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"content": "\u003cp>Black leaders, housing advocates and community members in San Francisco painted “Housing Black\" in giant yellow lettering across a Tenderloin neighborhood block on Monday to raise awareness about the need for long-term investments in housing for the city's Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft-1.pdf\">2019 San Francisco Homeless Count and Survey\u003c/a>, Black residents make up 37% of those who are experiencing homelessness, but comprise only 6% of the city's overall population. Del Seymour, co-chair of the Local Homeless Coordinating Board at City Hall and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.codetenderloin.org\">Code Tenderloin\u003c/a>, said that disproportion is even greater in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You all need to know the Tenderloin is a Black community. Walk down Turk and Taylor. Walk down Market Street. Walk down Ellis. Peep inside St. Anthony's. This is a Black community and we need to be housed,\" said Seymour, speaking at the mural painting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832953\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832953\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Del Seymour poses for a portrait during a mural installation on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin on Aug. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Due to lack of affordable housing and climbing eviction rates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829316/the-hidden-toll-of-californias-black-exodus\">Black renters have been disproportionately forced out\u003c/a> of cities across California — including a decline of 43% of the population of San Francisco's Black residents since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s recognize the large number of unhoused Black people navigating and residing in the Tenderloin, and let’s hurry up and house these people with dignity,\" Seymour said. \"This housing crisis is very rampant for Black people all throughout San Francisco and all across America. We got Black families living in tents, cars and shelters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832950\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paint rollers lay on a mural on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832952\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A team of volunteers help artist Malik Seneferu to paint yellow block letters that spell 'Housing Black.' \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artist Malik Seneferu worked with a team of community members to create the mural outside of St. Anthony's Foundation during its lunch service. The mural is 250 feet long and 30 feet wide, covering the 100 block of Golden Gate Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seneferu — who experienced homelessness as a child living in the Tenderloin — has created several murals in a similar style around the Bay Area during the summer. “This communal discourse is a great way to have our voices heard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832995\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Malik Seneferu speaks during the mural installation on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin on Aug. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832963\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Malik Seneferu works with a team of volunteers to paint a mural in the Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 'Housing Black' mural spans an entire block of Golden Gate Avenue. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney and District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton plan to propose a resolution to the Board of Supervisors that acknowledges housing inequities for Black residents in the city, declaring anti-Black racism as a human rights and public health crisis. The proposal aims to dismantle institutionalized anti-Black racism by working alongside and centering the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot have a society that values Black people if you leave them out on our streets and our sidewalks,\" Haney said at the mural installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if you walk around this neighborhood, what you'll see is a society that has taken a wrong turn, that has left out far too many of our brothers and sisters and siblings on the street without a place to shelter during a pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Tara Siler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Black leaders, housing advocates and community members in San Francisco painted “Housing Black\" in giant yellow lettering across a Tenderloin neighborhood block on Monday to raise awareness about the need for long-term investments in housing for the city's Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft-1.pdf\">2019 San Francisco Homeless Count and Survey\u003c/a>, Black residents make up 37% of those who are experiencing homelessness, but comprise only 6% of the city's overall population. Del Seymour, co-chair of the Local Homeless Coordinating Board at City Hall and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.codetenderloin.org\">Code Tenderloin\u003c/a>, said that disproportion is even greater in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You all need to know the Tenderloin is a Black community. Walk down Turk and Taylor. Walk down Market Street. Walk down Ellis. Peep inside St. Anthony's. This is a Black community and we need to be housed,\" said Seymour, speaking at the mural painting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832953\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832953\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44332_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Del Seymour poses for a portrait during a mural installation on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin on Aug. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Due to lack of affordable housing and climbing eviction rates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829316/the-hidden-toll-of-californias-black-exodus\">Black renters have been disproportionately forced out\u003c/a> of cities across California — including a decline of 43% of the population of San Francisco's Black residents since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s recognize the large number of unhoused Black people navigating and residing in the Tenderloin, and let’s hurry up and house these people with dignity,\" Seymour said. \"This housing crisis is very rampant for Black people all throughout San Francisco and all across America. We got Black families living in tents, cars and shelters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832950\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44331_024_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paint rollers lay on a mural on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832952\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44323_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A team of volunteers help artist Malik Seneferu to paint yellow block letters that spell 'Housing Black.' \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artist Malik Seneferu worked with a team of community members to create the mural outside of St. Anthony's Foundation during its lunch service. The mural is 250 feet long and 30 feet wide, covering the 100 block of Golden Gate Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seneferu — who experienced homelessness as a child living in the Tenderloin — has created several murals in a similar style around the Bay Area during the summer. “This communal discourse is a great way to have our voices heard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832995\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44322_015_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Malik Seneferu speaks during the mural installation on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin on Aug. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832963\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44326_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Malik Seneferu works with a team of volunteers to paint a mural in the Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44329_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_HousingBlackMural_08102020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 'Housing Black' mural spans an entire block of Golden Gate Avenue. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney and District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton plan to propose a resolution to the Board of Supervisors that acknowledges housing inequities for Black residents in the city, declaring anti-Black racism as a human rights and public health crisis. The proposal aims to dismantle institutionalized anti-Black racism by working alongside and centering the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot have a society that values Black people if you leave them out on our streets and our sidewalks,\" Haney said at the mural installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if you walk around this neighborhood, what you'll see is a society that has taken a wrong turn, that has left out far too many of our brothers and sisters and siblings on the street without a place to shelter during a pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains a correction. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Furtkamp and Brianne Hodson are counting down the days until local eviction moratoriums end, fearing what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp, 32, and Hodson, 35, are married and live in Oakland, just north of downtown, and say they moved to the city for its diversity and progressive politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp, who hails from Phoenix, works at UC Berkeley in communications. Hodson, who moved up from Los Angeles after high school, built her own successful dog-walking business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their combined incomes paid their $2,275 monthly rent — until the pandemic wiped out Hodson’s business. As clients dropped off, her income fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hodson has gotten benefits from the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, but not enough to help them make rent, which they haven’t paid since April. The couple and other tenants in their 39-unit building say they plan to try to negotiate rent forgiveness with their landlord, San Francisco-based Mosser Companies. They say the only thing keeping them housed now is Oakland’s eviction moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the relief, there’s no way we would be able to afford rent right now,” Hodson said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal pandemic assistance came through in a big way for their landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government records show Mosser Companies received a loan of between $2 million and $5 million under the Paycheck Protection Program, passed by Congress in March to help small businesses avoid layoffs during the pandemic. The data, posted last month by the federal Small Business Administration, shows loan amounts in broad ranges, not specific amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s property management arm, Mosser Living, offers rental units in 55 properties across San Francisco, 20 properties in Oakland and eight properties in Los Angeles, promising a “blend” of “vintage with modern upgrades in all the right places, striking the perfect balance between authentic and awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call this Mosser Living. You’ll call it ‘home,’ ” the company’s website says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says the thought that federal assistance has been unable to help him and his wife meet their rent while Mosser got millions in federal support makes him furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them to take advantage of a program like this that’s intended for small business — that doesn’t have access to capital in the way that they do — it’s just kind of insulting that they would abuse the program in that way,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies did not respond to repeated requests for comment on its loan and its response to tenants in Furtkamp’s building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser is just one of several large Bay Area property and development firms that scored PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among companies identified for KQED by tenant advocates and industry sources are some of the region’s biggest landlords. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Emerald Fund, developer of 37 projects with more than 5,000 housing units, received a loan of between $1 and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maximus Real Estate Partners, which manages San Francisco’s Parkmerced, got a loan of $2 million to $5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reliant Group Management, which manages 23 properties in the Bay Area and more than 70 in the United States, received between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grosvenor Properties, which manages four properties in San Francisco, got between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Woodmont Real Estate Services, which owns roughly 80 multifamily properties across California, received between $5 million and $10 million\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Deep Pockets — and Big Loans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The news comes on the heels of public outcry over a $3.6 million PPP loan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11818912/after-pelosi-pressure-sf-biggest-landlord-veritas-says-they-will-repay-loan\">granted to Veritas Investments\u003c/a>. San Francisco’s biggest landlord, the company owns and operates more than 250 apartment buildings in the city and has $3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans have received negative attention in part because of some companies’ poor reputations with tenants and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms on the list, such as Veritas, have been criticized in the past for allegedly trying to push tenants out of rent-controlled buildings. Others, such as Maximus, have been the target of community anger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10984844/the-monster-is-back-updated-proposal-for-project-at-16th-and-mission\">for proposing projects that could gentrify neighborhoods and displace longtime residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians, pundits, housing rights activists and those renting from these corporate landlords also argue that the loan recipients are too big and too wealthy to need government help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/3374695/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%!;margin-top: 4px!important;text-align: right!important\">\u003ca class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important\" href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/3374695/?utm_source=embed&utm_campaign=visualisation/3374695\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important;height: 16px!important;border: none!important;margin: 0!important\" src=\"https://public.flourish.studio/resources/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies, for instance, includes Mosser Capital, which offers real estate investment opportunities and boasts $1.3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local firms that got PPP loans illustrate the massive amounts of capital that property firms are dealing in as they buy, sell and invest in Bay Area real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starcity Properties, which received a loan of between $1 and $2 million, owns seven buildings in San Francisco and two in Oakland. It has offered properties on the market for as much as $30 million and sold properties for $11 million and $16 million, according to filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballast Investments, which received a PPP loan between $1 and $2 million, manages $97 million in assets, according to its SEC filings, with custody of $38 million across 78 clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Tough Borrowing Environment for Property Managers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But those working in the real estate industry say some of these wealthy-looking firms may need the short-term help the PPP loans can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander Quinn, director of research for Northern California at real estate services firm JLL, says big property owners typically have access to what’s often called “dry powder” — buildings in their portfolio that can be refinanced to raise cash reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, some of them pulled some of that out, put it into cash, but a lot of them didn’t,” Quinn said. But if they didn’t, borrowing has become more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were, say, saying, ‘Oh, I need to pull out cash to shore up my cash flow for the next six months,’ it’d be a very difficult thing to do right now,” he said. That’s because it is “really hard to refinance in this market,” Quinn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason banks would be reluctant to refinance is that borrowers might not have a reliable flow of rent payments because so many tenants have lost income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn said that the vast majority of tenants have kept up with rent payments so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent payments, rent collections have been pretty good until July,” Quinn said. “We saw roughly over 95% of all renters paying their rent” nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Quinn added, who is vulnerable depends on when you bought your properties. Those with older properties are less likely to be cash-strapped, whereas those with new developments may face a harder road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='affordable-housing']Starcity Properties CEO Jon Dishotsky said that the availability of capital, including cash to meet payroll, has changed dramatically since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of a hundred people I normally talk to for capital … 30 write a term sheet in a normal environment, and I get down to three or five (funders) at the end of the day,” he said. “Now, out of a hundred people, five pick up the phone. And one writes a term sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which builds “co-living” apartment units meant to appeal to younger tenants, took out a $1.2 million PPP loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount pales in comparison to the hundreds of millions it needs to build its projects, but Dishotsky says it’s helped the company get through the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our corporate entity certainly could have run into a lot of trouble” without the PPP loan, which he said was used to hire back about six furloughed staffers out of a total of roughly 50. According to Small Business Administration data, Starcity said it retained 42 jobs with its loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his company may be able to raise some capital, Dishotsky said, PPP loans had another favorable feature: speed. Investments may take time to raise, but the PPP loan let them pay employees right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, said “it makes sense to me” why property management firms and housing developers would need PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge dislocation in the lending market,” David said. “Projects they were counting on to bring in revenue got delayed and may have been delayed indefinitely, and they still have expenses to pay with employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to complaints that firms like Veritas with its massive property portfolio don’t need government help, David said “just because they manage assets of $3 billion doesn’t mean those assets are on their balance sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Deserves a PPP Loan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Should big Bay Area property owners and developers have benefited from PPP loans? Debbie Nunez, a San Francisco native and Lowell High School graduate doesn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last three decades she’s lived in a Sutter Street apartment building that Veritas bought about five years ago. She hasn’t had a particularly happy relationship with her new landlord, which launched what she’s certain was unnecessary construction inside her building. She filed an administrative appeal with the city to stop the construction, which Veritas critics say the company has used as a tactic to oust tenants from rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than a dozen Veritas tenant activists, Nunez trooped to the Russian Hill home of Veritas CEO Yat-Pang Au one Sunday last month to read a letter demanding that the company distribute at least some of its $3.6 million PPP loan to small businesses that are struggling through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veritas does not qualify as a small business in need,” Nunez said. One sign of that, his tenants say: Au’s own personal wealth, estimated by Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-25/landlord-who-built-3-billion-san-francisco-empire-draws-fire#:~:text=He%20got%20the%20first%20taste,million%2C%20according%20to%20Bloomberg%20estimates.\">at more than $100 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paycheck Protection Program was initially aimed at companies with 500 employees or fewer and later adjusted to include companies with more workers who met the federal definition of a “small business.” PPP loans can be forgiven if the recipients can prove the funds were used to keep employees on payrolls or for a limited set of other business needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832140\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-800x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-800x632.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-1020x806.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-1536x1214.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Nunez is fighting Veritas over construction in her multifamily apartment building. She claims the work is unnecessary. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because many property management firms operate under “a very unique circumstance” — they have outsize assets and revenues but relatively few employees — they could easily meet that basic PPP requirement, despite the program being touted publicly as being aimed at small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JLL’s Alexander Quinn notes that the program’s primary goal was to get a lot of cash into the economy quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the PPP was mostly a shotgun approach. It wasn’t really about, you know, who is deserving, or who isn’t,” Quinn said. “Setting the rules was not as important as just the urgency of delivering the funds to private companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There really is no referee,” Quinn added. “So as a result, a lot of people were opportunistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Limited Offer of Help, Then ‘Total Silence’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As to how property firms that got PPP loans are behaving toward tenants, Quinn says some California companies have provided rental relief to tenants during the pandemic. Notably, on Thursday, San Francisco’s largest landlord – Veritas – offered 50% rent forgiveness for tenants between April and July, if they enter a repayment plan for the remaining rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Quinn noted, “others have not” offered rent relief, and what little has been offered has been extremely limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brianne Hodson\"]‘Every month we have this terrified waiting period of seeing whether the City Council and the Board of Supervisors will extend the [eviction] protections that are in place.’[/pullquote]Oakland tenants Ryan Furtkamp and Brianne Hodson say that their PPP recipient landlord, Mosser Companies, has offered some help — but not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp and Hodson have organized with fellow tenants with the help of housing advocacy group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Mosser offered to give tenants up to six months to repay their back rent — an offer Furtkamp said is simply unaffordable for him and most of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since then, total silence in terms of willingness to work with tenants who haven’t been able to pay rent. What they have been doing though, is harassing tenants who haven’t been able to pay rent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notices began appearing outside apartments declaring them “abandoned” and warning that they would soon be entered by Mosser employees. Tours would be given for prospective new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Furtkamp said the apartments have not been abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those neighbors simply stopped paying rent, he says. They can’t be evicted at this point because Oakland, Alameda County and the state of California all have eviction moratoriums in place. In Furtkamp’s view, Mosser’s declaration of abandonment is sinister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Mosser, a property management company, at an apartment building in Oakland on July 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to email Mosser and be like, ‘Hey, this is a violation of the county health code that is ordering the shelter in place. Have you attempted to even make contact with this person to see if they’re still here?’ ” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email response from Mosser to Furtkamp and Hodson, the company said it was canceling the threatened property tours “due to resident concerns regarding visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says Mosser’s PPP loan could be a help — to neighborhood businesses that are struggling because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our neighborhood alone, we’re seeing some bars and restaurants that just aren’t going to be able to survive, that have closed already,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And soon, Furtkamp and Hodson say, they may have to leave the neighborhood, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we’re renters,” Hodson said. “We don’t have assets. The eviction moratorium has been really essential to us staying afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every month we have this terrified waiting period of seeing whether the City Council and the Board of Supervisors will extend the protections that are in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the eviction moratoriums end, she said, they will have to make “very hard” decisions. Should they be ousted from their apartment, she said she doesn’t have answers on what they would do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about it every day,” Hodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Editor’s note: KQED is among the local businesses and media organizations that have received a PPP loan. This helps us continue to provide essential information and service to our audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correction: This story originally reported that San Francisco’s Grosvenor Properties, which received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, owns buildings in Japan, France and China. In fact, it’s a separate company, Grosvenor Americas, which did not receive a PPP loan, that owns those overseas properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government records show Mosser Companies received a loan of between $2 million and $5 million under the Paycheck Protection Program, passed by Congress in March to help small businesses avoid layoffs during the pandemic. The data, posted last month by the federal Small Business Administration, shows loan amounts in broad ranges, not specific amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s property management arm, Mosser Living, offers rental units in 55 properties across San Francisco, 20 properties in Oakland and eight properties in Los Angeles, promising a “blend” of “vintage with modern upgrades in all the right places, striking the perfect balance between authentic and awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call this Mosser Living. You’ll call it ‘home,’ ” the company’s website says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says the thought that federal assistance has been unable to help him and his wife meet their rent while Mosser got millions in federal support makes him furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them to take advantage of a program like this that’s intended for small business — that doesn’t have access to capital in the way that they do — it’s just kind of insulting that they would abuse the program in that way,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies did not respond to repeated requests for comment on its loan and its response to tenants in Furtkamp’s building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser is just one of several large Bay Area property and development firms that scored PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among companies identified for KQED by tenant advocates and industry sources are some of the region’s biggest landlords. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Emerald Fund, developer of 37 projects with more than 5,000 housing units, received a loan of between $1 and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maximus Real Estate Partners, which manages San Francisco’s Parkmerced, got a loan of $2 million to $5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reliant Group Management, which manages 23 properties in the Bay Area and more than 70 in the United States, received between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grosvenor Properties, which manages four properties in San Francisco, got between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Woodmont Real Estate Services, which owns roughly 80 multifamily properties across California, received between $5 million and $10 million\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Deep Pockets — and Big Loans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The news comes on the heels of public outcry over a $3.6 million PPP loan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11818912/after-pelosi-pressure-sf-biggest-landlord-veritas-says-they-will-repay-loan\">granted to Veritas Investments\u003c/a>. San Francisco’s biggest landlord, the company owns and operates more than 250 apartment buildings in the city and has $3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans have received negative attention in part because of some companies’ poor reputations with tenants and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms on the list, such as Veritas, have been criticized in the past for allegedly trying to push tenants out of rent-controlled buildings. Others, such as Maximus, have been the target of community anger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10984844/the-monster-is-back-updated-proposal-for-project-at-16th-and-mission\">for proposing projects that could gentrify neighborhoods and displace longtime residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians, pundits, housing rights activists and those renting from these corporate landlords also argue that the loan recipients are too big and too wealthy to need government help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/3374695/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%!;margin-top: 4px!important;text-align: right!important\">\u003ca class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important\" href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/3374695/?utm_source=embed&utm_campaign=visualisation/3374695\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important;height: 16px!important;border: none!important;margin: 0!important\" src=\"https://public.flourish.studio/resources/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies, for instance, includes Mosser Capital, which offers real estate investment opportunities and boasts $1.3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local firms that got PPP loans illustrate the massive amounts of capital that property firms are dealing in as they buy, sell and invest in Bay Area real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starcity Properties, which received a loan of between $1 and $2 million, owns seven buildings in San Francisco and two in Oakland. It has offered properties on the market for as much as $30 million and sold properties for $11 million and $16 million, according to filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballast Investments, which received a PPP loan between $1 and $2 million, manages $97 million in assets, according to its SEC filings, with custody of $38 million across 78 clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Tough Borrowing Environment for Property Managers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But those working in the real estate industry say some of these wealthy-looking firms may need the short-term help the PPP loans can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander Quinn, director of research for Northern California at real estate services firm JLL, says big property owners typically have access to what’s often called “dry powder” — buildings in their portfolio that can be refinanced to raise cash reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, some of them pulled some of that out, put it into cash, but a lot of them didn’t,” Quinn said. But if they didn’t, borrowing has become more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were, say, saying, ‘Oh, I need to pull out cash to shore up my cash flow for the next six months,’ it’d be a very difficult thing to do right now,” he said. That’s because it is “really hard to refinance in this market,” Quinn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason banks would be reluctant to refinance is that borrowers might not have a reliable flow of rent payments because so many tenants have lost income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn said that the vast majority of tenants have kept up with rent payments so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent payments, rent collections have been pretty good until July,” Quinn said. “We saw roughly over 95% of all renters paying their rent” nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Quinn added, who is vulnerable depends on when you bought your properties. Those with older properties are less likely to be cash-strapped, whereas those with new developments may face a harder road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Starcity Properties CEO Jon Dishotsky said that the availability of capital, including cash to meet payroll, has changed dramatically since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of a hundred people I normally talk to for capital … 30 write a term sheet in a normal environment, and I get down to three or five (funders) at the end of the day,” he said. “Now, out of a hundred people, five pick up the phone. And one writes a term sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which builds “co-living” apartment units meant to appeal to younger tenants, took out a $1.2 million PPP loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount pales in comparison to the hundreds of millions it needs to build its projects, but Dishotsky says it’s helped the company get through the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our corporate entity certainly could have run into a lot of trouble” without the PPP loan, which he said was used to hire back about six furloughed staffers out of a total of roughly 50. According to Small Business Administration data, Starcity said it retained 42 jobs with its loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his company may be able to raise some capital, Dishotsky said, PPP loans had another favorable feature: speed. Investments may take time to raise, but the PPP loan let them pay employees right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, said “it makes sense to me” why property management firms and housing developers would need PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge dislocation in the lending market,” David said. “Projects they were counting on to bring in revenue got delayed and may have been delayed indefinitely, and they still have expenses to pay with employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to complaints that firms like Veritas with its massive property portfolio don’t need government help, David said “just because they manage assets of $3 billion doesn’t mean those assets are on their balance sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Deserves a PPP Loan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Should big Bay Area property owners and developers have benefited from PPP loans? Debbie Nunez, a San Francisco native and Lowell High School graduate doesn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last three decades she’s lived in a Sutter Street apartment building that Veritas bought about five years ago. She hasn’t had a particularly happy relationship with her new landlord, which launched what she’s certain was unnecessary construction inside her building. She filed an administrative appeal with the city to stop the construction, which Veritas critics say the company has used as a tactic to oust tenants from rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than a dozen Veritas tenant activists, Nunez trooped to the Russian Hill home of Veritas CEO Yat-Pang Au one Sunday last month to read a letter demanding that the company distribute at least some of its $3.6 million PPP loan to small businesses that are struggling through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veritas does not qualify as a small business in need,” Nunez said. One sign of that, his tenants say: Au’s own personal wealth, estimated by Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-25/landlord-who-built-3-billion-san-francisco-empire-draws-fire#:~:text=He%20got%20the%20first%20taste,million%2C%20according%20to%20Bloomberg%20estimates.\">at more than $100 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paycheck Protection Program was initially aimed at companies with 500 employees or fewer and later adjusted to include companies with more workers who met the federal definition of a “small business.” PPP loans can be forgiven if the recipients can prove the funds were used to keep employees on payrolls or for a limited set of other business needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832140\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-800x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-800x632.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-1020x806.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-1536x1214.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Nunez is fighting Veritas over construction in her multifamily apartment building. She claims the work is unnecessary. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because many property management firms operate under “a very unique circumstance” — they have outsize assets and revenues but relatively few employees — they could easily meet that basic PPP requirement, despite the program being touted publicly as being aimed at small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JLL’s Alexander Quinn notes that the program’s primary goal was to get a lot of cash into the economy quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the PPP was mostly a shotgun approach. It wasn’t really about, you know, who is deserving, or who isn’t,” Quinn said. “Setting the rules was not as important as just the urgency of delivering the funds to private companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There really is no referee,” Quinn added. “So as a result, a lot of people were opportunistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Limited Offer of Help, Then ‘Total Silence’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As to how property firms that got PPP loans are behaving toward tenants, Quinn says some California companies have provided rental relief to tenants during the pandemic. Notably, on Thursday, San Francisco’s largest landlord – Veritas – offered 50% rent forgiveness for tenants between April and July, if they enter a repayment plan for the remaining rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Quinn noted, “others have not” offered rent relief, and what little has been offered has been extremely limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Oakland tenants Ryan Furtkamp and Brianne Hodson say that their PPP recipient landlord, Mosser Companies, has offered some help — but not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp and Hodson have organized with fellow tenants with the help of housing advocacy group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Mosser offered to give tenants up to six months to repay their back rent — an offer Furtkamp said is simply unaffordable for him and most of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since then, total silence in terms of willingness to work with tenants who haven’t been able to pay rent. What they have been doing though, is harassing tenants who haven’t been able to pay rent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notices began appearing outside apartments declaring them “abandoned” and warning that they would soon be entered by Mosser employees. Tours would be given for prospective new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Furtkamp said the apartments have not been abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those neighbors simply stopped paying rent, he says. They can’t be evicted at this point because Oakland, Alameda County and the state of California all have eviction moratoriums in place. In Furtkamp’s view, Mosser’s declaration of abandonment is sinister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Mosser, a property management company, at an apartment building in Oakland on July 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to email Mosser and be like, ‘Hey, this is a violation of the county health code that is ordering the shelter in place. Have you attempted to even make contact with this person to see if they’re still here?’ ” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email response from Mosser to Furtkamp and Hodson, the company said it was canceling the threatened property tours “due to resident concerns regarding visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says Mosser’s PPP loan could be a help — to neighborhood businesses that are struggling because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our neighborhood alone, we’re seeing some bars and restaurants that just aren’t going to be able to survive, that have closed already,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And soon, Furtkamp and Hodson say, they may have to leave the neighborhood, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we’re renters,” Hodson said. “We don’t have assets. The eviction moratorium has been really essential to us staying afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every month we have this terrified waiting period of seeing whether the City Council and the Board of Supervisors will extend the protections that are in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the eviction moratoriums end, she said, they will have to make “very hard” decisions. Should they be ousted from their apartment, she said she doesn’t have answers on what they would do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about it every day,” Hodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Editor’s note: KQED is among the local businesses and media organizations that have received a PPP loan. This helps us continue to provide essential information and service to our audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correction: This story originally reported that San Francisco’s Grosvenor Properties, which received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, owns buildings in Japan, France and China. In fact, it’s a separate company, Grosvenor Americas, which did not receive a PPP loan, that owns those overseas properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Imperial County, the rural county in southeastern California beset with \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-17/imperial-county-medical-air-teams-work-around-clock-to-move-covid-19-patients\">overrun hospitals\u003c/a> and the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the state, has allowed landlords to pursue court-ordered evictions during the novel coronavirus pandemic — despite state judicial rules barring such proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Imperial County Superior Court has issued notices of eviction lawsuits to renters and engaged in other eviction proceedings that violate state judicial protocols, according to documents reviewed by CalMatters. The documents were provided by the Imperial County chapter of California Rural Legal Assistance Inc, a statewide legal aid organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Judicial Council — the governing body for the state court system chaired by state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye — issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/coronavirus-covid-19-california-eviction-bans-and-tenant-protections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emergency rule\u003c/a> on April 6 barring local courts from going forward with most eviction cases, with the exception of cases involving threats to public health and safety. The council then extended the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People being evicted from their homes is a public health and safety problem,” said Adriane Bracciale, directing attorney for the legal aid organization’s office in El Centro, the county seat. “That’s why this emergency rule was instituted so that people aren’t being kicked out of their homes during a contagious, deadly pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bracciale said she discovered the issue when three separate renter households approached her legal aid clinic in the past few weeks with eviction “summonses” — orders for a renter to either challenge an eviction lawsuit in court or lose an eviction case by default. The first client who approached her office was being evicted for not paying rent after the pandemic hit, and claimed they couldn’t afford rent because of COVID-related financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the three eviction cases were ultimately rescinded once court officers were informed of the mistake, it is unclear how many other evictions may have proceeded in Imperial County in violation of the state Judicial Council rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic emergency rules, landlords could file eviction lawsuits against renters in local civil courts. The civil courts would in turn send a summons to the renter notifying them of the lawsuit. The summons required a response within five days. If the renter did not respond in those five days, the court would enter a default judgment in favor of the landlord and the renter would be ordered to leave. If a renter lost an eviction case, the courts would issue an order a landlord could take to the local sheriff’s department to physically enforce the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April 6 order should have stopped that process entirely, at least for the time being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many renters do not seek legal counsel when faced with eviction lawsuits. Other renters confronting legal eviction documents may simply decide to vacate, unaware of new protections afforded during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if residents are aware that evictions should not be happening during the state of emergency as it’s explained under the emergency rule,” said Bracciale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County Superior Court Presiding Judge L. Brooks Anderholt did not return multiple requests for comment. Other court employees declined to answer questions on how many default judgments against renters the court may have mistakenly allowed, or how the evictions could have proceeded in light of the Judicial Council rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arimai Heredia, who oversees eviction lockouts for the Imperial County Sheriff’s Department, says deputies carried out two evictions in the past two weeks but could not say whether those evictions were processed by the court in violation of state rules. Eviction lockouts in cases already resolved by the courts by April 6 — prior to the judicial order — are still allowed, as are evictions in cases involving threats to public health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"—Adriane Bracciale, California Rural Legal Assistance\"]'I don’t know if residents are aware that evictions should not be happening during the state of emergency as it’s explained under the emergency rule.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the health risks of removing renters during the pandemic, some sheriff’s departments in other parts of the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/04/california-coronavirus-evictions-moratorium-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have stopped “enforcing writs”\u003c/a> — legalese for performing evictions — even in cases not barred by the Judicial Council emergency rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not up to us to question,” said Heredia. “We don’t have any documents to go by and determine, that would be the court. If the court issues the writs, then we’ll enforce it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heredia said to her knowledge the two lockouts performed in the past two weeks were the only evictions carried out by the Imperial County Sheriff’s Departments since April. However, renters who receive eviction notices do not necessarily end up on a sheriff department’s lockout docket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter addressed to Judge Anderholdt, Bracciale details that court officers told her in early July that no information about the Judicial Council’s eviction moratorium had been relayed to Imperial County Superior Court clerks who manage eviction proceedings, and that court employees had not received instructions to stop issuing court summonses in eviction cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter details that court officers, once notified of the emergency ban on eviction proceedings by Bracciale, told her they would work on a plan to adopt the rules going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bracciale also filed the letter with the state Judicial Council, but has not yet received an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to questions from CalMatters, Judicial Council spokesperson Cathal Conneely wrote via email, “As the recipient of this letter, the Imperial County Superior Court, an independent constitutional entity, is best positioned to respond to any allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County, where one in four residents live below the poverty line, has been ravaged by the novel coronavirus. In late June, Newsom urged local elected officials to reinstate stay-at-home orders because of the severity of the outbreak. Only two intensive care unit beds are available in the county as of Tuesday, according to a Los Angeles Times tracker, and patients are being airlifted to hospitals in nearby San Diego and elsewhere in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration did not respond to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent public remarks, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye said the Judicial Council will vote on allowing courts to resume eviction proceedings as early as August 14. State lawmakers are scrambling to pass eviction protection and landlord relief measures before that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Nigel Duara contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>A previous version of this story was published on June 30.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal eviction moratorium put in place at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic expired last week, and the extra $600 a week in federal Unemployment Insurance benefits are set to run out this week. With Republicans and Democrats in Congress at odds over how much to keep paying people who are out of work, renters, lawmakers and advocates across the country are raising the alarm about a possible wave of evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters in California are protected, for now, by state and local eviction moratoriums. But some of those provisions are set to expire in August. Most notably, the California Judicial Council announced that its statewide eviction moratorium could sunset as soon as Aug. 14. The provision has been in place since April, and prevents court actions on evictions and judicial foreclosures, effectively halting most evictions in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Aug. 14 deadline looming, state leaders are now scrambling to come up with long-term fix that would protect renters and property owners who have lost income during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said last Friday that he is working with state legislative leaders to craft a plan. He specifically named Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, and state Sen. Anna Caballero, D-Salinas, both of whom authored renter and landlord protection bills that are scheduled for committee hearings on Aug. 12. A deal from the governor and the Legislature is likely to include elements of both of their bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 1436, co-authored by Chiu, would bar landlords from evicting tenants for up to 90 days after the state of emergency is lifted, and would prohibit landlords from using nonpayment of rent during the pandemic as grounds for an eviction in the future. It would also give tenants 15 months to pay back rent from that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu announced this week that the bill has been updated to include protections for property owners as well. The bill would allow owners of properties with four units or less to receive a year of mortgage forbearance — reduced or delayed payments. The timeline would be capped at six months for larger properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mortgage owners are experiencing particular hardships during this pandemic, and particularly property owners who rely on rent from their tenants to get by and make their mortgages,” Chiu said. “We can’t afford to have a wave of evictions and foreclosures like we did during the great recession.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 4 million renters in California have slight or no confidence that they will be able to pay their rent next month, according to a survey from the Census Bureau. More than 1.7 million California homeowners are similarly concerned about making their mortgage payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 1410, authored by Caballero, would give landlords tax credits to make up for missed rent payments. Tenants would then have 10 years to pay back their back rent to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chiu acknowledged the Legislature is working on a tight timeline. To buy more time, he suggested the Judicial Council could consider extending its moratorium until the end of August, which coincides with the end of the legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am concerned that if we’re not able to get an agreement with the governor and the Legislature by Aug. 14, you could very well see a rush to the courts of landlords filing eviction notices for tenants who have been unable to pay rent in recent months,” Chiu said. \"That could be catastrophic. We have to avoid a wave of mass evictions. That would be terrible for homelessness, for this pandemic and COVID-19 spread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many local cities and counties have voted to continue their local eviction moratoriums, as job losses from the pandemic continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Alameda County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Sept. 30\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to 12 months after end of moratorium\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"http://acgov.org/documents/ACEvictionMoratorium-Update-FAQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Contra Costa County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Sept. 30\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: until Nov. 15, 2020\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/67175/Board-of-Supervisors-Extends-a-Modified-Eviction-Protection--Rent-Freeze-Ordinance-News-Release-5262020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marin County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Sept. 30\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to 90 days after the end of moratorium\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/main/county-press-releases/press-releases/2020/cda-covid-evictionmoratorium-052220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Aug. 31\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: until Jan. 31, 2021\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/temporary-eviction-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Mateo County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Aug. 31\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to 90 days after the end of state of emergency, with three, one-month extensions\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.smcgov.org/covid-19-smc-eviction-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Santa Clara County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Aug. 31\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to six months after moratorium ends to repay at least 50% of the past-due rent, and up to 12 months after moratorium ends to repay past-due in full\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/EvictionMoratorium/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Solano County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: 90 days after state of emergency ends\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to 12 months after state of emergency ends\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/app/uploads/2020/04/Solano-County-BOS-Countywide-Eviction-Moratorium.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sonoma County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: 60 days after state of emergency ends\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to two months after state of emergency ends\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CAO/Press-Releases/Board-of-Supervisors-Approves-Eviction-Defense-Ordinance/#:~:text=The%20ordinance%20prevents%20evictions%20for,to%20make%20up%20unpaid%20rent.&text=The%20Ordinance%20is%20available%20here,B3CB%2DFDAA3D9F69E6%26Options%3D%26Search%3D.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What else is available to tenants?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reminder:\u003c/strong> There is currently no rent freeze or moratorium on rent in California. So if you can't pay, action is likely required on your part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And remember:\u003c/strong> Partial payment of rent does not prevent your landlord or property manager from starting the eviction process, unless you get a written agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I have to pay rent?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you can afford it, yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local eviction moratoriums \u003cstrong>do not\u003c/strong> prevent rent from being due, and local officials are encouraging those who are healthy and employed to pay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What do I do if I can't pay rent?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you can't pay rent due to coronavirus-related circumstances, here's what you should do:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Put your case in writing: \u003c/strong>Declare, in writing, the reason you cannot pay your rent. The advocacy group Tenants Together created \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N9RIovWtkDwPnKg0ruXxHsQoGMM07Hx2_EoSXaEPVVY/edit\">this sample letter\u003c/a> you can use.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Provide specific documentation\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Include documents that show your income has been impacted by the pandemic and resulting shelter-in-place orders. That could be a letter or text from your employer detailing a reduction in work hours, pay stubs showing a decrease in wages or some documentation demonstrating a loss of available work opportunity — like decreases in Lyft rides or Postmates deliveries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Submit documents\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>to your landlord or property manager\u003c/strong>: Ideally, you'd do this before rent is due. So make sure you get it in as soon as possible.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Keep a copy of all documentation for your records:\u003c/strong> If your landlord decides to pursue the eviction, or take you to small claims court, you'll need these documents. Store them somewhere safe!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reach out to a lawyer or advocate\u003c/strong>: To get ahead of any potential court proceeding, you can reach out to an attorney or legal aid office ahead of time. Check \u003ca href=\"#resources\">here\u003c/a> for more resources.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do local and statewide eviction moratoriums work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In early April, the Judicial Council of California adopted an emergency rule that effectively prevents evictions, other than those necessary for health and safety. This is a much stronger ruling that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809328/newsoms-eviction-moratorium-useless-misleading-tenants-groups-say\">statewide eviction moratorium\u003c/a> set by Gov. Gavin Newsom in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what the new rule does:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Prevents a court from issuing a summons\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>after a landlord files an eviction case: \u003c/strong>Except when necessary to protect health and safety, this means that tenants will not be under the normal five-day response deadline and will instead have time to respond up until the courts' emergency rule is lifted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Prevents default judgments: \u003c/strong>Normally, if the tenant failed to file a response, the court would issue a default judgment. Often siding with the landlord. This prevents that, except in cases of health and safety. Or if the tenant failed to file a response before the statewide order was lifted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Extends time for trials\u003c/strong>: If an eviction case is already in process, and the tenant has already responded or appeared, judges must set the hearing for a time that is 60 days after the date requested, unless necessary to set it earlier for health and safety.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can read more about the rule, including how it applies to foreclosures, \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/summary-california-courts-emergency-rule-on-evictions-and-foreclosures/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"evictions\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What if I get an eviction notice?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If for some reason you do receive an eviction notice, \u003cstrong>get in touch with a lawyer or legal aid office as soon as possible\u003c/strong>. Many local legal aid offices are still operating — albeit remotely — and should have the best resources to help navigate through the particular rules in your city and county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few tenant resources you can use for help with an eviction notice:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://evictiondefense.org\">Eviction Defense Collaborative\u003c/a>: For legal assistance, contact the clinic at 415-659-9184 or email legal@evictiondefense.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://hrcsf.org\">Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco\u003c/a>: If you're in the Mission District, call 415-703-8644. In the Richmond District, call 415-947-9085.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sftu.org\">San Francisco Tenants Union\u003c/a>: For counseling hours, call 415-282-6622 or sign up \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftu.org/drop-in-clinic/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org\">Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>: For counseling, call 415-984-2728 to make an appointment.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Alameda County:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a>: Call 510-548-4040 to schedule a free legal consultation.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.evictiondefensecenteroakland.org\">Eviction Defense Center\u003c/a>: Call 510-452-4541 for free and low-cost legal services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>: Reach out via 510-437-1554 to request legal consults and assistance.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>: The Housing Unit is available for telephone counsel and advice through the Tenants Rights Line (for Alameda County residents) at 866-346-3405, or the Legal Advice Line at 800-551-5554 (for residents of all other counties in their service area).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfoundation.org\">Law Foundation of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>: Contact the Law Foundation at 408-280-2424.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sacredheartcs.org\">Sacred Heart Community Services\u003c/a>: You can apply \u003ca href=\"https://sacredheartcs.org/covid19/\">here\u003c/a> if you need financial assistance related to COVID-19\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.legalaidsmc.org\">The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County\u003c/a>: If you need legal assistance, call 650-558-0915.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Tenants Together has also compiled a list of resources for renters \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenantstogether.org/resource-directory\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G-n_wK1JXuNHc2drqFjq3JdY-8ILG343zvbM5q8Ykx8/edit?fbclid=IwAR2A2royDMtVAM6b6yYM5GkMGhwmD0Lm5Ploz2lDcL2jIBpqxJ3OkebAef0\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published March 31.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>A previous version of this story was published on June 30.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal eviction moratorium put in place at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic expired last week, and the extra $600 a week in federal Unemployment Insurance benefits are set to run out this week. With Republicans and Democrats in Congress at odds over how much to keep paying people who are out of work, renters, lawmakers and advocates across the country are raising the alarm about a possible wave of evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters in California are protected, for now, by state and local eviction moratoriums. But some of those provisions are set to expire in August. Most notably, the California Judicial Council announced that its statewide eviction moratorium could sunset as soon as Aug. 14. The provision has been in place since April, and prevents court actions on evictions and judicial foreclosures, effectively halting most evictions in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Aug. 14 deadline looming, state leaders are now scrambling to come up with long-term fix that would protect renters and property owners who have lost income during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said last Friday that he is working with state legislative leaders to craft a plan. He specifically named Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, and state Sen. Anna Caballero, D-Salinas, both of whom authored renter and landlord protection bills that are scheduled for committee hearings on Aug. 12. A deal from the governor and the Legislature is likely to include elements of both of their bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 1436, co-authored by Chiu, would bar landlords from evicting tenants for up to 90 days after the state of emergency is lifted, and would prohibit landlords from using nonpayment of rent during the pandemic as grounds for an eviction in the future. It would also give tenants 15 months to pay back rent from that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu announced this week that the bill has been updated to include protections for property owners as well. The bill would allow owners of properties with four units or less to receive a year of mortgage forbearance — reduced or delayed payments. The timeline would be capped at six months for larger properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mortgage owners are experiencing particular hardships during this pandemic, and particularly property owners who rely on rent from their tenants to get by and make their mortgages,” Chiu said. “We can’t afford to have a wave of evictions and foreclosures like we did during the great recession.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 4 million renters in California have slight or no confidence that they will be able to pay their rent next month, according to a survey from the Census Bureau. More than 1.7 million California homeowners are similarly concerned about making their mortgage payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 1410, authored by Caballero, would give landlords tax credits to make up for missed rent payments. Tenants would then have 10 years to pay back their back rent to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chiu acknowledged the Legislature is working on a tight timeline. To buy more time, he suggested the Judicial Council could consider extending its moratorium until the end of August, which coincides with the end of the legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am concerned that if we’re not able to get an agreement with the governor and the Legislature by Aug. 14, you could very well see a rush to the courts of landlords filing eviction notices for tenants who have been unable to pay rent in recent months,” Chiu said. \"That could be catastrophic. We have to avoid a wave of mass evictions. That would be terrible for homelessness, for this pandemic and COVID-19 spread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many local cities and counties have voted to continue their local eviction moratoriums, as job losses from the pandemic continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Alameda County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Sept. 30\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to 12 months after end of moratorium\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"http://acgov.org/documents/ACEvictionMoratorium-Update-FAQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Contra Costa County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Sept. 30\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: until Nov. 15, 2020\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/67175/Board-of-Supervisors-Extends-a-Modified-Eviction-Protection--Rent-Freeze-Ordinance-News-Release-5262020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marin County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Sept. 30\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to 90 days after the end of moratorium\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/main/county-press-releases/press-releases/2020/cda-covid-evictionmoratorium-052220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Aug. 31\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: until Jan. 31, 2021\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/temporary-eviction-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Mateo County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Aug. 31\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to 90 days after the end of state of emergency, with three, one-month extensions\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.smcgov.org/covid-19-smc-eviction-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Santa Clara County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: Aug. 31\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to six months after moratorium ends to repay at least 50% of the past-due rent, and up to 12 months after moratorium ends to repay past-due in full\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/EvictionMoratorium/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Solano County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: 90 days after state of emergency ends\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to 12 months after state of emergency ends\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/app/uploads/2020/04/Solano-County-BOS-Countywide-Eviction-Moratorium.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sonoma County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expires: 60 days after state of emergency ends\u003cbr>\nRepayment term: up to two months after state of emergency ends\u003cbr>\nFor more info, \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CAO/Press-Releases/Board-of-Supervisors-Approves-Eviction-Defense-Ordinance/#:~:text=The%20ordinance%20prevents%20evictions%20for,to%20make%20up%20unpaid%20rent.&text=The%20Ordinance%20is%20available%20here,B3CB%2DFDAA3D9F69E6%26Options%3D%26Search%3D.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What else is available to tenants?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reminder:\u003c/strong> There is currently no rent freeze or moratorium on rent in California. So if you can't pay, action is likely required on your part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And remember:\u003c/strong> Partial payment of rent does not prevent your landlord or property manager from starting the eviction process, unless you get a written agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I have to pay rent?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you can afford it, yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local eviction moratoriums \u003cstrong>do not\u003c/strong> prevent rent from being due, and local officials are encouraging those who are healthy and employed to pay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What do I do if I can't pay rent?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you can't pay rent due to coronavirus-related circumstances, here's what you should do:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Put your case in writing: \u003c/strong>Declare, in writing, the reason you cannot pay your rent. The advocacy group Tenants Together created \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N9RIovWtkDwPnKg0ruXxHsQoGMM07Hx2_EoSXaEPVVY/edit\">this sample letter\u003c/a> you can use.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Provide specific documentation\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Include documents that show your income has been impacted by the pandemic and resulting shelter-in-place orders. That could be a letter or text from your employer detailing a reduction in work hours, pay stubs showing a decrease in wages or some documentation demonstrating a loss of available work opportunity — like decreases in Lyft rides or Postmates deliveries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Submit documents\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>to your landlord or property manager\u003c/strong>: Ideally, you'd do this before rent is due. So make sure you get it in as soon as possible.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Keep a copy of all documentation for your records:\u003c/strong> If your landlord decides to pursue the eviction, or take you to small claims court, you'll need these documents. Store them somewhere safe!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reach out to a lawyer or advocate\u003c/strong>: To get ahead of any potential court proceeding, you can reach out to an attorney or legal aid office ahead of time. Check \u003ca href=\"#resources\">here\u003c/a> for more resources.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From Tiger Woods to Brooks Koepka, world-class golfers by the cartload have begun rolling into San Francisco in advance of next week’s PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, at the foot of Lake Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to make room for their caddies and camera crews, San Francisco officials this weekend issued new parking restrictions to disperse more than 50 recreational vehicles, home to dozens of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably was to keep the rich and famous golfers that are coming out here from being able to view such things as people living in RVs,” said Michael, a man living in one of those vehicles, who asked that his last name not be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time the championship, which runs Aug. 3-9, has come to San Francisco, according to \u003ca href=\"https://tpc.com/hardingpark/pga-championship/\">the event’s website\u003c/a>, which touts it as the “strongest and deepest international lineup of any major championship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PGA Championship Director Barry Deach did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11830650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael sweeps the sidewalk where his RV is parked on Lake Merced Boulevard in San Francisco on July 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spate of “no stopping” signs suddenly posted along Lake Merced Boulevard near Winston Street caught many RV residents off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been quiet all this time and then suddenly, no notice, no nothing — just the signs. Move again, just like usual,” said Jean Pierre Kale, 61, a longtime RV resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Paris, but a San Franciscan for more than three decades, Kale has lived in an RV since he and his wife split up years ago. He’s familiar with the usual shuffle: Park in any San Francisco neighborhood, and neighbors will eventually complain and have you kicked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"RV resident Jean Pierre Kale\"]‘It’s been quiet all this time and then suddenly, no notice, no nothing — just the signs. Move again, just like usual.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Bayview to the Excelsior, Kale has long been shuffled around the city in a real-world game of whack-a-mole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what makes this latest displacement particularly sting, RV residents here say. Lake Merced was a last refuge far away from neighbors who complain and from dangerous areas where vehicles are often vandalized or broken into at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had people chase me down,” said Mana Dream, 31, a software engineer and video game designer, who lives in an RV along Lake Merced Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dream, who is transgender and nonbinary, said they are unable to afford rent elsewhere in the city, noting that as an RV resident, interactions with police can be particularly fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to interact with the cops because I just can’t afford to have problems with them. I really need them to just let me be,” Dream said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has more than 46 miles of oversize vehicle restrictions, often added street by street, corridor by corridor, as residents complain of homeless people parking near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11830651 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recently posted ‘no parking’ sign on Lake Merced Boulevard on July 27, 2020 that was later removed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city has struggled to offer broader solutions, although after some complained about the piecemeal approach, officials launched a pilot “Vehicle Triage Center” earlier this year. It allows 30 vehicles with people living in them to park safely on San Jose Avenue, with on-site services offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]On Monday, two days after vehicles began leaving the area, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department offered a plan to help RV dwellers move to an Ocean Beach parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The offer to relocate the RVs was also announced one day after Supervisor Norman Yee, who represents the area, called the department personally to “inquire” about the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is hosting a major golf tournament under COVID-19 restrictions. The event’s operations team requires access to the west side of Lake Merced Boulevard,” SF Recreation and Park Department spokeswoman Tamara Barak Aparton said in a statement. “To minimize inconvenience to those who park RVs in the area, we have granted the RV owners temporary overnight parking permits in the Ocean Beach parking lot from July 27 to August 11.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aparton added that Homeless Outreach Team members would be on-site to “facilitate the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But RV dwellers told KQED that no city staff — including the HOT team — had offered them relocation information over the weekend, prompting many to drive off in search of their own solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, no stopping signs on one side of Lake Merced Boulevard that had just been posted Saturday had already been torn down by Public Works staff by Monday morning. It was not immediately clear why the signs were initially posted, only to be removed so quickly. And in the absence of the restrictions, some RV owners had already started returning to the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830727\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11830727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV drives away from Lake Merced Boulevard past the TPC Harding Park golf course in San Francisco on July 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several sources told KQED that no one directly involved with relocating RV dwellers, from members of HOT to city staff, had any clue about this specific relocation plan. Yee’s office wasn’t even aware of the displacement until KQED called Saturday to ask about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving the area, some RV owners drove to nearby Winston Street, which they feared would provoke conflict with neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My experience has been that property owners have more rights than people who don’t own property,” Dream, the RV resident, said. “I can’t be there — even if it’s legal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From Tiger Woods to Brooks Koepka, world-class golfers by the cartload have begun rolling into San Francisco in advance of next week’s PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, at the foot of Lake Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to make room for their caddies and camera crews, San Francisco officials this weekend issued new parking restrictions to disperse more than 50 recreational vehicles, home to dozens of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably was to keep the rich and famous golfers that are coming out here from being able to view such things as people living in RVs,” said Michael, a man living in one of those vehicles, who asked that his last name not be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time the championship, which runs Aug. 3-9, has come to San Francisco, according to \u003ca href=\"https://tpc.com/hardingpark/pga-championship/\">the event’s website\u003c/a>, which touts it as the “strongest and deepest international lineup of any major championship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PGA Championship Director Barry Deach did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11830650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael sweeps the sidewalk where his RV is parked on Lake Merced Boulevard in San Francisco on July 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spate of “no stopping” signs suddenly posted along Lake Merced Boulevard near Winston Street caught many RV residents off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been quiet all this time and then suddenly, no notice, no nothing — just the signs. Move again, just like usual,” said Jean Pierre Kale, 61, a longtime RV resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Paris, but a San Franciscan for more than three decades, Kale has lived in an RV since he and his wife split up years ago. He’s familiar with the usual shuffle: Park in any San Francisco neighborhood, and neighbors will eventually complain and have you kicked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Bayview to the Excelsior, Kale has long been shuffled around the city in a real-world game of whack-a-mole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what makes this latest displacement particularly sting, RV residents here say. Lake Merced was a last refuge far away from neighbors who complain and from dangerous areas where vehicles are often vandalized or broken into at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had people chase me down,” said Mana Dream, 31, a software engineer and video game designer, who lives in an RV along Lake Merced Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dream, who is transgender and nonbinary, said they are unable to afford rent elsewhere in the city, noting that as an RV resident, interactions with police can be particularly fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to interact with the cops because I just can’t afford to have problems with them. I really need them to just let me be,” Dream said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has more than 46 miles of oversize vehicle restrictions, often added street by street, corridor by corridor, as residents complain of homeless people parking near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11830651 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recently posted ‘no parking’ sign on Lake Merced Boulevard on July 27, 2020 that was later removed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city has struggled to offer broader solutions, although after some complained about the piecemeal approach, officials launched a pilot “Vehicle Triage Center” earlier this year. It allows 30 vehicles with people living in them to park safely on San Jose Avenue, with on-site services offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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When I come out of the house, here comes the Warrior man,” Canamore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His connection with the Warriors goes back to high school, when he took a job as a food vendor at the Oakland Coliseum, selling peanuts and hot dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was comfortable (at the Coliseum), it was like being at home — after the games I was able to play on the court,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His childhood fandom has carried through to his adult life and has helped him through tough times. He lost one of his sons to cancer in the late ’90s. Since then, he’s lost all three of his brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828304\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lloyd Canamore holds a photo of his mother, who passed away last year, outside of his home in West Oakland on July 9, 2020. He lived in the house with his mother until her passing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Canamore, the colors blue and gold are therapeutic. They represent a Warriors mentality to get through grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the 58-year-old faces another set of hurdles. Just after his mother died last year, Canamore discovered that she had taken out a reverse mortgage, and now the $350,000 debt has fallen to him. [aside tag=\"housing, inequality\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the world coming to? Now I gotta sell the house? Now I gotta live in the tents? … I know I can’t live in no apartments, ’cause I got too many dogs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canamore suspects that a caretaker who was in charge of his mother’s finances might have coerced her into a reverse mortgage back in 2005. Unbeknownst to Canamore, that debt had been racking up for 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(She) tricked my momma doing that … and where all that money went then? I know that $350,000 didn’t come through here,” Canamore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A reverse mortgage is an arrangement where a homeowner can receive payments in exchange for giving up some of the equity in their home. Leah Simon-Weisberg, the legal director for Alliance for Californians For Community Empowerment Action (ACCE), an Oakland-based tenants’ rights group, said the loans can be predatory schemes that banks deploy in Black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s troubling about this situation is that none of the family members were aware that this had happened and that it is from a company that most people have never heard of,” Simon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canamore’s neighbor, Ali Roth, created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/warriors-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> page in an effort to save the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I posted it at night, and by the time I woke up, it already had $10,000,” Roth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lloyd Canamore walks into his home, known as the Warriors House, in West Oakland on July 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The page has raised over $170,000 in two days, with more than 4,000 donations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His childhood fandom has carried through to his adult life and has helped him through tough times. He lost one of his sons to cancer in the late ’90s. Since then, he’s lost all three of his brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828304\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43892_002_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lloyd Canamore holds a photo of his mother, who passed away last year, outside of his home in West Oakland on July 9, 2020. He lived in the house with his mother until her passing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Canamore, the colors blue and gold are therapeutic. They represent a Warriors mentality to get through grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the 58-year-old faces another set of hurdles. Just after his mother died last year, Canamore discovered that she had taken out a reverse mortgage, and now the $350,000 debt has fallen to him. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the world coming to? Now I gotta sell the house? Now I gotta live in the tents? … I know I can’t live in no apartments, ’cause I got too many dogs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canamore suspects that a caretaker who was in charge of his mother’s finances might have coerced her into a reverse mortgage back in 2005. Unbeknownst to Canamore, that debt had been racking up for 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(She) tricked my momma doing that … and where all that money went then? I know that $350,000 didn’t come through here,” Canamore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A reverse mortgage is an arrangement where a homeowner can receive payments in exchange for giving up some of the equity in their home. Leah Simon-Weisberg, the legal director for Alliance for Californians For Community Empowerment Action (ACCE), an Oakland-based tenants’ rights group, said the loans can be predatory schemes that banks deploy in Black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s troubling about this situation is that none of the family members were aware that this had happened and that it is from a company that most people have never heard of,” Simon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canamore’s neighbor, Ali Roth, created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/warriors-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> page in an effort to save the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I posted it at night, and by the time I woke up, it already had $10,000,” Roth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43899_011_KQED_Oakland_WarriorsHouse_07092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lloyd Canamore walks into his home, known as the Warriors House, in West Oakland on July 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The page has raised over $170,000 in two days, with more than 4,000 donations. Big names like Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry and Bay Area resident and comedian W. Kamau Bell have reposted Roth’s fundraising page on their Instagram accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACCE said it’s willing to fight to save Canamore’s house if the fundraising effort falls short.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>2020 was supposed to be the year of bold action and big changes for housing and homelessness in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom began the year with a tour of homeless and mental health services providers around the state, ending in Oakland, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796428/newsom-to-unveil-travel-trailers-for-homeless-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he declared\u003c/a> homelessness “the issue of our time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/#:~:text=California%20Homelessness%20Statistics,and%20Urban%20Development%20(HUD).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 151,000 people\u003c/a> living in tents, RVs, cars and shelters across the state, the governor announced a one-time allocation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802334/gov-newsom-focuses-singularly-on-homelessness-in-state-of-the-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$750 million\u003c/a> aimed at reducing homelessness — something his predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown, had been loath to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a sea change from the previous governor and from the Legislature,” said Chris Martin, policy director for Housing California, a Sacramento-based affordable housing nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, advocates on all sides of the housing debate watched closely as one controversial bill to promote housing production — SB 50 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew its last breath\u003c/a> following two tense days of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11613002 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco), the author of SB 50. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, the bill would have allowed for taller apartment buildings near transit hubs and in job-rich areas, and fourplexes in neighborhoods where only single-family homes are currently permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the bill’s defeat, Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, vowed to pass an “historic housing production bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy suddenly shut down. As attention turned to easing the worst impacts of an expected economic crisis, hopes for dramatically advancing housing construction and reducing homelessness grew dim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"state Sen. Scott Wiener\"]‘It’s not a grand slam. But it’s a solid double.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates involved in housing work across the state say all was not lost in the truncated legislative session, which is now in heading into summer recess. The Legislature still has some three dozen housing bills — albeit not as ambitious as some lawmakers initially hoped — that have been approved by their house of origin and are now moving on to the next chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a grand slam,” Wiener said in a phone call last week. “But it’s a solid double.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing Production\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While no single bill in this legislative session is as sweeping or controversial as SB 50, \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20200520-senate-leaders-detail-housing-production-legislation-intended-increase-supply-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several\u003c/a> attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://a17.asmdc.org/press-releases/assembly-leaders-push-increased-housing-production\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">boost housing\u003c/a> production through some like-minded proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate and Assembly, for instance, are each considering a proposal to eliminate single-family zoning in the state, by allowing either two duplexes (SB 1120) or a single fourplex (AB 3040) on parcels where only one house is currently allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11823916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Houses in Mountain View, pictured on Feb. 19, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Mountain View, on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another bill, SB 902, would give cities the option to circumvent state environmental reviews for construction of apartment buildings with up to 10 units that are near transit or in job-rich areas. It’s not the four- to five-story apartment buildings Weiner had hoped for in SB 50, he said, but it’s a start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a solid step forward in addressing the crisis,” he said. “More work will remain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Richard Bloom’s AB 1279, a revision of SB 50, targets wealthy enclaves typically averse to providing low-income housing. Unlike SB 50, which proposed taller buildings near transit, Bloom’s bill would put those four- and five-story buildings in “high-opportunity areas,” which the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development would have to specifically define by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more housing coverage\" tag=\"housing\"]The idea is to focus new housing construction in neighborhoods with better access to jobs, schools, air quality and other factors that lead to better health and that low-income renters and homeowners have long been excluded from. Developers who take advantage of the bill would have to offer the homes or rentals at affordable prices, construct some affordable housing on site or pay a fee to fund affordable housing construction elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AB 1279 removes barriers to equitable and inclusive development,” said Frank Martinez, policy director with the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing. “Stopping some of the income and racial segregation in housing would be a big move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also two bills under consideration that would allow developers to turn vacant offices, dying malls and big box stores into housing. The Assembly’s version, AB 3107, requires 20% of the new housing in those commercial areas to be affordable. The Senate’s version, SB 1385, requires affordable housing only in specific circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other bills in the Senate and Assembly would expand the state’s “density bonus” law, which allows developers to build taller buildings in exchange for providing affordable housing. The Senate’s version, SB 1085, focuses on “missing middle” housing that is more affordable to middle-income earners. The proposal allows developers to build taller buildings in exchange for rental housing that is at least 30% less expensive than the median rent. The Assembly’s version, AB 2345, focuses more on boosting low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11718377 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of homes and apartments on June 13, 2018 in San Francisco, California. According to a new survey by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, renters in San Francisco need an income of $60 per hour to afford a two bedroom apartment in the city. San Francisco is followed by San Jose at $48 per hour and Oakland at $45 per hour. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, finally, Weiner has also proposed a bill that would allow 100% affordable housing developments on parking lots owned by religious or educational institutions. SB 899 could open up around 38,000 acres of land statewide — an area roughly the size of Stockton — according to a \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/Mapping_the_Potential_and_Identifying_the_Barriers_to_Faith-Based_Housing_Development_May_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent study\u003c/a> by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something we consider quite significant in terms of opening up other opportunities to affordable housing,” said Pedro Galvao, policy director for the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These housing production bills, though, have rankled members of Livable California — a citizens group that champions local control and was one of SB 50’s chief opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty much a divide and conquer approach,” said Livable California board member Keith Gurnee. “It’s not as much on steroids as SB 50 was, but no one is really looking at how they interact with each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>COVID-19 Relief for Renters and Landlords\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Responding to the crisis at hand, several lawmakers have proposed bills to ensure that tenants and homeowners who lost some or all of their wages as a result of the pandemic don’t also lose their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman David Chiu’s AB 1436, if passed, would prevent landlords from evicting tenants during the current state of emergency, as well as 90 days after, if they’ve missed rent payments because of lost wages due to the pandemic. Tenants would then be allowed to pay back missed rent over 15 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate proposal by Assemblyman Phil Ting, AB 828, would freeze evictions and foreclosures during the state of emergency and for 15 days after. It would require tenants to pay 10% of back rent each month, beginning one month after the emergency order lifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11775409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1200x761.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Area’s rental market is notoriously expensive — not to mention competitive. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is the thing we see as the highest priority right now,” said Anya Lawler of the nonprofit Western Center on Law and Poverty. “We want to give tenants security that income lost during the pandemic will not be the basis for an eviction; but that needs to be coupled with money to make sure landlords don’t lose their property, either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bill, Atkins’ SB 1410, would provide \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20200512-senate-leaders-unveil-proposed-state-budget-approach-proposal-aid-california%E2%80%99s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax credits to landlords\u003c/a> equal to the value of missed rental payments. The landlords could get cash now if they sell their tax credits to investors, or use them in later years. Tenants would then be on the hook for paying the state back for the missed rent over the course of the next ten years. Very low-income tenants unable to pay could have their loans forgiven.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Without bills to protect tenants from eviction, homeless advocates fear the state will see a surge in homelessness, which had been growing, and was on the minds of lawmakers, even before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two bills in the Assembly establish ambitious goals for addressing homelessness: AB 2405 by Assemblywoman Autumn Burke, D-Marina del Rey, would make housing a human right for families and children by 2026. And AB 3269 by Chiu and Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, would require cities and counties to create plans to reduce homelessness in their communities by 90% by 2028, based on 2019 rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, AB 1845 by Assemblymembers Chiu and Luz Rivas would create a new state “Office to End Homelessness,” along with a new position the governor’s office to coordinate state agencies that fund homeless housing and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest question has always been where to get the money to pay for these new state mandates and programs, especially during the current economic fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the $750 million Newsom proposed at the beginning of the year is no more, the governor did steer $600 million from the federal CARES ACT to acquire and rehab hotels, motels and other buildings for permanent supportive housing for the formerly homeless —\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825653/california-found-hotels-for-10000-homeless-residents-what-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> dubbed Project Roomkey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3861px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11820447\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3861\" height=\"2574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB.jpg 3861w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3861px) 100vw, 3861px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romelita Bautista, a homeless resident of Oakland, joined in a demonstration outside the Palms Motel in Oakland on Friday, May 22, 2020. Activist Stefani Echeverría-Fenn chained herself to a window in one of the rooms at the motel to call attention to the need for more hotel rooms during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another proposal in the Assembly, AB 3300, by Assemblyman Miguel Santiago and a number of other co-signers would build off this year’s funding for homelessness programs and commit an additional $2 billion annually. But that’s only if the Legislature approves that amount in next year’s budget, which could be a tall order depending on how the economy is faring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of it may hinge on whether the federal government passes another stimulus bill. But even if that doesn’t happen, there’s talk of proposing new taxes — a 1% tax on millionaires, for example — to help pay for housing and shelters for people experiencing homelessness and for services related to that housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if no new money is found next year, the bill could still have an impact by reforming the state’s labyrinthine funding process for homeless services, said Chris Martin from Housing California. Agencies typically must apply separately to one of 30 programs split between six different state agencies, each with its own application process and funding timelines. AB 3300 would streamline that process by creating one application and allowing applicants to receive ongoing funding, so they don’t have to apply for the same money year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be quite significant,” said Pedro Galvao of the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California, “and could be really impactful, if adopted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>2020 was supposed to be the year of bold action and big changes for housing and homelessness in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom began the year with a tour of homeless and mental health services providers around the state, ending in Oakland, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796428/newsom-to-unveil-travel-trailers-for-homeless-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he declared\u003c/a> homelessness “the issue of our time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/#:~:text=California%20Homelessness%20Statistics,and%20Urban%20Development%20(HUD).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 151,000 people\u003c/a> living in tents, RVs, cars and shelters across the state, the governor announced a one-time allocation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802334/gov-newsom-focuses-singularly-on-homelessness-in-state-of-the-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$750 million\u003c/a> aimed at reducing homelessness — something his predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown, had been loath to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a sea change from the previous governor and from the Legislature,” said Chris Martin, policy director for Housing California, a Sacramento-based affordable housing nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, advocates on all sides of the housing debate watched closely as one controversial bill to promote housing production — SB 50 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew its last breath\u003c/a> following two tense days of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11613002 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco), the author of SB 50. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, the bill would have allowed for taller apartment buildings near transit hubs and in job-rich areas, and fourplexes in neighborhoods where only single-family homes are currently permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the bill’s defeat, Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, vowed to pass an “historic housing production bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy suddenly shut down. As attention turned to easing the worst impacts of an expected economic crisis, hopes for dramatically advancing housing construction and reducing homelessness grew dim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates involved in housing work across the state say all was not lost in the truncated legislative session, which is now in heading into summer recess. The Legislature still has some three dozen housing bills — albeit not as ambitious as some lawmakers initially hoped — that have been approved by their house of origin and are now moving on to the next chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a grand slam,” Wiener said in a phone call last week. “But it’s a solid double.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing Production\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While no single bill in this legislative session is as sweeping or controversial as SB 50, \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20200520-senate-leaders-detail-housing-production-legislation-intended-increase-supply-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several\u003c/a> attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://a17.asmdc.org/press-releases/assembly-leaders-push-increased-housing-production\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">boost housing\u003c/a> production through some like-minded proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate and Assembly, for instance, are each considering a proposal to eliminate single-family zoning in the state, by allowing either two duplexes (SB 1120) or a single fourplex (AB 3040) on parcels where only one house is currently allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11823916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Houses in Mountain View, pictured on Feb. 19, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Mountain View, on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another bill, SB 902, would give cities the option to circumvent state environmental reviews for construction of apartment buildings with up to 10 units that are near transit or in job-rich areas. It’s not the four- to five-story apartment buildings Weiner had hoped for in SB 50, he said, but it’s a start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a solid step forward in addressing the crisis,” he said. “More work will remain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Richard Bloom’s AB 1279, a revision of SB 50, targets wealthy enclaves typically averse to providing low-income housing. Unlike SB 50, which proposed taller buildings near transit, Bloom’s bill would put those four- and five-story buildings in “high-opportunity areas,” which the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development would have to specifically define by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The idea is to focus new housing construction in neighborhoods with better access to jobs, schools, air quality and other factors that lead to better health and that low-income renters and homeowners have long been excluded from. Developers who take advantage of the bill would have to offer the homes or rentals at affordable prices, construct some affordable housing on site or pay a fee to fund affordable housing construction elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AB 1279 removes barriers to equitable and inclusive development,” said Frank Martinez, policy director with the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing. “Stopping some of the income and racial segregation in housing would be a big move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also two bills under consideration that would allow developers to turn vacant offices, dying malls and big box stores into housing. The Assembly’s version, AB 3107, requires 20% of the new housing in those commercial areas to be affordable. The Senate’s version, SB 1385, requires affordable housing only in specific circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other bills in the Senate and Assembly would expand the state’s “density bonus” law, which allows developers to build taller buildings in exchange for providing affordable housing. The Senate’s version, SB 1085, focuses on “missing middle” housing that is more affordable to middle-income earners. The proposal allows developers to build taller buildings in exchange for rental housing that is at least 30% less expensive than the median rent. The Assembly’s version, AB 2345, focuses more on boosting low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11718377 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of homes and apartments on June 13, 2018 in San Francisco, California. According to a new survey by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, renters in San Francisco need an income of $60 per hour to afford a two bedroom apartment in the city. San Francisco is followed by San Jose at $48 per hour and Oakland at $45 per hour. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, finally, Weiner has also proposed a bill that would allow 100% affordable housing developments on parking lots owned by religious or educational institutions. SB 899 could open up around 38,000 acres of land statewide — an area roughly the size of Stockton — according to a \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/Mapping_the_Potential_and_Identifying_the_Barriers_to_Faith-Based_Housing_Development_May_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent study\u003c/a> by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something we consider quite significant in terms of opening up other opportunities to affordable housing,” said Pedro Galvao, policy director for the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These housing production bills, though, have rankled members of Livable California — a citizens group that champions local control and was one of SB 50’s chief opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty much a divide and conquer approach,” said Livable California board member Keith Gurnee. “It’s not as much on steroids as SB 50 was, but no one is really looking at how they interact with each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>COVID-19 Relief for Renters and Landlords\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Responding to the crisis at hand, several lawmakers have proposed bills to ensure that tenants and homeowners who lost some or all of their wages as a result of the pandemic don’t also lose their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman David Chiu’s AB 1436, if passed, would prevent landlords from evicting tenants during the current state of emergency, as well as 90 days after, if they’ve missed rent payments because of lost wages due to the pandemic. Tenants would then be allowed to pay back missed rent over 15 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate proposal by Assemblyman Phil Ting, AB 828, would freeze evictions and foreclosures during the state of emergency and for 15 days after. It would require tenants to pay 10% of back rent each month, beginning one month after the emergency order lifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11775409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1200x761.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Area’s rental market is notoriously expensive — not to mention competitive. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is the thing we see as the highest priority right now,” said Anya Lawler of the nonprofit Western Center on Law and Poverty. “We want to give tenants security that income lost during the pandemic will not be the basis for an eviction; but that needs to be coupled with money to make sure landlords don’t lose their property, either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bill, Atkins’ SB 1410, would provide \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20200512-senate-leaders-unveil-proposed-state-budget-approach-proposal-aid-california%E2%80%99s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax credits to landlords\u003c/a> equal to the value of missed rental payments. The landlords could get cash now if they sell their tax credits to investors, or use them in later years. Tenants would then be on the hook for paying the state back for the missed rent over the course of the next ten years. Very low-income tenants unable to pay could have their loans forgiven.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Without bills to protect tenants from eviction, homeless advocates fear the state will see a surge in homelessness, which had been growing, and was on the minds of lawmakers, even before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two bills in the Assembly establish ambitious goals for addressing homelessness: AB 2405 by Assemblywoman Autumn Burke, D-Marina del Rey, would make housing a human right for families and children by 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Alan Tolbert first walked into San Francisco’s Hotel Whitcomb in April, he couldn’t help but smile. For the first time in two years, he had a room to call his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just great being here,” said Tolbert, who shares his room with his pitbull terrier, Coco. “I love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolbert is one of more than 10,000 homeless seniors and people with medical conditions who were able to move into hotel rooms in California through a state-led effort to isolate and quarantine people during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced the program, dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818462/newsoms-budget-puts-new-focus-on-buying-hotels-to-house-homeless\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a>, in April as a temporary solution to reduce the potential spread of COVID-19 among people living in emergency shelters and outdoor tent communities. As of Friday, the state had filled 10,644 hotel rooms, and leased a total of 15,837.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alan Tolbert, unhoused resident moved into an SF hotel due to COVID-19\"]‘They’re not going to put us on the street… That defeats the purpose. They’re going to have to do something, right?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Newsom says he wants to turn that temporary solution into a permanent one by helping counties buy hotels and motels across the state. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say it’s a rare opportunity to put a meaningful dent in the state’s housing shortage by providing housing for around 10% of the state’s more than 150,000 homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a unique chance to avoid some of the complex funding and permitting schemes that often stymie such projects, said Amanda Wehrman, deputy director of HomeBase, a public policy nonprofit focused on addressing homelessness. That’s not to say the project hasn’t been without \u003ca href=\"https://www.whittierdailynews.com/city-officials-oppose-plan-to-house-homeless-in-norwalk-motel-county-vows-to-sue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">neighborhood opposition\u003c/a> in a few cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now is a moment where we can take some meaningful steps to address the needs around homelessness,” Wehrman said. “The next thing that needs to happen is to make sure we can address our public health crisis and address homelessness through these opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area’s nine counties, officials have leased a total of 5,169 rooms, with individuals and families living in 3,339 of them, according to the state’s Department of Social Services. And so far, FEMA has agreed to provide a 75% reimbursement to counties for the rooms through June 30, unless the federal agency agrees to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/FEMA/202006-CA_NCS-all-others-TE%20Response_6012020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an extension\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s May budget proposal included $600 million in federal funds from the CARES Act to help counties purchase the hotels — but it’s unclear where the money will come from to operate the hotels and provide services for the people who live there after FEMA’s subsidies end.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Devil in the Details\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County spends roughly $2.5 million a month to house 550 people in five hotels. That includes the cost of the rooms, plus food, staffing and supportive services, said Jaime Jenett, a spokesperson for the county office of Health, Housing and Homeless Services. The leases will end in August unless extended, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the initial outlay of purchasing a hotel, and then there is the ongoing costs of actually running programs,” Jenett said. “And a lot of what the future looks like depends on funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerry Abbott, director of Alameda County’s Office of Homeless Care and Coordination, says it’s likely costs will fall when the facilities become permanent and social distancing protocols are lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County estimates the cost of providing housing with supportive services to formerly homeless people on an ongoing basis to about $60 per night, per household, compared to $100 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there are higher transportation, medical and cleaning costs associated with providing housing during a public health emergency, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For hotel guests who have tested positive for COVID-19 or are awaiting test results, Abbott said, transportation is “much more expensive because we can only move one or two people at a time to allow for distancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11825792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE.jpg\" alt=\"Alameda County public health staff take part in a training on how to use personal protective equipment while working with guests at the Radisson Hotel in Oakland in late March.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1208\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE-1536x966.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County public health staff take part in a training on how to use personal protective equipment while working with guests at the Radisson Hotel in Oakland in late March. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alameda County Health Care Services Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But whether Alameda County purchases the actual hotels where guests are staying right now remains to be seen. Not all of the hotels have a suitable layout for long-term use, Abbott said, especially for an older population with mobility impairments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And others are “further along in their lifetime and need significant rehabilitation,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true of several of the hotels being leased throughout the Bay Area. At the Hotel Whitcomb, Alan Tolbert said it can take several hours for shower water to drain due to a persistent clog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unsanitary,” he said. “I’ve been asking staff for weeks to solve this problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']The difficulty in retrofitting hotels for long-term use is why officials in Alameda County are eyeing other sites for permanent housing. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_06_09_20/HEALTH%20CARE%20SERVICES/Regular%20Calendar/HCSA_GSA_296977.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier this month\u003c/a> approved a $23.3 million purchase of three buildings, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/06/11/oaklands-old-lake-merritt-lodge-will-become-a-covid-19-homeless-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two near Oakland’s Lake Merritt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the same time, Abbott said Alameda County is working with the state to rapidly place at least 400 families and individuals staying at the hotels into existing subsidized, affordable apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We’re] trying to really get people into housing now, because obviously that’s an even better situation than Project Roomkey,” she said, “but also to keep the non-congregate hotel shelters available as long as COVID continues to be so prevalent in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Going Back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anita de Asis Miralle, the founder and director of The Village, a community-based homeless services provider in Oakland, said her organization has a similar exit strategy. The Village has housed about 40 families and individuals in hotel rooms as an alternative to the county and the state-led Project Roomkey. It’s been able to pay for the rooms with nearly $100,000 in philanthropic donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group is working on finding places to move people as they exit hotel rooms, anything from apartments or rooms to rent, tiny homes or working RVs. But, she says, finding those affordable options has been a real challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is very clear to us is that having people in a stable environment for any amount of time and then releasing them back into the streets is going to cause so much trauma and mental hardship,” de Asis Miralle said. “We’re not going to allow that to happen to our folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11825657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotels_WEB-e1592937750672.jpg\" alt=\"This Comfort Inn in Oakland was one of the first hotels to become part of Project Roomkey.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1576\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Comfort Inn in Oakland was one of the first hotels to become part of Project Roomkey. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alameda County Health Care Services Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Alan Tolbert, the opportunity to have a room in a San Francisco hotel has been transformative. The 48-year-old has congestive heart failure but saw his health improve soon after moving in, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big difference,” Tolbert said. “The feeling of privacy, I can sleep better. My stress levels are down. It’s really calmed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolbert said there were times he would feel shortness of breath just walking through the city, because of his medical condition and the chaos of living in a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel better now, healthier,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the future of his hotel room still unknown, Tolbert said he can’t imagine going back to a congregate shelter now, with the threat of the coronavirus still looming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not going to put us on the street,” he said. “That defeats the purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolbert wondered, “They’re going to have to do something, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Alan Tolbert first walked into San Francisco’s Hotel Whitcomb in April, he couldn’t help but smile. For the first time in two years, he had a room to call his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just great being here,” said Tolbert, who shares his room with his pitbull terrier, Coco. “I love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolbert is one of more than 10,000 homeless seniors and people with medical conditions who were able to move into hotel rooms in California through a state-led effort to isolate and quarantine people during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced the program, dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818462/newsoms-budget-puts-new-focus-on-buying-hotels-to-house-homeless\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a>, in April as a temporary solution to reduce the potential spread of COVID-19 among people living in emergency shelters and outdoor tent communities. As of Friday, the state had filled 10,644 hotel rooms, and leased a total of 15,837.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Newsom says he wants to turn that temporary solution into a permanent one by helping counties buy hotels and motels across the state. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say it’s a rare opportunity to put a meaningful dent in the state’s housing shortage by providing housing for around 10% of the state’s more than 150,000 homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a unique chance to avoid some of the complex funding and permitting schemes that often stymie such projects, said Amanda Wehrman, deputy director of HomeBase, a public policy nonprofit focused on addressing homelessness. That’s not to say the project hasn’t been without \u003ca href=\"https://www.whittierdailynews.com/city-officials-oppose-plan-to-house-homeless-in-norwalk-motel-county-vows-to-sue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">neighborhood opposition\u003c/a> in a few cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now is a moment where we can take some meaningful steps to address the needs around homelessness,” Wehrman said. “The next thing that needs to happen is to make sure we can address our public health crisis and address homelessness through these opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area’s nine counties, officials have leased a total of 5,169 rooms, with individuals and families living in 3,339 of them, according to the state’s Department of Social Services. And so far, FEMA has agreed to provide a 75% reimbursement to counties for the rooms through June 30, unless the federal agency agrees to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/FEMA/202006-CA_NCS-all-others-TE%20Response_6012020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an extension\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s May budget proposal included $600 million in federal funds from the CARES Act to help counties purchase the hotels — but it’s unclear where the money will come from to operate the hotels and provide services for the people who live there after FEMA’s subsidies end.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Devil in the Details\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County spends roughly $2.5 million a month to house 550 people in five hotels. That includes the cost of the rooms, plus food, staffing and supportive services, said Jaime Jenett, a spokesperson for the county office of Health, Housing and Homeless Services. The leases will end in August unless extended, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the initial outlay of purchasing a hotel, and then there is the ongoing costs of actually running programs,” Jenett said. “And a lot of what the future looks like depends on funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerry Abbott, director of Alameda County’s Office of Homeless Care and Coordination, says it’s likely costs will fall when the facilities become permanent and social distancing protocols are lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County estimates the cost of providing housing with supportive services to formerly homeless people on an ongoing basis to about $60 per night, per household, compared to $100 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there are higher transportation, medical and cleaning costs associated with providing housing during a public health emergency, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For hotel guests who have tested positive for COVID-19 or are awaiting test results, Abbott said, transportation is “much more expensive because we can only move one or two people at a time to allow for distancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11825792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE.jpg\" alt=\"Alameda County public health staff take part in a training on how to use personal protective equipment while working with guests at the Radisson Hotel in Oakland in late March.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1208\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/AlCo-Hotel-PPE-1536x966.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County public health staff take part in a training on how to use personal protective equipment while working with guests at the Radisson Hotel in Oakland in late March. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alameda County Health Care Services Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But whether Alameda County purchases the actual hotels where guests are staying right now remains to be seen. Not all of the hotels have a suitable layout for long-term use, Abbott said, especially for an older population with mobility impairments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And others are “further along in their lifetime and need significant rehabilitation,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true of several of the hotels being leased throughout the Bay Area. At the Hotel Whitcomb, Alan Tolbert said it can take several hours for shower water to drain due to a persistent clog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unsanitary,” he said. “I’ve been asking staff for weeks to solve this problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tenant groups and advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after the Judicial Council of California postponed a vote this week to remove emergency protections for renters and homeowners who have fallen behind on payments during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council, which oversees policy decisions in the state’s courts, \u003ca href=\"https://jcc.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=8234474&GUID=79611543-6A40-465C-8B8B-D324F5CAE349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first voted to halt new evictions and foreclosure filings on April 6\u003c/a>, as courts were closing due to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so relieved,” said Michelle Pariset, a policy advocate with Public Advocates. “Advocates, assembly members, senators and all kinds of people have been talking to the Judicial Council … encouraging them to not change the rules right now, because we aren’t ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/judicial-council-chief-justice-consider-ending-some-emergency-measures-as-california-and-courts-expand-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the council floated the idea of ending the protections on August 3\u003c/a>, but reversed course after consulting with Gov. Gavin Newsom, lawmakers and residents, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/chief-justice-suspends-vote-on-eviction-foreclosure-emergency-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Wednesday in a statement\u003c/a>. Initially, the protections were set to expire 90 days after the governor lifted the state of emergency in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a point with the pandemic with no guidance in history, law, or precedent,” she said. “The rules we promulgated are temporary measures designed to protect the health and safety of the public while ensuring that access to justice remains available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rental housing providers were disappointed with the decision to extend the order, which they called overly broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, we were looking forward to a decision today so that rental housing providers could have some certainty about when court actions would resume,” said Tom Bannon, the California Apartment Association’s chief executive officer. “Until the courts reopen, rental property owners are without the legal tools necessary to preserve the peaceful, quiet enjoyment of their rental communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cantil-Sakauye said the council would work with the governor and Legislature on an updated time frame for when the emergency protections would sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe the executive and legislative branches will need more time to sort through various policy proposals,” Cantil-Sakauye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, introduced a bill to codify protections for renters into state law, in an effort to prevent millions of Californians who have lost income from getting kicked out of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow a wave of mass evictions,” Chiu said. “That would have catastrophic consequences for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1436\">AB 1436\u003c/a> would bar landlords from evicting tenants for up to 90 days after the state of emergency is lifted, and would prohibit landlords from using nonpayment of rent during the pandemic as grounds for an eviction in the future. It would also give tenants 15 months to pay back rent from that time period, after which landlords could claim any unpaid rent in civil court. However, tenants would still have to keep up with current rent after the state of emergency is lifted, or face possible eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Augusta with the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation was among several tenant advocates who praised the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an unprecedented crisis and we need an unprecedented solution,” Augusta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local governments — including San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland — have passed policies that freeze evictions and protect renters, but those are likely to expire in the coming months. And Newsom’s order \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5.29.20-EO-N-66-20-text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">halting eviction enforcement is set to expire at the end of July\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, tenant attorneys are seeing a high demand for legal services, as the pandemic and its financial impacts drag on. The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley has fielded some 1,400 inquiries from renters, according to Michael Trujillo, a staff attorney with the group. Problems include landlords who have locked tenants out of their homes without filing an eviction lawsuit, or demanding tenants use unemployment assistance and stimulus checks to pay rent. [aside tag=\"housing, rent\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still the issue of unpayable rent debt,” Trujillo said. “There's a clear need for something to be done about that rent debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where some renter and landlord groups agree. The California Rental Housing Association has been urging cities and counties to use some of the money from the CARES Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821457551/whats-inside-the-senate-s-2-trillion-coronavirus-aid-package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the $2 trillion stimulus bill Congress passed in March\u003c/a>, to assist tenants in paying the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statewide rent relief fund would help both renters and landlords, said Jack Schwartz, Jr., a board member for the association. Many landlords depend on the rental income to pay for insurance, property taxes, upkeep and mortgages, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until there is something at the state level that addresses the economic needs of housing providers, as well as renters, we’ll be in a world of hurt,” Schwartz said. “Everyone will be in a world of hurt.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Walter Riley, 76, hadn’t left the house in more than two months. But it was a special day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His grandson, Akil Riley, 19, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822277/bay-area-george-floyd-police-violence-protests-curfews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organized a demonstration\u003c/a> to protest police violence against black and brown people, part of the nationwide movement following the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people gathered in front of Oakland Technical High School, with crowds spilling out into the street and extending for several city blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hadn’t seen numbers like that since the Civil Rights Movement,” said the elder Riley, an Oakland attorney and activist who had organized similar demonstrations in the South a half a century ago. “I was impressed that so many young black people came out for this. It was a moving and powerful moment for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11822325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11822325\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/oaktechmarch_200601.jpeg\" alt=\"A five-block-long line of marchers moved down Broadway Monday afternoon from Oakland Technical High School toward City Hall.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/oaktechmarch_200601.jpeg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/oaktechmarch_200601-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/oaktechmarch_200601-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/oaktechmarch_200601-1020x574.jpeg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A five-block-long line of marchers moved down Broadway Monday afternoon from Oakland Technical High School toward City Hall. (Erin Baldassari/KQED) \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Riley Sr., the march was a continuation of decades fighting for racial equality. When former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against the back of Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, Riley Sr. said it was a knee on the necks of all struggling people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it also symbolizes a knee on the back of all of us in this country who are trying to build a better society,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akil Riley echoed his grandfather's sentiment, saying that police brutality is a symptom of persistent racial inequality. And the cure will not come from reforming police departments, but from reversing racist policies that have shortchanged black and brown families and neighborhoods for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In America, where many view the longstanding symbol of success and security as a single-family home with a white picket fence, black and brown families have been disproportionately \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/the-red-line-racial-disparities-in-lending/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/mapping-black-homeownership-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homeownership gap\u003c/a> between black families and white ones are at record highs, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/mapping-black-homeownership-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> from the Urban Institute. That’s in part because black and brown communities were hit especially hard during the Great Recession. But the roots go back much farther, as those same communities have faced decades of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/601131468/location-location-location\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discriminatory housing policies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mortgage-discrimination-black-and-latino-paying-millions-more-in-interest-study-shows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lending practices\u003c/a> that have favored white borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If America really cared about a solution,” Akil Riley said, “they would do things like give people adequate housing and get everybody a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41396_003_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3309-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41396_003_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3309-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41396_003_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3309-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41396_003_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3309-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41396_003_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3309-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Single-family houses in Mountain View. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s death, and the protests they have sparked, could not have come at a more urgent time. Rents and home prices were continuing to surge, and the number of people experiencing homelessness in California \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has grown to more than 151,000\u003c/a>. In Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/everyone-counts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of the city’s homeless population is black\u003c/a>, compared to 24% of its total population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The global pandemic exposed the fragility of \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/may-housing-payments/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tens of thousands of renters and homeowners\u003c/a>, many of whom lost their jobs or saw their hours cut, and struggled to pay rent or mortgages at a time when access to stable housing is a public health necessity. Latino and black families are \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/05/05/financial-and-health-impacts-of-covid-19-vary-widely-by-race-and-ethnicity/\">bearing the brunt of COVID-related layoffs\u003c/a>, according to The Pew Research Center. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"—Carroll Fife, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Oakland Chapter\"]\"It's the root cause of why our schools are underfunded. It's rampant white supremacy, racism and patriarchy. That is the root of the tree that we see all of these appendages from.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, communities of color are experiencing higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Early data shows that nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://covidtracking.com/race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black people are dying from COVID-19 at rates nearly twice as high as their share of the population.\u003c/a> The disparities are due to longstanding racial inequities, including crowded living conditions and lack of access to adequate healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this lack of access is exponentially magnified for black folks,” said Carroll Fife, director of the Oakland chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE. “And [George Floyd] is just another one of those flash moments that shows us that we are not valued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife said the same structural inequities that lead to police oppression are also the root causes of the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the root cause of why our schools are underfunded. It's rampant white supremacy, racism and patriarchy. That is the root of the tree that we see all of these appendages from,” she said. “So all of the inequity that we experience is from the same tree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1037px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing.jpg\" alt=\"Dominique Walker, a member of the group Moms 4 Housing, sits in a West Oakland home that's been vacant for two years. Walker and other homeless mothers have been occupying the home since November.\" width=\"1037\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing.jpg 1037w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing-1020x681.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1037px) 100vw, 1037px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Walker, a member of Moms 4 Housing, sits in a West Oakland home that's been vacant for two years. Walker and other homeless mothers have been occupying the home since November 2019. (Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED) \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In November, Fife helped two homeless mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795419/judge-orders-homeless-mothers-to-leave-oakland-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">take over a vacant home in West Oakland\u003c/a>, to protest investor speculation that has contributed to the Bay Area's sky high home prices. The occupation sparked national interest, because it highlighted the housing affordability crisis hitting cities across the country, and because it worked. The moms are now in negotiation with Wedgewood, the owner of the house, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purchase the home through a community land trust\u003c/a>, which will hold the house as permanently affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the demonstrations this week, there has been a growing number of direct actions to reclaim affordable housing. On May 1, two homeless women, with the help of Reclaim SF, \u003ca href=\"https://flipboard.com/article/inspired-by-oakland-s-moms-4-housing-homeless-women-occupy-vacant-sf-house-kq/a-1jNbv55kRx-ELPNZ-nFVnw%3Aa%3A2895353138-37d9b718e1%2Fkqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">occupied a house in the Castro District\u003c/a> for three hours. Their goal was to bring attention to the number of vacant homes in San Francisco, while the city’s homeless population was struggling to get indoors during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in May, Stefani Echeverría-Fenn, an advocate for people experiencing homelessness in West Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820442/woman-barricaded-inside-oakland-motel-leaves-peacefully-after-16-hour-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chained herself to a motel window\u003c/a> for more than 16 hours to demand the city place more of its homeless residents into hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11823220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators fill the intersection at 14th and Broadway in Oakland at a protest against police violence on June 3, 2020. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The willingness to take action and risk arrest demonstrates a disillusionment with existing avenues for change. It also represents a loss of faith in the mythology of the American dream — that hard work and education will lead to a comfortable life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That calculation does not hold anymore,” said Noni Session, the director and co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://ebprec.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative\u003c/a>, an organization that is working to challenge traditional ideas of capitalism. “There’s an awakening. And part of it is, that when folks are awakened, they will choose many different new realities. And what is that? That is what is being contested right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her organization is working to put homeownership into the hands of those who have historically been disenfranchised. 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Early data shows that nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://covidtracking.com/race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black people are dying from COVID-19 at rates nearly twice as high as their share of the population.\u003c/a> The disparities are due to longstanding racial inequities, including crowded living conditions and lack of access to adequate healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this lack of access is exponentially magnified for black folks,” said Carroll Fife, director of the Oakland chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE. “And [George Floyd] is just another one of those flash moments that shows us that we are not valued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife said the same structural inequities that lead to police oppression are also the root causes of the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the root cause of why our schools are underfunded. It's rampant white supremacy, racism and patriarchy. That is the root of the tree that we see all of these appendages from,” she said. “So all of the inequity that we experience is from the same tree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1037px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing.jpg\" alt=\"Dominique Walker, a member of the group Moms 4 Housing, sits in a West Oakland home that's been vacant for two years. Walker and other homeless mothers have been occupying the home since November.\" width=\"1037\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing.jpg 1037w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/moms4housing-1020x681.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1037px) 100vw, 1037px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Walker, a member of Moms 4 Housing, sits in a West Oakland home that's been vacant for two years. Walker and other homeless mothers have been occupying the home since November 2019. 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The moms are now in negotiation with Wedgewood, the owner of the house, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purchase the home through a community land trust\u003c/a>, which will hold the house as permanently affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the demonstrations this week, there has been a growing number of direct actions to reclaim affordable housing. On May 1, two homeless women, with the help of Reclaim SF, \u003ca href=\"https://flipboard.com/article/inspired-by-oakland-s-moms-4-housing-homeless-women-occupy-vacant-sf-house-kq/a-1jNbv55kRx-ELPNZ-nFVnw%3Aa%3A2895353138-37d9b718e1%2Fkqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">occupied a house in the Castro District\u003c/a> for three hours. 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