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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has asked the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fair Political Practices Commission\u003c/a> to weigh in on his belated disclosure of ownership of a property that, years later, happens to be located near the proposed Google development downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Liccardo and Jessica Garcia-Kohl were married in 2013, she already owned the condo. But, as first reported by the \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/mayor-sam-liccardo-failed-to-disclose-property-near-google-development/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Spotlight\u003c/a>, Liccardo didn’t publicly disclose his joint interest in the unit until 2018 — when talks were already well underway for a multimillion-dollar city land sale to Google about a mile from the condo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS378_Google_082411-1180x744.jpg\" label=\"Google in San Jose\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11709962/despite-fierce-opposition-san-jose-city-council-unanimously-approves-major-public-land-sale-to-google,Despite Fierce Opposition, San Jose Approves Major Public Land Sale to Google\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11709388/a-220m-google-village-in-the-bay-areas-largest-city,A $220 Million Google 'Village' in the Bay Area's Largest City\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101860444/google-eyes-san-jose-for-campus-for-20000-employees,Google Eyes San Jose for Campus for 20,000 Employees\"]“The short answer is, I screwed up,” Liccardo told KQED. “Basically, when we got married, I should have disclosed the fact that I owned this condo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said he remembered he needed to file the proper paperwork with state authorities when the couple decided to sell the property. According to the San Jose Spotlight, it was sold in March 2018 for $745,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why did they decide to sell it? Not, Liccardo said, to capitalize on the rising real estate market locally. “There’s really no connection. We were having more and more problems with the condo — plumbing and other issues — and we decided we wanted to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo added he’s still living and owning nearby. “Everybody knows that, because it’s on my website. There was never any doubt about the fact that I, along with tens of thousands of other folks who own property downtown — our homes — might benefit if there’s economic development downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s city attorney says the law doesn’t find conflict of interest unless a property is within 500 feet of a development. But critics of the sale to Google say it’s one more thing that doesn’t look good about the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people are making a lot of money off of this deal and there’s other people who are going to lose everything,” said Sandy Perry, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://ahnscc.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County\u003c/a>. “They’re just being crushed by the tech industry moving into Silicon Valley, and the rents are going through the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry believes Liccardo should have recused himself from voting on the Google project. Instead, he cast two votes in favor of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Wagers wouldn’t go that far. The pastor at \u003ca href=\"http://chamministry.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHAM Deliverance Ministry\u003c/a> works with local politicians on behalf of the homeless and believes Liccardo is well-meaning. However, he said, “It doesn’t look good. I don’t mistrust him personally, but it creates distrust.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s middle class is reaching a breaking point. Especially when it comes to the high cost of housing. So says the state’s new governor, Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing. This is the issue,” Newsom said at a press conference earlier this month, unveiling his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first budget proposal as governor\u003c/a>. “Unless we get serious about it, this state will continue to lose its middle class, and the dream will be limited to fewer and fewer people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle-class Californians could find some relief under Newsom’s $209 billion budget, which includes new spending aimed at getting cities to approve more housing. Other proposals could bring down the cost of health care and higher education for Californians who currently make too much to qualify for state help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But middle-class California families won’t find much help shouldering other expenses, like the looming cost of caring for aging family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does “middle-class” even mean in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a state where families of four earning up to $117,400 meet the federal government’s definition of “low-income” in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/us/bay-area-housing-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certain regions\u003c/a>, there may be no definitive answer on what qualifies as “middle-class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-american-middle-class-is-stable-in-size-but-losing-ground-financially-to-upper-income-families/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center analysis\u003c/a> of government wage data, families of four in California can be considered middle-class if they make anywhere between $59,702 and $179,105 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Direct subsidies in the governor’s budget tend to go toward Californians making less. Newsom noted that no state has a higher \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/09/12/california_still_has_the_nations_highest_poverty_rate_blame_housing_costs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poverty rate\u003c/a> than California. He wants to try to lower it by giving higher tax refunds to full-time workers earning up to $15 an hour through an expanded version of the state’s earned income tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also proposing a large boost in spending to subsidize the development of affordable housing for low-income residents. His budget calls for increasing the state’s low-income housing tax credit from $80 million to $500 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also includes a $500-million bump to the California Housing Finance Agency’s mixed‑income loan program, which finances developments that include units for moderate-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI?start=3865\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget doesn’t propose similar housing subsidies for most middle-class Californians. Matthew Lewis, director of communications for the pro-housing group \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California YIMBY\u003c/a>, said that approach makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of policy, you don’t provide subsidies to people who are making over $80,000 a year,” said Lewis. “But in California, that’s the middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis doesn’t think Newsom can subsidize his way toward a solution to the state’s housing crisis. Instead, he and other housing advocates like what Newsom’s budget does to push local governments to approve more housing in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears that Governor Newsom is himself a YIMBY,” said Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Newsom’s budget, cities that meet housing goals set by the state would be rewarded with money from a $500 million state fund, and they could use that money for whatever they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719937/controversial-bay-area-housing-plan-heads-to-state-legislature\">Controversial Bay Area Housing Plan Heads to State Legislature\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719937/controversial-bay-area-housing-plan-heads-to-state-legislature\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1046169802-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In other words, he’s starting to build funds that would actually financially encourage cities to build more housing,” said \u003ca href=\"https://beaconecon.com/people/bio/christopher_thornberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics\u003c/a>. He said that should help address California’s housing supply problems. “That’s really helpful for California’s middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also discussed punishing cities that fail to meet their housing goals by withholding transit funding. It’s an idea that has not gone over well with local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacities.org/Top/News/Press-Releases/2019/League-of-California-Cities-Issues-Statement-on-Go\">a statement\u003c/a> on the governor’s budget, League of California Cities executive director Carolyn Coleman said her organization was concerned about proposals “that would raid local transportation funds that voters have repeatedly dedicated to local communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The words “middle-class” only appear once in Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">280-page budget proposal\u003c/a>. They show up under his plan to expand health care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Californian encouraged by that move is Heather Altman. She works as an environmental consultant out of her home in Long Beach. She gets to be her own boss, and she makes decent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I do consider myself middle class,” Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would not have started her business back in 2014 without Obamacare. It meant she could finally afford her own health insurance. She no longer needed to get it through an employer. She has asthma, a pre-existing condition that made individual coverage unaffordable in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2014, “My premium was $356 for a platinum plan,” Altman said. “I thought that was super affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\">Newsom’s First Act as Governor? Expanding Health Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/NewsomInaugWaving-1020x691.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Premiums for the same plan have more than doubled, to $761 per month. Altman has switched to a plan with a lower premium. But add in the routine costs of treating her asthma, and she’s spending more than $800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very difficult to budget,” Altman said. “And it certainly isn’t sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, individuals who earn up to $48,560 a year are eligible for \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/covered-california/income-limits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subsidized premiums\u003c/a> through Covered California. Altman makes too much to qualify. But Newsom’s budget calls for raising annual income limits for individuals to $72,840 and for families of four to $150,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had that subsidy bracket been in place when I started my business, there would have been years that I would have qualified,” Altman said. “I’m hopeful that some of these changes may make a meaningful difference in my financial bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11721624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-1200x927.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altman has shared her story with the advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://health-access.org/about-us/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Access California\u003c/a>. Executive director Anthony Wright said Newsom’s budget is promising for Californians like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Current law has cliffs where the assistance runs out,” Wright said. “The extra help will allow some families to get coverage that otherwise couldn’t afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom plans to pay for the expanded subsidies by creating a state version of the Affordable Care Act’s federal mandate to either buy health insurance or pay a tax penalty (which has gone to $0 under the Trump administration).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916?utm_source=laowww&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report\u003c/a> on the governor’s budget, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office notes that this approach could create a funding conflict. If the state tax penalty works, it should drive more people to buy insurance. But then, “less funding would be available for premium subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>College\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Higher education is another big drain on middle-class budgets. Newsom’s budget calls for a tuition freeze at state universities, earmarking $300 million for the California State University system and $240 million for the University of California system each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of Southern California professor of sociology \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/pastor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuel Pastor\u003c/a> said middle-class families could also get a break under Newsom’s $40 million plan to make a second year of community college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can make the first and second year free, you’re lowering the cost for a lot of middle class parents of a four-year education,” Pastor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Cost of Caring for Family Members, Young and Old\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Universal preschool and six months of paid family leave for parents are still on Newsom’s agenda. But this budget won’t pay for those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University assistant professor of health research and policy \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~mrossin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maya Rossin-Slater\u003c/a> said California’s existing paid family leave law could be strengthened. Right now, many parents don’t use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her research \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~mrossin/AKMdraft_Oct2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows California workers\u003c/a> at smaller, lower-paying companies are less likely to take paid family leave than higher-paid workers. That could be, in part, because workers fear that under existing law, their jobs won’t be protected while they’re out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708405/pricey-real-estate-prompts-scammers-to-target-senior-homeowners\">Pricey Real Estate Prompts Scammers to Target Senior Homeowners\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708405/pricey-real-estate-prompts-scammers-to-target-senior-homeowners\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Homes-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Job protection, I think, is crucial,” Rossin-Slater said, “Especially for middle-class families that might worry about not having a job to return to after the leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer paid family leave could help alleviate some of the high cost of child care, which often costs middle-class parents more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/13/59477/childcare-costs-more-than-college-tuition-in-calif/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">college tuition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s population is aging. With more and more baby boomers retiring, the cost of caring for elderly parents will also start to stack up for more middle class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget includes a 15.2 percent increase in general fund spending for in-home supportive services. But USC gerontology professor \u003ca href=\"http://gero.usc.edu/faculty/donna-benton-ph-d/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donna Benton\u003c/a> said most Californians don’t qualify for the low-income program. So they’re stuck spending thousands of dollars a year on caregiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out-of-pocket costs eat up 20 percent of caregivers’ income, on average. Some caregivers have to quit their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family members in general sacrifice a lot,” said Benton. “And then when they go to look for services for themselves, usually they’re not going to qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benton was part of a state task force that issued a \u003ca href=\"http://tffc.usc.edu/2018/07/02/final-report-from-the-california-task-force-on-family-caregiving-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number of recommendations\u003c/a> to help ease the cost. Among their ideas was a tax credit for caregiving expenses, as well as more funding for resource centers throughout the state that serve caregivers regardless of income level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Benton looked through Newsom’s budget, she said, “I didn’t see anything that, I would say, touched on any of the recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long Beach environmental consultant Heather Altman lives near her parents, who are now in their 70s. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s middle class is reaching a breaking point. Especially when it comes to the high cost of housing. So says the state’s new governor, Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing. This is the issue,” Newsom said at a press conference earlier this month, unveiling his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first budget proposal as governor\u003c/a>. “Unless we get serious about it, this state will continue to lose its middle class, and the dream will be limited to fewer and fewer people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle-class Californians could find some relief under Newsom’s $209 billion budget, which includes new spending aimed at getting cities to approve more housing. Other proposals could bring down the cost of health care and higher education for Californians who currently make too much to qualify for state help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But middle-class California families won’t find much help shouldering other expenses, like the looming cost of caring for aging family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does “middle-class” even mean in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a state where families of four earning up to $117,400 meet the federal government’s definition of “low-income” in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/us/bay-area-housing-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certain regions\u003c/a>, there may be no definitive answer on what qualifies as “middle-class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-american-middle-class-is-stable-in-size-but-losing-ground-financially-to-upper-income-families/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center analysis\u003c/a> of government wage data, families of four in California can be considered middle-class if they make anywhere between $59,702 and $179,105 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Direct subsidies in the governor’s budget tend to go toward Californians making less. Newsom noted that no state has a higher \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/09/12/california_still_has_the_nations_highest_poverty_rate_blame_housing_costs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poverty rate\u003c/a> than California. He wants to try to lower it by giving higher tax refunds to full-time workers earning up to $15 an hour through an expanded version of the state’s earned income tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also proposing a large boost in spending to subsidize the development of affordable housing for low-income residents. His budget calls for increasing the state’s low-income housing tax credit from $80 million to $500 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also includes a $500-million bump to the California Housing Finance Agency’s mixed‑income loan program, which finances developments that include units for moderate-income residents.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI?start=3865'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI?start=3865'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget doesn’t propose similar housing subsidies for most middle-class Californians. Matthew Lewis, director of communications for the pro-housing group \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California YIMBY\u003c/a>, said that approach makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of policy, you don’t provide subsidies to people who are making over $80,000 a year,” said Lewis. “But in California, that’s the middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis doesn’t think Newsom can subsidize his way toward a solution to the state’s housing crisis. Instead, he and other housing advocates like what Newsom’s budget does to push local governments to approve more housing in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears that Governor Newsom is himself a YIMBY,” said Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Newsom’s budget, cities that meet housing goals set by the state would be rewarded with money from a $500 million state fund, and they could use that money for whatever they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719937/controversial-bay-area-housing-plan-heads-to-state-legislature\">Controversial Bay Area Housing Plan Heads to State Legislature\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719937/controversial-bay-area-housing-plan-heads-to-state-legislature\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1046169802-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In other words, he’s starting to build funds that would actually financially encourage cities to build more housing,” said \u003ca href=\"https://beaconecon.com/people/bio/christopher_thornberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics\u003c/a>. He said that should help address California’s housing supply problems. “That’s really helpful for California’s middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also discussed punishing cities that fail to meet their housing goals by withholding transit funding. It’s an idea that has not gone over well with local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacities.org/Top/News/Press-Releases/2019/League-of-California-Cities-Issues-Statement-on-Go\">a statement\u003c/a> on the governor’s budget, League of California Cities executive director Carolyn Coleman said her organization was concerned about proposals “that would raid local transportation funds that voters have repeatedly dedicated to local communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The words “middle-class” only appear once in Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">280-page budget proposal\u003c/a>. They show up under his plan to expand health care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Californian encouraged by that move is Heather Altman. She works as an environmental consultant out of her home in Long Beach. She gets to be her own boss, and she makes decent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I do consider myself middle class,” Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would not have started her business back in 2014 without Obamacare. It meant she could finally afford her own health insurance. She no longer needed to get it through an employer. She has asthma, a pre-existing condition that made individual coverage unaffordable in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2014, “My premium was $356 for a platinum plan,” Altman said. “I thought that was super affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\">Newsom’s First Act as Governor? Expanding Health Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/NewsomInaugWaving-1020x691.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Premiums for the same plan have more than doubled, to $761 per month. Altman has switched to a plan with a lower premium. But add in the routine costs of treating her asthma, and she’s spending more than $800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very difficult to budget,” Altman said. “And it certainly isn’t sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, individuals who earn up to $48,560 a year are eligible for \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/covered-california/income-limits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subsidized premiums\u003c/a> through Covered California. Altman makes too much to qualify. But Newsom’s budget calls for raising annual income limits for individuals to $72,840 and for families of four to $150,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had that subsidy bracket been in place when I started my business, there would have been years that I would have qualified,” Altman said. “I’m hopeful that some of these changes may make a meaningful difference in my financial bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11721624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-1200x927.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altman has shared her story with the advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://health-access.org/about-us/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Access California\u003c/a>. Executive director Anthony Wright said Newsom’s budget is promising for Californians like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Current law has cliffs where the assistance runs out,” Wright said. “The extra help will allow some families to get coverage that otherwise couldn’t afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom plans to pay for the expanded subsidies by creating a state version of the Affordable Care Act’s federal mandate to either buy health insurance or pay a tax penalty (which has gone to $0 under the Trump administration).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916?utm_source=laowww&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report\u003c/a> on the governor’s budget, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office notes that this approach could create a funding conflict. If the state tax penalty works, it should drive more people to buy insurance. But then, “less funding would be available for premium subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>College\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Higher education is another big drain on middle-class budgets. Newsom’s budget calls for a tuition freeze at state universities, earmarking $300 million for the California State University system and $240 million for the University of California system each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of Southern California professor of sociology \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/pastor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuel Pastor\u003c/a> said middle-class families could also get a break under Newsom’s $40 million plan to make a second year of community college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can make the first and second year free, you’re lowering the cost for a lot of middle class parents of a four-year education,” Pastor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Cost of Caring for Family Members, Young and Old\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Universal preschool and six months of paid family leave for parents are still on Newsom’s agenda. But this budget won’t pay for those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University assistant professor of health research and policy \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~mrossin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maya Rossin-Slater\u003c/a> said California’s existing paid family leave law could be strengthened. Right now, many parents don’t use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her research \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~mrossin/AKMdraft_Oct2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows California workers\u003c/a> at smaller, lower-paying companies are less likely to take paid family leave than higher-paid workers. That could be, in part, because workers fear that under existing law, their jobs won’t be protected while they’re out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708405/pricey-real-estate-prompts-scammers-to-target-senior-homeowners\">Pricey Real Estate Prompts Scammers to Target Senior Homeowners\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708405/pricey-real-estate-prompts-scammers-to-target-senior-homeowners\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Homes-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Job protection, I think, is crucial,” Rossin-Slater said, “Especially for middle-class families that might worry about not having a job to return to after the leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer paid family leave could help alleviate some of the high cost of child care, which often costs middle-class parents more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/13/59477/childcare-costs-more-than-college-tuition-in-calif/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">college tuition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s population is aging. With more and more baby boomers retiring, the cost of caring for elderly parents will also start to stack up for more middle class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget includes a 15.2 percent increase in general fund spending for in-home supportive services. But USC gerontology professor \u003ca href=\"http://gero.usc.edu/faculty/donna-benton-ph-d/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donna Benton\u003c/a> said most Californians don’t qualify for the low-income program. So they’re stuck spending thousands of dollars a year on caregiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out-of-pocket costs eat up 20 percent of caregivers’ income, on average. Some caregivers have to quit their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family members in general sacrifice a lot,” said Benton. “And then when they go to look for services for themselves, usually they’re not going to qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benton was part of a state task force that issued a \u003ca href=\"http://tffc.usc.edu/2018/07/02/final-report-from-the-california-task-force-on-family-caregiving-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number of recommendations\u003c/a> to help ease the cost. Among their ideas was a tax credit for caregiving expenses, as well as more funding for resource centers throughout the state that serve caregivers regardless of income level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Benton looked through Newsom’s budget, she said, “I didn’t see anything that, I would say, touched on any of the recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long Beach environmental consultant Heather Altman lives near her parents, who are now in their 70s. She said they’re in a good financial position right now. But she wonders if they’ll end up needing her help in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should it come to that time, then yeah, that responsibility falls to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same will be true for millions of middle-class Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom used a new law for the first time Friday to try to force a wealthy Southern California coastal city to end its years of opposition to meeting low-income housing goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration sued the Orange County city of Huntington Beach under the law that took effect Jan. 1 after passing in a 2017 package of measures intended to alleviate the state’s severe housing shortage and homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656882/in-reversal-orange-county-supervisors-vote-for-more-homeless-shelters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Reversal, Orange County Supervisors Vote for More Homeless Shelters\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656882/in-reversal-orange-county-supervisors-vote-for-more-homeless-shelters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/HomelessRiverbedBikes-1180x755.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, supervisors voted to set up as many as three new temporary shelters in Irvine, Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California has more homeless people than any other state and the nation’s highest poverty rate when soaring housing and rental costs are taken into account. Newsom, who took office this month, has proposed building 3.5 million housing units in the state with nearly 40 million residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit says leaders in Huntington Beach, home to about 200,000 people, have repeatedly refused to amend the city’s housing plan to add state-required low-income housing and are fighting a separate lawsuit by housing advocates. The city says it’s complying with state housing and zoning laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the second major issue facing California that the self-styled “Surf City USA” is battling the state over. Huntington Beach also is challenging the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11695486/judge-huntington-beach-not-bound-by-state-sanctuary-law\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sanctuary law\u003c/a> that limits cooperation with federal immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is in a traditionally Republican area that has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11379015/despite-pro-trump-rally-is-orange-county-becoming-less-conservative\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shifting more Democratic\u003c/a> like the rest of California. State officials say housing negotiations began before Huntington Beach challenged the immigration law and the lawsuit isn’t retaliatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many cities are taking herculean efforts to meet this crisis head on,” the Democratic governor said in a statement. “But some cities are refusing to do their part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Michael Gates said it’s following the law, pointing to a victory in a related lawsuit. An appeals court ruled in 2017 that cities like Huntington Beach that have their own charters can approve plans that don’t meet the state’s housing requirements and can eliminate sites zoned for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law last year closing what housing advocates described as a legal loophole for charter cities. Huntington Beach’s charter led an Orange County judge to rule that it isn’t bound by the state’s sanctuary law because it has greater autonomy to enforce local laws. The state has appealed that ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gates said the city has approved more than 2,500 new housing units since 2014, including about 100 low-income units, leaving the city about 400 units short of state goals for low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican state Sen. John Moorlach, who represents Huntington Beach, criticized Newsom’s “heavy-handed litigation tactics that will divert the city’s time, energy and resources to respond to obstructive and otherwise frivolous lawsuits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers, including Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins of San Diego, praised Newsom for opening what she called “a new chapter for housing in California” against cities that “have flouted their legal and ethical obligations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach was deemed out of compliance in 2015, and state officials most recently notified the city in November that it was still breaking state law. California sued in Orange County Superior Court under the new law strengthening its ability to require local governments to meet housing goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Housing and Community Development sets the number of new housing units that a region is projected to need to provide homes for all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department says 90 percent of housing plans statewide are in compliance, while Huntington Beach is one of 51 cities and counties that are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said high housing costs and rents “are eroding quality of life for families across this state.” He said the problem is “an existential threat to our state’s future and demands an urgent and comprehensive response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has promised several moves to increase affordable housing, including giving cities more money for housing shelters but taking away transportation money if they fail to meet their goals. The Democratic governor’s budget proposal seeks $1.75 billion to combat homelessness by encouraging new affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Friday night, roommates Jason Jones and Tamiko Panzella were hanging out in the Oakland apartment they shared, laughing about an epic gym workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get there and we have to take our shoes and socks off,” Jones said, laughing. “I’m like, oh no, she got me into yoga. She tricked me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made the yoga session jarring was that it was Jones’ first full day of freedom after more than a decade behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah they tell me to get into Downward Dog,” Jones said, as Panzella chuckled. “That’s the one position you don’t want to be in, in prison. The second day out! I look over there and she’s dying laughing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, it’s all normal, life-with-roommates kind of stuff, but this is new for Jones, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently was released on parole, serving nearly 14 years in a series of California prisons for felony assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Panzella are part of a first-of-its-kind program that’s providing vitally needed housing for inmates released from prison. The program also aims to break down misconceptions and fear surrounding the formerly incarcerated in a nation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imprisons more people than any other\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project in California’s Alameda County is matching prisoners being released after long sentences with homeowners and renters, who want to take part in the experiment. The nonprofit behind the program pays the former inmates’ rent for six months and actively supports the partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.’\u003ccite>Jason Jones, former inmate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Call it the social justice arm of the sharing economy. “The sharing economy with a conscience, with values,” said Alex Busansky, a former prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer. He now runs \u003ca href=\"https://impactjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact Justice\u003c/a>, the group behind the novel housing initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project provides cash subsidies to homeowners in exchange for renting a room to a former inmate, Busansky said. It is similar to how Airbnb allows people to monetize their extra living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people getting out of prison, the penalty hasn’t ended and re-entry is its own obstacle course that everybody has to navigate,” Busansky said. “Housing is essential to being able to get through that obstacle course: If you don’t have a place to sleep, to shower, to keep your things, it’s very difficult to think about doing anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Finding stable, affordable housing — especially in the San Francisco Bay Area — is often one of the biggest barriers to ex-inmates, along with finding a decent job and getting their life back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, most inmates getting out after serving a lengthy sentence are offered some kind of transitional housing or a slot in a halfway house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That usually involves communal living in cramped quarters with other ex-convicts. Often, there are strict curfews, limits on visitors and other prison-like rules and restrictions. Some former inmates chafe at those limits, because it can limit their ability to reconnect with family or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this program has none of that. Participants come and go as they please. Issues that arise are worked out like any normal roommate situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Project Homecoming says you’re a person and we’re going to treat you like a person and give you the footholds and the scaffolding to be able to come back home and to be a full member of society just like anybody else,” Busansky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ex-inmates and home hosts are both carefully screened, through interviews and home visits, to make sure it’s a good match. Hosts agree to rent their space for at least six months. There is training for the hosts before anyone gets a key to the home and follow-up support for all of them on the often unique and formidable challenges facing the formerly imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take a hard look at people’s pasts,” said the program’s coordinator, Terah Lawyer, who, as a formerly incarcerated woman, knows about the challenges of transitioning back from prison. “We have to look at their past as an indicator of what they’ve become over time. Most of our hosts are familiar with redemption and change and want to be a part of helping be the stepping stone for someone’s second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the experiment is small. It launched just a few months ago with six male ex-convicts paired with local hosts — couples and families — around the Bay Area. Impact Justice hopes to expand it to 25 participants by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella said she was initially apprehensive. But she had volunteered at a local prison and knew the challenges facing the formerly incarcerated. The more she learned, the more she and her boyfriend became excited to take part in the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s not just working with the person in front of you,” Panzella said. “If it’s successful, this is something that could be replicated” in other American cities for smooth re-entry for former prisoners. In the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 600,000 people\u003c/a> are released from prison every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The larger goal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A larger and perhaps more elusive goal is to demystify and to humanize the often abstract debates around criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people, the story of prison in America is not a story they know,” said Busansky. “They don’t know people who are in prison or people who are getting out of prison.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busansky said the biggest obstacle to growing the program was finding enough hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s fear,” said Busansky. “There’s apprehension, a sense of the unknown. It’s hard to tell people, ‘This is a great idea and you should try it; bring a stranger getting out of prison into your home.’ Not a conversation that most people are used to having.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one Busansky believes America has to have — especially now — as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/21/trump-prison-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing bipartisan\u003c/a> national movement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/18/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive district attorneys\u003c/a>, reform groups and businesses work to unwind decades of drug war-fueled mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In This San Quentin Class, Inmates Write Their Way Into a Better Future\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/20110917_1100E-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One recent report estimated former inmates were almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to become homeless than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to increase our host numbers, but we can’t just say ‘Yes’ to anyone and everyone,” Lawyer said. “We’re not going to house people in unsafe neighborhoods that are not nurturing” or would put ex-inmates at greater risk for re-offending or falling back into old habits, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Part of a family’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jones grew up in Tulare, a mostly farming and dairy city in California’s Central Valley. His path to prison is a familiar one: Absent parents and little oversight led to a cycle of police trouble and being in and out of foster care and group homes starting around age 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the households I’ve been in consisted of some kind of abuse either mentally, verbally, physically — whatever it was, or some type of drug use in the household,” he said. He called growing up “a horrible experience” and that he started to not trust people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he felt like one of the lucky ones. Most inmates released from the California prison system got just $200 and were sent off to figure things out on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones had much more than that: He learned how to code with the backing of \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Mile\u003c/a>, a computer tech and business training program for inmates. He had a software job waiting for him with the pop culture movie, games and TV website \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fandom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn’t have a home to go back to and initially had reservations about the Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, man, this feel like adult foster care, like I’m getting adopted again,” he said. “Going into a stranger’s household, getting judged all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short months he and hosts Panzella and her boyfriend, Joe Klein, have become genuine friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel kind of weird even saying we’re in a ‘program’ because it doesn’t really feel like that,” Panzella said. “I think we just have a really strong friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones agreed. He called it one of the only stable homes he has ever known. He recently spent the holiday season with Panzella’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the key difference with this program and others is that former inmates get to see and experience the day-to-day life of people on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in the community — in someone’s home — able to watch how they buy groceries, clean their home, live a normal life, get up go to work and come home enjoy a TV show,” said Lawyer. “What that really looks like in real time is essential as an example to our participants, who have been completely out of society for 10-plus years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella and Klein have been with Jones through a dizzying number of firsts since he left prison, including going to the beach, to a bowling alley, using a smartphone, getting on social media and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to order,” said Jones on his experience of seeing some restaurant menus that made his head spin. “I’m just like I don’t know what this food is like. I grew up eating burritos and pizza pockets at a liquor store, bologna sandwiches and Top Ramen.” Jones has enjoyed eating crab dumplings and Korean BBQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has reunited with a teenage son and a daughter. But he’s still trying to reconnect and get custody of another daughter in his hometown of Tulare. She is now in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jones, coming back has been complicated and difficult, but his new roommates — with support from Impact Justice — have helped him navigate it all. “It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the program is something he didn’t expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, if it wasn’t for this situation and the sacrifices and things that Joe and Tamiko were able to do, I don’t know exactly how far along I would be,” said Jones. “I’m only able to start work and do all this stuff because of that assistance that they gave me immediately when I got out.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It is similar to how Airbnb allows people to monetize their extra living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people getting out of prison, the penalty hasn’t ended and re-entry is its own obstacle course that everybody has to navigate,” Busansky said. “Housing is essential to being able to get through that obstacle course: If you don’t have a place to sleep, to shower, to keep your things, it’s very difficult to think about doing anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Finding stable, affordable housing — especially in the San Francisco Bay Area — is often one of the biggest barriers to ex-inmates, along with finding a decent job and getting their life back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, most inmates getting out after serving a lengthy sentence are offered some kind of transitional housing or a slot in a halfway house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That usually involves communal living in cramped quarters with other ex-convicts. Often, there are strict curfews, limits on visitors and other prison-like rules and restrictions. Some former inmates chafe at those limits, because it can limit their ability to reconnect with family or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this program has none of that. Participants come and go as they please. Issues that arise are worked out like any normal roommate situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Project Homecoming says you’re a person and we’re going to treat you like a person and give you the footholds and the scaffolding to be able to come back home and to be a full member of society just like anybody else,” Busansky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ex-inmates and home hosts are both carefully screened, through interviews and home visits, to make sure it’s a good match. Hosts agree to rent their space for at least six months. There is training for the hosts before anyone gets a key to the home and follow-up support for all of them on the often unique and formidable challenges facing the formerly imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take a hard look at people’s pasts,” said the program’s coordinator, Terah Lawyer, who, as a formerly incarcerated woman, knows about the challenges of transitioning back from prison. “We have to look at their past as an indicator of what they’ve become over time. Most of our hosts are familiar with redemption and change and want to be a part of helping be the stepping stone for someone’s second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the experiment is small. It launched just a few months ago with six male ex-convicts paired with local hosts — couples and families — around the Bay Area. Impact Justice hopes to expand it to 25 participants by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella said she was initially apprehensive. But she had volunteered at a local prison and knew the challenges facing the formerly incarcerated. The more she learned, the more she and her boyfriend became excited to take part in the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s not just working with the person in front of you,” Panzella said. “If it’s successful, this is something that could be replicated” in other American cities for smooth re-entry for former prisoners. In the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 600,000 people\u003c/a> are released from prison every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The larger goal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A larger and perhaps more elusive goal is to demystify and to humanize the often abstract debates around criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people, the story of prison in America is not a story they know,” said Busansky. “They don’t know people who are in prison or people who are getting out of prison.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busansky said the biggest obstacle to growing the program was finding enough hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s fear,” said Busansky. “There’s apprehension, a sense of the unknown. It’s hard to tell people, ‘This is a great idea and you should try it; bring a stranger getting out of prison into your home.’ Not a conversation that most people are used to having.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one Busansky believes America has to have — especially now — as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/21/trump-prison-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing bipartisan\u003c/a> national movement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/18/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive district attorneys\u003c/a>, reform groups and businesses work to unwind decades of drug war-fueled mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In This San Quentin Class, Inmates Write Their Way Into a Better Future\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/20110917_1100E-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One recent report estimated former inmates were almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to become homeless than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to increase our host numbers, but we can’t just say ‘Yes’ to anyone and everyone,” Lawyer said. “We’re not going to house people in unsafe neighborhoods that are not nurturing” or would put ex-inmates at greater risk for re-offending or falling back into old habits, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Part of a family’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jones grew up in Tulare, a mostly farming and dairy city in California’s Central Valley. His path to prison is a familiar one: Absent parents and little oversight led to a cycle of police trouble and being in and out of foster care and group homes starting around age 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the households I’ve been in consisted of some kind of abuse either mentally, verbally, physically — whatever it was, or some type of drug use in the household,” he said. He called growing up “a horrible experience” and that he started to not trust people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he felt like one of the lucky ones. Most inmates released from the California prison system got just $200 and were sent off to figure things out on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones had much more than that: He learned how to code with the backing of \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Mile\u003c/a>, a computer tech and business training program for inmates. He had a software job waiting for him with the pop culture movie, games and TV website \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fandom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn’t have a home to go back to and initially had reservations about the Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, man, this feel like adult foster care, like I’m getting adopted again,” he said. “Going into a stranger’s household, getting judged all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short months he and hosts Panzella and her boyfriend, Joe Klein, have become genuine friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel kind of weird even saying we’re in a ‘program’ because it doesn’t really feel like that,” Panzella said. “I think we just have a really strong friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones agreed. He called it one of the only stable homes he has ever known. 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"content": "\u003cp>Crooning in the shower is not Chad Regeczi’s thing. That’s why when he learned last year that his monthly rent would go up $300 so the new owners of his La Mesa apartment could upgrade his bathroom with a sound system, he was bemused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three hundred bucks!” he said. “I mean an iPod costs less than that. Everybody has got a phone now. Who needs a Bluetooth speaker in a bathroom apartment? It’s just weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When there’s a fire, you pass an anti-rent gouging ordinance. The state has a fire. It’s called the housing crisis.'\u003ccite>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Regeczi, a VA employee, said the 30 percent rent increase didn’t match the condition of his apartment. But he felt powerless to challenge his landlords on the hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who’s gonna tell them no?\" he asked. \"There are no rules to how much your rent can go up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may change. Talk is underway about putting a law on the books that would bar California landlords from raising rent beyond a certain percentage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/11/16/watch-california-mayors-forum-on-homelessness-and-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in November\u003c/a> the rule would mimic limits on what businesses can charge during natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there’s a fire, you pass an anti-rent gouging ordinance,” Schaaf said. “The state has a fire. It’s called the housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents are surging in some California cities, where there is no rent control, by double, even triple digits, according to mayors and tenants rights advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712821/map-san-francisco-loses-existing-affordable-housing-almost-as-fast-as-it-builds-it\">San Francisco Loses Old Affordable Housing Units Almost as Fast as It Builds New Ones\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712821/map-san-francisco-loses-existing-affordable-housing-almost-as-fast-as-it-builds-it\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>More than half of the state’s renters pay more than a third of their income on housing, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/proposition-10-should-california-allow-cities-to-apply-rent-control-policies-to-more-rental-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Budget & Policy Center\u003c/a>. And a third of renters spend more than half of their paycheck on a place to live. The real estate firm Zillow \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/homelessness-rent-affordability-22247/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> last month that communities where people pay more than a third of their salary on rent see a faster rise in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,500 a month, in Los Angeles it’s $2,420 and $1,950 in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2019/01/zumper-national-rent-report-january-2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the real estate search site Zumper\u003c/a>. And Attom Data Solutions found the average rent on a three-bedroom apartment in California has risen 20 percent since 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's affordable housing crisis has dampened the California Dream that once included almost guaranteed homeownership. Increasingly, even renting an apartment is becoming out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has said politicians should not interpret voter rejection of the rent control initiative Proposition 10 in November to mean they’re off the hook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not going to be good enough to say, 'Well the voters spoke,' ” Garcetti said. “We have a problem we have to confront.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti wants the California Legislature to approve an anti-price gouging rent cap. Support of such a cap may be building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic State Sen. 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But this will make the crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants advocates, like Rafael Bautista of San Diego’s Tenants United, worry for another reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the state needs rent control that restricts annual increases to 2 percent. He believes that the proposed anti-gouging cap is a ruse for mayors to punt the housing affordability issue to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically a watered-down version so that we don’t pursue rent control because they’ll point to that and say, `Well, you know we have these measures in place. Why do you still need rent control?’ ” Bautista said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dream\">40 Years on, How Does Proposition 13 Impact the California Dream?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dreame\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS9650_9303339141_3f3db8e6d2_o-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But La Mesa resident Chad Regeczi called the cap a good start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is America,” Regeczi said. “People want to make money. But at the same time they can’t be crushing people. It’s about what’s acceptable, what’s doable, what’s fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regeczi moved out of his apartment following the $300 rent increase. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Crooning in the shower is not Chad Regeczi’s thing. That’s why when he learned last year that his monthly rent would go up $300 so the new owners of his La Mesa apartment could upgrade his bathroom with a sound system, he was bemused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three hundred bucks!” he said. “I mean an iPod costs less than that. Everybody has got a phone now. Who needs a Bluetooth speaker in a bathroom apartment? It’s just weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When there’s a fire, you pass an anti-rent gouging ordinance. The state has a fire. It’s called the housing crisis.'\u003ccite>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Regeczi, a VA employee, said the 30 percent rent increase didn’t match the condition of his apartment. But he felt powerless to challenge his landlords on the hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who’s gonna tell them no?\" he asked. \"There are no rules to how much your rent can go up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may change. Talk is underway about putting a law on the books that would bar California landlords from raising rent beyond a certain percentage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/11/16/watch-california-mayors-forum-on-homelessness-and-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in November\u003c/a> the rule would mimic limits on what businesses can charge during natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there’s a fire, you pass an anti-rent gouging ordinance,” Schaaf said. “The state has a fire. It’s called the housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents are surging in some California cities, where there is no rent control, by double, even triple digits, according to mayors and tenants rights advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712821/map-san-francisco-loses-existing-affordable-housing-almost-as-fast-as-it-builds-it\">San Francisco Loses Old Affordable Housing Units Almost as Fast as It Builds New Ones\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712821/map-san-francisco-loses-existing-affordable-housing-almost-as-fast-as-it-builds-it\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-973691890-e1547589744990.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>More than half of the state’s renters pay more than a third of their income on housing, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/proposition-10-should-california-allow-cities-to-apply-rent-control-policies-to-more-rental-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Budget & Policy Center\u003c/a>. And a third of renters spend more than half of their paycheck on a place to live. The real estate firm Zillow \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/homelessness-rent-affordability-22247/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> last month that communities where people pay more than a third of their salary on rent see a faster rise in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,500 a month, in Los Angeles it’s $2,420 and $1,950 in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2019/01/zumper-national-rent-report-january-2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the real estate search site Zumper\u003c/a>. And Attom Data Solutions found the average rent on a three-bedroom apartment in California has risen 20 percent since 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's affordable housing crisis has dampened the California Dream that once included almost guaranteed homeownership. Increasingly, even renting an apartment is becoming out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has said politicians should not interpret voter rejection of the rent control initiative Proposition 10 in November to mean they’re off the hook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not going to be good enough to say, 'Well the voters spoke,' ” Garcetti said. “We have a problem we have to confront.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti wants the California Legislature to approve an anti-price gouging rent cap. Support of such a cap may be building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Even as Gov. Jerry Brown took his most decisive action to address California's crisis of housing affordability, he did so with a declaration of weariness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2017, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11620078/governor-signs-15-good-bills-aimed-at-californias-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a 15-bill package\u003c/a> that aimed to boost housing construction. At the signing ceremony in San Francisco, Democratic lawmakers said the package was just a \"down payment\" on easing the affordability crunch. Brown hoped otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown Out, Newsom In\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/12/20/JerryBrownMain.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the Jerry Brown era winds down and California prepares for the governorship of Gavin Newsom, KQED is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking back\u003c/a> at Gov. Brown’s legacy and ahead to the challenges and opportunities facing Gov.-elect Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Not so many bills next year, guys,\" the governor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike climate change and criminal justice, Brown never touted housing policy as a top priority for his administration. Even today, he remains skeptical that wholesale changes to California's local housing laws are politically feasible, and whether government action can make a difference in the price of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates say Brown's actions in helping craft and eventually signing the historic 2017 bills salvaged a legacy on housing policy that had previously been defined by his killing a vital source of affordable housing funding for California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are really two legacies,\" said Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget & Policy Center. \"The first of those was the dissolution of redevelopment agencies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown proposed to end \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/126834/brentwood-like-many-towns-in-california-caught-up-in-legal-fight-over-redevelopment-funds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redevelopment districts\u003c/a> shortly after taking office in 2011. The local agencies captured property tax dollars that would have otherwise gone to school districts and counties, and reinvested them in local development — including $1 billion a year for housing.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nBut with the state facing a $25 billion budget deficit, and stories emerging about \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/02/28/redevelopment-agencies-criticized-for-using-funds-to-pay-for-city-services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wasteful\u003c/a> redevelopment spending, the agencies were a tempting political target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people wanted to see it go, and it did free up almost $2 billion a year for schools,\" said Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW9pmO6FD-I&t=3s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in an interview with KQED\u003c/a>. \"And if people want to bring it back they're going to take billions from the schools, and I would assume those people who care about the California public schools will fight that very hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee chair David Chiu (D-San Francisco) is leading the effort to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11709680/state-lawmakers-eye-redevelopment-2-0-to-build-affordable-housing\"> bring back redevelopment\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called Brown's decision to end redevelopment \"understandable,\" but hoped a replacement for the lost housing funds would have emerged after the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/29/local/la-me-redevelopment-20111230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state Supreme Court\u003c/a> put the final nail in the coffin of redevelopment in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there is a pretty strong consensus that there was a baby that was thrown out with that bathwater,\" Chiu said. \"There was a lot that needed to be rehauled, but certainly some regrets today about what we eliminated, particularly given the housing crisis we're in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown stands with state lawmakers in San Francisco after signing a package of housing legislation on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620174\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-960x655.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-240x164.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-375x256.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-520x355.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown stands with state lawmakers in San Francisco after signing a package of housing legislation on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the beginning of Brown's second term, the state's housing crisis was\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> impossible to ignore\u003c/a>. Median home values were the highest in the nation, and \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californians-parts-state-pay-can-afford-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most California renters\u003c/a> were spending more than a third of their income on shelter. When factoring housing costs, California's poverty rate jumped to tops in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts attributed the crunch in part to an explosion of job growth on the coast, where housing construction remained largely flat even during the national housing boom of the early 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We added a ton of new jobs without adding the housing, so to some extent there was always going to be a bit of a lag in terms of how much we could ramp up housing production,\" said Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at UC Berkeley Law School’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. \"There was really only so much I think Gov. Brown could do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for affordable housing thought there was much more Brown \u003cem>could\u003c/em> have done to inject dollars for low-income housing into the budget, especially as redevelopment and past bond dollars dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a substantial budget investment didn't happen in the first years of Brown's second term, and the governor vetoed a 2015 bill that would have expanded the state's tax credit for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gov. Brown was really our primary barrier,\" said Tyrone Buckley, policy director for Housing California. \"Because he didn’t like the fiscal impact on the budget.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed in 2017, when Brown worked with Democrats in the Senate and Assembly to piece together a package of bills that both streamlined the approval of housing (an idea Brown had floated a year before) and raised new revenue to fund affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712821/map-san-francisco-loses-existing-affordable-housing-almost-as-fast-as-it-builds-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAP: San Francisco Loses Old Affordable Housing Units Almost as Fast as It Builds New Ones\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712821/map-san-francisco-loses-existing-affordable-housing-almost-as-fast-as-it-builds-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Map.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco loses more than one existing affordable housing unit for every two it creates. That’s according to data from a biannual San Francisco Planning Department analysis of the city’s affordable housing stock over the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The deal required a delicate balancing act, not just between spending and streamlining, but in mollifying Democrats who thought a housing deal should be given the same priority as Brown's top goal: the extension of the state's cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions mounted, Brown made a trip to Assemblyman Chiu's office, and promised that the housing package would get done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a little bit of time, but he and his administration spent an incredible amount of time working with us to get that group of bills where it needed to be,\" Chiu said. \"I will always be grateful for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's work on these measures gives the governor a \"second legacy\" on housing, said Hoene, of the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in that package was Senate Bill 2, which created what was long considered the \"holy grail\" of affordable housing policy: an ongoing source of revenue for the construction of affordable units, generated from a tax on real estate transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senate Bill 2 was very significant,\" Hoene added. \"It makes a significant dent in trying to put a local financing source that cities and local governments can use for housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last year, advocates for California's homeless cheered the inclusion of $500 million in the budget to address homelessness. The money was allocated to help provide shelter and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was actually the largest general fund allocation to address homelessness ever,\" said Sharon Rapport, associate director of the Corporation for Supportive Housing. \"We were excited to see it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elkind, with the UC Berkeley School of Law, said Brown's administration also deserves credit for reforms pushed from the executive branch, including \u003ca href=\"http://opr.ca.gov/docs/20171127_FAQs_Nov_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules\u003c/a> to use the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to penalize sprawling projects that add more cars to California's roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen whether the legislature and the incoming Newsom administration will back more substantive changes to zoning laws, the local regulations that govern housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Brown prepares to leave office, those local zoning laws and CEQA (often used to block or scale back new projects) have remained largely untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how much his heart was truly in the kind of density that you see a lot of the housing advocates pushing for,\" said Elkind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675647260/transcript-nprs-full-interview-with-california-gov-jerry-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview\u003c/a> with National Public Radio, Brown pointed out the challenges facing any attempt to mandate more dense construction at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of resistance to changes, to density in neighborhoods that don't want density,\" he said. \"In many ways, I don't blame them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown expressed doubt that the state could do more to address housing affordability, other than wait for the market to cool down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think you can mandate lower prices because people want the value in their homes. I don't think you can build housing and pay for it by taxing hard-pressed middle-class people, among others, to pay for it,\" he added. \"If you want to come back and talk to me in four years, I assure you we're going to have the same problem that we have today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even as Gov. Jerry Brown took his most decisive action to address California's crisis of housing affordability, he did so with a declaration of weariness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2017, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11620078/governor-signs-15-good-bills-aimed-at-californias-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a 15-bill package\u003c/a> that aimed to boost housing construction. At the signing ceremony in San Francisco, Democratic lawmakers said the package was just a \"down payment\" on easing the affordability crunch. Brown hoped otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown Out, Newsom In\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/12/20/JerryBrownMain.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the Jerry Brown era winds down and California prepares for the governorship of Gavin Newsom, KQED is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking back\u003c/a> at Gov. Brown’s legacy and ahead to the challenges and opportunities facing Gov.-elect Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Not so many bills next year, guys,\" the governor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike climate change and criminal justice, Brown never touted housing policy as a top priority for his administration. Even today, he remains skeptical that wholesale changes to California's local housing laws are politically feasible, and whether government action can make a difference in the price of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates say Brown's actions in helping craft and eventually signing the historic 2017 bills salvaged a legacy on housing policy that had previously been defined by his killing a vital source of affordable housing funding for California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are really two legacies,\" said Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget & Policy Center. \"The first of those was the dissolution of redevelopment agencies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown proposed to end \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/126834/brentwood-like-many-towns-in-california-caught-up-in-legal-fight-over-redevelopment-funds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redevelopment districts\u003c/a> shortly after taking office in 2011. The local agencies captured property tax dollars that would have otherwise gone to school districts and counties, and reinvested them in local development — including $1 billion a year for housing.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBut with the state facing a $25 billion budget deficit, and stories emerging about \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/02/28/redevelopment-agencies-criticized-for-using-funds-to-pay-for-city-services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wasteful\u003c/a> redevelopment spending, the agencies were a tempting political target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people wanted to see it go, and it did free up almost $2 billion a year for schools,\" said Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW9pmO6FD-I&t=3s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in an interview with KQED\u003c/a>. \"And if people want to bring it back they're going to take billions from the schools, and I would assume those people who care about the California public schools will fight that very hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee chair David Chiu (D-San Francisco) is leading the effort to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11709680/state-lawmakers-eye-redevelopment-2-0-to-build-affordable-housing\"> bring back redevelopment\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called Brown's decision to end redevelopment \"understandable,\" but hoped a replacement for the lost housing funds would have emerged after the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/29/local/la-me-redevelopment-20111230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state Supreme Court\u003c/a> put the final nail in the coffin of redevelopment in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there is a pretty strong consensus that there was a baby that was thrown out with that bathwater,\" Chiu said. \"There was a lot that needed to be rehauled, but certainly some regrets today about what we eliminated, particularly given the housing crisis we're in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown stands with state lawmakers in San Francisco after signing a package of housing legislation on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620174\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-960x655.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-240x164.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-375x256.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-520x355.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown stands with state lawmakers in San Francisco after signing a package of housing legislation on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the beginning of Brown's second term, the state's housing crisis was\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> impossible to ignore\u003c/a>. Median home values were the highest in the nation, and \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californians-parts-state-pay-can-afford-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most California renters\u003c/a> were spending more than a third of their income on shelter. When factoring housing costs, California's poverty rate jumped to tops in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts attributed the crunch in part to an explosion of job growth on the coast, where housing construction remained largely flat even during the national housing boom of the early 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We added a ton of new jobs without adding the housing, so to some extent there was always going to be a bit of a lag in terms of how much we could ramp up housing production,\" said Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at UC Berkeley Law School’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. \"There was really only so much I think Gov. Brown could do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for affordable housing thought there was much more Brown \u003cem>could\u003c/em> have done to inject dollars for low-income housing into the budget, especially as redevelopment and past bond dollars dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a substantial budget investment didn't happen in the first years of Brown's second term, and the governor vetoed a 2015 bill that would have expanded the state's tax credit for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gov. Brown was really our primary barrier,\" said Tyrone Buckley, policy director for Housing California. \"Because he didn’t like the fiscal impact on the budget.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed in 2017, when Brown worked with Democrats in the Senate and Assembly to piece together a package of bills that both streamlined the approval of housing (an idea Brown had floated a year before) and raised new revenue to fund affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712821/map-san-francisco-loses-existing-affordable-housing-almost-as-fast-as-it-builds-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAP: San Francisco Loses Old Affordable Housing Units Almost as Fast as It Builds New Ones\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712821/map-san-francisco-loses-existing-affordable-housing-almost-as-fast-as-it-builds-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Map.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco loses more than one existing affordable housing unit for every two it creates. That’s according to data from a biannual San Francisco Planning Department analysis of the city’s affordable housing stock over the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The deal required a delicate balancing act, not just between spending and streamlining, but in mollifying Democrats who thought a housing deal should be given the same priority as Brown's top goal: the extension of the state's cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions mounted, Brown made a trip to Assemblyman Chiu's office, and promised that the housing package would get done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a little bit of time, but he and his administration spent an incredible amount of time working with us to get that group of bills where it needed to be,\" Chiu said. \"I will always be grateful for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's work on these measures gives the governor a \"second legacy\" on housing, said Hoene, of the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in that package was Senate Bill 2, which created what was long considered the \"holy grail\" of affordable housing policy: an ongoing source of revenue for the construction of affordable units, generated from a tax on real estate transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senate Bill 2 was very significant,\" Hoene added. \"It makes a significant dent in trying to put a local financing source that cities and local governments can use for housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last year, advocates for California's homeless cheered the inclusion of $500 million in the budget to address homelessness. 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