project Roomkey, a state-led effort that ultimately housed 23,000 people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic, temporarily placing them in some 16,000 hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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=KQINC9791597532&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project Roomkey was always intended to be a temporary program, designed to protect people particularly vulnerable to the virus. But when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the program in April, he also said it would be a jumping-off point for more \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/282059655808032/videos/198302828289931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanent housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how many people who left the hotels actually got into permanent housing? We found that just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16% of the people in the Bay Area\u003c/a> who left the hotels moved into permanent housing. The remainder went on to live in temporary housing, moved in with family and friends or returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg\" alt=\"Sonja Summerville Trotter looks out the window in her new studio apartment in downtown Oakland on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Summerville Trotter was able to secure one of more than 11,600 hotel rooms through California's Project Roomkey, which some homeless residents to safely shelter in place during the pandemic. Alameda County officials were later able to move her into permanent housing. (Photo by Molly Solomon/KQED)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Summerville Trotter looks out the window in her new studio apartment in downtown Oakland on July 29, 2020. Summerville Trotter was able to secure one of more than 16,000 hotel rooms through California’s Project Roomkey, a program to help some homeless residents safely shelter in place during the pandemic. Alameda County officials were later able to move her into permanent housing. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason Elliott, the governor’s senior housing policy director, acknowledged the real challenge of getting people into permanently affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t succeed 100% of the time,” Elliott told us. “This is a population with some potentially serious behavioral health challenges, and in many cases a long history of chronic homelessness. And that’s not an easy transition to make for a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the counties operating the hotels being used for this program had been planning on soon shutting them down, due to uncertainty over the continuation of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding. But that changed in a big way after President Biden stepped into office in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden announced FEMA would \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/01/president-biden-orders-100-percent-reimbursement-for-citys-covid-hotels/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reimburse 100% of the cost\u003c/a> of that program until the end of September 2021, and would also pay retroactively back to January 2020. As a result, many counties are now planning to keep their hotels open through at least the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Single-Family Neighborhoods\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoning Out\u003c/a>” took a look at the racist history of single-family zoning in the country, which began in none other than true-blue, progressive Berkeley. The city’s rules prohibit affordable, multifamily housing in certain parts of the city by limiting development to one home per lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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=KQINC7736024153&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860308/why-just-allowing-fourplexes-wont-solve-californias-housing-affordability-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several California cities\u003c/a>, including Berkeley, have introduced legislation to allow fourplexes. Berkeley Councilmember and Vice Mayor Lori Droste called single-family zoning the “embodiment of racism in our zoning code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re Berkeley,” she told us. “We care about socioeconomic and racial diversity and equity. So we need to act on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 580px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Before-After-Claremont.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11841205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Before-After-Claremont.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the Claremont neighborhood, then and now. The entrance gates were built to mark a dividing line — between the city’s white residents and everyone else. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council went one step further, \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/sacramento-moves-toward-becoming-one-of-1st-u-s-cities-to-eliminate-single-family-zoning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> voting unanimously in January to approve a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city — the first in the state to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last year, California Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced statewide legislation to allow up to two duplexes on lots where only one home had previously been permitted. The bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes#:~:text=SB%201120%20came%20out%20of,they%20were%20single%2Dfamily%20neighborhoods.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died in the literal 11th hour of last year’s legislative session\u003c/a>, but it’s back again this year as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Biden: ‘Housing Is a Right in America’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the first time since President Franklin D. Roosevelt did so nearly 80 years ago, an American president has declared housing a human right. That was a topic we dove into for our final episode of SOLD OUT, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842392/how-moms-4-housing-changed-laws-and-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Right to Housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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=KQINC2804177590&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is a right in America and home ownership is an essential tool to wealth creation and to be passed down to generations,” Biden said in January, as he directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to redress historical racism in federal housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11847031 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharena Thomas, left, Carroll Fife, center, Dominique Walker, back right, and Tolani King, right, outside a vacant home in West Oakland in December 2019. The women are part of a group called Moms 4 Housing, which fought against an eviction effort after occupying the vacant house on Magnolia Street to protest the rise of corporate ownership of housing at the expense of owner-occupants. Their slogan, ‘Housing is a human right,’ has filtered up to the federal government, with the inauguration of President Biden. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On day one of his presidency, Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/fact-sheet-president-elect-bidens-day-one-executive-actions-deliver-relief-for-families-across-america-amid-converging-crises/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended the federal eviction moratorium\u003c/a> through March 2021, and introduced a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2021/01/20/president-biden-announces-american-rescue-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stimulus package\u003c/a> that would extend it even further, through September. The package also calls for $25 billion in rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nBiden has also \u003ca href=\"https://joebiden.com/housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaigned on promises\u003c/a> to expand the Housing Choice Voucher Program, more commonly known as Section 8, to more Americans. Currently, only \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/its-time-reinforce-housing-safety-net-adopting-universal-vouchers-low-income-renters#:~:text=Households%20with%20an%20income%20of,are%20eligible%20for%20the%20program.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one in five people\u003c/a> eligible for a Section 8 voucher receive one, and \u003ca href=\"https://local12.com/newsletter-daily/receiving-a-section-8-voucher-for-housing-is-compared-to-winning-the-lottery-cincinnati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waitlists can stretch on for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s plan calls for making rental assistance vouchers an entitlement program, meaning they would be available to anyone who qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the episode transcript \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iUyW38fOMvoDE5Rb0tkcsAPA7__-X-N5/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We received tons of comments and questions from listeners, so we decided to sit down and answer some of them, and bring you an update episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re planning a second full season of SOLD OUT for this fall. But in the meantime, we want to keep answering your questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So get in touch on Twitter at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/e_baldi?lang=en\">@e_baldi\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/solomonout\">@solomonout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also email us at \u003ca href=\"mailto:msolomon@kqed.org\">msolomon@kqed.org\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"mailto:ebaldassari@kqed.org\">ebaldassari@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the latest on some of the big stories we talked about last season:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Homeless Housing During COVID\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Our first episode, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Corona\u003c/a>,” looked at Project Roomkey, a state-led effort that ultimately housed 23,000 people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic, temporarily placing them in some 16,000 hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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=KQINC9791597532&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project Roomkey was always intended to be a temporary program, designed to protect people particularly vulnerable to the virus. But when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the program in April, he also said it would be a jumping-off point for more \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/282059655808032/videos/198302828289931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanent housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how many people who left the hotels actually got into permanent housing? We found that just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16% of the people in the Bay Area\u003c/a> who left the hotels moved into permanent housing. The remainder went on to live in temporary housing, moved in with family and friends or returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg\" alt=\"Sonja Summerville Trotter looks out the window in her new studio apartment in downtown Oakland on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Summerville Trotter was able to secure one of more than 11,600 hotel rooms through California's Project Roomkey, which some homeless residents to safely shelter in place during the pandemic. Alameda County officials were later able to move her into permanent housing. (Photo by Molly Solomon/KQED)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Summerville Trotter looks out the window in her new studio apartment in downtown Oakland on July 29, 2020. Summerville Trotter was able to secure one of more than 16,000 hotel rooms through California’s Project Roomkey, a program to help some homeless residents safely shelter in place during the pandemic. Alameda County officials were later able to move her into permanent housing. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason Elliott, the governor’s senior housing policy director, acknowledged the real challenge of getting people into permanently affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t succeed 100% of the time,” Elliott told us. “This is a population with some potentially serious behavioral health challenges, and in many cases a long history of chronic homelessness. And that’s not an easy transition to make for a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the counties operating the hotels being used for this program had been planning on soon shutting them down, due to uncertainty over the continuation of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding. But that changed in a big way after President Biden stepped into office in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden announced FEMA would \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/01/president-biden-orders-100-percent-reimbursement-for-citys-covid-hotels/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reimburse 100% of the cost\u003c/a> of that program until the end of September 2021, and would also pay retroactively back to January 2020. As a result, many counties are now planning to keep their hotels open through at least the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Single-Family Neighborhoods\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoning Out\u003c/a>” took a look at the racist history of single-family zoning in the country, which began in none other than true-blue, progressive Berkeley. The city’s rules prohibit affordable, multifamily housing in certain parts of the city by limiting development to one home per lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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=KQINC7736024153&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860308/why-just-allowing-fourplexes-wont-solve-californias-housing-affordability-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several California cities\u003c/a>, including Berkeley, have introduced legislation to allow fourplexes. Berkeley Councilmember and Vice Mayor Lori Droste called single-family zoning the “embodiment of racism in our zoning code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re Berkeley,” she told us. “We care about socioeconomic and racial diversity and equity. So we need to act on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 580px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Before-After-Claremont.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11841205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Before-After-Claremont.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the Claremont neighborhood, then and now. The entrance gates were built to mark a dividing line — between the city’s white residents and everyone else. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council went one step further, \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/sacramento-moves-toward-becoming-one-of-1st-u-s-cities-to-eliminate-single-family-zoning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> voting unanimously in January to approve a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city — the first in the state to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last year, California Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced statewide legislation to allow up to two duplexes on lots where only one home had previously been permitted. The bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes#:~:text=SB%201120%20came%20out%20of,they%20were%20single%2Dfamily%20neighborhoods.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died in the literal 11th hour of last year’s legislative session\u003c/a>, but it’s back again this year as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Biden: ‘Housing Is a Right in America’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the first time since President Franklin D. Roosevelt did so nearly 80 years ago, an American president has declared housing a human right. That was a topic we dove into for our final episode of SOLD OUT, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842392/how-moms-4-housing-changed-laws-and-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Right to Housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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=KQINC2804177590&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is a right in America and home ownership is an essential tool to wealth creation and to be passed down to generations,” Biden said in January, as he directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to redress historical racism in federal housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11847031 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharena Thomas, left, Carroll Fife, center, Dominique Walker, back right, and Tolani King, right, outside a vacant home in West Oakland in December 2019. The women are part of a group called Moms 4 Housing, which fought against an eviction effort after occupying the vacant house on Magnolia Street to protest the rise of corporate ownership of housing at the expense of owner-occupants. Their slogan, ‘Housing is a human right,’ has filtered up to the federal government, with the inauguration of President Biden. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On day one of his presidency, Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/fact-sheet-president-elect-bidens-day-one-executive-actions-deliver-relief-for-families-across-america-amid-converging-crises/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended the federal eviction moratorium\u003c/a> through March 2021, and introduced a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2021/01/20/president-biden-announces-american-rescue-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stimulus package\u003c/a> that would extend it even further, through September. The package also calls for $25 billion in rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than a century ago, Berkeley pioneered rules prohibiting affordable, multifamily housing from certain areas, and with it, created a new class of neighborhoods reserved exclusively for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s one of a handful of cities in the country, and the latest in California, to challenge those rules as it seeks to tackle its housing affordability crisis and address decades of racial segregation in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing researchers and advocates for low-income residents warn that just allowing more housing in single-family neighborhoods is no panacea. To achieve truly inclusive communities, they say zoning changes have to be coupled with strong renter protections and increased funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Vice Mayor Lori Droste \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/EvWI4yxxfO?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced the legislation\u003c/a> earlier this month to change the city’s zoning rules, and make it easier to build fourplexes throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council last month unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/sacramento-moves-toward-becoming-one-of-1st-u-s-cities-to-eliminate-single-family-zoning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city, becoming the first city in the state to begin the process of removing barriers to small, multifamily housing in all of its residential neighborhoods. Officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-supervisor-s-creative-proposal-Make-it-15910055.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/envision-san-jos-2040-general-plan/general-plan-4-year-review/opportunity-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose\u003c/a> are considering their own proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. In San Francisco, nearly three-quarters of all residential land is devoted to single-family homes and duplexes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it could soon be a policy that touches the entire state. Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced a bill last year to allow up to two duplexes in most single-family neighborhoods. It passed both houses of the Legislature, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes#:~:text=SB%201120%20came%20out%20of,they%20were%20single%2Dfamily%20neighborhoods.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally ran out of time\u003c/a> before getting the final vote it needed to head to the governor’s desk. It’s back this year as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It signifies a significant shift from previous land use practices,\" said David Garcia, policy director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. \"But it's not going to necessarily change the affordability issue overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='David Garcia, policy director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley']'It signifies a significant shift from previous land use practices ... But it's not going to necessarily change the affordability issue overnight.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Droste said she felt morally compelled to do away with single-family zoning in Berkeley because of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racist origins\u003c/a>. She represents the city's Elmwood neighborhood, which became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first neighborhood in the country\u003c/a>, in 1916, to adopt single-family zoning. The rules prohibit property owners from building more than one home on one lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started out as explicit racist policies to keep Chinese laundromats and African American dance halls out of Berkeley,” Droste told KQED. “And then later, it morphed into redlining.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute found that Berkeley has some of the most segregated neighborhoods in Alameda County today. The neighborhoods that first adopted single-family zoning in Berkeley are more than 75% white, while the county as a whole is a little more than 31% white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you increase the percentage of single-families zoning, you really increase the percentage white, and the percentage Latinx or Black goes way down,” said Steve Menendian, director of research at the Othering and Belonging Institute. “So, there is a really strong exclusionary effect by race that's clearly related to single-family zoning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-1536x1062.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker stands on the roof of a home under construction at a new housing development on Nov. 17, 2016 in San Rafael, California. Despite what seems like a lot of apartments going up in the Bay Area, there are typically more single-family homes permitted each year than multifamily homes in California. \u003ccite>( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers say the widespread use of single-family zoning has exacerbated California's housing shortage and contributed to skyrocketing rents and home prices by putting strict limits on what can be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, 82% of all residential land is dedicated solely to single-family homes, leaving just 18% available for duplexes, fourplexes or apartment buildings, \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-san-francisco-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a survey by the Othering and Belonging Institute\u003c/a>. [aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true not only in sprawling suburbs, but in big cities as well. In San Francisco, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/family-friendly-city/Housing_for_Families_with_Children_Report-011717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-quarters of the land\u003c/a> is restricted to single-family homes and duplexes. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s working on legislation to allow fourplexes on corner lots and within a half-mile from train stations, as a way to increase affordability in the wildly expensive city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't want everybody who works in a school or a shop or who cleans the floors of the hospital, the folks who serve the food in the restaurant ... to all have to be commuting hours to get to their jobs in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “And I think most San Franciscans recognize that that means having more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his colleague on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dean Preston, disagrees. Preston said merely allowing developers to build more homes on each lot is no guarantee that the homes will actually be affordable to low-wage and blue collar workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's a fantasy,” Preston said, adding it’s government-subsidized affordable housing that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston, along with other advocates for low-income residents, fear private developers will look first to low-income communities, which have relatively lower property values, to convert single-family homes into fourplexes. And that could displace renters who would be unlikely to afford the new housing, said Tony Roshan Samara, program director of land use and housing for the social justice advocacy organization Urban Habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The default in this country is to go to market solutions,” Samara said, “even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.” [aside tag=\"soldout\" label=\"SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Tracy, a project manager for the city of Portland, Oregon, said the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/vol_3_appendix_b_displacement_risk_and_mitigation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looked at this question\u003c/a> when it was considering its own policy to allow fourplexes on most lots throughout the city, which was adopted last August. It found that enacting the zoning change would lower the risk of displacement for low-income renters by up to 28%. In other words, it would help retain low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy said allowing more homes to be built on one lot reduces the number of single-family homes that have to be demolished to make room for more housing, and it increases the amount of options available to renters across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A low-income renter who is displaced from a single-family home may not be able to afford one of the new units built in its stead, Tracy said. But they might be able to find affordable housing elsewhere within the city because there will be more homes available overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more units you allow, the fewer times you need redevelopment to occur,” he said. “You're creating more units at different prices, and that has a cascading effect on the competition for other housing types.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if only a small fraction of the property owners in California converted their single-family homes into duplexes or fourplexes, it would vastly expand the amount of housing available, Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Tony Roshan Samara, the director of housing policy for Urban Habitat']'The default in this country is to go to market solutions, even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheer volume of land we have reserved for single-family homes means that we don't need to see too much of it actually turn into four units to actually realize a pretty significant impact on our housing supply,” Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/single-family-zoning-reform-an-analysis-of-sb-1120/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tener Center study\u003c/a> that found nearly 6 million properties would be able to take advantage of SB 9, which would allow for up to two duplexes on lots where only one home existed before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill becomes law and just 5% of those property owners converted their single-family homes into duplexes, it would result in nearly 600,000 homes. For context, California cities and counties issued nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/433#:~:text=California%20housing%20permit%20activity%20picked,down%206%20percent%20from%202018.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">111,000 residential building permits in 2019\u003c/a>, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tracy and other city officials who have considered such strategies said it takes years for these kinds of zoning changes to result in building enough housing necessary to actually bring down the cost of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Minneapolis, which approved a policy to allow triplexes across the city in the fall of 2019, there were 42 applications to convert single-family homes into duplexes or triplexes in 2020, said Paul Mogush, the city’s manager of community planning. That’s out of about 3,000 to 5,000 permits for all kinds of housing types, including apartments and single-family homes alike, that are approved in any given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected this to be an incremental change,” Mogush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1536x974.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign advertising an apartment for rent is displayed in a window July 8, 2009 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Samara said there will still be pressure on low-income renters facing rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of those suffering from housing insecurity are renters,” he said. “So you go there first and stabilize [renters]. That means renter protections: rent control, just cause for eviction protections, a right to organize, protection against landlord harassment, all that stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will help renters in the short term, Samara said, but those protections also have to be coupled with more funding from federal, state and local governments to increase the amount of subsidized affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Portland, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/bps/rip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zoning change included an incentive\u003c/a> intended to spur more affordable housing development. Builders have the option to add up to six housing units on a lot, if half are available to people who make 60% of the area median income or below. In 2020, that worked out to \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/2020-ami-rents-phb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$55,260 for a family of four\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unlikely that for-profit developers would take advantage of that provision, Tracy said the city heard from a number of nonprofit affordable housing developers who said the policy would help them develop affordable housing in neighborhoods where they hadn’t been able to do that before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard from our affordable housing providers saying, ‘Hey, you know, this helps us stretch our dollars further, provide more units and more places and gives us a sort of leg up on trying to compete for different parcels out in the city,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, the proposed legislation would consider allowing developers to build more units in exchange for providing affordable housing to people making 80% of the area median income or below. The legislation also calls for the city to conduct anti-displacement risk analysis before the zoning changes are adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is considering a similar policy to include affordable housing as part of its strategy as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grover Wehman-Brown, a spokesperson for East Bay Housing Organizations, said it’s possible to allow more housing to be built while also strengthening tenant protections and advocating for more funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be able to do those things in tandem,” Wehman-Brown said, adding that if that doesn’t happen, “We’ll get it wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than a century ago, Berkeley pioneered rules prohibiting affordable, multifamily housing from certain areas, and with it, created a new class of neighborhoods reserved exclusively for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s one of a handful of cities in the country, and the latest in California, to challenge those rules as it seeks to tackle its housing affordability crisis and address decades of racial segregation in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing researchers and advocates for low-income residents warn that just allowing more housing in single-family neighborhoods is no panacea. To achieve truly inclusive communities, they say zoning changes have to be coupled with strong renter protections and increased funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Vice Mayor Lori Droste \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/EvWI4yxxfO?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced the legislation\u003c/a> earlier this month to change the city’s zoning rules, and make it easier to build fourplexes throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council last month unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/sacramento-moves-toward-becoming-one-of-1st-u-s-cities-to-eliminate-single-family-zoning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city, becoming the first city in the state to begin the process of removing barriers to small, multifamily housing in all of its residential neighborhoods. Officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-supervisor-s-creative-proposal-Make-it-15910055.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/envision-san-jos-2040-general-plan/general-plan-4-year-review/opportunity-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose\u003c/a> are considering their own proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. In San Francisco, nearly three-quarters of all residential land is devoted to single-family homes and duplexes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it could soon be a policy that touches the entire state. Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced a bill last year to allow up to two duplexes in most single-family neighborhoods. It passed both houses of the Legislature, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes#:~:text=SB%201120%20came%20out%20of,they%20were%20single%2Dfamily%20neighborhoods.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally ran out of time\u003c/a> before getting the final vote it needed to head to the governor’s desk. It’s back this year as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It signifies a significant shift from previous land use practices,\" said David Garcia, policy director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. \"But it's not going to necessarily change the affordability issue overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true not only in sprawling suburbs, but in big cities as well. In San Francisco, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/family-friendly-city/Housing_for_Families_with_Children_Report-011717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-quarters of the land\u003c/a> is restricted to single-family homes and duplexes. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s working on legislation to allow fourplexes on corner lots and within a half-mile from train stations, as a way to increase affordability in the wildly expensive city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't want everybody who works in a school or a shop or who cleans the floors of the hospital, the folks who serve the food in the restaurant ... to all have to be commuting hours to get to their jobs in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “And I think most San Franciscans recognize that that means having more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his colleague on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dean Preston, disagrees. Preston said merely allowing developers to build more homes on each lot is no guarantee that the homes will actually be affordable to low-wage and blue collar workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's a fantasy,” Preston said, adding it’s government-subsidized affordable housing that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston, along with other advocates for low-income residents, fear private developers will look first to low-income communities, which have relatively lower property values, to convert single-family homes into fourplexes. And that could displace renters who would be unlikely to afford the new housing, said Tony Roshan Samara, program director of land use and housing for the social justice advocacy organization Urban Habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The default in this country is to go to market solutions,” Samara said, “even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Tracy, a project manager for the city of Portland, Oregon, said the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/vol_3_appendix_b_displacement_risk_and_mitigation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looked at this question\u003c/a> when it was considering its own policy to allow fourplexes on most lots throughout the city, which was adopted last August. It found that enacting the zoning change would lower the risk of displacement for low-income renters by up to 28%. In other words, it would help retain low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy said allowing more homes to be built on one lot reduces the number of single-family homes that have to be demolished to make room for more housing, and it increases the amount of options available to renters across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A low-income renter who is displaced from a single-family home may not be able to afford one of the new units built in its stead, Tracy said. But they might be able to find affordable housing elsewhere within the city because there will be more homes available overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more units you allow, the fewer times you need redevelopment to occur,” he said. “You're creating more units at different prices, and that has a cascading effect on the competition for other housing types.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if only a small fraction of the property owners in California converted their single-family homes into duplexes or fourplexes, it would vastly expand the amount of housing available, Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheer volume of land we have reserved for single-family homes means that we don't need to see too much of it actually turn into four units to actually realize a pretty significant impact on our housing supply,” Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/single-family-zoning-reform-an-analysis-of-sb-1120/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tener Center study\u003c/a> that found nearly 6 million properties would be able to take advantage of SB 9, which would allow for up to two duplexes on lots where only one home existed before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill becomes law and just 5% of those property owners converted their single-family homes into duplexes, it would result in nearly 600,000 homes. For context, California cities and counties issued nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/433#:~:text=California%20housing%20permit%20activity%20picked,down%206%20percent%20from%202018.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">111,000 residential building permits in 2019\u003c/a>, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tracy and other city officials who have considered such strategies said it takes years for these kinds of zoning changes to result in building enough housing necessary to actually bring down the cost of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Minneapolis, which approved a policy to allow triplexes across the city in the fall of 2019, there were 42 applications to convert single-family homes into duplexes or triplexes in 2020, said Paul Mogush, the city’s manager of community planning. That’s out of about 3,000 to 5,000 permits for all kinds of housing types, including apartments and single-family homes alike, that are approved in any given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected this to be an incremental change,” Mogush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1536x974.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign advertising an apartment for rent is displayed in a window July 8, 2009 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Samara said there will still be pressure on low-income renters facing rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of those suffering from housing insecurity are renters,” he said. “So you go there first and stabilize [renters]. That means renter protections: rent control, just cause for eviction protections, a right to organize, protection against landlord harassment, all that stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will help renters in the short term, Samara said, but those protections also have to be coupled with more funding from federal, state and local governments to increase the amount of subsidized affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Portland, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/bps/rip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zoning change included an incentive\u003c/a> intended to spur more affordable housing development. Builders have the option to add up to six housing units on a lot, if half are available to people who make 60% of the area median income or below. In 2020, that worked out to \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/2020-ami-rents-phb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$55,260 for a family of four\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unlikely that for-profit developers would take advantage of that provision, Tracy said the city heard from a number of nonprofit affordable housing developers who said the policy would help them develop affordable housing in neighborhoods where they hadn’t been able to do that before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That’s nearly 14% of the city’s total homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those young people who were homeless, about 83% spent their nights outdoors, in tents, cars or RVs, the survey found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 15% of San Francisco’s general population is Latinx, 27% of its homeless youth identify as such, according to the survey. 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San Francisco\u003ca href=\"https://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/2018-004047CWP-02_07162020.pdf\"> has lagged significantly\u003c/a> on meeting its own state housing production goals, and Mandelman hopes his measure will help narrow that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wouldn't cover the entire city. It is not anywhere close to as far-reaching, for example, as something like SB 50. But it would enable a little bit more density in the areas around train stations,\" Mandelman said of his proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of it as diet-SB 50: same flavor, less sugar. And much like the statewide measure — which was fiercely protested and voted down — Mandelman's downscaled local version is already drawing criticism from those who fear that density will drive displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Supervisor Shamann Walton, who represents some of the city's historically Black southeastern neighborhoods. Walton \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-supervisor-s-creative-proposal-Make-it-15910055.php\">told the San Francisco Chronicle's Heather Knight\u003c/a> that turning homes into fourplexes would push the Black community out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess people really don’t want Black people and other communities of color in this city. Would [Mandelman] do this to his neighborhoods?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"housing\"]Walton says he's especially concerned about certain communities in the Potrero Hill and Dogpatch neighborhoods, near the 22nd Street Caltrain station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden of building more housing, particularly more dense housing like apartment complexes, has not been imposed on all communities equally in San Francisco, often falling disproportionately on the city's Black and Latino neighborhoods. Relatively wealthier communities that are largely white or Asian, on the city's west side, have not seen the same level of development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco's Mission District, for instance, cranes now dot the horizon, constructing multimillion-dollar condos, which has helped drive out scores of lower-income Latino families that have lived in the neighborhood for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the kind of issue that David Garcia, policy director of UC Berkeley's Terner Center for Housing Innovation, says people should take seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's fair to be cautious about the unintended consequences of allowing densification in single-family areas, particularly when those areas are populated mostly by renters who are already at risk of displacement,\" Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an age-old tension in the Bay Area housing debate:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Density advocates say building \u003cem>more\u003c/em>, building \u003cem>higher\u003c/em> and building \u003cem>faster \u003c/em>will bring down the price of housing across the region through basic rules of supply and demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neighborhood and tenants' advocates often fear the short-term local effects of the \u003cem>build, build, build\u003c/em> ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, however, argues that denser housing policies needn't drive displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A well thought-out proposal to allow the construction of fourplexes in San Francisco \"could actually benefit communities of color in neighborhoods where there are higher proportions of people of color who own homes,\" Garcia said, as it would allow residents to add a second unit or convert their properties into fourplexes for added rental income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman's fourplex legislation, he added, also has the potential to boost housing production by quite a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The potential increase in new homes is pretty significant when you consider the fact that the vast majority of California zoned land is reserved specifically for single-family homes,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That holds true even in already-dense cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman's proposal, for instance, could increase housing density in some of the city's tonier western neighborhoods — like St. Francis Wood and Forest Hill — that have long been off-limits to planners and developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly a century ago, the city's Forest Hill subway station was built just west of Twin Peaks, as Muni — and its streetcars — began to spread west. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847897/sfmta-muni-forced-to-redo-portion-of-52-million-twin-peaks-tunnel-project\">The Twin Peaks Tunnel\u003c/a>, as it's called, runs through the hill and outlets at West Portal Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As those rail tracks were laid down, higher-income neighborhoods sprung up, including St. Francis Wood and Forest Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are neighborhoods that did not exist before the Twin Peaks tunnel was built, which is important to note,\" said Rick Laubscher, a transit historian and president of the Market Street Railway museum. \"Forest Hill grew up as a white-collar, semi-privileged enclave, as did St. Francis Wood. That's where doctors and lawyers and high-paid professionals, almost all of whom were white, lived when they were built.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's perhaps a historical irony, then, that the same train stations that helped create those wealthy neighborhoods of sprawling houses will be the legal anchors Mandelman is trying to use to build more dense — and perhaps more affordable — housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods, though, have long resisted such a change. One 2018\u003ca href=\"https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/9/17101728/forest-hill-senior-affordable-housing-nimbys-san-francisco\"> battle\u003c/a> in the Forest Hill neighborhood to block construction of a 150-unit affordable housing development for seniors may portend a rough road ahead for Mandelman's effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an almost cookie-cutter example of housing density bouts that have played out across the city, neighbors shouted their grievances to the rafters during public meetings on the project, citing concerns that any formerly homeless person invited to live at the new affordable housing development could pose a physical danger to children in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the project was defeated, partly because of such fierce resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most San Franciscans agree that affordable housing should be available for the city's essential workers, Mandelman said, but a lot of residents \"also don't want to just have radical change in their neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the likelihood of finding a \"center of gravity\" between opposing viewpoints on housing development, Mandelman said, \"We'll find out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Staff writer Erin Baldassari contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is coming for the city's mansions, while also turning up the heat on housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His proposed legislation, announced this weekend, and set to be introduced at the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, would curtail the construction of oversized homes, sometimes nicknamed \"McMansions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land used for such giant homes, Mandelman argues, should go toward creating more units for more people to live in. That's where his next proposal comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His companion piece of legislation, which is still in the works, would allow the construction of fourplexes on corner lots and areas of the city where only single-family homes are currently allowed to be built, as long as the area is within a half-mile of a major transit stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential change in zoning rules to increase housing density in some neighborhoods — a process called upzoning — could result in denser construction near most of the city's BART and Caltrain stations, as well as near the West Portal, Castro and Forest Hill Muni stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation is similar in concept — but not scope — to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50\">Senate Bill 50\u003c/a>, a highly controversial and ultimately unsuccessful statewide measure, that would have required upzoning near most transit lines, not just major stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Housing and Community Development recently called for the construction of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/SF-Bay-Area-needs-to-build-lots-of-housing-to-15421749.php\">440,000 new \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/SF-Bay-Area-needs-to-build-lots-of-housing-to-15421749.php\">homes\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/SF-Bay-Area-needs-to-build-lots-of-housing-to-15421749.php\"> in the Bay Area \u003c/a>between 2022 and 2030 — more than double the current pace of housing production — to help ease the region's massive housing shortage and drive down sky-high prices. San Francisco\u003ca href=\"https://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/2018-004047CWP-02_07162020.pdf\"> has lagged significantly\u003c/a> on meeting its own state housing production goals, and Mandelman hopes his measure will help narrow that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wouldn't cover the entire city. It is not anywhere close to as far-reaching, for example, as something like SB 50. But it would enable a little bit more density in the areas around train stations,\" Mandelman said of his proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of it as diet-SB 50: same flavor, less sugar. And much like the statewide measure — which was fiercely protested and voted down — Mandelman's downscaled local version is already drawing criticism from those who fear that density will drive displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Supervisor Shamann Walton, who represents some of the city's historically Black southeastern neighborhoods. Walton \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-supervisor-s-creative-proposal-Make-it-15910055.php\">told the San Francisco Chronicle's Heather Knight\u003c/a> that turning homes into fourplexes would push the Black community out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess people really don’t want Black people and other communities of color in this city. Would [Mandelman] do this to his neighborhoods?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Walton says he's especially concerned about certain communities in the Potrero Hill and Dogpatch neighborhoods, near the 22nd Street Caltrain station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden of building more housing, particularly more dense housing like apartment complexes, has not been imposed on all communities equally in San Francisco, often falling disproportionately on the city's Black and Latino neighborhoods. Relatively wealthier communities that are largely white or Asian, on the city's west side, have not seen the same level of development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco's Mission District, for instance, cranes now dot the horizon, constructing multimillion-dollar condos, which has helped drive out scores of lower-income Latino families that have lived in the neighborhood for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the kind of issue that David Garcia, policy director of UC Berkeley's Terner Center for Housing Innovation, says people should take seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's fair to be cautious about the unintended consequences of allowing densification in single-family areas, particularly when those areas are populated mostly by renters who are already at risk of displacement,\" Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an age-old tension in the Bay Area housing debate:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Density advocates say building \u003cem>more\u003c/em>, building \u003cem>higher\u003c/em> and building \u003cem>faster \u003c/em>will bring down the price of housing across the region through basic rules of supply and demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neighborhood and tenants' advocates often fear the short-term local effects of the \u003cem>build, build, build\u003c/em> ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, however, argues that denser housing policies needn't drive displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A well thought-out proposal to allow the construction of fourplexes in San Francisco \"could actually benefit communities of color in neighborhoods where there are higher proportions of people of color who own homes,\" Garcia said, as it would allow residents to add a second unit or convert their properties into fourplexes for added rental income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman's fourplex legislation, he added, also has the potential to boost housing production by quite a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The potential increase in new homes is pretty significant when you consider the fact that the vast majority of California zoned land is reserved specifically for single-family homes,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That holds true even in already-dense cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman's proposal, for instance, could increase housing density in some of the city's tonier western neighborhoods — like St. Francis Wood and Forest Hill — that have long been off-limits to planners and developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly a century ago, the city's Forest Hill subway station was built just west of Twin Peaks, as Muni — and its streetcars — began to spread west. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847897/sfmta-muni-forced-to-redo-portion-of-52-million-twin-peaks-tunnel-project\">The Twin Peaks Tunnel\u003c/a>, as it's called, runs through the hill and outlets at West Portal Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As those rail tracks were laid down, higher-income neighborhoods sprung up, including St. Francis Wood and Forest Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are neighborhoods that did not exist before the Twin Peaks tunnel was built, which is important to note,\" said Rick Laubscher, a transit historian and president of the Market Street Railway museum. \"Forest Hill grew up as a white-collar, semi-privileged enclave, as did St. Francis Wood. That's where doctors and lawyers and high-paid professionals, almost all of whom were white, lived when they were built.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's perhaps a historical irony, then, that the same train stations that helped create those wealthy neighborhoods of sprawling houses will be the legal anchors Mandelman is trying to use to build more dense — and perhaps more affordable — housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods, though, have long resisted such a change. One 2018\u003ca href=\"https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/9/17101728/forest-hill-senior-affordable-housing-nimbys-san-francisco\"> battle\u003c/a> in the Forest Hill neighborhood to block construction of a 150-unit affordable housing development for seniors may portend a rough road ahead for Mandelman's effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an almost cookie-cutter example of housing density bouts that have played out across the city, neighbors shouted their grievances to the rafters during public meetings on the project, citing concerns that any formerly homeless person invited to live at the new affordable housing development could pose a physical danger to children in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the project was defeated, partly because of such fierce resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most San Franciscans agree that affordable housing should be available for the city's essential workers, Mandelman said, but a lot of residents \"also don't want to just have radical change in their neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the likelihood of finding a \"center of gravity\" between opposing viewpoints on housing development, Mandelman said, \"We'll find out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, Marquisse Moore lost his job, and it didn’t take long before he lost his home, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been working as a forklift driver at a tortilla factory before being laid off in early April. New jobs were hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he realized he wouldn’t be able to continue paying rent on his Mountain View apartment, he told his landlord he would be moving out. For the next six months, he and his 6-year-old daughter bounced between family and friends’ couches. Sometimes he slept in his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made sure my daughter always had a roof over her head, even if I didn’t,” he said. “It was a very big struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a leap of faith, he applied to a two-bedroom apartment in Oakland’s Fruitvale District in December. And to his surprise, the landlord was interested in renting to him even though he wasn’t working yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore had just been offered a job at Alameda Health Systems, working in its COVID-19 ward. But there was still another problem: He couldn’t afford the security deposit and first month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the landlord connected him to a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/a>. Since 2018, it has provided more than $11.5 million in direct financial assistance and legal counsel to nearly 5,000 households. Most of the money — 85% — comes from philanthropic donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It actually had me in tears,” Moore said, after finding out the program would foot the bill to help him move in. “It meant everything to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore looks out the window at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the program is simple, said Zoë Polk, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a>: “Stop homelessness before it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program began in 2018 as a three-year pilot program and is a partnership between the city of Oakland and local nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Zoë Polk, executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center\"]‘It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge even before COVID. And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in a place where they have been able to keep their family together.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people need legal support to fight an eviction, Polk said. That’s where the law center comes in. Others, like Moore, need direct rental assistance or housing. And for that, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services\u003c/a> intervenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some people need other kinds of help, Polk said, such as connecting to employment or health services. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay\u003c/a> takes care of that piece of the puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be targeting people so they can stay where they currently are, stay in their homes,” Polk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed launched in response to a dramatic rise in both rents and homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average rent for an apartment more than doubled between 2010 and 2019, from $1,396 to $2,905, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots/renting-america-housing-changed-past-decade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the apartment listing service RENTCafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing homelessness on any given night increased 85% between 2015 and 2019, growing from 2,191 people to 4,071, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biennial survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge then even before COVID,” Polk said. “And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in place, where they have a place that they’re comfortable in, a place where they have been able to keep their family together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-wage workers and people of color who were already more at risk of eviction and homelessness have only seen those risks grow as a result of the pandemic, said Mary Cunningham, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/metropolitan-housing-and-communities-policy-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center\u003c/a> at the Urban Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/looming-eviction-cliff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published a study\u003c/a> showing that across the country, 9.5 million renters reported problems paying rent in September, including nearly 17% of Black and 23% of Latino renters, compared to 8% of white renters. Black and Latino renters were also four times more likely to have received an eviction notice from their landlords since the beginning of March last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mary Cunningham, vice president, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute\"]‘We know that Black and Latino households have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 … So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities.’[/pullquote]In Oakland, Black residents make up 24% of the population but account for \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into the pandemic with a pretty big, longstanding affordable housing crisis,” Cunningham said. “And now the pandemic has added additional stress and added more people to the pool of those who need help and who are at risk of eviction and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real public health concern\u003c/a> that housing instability can lead to higher coronavirus infections and deaths as people who lose their housing double up with friends or family or become homeless, Cunningham said. But even without the pandemic, homelessness is just expensive for taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance to End Homelessness \u003ca href=\"http://naeh.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-Savings-from-PSH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that a person who has experienced homelessness longer than a year costs taxpayers an average of $35,578 per year. Those costs include emergency shelter, visits to the emergency room and interactions with police. Comparatively, a year of housing with supportive services on-site costs an average of $12,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing someone from losing their housing is even more cost-effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed provided each household it helped with an average of $2,149 in direct rental assistance in the latter half of 2019. That figure grew to an average of $3,309 between July and September of last year, according to The San Francisco Foundation, which administers the program on behalf of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marquisse Moore smiles inside his home\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polk says the third year of the pilot program will be pivotal in preventing an onslaught of evictions as moratoriums expire and months of back rent come due. The program still has $8 million available to assist residents this year. And Polk said that money will be crucial since the unemployment rate in California is still high at around 8%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the U.S. Department of Labor\u003c/a> – and many people remain out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very far away from universally people getting a vaccine,” Polk said. “So from our standpoint, Keep Oakland Housed has a lot of work to do in this next year making sure that we are not putting the cart before the horse in terms of trying to evict people while it’s still not safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']The latest stimulus bill included $25 billion in federal rent relief, $2.6 billion of which was allocated to California. Gov. Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/01/06/governor-newsom-announces-golden-state-stimulus-a-budget-proposal-to-help-low-income-californians-through-600-rapid-cash-payments-and-calls-for-extension-of-eviction-moratorium/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed urgency\u003c/a> in distributing that money quickly to low-income renters, affordable housing providers and small property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said it’s critical that local governments target that money to the lowest-income residents who have also been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that Black and Latino households, because they’re essential workers, have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 both as a public health crisis and as an economic crisis,” she said. “So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Marquisse Moore, the opportunity to get into stable housing and get back on his feet has been humbling, he said. The past six months of moving between friends’ and family’s houses took a toll on his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that she has her own place, she’s at peace,” Moore said. “She’s just enjoying being a kid and not having to worry about what’s going on around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How to Get Help Via Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/howtogethelp\">advises Oakland residents\u003c/a> who have a household income at or below 50% of the area median income and are experiencing a housing crisis to contact any of the three collaborative organizations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services (BACS)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-899-9289\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)\u003c/a>: For legal representation: 510-548-4040 (ask for housing intake)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay (CCEB)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-768-3100\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Oakland, Black residents make up 24% of the population but account for \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into the pandemic with a pretty big, longstanding affordable housing crisis,” Cunningham said. “And now the pandemic has added additional stress and added more people to the pool of those who need help and who are at risk of eviction and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real public health concern\u003c/a> that housing instability can lead to higher coronavirus infections and deaths as people who lose their housing double up with friends or family or become homeless, Cunningham said. But even without the pandemic, homelessness is just expensive for taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance to End Homelessness \u003ca href=\"http://naeh.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-Savings-from-PSH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that a person who has experienced homelessness longer than a year costs taxpayers an average of $35,578 per year. Those costs include emergency shelter, visits to the emergency room and interactions with police. Comparatively, a year of housing with supportive services on-site costs an average of $12,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing someone from losing their housing is even more cost-effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed provided each household it helped with an average of $2,149 in direct rental assistance in the latter half of 2019. That figure grew to an average of $3,309 between July and September of last year, according to The San Francisco Foundation, which administers the program on behalf of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marquisse Moore smiles inside his home\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polk says the third year of the pilot program will be pivotal in preventing an onslaught of evictions as moratoriums expire and months of back rent come due. The program still has $8 million available to assist residents this year. And Polk said that money will be crucial since the unemployment rate in California is still high at around 8%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the U.S. Department of Labor\u003c/a> – and many people remain out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very far away from universally people getting a vaccine,” Polk said. “So from our standpoint, Keep Oakland Housed has a lot of work to do in this next year making sure that we are not putting the cart before the horse in terms of trying to evict people while it’s still not safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It all started with a Zillow ad. Meilin Liu posted two rooms for rent in a duplex she owns near downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she waited. She expected the rooms to be rented in a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually it's one move out, one move in. But this is the first time, after I managed for 20 something years ... I have to sit on the market for months,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu said before the pandemic her inbox would be flooded with requests from people eager to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with the economic fallout from the pandemic, the rental market is changing. Layoffs and remote work have led many workers to flee the Bay Area. In response, prices are plummeting — median rent on a two bedroom apartment is down 13% in Oakland and 24% in San Francisco since March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/national-rent-data\">according to Apartment List.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s opened up an opportunity to get more landlords like Meilin Liu to rent to people who have been homeless — something they have been reluctant to do in the past. Bay Area homeless service providers see private landlords as a vital part of their effort to find permanent housing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825653/california-found-hotels-for-10000-homeless-residents-what-next\">people who have been staying in Project Roomkey hotels during the pandemic.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Liu’s rooms sat vacant, her Zillow ad caught the attention of a woman named Jasmine Yohai. She is a housing locator for nonprofit Bay Area Community Services, and she spends most of her time finding places to live for her clients who are coming out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"housing,homelessness\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yohai was hoping to convince Liu to rent to some of her clients, so she gave her a call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I immediately told her that I was not interested but she wouldn’t let me go. I almost hung up,” Liu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu’s resistance is not unusual. Landlords want stability in their tenants. They often turn down people who have bad credit, low income or a prior eviction on their record — all common for people who have been homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just would like it to be simple. I don't want too much trouble,” Liu added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something that Yohai said made her change her mind, about renting to someone who had been homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said that they are trying very hard to start a new life,” Liu recalled. “They just need someone to give them a chance. And I said usually I won’t, but because of you, I'm willing to give it a try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yohai knows from experience that her call can make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building that relationship with landlords is really the important piece to our success in being able to house our clients,” said Yohai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu agreed to rent the rooms to two of Yohai’s clients. Since then, she’s increased her commitment, agreeing to rent a five-bedroom house in Oakland to more people who have recently been homeless. Each person placed will pay their rent with the help of a rental subsidy, which means Liu gets a guaranteed monthly payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's a business woman, but at the same time she has a huge heart and cares,” Yohai said. “Meilin was able to understand that people change and ... she believes in [second chances], with the proper support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852540\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Yohai stands in front of an apartment building.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Building that relationship with landlords is really the important piece to our success in being able to house our clients,' Jasmine Yohai said. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>From Hotels to Apartments\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The need to find additional housing is urgent in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic began, thousands of homeless seniors and medically vulnerable people have been placed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a> hotels to help protect them from the virus. But that was always meant to be a temporary solution. Now, Bay Area officials and service providers are scrambling to transition people to more permanent housing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\">so they don’t end up back on the streets or in a shelter.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a shortage of affordable housing options, so recruiting more landlords like Liu is a top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County maintains a database of landlords who have available units and has added 65 names to the list since September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county coordinates with nonprofit agencies, who help match clients staying in Project Roomkey hotels with a new place to live. The agencies include Bay Area Community Services, where Jasmine Yohai works, and Abode Services, a homeless service provider that operates in six Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Vivian Wan, chief operating officer at Abode Services']'We're seeing that the market opened up a little more, you know, because our rents are a sure thing. We look a little bit better than maybe we once did.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian Wan is the chief operating officer at Abode Services. Her organization has been able to increase the number of apartments rented thanks to pandemic relief funding from the state and federal government. The softening rental market means they can compete for places that were once out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're seeing that the market opened up a little more, you know, because our rents are a sure thing. We look a little bit better than maybe we once did,” Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wan says Abode used to rent one place at a time as the need arose, but now they’re renting units in larger numbers, sometimes paying landlords upfront to hold their availability. That way they can quickly place people who are ready to leave the hotels. She says the program has tripled its acquisition of rental properties in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've engaged higher level real estate specialists who are really working with bigger property management companies to secure deals with them,” Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could access those vacant units, if those are made available to us and not sitting off the market for one reason or another, then we could really move the needle, not only for the folks in these hotels now, but more long term for homelessness,” Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that since September, 174 people in Alameda County have been housed through this program. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>More Than Rent\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>People who get housed through one of these programs pay 30% of whatever income they have for rent, and the subsidy they receive picks up the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the subsidy does more than that — it pays for wraparound services as well. That could include help with grocery shopping, budgeting or moving expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each person also gets a case manager who helps them access those services, and serves as a liaison between the tenant and the landlord if any problems arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not just moving someone in and then abandoning them right there,” said Stephany Ashley, Northern California director of housing services for the nonprofit Brilliant Corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"affordable-housing\" label=\"more affordable housing coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's going to be someone working around the clock to make sure that this housing match is successful for everybody involved,” Ashley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Brilliant Corners teamed up with the city of San Francisco and philanthropic donors to create an $11 million fund to pay for rent subsidies and support services. Ashley said the goal is to move 200 people from hotels into market-rate apartments by the end of January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley said the current rental market has created a lot of choices for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can say, 'Hey, where do you want to live? Is it Bernal Heights? Bayview? Do you want to live in North Beach or do you like the Tenderloin?' People get that level of choice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic started, Ashley said an influx of landlords and property owners began reaching out to Brilliant Corners wanting to partner with them. A guaranteed rent payment has become more desirable in a struggling economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like now is the moment to end homelessness for a whole bunch of people,” Ashley said. “The need is great and the opportunity is great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people who have moved from the hotels into their own apartment, the program has been life changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person standing outside of an apartment building, clasping their hands together\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mina at her home in North Berkeley on Dec. 22, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mina, who only wanted to share her first name for privacy reasons, was living in an emergency homeless shelter in Berkeley earlier this year when the pandemic hit. She had become homeless after she lost her job as a part-time caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, I was so worried,” said Mina, who was also getting chemotherapy treatments after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “My immune system is very weak. I was afraid I might get COVID.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Mina']'It's like I'm still dreaming. I have my own housing again, I’m so proud ... All I have to do now is take care of myself.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of her medical condition, she was moved into a Project Roomkey hotel and connected to a case manager. Since she was recovering from cancer, Mina had specific housing needs. She wanted to be near a major bus line and needed a first-floor apartment, because walking up stairs was too difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always crying, crying,” Mina said. “I thought I’m never going to find housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last month she got the good news: She was getting her own place in North Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mina got her keys and moved into the one-bedroom apartment with the help of Jasmine Yohai from Bay Area Community Services. After living at a homeless shelter for years, Mina said having her own place doesn’t feel real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's like I'm still dreaming. I have my own housing again, I’m so proud,” she said. “All I have to do now is take care of myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Facebook will focus $150 million to build 2,000 units of extremely low-income housing as part of the social media company’s pledge in October 2019 to spend \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> on affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Facebook says this new Community Housing Fund would be the largest of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, Apple and Google have each invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year alone to finance the restoration and construction of affordable housing in the Bay Area, after pledging last year to spend billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google was first to pledge $1 billion in June of 2019, and while Apple was the last of the three with an announcement in November of that year, it upped the ante significantly by pledging $2.5 billion. All three tech titans employ tens of thousands of employees, and tens of thousands more through subcontractors. The latter especially struggle to afford to live anywhere in the region, let alone in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a time when phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-world-in-2018-from-the-economist-highlights-key-global-themes-to-watch-for-next-year-300558659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech lash\u003c/a>” was gaining currency in publications across the globe, the companies were also sensitive to growing criticism at home that the booming tech sector was responsible in large part for the housing crisis here. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pledging Big Money Just the Beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Step one for all the tech titans has been to sit down with stakeholders in the Bay Area affordable housing world, including other financiers, local governments, community activists and organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>, a public-private partnership fighting homelessness in Santa Clara County, which is contributing an additional $5 million to Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/12/facebook-invests-150-million-in-affordable-housing-for-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Housing Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that have the expertise are the folks that have boots on the ground, right? Where is it where we can play a role? It takes partnerships,” said Juan Salazar, director of local policy and community engagement at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png\" alt=\"The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.\" width=\"692\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-160x39.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-687x167.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving says that, for her, the most exciting part of Facebook’s latest housing announcement is the fact it’s focused on extremely low-income individuals and families making less than 30% of a region’s median income. For example, in the Bay Area, a family of four making under $45,000 a year or less would meet that threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s families who are minimum wage employed. It’s seniors on fixed income, individuals on disability. They might be paying 60, 70, 80, 90 percent of their income just on rent every single month, which puts them in a ridiculously precarious position of becoming homeless, and we’re seeing that now more than ever with the effects of COVID,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that any entity trying to build affordable housing faces an uphill battle given the housing market in the Bay Area. Despite the exodus of locals fleeing high rents in recent years, the Bay Area is undersupplied by 699,000 housing units and needs to build 2.2 million more by 2070, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/what_it_will_really_take_to_create_an_affordable_bay_area.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> published in March by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). And experts don’t anticipate the current exodus of locals fleeing COVID-19 will budge those numbers much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market will never create solutions for individuals and families with extremely low income. So the willingness [of tech firms] to use their positional power to say that this housing has to be for the most vulnerable people, that are disproportionately families of color that are really struggling in the Bay. That is the kind of leadership that frankly we need a lot more of,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s Community Housing Fund will be managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the largest community development organization in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size of the investment says that this is real. For these affordable housing developers that we work with, the more that one source of money can do more for their project, the faster they can get to construction,” said Cindy Wu, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the funding will be dedicated to Santa Clara County through Destination: Home, but projects from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties are also eligible to apply. The $150 million is expected to fund at least six projects by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Facebook joined its corporate colleagues in making a billion-dollar pledge, the company began to demonstrate a commitment to building local affordable housing with its \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2017/08/a-step-to-catalyze-affordable-housing-in-the-community/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalyst Housing Fund\u003c/a>, launched in 2016. Facebook has also invested in local companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://factoryos.com/press/factory_os-joins-forces-with-technology-and-finance-leaders-to-solve-the-housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Factory_OS\u003c/a>, which builds modular housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg\" alt=\"Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley.\" width=\"1960\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg 1960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Apple)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Apple, Google and Cisco Spending, Too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far, Apple has allocated more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-allocates-more-than-400-million-to-combat-california-housing-crisis/\">$500 million\u003c/a> toward building affordable housing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784720/apple-pledges-2-5-billion-to-fight-housing-crisis-in-california\">$2.5 billion\u003c/a> it pledged to fight the housing crisis in 2019. Its portfolio of investments also includes homelessness prevention efforts and a partnership with the California Housing Finance Agency to provide down payment and mortgage assistance for hundreds of first-time home buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As communities face unprecedented challenges this year and many housing projects have been put on hold, we are proud to have been able to accelerate our work to bring more affordable housing options for people in need across California,” wrote Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice president for Global Real Estate and Facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has spent $115 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion commitment\u003c/a> it made last year, including $100 million in low-cost funding for housing developers and an investment in the aforementioned Factory_OS, to help it build a second factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Housing] is going to take things like policy reform and zoning regulations to change in order for us to really change this at scale,” said Jacquelline Fuller, who leads Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “But in the meantime, we can … help contribute to affordable housing financing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community housing activists say it’s hard to find fault with the prospect of tens of thousands of affordable housing units coming online over the next 15 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there is a complaint, it’s that the tech companies are looking to get a return in the form of rents and tax credits. Geoff Morgan, president and CEO of the nonprofit affordable housing developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstcommunityhousing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Community Housing\u003c/a>, would like to see the tech giants offer more outright grants than low-cost loans to affordable-housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to bite the hand that feeds me. There’s some high-tech companies that, what they are doing is the reason why we’re able to move forward on a lot of our projects. I just think [grants] would mean we could get deeper levels of affordability for the people that need it most — and we could build more housing units,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://siliconvalleyathome.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Valley at Home\u003c/a>']‘Our communities are not places we want to live and where employees want to to locate if we don’t have housing for everybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Morgan praises another tech giant, San Jose-based networking hardware maker Cisco Systems, both because the company was one of the first to commit substantial resources to help solve the housing crisis, and because it’s done so with direct donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked with Cisco Systems to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10761651/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pledging Big Money Just the Beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Step one for all the tech titans has been to sit down with stakeholders in the Bay Area affordable housing world, including other financiers, local governments, community activists and organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>, a public-private partnership fighting homelessness in Santa Clara County, which is contributing an additional $5 million to Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/12/facebook-invests-150-million-in-affordable-housing-for-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Housing Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that have the expertise are the folks that have boots on the ground, right? Where is it where we can play a role? It takes partnerships,” said Juan Salazar, director of local policy and community engagement at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png\" alt=\"The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.\" width=\"692\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-160x39.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-687x167.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving says that, for her, the most exciting part of Facebook’s latest housing announcement is the fact it’s focused on extremely low-income individuals and families making less than 30% of a region’s median income. For example, in the Bay Area, a family of four making under $45,000 a year or less would meet that threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s families who are minimum wage employed. It’s seniors on fixed income, individuals on disability. They might be paying 60, 70, 80, 90 percent of their income just on rent every single month, which puts them in a ridiculously precarious position of becoming homeless, and we’re seeing that now more than ever with the effects of COVID,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that any entity trying to build affordable housing faces an uphill battle given the housing market in the Bay Area. Despite the exodus of locals fleeing high rents in recent years, the Bay Area is undersupplied by 699,000 housing units and needs to build 2.2 million more by 2070, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/what_it_will_really_take_to_create_an_affordable_bay_area.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> published in March by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). And experts don’t anticipate the current exodus of locals fleeing COVID-19 will budge those numbers much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market will never create solutions for individuals and families with extremely low income. So the willingness [of tech firms] to use their positional power to say that this housing has to be for the most vulnerable people, that are disproportionately families of color that are really struggling in the Bay. That is the kind of leadership that frankly we need a lot more of,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s Community Housing Fund will be managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the largest community development organization in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size of the investment says that this is real. For these affordable housing developers that we work with, the more that one source of money can do more for their project, the faster they can get to construction,” said Cindy Wu, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the funding will be dedicated to Santa Clara County through Destination: Home, but projects from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties are also eligible to apply. The $150 million is expected to fund at least six projects by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Facebook joined its corporate colleagues in making a billion-dollar pledge, the company began to demonstrate a commitment to building local affordable housing with its \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2017/08/a-step-to-catalyze-affordable-housing-in-the-community/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalyst Housing Fund\u003c/a>, launched in 2016. 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Its portfolio of investments also includes homelessness prevention efforts and a partnership with the California Housing Finance Agency to provide down payment and mortgage assistance for hundreds of first-time home buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As communities face unprecedented challenges this year and many housing projects have been put on hold, we are proud to have been able to accelerate our work to bring more affordable housing options for people in need across California,” wrote Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice president for Global Real Estate and Facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has spent $115 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion commitment\u003c/a> it made last year, including $100 million in low-cost funding for housing developers and an investment in the aforementioned Factory_OS, to help it build a second factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Housing] is going to take things like policy reform and zoning regulations to change in order for us to really change this at scale,” said Jacquelline Fuller, who leads Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “But in the meantime, we can … help contribute to affordable housing financing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community housing activists say it’s hard to find fault with the prospect of tens of thousands of affordable housing units coming online over the next 15 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there is a complaint, it’s that the tech companies are looking to get a return in the form of rents and tax credits. Geoff Morgan, president and CEO of the nonprofit affordable housing developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstcommunityhousing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Community Housing\u003c/a>, would like to see the tech giants offer more outright grants than low-cost loans to affordable-housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to bite the hand that feeds me. There’s some high-tech companies that, what they are doing is the reason why we’re able to move forward on a lot of our projects. I just think [grants] would mean we could get deeper levels of affordability for the people that need it most — and we could build more housing units,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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