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Rose says his agency is moving more and more of those clients inland, away from pricier coastal cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may mean cheaper rents, but it also means refugees may be farther from communities that share their language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s particularly a problem with women, because the women are home usually with the kids,” says Rose. “They’re more likely to be isolated, less likely to be picking up English. It’s hard anyway, but it’s harder if you’re isolated geographically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of the reason Jan stays in the Bay Area, despite the high price tag. His brother lives close by, and there are other Afghani families in his apartment complex. That makes things easier on his wife, who doesn’t speak English very well and does not have a driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I [had to ] do it over, I wouldn’t come to California,” says Jan. “Over here, it’s too much rent. But I’m used to it now, I can’t move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Urinating in a Bottle to Save Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s the Fourth of July, and Jan is dressed for the occasion. He has a polo shirt with a small American flag embroidered on the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The patriotism of the vehicle he drives for Uber is less subtle. It has a bald eagle decal on the top of the windshield. Another decal with the motto of one of the military units Jan worked with in Afghanistan is tacked on the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\">Is California's Expensive Housing Scaring Away Job Seekers?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RecruiteratDesk-1180x835.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Beneath his car seat is a large plastic bottle. Jan doesn’t have much time for bathroom breaks during his Uber rides. It’s especially difficult to find a free restroom in San Francisco, where restaurants and gas stations typically allow access only to paying customers because of the city’s large homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Jan will often pee in the bottle, typically in the back seat of his car, which has tinted windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he worked with American troops and says he saw live combat, Jan is not eligible for veterans’ benefits. Neither are any of the other roughly 10,000 holders of “special immigrant visas” in California, a program designed for Iraqis and Afghanis who worked with the U.S. military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is frequently not safe for natives who worked with American forces to remain in their home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little Support From Government, and Nothing Coming Anytime Soon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Special immigrant visa-holders and other refugees don’t get much in the way of government support. The federal government provides a little more than $1,000 in one-time cash assistance for each refugee family member, regardless of where that family is resettling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So an Afghani family resettling in California gets the same amount per person as another family that relocates in Idaho or Texas, which have significantly cheaper costs of living. That cash assistance is supposed to pay for a security deposit and three months of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugees are also eligible for safety net programs like food stamps, welfare and free health insurance for the poor. Jan’s family is on Medi-Cal, the state’s low-income health insurance program. He says the family used to be on food stamps, but in the month his eligibility was recertified his income exceeded the program’s limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"Khisrow Jan’s youngest child, Wais, crawls on his parents’ bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-800x561.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1200x842.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khisrow Jan’s youngest child, Wais, crawls on his parents’ bed. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit resettlement agencies provide important support in the way of English classes, locating refugee-friendly landlords and helping navigate school and government bureaucracies. But they typically don’t provide much in the way of direct cash assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is a crisis for everyone in California frankly — seniors, veterans, folks who are disabled,” says Kevin McCarty, a Democratic state legislator from Sacramento who says the federal refugee benefits are probably insufficient. “But it’s especially hard when these refugee families are trying to make a go of it in their first few months here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty has led the charge in the state Legislature to provide more state government support for refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, his “California Welcomes Refugees” legislative package included additional funding for school districts with high refugee populations and automatic in-state tuition at state community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the package contained no help for housing. A housing resource guide produced by the state’s Refugee Programs Bureau \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/refugeeprogram/res/pdf/Housing/Housing_Resources_Guide.pdf\">suggests new arrivals\u003c/a> explore single-room occupancy and shelter housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682453/worst-poverty-in-california-not-where-you-might-expect-it\">Worst Poverty in California? Not Where You Might Think\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682453/worst-poverty-in-california-not-where-you-might-expect-it\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SantaCruzBeach-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There are so many people in California hurting for housing, I think we need to work on housing for everybody,” says McCarty. “I don’t see in the immediate future additional dollars for housing allotment for refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Happy to Be Out of Danger, but a Tough Road Ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jan admits that every now and then, he wonders whether he made the right decision to leave Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was never safe for him and his family. But after working with American troops for five years, he landed a pretty good job with a private security company in his homeland, where he could work from home a good amount. He had a large house, much larger than the two-bedroom, one-bathroom place in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he thinks about the real reason he says he decided to leave Afghanistan — what happened to his newborn daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jan’s 1-month-old daughter started having trouble breathing, Jan and his wife took her to a public hospital in Kabul. Jan soon became convinced his daughter was receiving poor treatment because the hospital staff knew he had worked with American forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say to the doctor, ‘Can you please tell me what’s going on with her?” says Jan. “And he was like, ‘Oh, she will be good, no problem.’ And then he would just walk away from me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan said he had to bribe nurses to give his daughter medical care. After 20 days in the hospital, he got a call from his wife. His daughter had passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As soon as I saw that I was like, 'I’m not staying in this country anymore.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Shukula, Sameera and Mirwais Jan (left to right) in the bedroom they share. \" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1200x823.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-960x659.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-375x257.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shukula, Sameera and Mirwais Jan (left to right) in the bedroom they share. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he drives his Uber around San Francisco on July 4, he picks up two passengers by the ferry terminal. They’re Iranian refugees who recently moved to Texas, fleeing religious persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re here on vacation, and start chatting in Farsi with Jan, one of the four languages he speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In English, they answer questions about how cheap the cost of living is in San Antonio. Jan says it’s not the first time he’s picked up fellow refugees vacationing from out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that weekend, he decides not to take another day off the rest of the month. He can’t afford another penalty for paying his rent late.\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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jan and his family fled Afghanistan in 2015, he knew adjusting to a new life in California wasn’t going to be easy. His wife speaks very little English, and even after working as an interpreter with U.S. troops, his job prospects were limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he never dreamed California was going to be this expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s skyrocketing housing costs have created a harsh new reality for refugees on the ground, many of which are going to extraordinary lengths just to afford rent. The cost of living has increased so much in recent years that refugee resettlement agencies working in California are rethinking their strategies for relocating clients — and whether the state is a good fit for some refugees in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard a lot about California out there in Afghanistan,” says Jan, who embedded with American soldiers from the Bay Area and other parts of the state. “They were saying California is nice. But trust me, I didn’t know anything about the rent and all these bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Khisrow Jan, a refugee from Afghanistan, lives in a cramped apartment in Antioch with his wife and their four children. He drives an Uber more than 70 hours a week to make ends meet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-1200x856.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-1180x842.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-960x685.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-520x371.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khisrow Jan, a refugee from Afghanistan, lives in a cramped apartment in Antioch with his wife and their four children. He drives an Uber more than 70 hours a week to make ends meet. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California has long been a landing spot for refugees like Jan. Waves of Vietnamese, Iranian, Central American and other immigrants have resettled here over the past few decades, escaping persecution and turmoil in their home countries. More than \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Refugee/Arrivals/arrivals_by_county_and_year_since_1975.pdf?ver=2018-05-23-154958-877\">700,000 refugees\u003c/a> have come to California since the mid-1970s, including more than 30,000 in the last five years, according to state statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That history is partly why so many Californians pride themselves on their welcoming attitude toward newcomers displaced from their native countries. While refugee arrivals dipped dramatically last year under new Trump administration policies, the state’s progressive political leadership has \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-state-senate-passes-1485824122-htmlstory.html\">repeatedly branded\u003c/a> California as the refugee-friendly antidote to Trump, challenging the president’s actions to reduce refugee admissions and passing a “California Welcomes Refugees” legislative package last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Californians’ welcoming attitude only goes so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really hard place to come, just because of the cost of living, especially the cost of housing,\" says Avi Rose, executive director of Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay, the nonprofit that assisted Jan.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If I [had to ] do it over, I wouldn’t come to California.'\u003ccite>Khisrow Jan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most refugee resettlement agencies no longer place families in San Francisco because of the city’s high housing costs. In San Diego, long a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/san-diego-welcomes-refugees-california-county/\">leading destination for refugees\u003c/a>, one resettlement agency was \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/23/federal-monitors-warned-san-diego-refugee-nonprofi/\">accused\u003c/a> of placing families in apartments that did not have enough sleeping space and advising refugees to lie to landlords about the number of people in their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay resettled 183 refugees in the Bay Area, the vast majority coming from Afghanistan. Rose says his agency is moving more and more of those clients inland, away from pricier coastal cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may mean cheaper rents, but it also means refugees may be farther from communities that share their language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s particularly a problem with women, because the women are home usually with the kids,” says Rose. “They’re more likely to be isolated, less likely to be picking up English. It’s hard anyway, but it’s harder if you’re isolated geographically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of the reason Jan stays in the Bay Area, despite the high price tag. His brother lives close by, and there are other Afghani families in his apartment complex. That makes things easier on his wife, who doesn’t speak English very well and does not have a driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I [had to ] do it over, I wouldn’t come to California,” says Jan. “Over here, it’s too much rent. But I’m used to it now, I can’t move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Urinating in a Bottle to Save Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s the Fourth of July, and Jan is dressed for the occasion. He has a polo shirt with a small American flag embroidered on the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The patriotism of the vehicle he drives for Uber is less subtle. It has a bald eagle decal on the top of the windshield. Another decal with the motto of one of the military units Jan worked with in Afghanistan is tacked on the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\">Is California's Expensive Housing Scaring Away Job Seekers?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RecruiteratDesk-1180x835.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Beneath his car seat is a large plastic bottle. Jan doesn’t have much time for bathroom breaks during his Uber rides. It’s especially difficult to find a free restroom in San Francisco, where restaurants and gas stations typically allow access only to paying customers because of the city’s large homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Jan will often pee in the bottle, typically in the back seat of his car, which has tinted windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he worked with American troops and says he saw live combat, Jan is not eligible for veterans’ benefits. Neither are any of the other roughly 10,000 holders of “special immigrant visas” in California, a program designed for Iraqis and Afghanis who worked with the U.S. military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is frequently not safe for natives who worked with American forces to remain in their home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little Support From Government, and Nothing Coming Anytime Soon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Special immigrant visa-holders and other refugees don’t get much in the way of government support. The federal government provides a little more than $1,000 in one-time cash assistance for each refugee family member, regardless of where that family is resettling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So an Afghani family resettling in California gets the same amount per person as another family that relocates in Idaho or Texas, which have significantly cheaper costs of living. That cash assistance is supposed to pay for a security deposit and three months of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugees are also eligible for safety net programs like food stamps, welfare and free health insurance for the poor. Jan’s family is on Medi-Cal, the state’s low-income health insurance program. 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It was followed collectively by Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono and Tuolumne counties, which have a combined poverty rate of 13.4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The picture of poverty is quite different than what you might expect based on the 1960s-era official poverty estimates,\" noted PPIC researcher Sarah Bohn. \"It tends to be higher on the coast, and some of that's driven by the high cost of living, but also by the fact that in some of those places families are working and less eligible for social safety net programs that boost their income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the CPM measure, almost four in 10 Californians (38.2 percent) are living either below the poverty line or just above it. Poverty was highest among children (21.3 percent). Latinos make up more than half (52.8 percent) of the poor in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show that while the official federal poverty rate -- which does not take into account cost of living -- has declined since 2015, when it was 15.3 percent, to 14.3 percent today, it's still well above the most recent low of 12.4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC found that the largest social safety net programs, including CalFresh, the state's main food assistance program, and the earned income tax credit helped keep millions of Californians out of poverty in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the best route out of poverty seems to be education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly the more education you have, the better your job opportunities are,\" said Bohn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poverty rate among adults ages 25 to 64 years old with a college degree was 8.4 percent, compared with 34.5 percent for Californians without a high school degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682466\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11682466 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republicans, including John Cox, led the charge to collect signatures to put the gas tax repeal on the ballot.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The issue of poverty in California has not exactly been front and center in the governor's race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, including gubernatorial candidate John Cox, blame Democrats for policies that increase the cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox, for example, strongly supports Proposition 6 to repeal the state's 12 cents a gallon gas tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The special interest driven political class is adding new gas taxes, increasing car registration fees, while avoiding addressing one of the biggest factors of poverty – the massive housing shortage that is skyrocketing rents to unaffordable levels for most Californians,\" Cox said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox wants to speed up the approval process and clear away red tape to increase housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This isn’t a Democratic or a Republican problem, we see that others states regardless of the party in power don’t have these issues and it’s going to require new ideas to solve, such as replacing CEQA (the California Environmental Quality Act) with something that allows for new housing and eliminating the stifling power of special interests on Sacramento’s political class,” Cox added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Cox, Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom strongly opposes Proposition 6, saying the $5 billion the gas tax generates each year is vital to shoring up the state's transportation infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His approach to addressing California poverty includes launching college savings accounts for kindergartners and \"dramatically increasing CalWorks grants,\" the program that gives cash assistance to families with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story misidentified the number of the ballot measure to repeal the gas tax. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The old images of California's poorest residents concentrated in rural places like the Central Valley aren't borne out by \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new data\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the California Poverty Measure (CPM) -- which takes into account not just income but also cost of living and the value of social safety net programs -- 19.4 percent of Californians, or 7.4 million people, currently live in poverty. According to the CPM measure, a family of four earning about $31,000 a year or less is below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two counties with the highest poverty rates are Los Angeles (24.3 percent) and Santa Cruz (23.8 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far behind is Santa Barbara County, where 23 percent of residents don't have enough money to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say poverty rates in places like the Central Valley are low. Fresno County's poverty rate is 19.6 percent, while Tulare County's to the south is 20.3 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county with the lowest poverty rate is El Dorado (11.8 percent) in the Sierra foothills. It was followed collectively by Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono and Tuolumne counties, which have a combined poverty rate of 13.4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The picture of poverty is quite different than what you might expect based on the 1960s-era official poverty estimates,\" noted PPIC researcher Sarah Bohn. \"It tends to be higher on the coast, and some of that's driven by the high cost of living, but also by the fact that in some of those places families are working and less eligible for social safety net programs that boost their income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the CPM measure, almost four in 10 Californians (38.2 percent) are living either below the poverty line or just above it. Poverty was highest among children (21.3 percent). Latinos make up more than half (52.8 percent) of the poor in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show that while the official federal poverty rate -- which does not take into account cost of living -- has declined since 2015, when it was 15.3 percent, to 14.3 percent today, it's still well above the most recent low of 12.4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC found that the largest social safety net programs, including CalFresh, the state's main food assistance program, and the earned income tax credit helped keep millions of Californians out of poverty in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the best route out of poverty seems to be education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly the more education you have, the better your job opportunities are,\" said Bohn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poverty rate among adults ages 25 to 64 years old with a college degree was 8.4 percent, compared with 34.5 percent for Californians without a high school degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682466\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11682466 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_4114-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republicans, including John Cox, led the charge to collect signatures to put the gas tax repeal on the ballot.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The issue of poverty in California has not exactly been front and center in the governor's race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, including gubernatorial candidate John Cox, blame Democrats for policies that increase the cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox, for example, strongly supports Proposition 6 to repeal the state's 12 cents a gallon gas tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The special interest driven political class is adding new gas taxes, increasing car registration fees, while avoiding addressing one of the biggest factors of poverty – the massive housing shortage that is skyrocketing rents to unaffordable levels for most Californians,\" Cox said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox wants to speed up the approval process and clear away red tape to increase housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This isn’t a Democratic or a Republican problem, we see that others states regardless of the party in power don’t have these issues and it’s going to require new ideas to solve, such as replacing CEQA (the California Environmental Quality Act) with something that allows for new housing and eliminating the stifling power of special interests on Sacramento’s political class,” Cox added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Cox, Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom strongly opposes Proposition 6, saying the $5 billion the gas tax generates each year is vital to shoring up the state's transportation infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His approach to addressing California poverty includes launching college savings accounts for kindergartners and \"dramatically increasing CalWorks grants,\" the program that gives cash assistance to families with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story misidentified the number of the ballot measure to repeal the gas tax. 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Property owners who fail to comply would be fined up to $1,000 a day in civil penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to require you to make your building safe, and that’s going to be an expensive endeavor,” Ronen said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen’s proposal comes after a series of major fires — including two fatal blazes — that displaced more than 200 residents in the Mission District, an area she represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other proposals drafted in response to the fires, the largest of which occurred between January 2015 and June 2016, Ronen’s measure has support from both tenant rights groups and the San Francisco Apartment Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Ronen’s proposal is severe — installing sprinkler systems in existing buildings is extremely costly — but it appropriately targets bad actors and will only impact buildings with a history of severe violations,” said Charley Goss, a spokesman for the apartment association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the ordinance will improve the safety and living conditions for residents in some of San Francisco’s most vulnerable and at-risk buildings, while building owners who maintain their buildings in good faith will not be impacted by the proposal,” Goss said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenderloin Housing Clinic Director Randy Shaw, who has criticized the city for moving too slowly in responding to fire safety concerns, said the proposal is a step in the right direction. But he said the city needs to go further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still think the city needs to begin a process of requiring sprinklers in apartments, especially wood-frame apartments of a certain age,” Shaw said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More tenants have been displaced by apartment fires than by earthquakes, yet instead of sprinklers, San Francisco requires soft-story seismic upgrades that are expensive for owners and tenants alike,” Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fatal fires in early 2015, Shaw and other tenant activists called on the city to require older apartment buildings to be retrofitted with sprinklers, systems newer buildings are already required to have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three people died in two of the worst blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man died when fire swept through a three-story commercial/residential building at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10432602/source-exits-blocked-in-fatal-mission-district-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission and 22nd streets\u003c/a>. The structure did not have sprinklers on two floors and at least two of its exits were blocked at the time of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second-floor apartment where two people died in a fire, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10879002/no-smoke-detectors-in-mission-district-apartment-where-fire-killed-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treat Avenue and 24th Street\u003c/a>, lacked smoke detectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fires led to the creation of a task force that included top officials from four city departments. Months later the group issued a set of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10750904/after-fatal-blazes-s-f-fire-safety-panel-seeks-improved-alarm-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendations\u003c/a> to amend San Francisco’s fire and housing codes and to require improvements for fire alarm systems in older apartment buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendations became the basis for legislation by Ronen’s predecessor on the Board of Supervisors, David Campos, which eventually became law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither the task force nor Campos \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10939970/s-f-tenant-advocate-says-city-needs-to-add-sprinklers-to-fire-safety-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took action on requiring sprinklers\u003c/a> — despite Fire Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10493361/fires-prompt-sf-city-hall-to-consider-ways-to-increase-sprinklers-in-older-buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a> that showed how effective the systems have been in preventing deadly fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen acknowledges that the city has not moved quickly to adopt safety improvements that seemed urgent immediately after the major fires of 2015-16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the pace has been slow,” Ronen said. “We were looking at more drastic reforms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While tenant advocates initially pressed for installing sprinkler systems in all of the city’s older apartment buildings, landlords fought back, arguing that the retrofits would be too expensive and could lead to displacing residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11179855/s-f-could-require-some-older-apartment-buildings-to-get-sprinklers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late 2016 report\u003c/a> by the Board of Supervisors’ budget and legislative analyst said the city should consider requiring some older buildings to be “sprinkled” — but also pointed out how expensive that work could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen views her measure as a compromise, but it’s unclear how many buildings it would apply to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Fire Department, about 500 commercial and residential buildings currently have fire safety violations that have not been corrected. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ore than a year ago, Redwood City approved the kind of affordable housing project California desperately needs: a 20-unit building, downtown, near transit lines, in the heart of Silicon Valley, where the state’s housing crisis is most severe. The developer was a nonprofit, Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today the lot remains vacant, except for a row of portable toilets, a trailer and a dumpster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney who works out of a two-story home behind the lot filed a lawsuit against the project last year, and it has since been stalled. He contends the city’s approval of the apartments violated a sweeping, decades-old environmental law, because the building could increase traffic. The Habitat building could also block the view from his home’s rear windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is he using the law to preserve California’s natural beauty, or is he merely denying someone else’s affordable home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For critics of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), this case is a poster child for the need for reform. Signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1970 and often referred to as “see-kwuh,” the law calls for “preventing environmental damage, while providing a decent home and satisfying living environment for every Californian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say CEQA does just that, supplying some of the strongest protection and transparency in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is the fundamental law in California for environmental protection that also protects the right of the public to be informed about projects that are going into our neighborhood,” said David Pettit, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics, particularly developers, say court decisions and opportunists have broadened and weaponized the law so it actively impedes housing, particularly in urban areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not about the environment,\" said Jennifer Hernandez, an attorney at Holland & Knight and one of the state’s most vocal advocates for change to the law. \"This signature environmental law is being hijacked to advance economic interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Conscience of the Community'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CEQA requires that new public and private projects undergo rigorous reviews to prove they will not cause significant harm to the existing environment. If they will cause harm, developers can be forced to pay to mitigate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government agencies and planning departments certify projects have complied with the law when approved. But CEQA relies on another, atypical enforcement mechanism that critics call unbalanced: the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can file a lawsuit saying that a project has violated the approval process, even without disclosing their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-800x1046.jpg\" alt=\"This state chart shows the processes projects must go through to obtain approval, as well as exemptions, under CEQA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-160x209.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-240x314.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-375x490.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-520x680.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This state chart shows the processes projects must go through to obtain approval, as well as exemptions, under CEQA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Resources Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“CEQA lawsuits can be filed anonymously. And they can be filed by people who have only economic competition at stake,” said Hernandez, whose firm is defending Habitat pro bono. “They can be filed by competitors, unions — frankly, racist neighbors. Anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez \u003ca href=\"https://www.hklaw.com/publications/in-the-name-of-the-environment-litigation-abuse-under-ceqa-august-2015/\">analyzed CEQA lawsuits \u003c/a>in the Bay Area over a three-year period and found prominent environmental groups brought only 13 percent of the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The delay in this process has cost several million dollars out of a nonprofit's pocket that we could be putting toward another housing development, and shame on the people that are doing it.'\u003ccite>Maureen Sedonaen, Habitat for Humanity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit against Habitat for Humanity is Geoff Carr’s second, and the fourth he’s threatened. He’s an attorney who specializes in criminal defense, not environmental law. But he’s becoming something of an expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside his law office, he points to a high-rise building across the street. “We got in late to fight that one,” he said of his CEQA threat against the apartments, “and we only got a floor off it and a little bit of change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street from Habitat’s vacant lot, a developer canceled a 91-unit condo project outright. Carr said he threatened a CEQA suit and that once the developer \"found out we were going to the mat with him,\" he pulled the plug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carr is most proud of a building down the block from his office, across the street from Redwood City’s historic courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developer in that case, Steve Dostart, wanted to build a large office building. But Carr, who called the original plan \"another plastic piece of crap,\" said they negotiated a smaller, eight-story building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were the conscience of the community,” Carr said. \"We gave and they gave, and I think they got an award for that building.\" Dostart has said that the negotiated building is an improvement on the original proposal, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/11/17/after-redesign-dostart-developments-601-marshall.html\">a local media outlet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Carr, a criminal defense attorney in Redwood City, has challenged or threatened to challenge several developments in his neighborhood, using CEQA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1020x739.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1200x869.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1180x855.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-960x696.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-375x272.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geoff Carr, a criminal defense attorney in Redwood City, has challenged or threatened to challenge several developments in his neighborhood, using CEQA. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Carr, CEQA is the best tool to defend against what he sees as greedy developers and complacent city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be too pejorative about the City Council of Redwood City, but I hate them,” he said. “They’re small-minded peeves, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen Sedonaen, CEO of the Habitat for Humanity chapter, said Carr’s actions are not simply impeding encroaching development: They hurt needy residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always easy to think about ‘It’s a lot and it’s a project and we’re stopping it,’ but we’re talking about 20 families being able to permanently stay in the Bay Area,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has sought to streamline housing approvals downtown in recent years by preemptively performing the in-depth environmental analysis CEQA requires, as part of a larger development plan. The city can declare that projects conform to the plan and are exempt from performing their own analysis -- a common tactic by local governments to encourage development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But citizens can still sue those exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that works is you have to find some way where they’re violating their own plan, and it’s not that hard to do,” Carr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"Habitat for Humanity received city approval to build a six-story affordable housing project on this vacant lot more than a year ago. The project is stalled due to a CEQA lawsuit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-800x575.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1200x863.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1180x848.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-960x690.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Habitat for Humanity received city approval to build a six-story affordable housing project on this vacant lot more than a year ago. The project is stalled due to a CEQA lawsuit. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said it’s so easy for plaintiffs to win that a project’s funding will immediately freeze once a suit is filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partially because of the law’s sweeping definition of “environment,” which she sums up this way: “The view from a parking lot is a scenic vista protected under CEQA. ... My environment is where I get to park, and what I get to look at through my front window, and if you change that, I’m going to object and I’m going to use CEQA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habitat for Humanity fronts its own money, and Sedonaen said she may greenlight construction on the Redwood City building even before the lawsuit is resolved. That’s a gamble. Losing a CEQA case can force a project to restart the approval process from scratch, sucking up time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think [CEQA] probably gets more attention than it deserves. I like to think of it as a symptom, not a cause of the underlying challenges we face in producing more housing in urban areas in California.'\u003ccite>Eric Biber, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she said the price continues to rise anyway. The nonprofit originally estimated the project would cost $13 million. That has now risen to $17 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The delay in this process has cost us several million dollars out of a nonprofit's pocket that we could be putting toward another housing development, and shame on the people that are doing it,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Challenge Every Step of the Way’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics contend that CEQA is the most significant factor in California's housing-affordability crisis -- but the data do not show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley environmental law professor Eric Biber is part of a team researching the barriers to new housing in California. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Getting_It_Right.pdf\">initial leg\u003c/a> of the study looked at projects with five units or more approved in five Bay Area cities, how long it took for their approval, and what steps the cities required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Oakland, Redwood City, Palo Alto and San Jose, Biber said CEQA was not an overriding obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Biber is an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who is researching barriers to housing in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Biber is an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who is researching barriers to housing in California. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it probably gets more attention than it deserves,” he said. “I like to think of CEQA as a symptom, not a cause of the underlying challenges we face in producing more housing in urban areas in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of 254 projects approved over a three-year period, only seven faced CEQA lawsuits, according to the study’s most recent data, which is still preliminary. Most of those suits also allege other non-CEQA violations of state zoning and planning law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the environmental law that has drawn so much ire from developers is used to litigate only a small portion of projects and, without it, those projects would likely end up in court anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biber thinks the barriers to development are more philosophical: Landowners are often resistant to new development near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that CEQA is both triggered and used as a lawsuit is to respond to underlying political fights at the local level about development,” Biber said. “And those political fights would occur anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stalled Habitat for Humanity project in downtown Redwood City conforms to Biber’s findings almost perfectly. The lawsuit alleges violations of CEQA, but also other state zoning and planning law. And the project’s developer, despite building throughout the Bay Area for almost three decades, has rarely faced a CEQA lawsuit. In fact, Sedonaen said this is Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco’s first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so unique,” Sedonaen said. “We’ve never had a project stopped for this reason, and we’ve never had a CEQA lawsuit used against us in our history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project faced other obstacles prior to the lawsuit. To win approval from the city, it has shrunk significantly from what Sedonaen envisioned in 2014. The six-story building is less than half the size of the original proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a challenge every step of the way,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biber said paring back CEQA would do little to change the political dynamics that drive up the cost of projects in cities, but could remove a check on development in less densely populated areas of the state. Put another way: It could promote sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think you’d see a major moving of the lever on [urban] development,” Biber said. “But you might open up for a lot more sprawling development that would significantly undermine the state’s climate goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sedonaen and Hernandez think his findings do not capture how heavily the threat of litigation weighs on urban developers, starting when they propose projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pick projects where we don’t think this is going to happen,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have tracked the number of approved projects and filed lawsuits, for instance, but not threats of lawsuits used to win concessions or canceled projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez suggests the threats outnumber the actual lawsuits, comparing CEQA abuse to an iceberg. “The filed lawsuits are the tip,” she said. “Underneath the surface is the 90 percent of the iceberg, and it’s why we’ll spend three years trying to get a project approved. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say CEQA does just that, supplying some of the strongest protection and transparency in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is the fundamental law in California for environmental protection that also protects the right of the public to be informed about projects that are going into our neighborhood,” said David Pettit, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics, particularly developers, say court decisions and opportunists have broadened and weaponized the law so it actively impedes housing, particularly in urban areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not about the environment,\" said Jennifer Hernandez, an attorney at Holland & Knight and one of the state’s most vocal advocates for change to the law. \"This signature environmental law is being hijacked to advance economic interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Conscience of the Community'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CEQA requires that new public and private projects undergo rigorous reviews to prove they will not cause significant harm to the existing environment. If they will cause harm, developers can be forced to pay to mitigate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government agencies and planning departments certify projects have complied with the law when approved. But CEQA relies on another, atypical enforcement mechanism that critics call unbalanced: the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can file a lawsuit saying that a project has violated the approval process, even without disclosing their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-800x1046.jpg\" alt=\"This state chart shows the processes projects must go through to obtain approval, as well as exemptions, under CEQA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-160x209.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-240x314.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-375x490.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-520x680.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This state chart shows the processes projects must go through to obtain approval, as well as exemptions, under CEQA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Resources Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“CEQA lawsuits can be filed anonymously. And they can be filed by people who have only economic competition at stake,” said Hernandez, whose firm is defending Habitat pro bono. “They can be filed by competitors, unions — frankly, racist neighbors. Anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez \u003ca href=\"https://www.hklaw.com/publications/in-the-name-of-the-environment-litigation-abuse-under-ceqa-august-2015/\">analyzed CEQA lawsuits \u003c/a>in the Bay Area over a three-year period and found prominent environmental groups brought only 13 percent of the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The delay in this process has cost several million dollars out of a nonprofit's pocket that we could be putting toward another housing development, and shame on the people that are doing it.'\u003ccite>Maureen Sedonaen, Habitat for Humanity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit against Habitat for Humanity is Geoff Carr’s second, and the fourth he’s threatened. He’s an attorney who specializes in criminal defense, not environmental law. But he’s becoming something of an expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside his law office, he points to a high-rise building across the street. “We got in late to fight that one,” he said of his CEQA threat against the apartments, “and we only got a floor off it and a little bit of change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street from Habitat’s vacant lot, a developer canceled a 91-unit condo project outright. Carr said he threatened a CEQA suit and that once the developer \"found out we were going to the mat with him,\" he pulled the plug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carr is most proud of a building down the block from his office, across the street from Redwood City’s historic courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developer in that case, Steve Dostart, wanted to build a large office building. But Carr, who called the original plan \"another plastic piece of crap,\" said they negotiated a smaller, eight-story building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were the conscience of the community,” Carr said. \"We gave and they gave, and I think they got an award for that building.\" Dostart has said that the negotiated building is an improvement on the original proposal, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/11/17/after-redesign-dostart-developments-601-marshall.html\">a local media outlet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Carr, a criminal defense attorney in Redwood City, has challenged or threatened to challenge several developments in his neighborhood, using CEQA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1020x739.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1200x869.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1180x855.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-960x696.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-375x272.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geoff Carr, a criminal defense attorney in Redwood City, has challenged or threatened to challenge several developments in his neighborhood, using CEQA. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Carr, CEQA is the best tool to defend against what he sees as greedy developers and complacent city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be too pejorative about the City Council of Redwood City, but I hate them,” he said. “They’re small-minded peeves, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen Sedonaen, CEO of the Habitat for Humanity chapter, said Carr’s actions are not simply impeding encroaching development: They hurt needy residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always easy to think about ‘It’s a lot and it’s a project and we’re stopping it,’ but we’re talking about 20 families being able to permanently stay in the Bay Area,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has sought to streamline housing approvals downtown in recent years by preemptively performing the in-depth environmental analysis CEQA requires, as part of a larger development plan. The city can declare that projects conform to the plan and are exempt from performing their own analysis -- a common tactic by local governments to encourage development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But citizens can still sue those exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that works is you have to find some way where they’re violating their own plan, and it’s not that hard to do,” Carr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"Habitat for Humanity received city approval to build a six-story affordable housing project on this vacant lot more than a year ago. The project is stalled due to a CEQA lawsuit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-800x575.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1200x863.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1180x848.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-960x690.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Habitat for Humanity received city approval to build a six-story affordable housing project on this vacant lot more than a year ago. The project is stalled due to a CEQA lawsuit. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said it’s so easy for plaintiffs to win that a project’s funding will immediately freeze once a suit is filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partially because of the law’s sweeping definition of “environment,” which she sums up this way: “The view from a parking lot is a scenic vista protected under CEQA. ... My environment is where I get to park, and what I get to look at through my front window, and if you change that, I’m going to object and I’m going to use CEQA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habitat for Humanity fronts its own money, and Sedonaen said she may greenlight construction on the Redwood City building even before the lawsuit is resolved. That’s a gamble. Losing a CEQA case can force a project to restart the approval process from scratch, sucking up time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think [CEQA] probably gets more attention than it deserves. I like to think of it as a symptom, not a cause of the underlying challenges we face in producing more housing in urban areas in California.'\u003ccite>Eric Biber, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she said the price continues to rise anyway. The nonprofit originally estimated the project would cost $13 million. That has now risen to $17 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The delay in this process has cost us several million dollars out of a nonprofit's pocket that we could be putting toward another housing development, and shame on the people that are doing it,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Challenge Every Step of the Way’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics contend that CEQA is the most significant factor in California's housing-affordability crisis -- but the data do not show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley environmental law professor Eric Biber is part of a team researching the barriers to new housing in California. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Getting_It_Right.pdf\">initial leg\u003c/a> of the study looked at projects with five units or more approved in five Bay Area cities, how long it took for their approval, and what steps the cities required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Oakland, Redwood City, Palo Alto and San Jose, Biber said CEQA was not an overriding obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Biber is an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who is researching barriers to housing in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Biber is an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who is researching barriers to housing in California. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it probably gets more attention than it deserves,” he said. “I like to think of CEQA as a symptom, not a cause of the underlying challenges we face in producing more housing in urban areas in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of 254 projects approved over a three-year period, only seven faced CEQA lawsuits, according to the study’s most recent data, which is still preliminary. Most of those suits also allege other non-CEQA violations of state zoning and planning law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the environmental law that has drawn so much ire from developers is used to litigate only a small portion of projects and, without it, those projects would likely end up in court anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biber thinks the barriers to development are more philosophical: Landowners are often resistant to new development near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that CEQA is both triggered and used as a lawsuit is to respond to underlying political fights at the local level about development,” Biber said. “And those political fights would occur anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stalled Habitat for Humanity project in downtown Redwood City conforms to Biber’s findings almost perfectly. The lawsuit alleges violations of CEQA, but also other state zoning and planning law. And the project’s developer, despite building throughout the Bay Area for almost three decades, has rarely faced a CEQA lawsuit. In fact, Sedonaen said this is Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco’s first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so unique,” Sedonaen said. “We’ve never had a project stopped for this reason, and we’ve never had a CEQA lawsuit used against us in our history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project faced other obstacles prior to the lawsuit. To win approval from the city, it has shrunk significantly from what Sedonaen envisioned in 2014. The six-story building is less than half the size of the original proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a challenge every step of the way,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biber said paring back CEQA would do little to change the political dynamics that drive up the cost of projects in cities, but could remove a check on development in less densely populated areas of the state. Put another way: It could promote sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think you’d see a major moving of the lever on [urban] development,” Biber said. “But you might open up for a lot more sprawling development that would significantly undermine the state’s climate goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sedonaen and Hernandez think his findings do not capture how heavily the threat of litigation weighs on urban developers, starting when they propose projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pick projects where we don’t think this is going to happen,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have tracked the number of approved projects and filed lawsuits, for instance, but not threats of lawsuits used to win concessions or canceled projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez suggests the threats outnumber the actual lawsuits, comparing CEQA abuse to an iceberg. “The filed lawsuits are the tip,” she said. “Underneath the surface is the 90 percent of the iceberg, and it’s why we’ll spend three years trying to get a project approved. 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"content": "\u003cp>Plenty of workers still move West each year for a new job in California. But the state’s high cost of housing may be deterring many other job seekers from moving into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business leaders up and down the state say California’s expensive housing makes it challenging to recruit new workers -- and to keep existing employees here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're competing, now, with a low unemployment rate in California, and people have options,” said Mary Leslie, president of the Los Angeles Business Council. In April, the state’s unemployment rate hit a record low of 4.2 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don't have the affordable housing, we're not as competitive,” Leslie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job recruiters see California’s housing crisis from both sides. They work with employers feeling pressure to raise wages, and they talk with job seekers scared off by median home prices that top $1 million in parts of the Bay Area, and over $500,000 in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Stone, a Los Angeles recruiter with Proven Recruiting, said plenty of workers are still drawn to sunny California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Living near the beach, having that active lifestyle, being able to see the Hollywood stars every once in a while,” Stone said. “Those are the reasons for the people who aren't from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he should know. Stone is a transplant himself, moving from upstate New York in 2016. He’s able to walk job seekers through the perks of taking a new job in California, and guide them away from the neighborhoods that could lock them into a terrible commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">What $500,000 Buys You Around California\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SanJoseHomeMain-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>During a call with a certified public accountant in North Carolina, Stone asked, “Have you been out to L.A. before?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have,” said the candidate, who we’re not naming to protect his job with his current employer. “There’s always downsides to everywhere that you go. And I know that there, it’s the crowds and traffic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, California’s sky-high housing costs. The median price of a California home -- now $538,640, according to the California Association of Realtors -- is more than double the national median home price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of financial workers Stone recruits could always find work in a less expensive part of the country. They do get a pay bump in California, but their annual salary alone is often not enough to afford a house in urban, coastal Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred thousand dollars here isn't going to go nearly as far as in Kansas or Missouri or any of those states,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It currently takes an annual household income of $112,930 to afford a median-priced Los Angeles home, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2018releases/1qtr2018hai\">a recent report\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors. Homes in other parts of the state are significantly cheaper -- like the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles -- but in San Francisco, homebuyers need to earn as much as $333,270 to keep up with median monthly home payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11670700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1200x774.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-960x620.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-520x336.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a candidate does get an offer, Stone sometimes goes outside his job description to help them complete the move. One worker he successfully recruited from the Washington, D.C., area didn't have much time to find a place to live. So Stone scouted apartments for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he toured the apartments using his phone’s Facetime app, “just letting him know a little bit about the areas the apartment was in as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in today’s tight labor market, Proven recruiters said they still find plenty of job seekers living in California who are open to new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recruiting people from out of state is more difficult. In recent years, only 7 percent of Proven’s California placements have been filled with people from out of state. Ingram Losner, the firm’s co-founder, said that number was lower than he expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at it on paper, and you see the cost differential between living in California and living outside of California, you can’t live on the promise of a dream,” Losner said. “And that’s clearly where people decide to remove themselves from the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Proven Recruiting having a tough time luring people to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_CEO_Survey_Booklet_Digital_.pdf\">a 2016 Silicon Valley Leadership Group survey\u003c/a>, local CEOs said the area’s high cost of housing was their number one business challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's something a lot of employers in Southern California struggle with, too. A 2017 University of Southern California survey found that housing costs were concerning to 75 percent of large employers in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also asked if companies were losing workers due to unaffordable housing. Some weren’t sure, but among those who did answer, 70 percent said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">5 Reasons California's Housing Costs Are So High\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHomeForSale-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>USC public policy professor Raphael Bostic said if housing costs continue to push certain workers out of state, California’s economic growth could be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the pressures continue, do they just say this California isn’t the California I thought it was?” Bostic asked. “I don’t think it’s in California’s interest to have more and more people facing that choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of losing workers has even led some employers, like the Los Angeles Unified School District, to develop housing for certain workers who may not have any other affordable options nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco has for years discussed the possibility of building teacher housing within the city, and in April announced the selection of an affordable housing developer to carry out the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech giants like Google and Facebook also have plans to create new housing near their Bay Area headquarters in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys have found some evidence that employers are taking cost of living into account when negotiating hiring packages to lure top-level workers to California. But lower-wage workers are not getting as much help to offset rising rents. If these trends continue, the future could hold more inequality and stagnant growth, said USC professor Gary Painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kind of economy that California might grow into is one where there’s a few people earning a lot, and then a bunch of lower-wage workers,” said Painter. “And that has never been a recipe for long-term quality of life and economic growth in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d like to know about your experience looking for work in California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Stone, a Los Angeles recruiter with Proven Recruiting, said plenty of workers are still drawn to sunny California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Living near the beach, having that active lifestyle, being able to see the Hollywood stars every once in a while,” Stone said. “Those are the reasons for the people who aren't from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he should know. Stone is a transplant himself, moving from upstate New York in 2016. He’s able to walk job seekers through the perks of taking a new job in California, and guide them away from the neighborhoods that could lock them into a terrible commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">What $500,000 Buys You Around California\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SanJoseHomeMain-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>During a call with a certified public accountant in North Carolina, Stone asked, “Have you been out to L.A. before?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have,” said the candidate, who we’re not naming to protect his job with his current employer. “There’s always downsides to everywhere that you go. And I know that there, it’s the crowds and traffic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, California’s sky-high housing costs. The median price of a California home -- now $538,640, according to the California Association of Realtors -- is more than double the national median home price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of financial workers Stone recruits could always find work in a less expensive part of the country. They do get a pay bump in California, but their annual salary alone is often not enough to afford a house in urban, coastal Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred thousand dollars here isn't going to go nearly as far as in Kansas or Missouri or any of those states,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It currently takes an annual household income of $112,930 to afford a median-priced Los Angeles home, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2018releases/1qtr2018hai\">a recent report\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors. Homes in other parts of the state are significantly cheaper -- like the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles -- but in San Francisco, homebuyers need to earn as much as $333,270 to keep up with median monthly home payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11670700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1200x774.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-960x620.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-520x336.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a candidate does get an offer, Stone sometimes goes outside his job description to help them complete the move. One worker he successfully recruited from the Washington, D.C., area didn't have much time to find a place to live. So Stone scouted apartments for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he toured the apartments using his phone’s Facetime app, “just letting him know a little bit about the areas the apartment was in as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in today’s tight labor market, Proven recruiters said they still find plenty of job seekers living in California who are open to new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recruiting people from out of state is more difficult. In recent years, only 7 percent of Proven’s California placements have been filled with people from out of state. Ingram Losner, the firm’s co-founder, said that number was lower than he expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at it on paper, and you see the cost differential between living in California and living outside of California, you can’t live on the promise of a dream,” Losner said. “And that’s clearly where people decide to remove themselves from the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Proven Recruiting having a tough time luring people to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_CEO_Survey_Booklet_Digital_.pdf\">a 2016 Silicon Valley Leadership Group survey\u003c/a>, local CEOs said the area’s high cost of housing was their number one business challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's something a lot of employers in Southern California struggle with, too. A 2017 University of Southern California survey found that housing costs were concerning to 75 percent of large employers in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also asked if companies were losing workers due to unaffordable housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the SF Homeless Project\u003c/a> we’re once again concentrating coverage around housing affordability this June. Here’s a first-person account of what it’s like to be a grad student and live in an RV in the Berkeley Marina.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My name is Yesica Prado and I am 26 years old. I moved to the Bay Area four years ago from the South Side of Chicago, but I was born in Mexico City. I came to live at the Berkeley Marina after my second semester of graduate school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I had bounced around the bay, chasing stories while studying at the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. \u003c/a>I worked the night shift at Whole Foods in San Francisco, and went to school during the day for a year before deciding to quit the job, the rent and the long commute, and buy an RV last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lost my housing in San Francisco more than a year ago after not keeping up with rent, but I never considered myself homeless. Being on the streets gave me a mission. It helped me stay alert about what really happens in our cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would get shamed at school sometimes for not reading the news, but living from phone charge to phone charge forces compromises. I used the power on my cellphone to navigate the cities, hunting for story sources, food, restrooms and gyms to complete daily tasks and homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today I’m part of a community of four families, including nine children, living out of eight vehicles in a parking lot at the marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As humans, we all want to be directors of our own dream. Our relationships with one another help us grow: financially, physically, spiritually and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have created a network of neighbors, family, friends, comrades. The Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels is an example of how poverty is a shared experience in the world, regardless of education, color or nationality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community meetings are held weekly, and neighbors gather to share concerns and issues that happened throughout the week. Amber leads the discussions, encouraging neighbors to know their rights on the street. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Sweeney, the grandfather in the Bockover family, prepares and eats a ribeye steak from Whole Foods Market. He enjoys the small pleasures of life: good food and dancing. He works with his son-in-law in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Torres, Prado’s friend, smiles for a portrait inside her RV at the Berkeley Marina. Their daily routine is to make breakfast with their camping stove, hit the gym, shower, commute around the city for food, and linger at coffee shops or libraries to charge up battery packs and electronics for the day. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31596_RS31596_Prado_MarinaFriends010-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr., age 5, plays inside an inflatable ball outside his motorhome at the Hs Lordships parking lot. Paul was the first child in the Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today I’m part of a community of four families, including nine children, living out of eight vehicles in a parking lot at the marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As humans, we all want to be directors of our own dream. Our relationships with one another help us grow: financially, physically, spiritually and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have created a network of neighbors, family, friends, comrades. The Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels is an example of how poverty is a shared experience in the world, regardless of education, color or nationality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community meetings are held weekly, and neighbors gather to share concerns and issues that happened throughout the week. Amber leads the discussions, encouraging neighbors to know their rights on the street. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Sweeney, the grandfather in the Bockover family, prepares and eats a ribeye steak from Whole Foods Market. He enjoys the small pleasures of life: good food and dancing. He works with his son-in-law in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Torres, Prado’s friend, smiles for a portrait inside her RV at the Berkeley Marina. Their daily routine is to make breakfast with their camping stove, hit the gym, shower, commute around the city for food, and linger at coffee shops or libraries to charge up battery packs and electronics for the day. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31596_RS31596_Prado_MarinaFriends010-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr., age 5, plays inside an inflatable ball outside his motorhome at the Hs Lordships parking lot. Paul was the first child in the Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels. He attends pre-kindergarten at the Berkeley Technology Academy. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677600\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian and Jim Hauso prepare hamburgers and hot dogs at a community barbecue on Sunday afternoon at Hs Lordships. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hs Lordships parking lot is a popular spot to come race and make car doughnuts. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31594_Marina_Friends036edit-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" 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"disqusTitle": "Housing Costs — More Than Tuition — Are Crushing California's Low-Income College Students",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sadia Khan ended up at UC Berkeley because of a look her dad gave her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was in middle school, she told him she wanted to go to Berkeley because she’d noticed adults perked up when they heard the word, but in this case it backfired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had the saddest look in his eye,” Khan recalls. “I think he felt guilty. He knew that was something we couldn’t afford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attending a university in California can be a financial burden beyond the means of many college hopefuls. Rising tuition is compounded by the lack of affordable housing in the state and the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan took her father’s concern as a challenge. So a few years after her dad’s death, Khan was accepted to UC Berkeley as a junior transfer student, and it felt like fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she could not avoid the question of cost. Tuition often dominates discussions of affordability because it has more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/70585/csu-and-uc-tuition-hikes-over-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tripled\u003c/a> since 1992, according to the University of California and California State University budget offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California is generous when it comes to covering tuition at its public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like more than half of the University of California students, Khan would not have to pay tuition or student fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC \u003ca href=\"http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/glossary/blue-and-gold/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guarantees\u003c/a> those costs will be covered for families making less than $80,000 -- and \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/five-facts-about-csu-financial-aid.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three out of four\u003c/a> CSU students who get financial aid don’t pay any tuition, according to CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Students facing housing and food insecurity are far more likely to experience poor academic health and mental health outcomes.'\u003ccite>Amy Rose, California Budget & Policy Center\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Still, school did not seem affordable for Khan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God,” she says, “When I started looking into housing it was just kind of like, OK, I'm definitely not going to school at this rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we don't do a great job of is funding the total cost of attendance, which means the housing, the food, the transportation,” says Lupita Cortez Alcala, director of the California Student Aid Commission, the agency that runs the state’s financial aid programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a little over a decade, the median rent in California has gone up 44 percent. Over the same period, the maximum financial aid award the state gives low-income students for non-tuition costs has gone up by only eight percent, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/barriers-to-higher-education-attainment-students-unmet-basic-needs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent report\u003c/a> from the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of federal aid, Pell Grants for low-income students used to cover up to 80 percent of the average cost of going to an in-state public university. Now they cover no more than 30 percent, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/blog/2018-funding-bill-should-boost-pell-grants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan moved into the cheapest place she could find, a room shared with two other women for $615 a month in a house a few blocks from campus. Giving up privacy was hard -- even after a couple months she still changed in the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadia Khan couldn’t afford to visit her son in San Bernardino, so she FaceTimed him everyday. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that was a small sacrifice compared to what else she’d left behind in San Bernardino. Her 3-year-old son Hashim was back home with his grandmother. Khan didn’t have the money to go home to visit regularly so she video chatted him everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi baby! What are you doing?” she’d say, trying to pry his attention from his favorite show about a garbage truck and a backhoe. “Hashim, what are you watching?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make ends meet, Khan took out her first loan a month into her first semester. She was trying to get additional financial aid and got on a waitlist for student parent housing. In the meantime, she took out a second loan. She signed up for food stamps, used the food pantry on campus and sometimes a friend would buy her lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657217/thousands-of-college-hopefuls-could-leave-california-and-never-come-back\">Thousands of College Hopefuls Could Leave California, and Never Come Back\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657217/thousands-of-college-hopefuls-could-leave-california-and-never-come-back\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30018_CADCOLLEGEACCESSPHOTO-qut-1180x767.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Surveys by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/global-food-initiative/best-practices/food-access-security/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CSU\u003c/a> have found more than 40 percent of students have trouble getting enough quality food to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students facing housing and food insecurity are far more likely to experience poor academic health and mental health outcomes,” says Amy Rose, policy analyst at the California Budget & Policy Center. “This really snowballs into them taking part-time classes, dropping courses, skipping semesters which just means that they take longer to graduate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan ended up dropping two classes -- classes she needs for her political science major. “I was like, what the hell am I doing here?” she says. “Why am I going through all of this? I'm just getting into debt away from my family. I can't even focus on school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose’s recent report on non-tuition costs recommends increasing funding for low income students’ food and housing. “What these campuses really need, what the students need, is money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the goal has never been to cover 100 percent of low-income students’ costs, says Alcala. “The idea really is to provide a true opportunity for low-income students, first generation students and underrepresented students to seek higher education.” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what a true opportunity looks like in California in 2018 isn’t always clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC conducts \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/services/survey-services/UCOAS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its own survey\u003c/a> of the full cost of attendance at its campuses every three years. It was last done in 2015-2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala’s agency is in the process of conducting a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csac.ca.gov%2Fcomm%2Fspp%2F20171130%2Fitem12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statewide survey\u003c/a> of non-tuition costs. The commission used to do this survey every three years, but hasn’t done one in a decade because of budget cuts during the recession. CSU relies on the Student Aid Commission’s data, but individual campuses are encouraged to make adjustments based on local markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11625622/californias-higher-education-from-american-dream-to-dilemma\">California's Higher Education: From American Dream to Dilemma\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11625622/californias-higher-education-from-american-dream-to-dilemma\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SatherGate-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Though the commission has upped its annual cost of attendance estimates with inflation, Alcala says they likely fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala is hopeful she’ll have results in time to influence 2019-2020 estimates CSUs provide. She’s also hoping lawmakers pay attention. “The survey will show the results of the need,” Alcala says. “What are we going to do about it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that rising tuition means the state spends more and more financial aid money on those costs, says Debbie Cochrane, vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://ticas.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute for College Access and Success\u003c/a>. “The cost pressures that creates makes it much harder for the Legislature to increase and fund a larger award for non-tuition costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochrane and other higher ed policy experts say building more affordable housing is part of the solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’re doing is we’re building student housing like crazy,” says UC President Janet Napolitano. “We’re going to be adding 19,000 beds by 2020. Those will all be below market rate beds.” Officials say UC is ahead of schedule when it comes to this \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/student-housing-initiative/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the state budget also put \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/publication/#/e/2017-18/Agency/6013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$7.5 million\u003c/a> toward efforts to end hunger on campus, at the UC, CSU and community college systems. But experts say low-income students will also need access to more state financial aid for non-tuition costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University Village, UC Berkeley’s family student housing complex, gives first priority to single student parents. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Student Aid Commission has put forward \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csac.ca.gov%2Fsites%2Fmain%2Ffiles%2Ffile-attachments%2Fitem1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommendations\u003c/a> for financial aid reforms based on a report from The Century Foundation. Among the top suggestions is a move away from a tuition-centric model of aid to one that takes into account the full cost of college attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are solvable problems. We know the path forward,” Cochrane says. “It's just a matter of garnering the political will to make it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four months into her first semester things changed for Khan. An apartment opened up in \u003ca href=\"https://housing.berkeley.edu/universityvillage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s family student housing\u003c/a>, and she is reunited with her son Hashim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And her mom, Koussar, moved up from San Bernardino to help with childcare. She’s adjusting and says Hashim is thriving. “He’s very happy,” Koussar says. “Much better than (San Bernardino) because he missed his mom a lot. A lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn5-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khan with her son Hashim outside their new apartment in University Village. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Khan feels a huge sense of relief. “We’re able to go back to a lot of the things that we used to do,” Khan says. “Like waking up and brushing our teeth together, making breakfast, going out to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has also been able to get extra financial aid from UC Berkeley reserved for student parents. It doesn’t cover all her expenses, so she’s planning to get a part-time job and hoping someday this all pays off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm just trying to survive right now,” she says. “I definitely hope it's worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she could not avoid the question of cost. Tuition often dominates discussions of affordability because it has more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/70585/csu-and-uc-tuition-hikes-over-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tripled\u003c/a> since 1992, according to the University of California and California State University budget offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California is generous when it comes to covering tuition at its public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like more than half of the University of California students, Khan would not have to pay tuition or student fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC \u003ca href=\"http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/glossary/blue-and-gold/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guarantees\u003c/a> those costs will be covered for families making less than $80,000 -- and \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/five-facts-about-csu-financial-aid.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three out of four\u003c/a> CSU students who get financial aid don’t pay any tuition, according to CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Students facing housing and food insecurity are far more likely to experience poor academic health and mental health outcomes.'\u003ccite>Amy Rose, California Budget & Policy Center\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Still, school did not seem affordable for Khan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God,” she says, “When I started looking into housing it was just kind of like, OK, I'm definitely not going to school at this rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we don't do a great job of is funding the total cost of attendance, which means the housing, the food, the transportation,” says Lupita Cortez Alcala, director of the California Student Aid Commission, the agency that runs the state’s financial aid programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a little over a decade, the median rent in California has gone up 44 percent. Over the same period, the maximum financial aid award the state gives low-income students for non-tuition costs has gone up by only eight percent, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/barriers-to-higher-education-attainment-students-unmet-basic-needs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent report\u003c/a> from the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of federal aid, Pell Grants for low-income students used to cover up to 80 percent of the average cost of going to an in-state public university. Now they cover no more than 30 percent, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/blog/2018-funding-bill-should-boost-pell-grants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan moved into the cheapest place she could find, a room shared with two other women for $615 a month in a house a few blocks from campus. Giving up privacy was hard -- even after a couple months she still changed in the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadia Khan couldn’t afford to visit her son in San Bernardino, so she FaceTimed him everyday. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that was a small sacrifice compared to what else she’d left behind in San Bernardino. Her 3-year-old son Hashim was back home with his grandmother. Khan didn’t have the money to go home to visit regularly so she video chatted him everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi baby! What are you doing?” she’d say, trying to pry his attention from his favorite show about a garbage truck and a backhoe. “Hashim, what are you watching?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make ends meet, Khan took out her first loan a month into her first semester. She was trying to get additional financial aid and got on a waitlist for student parent housing. In the meantime, she took out a second loan. She signed up for food stamps, used the food pantry on campus and sometimes a friend would buy her lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657217/thousands-of-college-hopefuls-could-leave-california-and-never-come-back\">Thousands of College Hopefuls Could Leave California, and Never Come Back\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657217/thousands-of-college-hopefuls-could-leave-california-and-never-come-back\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30018_CADCOLLEGEACCESSPHOTO-qut-1180x767.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Surveys by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/global-food-initiative/best-practices/food-access-security/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CSU\u003c/a> have found more than 40 percent of students have trouble getting enough quality food to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students facing housing and food insecurity are far more likely to experience poor academic health and mental health outcomes,” says Amy Rose, policy analyst at the California Budget & Policy Center. “This really snowballs into them taking part-time classes, dropping courses, skipping semesters which just means that they take longer to graduate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan ended up dropping two classes -- classes she needs for her political science major. “I was like, what the hell am I doing here?” she says. “Why am I going through all of this? I'm just getting into debt away from my family. I can't even focus on school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose’s recent report on non-tuition costs recommends increasing funding for low income students’ food and housing. “What these campuses really need, what the students need, is money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the goal has never been to cover 100 percent of low-income students’ costs, says Alcala. “The idea really is to provide a true opportunity for low-income students, first generation students and underrepresented students to seek higher education.” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what a true opportunity looks like in California in 2018 isn’t always clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC conducts \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/services/survey-services/UCOAS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its own survey\u003c/a> of the full cost of attendance at its campuses every three years. It was last done in 2015-2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala’s agency is in the process of conducting a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csac.ca.gov%2Fcomm%2Fspp%2F20171130%2Fitem12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statewide survey\u003c/a> of non-tuition costs. The commission used to do this survey every three years, but hasn’t done one in a decade because of budget cuts during the recession. CSU relies on the Student Aid Commission’s data, but individual campuses are encouraged to make adjustments based on local markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11625622/californias-higher-education-from-american-dream-to-dilemma\">California's Higher Education: From American Dream to Dilemma\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11625622/californias-higher-education-from-american-dream-to-dilemma\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SatherGate-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Though the commission has upped its annual cost of attendance estimates with inflation, Alcala says they likely fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala is hopeful she’ll have results in time to influence 2019-2020 estimates CSUs provide. She’s also hoping lawmakers pay attention. “The survey will show the results of the need,” Alcala says. “What are we going to do about it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that rising tuition means the state spends more and more financial aid money on those costs, says Debbie Cochrane, vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://ticas.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute for College Access and Success\u003c/a>. “The cost pressures that creates makes it much harder for the Legislature to increase and fund a larger award for non-tuition costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochrane and other higher ed policy experts say building more affordable housing is part of the solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’re doing is we’re building student housing like crazy,” says UC President Janet Napolitano. “We’re going to be adding 19,000 beds by 2020. Those will all be below market rate beds.” Officials say UC is ahead of schedule when it comes to this \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/student-housing-initiative/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the state budget also put \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/publication/#/e/2017-18/Agency/6013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$7.5 million\u003c/a> toward efforts to end hunger on campus, at the UC, CSU and community college systems. But experts say low-income students will also need access to more state financial aid for non-tuition costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Kahn4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University Village, UC Berkeley’s family student housing complex, gives first priority to single student parents. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Student Aid Commission has put forward \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csac.ca.gov%2Fsites%2Fmain%2Ffiles%2Ffile-attachments%2Fitem1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommendations\u003c/a> for financial aid reforms based on a report from The Century Foundation. Among the top suggestions is a move away from a tuition-centric model of aid to one that takes into account the full cost of college attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are solvable problems. We know the path forward,” Cochrane says. “It's just a matter of garnering the political will to make it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four months into her first semester things changed for Khan. An apartment opened up in \u003ca href=\"https://housing.berkeley.edu/universityvillage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s family student housing\u003c/a>, and she is reunited with her son Hashim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And her mom, Koussar, moved up from San Bernardino to help with childcare. She’s adjusting and says Hashim is thriving. “He’s very happy,” Koussar says. “Much better than (San Bernardino) because he missed his mom a lot. 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It doesn’t cover all her expenses, so she’s planning to get a part-time job and hoping someday this all pays off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm just trying to survive right now,” she says. “I definitely hope it's worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Las Vegas, New York and Phoenix are the most common destinations for people leaving California for new jobs, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.trulia.com/blog/trends/california-migration-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new report\u003c/a> from the real estate website Trulia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trulia analyzed \u003ca href=\"https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_beta.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Census Bureau data\u003c/a> from the first quarter of 2017 of people moving somewhere for a new job, focusing on people who moved away from San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While this means that the data captures job-to-job moves specifically and may not capture the full picture of migration (e.g., those not in the workforce such as recent graduates and retirees) it spotlights moves that are economically motivated,\" wrote Cheryl Young, senior economist at Trulia, in a post last week. \"We feel this is an adequate proxy for general migration trends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis found that 8.1 percent of people moving from one of those four cities in the first three months of 2017 ended up in Las Vegas, where the median home listing price during that period was $260,000, or less than one-half the median home listing price in San Diego, the cheapest of the four California cities for the period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Association of Realtors, the median sold price of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">single-family home\u003c/a> earlier this year in San Francisco was $1.65 million; $528,550 in Los Angeles; $635,000 in San Diego; and $1,425,000 in San Jose's Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Map2-800x506.png\" alt=\"Las Vegas, New York and Phoenix are the top destinations for coastal Californians finding new jobs in cheaper markets, according to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by the real estate site Trulia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Map2-800x506.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Map2-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Map2-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Map2-375x237.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Map2-520x329.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Map2.png 847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las Vegas, New York and Phoenix are the top destinations for coastal Californians finding new jobs in cheaper markets, according to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by the real estate site Trulia. \u003ccite>(Trulia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Close behind Las Vegas was New York with 7.3 percent and Phoenix with 7 percent. The rest of the top 10 in order were: Dallas, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago and Denver. Trulia grouped those destinations into large metropolitan areas (New York, Chicago and Atlanta), \"less expensive Sun Belt markets\" (Las Vegas and Phoenix) and \"high job-growth centers\" (Seattle, Denver, Dallas and Portland).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More of KQED's Housing Coverage\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is California's Expensive Housing Scaring Away Job Seekers?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668677/is-the-california-dream-dying-another-family-calls-it-quits-on-the-golden-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is the California Dream Dying? Another Family Calls it Quits on the Golden State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What $500,000 Buys You Around California - And How It Shapes Where We Move\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies study from September 2017 found more than half of California voters surveyed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11617660/most-california-voters-have-considered-moving-due-to-housing-costs-poll-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had considered moving\u003c/a>, and one in four said if they did move, it would be out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That finding was echoed in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/economy/bacpoll-more-people-looking-to-leave-bay-area-as-housing-traffic-problems-mount/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll from the Bay Area Council released Sunday\u003c/a> that found approximately 46 percent of Bay Area voters are ready to leave the Bay Area within the next few years. That poll found 52 percent of millennials were considering moving out of the Bay Area, up from 46 percent in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council poll found that of the 461 registered voters who said they plan to leave, 24 percent said they'll move elsewhere in California, while 61 percent said they would search out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-legislation-signed-20170929-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed 15 bills\u003c/a> designed to help the state work its way out of its affordable housing crisis. But earlier this year, a bill by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco that would have required high-density housing be built near transit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663113/californias-most-controversial-housing-bill-in-years-just-died-heres-what-to-take-away-from-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died in the state Legislature\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trulia also tried to tackle the bigger question of whether there's a mass exodus of people leaving California for cheaper pastures. It did this by comparing the ratio of people using its site to search for these four high-priced California cities and people in those cities searching for listings outside the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four cities, only San Diego received more inbound than outbound searches, but it was also the only city with a recent trend of more people looking to leave than to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/c2f5afb4-9bb2-49b4-92c8-51c75131c301?src=embed\" title=\"Inbound to Outbound Search Ratio, Coastal California\" width=\"700\" height=\"675\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, more people are using Trulia to try to leave Los Angeles, San Jose and San Francisco, but the ratio between the inbound and outbound searches for those cities has stayed more constant -- which leads analysts at Trulia to argue that continuing increases in housing costs might be pushing folks to leave those cities, but there's still no shortage of people looking to move in.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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