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Lumukanda moved from Dallas to Oakland in 1968 when he was 21 and eventually found himself living in West Oakland — a part of the city that has felt a lot of pressure from gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that his family has roots in Oakland, he takes personally the displacement of the city’s African-American population — which has dropped 10 percent in the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t found a place I can really call home yet in this American wilderness,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250047618″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumukanda, 68, raised his children in a West Oakland home with the help of housing vouchers and had to leave when his landlord died and the property was sold. Last summer, he moved into the historic California Hotel, an affordable housing building near the Emeryville border. He doesn’t want to leave the neighborhood, a place where he was politically active many years ago, but it’s likely a “foregone conclusion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883888\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10883888 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kukavulu Lumakanda, once politically active in West Oakland, says he's already lost his battle with gentrification.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kukavulu Lumukanda, once politically active in West Oakland, says he’s already lost his battle with gentrification. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland talks about keeping longtime residents from moving away, but the city is struggling to find ways to make that happen. The nonprofit in charge of the California Hotel recently bought the vacant lot next door to build more affordable housing, and has been trying to re-engineer the larger neighborhood — a part of town that hasn’t seen the heavy investment and new development going on elsewhere — with the help of numerous partners and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But will it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Hotel is an anchor in the corridor that runs along San Pablo Avenue from Emeryville toward downtown. The hotel was once \u003cem>the\u003c/em> place for African-American musicians and entertainers in the ’50s and ’60s, like \u003ca href=\"http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/88000969.pdf\">Ray Charles and Richard Pryor\u003c/a>. It now serves 149 residents in 137 units through Section 8 housing subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. bought and renovated the hotel in 2012 (it has been used for affordable housing for decades) after its previous owners let it fall into disrepair. The California Hotel now has case managers on hand and psych services, a computer lab and a community garden. Plus , residents in the building can hear live music every third Friday in the hotel lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s what these people need. They need the whole package. Not just one piece of it,” says resident Raymond Maurice Edwards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look out the window and you walk down the street and you see 20 needles and things like that, that’s not a conducive environment to do constructive things,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards, 48, has noticed dramatic changes in West Oakland, such as new residents. But he hasn’t seen many of the benefits to his neighborhood that are often brought on when big money moves in. That’s why he applauds EBALDC’s commitment to work with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Charise Fong points out mounds of fresh dirt and new plants on the San Pablo Avenue median. She says that last summer her organization held a series of community meetings during which it received input from residents and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10884130\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10884130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"EBALDC held community meetings last year and asked residents what type of quick turnaround projects they wanted to see. Improving the street median was one project that came from those meetings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EBALDC held community meetings last year and asked residents what type of quick turnaround projects they wanted to see. Improving the street median was one project that came from those meetings. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The residents came together with a design team to think about what are some quick guerrilla-style projects that they could turn around and beautify,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Kidd, co-chair of West Oakland Neighbors, attended a couple of these meetings and was part of the team that helped improve the median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was actually more volunteers than there were tools,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd says that EBALDC coming to the neighborhood and buying up the California Hotel was a game changer, but he doesn’t think the hotel alone is enough to prevent market forces and private development from having a larger impact, as it has in other areas of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adjacent to the hotel is the vacant lot where EBALDC plans to build about 55 new low-income apartments, many of which will be for families, Fong says. In the meantime, a $1 million grant from the San Francisco Foundation will help pay for programs and “pop-up” events on the site, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10852375\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10852375 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation bought the lot adjacent to the hotel and will build more affordable housing on the site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. bought the lot adjacent to the hotel and will build more affordable housing on the site. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re actually going to turn that into a temporary community gathering space,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a place where EBALDC can experiment, Fong says, including having pop-up markets where residents can try out small business ideas. There may be a performance space with a temporary stage when the weather gets nicer, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Events will coincide with First Fridays, which are held on Telegraph Avenue, and will have general themes, like the arts or education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBALDC is also helping lead a larger neighborhood initiative through a partnership called the San Pablo Area Revitalization Collaborative (SPARC), which focuses on improving the health, economy and safety of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is a groundswell frankly in the country — certainly in the Bay Area because of all the pressures on people, particularly in low-income communities — to bring everybody on board to figure it out,” says Fong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the SPARC collaborative includes other nonprofits and public agencies chipping in to provide services. For example, every week Heather Smith serves food in the lobby and sets up a makeshift health care clinic where hotel residents can come and get blood pressure readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can get information here, and we sit down and build relationships and trust in the community,” says Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Most affordable housing developments have residential services on-site, but this is resident services times 10, says Amber Lamason, EBALDC’s neighborhood and economic development manager.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBALDC, which has been around since the 1970s, is known mostly for affordable housing. The group was able to pull together to raise the $40 million to renovate the California Hotel apartments. Now the nonprofit will take the next couple of years to raise between $25 million to $30 million to pay for the new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumukanda says what EBALDC is trying to do is good. But he recognizes that everyone who wants to see this part of West Oakland improve for the people who live there now is up against a city grappling with rapid change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need two or three more California Hotel-size residential places,” says Lumukanda. “It’s as though these economic pressures will overtake us and our memory of what had gone before will pass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this experiment works, it may represent one of the few models of how an Oakland neighborhood was able to grow from the ground up.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Kokavulu Lumukanda is a history buff who likes chatting about how his family moved to Oakland from Texas during the first half of the 20th century. First it was his aunt in the ’30s, then his uncle in the ’40s. Lumukanda moved from Dallas to Oakland in 1968 when he was 21 and eventually found himself living in West Oakland — a part of the city that has felt a lot of pressure from gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that his family has roots in Oakland, he takes personally the displacement of the city’s African-American population — which has dropped 10 percent in the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t found a place I can really call home yet in this American wilderness,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='’166′'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250047618″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250047618″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumukanda, 68, raised his children in a West Oakland home with the help of housing vouchers and had to leave when his landlord died and the property was sold. Last summer, he moved into the historic California Hotel, an affordable housing building near the Emeryville border. He doesn’t want to leave the neighborhood, a place where he was politically active many years ago, but it’s likely a “foregone conclusion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883888\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10883888 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kukavulu Lumakanda, once politically active in West Oakland, says he's already lost his battle with gentrification.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kukavulu Lumukanda, once politically active in West Oakland, says he’s already lost his battle with gentrification. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland talks about keeping longtime residents from moving away, but the city is struggling to find ways to make that happen. The nonprofit in charge of the California Hotel recently bought the vacant lot next door to build more affordable housing, and has been trying to re-engineer the larger neighborhood — a part of town that hasn’t seen the heavy investment and new development going on elsewhere — with the help of numerous partners and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Plus , residents in the building can hear live music every third Friday in the hotel lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s what these people need. They need the whole package. Not just one piece of it,” says resident Raymond Maurice Edwards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look out the window and you walk down the street and you see 20 needles and things like that, that’s not a conducive environment to do constructive things,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards, 48, has noticed dramatic changes in West Oakland, such as new residents. But he hasn’t seen many of the benefits to his neighborhood that are often brought on when big money moves in. That’s why he applauds EBALDC’s commitment to work with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Charise Fong points out mounds of fresh dirt and new plants on the San Pablo Avenue median. She says that last summer her organization held a series of community meetings during which it received input from residents and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10884130\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10884130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"EBALDC held community meetings last year and asked residents what type of quick turnaround projects they wanted to see. Improving the street median was one project that came from those meetings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EBALDC held community meetings last year and asked residents what type of quick turnaround projects they wanted to see. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you're not convinced yet of the desperate demand for affordable housing in the Bay Area, consider San Leandro's Marea Alta development: Roughly 18,000 prospective tenants say they'd like one of the building's 115 affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That works out to 156 people vying for each apartment being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just speaks volumes to the extent of the affordability crisis in the Bay Area,” says Adhi Nagraj, director of development for BRIDGE Housing, which is behind the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just BRIDGE Housing that is seeing more people who want affordable apartments but can't get them. Throughout the Bay Area, waitlists are thousands of people long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10858579\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10858579 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Marea Alta affordable housing development in San Leandro is a modular construction, meaning the units are built off site and then assembled together with a large crane on site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marea Alta affordable housing development in San Leandro is a modular construction, meaning the units are built off-site and then assembled together with a large crane on-site. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bridge Housing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, around 40 people were vying for every affordable unit built by MidPen Housing at one of its developments in Fremont in 2011, says communications specialist Kim Ish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of people expected to apply for the nonprofit's most recent Fremont building would blow that out of the water. Roughly 7,000 names are on the \"interest list\" for 64 affordable apartments, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Cerrito, Resources for Community Development received 1,088 applications for 57 units in its recently completed Ohlone Gardens building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 10,000 people expressed interest for affordable apartment buildings near MacArthur BART Station and Lake Merritt, according to BRIDGE Housing officials. When the time came to apply, each received roughly 5,000 applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an affordable housing development is leased up, waitlists can still have thousands of people on them. That's the case for East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. properties. A spokesperson for the nonprofit says waitlists often range between 2,000 and 3,000 applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for affordable housing doesn't leave much room for optimism when your name is pitted against thousands of others. In many instances it comes down to a lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was true for DeJana Curry, 26, who just received the keys to her new affordable apartment near Oakland's Lake Merritt. She told KQED recently that she believes having her own place will improve her relationship with her mother and with her own 5-year-old girl, Londyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245690436\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the roughly 18,000 people who have expressed interest in BRIDGE Housing's Marea Alta building near San Leandro BART will have a chance to apply for an apartment this spring, says Nagraj.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marea Alta will have studios and apartments with one, two or three bedrooms with monthly rents ranging between $493 and $1,155, depending on income and apartment size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preference will be given to individuals or families who live or work in San Leandro. There will be a lottery to determine which applications get viewed first, Nagraj says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 115 families will get a spot. Most people will have to wait.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It may seem surprising that Fresno, better known for sprawling new developments, is paving the way when it comes to rules for eco-conscious tiny houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are the first city in the nation to actually write into its development code authorization for 'tiny homes,' \" says Mayor Ashley Swearingen. \"If there’s one thing that Californians should know about Fresno, it’s that we are full of surprises. And just when you’ve think you’ve pegged us to be one type of community, we’ll surprise you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/242766126\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno's \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiatinyhouse.com/new-zoning-code/\">new rules\u003c/a> specifically pertain to tiny homes on wheels, which are often treated like RVs in other cities. So that means there are limits on where and how long they can be parked. That's angered some tiny-house activists, like the folks at \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/faircompanies/sets/72157656780625856/\">Containertopia\u003c/a>\" in the Bay Area. I spoke with them recently for a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/12/08/local-warming-radio-documentary-captures-california-attitudes-toward-climate-change/\">BBC documentary\u003c/a> about reducing Californians' carbon footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, like Alameda, Contra Costa and Napa, allow cottages on wheels as caregiver dwellings in the backyard of someone who needs assistance. \u003ca href=\"http://americantinyhouseassociation.org/tiny-houses-on-wheels-allowed-as-backyard-cottages-in-california/\">Here's a list \u003c/a>of California rules from the \u003ca href=\"http://americantinyhouseassociation.org/\">American Tiny House Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an important step forward for the tiny house movement because it sets a precedent for other jurisdictions nationwide,\" says Amy Turnbull, one of the directors of the American Tiny House Association. \"This ordinance sends a clear message: we need to adapt our codes to accommodate new housing models and we need to do it quickly and decisively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10838203,10838204,10838205\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s zoning code now allows any homeowner to park this kind of tiny home on wheels as a permanent second dwelling, either for use by the homeowner or as a rental unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a hot new trend in the United States housing market,\" says Swearingen. \"It attracts people who are drawn to the prospect of a simpler lifestyle with less stuff, and more financial freedom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Swearingen's motivation comes from wanting to support local jobs and manufacturing. A new Fresno company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiatinyhouse.com/\">California Tiny House\u003c/a>, is now building these custom homes for people all over the state. It recently held an unusual open house to celebrate Fresno's new rules, parking a 270-square-foot cottage on wheels in front of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Mosley is the 28-year-old entrepreneur behind California Tiny House. He gave me the five-minute complete tour, featuring the compact fridge, composting toilet and combined washer-dryer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"H9BQXQlWDrM8cGuH40zV6F1U8XlAoRDe\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does the whole cycle, washes and dries,\" Mosley explained. \"All the water that you use through the house goes back to the water table. It’s all gray water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I nearly bumped into Fresno resident Cheryl Spencer as I stooped to check out the tiny upstairs loft with a built-in bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re not intimidated that your head could hit the ceiling?\" I asked her. \"No, 'cuz I’m short,\" she laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spencer says the fact that new custom-built tiny homes like these start at $45,000 could really be a game-changer, especially in a city that was hit hard during the foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More and more families are having to combine into one household,\" Spencer told me as she admired the built-in cupboards. \"This is ideal, a way a lot of people could afford a home that otherwise couldn’t. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say Fresno is a tiny-house mecca yet. So far, all the tiny houses manufactured here have gone to Santa Cruz, Napa and other California cities.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 11:15 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his apartment complex, Ashburn Dancy can see the unique string of palm trees over his fence lining Ninth Avenue in Oakland’s Bella Vista neighborhood. The trees stand in the foreground of the city’s skyline, about a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former boxer also has another view — a beige, boarded-up apartment complex that has been quietly vacant for nearly a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What a waste, man,” Dancy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some in Bella Vista, the building has been an eyesore. They remember that it failed when it was public housing for low-income families. Others have become so used to the building that they say it has just become part of the neighborhood’s backdrop. Now the owners want to reopen it and make some units affordable, though there’s no guarantee this will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bella Vista, which is southeast of Lake Merritt and close to Highland Hospital, is the type of neighborhood the city talks about preserving. It’s working class, the average family income is below average for the region and it’s diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Down over here, it’s mixed up pretty good,” says Dancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761967\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10761967 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0656\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashburn Dancy says he would like the 2530 Ninth Ave. building to become homes for low-income families who are ‘going to stick around.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Bella Vista is not immune to the gentrification happening in Oakland — a city trying to write its own narrative in the shadow of San Francisco, which has an uncontrollable housing market that has been defined by money and tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has heightened many residents’ \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/activists-take-over-oakland-city-council-meeting-prevent-vote-on-condo-project\">sensitivity toward housing development in Oakland\u003c/a>, and people are taking notice when property is being bought and sold. The building at 2530 Ninth Ave. has just 15 family units. It’s not going to fix the city’s housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Ninth Avenue property is a microcosm of the kinds of decisions and reactions that occur when people are getting priced out and market forces take hold. Its owners say it likely can’t reopen as housing for low-income families because it’s not sustainable — and many Bella Vista neighbors seem to understand. The next question is who will live in these units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big old complex. It has all those rooms and stuff,” says Dancy. “Why is it closed down anyway?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why the Building Closed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment house was built in the late 1970s to serve 15 low-income families. The Oakland Housing Authority was in charge of the complex, but OHA couldn’t maintain the property because it was being underfunded by the federal government, says Executive Director Eric Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the building deteriorated and was vacated by the end of 2005, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the Oakland Housing Authority submitted a request to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to allow it to sell the property to an affiliated nonprofit that OHA had created, which also contracts with HUD. That request was approved and the property was sold for the appraised value of $1.2 million in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also serves as CEO of the nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahi-oakland.org/\">California Affordable Housing Initiatives\u003c/a>, or CAHI. He says that CAHI’s purchase of the Ninth Avenue property kept it in the hands of people who want to preserve affordable housing. But it has been tough to put a deal together, and when the recession hit there wasn’t a lot of building going on, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that there’s a lot of demand for affordable housing at all income levels, CAHI wants to fill the “workforce” housing niche, Johnson says. Workforce housing is for people with moderate income, such as teachers, who are also being priced out of Oakland, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ninth Avenue property in Bella Vista is the group’s first attempt to make this work, Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Building Affordable Housing Is a Challenge Even With Owned Land\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gov. Jerry Brown cut redevelopment funding in 2012, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/24/redevelopment-hurt-affordable-housing/\">affordable housing developers have had to scramble\u003c/a> to piece together money to see projects through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the larger affordable housing developers are working on projects that include dozens of units, says Johnson. The Ninth Avenue building has only 15 units, with the potential to add just a few more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is nobody wants to get invested in a 15-unit property,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAHI opened up a request for proposals to develop the property. Two of Oakland’s largest affordable housing developers, Bridge Housing and East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., confirmed that they did not submit an RFP application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAHI, unlike OHA, is not required to partner with or sell the land to an affordable housing developer. This allows CAHI to be more flexible and creative with how it funds and develops the Ninth Avenue building. But it could be sold to a market-rate developer, which happened earlier this year with another, much smaller CAHI property nearby, Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Income from the sale will go toward CAHI’s mission to build or preserve affordable housing projects in the future, but it also could mean one less parcel available for affordable housing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors and housing activists have argued that any land where housing can be built is sacred land and should be used for affordable housing — especially land owned by an affordable housing nonprofit like CAHI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland really does need housing for our lowest-income residents,” says Amy Vanderwarker, co-founder of Eastlake United for Justice, which formed after the city tried selling a parcel of land on East 12th Street to a market-rate developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762592\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762592\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Activists shut down May 5 Oakland City Council meeting to protest development of a market-rate tower near Lake Merritt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists shut down a May 5 Oakland City Council meeting to protest development of a market-rate tower near Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Vanderwarker says it’s hard to find the funding to make any affordable housing project work, even for more moderate-income people, like CAHI wants to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of creative thinking,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge is that projects at that level don’t get federal tax credits that are aimed at housing for the lowest-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Johnson says that whoever develops the Ninth Avenue property needs to ensure its future maintenance. He points to the building’s deterioration when it was last used for public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At Least One Option Would Keep the Land Affordable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, CAHI received four proposals to develop the property. Johnson says the nonprofit has chosen its finalist but won’t say who it is just yet. The decision will likely be announced by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the four proposals came from the \u003ca href=\"http://oakclt.org/about/people/\">Oakland Community Land Trust\u003c/a>, which purchases land to keep it affordable. So far, the trust has focused its efforts on developing 18 single-family homes around Oakland. The Ninth Avenue project would be its first venture into a larger-scale development, says Executive Director Steve King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past few years it has been increasingly difficult for us to compete in the single-family market,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land trust wants to turn the 15 units into a permanently affordable rental cooperative, King says. It would be similar to the tactic being used by other affordable housing developers in Oakland to purchase property in order to stabilize rents and housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s essentially resident-controlled housing over community-controlled land,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King presented his plan to a group of Bella Vista neighbors, some of whom I spoke with and who say they support his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAHI gets to decide who leases or owns the Ninth Avenue property, and Johnson says his group rarely agrees to a deal where it gives up ownership of the land. A ground lease may be more likely, he says, in which the nonprofit maintains ownership of the land but a developer gets to build on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says CAHI wants a certain number of affordable units, but he can’t guarantee any number. It’s unlikely that it will be 100 percent housing for extremely low-income residents or high-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the building becomes, Ashburn Dancy says he wants families that are going to stick around. He comes from a military family and moved around a lot as a kid. It wasn’t good, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want some low-income families that are going to stay there for the duration,” he says. “Some young kids that are going to be there. Not somebody that’s going to go in and out, in and out. That messes up the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other neighbors agree. Whatever goes in, they want people who are going to be a part of this community — one that’s changing rapidly and that could look different soon.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bella Vista, which is southeast of Lake Merritt and close to Highland Hospital, is the type of neighborhood the city talks about preserving. It’s working class, the average family income is below average for the region and it’s diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Down over here, it’s mixed up pretty good,” says Dancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761967\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10761967 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0656\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashburn Dancy says he would like the 2530 Ninth Ave. building to become homes for low-income families who are ‘going to stick around.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Bella Vista is not immune to the gentrification happening in Oakland — a city trying to write its own narrative in the shadow of San Francisco, which has an uncontrollable housing market that has been defined by money and tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has heightened many residents’ \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/activists-take-over-oakland-city-council-meeting-prevent-vote-on-condo-project\">sensitivity toward housing development in Oakland\u003c/a>, and people are taking notice when property is being bought and sold. The building at 2530 Ninth Ave. has just 15 family units. It’s not going to fix the city’s housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Ninth Avenue property is a microcosm of the kinds of decisions and reactions that occur when people are getting priced out and market forces take hold. Its owners say it likely can’t reopen as housing for low-income families because it’s not sustainable — and many Bella Vista neighbors seem to understand. The next question is who will live in these units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big old complex. It has all those rooms and stuff,” says Dancy. “Why is it closed down anyway?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why the Building Closed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment house was built in the late 1970s to serve 15 low-income families. The Oakland Housing Authority was in charge of the complex, but OHA couldn’t maintain the property because it was being underfunded by the federal government, says Executive Director Eric Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the building deteriorated and was vacated by the end of 2005, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the Oakland Housing Authority submitted a request to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to allow it to sell the property to an affiliated nonprofit that OHA had created, which also contracts with HUD. That request was approved and the property was sold for the appraised value of $1.2 million in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also serves as CEO of the nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahi-oakland.org/\">California Affordable Housing Initiatives\u003c/a>, or CAHI. He says that CAHI’s purchase of the Ninth Avenue property kept it in the hands of people who want to preserve affordable housing. But it has been tough to put a deal together, and when the recession hit there wasn’t a lot of building going on, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that there’s a lot of demand for affordable housing at all income levels, CAHI wants to fill the “workforce” housing niche, Johnson says. Workforce housing is for people with moderate income, such as teachers, who are also being priced out of Oakland, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ninth Avenue property in Bella Vista is the group’s first attempt to make this work, Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Building Affordable Housing Is a Challenge Even With Owned Land\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gov. Jerry Brown cut redevelopment funding in 2012, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/24/redevelopment-hurt-affordable-housing/\">affordable housing developers have had to scramble\u003c/a> to piece together money to see projects through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the larger affordable housing developers are working on projects that include dozens of units, says Johnson. The Ninth Avenue building has only 15 units, with the potential to add just a few more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is nobody wants to get invested in a 15-unit property,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAHI opened up a request for proposals to develop the property. Two of Oakland’s largest affordable housing developers, Bridge Housing and East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., confirmed that they did not submit an RFP application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAHI, unlike OHA, is not required to partner with or sell the land to an affordable housing developer. This allows CAHI to be more flexible and creative with how it funds and develops the Ninth Avenue building. But it could be sold to a market-rate developer, which happened earlier this year with another, much smaller CAHI property nearby, Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Income from the sale will go toward CAHI’s mission to build or preserve affordable housing projects in the future, but it also could mean one less parcel available for affordable housing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors and housing activists have argued that any land where housing can be built is sacred land and should be used for affordable housing — especially land owned by an affordable housing nonprofit like CAHI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland really does need housing for our lowest-income residents,” says Amy Vanderwarker, co-founder of Eastlake United for Justice, which formed after the city tried selling a parcel of land on East 12th Street to a market-rate developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762592\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762592\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Activists shut down May 5 Oakland City Council meeting to protest development of a market-rate tower near Lake Merritt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists shut down a May 5 Oakland City Council meeting to protest development of a market-rate tower near Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Vanderwarker says it’s hard to find the funding to make any affordable housing project work, even for more moderate-income people, like CAHI wants to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of creative thinking,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge is that projects at that level don’t get federal tax credits that are aimed at housing for the lowest-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Johnson says that whoever develops the Ninth Avenue property needs to ensure its future maintenance. He points to the building’s deterioration when it was last used for public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At Least One Option Would Keep the Land Affordable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, CAHI received four proposals to develop the property. Johnson says the nonprofit has chosen its finalist but won’t say who it is just yet. The decision will likely be announced by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the four proposals came from the \u003ca href=\"http://oakclt.org/about/people/\">Oakland Community Land Trust\u003c/a>, which purchases land to keep it affordable. So far, the trust has focused its efforts on developing 18 single-family homes around Oakland. The Ninth Avenue project would be its first venture into a larger-scale development, says Executive Director Steve King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past few years it has been increasingly difficult for us to compete in the single-family market,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land trust wants to turn the 15 units into a permanently affordable rental cooperative, King says. It would be similar to the tactic being used by other affordable housing developers in Oakland to purchase property in order to stabilize rents and housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s essentially resident-controlled housing over community-controlled land,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King presented his plan to a group of Bella Vista neighbors, some of whom I spoke with and who say they support his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAHI gets to decide who leases or owns the Ninth Avenue property, and Johnson says his group rarely agrees to a deal where it gives up ownership of the land. 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"content": "\u003cp>Marvin Jordan is a father, has gold in his teeth, wears a Raiders cap and is left-handed when he writes this note, which begins:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“To Whom It May Concern: My name is Marvin Jordan Sr. I’m a 54-year-old homeless man raising a three-year-old and looking for housing.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He slips the note through a small crack in the window of a work truck, which sits outside an apartment building in Berkeley. Through a window, Jordan can tell one apartment is empty except for a few tools that signal to him the room hasn’t been rented out yet. Jordan tells me he’d rather be taking his son, Marvin Jr., to the park instead of walking around the East Bay looking for a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan has been searching for housing since May, after being jailed for a DUI, completing an alcohol abuse program through Highland Hospital and then receiving a housing voucher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt relieved at the time,” he says. “But I didn’t know the battle was just really beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10760416 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Jordan says he wants landlords to know the adversity and challenges in life that he's had to overcome. He thinks that may convince someone who empathizes with his situation, he says.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jordan is among the hundreds of Section 8 and other voucher holders who are having a hard time finding housing in the East Bay. Housing agencies here report fewer landlords participating in these voluntary programs because the private market is providing a bigger return. For some, this has caused longer search periods; others are forced to find different options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most nights, Jordan sleeps next to Junior on a twin bed at his sister’s house in Richmond. When Jordan is not sleeping there, he’s riding trains or buses all night. He received joint custody of Junior, and right now he says Junior is his top priority. But not having a place to call home makes it tough to be a good father, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Just Out of Reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first started searching for housing, Jordan was running into common problems that many apartment hunters experience. There was fierce competition at open houses from dozens of other applicants. Plus, there were fees just to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan’s voucher means that he will receive help for a two-bedroom apartment listed up to $1,585. He would pay 30 percent of his own monthly income, derived from Social Security Disability benefits tied to his peroneal nerve palsy, and the rest would be taken care of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These caps are known as fair market rent and are set annually by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which pays local housing authorities to administer the voucher program. But as the housing market has soared across the Bay Area, these caps haven't kept pace and are making it hard for people with vouchers to compete for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD recently announced it would allow East Bay housing authorities to increase rent caps. This means Jordan's current two-bedroom voucher, capped at $1,585, will increase to $1,952.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But HUD is not providing the authorities with any more money, which means each of the East Bay's eight local authorities has to decide whether to raise the caps but serve fewer people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760411\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10760411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The authorities from Contra Costa and Alameda counties have commissioned their own rent survey to challenge HUD's fair market rent, which they did successfully in 2013. HUD officials say they recognize that their agency is limited by using older data and that they look forward to what the rent survey will find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the department realizes that this is something we need to be looking at,” says Ophelia Basgal, regional director for HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD officials tell KQED the challenge by Alameda and Contra Costa county housing authorities will likely influence any fair market rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thousands Still on \u003c/strong>\u003cb>Wait Lists\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the question remains whether any changes will be enough to keep or attract landlords to Section 8 and other voucher programs. Voucher holders are taking more than three months to find a place on average, according to a letter sent by East Bay housing authorities to HUD in September. That’s longer than the 90-day period most vouchers are good for. Many voucher holders ask for extensions, while thousands of people in the region are on waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more vouchers to put on the street. We’re just waiting to put them on the street for the current people looking to be successful,” says Eric Johnson, executive director of the Oakland Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hand out all the vouchers available, it would flood the market and make it harder for people to find a place, he says. At any given time, around 200 people with Section 8 vouchers from OHA are looking for an apartment. OHA has to give out about 600 more vouchers, says Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voucher holders in Oakland are finding some success, though. In September around 110 families did find housing, Johnson says. But the same month, 120 landlords quit participating in the program, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Landlords Dropping Out of Section 8 Across the East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, voucher holders are given a free report that lists available Section 8 housing. In 2012, that list averaged seven to 10 units at any given time. For the past 18 months, the city averages zero to one unit, according to Tia Ingram, executive director of Berkeley Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been extremely difficult to have 10 excited families in the room awaiting receipt of their voucher and have to advise, ‘Sorry there are no suitable units in the report’; best of luck in your search,” she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Authority of the County of Alameda (HACA), which does not represent Berkeley, Oakland, Livermore or the city of Alameda, has seen a 10 percent drop since 2012 in the number of landlords participating in the voucher program, according to Ron Dion, deputy director for programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more telling, Dion says, is the number of landlords participating in the voluntary online database where landlords and property management groups can list available units. In 2012, HACA averaged 58 available rental units on the first of each month, he says. Each year that number has dropped, and the average so far for 2015 is only seven per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Even With an Advocate It's Tough to Find a Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Wednesday in mid-October, Rachel Cole-Jansen, with Operation Dignity’s homeless outreach program, meets with Marvin Jordan. She helped him get his voucher earlier this year and has, at times, been his advocate -- even searching Craigslist and making calls to landlords on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's frustrated because the free website that lists available Section 8 housing doesn't update regularly. And too often she'll call and someone on the other end will say there's nothing available, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she does connect with a property manager it’s for an apartment in a neighborhood where Jordan doesn’t feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks with Section 8 vouchers are being concentrated in a lot of these neighborhoods,” says Cole-Jansen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jordan says he’s getting desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's looking in areas where he initially refused to look. Still, nothing. He often calls Ryan Norris, with Marquardt Property Management, because Norris told Jordan once that you have to just keep calling, every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10760420 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"“To be honest I think Marvin is a rare case. He’s very polite so that makes [it] very easy to talk to him. He’s persistent in a good way.” - Ryan Norris with Marquardt Property Management\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'To be honest I think Marvin is a rare case. He’s very polite so that makes [it] very easy to talk to him. He’s persistent in a good way,' says Ryan Norris with Marquardt Property Management\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet Jordan one morning at his sister's apartment in Richmond. It’s dark -- Junior is still sleeping on a twin bed in the living room. Jordan begins making breakfast and slowly wakes up his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Junior is going house hunting with dad, which means everything will take a little longer and be a little more challenging. Jordan would rather be doing things that fathers do with their sons, like going to the park, he says. Instead he focuses on the smaller things he can do -- like helping him brush his teeth or making him breakfast before they both head out the door to search for a new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when he finally does find a place, Jordan says he looks forward to getting Junior back into preschool, and having more time to teach him about life and getting his toys out of storage.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He would pay 30 percent of his own monthly income, derived from Social Security Disability benefits tied to his peroneal nerve palsy, and the rest would be taken care of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These caps are known as fair market rent and are set annually by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which pays local housing authorities to administer the voucher program. But as the housing market has soared across the Bay Area, these caps haven't kept pace and are making it hard for people with vouchers to compete for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD recently announced it would allow East Bay housing authorities to increase rent caps. This means Jordan's current two-bedroom voucher, capped at $1,585, will increase to $1,952.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But HUD is not providing the authorities with any more money, which means each of the East Bay's eight local authorities has to decide whether to raise the caps but serve fewer people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760411\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10760411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The authorities from Contra Costa and Alameda counties have commissioned their own rent survey to challenge HUD's fair market rent, which they did successfully in 2013. HUD officials say they recognize that their agency is limited by using older data and that they look forward to what the rent survey will find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the department realizes that this is something we need to be looking at,” says Ophelia Basgal, regional director for HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD officials tell KQED the challenge by Alameda and Contra Costa county housing authorities will likely influence any fair market rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thousands Still on \u003c/strong>\u003cb>Wait Lists\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the question remains whether any changes will be enough to keep or attract landlords to Section 8 and other voucher programs. Voucher holders are taking more than three months to find a place on average, according to a letter sent by East Bay housing authorities to HUD in September. That’s longer than the 90-day period most vouchers are good for. Many voucher holders ask for extensions, while thousands of people in the region are on waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more vouchers to put on the street. We’re just waiting to put them on the street for the current people looking to be successful,” says Eric Johnson, executive director of the Oakland Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hand out all the vouchers available, it would flood the market and make it harder for people to find a place, he says. At any given time, around 200 people with Section 8 vouchers from OHA are looking for an apartment. OHA has to give out about 600 more vouchers, says Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voucher holders in Oakland are finding some success, though. In September around 110 families did find housing, Johnson says. But the same month, 120 landlords quit participating in the program, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Landlords Dropping Out of Section 8 Across the East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, voucher holders are given a free report that lists available Section 8 housing. In 2012, that list averaged seven to 10 units at any given time. For the past 18 months, the city averages zero to one unit, according to Tia Ingram, executive director of Berkeley Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been extremely difficult to have 10 excited families in the room awaiting receipt of their voucher and have to advise, ‘Sorry there are no suitable units in the report’; best of luck in your search,” she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Authority of the County of Alameda (HACA), which does not represent Berkeley, Oakland, Livermore or the city of Alameda, has seen a 10 percent drop since 2012 in the number of landlords participating in the voucher program, according to Ron Dion, deputy director for programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more telling, Dion says, is the number of landlords participating in the voluntary online database where landlords and property management groups can list available units. In 2012, HACA averaged 58 available rental units on the first of each month, he says. Each year that number has dropped, and the average so far for 2015 is only seven per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Even With an Advocate It's Tough to Find a Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Wednesday in mid-October, Rachel Cole-Jansen, with Operation Dignity’s homeless outreach program, meets with Marvin Jordan. She helped him get his voucher earlier this year and has, at times, been his advocate -- even searching Craigslist and making calls to landlords on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's frustrated because the free website that lists available Section 8 housing doesn't update regularly. And too often she'll call and someone on the other end will say there's nothing available, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she does connect with a property manager it’s for an apartment in a neighborhood where Jordan doesn’t feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks with Section 8 vouchers are being concentrated in a lot of these neighborhoods,” says Cole-Jansen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jordan says he’s getting desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's looking in areas where he initially refused to look. Still, nothing. He often calls Ryan Norris, with Marquardt Property Management, because Norris told Jordan once that you have to just keep calling, every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10760420 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"“To be honest I think Marvin is a rare case. He’s very polite so that makes [it] very easy to talk to him. He’s persistent in a good way.” - Ryan Norris with Marquardt Property Management\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'To be honest I think Marvin is a rare case. He’s very polite so that makes [it] very easy to talk to him. He’s persistent in a good way,' says Ryan Norris with Marquardt Property Management\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet Jordan one morning at his sister's apartment in Richmond. It’s dark -- Junior is still sleeping on a twin bed in the living room. Jordan begins making breakfast and slowly wakes up his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Junior is going house hunting with dad, which means everything will take a little longer and be a little more challenging. Jordan would rather be doing things that fathers do with their sons, like going to the park, he says. Instead he focuses on the smaller things he can do -- like helping him brush his teeth or making him breakfast before they both head out the door to search for a new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rose could be anywhere from 10 to 12 years old. The stray Chihuahua showed up one day in Amanda Smulevitz’s Oakland neighborhood, and the woman eventually took the dog in. A few years later, Smulevitz adopted Lily, a soon-to-be-6-year-old of the same breed, saving her from a home where she'd been mistreated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A retired and disabled mother of a special-needs son, Smulevitz has lived in Oakland for almost 50 years. But she was forced to leave her pet-friendly apartment earlier this year, when the building’s new owner refused to give her a new lease. Though she qualifies for Section 8 housing, after months of searching, Smulevitz still hasn’t found a place to live, let alone one that will accommodate her two dogs. For now, she and her son sleep on friends’ living room floors. Rose and Lily sleep with strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was the lady in the neighborhood who was always fussing at people, ‘Oh, I’d never give up my dogs just because a place didn’t take animals, and I’d find another place,’” Smulevitz said. “But I’ve eaten my words a hundred fold now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Bay Area’s housing crisis worsens, many animal shelters across the region have seen a recent uptick in owner surrenders -- mostly dogs, but also cats and other pets. Finding affordable housing is hard enough; finding affordable housing that accommodates pets can be impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Solid Answers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting priced out of San Francisco, Lisa Bassi moved to San Pablo, the only place where she could find affordable housing that would accommodate her three dogs. She now commutes to her job as the client contact center manager at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfspca.org/?gclid=CIGhnsHdsMcCFQoKaQodsGMBJA\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco SPCA\u003c/a>, where she fields calls from pet owners dealing with the same types of problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, housing woes are responsible for a quarter of all surrenders at the SF SPCA, making it the single most common reason for giving up a pet. Most of the surrenders come from residents in the Bayview-Hunter’s Point and Mission neighborhoods, where Zillow reports a 17-20 percent rent increase since this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last year-and-a-half, the SF SPCA’s Surrender Division has worked hard to keep pets and owners together, diverting about 30 percent of the calls they receive. If a pet has behavioral issues, they can provide training resources and hopefully solve the problem. But “for housing, it’s tricky because there just isn’t a lot out there,” Bassi said. “We don’t have any solid answers or solid help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the best the SF SPCA can offer is well-worn advice: Check Craigslist for pet-friendly housing and try to re-home with family or friends. The organization's Krista Maloney suggests preparing a “pet resume,” complete with description, photos and references from past landlords who can vouch for the animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds crazy, but we’re in a really crazy market right now,” Maloney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10646959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/petsurrender3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10646959\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/petsurrender3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At the San Francisco SPCA's client contact center, operators field calls from owners facing pet surrender.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/petsurrender3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/petsurrender3-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/petsurrender3-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/petsurrender3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/petsurrender3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/petsurrender3-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the San Francisco SPCA's client contact center, operators field calls from owners facing pet surrender. \u003ccite>(Susan Cohen/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Rebecca Katz heads up \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandanimalservices.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Animal Services\u003c/a>, the city’s public shelter. Compared to last year, Katz says, there’s been a significant increase in the number of animals surrendered to the facility, particularly from East Oakland owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OAS is now at 200 percent capacity. The shelter’s resources and staff are stretched, but “at the end of the day it’s better than the alternative, which is putting animals down that deserve a chance,” Katz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Katz can’t point to hard statistics as to why owners are surrendering their pets, she says she hears from many owners who blame their housing situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is going through changes, while in many respects are great, for every action there’s an opposite and equal reaction. And the reaction here is people are losing their homes and having to give up their animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like at SF SPCA, when it comes to housing, there isn’t too much OAS can do for pet owners. Sometimes it can offer to hold the animals temporarily. As a firm believer in the health benefits of pet ownership, Katz encourages owners to look into having their pets prescribed as emotional support animals when appropriate, which, under the Fair Housing Act, would prevent landlords from keeping the animals out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OAS is also working to educate landlords on the benefits of renting to pet owners, who Katz believes “will be more responsible and steady because it is so hard to find housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really the best we can do is just be empathetic and really not have any sort of judgment,” Katz said. “It’s a really hard place to be in. It’s not the pet’s fault, it’s not the pet’s parent’s fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Smulevitz is having a hard time finding that kind of empathy as she looks for new housing, but she admits she’s been luckier than most people in her position. With months to prepare before she had to move out of her apartment, Smulevitz found foster homes through \u003ca href=\"http://www.palseastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\">PALS East Bay\u003c/a>. Among other goals, the nonprofit assists struggling pet owners who are trying to keep their animals, sometimes providing financial assistance for temporary boarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can say this anecdotally: Amanda’s story is pretty common,” said Nicole Perelman, director of PALS and a volunteer at OAS. “I definitely think there’s something going on in the wider Bay Area ecosystem, just in terms of the economy and the housing market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PALS regularly puts out calls for pet-friendly-apartment leads on its Facebook page, and it keeps a word-of-mouth list of dog-friendly buildings, especially ones that allow large breeds. But there isn’t much else it can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tough even for people who don’t have pets and have means to find a place to rent,” Perelman said. “So if you’ve got pets, it’s a strike against you. If you’re someone like Amanda and you’re low-income and you have pets, then you’re really in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Holding Onto a Miracle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Smulevitz keeps tabs on Rose and Lily through Facebook, where she’s connected to their foster parents. But so far, her housing search has not succeeded. Smulevitz has turned up only a handful of places that would accommodate her Section 8 voucher plus her pets. Some had weight limits, others would only allow one in the household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to terms months and months ago that it’s possible that I might not be able to live with my dogs again or with any pets, which is not a place I ever envisioned myself being,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she’ll have to act soon. Lily’s foster parents are leaving the Bay Area, and there is a family in Walnut Creek eager to adopt her, leaving Smulevitz with a difficult choice to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I want to surrender her completely and let someone adopt her or keep holding onto a miracle?” she says. As hard as that decision may be, ultimately, she admits the best thing to do would be to let Lily go. That way, she can at least focus on trying to keep Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Lily’s] up there in Walnut Creek in a place I’ve never been able to afford to live,” Smulevitz said through tears. “She’s living better than me and my son have ever lived. Might as well let her have that.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rose could be anywhere from 10 to 12 years old. The stray Chihuahua showed up one day in Amanda Smulevitz’s Oakland neighborhood, and the woman eventually took the dog in. A few years later, Smulevitz adopted Lily, a soon-to-be-6-year-old of the same breed, saving her from a home where she'd been mistreated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A retired and disabled mother of a special-needs son, Smulevitz has lived in Oakland for almost 50 years. But she was forced to leave her pet-friendly apartment earlier this year, when the building’s new owner refused to give her a new lease. Though she qualifies for Section 8 housing, after months of searching, Smulevitz still hasn’t found a place to live, let alone one that will accommodate her two dogs. For now, she and her son sleep on friends’ living room floors. Rose and Lily sleep with strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was the lady in the neighborhood who was always fussing at people, ‘Oh, I’d never give up my dogs just because a place didn’t take animals, and I’d find another place,’” Smulevitz said. “But I’ve eaten my words a hundred fold now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Bay Area’s housing crisis worsens, many animal shelters across the region have seen a recent uptick in owner surrenders -- mostly dogs, but also cats and other pets. Finding affordable housing is hard enough; finding affordable housing that accommodates pets can be impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Solid Answers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Most of the surrenders come from residents in the Bayview-Hunter’s Point and Mission neighborhoods, where Zillow reports a 17-20 percent rent increase since this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last year-and-a-half, the SF SPCA’s Surrender Division has worked hard to keep pets and owners together, diverting about 30 percent of the calls they receive. If a pet has behavioral issues, they can provide training resources and hopefully solve the problem. But “for housing, it’s tricky because there just isn’t a lot out there,” Bassi said. “We don’t have any solid answers or solid help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the best the SF SPCA can offer is well-worn advice: Check Craigslist for pet-friendly housing and try to re-home with family or friends. 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Compared to last year, Katz says, there’s been a significant increase in the number of animals surrendered to the facility, particularly from East Oakland owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OAS is now at 200 percent capacity. The shelter’s resources and staff are stretched, but “at the end of the day it’s better than the alternative, which is putting animals down that deserve a chance,” Katz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Katz can’t point to hard statistics as to why owners are surrendering their pets, she says she hears from many owners who blame their housing situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is going through changes, while in many respects are great, for every action there’s an opposite and equal reaction. And the reaction here is people are losing their homes and having to give up their animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like at SF SPCA, when it comes to housing, there isn’t too much OAS can do for pet owners. Sometimes it can offer to hold the animals temporarily. 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With months to prepare before she had to move out of her apartment, Smulevitz found foster homes through \u003ca href=\"http://www.palseastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\">PALS East Bay\u003c/a>. Among other goals, the nonprofit assists struggling pet owners who are trying to keep their animals, sometimes providing financial assistance for temporary boarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can say this anecdotally: Amanda’s story is pretty common,” said Nicole Perelman, director of PALS and a volunteer at OAS. “I definitely think there’s something going on in the wider Bay Area ecosystem, just in terms of the economy and the housing market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PALS regularly puts out calls for pet-friendly-apartment leads on its Facebook page, and it keeps a word-of-mouth list of dog-friendly buildings, especially ones that allow large breeds. 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Support for new housing with greater density was higher in Santa Clara (56 percent), Alameda (55 percent) and San Francisco (53 percent) counties. An even larger majority -- 61 percent -- of San Franciscans said they'd accept new housing in their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s a new phenomenon for us,\" Regan said. \"People are saying things they’ve never said before about welcoming new development in their neighborhoods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's release was a drill-down into housing-related responses and part of the Bay Area Council's yearly poll. Oakland-based EMC Research administered the online survey of 1,000 adults, all residents of the nine-county Bay Area. Respondents were fairly evenly represented across income levels, and most live in Santa Clara, Alameda and San Francisco counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council also asked questions about reducing state and local regulations that could \"hasten new housing,\" according to the group's press release. 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