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"content": "\u003cp>After three years of bouncing between shelters, relatives’ couches, a tent and other places, Gillette Christa and her 16-month-old dog, Shepherd, had finally gotten into stable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like taking a load off,” she said. “We were able to finally rest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now her future is uncertain as she waits to hear where she will go next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like some 22,300 people across California, Christa was placed in a hotel in San Francisco as part of a program called \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\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a> – an effort to temporarily house seniors, and people who were medically vulnerable, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/03/at-newly-converted-motel-governor-newsom-launches-project-roomkey-a-first-in-the-nation-initiative-to-secure-hotel-motel-rooms-to-protect-homeless-individuals-from-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced the program in April\u003c/a>, the focus was on providing places for people experiencing homelessness to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825653/california-found-hotels-for-10000-homeless-residents-what-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">safely shelter in place\u003c/a> during the pandemic. But, he also said it would be a jumping-off point for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just thinking short-term,” he said during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/282059655808032/videos/198302828289931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 3 press conference\u003c/a> outside a motel in Sacramento. “We’re also beginning to process an orientation of focus and energy around long-term supports, so that we can get people off the streets in a permanent way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But data from seven Bay Area counties, which was analyzed by KQED, show that nearly 16% of the people who have already been discharged from the hotels have made it into permanent housing, or 345 people out of 2,196.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 84% have gone on to emergency shelters, transitional housing, friends or family, other hotels paid for with private funds, drug rehab facilities, jail, or to tents, cars and encampments. At least 15 people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data includes only people experiencing homelessness who stayed in hotels as part of a preventative measure to stop the spread of the coronavirus. It does not include hotel rooms set aside to isolate and quarantine people who had been exposed to the virus and whose stays were limited to 14 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"People Who Moved Into Permanent Housing in the Bay Area\" aria-label=\"Grouped Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-i3X2l\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/i3X2l/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"714\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This data does not include Solano County or San Francisco, which has placed more than 3,300 people in hotel rooms or trailers since the start of the pandemic. Officials in San Francisco said they couldn’t provide data on where people went after they left the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a Nov. 2 letter to county supervisors, Abigail Stewart-Kahn, the interim director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said 49 households had been placed in permanent housing from the city’s shelter-in-place hotels, which she believes is an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties across the state are beginning to close down some of those hotels. And advocates say the timing couldn’t be worse as temperatures drop, coronavirus infection rates surge and many congregate shelters remain closed or at reduced capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced another $62 million in grants for counties to help them transition more people into permanent housing, including $35 million to pay for rental subsidies, case management, help finding housing, and landlord incentives, among other things.\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=KQINC3528388264\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has also doled out more than $800 million in grants for some of the hotels to be converted into permanent housing through a separate program, called Project Homekey. Newsom launched the program in June as a way to transition more people out of the temporary hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has awarded $305.3 million to the Bay Area’s nine counties for 21 projects. The projects will add more than 1,600 units of housing for formerly homeless people, according to an analysis of the awards by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still a small fraction of the need. More than 8,500 people have gotten temporary housing in Project Roomkey hotels in the Bay Area to date. Heather Freinkel, a managing attorney for the Homeless Action Center, said there’s just not enough housing to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter how you look at it, the big picture is the big picture,” Freinkel said, adding that the Bay Area was facing a shortage of affordable housing before the pandemic. “There is not enough permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santa Clara County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-zzOPJ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/zzOPJ/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"306\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the low percentage of people who’ve made it into housing so far, Freinkel still thinks Project Roomkey has been a success. Placing any number of people who have been homeless into permanent housing should be lauded, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point [of Project Roomkey] is an emergency intervention to prevent the most vulnerable people from being exposed to COVID-19,” she said. “Considering all the barriers and the lack of available housing, it’s a great accomplishment that even some people were able to obtain permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hotels Closing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco had planned to close seven its Project Roomkey hotels by Dec. 21, though a city spokesperson said the new state funding would provide more flexibility to keep them open longer if needed. Officials have not given a timeline for how long those hotels might stay open, and have said they plan to move forward with moving people out of the hotels. Those hotels currently have about 500 people staying in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to phase out its remaining 22 hotels by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Thursday urged officials to keep all the hotels open for as long as possible and said they planned to introduce legislation to mandate that everyone in the hotels gets placed into permanent housing. The press conference followed a small demonstration earlier this week, when dozens of homeless advocates took to the streets to protest the hotel closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847951\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia Viviana, an organizer with Hotels not Hospitals, speaks at a protest in the Mission District in San Francisco on Nov, 16, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",null]'>“The weather is getting colder, COVID cases are surging, and we need to get this right,” Supervisor Matt Haney said Thursday. “The hotels are a critical tool to keep people off the streets.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stewart-Kahn told KQED the hotel program is not sustainable. Rooms cost roughly $260 per night, she said, compared to between $70 to $90 for other types of housing. The hotel rooms come with three meals a day, laundry service, wellness checks, security guards and case management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extremely expensive compared to other solutions,” Stewart-Kahn said in an interview. “They were always intended to be temporary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn said the city is committed to making sure everyone in the hotels would be transferred to “short, medium or long-term” placements when they leave and that she believes there is adequate capacity available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can try to wait until there is perfection, but we are never going to get there,” she said. “This is an opportunity to end homelessness for more people in San Francisco than anyone in our field has ever gotten the opportunity to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign in the Mission in San Francisco on Nov, 16, 2020, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the governor’s announcement of more funding this week, Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said it wasn’t clear yet how much additional funding the city would get, or when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward to incorporating these resources along with early learnings from the (rehousing) process to inform San Francisco’s rehousing plan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christa said she expects to find out in the next week whether she will get a permanent home or temporary housing. She fractured her ankle in three places in August, she said, and it’s still healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the fear that there may not be a match,” Christa said. “And my ankle won’t be close to well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, she’s already met with a housing coordinator who is working to get her a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful, but I’m not counting chickens,” Christa said. “I’m waiting for them to hatch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Different Counties, Different Approaches\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While some counties are winding down their programs, others are keeping their hotels open. Officials in San Francisco, Alameda and Marin counties have all said they’re closing some hotels because they’re concerned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would stop reimbursing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA pays for 75% of the cost of running the hotels as part of the emergency response to the coronavirus. California counties have been relying on additional federal funding from the CARES Act, which is set to expire at the end of the year, as well as other state grants or local funding to make up the remaining 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Barker, a spokesman for FEMA, said the federal agency would continue providing reimbursement on a month-to-month basis for the emergency shelters as long as there is need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sonoma County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-88Exl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/88Exl/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"354\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Contra Costa counties, which collectively have nine Project Roomkey sites, have both said they will keep those sites open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as we have the resources and capability, we want to keep the hotels,” said Michael Gause, Sonoma County’s Ending Homelessness program manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, 1,121 people are currently sheltering at nine hotels. But county officials say they plan to wind down six of them between December and February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really looking to try to take advantage to make sure everyone can exit the hotels into housing,” said Kerry Abbott, director of Alameda County’s Office of Homeless Care and Coordination. “But that’s obviously a pretty huge feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county plans to keep one hotel open through June for people who test positive for COVID-19 and need a place to safely quarantine. Unlike the other Project Roomkey hotels, which allow guests to stay as long as they need until they get placed into permanent housing, the quarantine facilities only allow guests to stay until they are no longer at risk of spreading the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also plans to convert two hotels into permanent housing, using the state’s Project Homekey funding. And, it’s working to recruit landlords to place people out of the hotels into private-market units paid for with rent subsidies, Abbott said. So far, they’ve signed up about three dozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting those landlords to give us a call and identifying vacant units in the community is absolutely a priority right now,” Abbott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marin County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-PS5yV\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PS5yV/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, all but seven people have transitioned out of its four Project Roomkey hotels. County officials said that 35 people have moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2020/10/01/san-rafael-board-approves-temporary-homeless-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened a new shelter\u003c/a> in San Rafael for people transitioning out of one of the hotels, said Ellen Hammerle, the vice president of client services for Catholic Charities, a nonprofit that managed two of the hotels in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']Homeward Bound will manage the Kerner Boulevard location as a temporary shelter for 45 people through April, 2022, which will allow social service providers more time to find permanent housing for them, Hammerle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credited the successful placements on a high level of coordination between the community organizations involved, county officials and the organizations managing the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us know the clients individually by name and really care about making sure they get housed and stay safe and get the care, or employment or whatever it is they’re working on,” Hammerle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said it’s also been difficult to find placements for people who need mental health services or who have other special needs. That’s a barrier that officials in Sonoma and Solano counties said they faced, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have mental health clinicians on site [at the hotels],” said Dawn La Bar, chairwoman of Community Action Partnership for the Solano Joint Powers Authority. “I don’t think we realized the extent of that need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Place to Grow\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For those who have moved from Project Roomkey to more permanent housing, the program has been a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ellis and her 8-year-old son, King, lost their apartment in June. They were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the landlord raised their rent, she said. The apartment had bug infestations, the air conditioning stopped working for seven days during a heat spell, and the heat had stopped working during the previous winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis and her son King pose for a portrait on the back stairs of their apartment building on Nov. 15, 2020. (Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than fight the landlord over the rent increase, Ellis decided to leave. She wanted a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like trying to get water out of a rock,” she said. “That’s why we had to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son is autistic, and she heard about programs in the Bay Area that might help him. So, they put all their belongings in storage and packed up their car and hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw the ‘Welcome to California’ sign,” Ellis said, “I started crying. It was such a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King was enrolled at a summer camp in San Francisco for the first week after they arrived. But soon, the money they budgeted for a hotel ran out. Ellis relied on friends to pitch in money for an Airbnb for a couple nights, but they also found themselves sleeping in their car, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 10 days without knowing where she would be able to find a place to live, Ellis got in touch with an intake worker at Catholic Charities who placed her and King at one of the Project Roomkey hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, ‘Praise God,’” Ellis said. “For a single mom to know there were three meals a day I could come get, that was wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847945\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg\" alt=\"King takes his mom's temperature\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis has her temperature checked by her son King at their home in San Francisco. They regularly take their temperatures to monitor for COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis and her son got keys to their new apartment in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in September, which she pays for with a Section 8 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a little diamond in the rough,” she said. “It doesn’t have much of the things on my list … no garden, no bathtub, no parking spot … But, it’s secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving every year for the past seven years, Ellis said they finally have a place where they know they can stay for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place where hopefully, King can be longer than a year,” she said, “and grow into this wonderful little boy he’s growing into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATE: This story includes updated statistics from Alameda County. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Staff writer Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This data does not include Solano County or San Francisco, which has placed more than 3,300 people in hotel rooms or trailers since the start of the pandemic. Officials in San Francisco said they couldn’t provide data on where people went after they left the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a Nov. 2 letter to county supervisors, Abigail Stewart-Kahn, the interim director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said 49 households had been placed in permanent housing from the city’s shelter-in-place hotels, which she believes is an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties across the state are beginning to close down some of those hotels. And advocates say the timing couldn’t be worse as temperatures drop, coronavirus infection rates surge and many congregate shelters remain closed or at reduced capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced another $62 million in grants for counties to help them transition more people into permanent housing, including $35 million to pay for rental subsidies, case management, help finding housing, and landlord incentives, among other things.\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=KQINC3528388264\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has also doled out more than $800 million in grants for some of the hotels to be converted into permanent housing through a separate program, called Project Homekey. Newsom launched the program in June as a way to transition more people out of the temporary hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has awarded $305.3 million to the Bay Area’s nine counties for 21 projects. The projects will add more than 1,600 units of housing for formerly homeless people, according to an analysis of the awards by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still a small fraction of the need. More than 8,500 people have gotten temporary housing in Project Roomkey hotels in the Bay Area to date. Heather Freinkel, a managing attorney for the Homeless Action Center, said there’s just not enough housing to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter how you look at it, the big picture is the big picture,” Freinkel said, adding that the Bay Area was facing a shortage of affordable housing before the pandemic. “There is not enough permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santa Clara County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-zzOPJ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/zzOPJ/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"306\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the low percentage of people who’ve made it into housing so far, Freinkel still thinks Project Roomkey has been a success. Placing any number of people who have been homeless into permanent housing should be lauded, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point [of Project Roomkey] is an emergency intervention to prevent the most vulnerable people from being exposed to COVID-19,” she said. “Considering all the barriers and the lack of available housing, it’s a great accomplishment that even some people were able to obtain permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hotels Closing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco had planned to close seven its Project Roomkey hotels by Dec. 21, though a city spokesperson said the new state funding would provide more flexibility to keep them open longer if needed. Officials have not given a timeline for how long those hotels might stay open, and have said they plan to move forward with moving people out of the hotels. Those hotels currently have about 500 people staying in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to phase out its remaining 22 hotels by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Thursday urged officials to keep all the hotels open for as long as possible and said they planned to introduce legislation to mandate that everyone in the hotels gets placed into permanent housing. The press conference followed a small demonstration earlier this week, when dozens of homeless advocates took to the streets to protest the hotel closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847951\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia Viviana, an organizer with Hotels not Hospitals, speaks at a protest in the Mission District in San Francisco on Nov, 16, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",null]'>“The weather is getting colder, COVID cases are surging, and we need to get this right,” Supervisor Matt Haney said Thursday. “The hotels are a critical tool to keep people off the streets.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stewart-Kahn told KQED the hotel program is not sustainable. Rooms cost roughly $260 per night, she said, compared to between $70 to $90 for other types of housing. The hotel rooms come with three meals a day, laundry service, wellness checks, security guards and case management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extremely expensive compared to other solutions,” Stewart-Kahn said in an interview. “They were always intended to be temporary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn said the city is committed to making sure everyone in the hotels would be transferred to “short, medium or long-term” placements when they leave and that she believes there is adequate capacity available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can try to wait until there is perfection, but we are never going to get there,” she said. “This is an opportunity to end homelessness for more people in San Francisco than anyone in our field has ever gotten the opportunity to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign in the Mission in San Francisco on Nov, 16, 2020, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the governor’s announcement of more funding this week, Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said it wasn’t clear yet how much additional funding the city would get, or when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward to incorporating these resources along with early learnings from the (rehousing) process to inform San Francisco’s rehousing plan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christa said she expects to find out in the next week whether she will get a permanent home or temporary housing. She fractured her ankle in three places in August, she said, and it’s still healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the fear that there may not be a match,” Christa said. “And my ankle won’t be close to well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, she’s already met with a housing coordinator who is working to get her a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful, but I’m not counting chickens,” Christa said. “I’m waiting for them to hatch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Different Counties, Different Approaches\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While some counties are winding down their programs, others are keeping their hotels open. Officials in San Francisco, Alameda and Marin counties have all said they’re closing some hotels because they’re concerned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would stop reimbursing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA pays for 75% of the cost of running the hotels as part of the emergency response to the coronavirus. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Homeward Bound will manage the Kerner Boulevard location as a temporary shelter for 45 people through April, 2022, which will allow social service providers more time to find permanent housing for them, Hammerle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credited the successful placements on a high level of coordination between the community organizations involved, county officials and the organizations managing the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us know the clients individually by name and really care about making sure they get housed and stay safe and get the care, or employment or whatever it is they’re working on,” Hammerle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said it’s also been difficult to find placements for people who need mental health services or who have other special needs. That’s a barrier that officials in Sonoma and Solano counties said they faced, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have mental health clinicians on site [at the hotels],” said Dawn La Bar, chairwoman of Community Action Partnership for the Solano Joint Powers Authority. “I don’t think we realized the extent of that need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Place to Grow\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For those who have moved from Project Roomkey to more permanent housing, the program has been a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ellis and her 8-year-old son, King, lost their apartment in June. They were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the landlord raised their rent, she said. The apartment had bug infestations, the air conditioning stopped working for seven days during a heat spell, and the heat had stopped working during the previous winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis and her son King pose for a portrait on the back stairs of their apartment building on Nov. 15, 2020. (Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than fight the landlord over the rent increase, Ellis decided to leave. She wanted a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like trying to get water out of a rock,” she said. “That’s why we had to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son is autistic, and she heard about programs in the Bay Area that might help him. So, they put all their belongings in storage and packed up their car and hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw the ‘Welcome to California’ sign,” Ellis said, “I started crying. It was such a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King was enrolled at a summer camp in San Francisco for the first week after they arrived. But soon, the money they budgeted for a hotel ran out. Ellis relied on friends to pitch in money for an Airbnb for a couple nights, but they also found themselves sleeping in their car, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 10 days without knowing where she would be able to find a place to live, Ellis got in touch with an intake worker at Catholic Charities who placed her and King at one of the Project Roomkey hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, ‘Praise God,’” Ellis said. “For a single mom to know there were three meals a day I could come get, that was wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847945\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg\" alt=\"King takes his mom's temperature\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis has her temperature checked by her son King at their home in San Francisco. They regularly take their temperatures to monitor for COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis and her son got keys to their new apartment in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in September, which she pays for with a Section 8 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a little diamond in the rough,” she said. “It doesn’t have much of the things on my list … no garden, no bathtub, no parking spot … But, it’s secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving every year for the past seven years, Ellis said they finally have a place where they know they can stay for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place where hopefully, King can be longer than a year,” she said, “and grow into this wonderful little boy he’s growing into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATE: This story includes updated statistics from Alameda County. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Staff writer Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Carroll Fife, the longtime Oakland community organizer and social justice advocate will soon become the newest member of the Oakland City Council, after defeating two-term incumbent Lynette Gibson McElhaney in a major upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Fife was announced as the winner of the race for the District 3 seat, which was among \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/In-upset-Oakland-s-Moms-4-Housing-activist-15713520.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the most fiercely contested\u003c/a> of the five council contests in the November election. She campaigned on a platform of police reform, environmental justice and the concept of housing as a human right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Oakland City Councilwoman-elect Carroll Fife\"]‘There’s a huge problem with our entire paradigm. And we need to shift unless we want to continue to see the outcomes that we’re seeing with tent cities under every overpass and every street.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife, who takes office in January, will represent a district that includes parts of West Oakland, Downtown, Uptown, Jack London Square and Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife gained widespread recognition as the lead organizer behind \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842392/how-moms-4-housing-changed-laws-and-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, a grassroots collective launched after a group of homeless mothers occupied a vacant West Oakland house late last year that was owned by a real estate investment firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Forum’s Michael Krasny \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880738/housing-activist-carroll-fife-rides-to-victory-in-oaklands-district-three\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke with Fife\u003c/a> on Tuesday about her vision for Oakland and the progressive political movement she is building. Below are excerpts from the interview, edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11847013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1199285740-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1199285740-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1199285740-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1199285740-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1199285740.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carroll Fife, the director of the Oakland office for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, walks outside a homeless encampment in Oakland on Jan. 28, 2020. Fife, who helped form the Moms 4 Housing collective, won a seat on the Oakland City Council in the November 2020 election. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you mean by “housing as a human right?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to clarify, because I think there’s still some misunderstanding about that particular civil disobedience action. It was completely to highlight the fact that we believe that housing should not be a commodity. It should not be something that is sold to the highest bidder. And if you do not have the wherewithal to compete in the process of acquiring housing, then you are out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re seeing the ramifications of that throughout not just Oakland, but the state of California and the world, really. So we say that housing should be a right and everyone should have access to it, just like they have access to clean water, public education and all of the things that are necessary to build a basic and decent life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So, you’re talking about changing the whole nature of what you call the commodification of housing and moving more toward housing for low-and, frankly, no-income people?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right. There are many people that are unable to work and have no income. There are seniors who cannot work and can’t earn the money that is necessary to afford to live here. There are people who are disabled permanently, who are born that way or through any situation that leads to disability, just unable to earn income. So are we saying that they shouldn’t have housing because they can’t afford to to live here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is one of the primary reasons that housing should be a human right. We have foster children. We have young people that are in college; so many people that are barred from having a safe, affordable place to stay because they just do not earn the money necessary. And even working people are out of reach for most of the housing that we see that’s coming onto the market here, [and] that’s on the market. There’s a huge problem with our entire paradigm. And we need to shift unless we want to continue to see the outcomes that we’re seeing with tent cities under every overpass and every street. And it’s just untenable at this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now the home prices are increasing in the Bay Area and we’re going to see an end to [eviction] moratoriums soon. And it’s just a problem that is insurmountable unless we do something completely different than what we’ve been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you implement this? Would you demand, for example, a mandate that 20% of new housing be affordable housing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I would like to see is us put our best thinking towards what it would look like to make housing a human right. That includes people that are, to me, not necessarily doing as much as they possibly could. I think we need all of our best thinking from our developers, from our affordable housing community, from housing rights organizations. Right now, we have public land that could be utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What you’re speaking of, the 20% and private developments: I do believe that we all need to do more, especially market-rate housing developers who have been paying impact fees, who’ve reached out to me even before this election. Like, ‘Carroll, can you help us with a campaign? Because we’ve been paying impact fees and we don’t know where they’re going. We don’t know how much is in the impact fee fund.’ So it’s not just a failure, according to me, it’s a failure across the board from every spectrum of individual that’s engaged in housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you also talking about an end to real estate speculation as we’ve come to know it, and things like rent strikes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speculation hurts residents. Speculation harms entire communities and entire neighborhoods. When people are engaged in buying up residential property for the sole purpose of flipping it and making as much money as they can, then that leaves out an entire group of individuals who cannot compete in that type of market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s had a specific impact on Black people in the city of Oakland. And it’s had a drastic impact on the district that I live in, where speculators, including Wedgwood — the LLC that bought Mom’s house — buys properties in bulk. They buy 200 to 300 homes per month for the purpose of speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that there should be regulation on that type of behavior. I think that’s what’s causing displacement and gentrification, and really, racialized displacement. As you’ve said on your show, 70% of Oakland’s homeless population is Black. That is not a coincidence; it is directly tied to our housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"moms-4-housing\"]\u003cstrong>Can you talk about your support for expanding rent control, particularly in light of California voters rejecting Proposition 21, which could have helped expand it? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor [Libby Schaaf] and the outgoing city councilmember [McElhaney], are far more moderate on their views around rental protections, particularly rent control. They are part of a waning chorus of detractors for rent control. Because the reality is … the state of California and the residents and the voters of California overwhelmingly supported affordable housing. What they are responding to is millions, hundreds of millions of dollars in ad propaganda that say exactly what we are saying, exactly the same thing that I’m saying, which is Californians want more affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proponents of Prop. 21 just lied in their advertising. So when you lie in your advertising and say that Prop. 21 will kill affordable housing and people were like, ‘No, we need affordable housing,’ it’s just the voters being lied to. And there’s never enough money on the opposing side to counter the hundreds of millions of dollars that the real estate industry puts into ads that pop up on every possible medium that you can think of. So what needs to happen is just more organizing on the other end, because that’s what’s telling the truth about our current conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you outline where you want to go with police reform?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city workers, public workers, firefighters, teachers, sewer workers and nurses have received cuts to their budgets. The only institution that consistently gets raises and never has to go through any type of cuts is our police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to see an audit of where we’re actually spending our time and have the police bear the same responsibility to caring for our city as all other city workers. I would like to see mental health responses to 911 calls. I would like to see — similar to Albuquerque, New Mexico and Berkeley, California — civilianized traffic stops and things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I do think that we really need to look at where this $330 million dollars a year is going and find out where we can invest some of those funds into city services that truly keep us safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Marshaling those eight members on a particular issue gives progressives an open road to author their preferred laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That supermajority can be tenuous, however, said David Campos, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and a former supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the other side can split you off and siphon you off, your leverage is diminished,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while votes are still being counted, this November’s election may shift the balance of power. While no one is calling out “checkmate,” a few vital rooks may be knocked off the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one new ally to the mayor is on a firm path to the board after voting concluded Tuesday, while another of Breed’s allies is only dozens of votes away from winning, with some San Franciscans clicking the “refresh” button on the Department of Elections’ website repeatedly — and nervously — as officials continue to count mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myrna Melgar, a former Planning Commission president who is a progressive Democrat, declared herself winner after the latest ballot count showed her leading her closest opponent, Joel Engardio, by seven points. The latest count looks poised to clinch Melgar’s win, as of Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar will represent District 7 on the southwestern side of San Francisco, which includes Parkmerced. While she is ideologically progressive, she was appointed to the Planning Commission by Breed and is considered a close ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar and Breed have known each other for years and enjoy a positive working relationship. That’s particularly key for Breed, whose history with the board has shown that she often values the ability to work with someone over how closely they align with her views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFyimby/status/1324184754900463618\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the city’s Richmond District, Breed’s former senior adviser, Marjan Philhour, a moderate Democrat, is locked in a tight race with progressive Democrat Connie Chan. In each day’s new count, the two jockey for the lead by mere dozens of votes, amounting to a toss-up that’s still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 90,000 mail-in ballots left to count, according to the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour is considered a close ally of Breed’s and if elected, would take the seat of outgoing Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer, who, while friendly with the mayor, is considered particularly powerful among the progressive camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Meeting in the Middle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progressives and moderates play nice on some issues, but add a dash of housing discussion and you’ll often find a combustible mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar can perhaps douse the powder keg by serving as a conduit between Breed and the progressive camp. As a candidate, Melgar uniquely obtained the backing of SF YIMBY Action, a pro-housing development group, and also of progressives and their allies who are normally opposed to YIMBY ideologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing built on the West Side is my top priority,” Melgar told KQED, where she’s thinking of pushing for subsidized co-ops in partnership with progressive supervisor Gordon Mar, perhaps in a unique arrangement between government and labor groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept would rely on a funding mechanism favored by progressives and would see the construction of housing in a part of town that moderates have long complained hasn’t borne its fair share of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond housing proposals alone, boasting allies on both sides of the aisle may make it possible for Melgar to serve as a crucial swing vote on the Board of Supervisors more generally, a position once enjoyed by former supervisor David Chiu, who is now serving as a state Assembly member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Todd David, director of the SF Housing Action Coalition\"]‘I’d like to see the Board of Supervisors put their money where their mouth is, take their mandate, and change zoning in the city to allow for some geographic affordable housing equity.’[/pullquote]The calculation is simple: If you’re ideologically in two camps, both will negotiate with you for your vote. Melgar could use that power to unite Breed and the supervisors on thorny issues where they may not otherwise see eye to eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s possible, she certainly could do that,” Campos said. “But for this kind of unity to really work, there has to be a commitment on the part of everyone involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she thought that dynamic could emerge on the board, Melgar simply answered, “I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if the board reaches out to the mayor there will be a good outcome in this city,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans “elected London Breed mayor and a progressive Board of Supervisors as a balance to one another. I think the hope is that they’ll work together and find a common ground that is needed,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Even More Leverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Melgar’s win may give Breed a trusted ombudsman with the progressive-led board, an additional Philhour win would give Breed a far higher stack of chips at the poker table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would give Breed enough allies among the supervisors to break up the progressives’ veto-proof supermajority. It would also give the mayor a chance to stymie higher taxation in future ballot propositions from the board, for instance, or to argue for more affordable housing for middle-income San Franciscans versus low-income residents, two positions she has espoused in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarjanPhilhour/status/1313282016633266177\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour may carry another trump card: Her time in City Hall has shown she’s not afraid to get in scraps over ideas she backs. In the past, vocal critics of the board’s progressive wing have been successful at drawing public attention to policies they disagree with, and Philhour could fit that mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour is viewed skeptically by some progressives as perhaps too close to Breed, having served directly in her office. They’re particularly worried that super PAC-like campaign accounts, called independent expenditure committees, spent money to support Philhour’s election in the Richmond District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that funding came from William Oberndorf, a wealthy investor who gave more than $1 million to help Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, in his senate race, \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2020/10/the-big-gop-and-real-estate-money-moves-into-district-one/\">according to 48 Hills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorable donations from Republican allies prompted some progressives to question local candidates’ proposals, but Philhour tweeted in October, “I am the only candidate in this race to denounce all Independent Expenditures and Super PACs. I’ve done so from the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti Singh, a tenants organizer, hopes that Philhour, if elected, will show her independence and favor progressive affordable housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Marjan [Philhour] wins, it’s incumbent on her to think about that vision and not what the PAC, big business-backers want to do about housing,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Full Election Results\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/KQED-Election-Results-Hero-1020x574.jpg\"]That’s particularly important with the likely passages of San Francisco’s Propositions I and K, the former of which is a property transfer tax that would raise about $196 million annually for the city’s general fund, and the latter of which is a mandate for the city to build up to 10,000 affordable rental units, a proposal which still needs identified funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is buying what the progressives are putting on the ballot right now,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the SF Housing Action Coalition, said progressives should strike while the iron is hot, as this week’s likely multiple ballot proposition wins would give progressives more tools to begin tackling the housing affordability crisis in a way he claims they have not yet done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many political moderates like David, who side with market-rate ideologies, agree that the progressives should aggressively pursue their housing proposals because building more affordable housing on the West Side, for example, would at least see the neighborhood become more housing-dense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see the Board of Supervisors put their money where their mouth is,” David said. “Take their mandate, and change zoning in the city to allow for some geographic affordable housing equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David critiqued the progressive supervisors for failing to use their majority to add more housing on San Francisco’s West Side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have “all said they can do this,” but “last time I checked they haven’t added any new zoning locally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any possible new cooperation between Breed’s camp and the progressives, if pursued, could transform the city, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The calculation is simple: If you’re ideologically in two camps, both will negotiate with you for your vote. Melgar could use that power to unite Breed and the supervisors on thorny issues where they may not otherwise see eye to eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s possible, she certainly could do that,” Campos said. “But for this kind of unity to really work, there has to be a commitment on the part of everyone involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she thought that dynamic could emerge on the board, Melgar simply answered, “I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if the board reaches out to the mayor there will be a good outcome in this city,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans “elected London Breed mayor and a progressive Board of Supervisors as a balance to one another. I think the hope is that they’ll work together and find a common ground that is needed,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Even More Leverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Melgar’s win may give Breed a trusted ombudsman with the progressive-led board, an additional Philhour win would give Breed a far higher stack of chips at the poker table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would give Breed enough allies among the supervisors to break up the progressives’ veto-proof supermajority. It would also give the mayor a chance to stymie higher taxation in future ballot propositions from the board, for instance, or to argue for more affordable housing for middle-income San Franciscans versus low-income residents, two positions she has espoused in previous years.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s particularly important with the likely passages of San Francisco’s Propositions I and K, the former of which is a property transfer tax that would raise about $196 million annually for the city’s general fund, and the latter of which is a mandate for the city to build up to 10,000 affordable rental units, a proposal which still needs identified funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is buying what the progressives are putting on the ballot right now,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the SF Housing Action Coalition, said progressives should strike while the iron is hot, as this week’s likely multiple ballot proposition wins would give progressives more tools to begin tackling the housing affordability crisis in a way he claims they have not yet done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many political moderates like David, who side with market-rate ideologies, agree that the progressives should aggressively pursue their housing proposals because building more affordable housing on the West Side, for example, would at least see the neighborhood become more housing-dense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see the Board of Supervisors put their money where their mouth is,” David said. “Take their mandate, and change zoning in the city to allow for some geographic affordable housing equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David critiqued the progressive supervisors for failing to use their majority to add more housing on San Francisco’s West Side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have “all said they can do this,” but “last time I checked they haven’t added any new zoning locally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco voters will decide on two ballot measures next month that would authorize new public housing, as well as a tax to help pay for it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston introduced the measures and says the vision is to create stability for renters who are priced out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vision is that you can be a working class person who lives in San Francisco and pays a reasonable percentage of your income to rent,” he said, “and that you will never be forced out of that unit by an eviction, that you will never have sharp rent increases … and that you have security.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Dean Preston\"]‘The vision is that you can be a working class person who lives in San Francisco and pays a reasonable percentage of your income to rent, and that you will never be forced out of that unit by an eviction, that you will never have sharp rent increases … and that you have security.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s call for new government-owned housing comes amid a \u003ca href=\"https://homesguarantee.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resurgence\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_WulgST3U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/gnd/public-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interest\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ilhan-omar-introduces-homes-all-act-new-21st-century-public-housing-vision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public housing,\u003c/a> as well as calls to build permanently affordable housing that’s financed by the government but managed by nonprofits, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SocialHousing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social housing\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/2020Nov/20200624_AuthorizingDevelopmentUnderCaliforniaConstitution_Legisla.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop K\u003c/a> would authorize up to 10,000 units of new affordable housing that could be owned or operated by the city. The California Constitution \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CONS&division=&title=&part=&chapter=&article=XXXIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requires voters to approve\u003c/a> any new low-income housing that receives public funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for this new housing, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/2020Nov/20200717_RealPropertyTransferTaxRateIncrease.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop I\u003c/a> would double the transfer tax on buildings that sell for $10 million or more. The San Francisco Controller’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/2020Nov/Prop%20I%20-%20Transfer%20Tax.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that if the tax had been in place between 2008 and 2019, it would have generated an average of $196 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the actual amount would vary widely. According to the report, some years would have generated as little as $13 million or as much as $346 million, making it the “most volatile revenue source” in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, the executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, questioned whether new city-owned housing is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, voters \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco_Creation_of_a_Housing_Trust_Fund,_Proposition_C_(November_2012)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved 30,000 new units\u003c/a> of affordable housing managed by nonprofits and community land trusts. Preston said a new vote is needed to allow the city itself to build and manage that housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a structure in San Francisco of nonprofits and community land trust being the agent and the engine for affordable housing production,” Shaw said. “Why is that not adequate?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said that if the city owns more housing, it would have to hire the staff to develop and manage it. That would cost money, he said, which instead could go to nonprofits and community land trusts — that already have staff in place — to actually build housing instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the reason for a new model?” Shaw said. “I have yet to hear an explanation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the housing crisis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818184/bay-area-housing-post-pandemic-whats-in-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected to get worse\u003c/a> as a result of the pandemic, particularly for low-income people, Preston said the city should have every option on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need all the tools at our disposal,” he said. “And that includes municipal housing as an option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public housing in the United States was \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41654.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first created\u003c/a> as a response to the Great Depression, intended to serve only the poorest families who couldn’t afford rents on the private market. But it faced chronic underfunding from the start. Today, the National Low Income Housing Coalition \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/public-housing-where-do-we-stand#:~:text=Because%20Congress%20has%20failed%20to,public%20housing%20maintenance%20and%20repairs)\">estimates\u003c/a> the country’s existing public housing — a little more than 1 million units — is facing a $70 billion backlog in needed maintenance and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was no exception. And beginning in 2014, it took advantage of a new federal program to rehab its public housing stock, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/20/how-san-francisco-turned-its-tenements-into-treasures-215391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turning over all of its federally-subsidized public housing to nonprofits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had an existing structure where the government owned (public housing),” Shaw said. “And we had to then work out so that nonprofits could take over. And it’s been a big success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston said that, ultimately, a new steering committee would decide who would own and operate any new housing authorized by Prop K. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, the executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, questioned whether new city-owned housing is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, voters \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco_Creation_of_a_Housing_Trust_Fund,_Proposition_C_(November_2012)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved 30,000 new units\u003c/a> of affordable housing managed by nonprofits and community land trusts. Preston said a new vote is needed to allow the city itself to build and manage that housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a structure in San Francisco of nonprofits and community land trust being the agent and the engine for affordable housing production,” Shaw said. “Why is that not adequate?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said that if the city owns more housing, it would have to hire the staff to develop and manage it. That would cost money, he said, which instead could go to nonprofits and community land trusts — that already have staff in place — to actually build housing instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the reason for a new model?” Shaw said. “I have yet to hear an explanation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the housing crisis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818184/bay-area-housing-post-pandemic-whats-in-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected to get worse\u003c/a> as a result of the pandemic, particularly for low-income people, Preston said the city should have every option on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need all the tools at our disposal,” he said. “And that includes municipal housing as an option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public housing in the United States was \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41654.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first created\u003c/a> as a response to the Great Depression, intended to serve only the poorest families who couldn’t afford rents on the private market. But it faced chronic underfunding from the start. Today, the National Low Income Housing Coalition \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/public-housing-where-do-we-stand#:~:text=Because%20Congress%20has%20failed%20to,public%20housing%20maintenance%20and%20repairs)\">estimates\u003c/a> the country’s existing public housing — a little more than 1 million units — is facing a $70 billion backlog in needed maintenance and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was no exception. And beginning in 2014, it took advantage of a new federal program to rehab its public housing stock, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/20/how-san-francisco-turned-its-tenements-into-treasures-215391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turning over all of its federally-subsidized public housing to nonprofits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had an existing structure where the government owned (public housing),” Shaw said. “And we had to then work out so that nonprofits could take over. And it’s been a big success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston said that, ultimately, a new steering committee would decide who would own and operate any new housing authorized by Prop K. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others are wondering if the city can afford a new and expensive housing program, particularly at a time when the economy is still struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwen Kaplan, the CEO of Ace Mailing in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, says that ultimately, the new Prop I tax would get passed down to small businesses in the form of higher lease payments. She says those are small businesses that are already hurting as a result of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you need to do is drive down Castro, 24th Street, Fillmore, Union Street and see the effects of the pandemic,” she said. “And we were in difficult enough conditions before the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Prop K passes but Prop I doesn’t, Preston says the city will have to find another pot of money for the new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two San Francisco supervisors have introduced legislation that would require the city to expand its system of safe sleeping sites for homeless people. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816648/sf-used-to-trash-homeless-tents-now-the-city-will-sanction-these-safe-sleeping-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city first opened the sanctioned tent villages in May\u003c/a>, as the pandemic forced shelters to limit the number of people they could take, and more people began sleeping on sidewalks in crowded encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Supervisors approve the proposal, it would mandate enough new safe sleeping sites to accommodate 500 people within nine months. Within 18 months, the city would need to have enough sites for anyone without access to a permanent supportive housing unit, shelter bed or hotel room. While the current number of unhoused people in San Francisco is unknown, the city’s 2019 point-in-time count found about 8,000 homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced the proposal along with Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman says the sleeping sites the city has already set up have been successful alternatives to shelters and sidewalks for unhoused people during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are places where folks can set up tents. They’re managed. They have port-a-potties and sometimes showers and services, regular cleaning, 24 hour 24/7 staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently five sanctioned safe sleeping sites throughout the city, with a total capacity of 213 people. It’s unclear how many people are currently staying at those sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness recently \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1thWoIG4PXe36QoInR-QiOwEKi4RIccer/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed\u003c/a> 584 unhoused people in the city and found that 58% of the people surveyed would prefer a legal, free campsite over sleeping in one of the city’s existing shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keegan Medrano, policy and social media director for the Coalition, says the group doesn’t have an official position on the legislation yet, but supports expanding safe sleeping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you gave me a choice of someone living in a vehicle, or on streets, someplace where they won’t be policed, where they won’t be harassed, I would be supportive of that,” said Medrano. [aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, they recognize that the sites are a harm reduction approach, and are less optimal than hotel rooms or RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want permanently supportive housing. I want people to have a roof over their heads, but right now we don’t, as a city, have the will to do that completely,” said Medrano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said he would prefer if the city could find ways to afford more permanent housing for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the very, very least, we should be identifying safe places where people can at least spend the night rather than leaving it to them to figure out which sidewalk it’s okay to be on. And rather than expecting neighbors to sort of accept having an encampment pop up outside their window,” Mandelman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Supervisors adopt the proposal, the Department of Housing and Supportive Services would have 60 days to come up with a budget and plan for implementing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a year after a group of homeless moms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">occupied a house\u003c/a> in West Oakland and captured the nation’s attention with their protest against the Bay Area’s high housing costs, they came back to the home to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 9, Moms 4 Housing announced the home would soon become transitional housing for other homeless mothers, with services on-site to help with jobs, credit readiness and permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is officially moms’ house,” said Dominique Walker, one of the moms who occupied the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the date marked her son’s second birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He took his first steps in this house,” she said. “And it’s so important for our children to have that space to pull up and begin to take their first steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was only the first step for the moms’ movement. The women — all Black, working mothers — became a symbol of the Bay Area’s housing crisis. And their rallying cry, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801176/what-would-housing-as-a-human-right-look-like-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing is a human right,\u003c/a>” added fuel to an already simmering fire among activists, who are demanding a different vision for housing in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s new podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\u003c/a> looks at what it would actually mean to make housing a human right. Listen to episode five below. Read the \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/34cVbfe\">transcript\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>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The House the Moms Built\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, Wedgewood Properties, the company that owned the house, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed to sell it\u003c/a> to the Oakland Community Land Trust on the moms’ behalf. The trust finalized the deal in May, buying the home for $587,500 with donations they raised from supporters of the moms’ movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal was announced less than a week after the moms had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795944/moms-4-housing-members-evicted-from-oakland-home-4-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evicted from the home\u003c/a> they had occupied for nearly two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was only the first in a string of changes sparked by their protest, including: a new state law, a proposed amendment to the California Constitution and two proposed city ordinances. Moms 4 Housing also had a broader impact that goes beyond the law — they inspired \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/03/we-are-fed-up-new-surge-of-housing-activism-spurs-change-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">others to use activism\u003c/a> to push for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The actions that Moms 4 Housing took were bold and courageous like the lunch counters in the South, like the marches in Selma, like the lone protester in Tiananmen,” said Carroll Fife, the director of the Oakland chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) and the lead organizer of the occupation. “It was an act of civil disobedience to highlight the inequity, the violence and the terror of this system of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife is now running for a seat on the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/M4H-protest-e1581548044810.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11801369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/M4H-protest-e1581548044810.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of Moms 4 Housing rally in front of the West Oakland house the group occupied for several months before being forcefully evicted in January. A community land trust has since agreed to purchase the house and allow the women move back in.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of Moms 4 Housing rally in front of the West Oakland house the group occupied for several months before being forcefully evicted in January. A community land trust has since agreed to purchase the house and allow the women to move back in. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here’s some of what the moms’ inspired: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>More homes available for affordable housing:\u003c/strong> In January, a spokesman for Wedgewood said the company would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\">give the right of first refusal\u003c/a> for all its properties to the city and the Oakland Community Land Trust whenever it sells a home in Oakland. So far, the land trust hasn’t purchased any of Wedgewood’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/examining-wedgewood-a-look-at-the-home-flipping-giant-in-battle-with-homeless-mothers/2208119/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 100 homes\u003c/a> in Oakland. But Steve King, executive director of the Oakland Community Land Trust, said they are talking to Wedgewood about a few of those properties.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act:\u003c/strong> Two proposals in \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/30/oakland-councilwoman-to-introduce-moms-4-housing-inspired-ordinance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/03/06/should-berkeley-tenants-get-first-dibs-on-buying-their-landlords-property\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeley\u003c/a> would require property owners who want to sell a building to first offer it to the tenants living there. Owners aren’t required to accept the offer, but if they get a better, higher offer, they would be required to allow the tenants a set number of days to match it. At the celebration outside the home on Oct. 9, City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas said the coronavirus and economic recession had delayed plans for introducing the measure to the City Council, but she planned to put it forward after the election. And, at the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JesseArreguin/status/1315102819482062850?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State of the City\u003c/a> earlier this month, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said city officials planned to gather more input on the proposal before advancing it early next year: “We think this is really critical to provide some stability for tenants in Berkeley to ensure longtime ownership in the community and to preserve the economic and cultural diversity of the city.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Homes for Homeowners, Not Corporations: \u003c/strong>The governor signed a new law this year \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20200928-governor-signs-sb-1079-homes-homeowners-not-corporations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inspired by the moms\u003c/a>. Senate Bill 1079, authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, is aimed at making it less lucrative for corporations to buy multiple properties at once during foreclosure auctions — and then let the properties sit vacant. The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new law\u003c/a> requires homes to be sold individually, which, in theory, gives families and individuals a better shot at buying the home. After initial bids are received, tenants, families, local governments, affordable housing nonprofits and community land trusts will be given the opportunity to match the highest bid. The new law also increases the fine cities can levy on blighted properties from $1,000 per day for the first 30 days to $2,000 per day, with a maximum of $5,000 per day after the first 30 days. \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20200928-governor-signs-sb-1079-homes-homeowners-not-corporations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a statement\u003c/a>, Skinner said “SB 1079 sends a clear message to Wall Street: California homes are not yours to gobble up; we won’t tolerate another corporate takeover of housing.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Proposed constitutional amendment would make housing a right in California:\u003c/strong> Earlier this year, Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, proposed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11819691/will-california-guarantee-housing-as-a-right-heres-how-the-pandemic-is-shaping-the-debate#:~:text=Last%20week%2C%20Bonta%20introduced%20the,adequate%20housing%20for%20all%20Californians.%E2%80%9D&text=%E2%80%9CBy%20making%20housing%20a%20human,steps%20to%20move%20things%20forward.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing is a Human Right Act\u003c/a>, which would have been the first step to enshrining a right to housing in the California Constitution. The bill died early in the legislative session. It was too big and too complex to get it passed during this year’s chaotic session, which was overwhelmed with responding to the coronavirus pandemic, Bonta said. The bill would need a two-thirds supermajority to get placed on a California ballot. It would then go to voters before it could become part of the state constitution. But Bonta said he’s already working to bring it back next year: “We need to be looking at housing differently than we are now. Because it’s not working right now, and it’s a fundamental need for every single human being.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tons of activism:\u003c/strong> In March, homeless mothers and families \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-03-14/homeless-moms-occupy-house-los-angeles-caltrans-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took over several vacant properties\u003c/a> in Los Angeles owned by Caltrans. In May, two homeless women \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815715/inspired-by-oaklands-moms-4-housing-homeless-women-occupy-vacant-sf-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">occupied a vacant house\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Castro District. They said they were inspired by Moms 4 Housing, Also in Los Angeles, a group of tenants in an affordable apartment are \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-02-03/la-me-eminent-doman-proposal-rent-hikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fighting for the city to acquire their building through eminent domain\u003c/a>, because the landlord said he planned to more than double some tenants’ rents. Leslie Hernandez, a tenant and organizer at the building, told KQED, “We saw what the moms did and that’s how we knew we could win eminent domain. They inspired us. We said, ‘If they can do it, we can do it, too.’ “\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly a year after a group of homeless moms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">occupied a house\u003c/a> in West Oakland and captured the nation’s attention with their protest against the Bay Area’s high housing costs, they came back to the home to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 9, Moms 4 Housing announced the home would soon become transitional housing for other homeless mothers, with services on-site to help with jobs, credit readiness and permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is officially moms’ house,” said Dominique Walker, one of the moms who occupied the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the date marked her son’s second birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He took his first steps in this house,” she said. “And it’s so important for our children to have that space to pull up and begin to take their first steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was only the first step for the moms’ movement. The women — all Black, working mothers — became a symbol of the Bay Area’s housing crisis. And their rallying cry, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801176/what-would-housing-as-a-human-right-look-like-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing is a human right,\u003c/a>” added fuel to an already simmering fire among activists, who are demanding a different vision for housing in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s new podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\u003c/a> looks at what it would actually mean to make housing a human right. Listen to episode five below. Read the \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/34cVbfe\">transcript\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The House the Moms Built\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, Wedgewood Properties, the company that owned the house, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed to sell it\u003c/a> to the Oakland Community Land Trust on the moms’ behalf. The trust finalized the deal in May, buying the home for $587,500 with donations they raised from supporters of the moms’ movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal was announced less than a week after the moms had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795944/moms-4-housing-members-evicted-from-oakland-home-4-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evicted from the home\u003c/a> they had occupied for nearly two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was only the first in a string of changes sparked by their protest, including: a new state law, a proposed amendment to the California Constitution and two proposed city ordinances. Moms 4 Housing also had a broader impact that goes beyond the law — they inspired \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/03/we-are-fed-up-new-surge-of-housing-activism-spurs-change-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">others to use activism\u003c/a> to push for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The actions that Moms 4 Housing took were bold and courageous like the lunch counters in the South, like the marches in Selma, like the lone protester in Tiananmen,” said Carroll Fife, the director of the Oakland chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) and the lead organizer of the occupation. “It was an act of civil disobedience to highlight the inequity, the violence and the terror of this system of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife is now running for a seat on the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/M4H-protest-e1581548044810.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11801369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/M4H-protest-e1581548044810.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of Moms 4 Housing rally in front of the West Oakland house the group occupied for several months before being forcefully evicted in January. A community land trust has since agreed to purchase the house and allow the women move back in.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of Moms 4 Housing rally in front of the West Oakland house the group occupied for several months before being forcefully evicted in January. A community land trust has since agreed to purchase the house and allow the women to move back in. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here’s some of what the moms’ inspired: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>More homes available for affordable housing:\u003c/strong> In January, a spokesman for Wedgewood said the company would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\">give the right of first refusal\u003c/a> for all its properties to the city and the Oakland Community Land Trust whenever it sells a home in Oakland. So far, the land trust hasn’t purchased any of Wedgewood’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/examining-wedgewood-a-look-at-the-home-flipping-giant-in-battle-with-homeless-mothers/2208119/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 100 homes\u003c/a> in Oakland. But Steve King, executive director of the Oakland Community Land Trust, said they are talking to Wedgewood about a few of those properties.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act:\u003c/strong> Two proposals in \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/30/oakland-councilwoman-to-introduce-moms-4-housing-inspired-ordinance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/03/06/should-berkeley-tenants-get-first-dibs-on-buying-their-landlords-property\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeley\u003c/a> would require property owners who want to sell a building to first offer it to the tenants living there. Owners aren’t required to accept the offer, but if they get a better, higher offer, they would be required to allow the tenants a set number of days to match it. At the celebration outside the home on Oct. 9, City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas said the coronavirus and economic recession had delayed plans for introducing the measure to the City Council, but she planned to put it forward after the election. And, at the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JesseArreguin/status/1315102819482062850?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State of the City\u003c/a> earlier this month, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said city officials planned to gather more input on the proposal before advancing it early next year: “We think this is really critical to provide some stability for tenants in Berkeley to ensure longtime ownership in the community and to preserve the economic and cultural diversity of the city.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Homes for Homeowners, Not Corporations: \u003c/strong>The governor signed a new law this year \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20200928-governor-signs-sb-1079-homes-homeowners-not-corporations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inspired by the moms\u003c/a>. Senate Bill 1079, authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, is aimed at making it less lucrative for corporations to buy multiple properties at once during foreclosure auctions — and then let the properties sit vacant. The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new law\u003c/a> requires homes to be sold individually, which, in theory, gives families and individuals a better shot at buying the home. After initial bids are received, tenants, families, local governments, affordable housing nonprofits and community land trusts will be given the opportunity to match the highest bid. The new law also increases the fine cities can levy on blighted properties from $1,000 per day for the first 30 days to $2,000 per day, with a maximum of $5,000 per day after the first 30 days. \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20200928-governor-signs-sb-1079-homes-homeowners-not-corporations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a statement\u003c/a>, Skinner said “SB 1079 sends a clear message to Wall Street: California homes are not yours to gobble up; we won’t tolerate another corporate takeover of housing.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Proposed constitutional amendment would make housing a right in California:\u003c/strong> Earlier this year, Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, proposed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11819691/will-california-guarantee-housing-as-a-right-heres-how-the-pandemic-is-shaping-the-debate#:~:text=Last%20week%2C%20Bonta%20introduced%20the,adequate%20housing%20for%20all%20Californians.%E2%80%9D&text=%E2%80%9CBy%20making%20housing%20a%20human,steps%20to%20move%20things%20forward.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing is a Human Right Act\u003c/a>, which would have been the first step to enshrining a right to housing in the California Constitution. The bill died early in the legislative session. It was too big and too complex to get it passed during this year’s chaotic session, which was overwhelmed with responding to the coronavirus pandemic, Bonta said. The bill would need a two-thirds supermajority to get placed on a California ballot. It would then go to voters before it could become part of the state constitution. But Bonta said he’s already working to bring it back next year: “We need to be looking at housing differently than we are now. Because it’s not working right now, and it’s a fundamental need for every single human being.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tons of activism:\u003c/strong> In March, homeless mothers and families \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-03-14/homeless-moms-occupy-house-los-angeles-caltrans-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took over several vacant properties\u003c/a> in Los Angeles owned by Caltrans. 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"content": "\u003cp>When anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis barnstormed across California for \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 13\u003c/a> in 1978, he made it clear who the measure to slash property taxes was aimed at helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that are being hurt are the elderly people on limited income who have spent all their life earning a home,” Jarvis said in a KQED debate that year. “And the state is kicking them out in droves. And this is what this is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters overwhelmingly passed Prop. 13, but now, 42 years later, voters are being asked with Proposition 15 to undo a major loophole in that 1978 ballot measure which has allowed corporations to keep their property taxes artificially low for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarvis was correct that with inflation pushing the value of homes in California through the roof in the 1970s, homeowners were seeing their property tax bills increase to the point where some couldn’t keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were losing their homes because of property taxes. People on fixed incomes, Social Security, who suddenly had their taxes double and triple, couldn’t afford it. And it was causing a tax rebellion,” recalls Randy Goodwin, who ran the “Yes on Prop. 13” campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarvis capitalized on voter anger and anxiety with Prop. 13, whose passage ushered in the “tax revolt” that swept across the country and helped elect Ronald Reagan president of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 13 did indeed roll back residential property taxes, setting the tax bill at 1% of the 1976 assessed value and capping annual tax increases at 2%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposition did not distinguish between residential, commercial, industrial or agricultural property. So \u003cem>all\u003c/em> property in California benefited from the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a point the late San Francisco Assemblymember Leo McCarthy made during the same KQED debate with Jarvis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pacific Telephone would have a $130 million cut. Standard Oil, $13 million. Southern Pacific, $12 million. They didn’t ask for the cut but Mr. Jarvis was kind enough to give them to them,” said McCarthy, who was Speaker of the Assembly at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is, was the windfall to corporations — which saves them billions of dollars on property taxes — a kind of “Trojan horse” benefit deliberately snuck into the measure by pro-business groups?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not according to Joel Fox, who was an assistant to Jarvis at the time and later became director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All property was taxed the same from 1850 onward. So in writing an amendment to the Constitution on property taxes, it was just simple to maintain what was already in the Constitution,” Fox said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Manuel Pastor, director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at University of Southern California\"]‘The question is, are we the California that passed Prop. 13? Or are we the California that wants to reevaluate that and think about investments in young people?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the business community didn’t really support Prop. 13, at least not outwardly, remembers Prop. 13 campaign manager Randy Goodwin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only did they not participate in the drafting, they didn’t support Proposition 13. So that tells you a lot right there. They did not support Proposition 13. They gave no money to it,” Goodwin told KQED recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big corporations in California had a cozy relationship with the powers that ran the state government,” Goodwin said. “And they together paid for the opposition to Proposition 13. We didn’t have Chevron. We didn’t have AT&T. We didn’t have any of those big corporations supporting Proposition 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The argument that business would have the same treatment as residential property was in the ballot arguments. So voters were aware of it, and they had an alternative,” said Jarvis’ former assistant Fox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That alternative was \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_8,_Tax_Rates_on_Owner-Occupied_Dwellings_(June_1978)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 8\u003c/a>, another tax cutting measure placed on the same ballot by then-Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature in a futile attempt to prevent Prop. 13 from passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 13 was simply written and did not specify how it would be applied to commercial property. In fact, the implementation of Prop. 13 was left to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote the implementation process after it had been passed by the voters,” said former Assemblyman Willie Brown recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown chaired the that determined how and when commercial property would be reassessed with higher property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"Election 2020 Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current rules written back then, a reassessment is only triggered when a person or legal entity acquires more than 50% of the ownership interest. Companies have used that loophole to avoid property tax increases, by selling no more that 49% to any one person or entity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, companies like Disneyland, Intel and Chevron are currently paying taxes based on property assessments from the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Brown says now that the legislature blew it back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have said anytime there is a change in the ownership of the property through any means, that constitutes a transfer for reassessment purposes,” Brown said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislature can do that. And that’s where it ought to be done,” said Brown, who opposes Prop. 15 and has received consulting fees from the “No on 15” campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the legislature “blew it” when it wrote the Prop. 13 implementation rules for commercial property or did it intentionally to please business interests is hard to know. One thing’s for sure: It’s much easier for lobbyists to influence legislation than ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Legislature \u003cem>tried\u003c/em> to revise the law to close the loophole and to reassess commercial property more often. In 2010, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2492\u003c/a>, authored by former Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, would have defined a “change of ownership” as happening whether or not any one legal entity or person that is a party to the transaction acquires more than 50% of the ownership interests. The bill died in committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 15 would require that commercial and industrial properties be reassessed on a regular basis, with property taxes based on current market value, rather than what the property cost when it was purchased. According to the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2020/Prop15-110320.pdf\">Legislative Analyst,\u003c/a> the measure would send $6.5 to $11.5 billion in new revenue annually to schools and local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residential and agricultural property along with commercial property worth less than $3 million would be exempted from the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 13 passed at a time when California was a much different place than it is today — more white, more conservative and less diverse. Manuel Pastor, director of University of Southern California’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, says that over the years, the measure has worked to exacerbate the wealth gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got a system right now that is inequitable in terms of where the burden of the property taxes are more on residential folks and more on the most recent buyers who tend not to be the wealthiest, tend to be more people of color,” Pastor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the fate of this year’s Prop. 15 could indicate how much California has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is, are we the California that passed Prop. 13? 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"content": "\u003cp>As American as apple pie, the single-family home has become synonymous with individual achievement in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for good reason. Homeownership is the main driver of wealth for most middle-class Americans, with homeowners’ median net worth a whopping \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/08/gaps-in-wealth-americans-by-household-type.html\">80 times larger\u003c/a> than that of renters, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that Norman Rockwell-esque image of a single home surrounded by a white picket fence comes with a loaded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When cities first created neighborhoods where only single-family houses were allowed, it was about more than separating homes from apartments; it was about separating white families from everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s new podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\u003c/a> takes a deep dive into the backstory behind single-family zoning and looks at how it has led to the racial segregation we still see in our neighborhoods today. Listen to episode three below. Read the \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3jDBL8o\">transcript\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=KQINC7736024153&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single-family zoning makes it illegal for a community to build anything other than a single home on a single lot. That means no apartment buildings, condos or duplexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We often associate single-family neighborhoods with suburbs, but many cities restrict large portions of their land to this type of building as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did single-family zoning get its start?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In none other than true-blue Berkeley, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The progressive Bay Area enclave was the first city in the country to implement single-family zoning. It \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt26b8d8zh/qt26b8d8zh.pdf?t=poq62p&v=lg\">adopted the zoning rule (PDF)\u003c/a> for the Elmwood neighborhood in 1916, making it illegal to build anything other than one home on one lot in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 580px\">\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\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the Claremont neighborhood, then and now. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why was it created?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Duncan McDuffie, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SIGNATURE-STYLE-Duncan-McDuffie-Natural-2800658.php\">prominent real estate developer\u003c/a> in Berkeley who built the Claremont Court and Uplands neighborhoods in the early 1900s, was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">big champion\u003c/a> of single-family zoning. His developments all came with racial covenants, which barred homeowners from selling or renting their homes to people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was also concerned about the neighborhoods next to Claremont, including Elmwood, which had been developed as a single-family neighborhood with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA61&printsec=frontcover\">five-year restriction\u003c/a> on “use and occupancy” that had recently expired. As a result, some apartments and stores had been built. Designating the area as off-limits to anything but single-family homes would, as McDuffie wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">Berkeley Civic Bulletin in 1916\u003c/a>, provide protection against an “invasion of their district by flats, apartment houses and stores with the deterioration of values that is sure to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single-family zoning designation in Elmwood made the neighborhood more exclusive, because developers could charge more for single-family homes than they could for duplexes or cottage apartments. Subsequent zoning petitions for other neighborhoods that were filed soon after took aim at Chinese and Japanese-owned laundries and prohibited a \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh\">Black-owned dance hall\u003c/a> from moving in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What percentage of the Bay Area’s residential land is dedicated to single-family zoning?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, single-family homes are the main form of home-building in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area-part-5\">recent study\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute found that 83% of residential land in the Bay Area is devoted to single-family zoning. That means that on only 17% of the land, it’s legal to build apartments, condos, duplexes or triplexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s not unusual. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities-across-america-question-single-family-zoning.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> analysis\u003c/a> found that about 75% of the residential land in major cities across the country is devoted exclusively to single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 964px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840912\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SacHome.jpg\" alt=\"A single-family home in the Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento.\" width=\"964\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SacHome.jpg 964w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SacHome-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SacHome-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A single-family home in the Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Veronica Nelson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does single-family zoning lead to racial segregation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The same Othering & Belonging Institute study found that as you increase the percentage of single-family zoning in a city, you increase the percentage of white residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that is because renting an apartment or duplex is less expensive than renting or buying a home. It’s also a legacy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america\">racist housing policies\u003c/a>, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648307/has-oaklands-fruitvale-neighborhood-recovered-from-redlining\">redlining\u003c/a>, that barred Black families from receiving federally-backed loans following the Great Depression and from the GI Bill after WWII.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policies like these were later outlawed, but they \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/\">still persist in practice\u003c/a>, with lenders often charging higher interest rates or refusing home loans to Black buyers. Taken together, it’s helped drive a huge \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm\">wealth gap\u003c/a> between white and Black families, with white families having an average $188,200 in wealth, compared to $24,100 for Black families. That makes it harder for Black families to purchase homes in single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are people trying to do about it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Minneapolis city officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/12/07/minneapolis-city-council-adopts-2040-plan\">voted in 2019\u003c/a> to ban single-family zoning. That doesn’t mean it’s illegal to build a single-family home. It means it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> legal to build things like duplexes or triplexes in most of the city where only single-family homes had been allowed before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon followed suit in 2019 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737798440/oregon-legislature-votes-to-essentially-ban-single-family-zoning\">a bill that allows fourplexes\u003c/a> in most cities around the state. And in California, the city of San José is considering \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\">legalizing fourplexes\u003c/a> in most neighborhoods. The City Council is expected to consider voting on the plan next spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also an effort this year to eliminate single-family zoning across California. Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins’ bill, SB 1120, would have allowed up to two duplexes on many single-family lots. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes\">approved in both the Senate and Assembly\u003c/a>, but didn’t have enough time to get the final vote it needed before going to the governor. Housing advocates say they’ll push for it again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story repeated an error that originated in academic research used to inform the reporting. A proposed Black-owned dancehall was not seeking to move into the Elmwood neighborhood, but rather \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proceedings_of_the_National_Conference_o/DcUUvqEa4JgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Districting+Progress+and+Procedure+in+California%22+cheney&pg=PA183&printsec=frontcover\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">another neighborhood\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Berkeley. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003carticle class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostMinisite-___PostMinisite__mpost\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>For more in-depth reporting on the housing crisis, check out our new podcast, SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America. Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-rethinking-housing-in-america#:~:text=SOLD%20OUT%3A%20Rethinking%20Housing%20in%20America%20%3A%20NPR&text=SOLD%20OUT%3A%20Rethinking%20Housing%20in%20America%20A%20podcast%20that%20examines,solutions%20to%20high%20housing%20costs.\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://tun.in/pj2qf\">TuneIn\u003c/a> or on your favorite podcast listening app.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/article>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As American as apple pie, the single-family home has become synonymous with individual achievement in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for good reason. Homeownership is the main driver of wealth for most middle-class Americans, with homeowners’ median net worth a whopping \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/08/gaps-in-wealth-americans-by-household-type.html\">80 times larger\u003c/a> than that of renters, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that Norman Rockwell-esque image of a single home surrounded by a white picket fence comes with a loaded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When cities first created neighborhoods where only single-family houses were allowed, it was about more than separating homes from apartments; it was about separating white families from everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s new podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\u003c/a> takes a deep dive into the backstory behind single-family zoning and looks at how it has led to the racial segregation we still see in our neighborhoods today. Listen to episode three below. Read the \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3jDBL8o\">transcript\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=KQINC7736024153&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single-family zoning makes it illegal for a community to build anything other than a single home on a single lot. That means no apartment buildings, condos or duplexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We often associate single-family neighborhoods with suburbs, but many cities restrict large portions of their land to this type of building as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did single-family zoning get its start?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In none other than true-blue Berkeley, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The progressive Bay Area enclave was the first city in the country to implement single-family zoning. It \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt26b8d8zh/qt26b8d8zh.pdf?t=poq62p&v=lg\">adopted the zoning rule (PDF)\u003c/a> for the Elmwood neighborhood in 1916, making it illegal to build anything other than one home on one lot in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 580px\">\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\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the Claremont neighborhood, then and now. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why was it created?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Duncan McDuffie, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SIGNATURE-STYLE-Duncan-McDuffie-Natural-2800658.php\">prominent real estate developer\u003c/a> in Berkeley who built the Claremont Court and Uplands neighborhoods in the early 1900s, was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">big champion\u003c/a> of single-family zoning. His developments all came with racial covenants, which barred homeowners from selling or renting their homes to people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was also concerned about the neighborhoods next to Claremont, including Elmwood, which had been developed as a single-family neighborhood with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA61&printsec=frontcover\">five-year restriction\u003c/a> on “use and occupancy” that had recently expired. As a result, some apartments and stores had been built. Designating the area as off-limits to anything but single-family homes would, as McDuffie wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">Berkeley Civic Bulletin in 1916\u003c/a>, provide protection against an “invasion of their district by flats, apartment houses and stores with the deterioration of values that is sure to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single-family zoning designation in Elmwood made the neighborhood more exclusive, because developers could charge more for single-family homes than they could for duplexes or cottage apartments. Subsequent zoning petitions for other neighborhoods that were filed soon after took aim at Chinese and Japanese-owned laundries and prohibited a \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh\">Black-owned dance hall\u003c/a> from moving in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What percentage of the Bay Area’s residential land is dedicated to single-family zoning?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, single-family homes are the main form of home-building in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area-part-5\">recent study\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute found that 83% of residential land in the Bay Area is devoted to single-family zoning. That means that on only 17% of the land, it’s legal to build apartments, condos, duplexes or triplexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s not unusual. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities-across-america-question-single-family-zoning.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> analysis\u003c/a> found that about 75% of the residential land in major cities across the country is devoted exclusively to single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 964px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840912\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SacHome.jpg\" alt=\"A single-family home in the Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento.\" width=\"964\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SacHome.jpg 964w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SacHome-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SacHome-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A single-family home in the Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Veronica Nelson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does single-family zoning lead to racial segregation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The same Othering & Belonging Institute study found that as you increase the percentage of single-family zoning in a city, you increase the percentage of white residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that is because renting an apartment or duplex is less expensive than renting or buying a home. It’s also a legacy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america\">racist housing policies\u003c/a>, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648307/has-oaklands-fruitvale-neighborhood-recovered-from-redlining\">redlining\u003c/a>, that barred Black families from receiving federally-backed loans following the Great Depression and from the GI Bill after WWII.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policies like these were later outlawed, but they \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/\">still persist in practice\u003c/a>, with lenders often charging higher interest rates or refusing home loans to Black buyers. Taken together, it’s helped drive a huge \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm\">wealth gap\u003c/a> between white and Black families, with white families having an average $188,200 in wealth, compared to $24,100 for Black families. That makes it harder for Black families to purchase homes in single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are people trying to do about it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Minneapolis city officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/12/07/minneapolis-city-council-adopts-2040-plan\">voted in 2019\u003c/a> to ban single-family zoning. That doesn’t mean it’s illegal to build a single-family home. It means it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> legal to build things like duplexes or triplexes in most of the city where only single-family homes had been allowed before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon followed suit in 2019 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737798440/oregon-legislature-votes-to-essentially-ban-single-family-zoning\">a bill that allows fourplexes\u003c/a> in most cities around the state. And in California, the city of San José is considering \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\">legalizing fourplexes\u003c/a> in most neighborhoods. The City Council is expected to consider voting on the plan next spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also an effort this year to eliminate single-family zoning across California. Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins’ bill, SB 1120, would have allowed up to two duplexes on many single-family lots. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes\">approved in both the Senate and Assembly\u003c/a>, but didn’t have enough time to get the final vote it needed before going to the governor. Housing advocates say they’ll push for it again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story repeated an error that originated in academic research used to inform the reporting. 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It’s a $10 trillion operation, globally, employing a whopping 7 percent of the world’s population, according to a 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Capital%20Projects%20and%20Infrastructure/Our%20Insights/Reinventing%20construction%20through%20a%20productivity%20revolution/MGI-Reinventing-construction-A-route-to-higher-productivity-Full-report.ashx\">McKinsey & Company report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that, globally, productivity in the construction industry has increased an average of 1% a year over the past two decades, compared with 2.8% for the total world economy and 3.6% for manufacturing. In the U.S., many industries, including agriculture and manufacturing, have increased their productivity by 1500%, while productivity in construction has barely budged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s new podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America, \u003c/a>takes a look at one solution that’s trying to “hack” the system: factory-built housing, also known as prefabricated or modular housing.\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=KQINC6877722347\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an idea that’s been around for over a century, but it hasn’t always worked. 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In the Golden State, the cost of land is about 12% of total construction costs, compared to about 5% in other states.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Labor\u003c/strong> is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/25/hidden-cost-of-housing-how-a-shortage-of-construction-workers-is-making-our-crisis-worse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also more expensive\u003c/a>. One reason: After the Great Recession in 2008, a lot of construction workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.jlconline.com/article/constructions-exodus-of-labor_c#:~:text=What%20is%20evident%20to%20the,shortage%20of%20skilled%20workers%20in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">left the industry\u003c/a>, creating a shortage of skilled workers. To top it off, the construction boom that followed has far outpaced the growth in the construction industry. \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An analysis\u003c/a> by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley found that the number of permitted housing units grew by 430% between 2009 and 2018, while the number of workers grew only 32% during that same time period.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Density restrictions \u003c/strong>that limit how many apartments can be built on one lot also adds to the cost. As the size of a building increases, developers are able to take advantage of economies of scale, reducing the cost per apartment. But opposition to large affordable apartment buildings makes it difficult to get projects approved. 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In California, soft costs added around 14% to the total cost of construction, compared to 7% nationwide. \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another report\u003c/a> from the Terner Center found that, on average, \u003cem>each\u003c/em> additional source of funding on a project added $6,400 \u003cem>per unit\u003c/em> in total development costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Development fees, \u003c/strong>which cities impose on developers to pay for things like street lighting, sidewalk improvements or sewage upgrades, also contribute to higher costs for housing. The same \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terner Center report\u003c/a> found that development fees on affordable housing developments added about $16,600 per unit.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003carticle class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostMinisite-___PostMinisite__mpost\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>For more in-depth reporting on the housing crisis, check out our new podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California is the worst of the worst when it comes to the cost of housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average price tag to build just one unit of housing — a home or an apartment — was $326,000 in 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office\u003c/a>. And it’s even worse for affordable housing, which \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">averaged $480,000\u003c/a> per unit across the state in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High construction costs are \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/Making_It_Pencil_The_Math_Behind_Housing_Development.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one big reason\u003c/a> why rents and home prices in California are also some of the highest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the construction industry has also been one of the slowest to innovate. It’s a $10 trillion operation, globally, employing a whopping 7 percent of the world’s population, according to a 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Capital%20Projects%20and%20Infrastructure/Our%20Insights/Reinventing%20construction%20through%20a%20productivity%20revolution/MGI-Reinventing-construction-A-route-to-higher-productivity-Full-report.ashx\">McKinsey & Company report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that, globally, productivity in the construction industry has increased an average of 1% a year over the past two decades, compared with 2.8% for the total world economy and 3.6% for manufacturing. In the U.S., many industries, including agriculture and manufacturing, have increased their productivity by 1500%, while productivity in construction has barely budged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Listen to the second episode, “Prefabulous”, to hear why some people think modular housing construction could now be the big innovation to help us out of our housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the construction industry’s unwillingness or inability to change that’s driving high housing costs. Here are some other reasons why housing is so expensive to build in California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Land\u003c/strong> is just \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more expensive in California\u003c/a> than other places. In the Golden State, the cost of land is about 12% of total construction costs, compared to about 5% in other states.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Labor\u003c/strong> is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/25/hidden-cost-of-housing-how-a-shortage-of-construction-workers-is-making-our-crisis-worse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also more expensive\u003c/a>. One reason: After the Great Recession in 2008, a lot of construction workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.jlconline.com/article/constructions-exodus-of-labor_c#:~:text=What%20is%20evident%20to%20the,shortage%20of%20skilled%20workers%20in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">left the industry\u003c/a>, creating a shortage of skilled workers. To top it off, the construction boom that followed has far outpaced the growth in the construction industry. \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An analysis\u003c/a> by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley found that the number of permitted housing units grew by 430% between 2009 and 2018, while the number of workers grew only 32% during that same time period.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Density restrictions \u003c/strong>that limit how many apartments can be built on one lot also adds to the cost. As the size of a building increases, developers are able to take advantage of economies of scale, reducing the cost per apartment. But opposition to large affordable apartment buildings makes it difficult to get projects approved. Researchers at the Terner Center \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke to one developer\u003c/a> who said, “It is impossible to overstate the continued resistance to new affordable development in most cities in California.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003cstrong>complexity of financing\u003c/strong> affordable housing projects is another big factor when it comes to developing housing for low-income people in particular. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A report\u003c/a> by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that affordable housing projects in California had an average of six different funding sources, which contribute to a project’s “soft costs,” which includes things like legal fees, consultants, and appraisals. In California, soft costs added around 14% to the total cost of construction, compared to 7% nationwide. \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another report\u003c/a> from the Terner Center found that, on average, \u003cem>each\u003c/em> additional source of funding on a project added $6,400 \u003cem>per unit\u003c/em> in total development costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Development fees, \u003c/strong>which cities impose on developers to pay for things like street lighting, sidewalk improvements or sewage upgrades, also contribute to higher costs for housing. The same \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terner Center report\u003c/a> found that development fees on affordable housing developments added about $16,600 per unit.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003carticle class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostMinisite-___PostMinisite__mpost\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>For more in-depth reporting on the housing crisis, check out our new podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\u003c/a>. 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Reinvent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make something new that centers the needs of those suffering addiction, those who are undocumented, transgender people and other key demographics in San Francisco’s population of unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take police out of the homelessness response entirely, replace overcrowded shelters with service-oriented tent encampments and provide rental subsidies to tenants on the verge of eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the top-level findings of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1thWoIG4PXe36QoInR-QiOwEKi4RIccer/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Stop the Revolving Door,” a study conducted of homeless people, by homeless people\u003c/a>, who were trained by academics from universities across the Bay Area, including UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University and San Francisco State University. The report was organized by the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report comes as San Francisco’s homeless response system, long-overstretched, could be on the precipice of a major cash infusion. A legal battle over a tax to fund homeless services may be resolved in the next two years, which could free up roughly $300 million in tax revenue to help those on the streets. [pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dilara Yarbrough, assistant professor at San Francisco State University\"]‘The crucial transformation our research and report is pointing to is we need to shift from this churning in and out of large congregate shelters to preventing homelessness in the first place.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracey Mixon is one of the peer researchers. She was unhoused when she began working on the survey, she said at a Thursday press briefing. That helped her better connect to the people she was surveying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a person knows I’ve been in this struggle, and I’m going through this struggle right along with you, you can always find common ground,” Mixon said. “Some of the stories I heard are touching me now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 580 people living on the streets, in shelters and other precarious places were surveyed in a study conducted between June 3 and Aug. 30 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If all these recommendations were put together as a whole, we’d see an incredibly transformative effect on the system,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. “We probably wouldn’t get to zero homelessness, but we’d get to a point where homelessness is much more brief and rare. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing did not immediately respond for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stop Homelessness Before It Happens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While much of the report concentrates on flipping the script in San Francisco’s homeless efforts, a series of questions also focused on prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did people fall into homelessness? For most of those surveyed, it was a job loss or reduced income that led to an eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of respondents had only become homeless in the past year, and 9% had become homeless only within three months prior to the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those who lost housing, 43% said it was because they were unable to pay rent. And of those who could not pay rent, 37% said it was due to a job loss, with 36% saying they were still working, but their income was too low. 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About 6% lived in public housing, 10% in a below-market-rate unit and 13% in city-supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition C’s New Investment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proposition C, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702831/voters-show-heavy-support-for-new-bay-area-business-taxes-including-s-f-measure-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a gross receipts tax measure on wealthy San Francisco businesses\u003c/a>, passed in 2018 and was expected to infuse $300 million into the city’s coffers, marked for homeless services. But a lawsuit by the Howard Jarvis Tax Association and the California Association of Realtors tied that funding up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coalition on Homelessness said their report is in anticipation of a decision to allow, or not, the appeal of the case by the Supreme Court, at which point the funds may become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improvements to shelters are needed, the report’s authors concluded, because 81% of those they surveyed had used, or tried to access, shelters in the past. The survey’s authors said this shows the shelter wasn’t a pathway to housing in the first place, returning those survey respondents largely to the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some new investments recommended by the report include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Expanding permanent supportive housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Providing new kinds of shelter, including “wet” shelters where alcohol is permitted, and safe consumption spaces for drug users trying to ditch their habits\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Providing separate “clean and sober” shelters for those who are successful in recovery\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increasing the maintenance budget of shelters\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increasing the number of drop-in shelters, which have decreased by 50% in the last 15 years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increasing individualized intensive-care management for drug users in recovery\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Providing trauma-informed care that acknowledges people’s experiences with childhood sexual and physical traumas that exacerbate homelessness\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expanding the availability of voluntary mental health services instead of only offering such help when people are in crisis\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creating more neighborhood-based services instead of concentrating services only in the downtown/Tenderloin/South of Market areas\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Perhaps one positive nod to San Francisco’s current efforts were favorable views of organized outdoor tent encampments, called “Safe Sleep Sites,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816648/sf-used-to-trash-homeless-tents-now-the-city-will-sanction-these-safe-sleeping-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which the city piloted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in a few locations\u003c/a>, including the Haight-Ashbury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 44% of those staying in shelters said they preferred an organized, outdoor camp. 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