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"content": "\u003cp>Space is limited in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/soma\">South of Market\u003c/a> kitchen Maritza Salinas shares, so she gets up around 5:30 a.m. to make breakfast for her three kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just one way living in a homeless shelter shapes her daily routine. On top of parenting duties, she frequently checks in with a case worker and looks for updates on the availability of a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cycle of moving in and out of shelters weighs heavily on Salinas and is especially hard for her 6-year-old son, who has autism. She dreams of the day she can bring them to a home they can stay in for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to say to my kids, ‘We got a key. We’re going to our place,’” Salinas said while pushing a stroller with her two young children on Market Street. Her 4-year-old daughter often asks when they’re going to go home. “That’s one of the hardest things for me as a mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has intensified efforts to clear street-level homelessness, a key issue in Mayor Daniel Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">campaign platform\u003c/a>. Yet hundreds of families living in shelters still lack stable housing each night, as the city struggles with a shortage of affordable homes and limited subsidies for residents with extremely low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas plays with her daughter Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas has experienced homelessness since leaving an abusive relationship in 2022. She stayed in cars, on sidewalks and multiple shelters for domestic violence survivors before arriving at her current spot, Harbor House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s on one of the city’s waitlists for housing, but her time at Harbor House is running out. She knows this feeling of stress and worry well. Last year, while at another shelter, she requested an extension to avoid ending up on the streets while her housing application was pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process was confusing and frequently left her panicked about whether she’d have a place to live at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds so easy, but I was being pushed away,” Salinas said. “What am I supposed to do, you know? Where do I need to go?”[aside postID=news_12049323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240610-HomelessFamilies-12-BL_qed.jpg']San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049323/sf-homeless-agency-walks-back-more-restrictive-policy-on-family-shelter-stays\">making it easier for families to remain in temporary shelters\u003c/a> longer starting this fall, according to a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing memo sent to the board of supervisors this month. Beginning Oct. 1, people in temporary family shelters can apply for an unlimited number of 90-day extensions, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy shift came after months of pushback against a rule implemented in December that required families to apply for 30-day extensions after their initial 90-day stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This win would not have happened without homeless families coming to City Hall themselves to tell their stories and organizing the community for months on end,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who advocated for the policy change, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a welcome change for those repeatedly filing extension applications while waiting for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started receiving eviction notices almost every month,” said Yaneth Perez, who lives in the Oasis shelter, in a press statement. Perez and Salinas have both organized alongside groups such as Faith in Action and the Coalition on Homelessness, advocating for more funding and resources for homeless families. “It created incredible stress and anxiety for us and our kids.” Advocates held press conferences outside schools to protest the evictions and met with Mayor Lurie in February. “We’re glad he’s finally listening,” Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas and her daughter Ranea, 4, and son Matthew, 6, attend a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2025, in opposition to a citywide RV ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But extensions don’t resolve the underlying need for more affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/CON_Shelter_Assessment_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to a March 2025 report\u003c/a> from the city controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the fundamental problems, said Christin Evans, vice chair of the city’s homelessness oversight body. “When people come into shelter, they’re seeking assistance to secure stable housing. They don’t want to remain in the shelter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has set up a public-private fund to build out more transitional beds, passed legislation to speed up contracts for homelessness service providers, and opened up a new drop-in facility for mental health care. The city has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/illegal-lodging-arrests-are-soaring-in-s-f-20269807.php\">increased citations and arrests\u003c/a> for people sleeping outside and is clearing more encampments.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']However, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">walked back a key\u003c/a> campaign trail promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office. Now, he’s focused on moving people more quickly through the homelessness response system and building more behavioral health and drug treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">His $16 billion budget\u003c/a> aligns with those new priorities. The board of supervisors approved his plan to reallocate funding for permanent supportive housing to improve existing parts of the shelter system. The budget deal restored $30 million for rental subsidies for homeless families, which was previously on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie’s initial budget proposal did not include any new investments in addressing family homelessness. Advocates and experts were alarmed, pointing out that the number of families experiencing homelessness nearly doubled from 2022 to 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2024_PIT_Slide_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the city’s 2024 Point in Time count\u003c/a> of the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have limited funds going to rapid rehousing vouchers and permanent supportive housing placements, and there are very long waitlists for people to get those resources,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates for unhoused families celebrated the shelter extension policy and additions to the budget. Lurie praised the change, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many families get stuck in our system, with kids growing up year after year in temporary shelter without a path to stable, permanent housing. Meanwhile, thousands of people sleep on the street every night, and the city has few indoor options to offer because our shelters are full,” Lurie said in a statement. “When government isn’t afraid to try things and listen to feedback, we can craft thoughtful, effective policies, and that’s what we’ve done here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say the city still needs far more places for residents with extremely low income to live so shelter stays are brief and new people can move in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that, efforts to open more shelter beds and improve flow through the system overall will fall short, said Margot Kushel, an expert on homelessness based at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time limits are an effort to spread the limited resource of shelters around, but the only way to truly create enough shelter spots is to have reasonable options for people to leave shelter with housing,” Kushel said in an email. “We need to be sure that we create housing that front-line workers can afford, that those on disability can afford. And that is really hard to do, because the numbers don’t always pencil out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas hugs her daughter, Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mothers like Salinas are meanwhile stuck in line while trying to give their children a reliable routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between check-ins with her case worker, she likes to walk her kids to a park near their shelter. In a stroller so large Salinas struggles to take it on the bus, her daughter looks up while chatting away about robots and “minions,” the yellow one-eyed characters from the movie \u003cem>Despicable Me\u003c/em>. Her son sits in the front of the carriage, playing a game on his iPad with headphones on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas is still on a waitlist for a subsidized three-bedroom unit, and doesn’t know if she’ll need to seek another extension after her 90-day stay at the shelter is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re placed on a waiting list and you don’t know how many people are before you,” she said. “I’m just hoping for one of these days to be able to say to my kids, ‘We have a home to go to, and you’re going to have a room, with butterflies on the walls, and we’re going to be happy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to say to my kids, ‘We got a key. We’re going to our place,’” Salinas said while pushing a stroller with her two young children on Market Street. Her 4-year-old daughter often asks when they’re going to go home. “That’s one of the hardest things for me as a mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has intensified efforts to clear street-level homelessness, a key issue in Mayor Daniel Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">campaign platform\u003c/a>. Yet hundreds of families living in shelters still lack stable housing each night, as the city struggles with a shortage of affordable homes and limited subsidies for residents with extremely low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas plays with her daughter Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas has experienced homelessness since leaving an abusive relationship in 2022. She stayed in cars, on sidewalks and multiple shelters for domestic violence survivors before arriving at her current spot, Harbor House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s on one of the city’s waitlists for housing, but her time at Harbor House is running out. She knows this feeling of stress and worry well. Last year, while at another shelter, she requested an extension to avoid ending up on the streets while her housing application was pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process was confusing and frequently left her panicked about whether she’d have a place to live at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds so easy, but I was being pushed away,” Salinas said. “What am I supposed to do, you know? Where do I need to go?”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049323/sf-homeless-agency-walks-back-more-restrictive-policy-on-family-shelter-stays\">making it easier for families to remain in temporary shelters\u003c/a> longer starting this fall, according to a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing memo sent to the board of supervisors this month. Beginning Oct. 1, people in temporary family shelters can apply for an unlimited number of 90-day extensions, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy shift came after months of pushback against a rule implemented in December that required families to apply for 30-day extensions after their initial 90-day stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This win would not have happened without homeless families coming to City Hall themselves to tell their stories and organizing the community for months on end,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who advocated for the policy change, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a welcome change for those repeatedly filing extension applications while waiting for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started receiving eviction notices almost every month,” said Yaneth Perez, who lives in the Oasis shelter, in a press statement. Perez and Salinas have both organized alongside groups such as Faith in Action and the Coalition on Homelessness, advocating for more funding and resources for homeless families. “It created incredible stress and anxiety for us and our kids.” Advocates held press conferences outside schools to protest the evictions and met with Mayor Lurie in February. “We’re glad he’s finally listening,” Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas and her daughter Ranea, 4, and son Matthew, 6, attend a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2025, in opposition to a citywide RV ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But extensions don’t resolve the underlying need for more affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/CON_Shelter_Assessment_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to a March 2025 report\u003c/a> from the city controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the fundamental problems, said Christin Evans, vice chair of the city’s homelessness oversight body. “When people come into shelter, they’re seeking assistance to secure stable housing. They don’t want to remain in the shelter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has set up a public-private fund to build out more transitional beds, passed legislation to speed up contracts for homelessness service providers, and opened up a new drop-in facility for mental health care. The city has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/illegal-lodging-arrests-are-soaring-in-s-f-20269807.php\">increased citations and arrests\u003c/a> for people sleeping outside and is clearing more encampments.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The budget deal restored $30 million for rental subsidies for homeless families, which was previously on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie’s initial budget proposal did not include any new investments in addressing family homelessness. Advocates and experts were alarmed, pointing out that the number of families experiencing homelessness nearly doubled from 2022 to 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2024_PIT_Slide_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the city’s 2024 Point in Time count\u003c/a> of the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have limited funds going to rapid rehousing vouchers and permanent supportive housing placements, and there are very long waitlists for people to get those resources,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates for unhoused families celebrated the shelter extension policy and additions to the budget. Lurie praised the change, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many families get stuck in our system, with kids growing up year after year in temporary shelter without a path to stable, permanent housing. Meanwhile, thousands of people sleep on the street every night, and the city has few indoor options to offer because our shelters are full,” Lurie said in a statement. “When government isn’t afraid to try things and listen to feedback, we can craft thoughtful, effective policies, and that’s what we’ve done here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say the city still needs far more places for residents with extremely low income to live so shelter stays are brief and new people can move in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that, efforts to open more shelter beds and improve flow through the system overall will fall short, said Margot Kushel, an expert on homelessness based at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time limits are an effort to spread the limited resource of shelters around, but the only way to truly create enough shelter spots is to have reasonable options for people to leave shelter with housing,” Kushel said in an email. “We need to be sure that we create housing that front-line workers can afford, that those on disability can afford. And that is really hard to do, because the numbers don’t always pencil out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas hugs her daughter, Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mothers like Salinas are meanwhile stuck in line while trying to give their children a reliable routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between check-ins with her case worker, she likes to walk her kids to a park near their shelter. In a stroller so large Salinas struggles to take it on the bus, her daughter looks up while chatting away about robots and “minions,” the yellow one-eyed characters from the movie \u003cem>Despicable Me\u003c/em>. Her son sits in the front of the carriage, playing a game on his iPad with headphones on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas is still on a waitlist for a subsidized three-bedroom unit, and doesn’t know if she’ll need to seek another extension after her 90-day stay at the shelter is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re placed on a waiting list and you don’t know how many people are before you,” she said. “I’m just hoping for one of these days to be able to say to my kids, ‘We have a home to go to, and you’re going to have a room, with butterflies on the walls, and we’re going to be happy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/\">executive order\u003c/a> promising to crack down on street homelessness across the country drew prompt criticism from service providers in California and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, which called it a harmful imitation of the state’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, signed Thursday, also calls for increased institutionalization of people with mental illness and promises to defund the state’s — and \u003ca href=\"https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071107-2.html\">nation’s\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/featuredarticles/VAs-Implementation-of-Housing-First.asp#:~:text=The%20core%20principles%20of%20Housing,states%20have%20effectively%20ended%20homelessness.\">longstanding\u003c/a> “housing first” policy, among other provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for Newsom’s office, derided Trump’s order as “more focused on creating distracting headlines and settling old scores than producing any positive impact.” Still, she acknowledged it resembled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">governor’s own approach\u003c/a>, which has emphasized clearing street encampments and bolstering mental health and drug abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, there were more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">187,000 people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> in California, a 3% increase over the previous year. But, Gallegos argued, the state has outperformed the nation, which saw an \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_NatlTerrDC_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18%\u003c/a> increase during the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, the governor issued an executive order addressing encampments that was based on the law and the facts, not harmful stereotypes and ineffective public policy,” she told KQED in an email. “But, his imitation (even poorly executed) is the highest form of flattery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order comes as the Department of Housing and Urban Development has asked local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/stat/cpd/fy2024-coc-competition\">reapply\u003c/a> for federal Continuum of Care funding for fiscal year 2025 — a critical grant program that serves as the “backbone” of the homelessness response system, said Katie Barnett with the policy organization All Home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco sheriff’s officers place an unhoused man into the back of a van during an arrest in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past fiscal year, local organizations and agencies in California received nearly $683 million in Continuum of Care grants, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/stat/cpd/fy2024-coc-competition\">according to HUD\u003c/a>. Most of that funding is allocated based on certain quantitative factors, such as the number of people experiencing homelessness and a region’s success in getting and keeping people housed, said Vivian Wan, CEO of the nonprofit Abode Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the grant application is judged competitively on how well it hews to federal policy, she said. For years, that’s meant following the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/nchav/docs/Research_Brief-May2023-The_Evidence_Behind_the_Housing_First_Model-Tsai_508c.pdf\">housing first\u003c/a>” model — an approach \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/end-homelessness-carson-should-continue-housing-first-approach\">first adopted\u003c/a> by George W. Bush’s administration. It essentially means providing housing without requiring that someone be enrolled in substance abuse or mental health treatment, though \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/blog/housing-first-not-housing-only\">those services are typically offered\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order appears to end that practice, requiring recipients of federal funding to ensure people in their programs with mental illness or substance abuse disorders use services “as a condition of participation.”[aside postID=news_12039730 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080924-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEP-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']But Wan said it’s yet unclear what that will look like in practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does that mean we do drug testing?” she asked. “Do we ask people, ‘Are you sober?’ The devil is in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Home Director of Policy Susannah Parsons called the order “a grab bag of some of the worst ideas out there for addressing homelessness.” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, described it as a policy rooted in “cruelty, fear, and punishment.” But other observers have welcomed the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Webster, a senior fellow at the conservative Cicero Institute, called it “a huge step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to Los Angeles, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-06/homeless-deaths-in-l-a-county-are-leveling-off-but-still-nearly-seven-per-day\">seven unhoused people, on average, died each day\u003c/a> in 2023 — a rate that’s 4.5 times higher than the general population. Drug- and alcohol-related overdoses accounted for 45% of those deaths, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve known for years that homelessness isn’t just about housing but that it’s about folks who’ve got serious illnesses, addictions, mental health challenges, behavioral health challenges,” Webster said. “This is a humanitarian crisis on the streets of some of our largest cities, and we’ve ignored it for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Tents with various items on a sidewalk next to a large vehicle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on Division Street in San Francisco in 2016. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s own executive order last year directing state agencies to clear encampments from state land, along with his calls earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">cities to do the same\u003c/a>, is an admission that the status quo isn’t working, Webster argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California, because they are impacted the most from other states in the country, they’ve got to figure out how to do things differently,” Webster said, adding that’s meant “focusing more on the provision of treatment, focusing more on the fact that encampments are dangerous for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also pushed for the adoption of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">CARE Court\u003c/a>, an alternative mental health court designed to assist people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which required counties to dedicate more money to housing and programs for people experiencing homelessness with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.[aside postID=news_12049323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240610-HomelessFamilies-12-BL_qed.jpg']But Julie Lo, deputy director of programs with the advocacy group Housing California, said CARE Court’s approach to treatment is philosophically different from Trump’s executive order: The state’s process is centered on community-based treatment, emphasizing empowerment and allowing family members and behavioral health providers to be part of the discussion for court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623007657\">multiple\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/involuntary-sweeps-of-homeless-encampments-do-not-improve-public-safety-study-finds\"> studies\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NHCHC-encampment-sweeps-issue-brief-12-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> showing\u003c/a> encampment sweeps can be ineffective in decreasing homelessness and increasing public safety, and said that if the executive order is trying to achieve that goal, “this is certainly not the path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen over and over that sweeping encampments and increasing enforcement or forcing people into institutional settings — it doesn’t reduce homelessness,” she said. “It moves people around and makes it harder for them to access services. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Wan said it’s yet unclear what that will look like in practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does that mean we do drug testing?” she asked. “Do we ask people, ‘Are you sober?’ The devil is in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Home Director of Policy Susannah Parsons called the order “a grab bag of some of the worst ideas out there for addressing homelessness.” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, described it as a policy rooted in “cruelty, fear, and punishment.” But other observers have welcomed the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Webster, a senior fellow at the conservative Cicero Institute, called it “a huge step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to Los Angeles, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-06/homeless-deaths-in-l-a-county-are-leveling-off-but-still-nearly-seven-per-day\">seven unhoused people, on average, died each day\u003c/a> in 2023 — a rate that’s 4.5 times higher than the general population. Drug- and alcohol-related overdoses accounted for 45% of those deaths, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve known for years that homelessness isn’t just about housing but that it’s about folks who’ve got serious illnesses, addictions, mental health challenges, behavioral health challenges,” Webster said. “This is a humanitarian crisis on the streets of some of our largest cities, and we’ve ignored it for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Tents with various items on a sidewalk next to a large vehicle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on Division Street in San Francisco in 2016. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s own executive order last year directing state agencies to clear encampments from state land, along with his calls earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">cities to do the same\u003c/a>, is an admission that the status quo isn’t working, Webster argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California, because they are impacted the most from other states in the country, they’ve got to figure out how to do things differently,” Webster said, adding that’s meant “focusing more on the provision of treatment, focusing more on the fact that encampments are dangerous for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also pushed for the adoption of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">CARE Court\u003c/a>, an alternative mental health court designed to assist people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which required counties to dedicate more money to housing and programs for people experiencing homelessness with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Julie Lo, deputy director of programs with the advocacy group Housing California, said CARE Court’s approach to treatment is philosophically different from Trump’s executive order: The state’s process is centered on community-based treatment, emphasizing empowerment and allowing family members and behavioral health providers to be part of the discussion for court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623007657\">multiple\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/involuntary-sweeps-of-homeless-encampments-do-not-improve-public-safety-study-finds\"> studies\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NHCHC-encampment-sweeps-issue-brief-12-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> showing\u003c/a> encampment sweeps can be ineffective in decreasing homelessness and increasing public safety, and said that if the executive order is trying to achieve that goal, “this is certainly not the path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen over and over that sweeping encampments and increasing enforcement or forcing people into institutional settings — it doesn’t reduce homelessness,” she said. “It moves people around and makes it harder for them to access services. And really, it creates a cycle of trauma with no path to stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Stokes, executive director of Episcopal Community Services San Francisco, worries the order threatens to undo decades of progress in the movement to end homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply troubled by the administration’s executive order, which abandons compassionate and evidence-based programs, like \u003ca href=\"https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/harm-reduction\">harm reduction\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/blog/housing-first-not-housing-only\">housing first\u003c/a>, and replaces them with cruel policies such as forced treatment and criminalizing poor people for being unhoused,” she said in a statement. “Instead of investing in solutions we know work, this policy punishes people for the system’s failures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a five-year legal battle, nearly $1 billion generated from an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> sales tax can finally go toward solving its homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous decision on Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors came amid \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandside.org/2025/07/02/measure-w-alameda-county-homelessness-bas/\">some uncertainty\u003c/a> over whether all the revenue would go toward housing and homelessness — as initially billed to voters, when the measure narrowly passed in 2020 — or if some should go to other county programs, such as mental health or violence prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the board decided to allocate the vast majority of the funds to its original purpose, with a smaller portion going to other county programs. The 10-year half-cent sales tax has accrued about $810 million through June, according to county officials. Those funds will continue to grow through 2031, and officials estimate they could generate a total of more than $1.8 billion, with roughly $1.4 billion dedicated to solving the county’s homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windfall comes amid federal reductions in other safety net programs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/news/senatevotejuly25\">food stamps\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/putting-880-billion-in-potential-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-context-of-state-budgets-and-coverage/\">Medicaid\u003c/a>. At the state level, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget late last month, which includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045673/newsom-slashes-funding-for-homelessness-in-state-budget-leaving-cities-scrambling\">no new funding for a key statewide homelessness grant program\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders argued that the recently released cash from Measure W puts Alameda County in a unique position to continue progress on housing people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t made a dent in the last 20 years, 10 years,” Board President David Haubert said. “We have more needs than we have resources, which is why we have to be smart about the dollars that we’re spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland on Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the point-in-time survey of Alameda County’s homeless population. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">Alameda County’s most recent count,\u003c/a> more than 9,400 people were estimated to be experiencing homelessness in the county, but for the first time since 2013, that number has declined — down 3% compared to 2022. Unsheltered homelessness declined even more — 11% during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realize that the Trump administration means that there are significant cuts that are coming your way,” Oakland City Council President Kevin Jenkins told supervisors at the meeting. “All of you guys represent an area where people are literally dying in our streets. And so we have the resources with Measure W to start getting people off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been held up in litigation after the Alameda Taxpayers Association sued the county, a\u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2025/a168775.html\">rguing it was actually a special tax\u003c/a>, requiring a two-thirds majority to pass. Voters had only narrowly approved it with a 50.09% majority. Earlier this year, however, a judge ruled the measure was indeed a general tax and released the funds, which had been sitting in escrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco faced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837613/proposition-c-court-win-delivers-nearly-500-million-for-san-franciscos-homeless-but-how-will-it-be-spent\">similar battle\u003c/a> over Proposition C, which voters approved in 2018 and was subsequently tied up in litigation. In 2020, the state supreme court ruled the tax was valid and could be implemented as originally promised. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">Mayor Daniel Lurie announced plans\u003c/a> to reallocate some of the funds from homelessness prevention programs to interim shelters.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']When Measure W was presented to Alameda County voters, officials estimated it could generate $150 million per year. Since the tax started collection in July 2021, its revenue has mildly exceeded expectations, generating a little more than $160 million per year. County officials expect future years will yield roughly $170 million for the duration of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board agreed to allocate 80% of Measure W funds to the county’s Home Together Fund, which is used for a wide range of services, including acquiring and maintaining temporary and permanent housing and providing services for people experiencing or exiting homelessness. And if the tax generates more than $170 million in a given year, any additional funds would also go into the Home Together Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 20% of Measure W’s revenue will be set aside for safety net programs, including food security, behavioral health care and senior services. And, following a recommendation from county staff, the board created a $170 million reserve, which the county can dip into if economic conditions worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda supervisors adopted guiding principles for how the fund will be allocated on Tuesday, the granular allocations will be decided at a special meeting next Wednesday. In the meantime, cities are vying for their piece of the pie. Oakland’s newly elected mayor, Barbara Lee, campaigned on a promise to get \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/19/oakland-mayor-election-loren-taylor-barbara-lee-difference-comparison/#h-homelessness-and-housing\">her city’s fair share of Measure W\u003c/a> funds. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">More than half\u003c/a> of Alameda County’s homeless population lives in Oakland, despite its residents making up only a quarter of the county’s total population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the No Kings protest in Oakland on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As decisions are being made about where those dollars go, it’s important to ground those conversations based on the need,” Lee said at the meeting. “In Oakland, that need is urgent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents Oakland, agreed with Lee, while also emphasizing the need to address racial disparities in the county’s homeless population. According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">county data\u003c/a>, the largest racial group experiencing homelessness in Alameda County is Black. Black residents make up 41% of people experiencing homelessness, despite representing only a tenth of the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to Measure W, I do agree that we have to invest the funds where there is the most need,” she told KQED. “And we have to work towards eliminating those racial disparities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the board’s discussion on Tuesday, Haubert challenged the idea that throwing money at the problem will actually solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I think it’s kind of the opposite — the more money you pour into something, the less urgency there is to actually perform,” he said. “I wanna see progress on things year by year, so I’d like to see us reallocate this every year based on what’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windfall comes amid federal reductions in other safety net programs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/news/senatevotejuly25\">food stamps\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/putting-880-billion-in-potential-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-context-of-state-budgets-and-coverage/\">Medicaid\u003c/a>. At the state level, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget late last month, which includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045673/newsom-slashes-funding-for-homelessness-in-state-budget-leaving-cities-scrambling\">no new funding for a key statewide homelessness grant program\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders argued that the recently released cash from Measure W puts Alameda County in a unique position to continue progress on housing people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t made a dent in the last 20 years, 10 years,” Board President David Haubert said. “We have more needs than we have resources, which is why we have to be smart about the dollars that we’re spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland on Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the point-in-time survey of Alameda County’s homeless population. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">Alameda County’s most recent count,\u003c/a> more than 9,400 people were estimated to be experiencing homelessness in the county, but for the first time since 2013, that number has declined — down 3% compared to 2022. Unsheltered homelessness declined even more — 11% during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realize that the Trump administration means that there are significant cuts that are coming your way,” Oakland City Council President Kevin Jenkins told supervisors at the meeting. “All of you guys represent an area where people are literally dying in our streets. And so we have the resources with Measure W to start getting people off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been held up in litigation after the Alameda Taxpayers Association sued the county, a\u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2025/a168775.html\">rguing it was actually a special tax\u003c/a>, requiring a two-thirds majority to pass. Voters had only narrowly approved it with a 50.09% majority. Earlier this year, however, a judge ruled the measure was indeed a general tax and released the funds, which had been sitting in escrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco faced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837613/proposition-c-court-win-delivers-nearly-500-million-for-san-franciscos-homeless-but-how-will-it-be-spent\">similar battle\u003c/a> over Proposition C, which voters approved in 2018 and was subsequently tied up in litigation. In 2020, the state supreme court ruled the tax was valid and could be implemented as originally promised. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">Mayor Daniel Lurie announced plans\u003c/a> to reallocate some of the funds from homelessness prevention programs to interim shelters.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Measure W was presented to Alameda County voters, officials estimated it could generate $150 million per year. Since the tax started collection in July 2021, its revenue has mildly exceeded expectations, generating a little more than $160 million per year. County officials expect future years will yield roughly $170 million for the duration of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board agreed to allocate 80% of Measure W funds to the county’s Home Together Fund, which is used for a wide range of services, including acquiring and maintaining temporary and permanent housing and providing services for people experiencing or exiting homelessness. And if the tax generates more than $170 million in a given year, any additional funds would also go into the Home Together Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 20% of Measure W’s revenue will be set aside for safety net programs, including food security, behavioral health care and senior services. And, following a recommendation from county staff, the board created a $170 million reserve, which the county can dip into if economic conditions worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda supervisors adopted guiding principles for how the fund will be allocated on Tuesday, the granular allocations will be decided at a special meeting next Wednesday. In the meantime, cities are vying for their piece of the pie. Oakland’s newly elected mayor, Barbara Lee, campaigned on a promise to get \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/19/oakland-mayor-election-loren-taylor-barbara-lee-difference-comparison/#h-homelessness-and-housing\">her city’s fair share of Measure W\u003c/a> funds. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">More than half\u003c/a> of Alameda County’s homeless population lives in Oakland, despite its residents making up only a quarter of the county’s total population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the No Kings protest in Oakland on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As decisions are being made about where those dollars go, it’s important to ground those conversations based on the need,” Lee said at the meeting. “In Oakland, that need is urgent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents Oakland, agreed with Lee, while also emphasizing the need to address racial disparities in the county’s homeless population. According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">county data\u003c/a>, the largest racial group experiencing homelessness in Alameda County is Black. Black residents make up 41% of people experiencing homelessness, despite representing only a tenth of the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to Measure W, I do agree that we have to invest the funds where there is the most need,” she told KQED. “And we have to work towards eliminating those racial disparities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the board’s discussion on Tuesday, Haubert challenged the idea that throwing money at the problem will actually solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I think it’s kind of the opposite — the more money you pour into something, the less urgency there is to actually perform,” he said. “I wanna see progress on things year by year, so I’d like to see us reallocate this every year based on what’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco will make it easier for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029619/luries-nonprofit-giving-san-francisco-11-million-prevent-family-homelessness\">families\u003c/a> to remain in its temporary shelters for longer this fall, according to a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing memo sent to the Board of Supervisors this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning Oct. 1, the department will allow people in its temporary family shelter system to apply for an unlimited number of 90-day extensions, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy shift comes after months of pushback against a reinstated rule, implemented in December, that requires families to apply for 30-day extensions after their initial 90-day stay in one of the temporary shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In response to listening sessions with families using the shelter system, analysis of shelter outcomes data, and input from our service providers, HSH is moving forward with making the following changes to the Family Shelter Length of Stay policy,” the July 8 memo from HSH’s Executive Director Shireen McSpadden reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, families enrolled in either of the department’s temporary family housing programs — which offer 14-day emergency and 90-day temporary shelter placements — are eligible for 30-day extensions, as long as they continue to engage with case managers and search for more stable housing. 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Shelter providers will be allowed to authorize a first 90-day extension themselves, while HSH will need to grant further extensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, the vice chair of San Francisco’s Homelessness Oversight Commission, said the new policy will help prevent families who are seeking more permanent housing from slipping \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">back into unsheltered homelessness\u003c/a>. She said there are hundreds of families vying for a limited number of support services, including rapid re-housing vouchers and supportive housing placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very long waitlists for people to get those resources,” she told KQED. “It’s really concerning that they know that there’s these limited resources and they’re essentially giving people very limited time in the shelter and knowing that this will result in people reentering homelessness, unsheltered homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HSH said the updated policy reflects conversations with service providers and families as well as an analysis of shelter outcome data, which revealed that the gap threatened to let families in the supportive housing system backslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This updated policy leads with compassion for those in shelter trying to provide for their families while helping them access permanent housing opportunities,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said in a statement. “And it will help encourage flow in our system, opening up much-needed space for families on the street right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When government isn’t afraid to try things and listen to feedback, we can craft thoughtful, effective policies, and that’s what we’ve done here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">\u003cem>Sydney Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former residents of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922175/remembering-russell-city-a-thriving-east-bay-town-razed-by-racist-government\">Russell City\u003c/a> may receive reparations payments after the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048684/alameda-county-set-to-approve-reparations-fund-for-displaced-russell-city-residents\">three-quarters of a million dollars\u003c/a> in redress funds for people who were forced out of their homes and businesses when officials bulldozed the community in the early 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Elisa Márquez and Nate Miley, earlier this month, announced a proposal to earmark nearly a million dollars for the fund. The board’s vote this week agreed to allocate $750,000 to the pool in recognition of the county’s role in the displacement of former Russell City residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Hayward pledged an additional $250,000 to the new fund as part of its justice initiative, bringing the total to $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The destruction of Russell City is an atrocity that cannot be undone,” Márquez said during the board meeting. “The displacement of homes, businesses and livelihoods represents a profound injustice that continues to affect former residents, including the elders who are still alive and living in Alameda County today, as well as their descendants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922175/remembering-russell-city-a-thriving-east-bay-town-razed-by-racist-government\">Russell City\u003c/a>, an unincorporated neighborhood of about 1,400 people near the Hayward Shoreline, was a cultural and residential haven for Black and Latino families in the years following World War II. It was known for its thriving small business sector and its vibrant clubbing and art scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural at A Street and Maple Court in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021, pays tribute to Russell City. Mural artists are Joshua Powell, assisted by Wythe Bowart, Nicole Pierret and Brent McHugh. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because the city was unincorporated, however, it also lacked essential city services such as sewage, plumbing and electricity. When residents turned to local officials for assistance, they were repeatedly denied. Instead, officials used the conditions to declare Russell City a “blight” on the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1960s, Alameda County and the city of Hayward began seizing property in the area through eminent domain as part of a plan to turn the neighborhood into an industrial park. By 1966, the beloved neighborhood was bulldozed to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a thousand residents were displaced from their homes, forced to rebuild their lives at a time when racist policies like redlining and racial steering made it extremely difficult for Black and brown people to relocate.[aside postID=news_12048684 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/004_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg']Márquez acknowledged the role county officials played in the destruction of the community, adding that the funds are a recognition of the pain they inflicted on former residents and the suffering that continues to the present day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the national reckoning it sparked, Hayward issued a formal apology for its culpability in the takeover of Russell City. It launched the Russell City Reparative Justice Project the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It signals to the community that the city of Hayward acknowledges what happened and is willing to take steps forward to apologize … and to make good on something that was so terribly wrong,” said Mayor Mark Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hayward officials didn’t issue eviction notices themselves, the city still benefited from the acquisition of Russell City and helped secure investors and developers, Salinas said, adding that it’s time to acknowledge the harm they caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope cities begin to look at and evaluate their own histories in relation to families of color and neighborhoods of color,” he said. “Things don’t just happen out of thin air. People meet, people plan and people build. That’s where institutional racism and discrimination manifest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922192\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of several wooden buildings including a home, a large shed or garage and several small structures.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized-800x653.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized-1020x833.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized-1536x1254.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Russell City home circa 1950. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor David Haubert, who allocated $100,000 to the redress fund from his office, said he hopes that the money will allow families to “move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t completely address and redress all of the harms which are long-lasting, which are traumatic, and yet at the same time, I think it is very symbolic in terms of going beyond the apology,” Haubert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the funds secured, the next step for officials is to determine eligibility requirements, identify which families lived in Russell City and figure out a process for disbursement, Salinas said. 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James Knowles serves on Alameda County’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bnc/#/board/a0U4N00000NObxiUAD\"> Reparations Commission\u003c/a>, and Aisha Knowles volunteers for Hayward’s committee focused on\u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/hayward-history/russell-city/steering-committee\"> Russell City\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the daughter of someone who lived in Russell City, I didn’t start this fight,” Knowles said. “But I feel like … it is part of my responsibility in living and paying things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, decades later, Knowles’ father and other former residents of Russell City may receive a form of payment from Alameda County and Hayward to make amends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard the news last week, Knowles said her emotions ranged from surprised to grateful to “a little bit cautious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a positive start,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was Russell City?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Due to widespread racist policies like redlining, Russell City was one of the rare places where Black and Latino people could own homes in the Bay Area after World War II. It was a thriving community with schools, clubs, a church and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">a vibrant culture hub\u003c/a> for blues music, with legendary performers like Etta James and Ray Charles taking the stage there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048781\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A motorcycle drives by a mural depicting scenes from Russell City at A Street and Maple Court in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021. Mural artists are Joshua Powell, assisted by Wythe Bowart, Nicole Pierret and Brent McHugh. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But because Russell City was unincorporated, it lacked basic city services such as sewage or plumbing. Residents repeatedly petitioned the county and the city of Hayward for assistance, but were denied. Instead, officials declared the community a “blight,” seized property through eminent domain and made plans to redevelop it into an industrial park. In 1963, officials cleared out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">the entire community\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 1,400 people were forcibly dislocated, including Knowles’ family. She said many former residents struggled to recover, including her grandfather, who lost the auto shop he owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult for him to recover from not being able to have a business,” she said. “He died at the age of 48 …There are a lot of memories, harm, and trauma that many families have experienced.”[aside postID=news_12044638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/12m-Reparations-1.jpg']After the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, cities across the country, including in the Bay Area, began taking steps to acknowledge their discriminatory and racist histories. In 2021, Hayward issued\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\"> a public apology\u003c/a> to former residents of Russell City. The following year, the city launched the Russell City Reparative Justice Project, which presented recommendations to the city council in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were in support and happy when we did the apology, but it did feel like it wasn’t enough. Those are just words. It wasn’t anything tangible,” said Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, Hayward, Márquez and fellow Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000 fund\u003c/a> dedicated to the former residents of Russell City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our commitment to say, ‘We meant what we said publicly with apology,’” Márquez said. “By no means is it meant to cover the cost of what they lost because that’s insurmountable. But we do want to publicly tell them, ‘We care about you. We care about the pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could be just the beginning as well. There might be other ways that we can get at redressing the harm for Russell City,” added Miley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Márquez, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote to approve the funding for the Russell City fund on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really important that we act as quickly as possible,” Márquez said. “It is really painful to learn every year that another elder has passed away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money is in the fund?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000\u003c/a> in the redress fund:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$250,000 will come from the city of Hayward\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$400,000 from Márquez’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$250,000 from Miley’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Márquez added she is hoping the fund can reach a million dollars, and that “we’re all gonna work collectively — really hard — engaging in philanthropy as well as local businesses and anyone interested in contributing to the redress fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"Three women stand together. The woman on the left is wearing glasses, a turquoise sweater with a brown purse. The woman in the middle with her hand holding her wrist is wearing a green shirt and light brown bag. The woman on the right is wearing a grey shirt with a black purse on her left shoulder.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Doyal (left), Winny Knowles (center) and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Knowles pointed out that there have been other government agencies in the area who could also contribute to the redress fund since they “had a role in what happened in Russell City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fund is] a good start. It also is a sign to these other agencies to look at the history within their own organizations,” Knowles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Márquez said she is also working with the city of Hayward to find a local foundation that can administer the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her priority is for the funds to go to former residents and elders who are still living. They may consider expanding that criteria depending on how much money is ultimately raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of kids playing volleyball by an empty field. Some low buildings rise up in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large group of children playing volleyball on a dirt playground at Russell School, circa 1950. Former Russell City residents fondly remember playing together at the edge of town. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To identify past residents and collect their information, Márquez said the city did a survey with close to 400 respondents and held two town halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That data is being compiled, and that’s what we’ll have to look at, in terms of who do we know that actually lived there,” she said. “Now that the issue has been elevated, [it] is very likely that we’ll learn of more former residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much does a former resident get?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It depends on how much the fund raises, Márquez said. She said the county is aiming to launch a website containing details in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will people see the compensation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her “ideal” timeline would be 60 to 90 days to get the fund running.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is the precedent for this?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I do feel it’s historic,” said Márquez. “This is a blueprint of what you could do at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamilah Moore, an attorney who chaired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California’s Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, said some local governments and states created funds or programs to address past harms. In 2019, Evanston, Illinois, established a fund for Black residents using the city’s\u003ca href=\"https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/22/city/poetic-justice-how-cannabis-fuels-evanstons-reparations/\"> 3% sales tax on marijuana\u003c/a>. In the 1990s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/rosewood-reparations/\">Florida passed a law\u003c/a> allowing descendants of a Black majority town that suffered a massacre in 1923 to attend college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamilah Moore at Northeastern University in Oakland on Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This fund in Russell City seems to be unique,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her studies of international law and reparations, Moore said a key component of making amends is providing payments to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about recommendations, at the end of the day, we’ve got to make sure it includes compensation,” she said.[aside postID=news_11897843 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Hayward_RussellCity_Mural-672x372.jpg']From her perspective, conversation about reparations has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044638/california-reparations-bills-definition-12-million-explainer\">stagnated on the state level\u003c/a>, even as California officials discuss how to disperse the $12 million allocated toward reparative legislation. But she sees the Russell City fund as an example of momentum building locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Localities are still doing what they need to do to make sure that they’re rectifying harms,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowles — who produced a documentary about Russell City called \u003ca href=\"https://www.theapologyfilm.com/\">\u003cem>The Apology\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — said it is important for communities across California to research past discrimination and violence, ensure harm is repaired and “prevent it from happening in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an adult, it seems like there were efforts made to erase the history of Russell City,” she said, her voice breaking as she held back tears. “I feel like my grandparents and my relatives who are no longer here are proud of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother had faith all the time. She was not an angry woman,” she added. “She believed that there would always be something greater, even if she didn’t get to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the creation of the redress fund, there is a little bit of peace that I received, in understanding maybe this is what she knew that this would happen one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other questions do you have?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we aim to publish guides and explainers that dispel confusion and answer pressing questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have more inquiries about reparations or racial justice in California, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to answer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, cities across the country, including in the Bay Area, began taking steps to acknowledge their discriminatory and racist histories. In 2021, Hayward issued\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\"> a public apology\u003c/a> to former residents of Russell City. The following year, the city launched the Russell City Reparative Justice Project, which presented recommendations to the city council in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were in support and happy when we did the apology, but it did feel like it wasn’t enough. Those are just words. It wasn’t anything tangible,” said Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, Hayward, Márquez and fellow Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000 fund\u003c/a> dedicated to the former residents of Russell City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our commitment to say, ‘We meant what we said publicly with apology,’” Márquez said. “By no means is it meant to cover the cost of what they lost because that’s insurmountable. But we do want to publicly tell them, ‘We care about you. We care about the pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could be just the beginning as well. There might be other ways that we can get at redressing the harm for Russell City,” added Miley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Márquez, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote to approve the funding for the Russell City fund on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really important that we act as quickly as possible,” Márquez said. “It is really painful to learn every year that another elder has passed away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money is in the fund?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000\u003c/a> in the redress fund:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$250,000 will come from the city of Hayward\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$400,000 from Márquez’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$250,000 from Miley’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Márquez added she is hoping the fund can reach a million dollars, and that “we’re all gonna work collectively — really hard — engaging in philanthropy as well as local businesses and anyone interested in contributing to the redress fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"Three women stand together. The woman on the left is wearing glasses, a turquoise sweater with a brown purse. The woman in the middle with her hand holding her wrist is wearing a green shirt and light brown bag. The woman on the right is wearing a grey shirt with a black purse on her left shoulder.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Doyal (left), Winny Knowles (center) and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Knowles pointed out that there have been other government agencies in the area who could also contribute to the redress fund since they “had a role in what happened in Russell City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fund is] a good start. It also is a sign to these other agencies to look at the history within their own organizations,” Knowles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Márquez said she is also working with the city of Hayward to find a local foundation that can administer the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her priority is for the funds to go to former residents and elders who are still living. They may consider expanding that criteria depending on how much money is ultimately raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of kids playing volleyball by an empty field. Some low buildings rise up in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large group of children playing volleyball on a dirt playground at Russell School, circa 1950. Former Russell City residents fondly remember playing together at the edge of town. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To identify past residents and collect their information, Márquez said the city did a survey with close to 400 respondents and held two town halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That data is being compiled, and that’s what we’ll have to look at, in terms of who do we know that actually lived there,” she said. “Now that the issue has been elevated, [it] is very likely that we’ll learn of more former residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much does a former resident get?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It depends on how much the fund raises, Márquez said. She said the county is aiming to launch a website containing details in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will people see the compensation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her “ideal” timeline would be 60 to 90 days to get the fund running.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is the precedent for this?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I do feel it’s historic,” said Márquez. “This is a blueprint of what you could do at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamilah Moore, an attorney who chaired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California’s Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, said some local governments and states created funds or programs to address past harms. In 2019, Evanston, Illinois, established a fund for Black residents using the city’s\u003ca href=\"https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/22/city/poetic-justice-how-cannabis-fuels-evanstons-reparations/\"> 3% sales tax on marijuana\u003c/a>. In the 1990s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/rosewood-reparations/\">Florida passed a law\u003c/a> allowing descendants of a Black majority town that suffered a massacre in 1923 to attend college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamilah Moore at Northeastern University in Oakland on Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This fund in Russell City seems to be unique,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her studies of international law and reparations, Moore said a key component of making amends is providing payments to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about recommendations, at the end of the day, we’ve got to make sure it includes compensation,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>From her perspective, conversation about reparations has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044638/california-reparations-bills-definition-12-million-explainer\">stagnated on the state level\u003c/a>, even as California officials discuss how to disperse the $12 million allocated toward reparative legislation. But she sees the Russell City fund as an example of momentum building locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Localities are still doing what they need to do to make sure that they’re rectifying harms,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowles — who produced a documentary about Russell City called \u003ca href=\"https://www.theapologyfilm.com/\">\u003cem>The Apology\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — said it is important for communities across California to research past discrimination and violence, ensure harm is repaired and “prevent it from happening in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an adult, it seems like there were efforts made to erase the history of Russell City,” she said, her voice breaking as she held back tears. “I feel like my grandparents and my relatives who are no longer here are proud of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother had faith all the time. She was not an angry woman,” she added. “She believed that there would always be something greater, even if she didn’t get to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the creation of the redress fund, there is a little bit of peace that I received, in understanding maybe this is what she knew that this would happen one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other questions do you have?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we aim to publish guides and explainers that dispel confusion and answer pressing questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have more inquiries about reparations or racial justice in California, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to answer. It will make our reporting stronger and will help us decide what to cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwcbTYMD7fA9T1Tm7VvQfBTB1KZpCweq-RO5DfwzU5rfk2mQ/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"690\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/swhitney\">\u003cem>Spencer Whitney\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922175/remembering-russell-city-a-thriving-east-bay-town-razed-by-racist-government\">\u003cem>Katrina Schwartz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 11:35 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, officials from California Forever \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011148/sold-out-california-forevers-uphill-battle-to-build-a-walkable-city\">pulled an initiative from the ballot box\u003c/a> to build a city from scratch in Solano County. Now, it’s back with a plan to build something else there, too: the largest site for advanced manufacturing in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO Jan Sramek announced the plans at the Reindustrialize Summit in Detroit on Thursday. The proposed 2,100-acre site, called the “Solano Foundry,” would be located within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043295/suisun-city-proposes-annexing-most-of-california-forevers-new-city\">mega-development \u003c/a>the company is pursuing in southeast Solano County. It includes dedicated manufacturing space for companies focused on robotics, logistics, energy, aerospace and defense, among other fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andreas Lieber, the Foundry’s general manager, said the proposal solves several problems plaguing Silicon Valley — and the United States — right now: \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/31/the-state-of-the-american-middle-class/\">a shrinking middle class\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2021/may/investigating-us-reliance-foreign-suppliers#:~:text=In%20a%20further%20breakdown%20of,machinery%20and%20equipment%20(18.4%25)%3B\">dependence on other countries to build things\u003c/a>, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot really operate as a country if you’re only doing service jobs and basically outsource your middle class,” he said. “And then you’re not building anything anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opponents of California Forever’s proposed megaproject argue the company doesn’t have to build a whole new city to bring jobs to the county. It could just build factories in existing cities. Nate Huntington, a member of Solano Together, a coalition opposed to the project, said the Foundry announcement could be “just another marketing gimmick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are sites that can accommodate industries such as this that do not require… the development of an entire new community to make this happen,” he said. “Many of the things that they put out [are] to create hype and potential attraction to this project, but some of those things fade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes nearly four months after executives expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037142/california-forevers-shipbuilding-plans-need-more-details-solano-county-officials-say\">interest in building ships\u003c/a> in Collinsville, an unincorporated town in Solano County that sits at the mouth of the Sacramento River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CAForever2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CAForever2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CAForever2-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CAForever2-1536x805.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Solano Foundry would be located in an area previously designated for “industry and technology” within the new city. It would also be close to Collinsville, where the company wants to build a shipyard. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Forever)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Foundry would be located just seven miles away and includes space for companies working on advanced transportation systems and supply chain technology, which officials say could help support \u003ca href=\"https://californiaforever.com/california-forevers-statement-on-bringing-shipbuilding-back-to-solano-county/\">shipbuilding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The white paper projected the Foundry could produce about 40,000 jobs — and even more with shipbuilding — adding billions of dollars to the county’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a significant increase from the 15,000 jobs the company proposed last year, when it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986569/california-forever-says-12-start-ups-will-open-workplaces-in-its-new-city\">announced 12 start-ups would open\u003c/a> in its proposed city. The Foundry would be built next to homes, in an area that has been designated for industrial space, according to previous maps the company released. California Forever will work with commercial real estate broker JLL to lease space on the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1199px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CaliforniaForeverMap-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1199\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CaliforniaForeverMap-1.jpg 1199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CaliforniaForeverMap-1-160x102.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Forever’s proposed plans for its new city last year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Forever)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a whitepaper JLL published Thursday, several companies expressed interest, including some that had already pledged support last year: aerospace company Hadrian and Serve Robotics. The expressed interest is not legally binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Lieber said these companies realize that the state is at an inflection point. It’s not that manufacturing doesn’t happen at all in Silicon Valley, the birthplace of semiconductors and the microchip, but that it doesn’t happen at a large enough scale. And when companies want to expand their factories, they leave California, often to states with lower tax and regulatory burdens, or to \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/94bf8985-1e87-438b-9a3a-e3334489dd30/background-on-issues-in-us-manufacturing-and-supply-chains-final.pdf\">other countries entirely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a recent report from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/are-company-headquarters-leaving-california/#overall-trends-in-headquarter-relocations\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>, fewer than 2% of the state’s more than 47,000 headquarters left the state between 2011 and 2021. But of those, roughly half were in manufacturing, wholesale trade or business services.[aside postID=news_12043295 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-38-BL_qed.jpg']The perception that manufacturing jobs are fleeing California and the country has been echoed by \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/governor-newsom-signs-broadest-ceqa-reform-ever-boost-affordability-cut-red-tape\">state\u003c/a> leaders and the administrations of both Presidents \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/09/fact-sheet-two-years-after-the-chips-and-science-act-biden-%E2%81%A0harris-administration-celebrates-historic-achievements-in-bringing-semiconductor-supply-chains-home-creating-jobs-supporting-inn/\">Joe Biden\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/chipmakers-get-bigger-tax-credits-in-trumps-latest-big-beautiful-bill.html\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046558/california-lawmakers-approve-major-overhaul-of-landmark-environmental-law\">Governor Newsom refused to sign the state’s budget\u003c/a> unless two bills aimed at streamlining reviews under the state’s landmark environmental law were included. One of those bills included a carve-out to hasten environmental reviews specifically for advanced manufacturing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burgeoning \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/our-country-has-building-problem\">Abundance movement also highlights this issue\u003c/a> as one of the biggest impediments to the country’s economic progress. And, in late June, a company called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044710/a-company-wants-to-build-a-city-for-ai-on-alameda-point-but-the-land-is-already-spoken-for\">Frontier Valley\u003c/a> proposed building a similar site on the former Naval Air Station in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, president and CEO of think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley, studies economic and social trends of the region and said that, while California Forever might not be well-liked — or even trusted — amongst locals, the company’s premise is realistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going in with a lot of attitude. I call them swashbucklers,” he said. “They need to spend time with the locals. They need to talk it through. Lots of lunches, lots of community meetings. They have to sit there and listen to the public comment. And they’re not doing that very well. But the idea is fairly sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-38-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-38-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-38-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-38-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind turbines in Solano County outside of Suisun City on May 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some leaders, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/technology/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html\">Trump\u003c/a>, have called for consumer products, like smartphones, to be built in the United States. 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Sometimes, they move out of the city entirely.[aside postID=news_12046558 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg']But if jobs were closer to Fairfield, the city could keep those residents and maybe benefit from the tax revenue, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to sustain the future of Fairfield, the future of Solano County, you have to continue to grow your commercial base,” he said. “And the only way to do that, I think, [is] you have to have new industries come in to diversify your economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is currently working with nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040357/2-solano-cities-could-annex-some-california-forevers-land-heres-how\">Rio Vista\u003c/a> and Suisun City to annex \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043295/suisun-city-proposes-annexing-most-of-california-forevers-new-city\">most of its proposed development\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot really operate as a country if you’re only doing service jobs and basically outsource your middle class,” he said. “And then you’re not building anything anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opponents of California Forever’s proposed megaproject argue the company doesn’t have to build a whole new city to bring jobs to the county. It could just build factories in existing cities. Nate Huntington, a member of Solano Together, a coalition opposed to the project, said the Foundry announcement could be “just another marketing gimmick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are sites that can accommodate industries such as this that do not require… the development of an entire new community to make this happen,” he said. “Many of the things that they put out [are] to create hype and potential attraction to this project, but some of those things fade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes nearly four months after executives expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037142/california-forevers-shipbuilding-plans-need-more-details-solano-county-officials-say\">interest in building ships\u003c/a> in Collinsville, an unincorporated town in Solano County that sits at the mouth of the Sacramento River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CAForever2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CAForever2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CAForever2-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CAForever2-1536x805.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Solano Foundry would be located in an area previously designated for “industry and technology” within the new city. It would also be close to Collinsville, where the company wants to build a shipyard. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Forever)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Foundry would be located just seven miles away and includes space for companies working on advanced transportation systems and supply chain technology, which officials say could help support \u003ca href=\"https://californiaforever.com/california-forevers-statement-on-bringing-shipbuilding-back-to-solano-county/\">shipbuilding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The white paper projected the Foundry could produce about 40,000 jobs — and even more with shipbuilding — adding billions of dollars to the county’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a significant increase from the 15,000 jobs the company proposed last year, when it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986569/california-forever-says-12-start-ups-will-open-workplaces-in-its-new-city\">announced 12 start-ups would open\u003c/a> in its proposed city. The Foundry would be built next to homes, in an area that has been designated for industrial space, according to previous maps the company released. California Forever will work with commercial real estate broker JLL to lease space on the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1199px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CaliforniaForeverMap-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1199\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CaliforniaForeverMap-1.jpg 1199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CaliforniaForeverMap-1-160x102.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Forever’s proposed plans for its new city last year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Forever)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a whitepaper JLL published Thursday, several companies expressed interest, including some that had already pledged support last year: aerospace company Hadrian and Serve Robotics. The expressed interest is not legally binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Lieber said these companies realize that the state is at an inflection point. It’s not that manufacturing doesn’t happen at all in Silicon Valley, the birthplace of semiconductors and the microchip, but that it doesn’t happen at a large enough scale. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a fire station in the East Bay, on Meekland Avenue, with a mosaic depicting big homes in a pastoral landscape. It evokes a time long ago when this area, the stretch of the East Bay flats sandwiched between San Leandro and Hayward, was known for its orchards. \u003ca href=\"https://cargocollective.com/davidburke/Public-Projects-by-Hungry-Ghost-Studio\">A local artist named David Burke created the mosaic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the artist’s friend, Sam Hopkins, learned about the project at the Cherryland Fire Station, he remembered slogging through traffic on the 238 connector between I-580 and I-880 and seeing somewhat mystifying signs that said “entering Cherryland” and “entering Ashland.” He thought to himself, “Where’s Cherryland?” When Hopkins finally stopped by to see his friend’s work at \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/ecd/projects/cherryland_fire_station.htm\">the single-engine fire station\u003c/a>, he noticed something. “It says Alameda County Fire Department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he looked it up, he realized that sprinkled throughout the densely residential East Bay flats are several unincorporated areas, two of which are called Ashland and Cherryland. Hopkins hadn’t even realized they were there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wondered: “What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an ‘unincorporated’ community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places wedged between San Leandro and Hayward are urban now and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities, but also come with consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation, housing protections and a sense of community identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Welcome to unincorporated Alameda County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land. That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works. And, they often pay lower property taxes because of this setup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County depend on the county for those things, which often confuses new residents to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Barros, a longtime San Lorenzo resident and community advocate, walks through a neighborhood in the unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department,” said Keith Barros, a longtime resident of Ashland, giving an example of a mixup. “[But if] you call the San Leandro Police Department, it’s like, ‘I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents who live in cities like Oakland or Hayward don’t have this problem because police and fire are among the many services provided by their city governments, funded by local taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big issue Barros, a former UPS driver, has been fighting for is formal recognition of their community identity on legal mail. Until recently, unincorporated residents had to list the nearest city as their official addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, Ashland residents would list their addresses with San Leandro, even though they aren’t part of the city. Earlier this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/addresschange.htm\">county successfully petitioned the U.S. Postal Service\u003c/a> to allow it to list the community, like Cherryland or Ashland, as its official address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ashland Youth Center in an unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there have been other wins as well. Barros advocated for building the \u003ca href=\"https://reachashland.org/\">REACH Ashland Youth Center\u003c/a> on a once-blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go,” Barros said. “It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no hyperlocal government to reach out to for help. Instead, residents like Barros have to go to the county board of supervisors, where they’ve had limited success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, there’s more of a transient population that lives here,” Barros said. “A lot of renters, they’ve been kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barros said even though Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have bigger, countywide issues on their plates. Unincorporated residents said it has been hard to get them to pay attention to their local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t like injustice,” Barros said. “I don’t like it when things are not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barros spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. In 2020, they formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/edenareavision/documents/EALICommunityProfile.pdf\">Eden Area\u003c/a> is the collective term for a 25-square-mile section of unincorporated area that includes Ashland, Cherryland, Castro Valley, Fairview, and San Lorenzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their voices are being heard, and they’re there,” Barros said. “Their opinions are making their way up to where they need to, at the [County] Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Organizing to protect tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power,” said Claudia Albano, deputy chief of staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas. “The only people who had community power were the landlords, the real estate industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home under construction in Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been Albano’s job over the past eight years to bring different community groups together and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass. They are more vulnerable to eviction in a power imbalance favoring landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been terrible,” said Elena Torres, a low-income renter in the area. “Like in my case, I have a two-year battle with my landlord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.[aside postID=news_12044710 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000647_qed.jpg']“They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking [for it] to be fixed, you are out,” Torres said. “Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience prompted Torres to get involved with a social justice group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.myedenvoice.org/\">My Eden Voice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/In-the-Shadows-of-Eden-Report.pdf\">issued a report\u003c/a> that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction, all while having no clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go and make a complaint that he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything because it’s his property,” Torres said. “So you have to go to the actual court and go through the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite winning in court, Torres said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having and they didn’t do anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres, evicted from her previous home in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, holds a drawing her daughter made during their housing struggle at their new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row,” she said. “The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Torres and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year, she and her daughter moved in with a friend — who was also facing eviction — while her husband lived in their only car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres kept reaching out to the county for help, but she was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres stands outside her new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025, after being displaced from her previous home in an unincorporated area — a change that led her to get involved with My Eden Voice, where she now advocates for housing justice. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are the ones dealing with landlords,” she said. “They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years of discussion, \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/eden-area-renters-win-key-vote-in-years-long-battle-for-tenants-rights/#:~:text=For%20single%20mother%20Zuleny%20Pais,Board%20can%20protect%20our%20families.%E2%80%9D\">Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections\u003c/a> in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Renting in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. After six months living separately in makeshift accommodations, Torres recently found her family a new place to live together under one roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> On the east side of the bay, towns fan out across the flatlands, sandwiched between the East Bay hills and the water. Oakland is the biggest, of course, but drive south from there and you’re soon in San Leandro, Hayward, Union City and Fremont. But there are some far less well-known communities hidden in that same stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachel Osajima: \u003c/strong>Thank you for being here for the Ashland-Cherryland community identifier ribbon cutting ceremony. \u003cem>(sounds of crowd cheering)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland are two unincorporated communities wedged between San Leandro and Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bill Ouirk: \u003c/strong>They want to be recognized as communities. As Ashland, as Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The thing is, it’s really easy to miss these places. That’s why \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_6_29_16/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Identifier_Mural_Draft_report_6_29_16.pdf\">the county commissioned a muralist \u003c/a>to paint an overpass on East 14th Street. One side reads Ashland and the other Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barisha Spriggs: \u003c/strong>We’re very proud of this accomplishment. That this will be a lasting memento to all of our unincorporated communities for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious listener, Sam Hopkins, was one of the many people who hadn’t thought much…if ever… about these places until recently. His friend was asked to work on a mosaic at a fire station in Cherryland. When Sam heard that, he thought to himself: Where’s Cherryland? And when he saw on the map that both Ashland and Cherryland are smack in the middle of the East Bay, he got curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/strong>What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an “unincorporated” community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places are definitely urban now, and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities. Today on the show, we’ll explain what it means for an area to be “unincorporated.” It turns out living in one of these communities has big consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation and housing protections. I’m Katrina Schwartz, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda is the second most populous county in the Bay Area…after Santa Clara. Oakland is the biggest city, but the county stretches all the way out to Livermore in the East and Fremont in the South. It’s a big swath of land, and about half of it is “unincorporated,” including two areas known as Cherryland and Ashland. KQED reporter Brian Krans set out to discover more about the day-to-day realities of living in an unincorporated area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans:\u003c/strong> About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, people who live in unincorporated communities like Cherryland and Ashland depend on the county for those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This is 94578, which is a San Leandro zip code. But it’s not, it’s not the city of San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith Barros knows all about the headaches that come with being unincorporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a lot of times, residents themselves don’t know that \u003cem>where they live\u003c/em> is unincorporated, leading to mistakes like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>So, okay, I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department. You call the San Leandro Police Department. It’s like, I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>East Bay residents who live in cities don’t have this problem. If they need to call the police or fire department, it’s a city service. But for the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County, it’s not that simple. They depend on county-level services, like the sheriff or county fire department, in an emergency. And as so often happens, that adversity has made residents even more invested in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Because I think those of us here, number one, we want to hold on to our own identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith is proud that he’s from unincorporated Alameda County and has worked to gain recognition for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Where we happen to be standing right now, this used to be a blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Take the Ashland REACH center where we’re standing. Keith advocated hard to get this youth center built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go. It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no city council to complain to when things need doing. Instead, residents like Keith have to go to the county board of supervisors. And it’s been tough to get folks organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, are more there’s more of a transient population that lives here. A lot of renters, and they’ve been, they’re kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith says even though the Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have big countywide issues on their plates. It’s hard to get them to pay attention to local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>I really don’t like injustice. I don’t like it when things are not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>He spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. They finally formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a> in 2020. “Eden Area” is the collective name for Ashland and Cherryland and several other nearby unincorporated areas together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>They’re being heard. Their voices are being heard, and they’re there. Their opinions are, you know, are making their way up to where they need to, at the Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Claudia Albano is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley … who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The only people who had community power were the small the landlords, the real estate industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>It has been Claudia’s job over the past eight years to bring together different community groups and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass, making them more vulnerable to eviction. That’s left an imbalance of power in communities like Ashland and Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income renters like Elena Torres have paid the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It has been terrible. Like in my case, I have a two-years battle with my landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>She says she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking to be fixed, to have any reparation. You are out. Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The experience prompted Elena to get involved with a social justice group called My Eden Voice. Two years ago, the organization issued a report that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction. And they don’t have clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>If you go and make a complaint, he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything, because it’s his property. So you have to go to the court, to the actual court, and go through the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Despite winning in court, Elena said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres:\u003c/strong> I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having, and they didn’t do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year. She and her daughter moved in with a friend who was also facing eviction, while her husband lived in their only car. Elena kept reaching out to the county for help, but was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>We are the ones dealing with landlords. They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row. The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>After five years of discussion, Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Living in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. Especially now that Elena recently found a new place for her family and they’re celebrating being under one roof together — a first in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> That was KQED reporter Brian Krans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our question-asker, Sam Hopkins. His question won a Bay Curious voting round. You can vote on what we cover next, by heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">kqed.org slash baycurious\u003c/a>. And while you’re there, consider making a donation to KQED. As you may have heard, this is a perilous time for public media and every little bit helps to support the shows you love. Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. 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What defines an ‘unincorporated’ community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places wedged between San Leandro and Hayward are urban now and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities, but also come with consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation, housing protections and a sense of community identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Welcome to unincorporated Alameda County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land. That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works. And, they often pay lower property taxes because of this setup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County depend on the county for those things, which often confuses new residents to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Barros, a longtime San Lorenzo resident and community advocate, walks through a neighborhood in the unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department,” said Keith Barros, a longtime resident of Ashland, giving an example of a mixup. “[But if] you call the San Leandro Police Department, it’s like, ‘I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents who live in cities like Oakland or Hayward don’t have this problem because police and fire are among the many services provided by their city governments, funded by local taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big issue Barros, a former UPS driver, has been fighting for is formal recognition of their community identity on legal mail. Until recently, unincorporated residents had to list the nearest city as their official addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, Ashland residents would list their addresses with San Leandro, even though they aren’t part of the city. Earlier this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/addresschange.htm\">county successfully petitioned the U.S. Postal Service\u003c/a> to allow it to list the community, like Cherryland or Ashland, as its official address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ashland Youth Center in an unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there have been other wins as well. Barros advocated for building the \u003ca href=\"https://reachashland.org/\">REACH Ashland Youth Center\u003c/a> on a once-blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go,” Barros said. “It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no hyperlocal government to reach out to for help. Instead, residents like Barros have to go to the county board of supervisors, where they’ve had limited success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, there’s more of a transient population that lives here,” Barros said. “A lot of renters, they’ve been kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barros said even though Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have bigger, countywide issues on their plates. Unincorporated residents said it has been hard to get them to pay attention to their local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t like injustice,” Barros said. “I don’t like it when things are not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barros spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. In 2020, they formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/edenareavision/documents/EALICommunityProfile.pdf\">Eden Area\u003c/a> is the collective term for a 25-square-mile section of unincorporated area that includes Ashland, Cherryland, Castro Valley, Fairview, and San Lorenzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their voices are being heard, and they’re there,” Barros said. “Their opinions are making their way up to where they need to, at the [County] Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Organizing to protect tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power,” said Claudia Albano, deputy chief of staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas. “The only people who had community power were the landlords, the real estate industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home under construction in Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been Albano’s job over the past eight years to bring different community groups together and help them advocate for themselves. 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And it’s not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience prompted Torres to get involved with a social justice group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.myedenvoice.org/\">My Eden Voice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/In-the-Shadows-of-Eden-Report.pdf\">issued a report\u003c/a> that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction, all while having no clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go and make a complaint that he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything because it’s his property,” Torres said. “So you have to go to the actual court and go through the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite winning in court, Torres said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having and they didn’t do anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres, evicted from her previous home in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, holds a drawing her daughter made during their housing struggle at their new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row,” she said. “The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Torres and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year, she and her daughter moved in with a friend — who was also facing eviction — while her husband lived in their only car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres kept reaching out to the county for help, but she was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres stands outside her new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025, after being displaced from her previous home in an unincorporated area — a change that led her to get involved with My Eden Voice, where she now advocates for housing justice. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are the ones dealing with landlords,” she said. “They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years of discussion, \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/eden-area-renters-win-key-vote-in-years-long-battle-for-tenants-rights/#:~:text=For%20single%20mother%20Zuleny%20Pais,Board%20can%20protect%20our%20families.%E2%80%9D\">Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections\u003c/a> in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Renting in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. After six months living separately in makeshift accommodations, Torres recently found her family a new place to live together under one roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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As Ashland, as Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The thing is, it’s really easy to miss these places. That’s why \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_6_29_16/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Identifier_Mural_Draft_report_6_29_16.pdf\">the county commissioned a muralist \u003c/a>to paint an overpass on East 14th Street. One side reads Ashland and the other Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barisha Spriggs: \u003c/strong>We’re very proud of this accomplishment. That this will be a lasting memento to all of our unincorporated communities for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious listener, Sam Hopkins, was one of the many people who hadn’t thought much…if ever… about these places until recently. His friend was asked to work on a mosaic at a fire station in Cherryland. When Sam heard that, he thought to himself: Where’s Cherryland? And when he saw on the map that both Ashland and Cherryland are smack in the middle of the East Bay, he got curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/strong>What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an “unincorporated” community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places are definitely urban now, and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities. Today on the show, we’ll explain what it means for an area to be “unincorporated.” It turns out living in one of these communities has big consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation and housing protections. I’m Katrina Schwartz, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda is the second most populous county in the Bay Area…after Santa Clara. Oakland is the biggest city, but the county stretches all the way out to Livermore in the East and Fremont in the South. It’s a big swath of land, and about half of it is “unincorporated,” including two areas known as Cherryland and Ashland. KQED reporter Brian Krans set out to discover more about the day-to-day realities of living in an unincorporated area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans:\u003c/strong> About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, people who live in unincorporated communities like Cherryland and Ashland depend on the county for those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This is 94578, which is a San Leandro zip code. But it’s not, it’s not the city of San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith Barros knows all about the headaches that come with being unincorporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a lot of times, residents themselves don’t know that \u003cem>where they live\u003c/em> is unincorporated, leading to mistakes like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>So, okay, I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department. You call the San Leandro Police Department. It’s like, I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>East Bay residents who live in cities don’t have this problem. If they need to call the police or fire department, it’s a city service. But for the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County, it’s not that simple. They depend on county-level services, like the sheriff or county fire department, in an emergency. And as so often happens, that adversity has made residents even more invested in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Because I think those of us here, number one, we want to hold on to our own identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith is proud that he’s from unincorporated Alameda County and has worked to gain recognition for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Where we happen to be standing right now, this used to be a blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Take the Ashland REACH center where we’re standing. Keith advocated hard to get this youth center built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go. It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no city council to complain to when things need doing. Instead, residents like Keith have to go to the county board of supervisors. And it’s been tough to get folks organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, are more there’s more of a transient population that lives here. A lot of renters, and they’ve been, they’re kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith says even though the Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have big countywide issues on their plates. It’s hard to get them to pay attention to local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>I really don’t like injustice. I don’t like it when things are not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>He spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. They finally formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a> in 2020. “Eden Area” is the collective name for Ashland and Cherryland and several other nearby unincorporated areas together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>They’re being heard. Their voices are being heard, and they’re there. Their opinions are, you know, are making their way up to where they need to, at the Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Claudia Albano is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley … who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The only people who had community power were the small the landlords, the real estate industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>It has been Claudia’s job over the past eight years to bring together different community groups and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass, making them more vulnerable to eviction. That’s left an imbalance of power in communities like Ashland and Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income renters like Elena Torres have paid the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It has been terrible. Like in my case, I have a two-years battle with my landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>She says she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking to be fixed, to have any reparation. You are out. Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The experience prompted Elena to get involved with a social justice group called My Eden Voice. Two years ago, the organization issued a report that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction. And they don’t have clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>If you go and make a complaint, he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything, because it’s his property. So you have to go to the court, to the actual court, and go through the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Despite winning in court, Elena said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres:\u003c/strong> I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having, and they didn’t do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year. She and her daughter moved in with a friend who was also facing eviction, while her husband lived in their only car. Elena kept reaching out to the county for help, but was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>We are the ones dealing with landlords. They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row. The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>After five years of discussion, Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Living in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. Especially now that Elena recently found a new place for her family and they’re celebrating being under one roof together — a first in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> That was KQED reporter Brian Krans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our question-asker, Sam Hopkins. His question won a Bay Curious voting round. You can vote on what we cover next, by heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">kqed.org slash baycurious\u003c/a>. And while you’re there, consider making a donation to KQED. As you may have heard, this is a perilous time for public media and every little bit helps to support the shows you love. Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>After years of strife over RV dwellers living on San Francisco streets, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047562/please-just-let-us-be-san-francisco-rv-crackdown-advances-despite-families-pleas\">ban long-term oversized vehicle parking\u003c/a> citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial vote by the board means people residing in RVs will soon have to move their vehicles every two hours unless they acquire a permit, leaving hundreds of people at risk of being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that someone living in a vehicle does not have a home is malicious when they have no other form of shelter,” Supervisor Shamann Walton, who voted against the ban, said at Tuesday’s board meeting. “This legislation is alluding to supporting brick and mortar as the only possible home in the most expensive city on the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot condone mass evictions to the streets for people trying to live in their homes — especially at a time when there’s an attack on immigrants, people of color, our LGBTQ community and basically anyone that is not in the one percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> In 2024, city officials attempted to implement targeted parking restrictions in neighborhoods with longstanding RV communities, like the Lake Merced area near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">Stonestown Galleria and San Francisco State University\u003c/a> and Bernal Hill. In the fall, former Mayor London Breed proposed legislation that would allow vehicles parked overnight to be towed citywide if residents had previously refused shelter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">supervisors blocked it\u003c/a> in December after pushback from community advocates. Last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie revived the ban, proposing a strict two-hour limit for oversized vehicles on all city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">June legislation\u003c/a> takes a citywide approach to address the reshuffling caused by earlier iterations and includes incentives for people moving into housing, his office told the board this month. Some carve-outs will be made for commercial vehicles parked in industrial areas. The proposal received unanimous approval from the city’s Budget and Finance Committee last week, and this week, it passed a first vote, 9–2. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, and Walton, whose district spans the Bayview and Potrero Hill, opposed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie’s office said the plan “offers a path forward on what has long been an intractable challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With compassion and accountability, we will give those living in vehicles a better option and deliver safe and clean streets for our communities,” he said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>Other cities across the Bay Area, including Berkeley and Fremont in the East Bay, have also been cracking down on vehicle homelessness. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">Fremont passed\u003c/a> what is believed to be the most restrictive overnight camping ban in the state, prohibiting RV parking on public and private property, including residential streets, for more than three consecutive nights.[aside postID=news_12047562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL_qed.jpg']In November, Berkeley’s city council directed city workers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">clean up a known RV community\u003c/a> on Second Street in West Berkeley. The move was in line with a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">aggressive approach\u003c/a> to sweeping encampments, which allows people to be cleared from streets even if the city cannot offer them housing. Both cities’ new rules came after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ordered state agencies\u003c/a> last July to dismantle homeless encampments across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>If Lurie’s legislation passes a second vote in the coming weeks as expected, the new parking regulations will take effect. Homelessness advocates say this could affect residents living in about 475 vehicles, many of whom may not be willing to trade their private mobile homes for the housing options the city can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents actively looking for housing will be eligible for permits up to six months to remain in their RVs while they wait to relocate. The legislation includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots in addition to more than 300 similar subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are awaiting more details about another incentive to move people off the streets: a vehicle buyback program that will offer people cash for their RVs. It’s unclear how much residents stand to receive, though the legislation includes a $500,000 budget for buybacks. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of soaring rents, increasingly out-of-reach home prices and an enduring homelessness crisis that touches every corner of the state, California is finally creating a state agency exclusively focused on housing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might wonder what took so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/HousingandHomelessness.pdf\">introduced a proposal\u003c/a> to split up the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency — an awkward grabbag of disparate bureaucratic operations — into two fresh agencies: One just for housing and homelessness-related departments and one for everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature had until July 4 to veto the plan. It didn’t (though \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sr52\">some Republicans tried\u003c/a>). Now the work of standing up California’s first housing agency begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bureaucratic reshuffle say the move is long overdue. In surveys, Californians regularly name housing costs and homelessness as among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-june-2025/\">state’s top concerns\u003c/a>. That alone warrants the creation of a new cabinet-level adviser to the governor, said Ray Pearl, executive director of the California Housing Consortium, which advocates for affordable housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cabinet-level secretary who will sit with other cabinet secretaries, whose purview will be housing … that is elevating the agenda to the highest level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearl, like virtually every expert interviewed for this article about the new agency, described the reorganization as “just the first step” in bringing much-needed order and efficiency to California’s network of funding programs for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101910295 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/06/housing2.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply moving people around and giving them a new business card doesn’t change the system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the governor stressed that the creation of a new housing agency is part of a broader effort by Newsom to prioritize one of California’s most vexing issues. Since taking the helm of state government in 2018, the governor has \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/381011-newsom-threatens-to-sue-more-cities-over-housing\">ramped up pressure\u003c/a> on local governments to plan for more housing, urged them to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/05/newsom-encampment-sweep-ordinance/\">clear encampments\u003c/a> of unhoused Californians and pushed for legislation \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/06/ceqa-urban-development-infill-budget/\">aimed at ramping up construction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first administration to make this a part of our everyday conversation — putting a magnifying glass on the issue of homelessness and finding ways to effectively address it. These structural and policy changes are going to create a generational impact,” said spokesperson Tara Gallegos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the seven cabinet-level agencies, the BCSH has always seemed like the “everything else” wing of state government. Affordable housing grantmakers, lenders and urban planning regulators share agency letterhead with cannabis and alcohol industry overseers, professional licensors, car mechanic watchdogs and everyone at the California Horse Racing Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to call it ‘The Island of Misfit Toys,’” said Claudia Cappio, who ran both the California Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Community Development in the years immediately before and after 2012 when both were packed into the newly created BCSH. “Imagine a staff meeting of all those things … I learned a lot about horse racing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many financing systems is too many?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Newsom’s organizational chart, the chief selling point of the reorganization has been to simplify the state’s hydra of affordable housing financing systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there is \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/\">one state organization\u003c/a> where affordable housing developers apply for loans, another where they \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/\">go for most grants\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ctcac/\">third\u003c/a> where they apply for the \u003ca href=\"https://shelterforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Final_Shelterforce-LIHTC-Explainer.pdf\">federal tax credits\u003c/a> that builders use to entice private investors to back their projects and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/cdlac/\">fourth\u003c/a> for the \u003ca href=\"http://e\">bonds needed\u003c/a> to secure many of those credits. This doesn’t include one-off programs for \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvet.ca.gov/calvet-programs/veteran-homes\">veterans\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sgc.ca.gov/grant-programs/ahsc/\">transit-oriented development\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://bridgehousing.buildingcalhhs.com/\">short-term housing\u003c/a> for homeless people, which are sprinkled across state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating things further, the tax credit and bond funding programs — the backbone of funding for affordable housing development across the country — aren’t even under the governor’s control. Those programs are run by the state’s independently elected treasurer.[aside postID=news_12046718 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg']“Many, many states have what is essentially a housing finance agency that controls the majority of affordable housing funds,” said Sarah Karlinsky, who directs research at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. California’s programs are split up, which is unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, “what makes California so unique,” said Karlinksy, “is the fact that the resources are spread across two different constitutional officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fragmentation appears to be adding to the cost of construction in California. A \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/reducing-the-complexity-in-californias-affordable-housing-finance-system/\">Terner Center analysis\u003c/a> this spring estimated that each additional public funding source delays a project by, on average, four months, and adds an additional $20,460 in costs per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing construction is already distinctly expensive here. Building a publicly funded project in California costs more than 2.5 times more per square foot than in both Texas and Colorado, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/04/california-affordable-housing-costs-time/\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Rand Institute found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dance of secretaries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Will the new housing agency solve that problem? Not everyone is convinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many ways in which the scarcity of affordable housing affects most people, “the lines on the org chart” don’t crack the “top 100 list,” Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, a Napa Democrat, said about the governor’s proposal at a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258768?t=280&f=1c6b70cfd4945984f9bb6137feda8d9d\">hearing in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabaldon noted that executive reorganizations are a semi-regular feature of California governance. The Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency is itself the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/07/03/news17617/index.html\">product of a reorganization\u003c/a> which spun off California’s independent transportation agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dance of the secretaries we do constantly, always with grand ambitions,” said Cabaldon. “Simply saying that it’s going to cause more focus, that it will be streamlined, that it will cause leadership level action — but \u003cem>how\u003c/em>?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As written, the new housing agency will consist of the current agency’s housing-related entities along with a new Affordable Housing Finance Committee, which will be tasked with coordinating the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/about/chha_overview.pdf\">housing subsidy programs\u003c/a> currently under the governor’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the major funding sources managed by the treasurer’s office will remain where they are. The California constitution wouldn’t have allowed Newsom to commandeer those functions from the independent treasurer even had he wanted to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a significant shortcoming, according to the Little Hoover Commission, the state government’s independent oversight agency, which reviewed the governor’s plan before it was passed along to the Legislature. In its \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report-287.pdf\">final report\u003c/a>, the commission recommended that the governor and treasurer strike a formal deal to “create a unified application and review process” for all the affordable finance programs under their respective purviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the governor’s office nor the office of state Treasurer Fiona Ma would say if or how they are pursuing that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single, unified application for every one of California’s public affordable housing funding programs has been the bureaucratic holy grail of California affordable developers and policy wonks since at least the mid-1990s. Though the reorganization stops short of requiring that, it set up both constitutional offices to better coordinate in the future, said Matt Schwartz, president of the California Housing Partnership, a nonprofit that advocates for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a bit of diplomacy” between the two executive branches to work out a joint application, said Schwartz, who spoke to CalMatters earlier this year after the governor first introduced the proposal. “That’s the longer-term prize that many of us will be pushing to come out of this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some affordable housing advocates have urged lawmakers to be cautious in mushing the various bureaucracies together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CHC_BudgetCommittees_Reorg.pdf\">letter to four powerful Democratic legislators\u003c/a>, the California Housing Consortium stressed that the application systems administered by the treasurer’s office already “function extremely well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process “is not broken and doesn’t need fixing,” said Pearl, the consortium’s director. Before monkeying with it, he said, “let’s get the agency set up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearl and the consortium also noted that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab519\">past legislation\u003c/a> has already mandated the creation of a working group to propose a consolidated application. The findings of that group are due on July 1, 2026. That’s the same day the current BCSH is set to officially dissolve and the two new agencies will take its place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s also just five months before statewide elections will be held to replace Newsom and Ma, giving voters a chance to decide who will shape the future of affordable housing policy in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/07/california-construction-unions-housing-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Many, many states have what is essentially a housing finance agency that controls the majority of affordable housing funds,” said Sarah Karlinsky, who directs research at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. California’s programs are split up, which is unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, “what makes California so unique,” said Karlinksy, “is the fact that the resources are spread across two different constitutional officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fragmentation appears to be adding to the cost of construction in California. A \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/reducing-the-complexity-in-californias-affordable-housing-finance-system/\">Terner Center analysis\u003c/a> this spring estimated that each additional public funding source delays a project by, on average, four months, and adds an additional $20,460 in costs per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing construction is already distinctly expensive here. Building a publicly funded project in California costs more than 2.5 times more per square foot than in both Texas and Colorado, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/04/california-affordable-housing-costs-time/\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Rand Institute found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dance of secretaries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Will the new housing agency solve that problem? Not everyone is convinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many ways in which the scarcity of affordable housing affects most people, “the lines on the org chart” don’t crack the “top 100 list,” Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, a Napa Democrat, said about the governor’s proposal at a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258768?t=280&f=1c6b70cfd4945984f9bb6137feda8d9d\">hearing in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabaldon noted that executive reorganizations are a semi-regular feature of California governance. The Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency is itself the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/07/03/news17617/index.html\">product of a reorganization\u003c/a> which spun off California’s independent transportation agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dance of the secretaries we do constantly, always with grand ambitions,” said Cabaldon. “Simply saying that it’s going to cause more focus, that it will be streamlined, that it will cause leadership level action — but \u003cem>how\u003c/em>?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As written, the new housing agency will consist of the current agency’s housing-related entities along with a new Affordable Housing Finance Committee, which will be tasked with coordinating the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/about/chha_overview.pdf\">housing subsidy programs\u003c/a> currently under the governor’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the major funding sources managed by the treasurer’s office will remain where they are. The California constitution wouldn’t have allowed Newsom to commandeer those functions from the independent treasurer even had he wanted to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a significant shortcoming, according to the Little Hoover Commission, the state government’s independent oversight agency, which reviewed the governor’s plan before it was passed along to the Legislature. In its \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report-287.pdf\">final report\u003c/a>, the commission recommended that the governor and treasurer strike a formal deal to “create a unified application and review process” for all the affordable finance programs under their respective purviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the governor’s office nor the office of state Treasurer Fiona Ma would say if or how they are pursuing that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single, unified application for every one of California’s public affordable housing funding programs has been the bureaucratic holy grail of California affordable developers and policy wonks since at least the mid-1990s. Though the reorganization stops short of requiring that, it set up both constitutional offices to better coordinate in the future, said Matt Schwartz, president of the California Housing Partnership, a nonprofit that advocates for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a bit of diplomacy” between the two executive branches to work out a joint application, said Schwartz, who spoke to CalMatters earlier this year after the governor first introduced the proposal. “That’s the longer-term prize that many of us will be pushing to come out of this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some affordable housing advocates have urged lawmakers to be cautious in mushing the various bureaucracies together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CHC_BudgetCommittees_Reorg.pdf\">letter to four powerful Democratic legislators\u003c/a>, the California Housing Consortium stressed that the application systems administered by the treasurer’s office already “function extremely well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process “is not broken and doesn’t need fixing,” said Pearl, the consortium’s director. Before monkeying with it, he said, “let’s get the agency set up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearl and the consortium also noted that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab519\">past legislation\u003c/a> has already mandated the creation of a working group to propose a consolidated application. The findings of that group are due on July 1, 2026. That’s the same day the current BCSH is set to officially dissolve and the two new agencies will take its place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s also just five months before statewide elections will be held to replace Newsom and Ma, giving voters a chance to decide who will shape the future of affordable housing policy in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/07/california-construction-unions-housing-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:05 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oakland officials are expected to begin evicting residents of two city-run homeless shelters along Wood Street, the site of what was once the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949327/the-end-of-wood-street-inside-the-struggle-for-stability-housing-on-the-margins-of-the-bay-area\">largest community of unhoused people\u003c/a> in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sites — a safe RV parking site with 40 spots and a 100-bed cabin community — were always meant to be temporary shelters, but ceased operation in mid-May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/30/oakland-wood-street-cabins-shelter/\">when the shelter operator abruptly left\u003c/a>. While some residents have found permanent housing, others have already left to find shelter in tents, RVs or other makeshift homes, according to SheMika Crawford, who was living in the cabins until she moved out on Thursday. At least five residents remain, city officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, Crawford signed the lease on a new home. She was only meant to stay at the cabin for 90 days, but June marked two years living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at the cabin falling apart,” she said. “We fix it ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After BOSS stopped managing the sites in May, Crawford said, “We’ve been winging it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the city and Caltrans began evicting unhoused residents from a sprawling, nearly milelong encampment on a vacant lot underneath Interstate 580 that runs parallel to Wood Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047669\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident SheMika Crawford stands near the Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the RVs and makeshift homes were on Caltrans’ land, which the agency closed in the fall of 2022. A portion of the encampment, which was on city-owned land, remained there until the spring of 2023, when the city moved many of the remaining residents into the newly opened cabin community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It partnered with nonprofit Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) to operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.self-sufficiency.org/post/wood-street-community-cabins-registration-is-open\">both sites\u003c/a>. Along with RV spaces and cabin beds, BOSS also promised to provide services to find stable housing and employment opportunities. During its two years of operation, 185 people lived between the two sites.[aside postID=news_12032734 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1020x680.jpg']But in late May, the nonprofit stopped operating the sites \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032734/homeless-services-nonprofits-oakland-fails-pay-contracts\">after months of late or missing payments\u003c/a> from the city of Oakland. In June, the City Council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045763/oaklands-wood-street-shelters-to-close-on-june-30\">decommission the two sites\u003c/a> and return them to the owner by December. According to a city notice, residents remaining after 5 p.m. on Monday will be arrested. Any belongings will be discarded and vehicles will be towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city estimates that the work to restore the property to returnable condition will require up to six months,” Sean Maher, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland, wrote in an email to KQED. “Work to implement this closure and find alternative support for the program residents has been underway for the last several months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSS started providing housing and employment services for people living at the RV safe parking site on Wood Street in July 2022, according to the company. From then through late May, the nonprofit served 48 people. Of those, 75% found permanent housing before the nonprofit left the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the numbers look more grim for those who lived in the cabins. Of the 137 residents, fewer than a quarter found permanent housing and nearly 84% went to other shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Frazier, CEO of the nonprofit, said the program had its issues — the roads leading to the sites were riddled with potholes, staff slowly left and services dwindled as the city’s payments to the nonprofit grew less frequent. Though people are remaining on the sites, he said it’s not for a lack of trying on BOSS’s part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were brought in from the beginning to provide housing navigation services, clinical services and just day-to-day services, food and making sure that everything is operational,” he said. “A vast majority of people were successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Oakland%20PIT%202024%20Infographic.pdf\">city’s latest count\u003c/a>, roughly 5,480 unhoused people were living in Oakland last year, about two-thirds of whom were living in tents, cars and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher said the city is working with Alameda County officials to place those remaining at the sites into temporary housing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But in late May, the nonprofit stopped operating the sites \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032734/homeless-services-nonprofits-oakland-fails-pay-contracts\">after months of late or missing payments\u003c/a> from the city of Oakland. In June, the City Council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045763/oaklands-wood-street-shelters-to-close-on-june-30\">decommission the two sites\u003c/a> and return them to the owner by December. According to a city notice, residents remaining after 5 p.m. on Monday will be arrested. Any belongings will be discarded and vehicles will be towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city estimates that the work to restore the property to returnable condition will require up to six months,” Sean Maher, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland, wrote in an email to KQED. “Work to implement this closure and find alternative support for the program residents has been underway for the last several months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSS started providing housing and employment services for people living at the RV safe parking site on Wood Street in July 2022, according to the company. From then through late May, the nonprofit served 48 people. Of those, 75% found permanent housing before the nonprofit left the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the numbers look more grim for those who lived in the cabins. Of the 137 residents, fewer than a quarter found permanent housing and nearly 84% went to other shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Frazier, CEO of the nonprofit, said the program had its issues — the roads leading to the sites were riddled with potholes, staff slowly left and services dwindled as the city’s payments to the nonprofit grew less frequent. Though people are remaining on the sites, he said it’s not for a lack of trying on BOSS’s part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were brought in from the beginning to provide housing navigation services, clinical services and just day-to-day services, food and making sure that everything is operational,” he said. “A vast majority of people were successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Oakland%20PIT%202024%20Infographic.pdf\">city’s latest count\u003c/a>, roughly 5,480 unhoused people were living in Oakland last year, about two-thirds of whom were living in tents, cars and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher said the city is working with Alameda County officials to place those remaining at the sites into temporary housing. In the meantime, John Janosko, a former resident of the Wood Street cabins, hopes the city and the county consider the solutions he and other housing rights advocates proposed to address housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>The city needs to really start listening to us,” he said. “We have an opportunity because of Barbara Lee right now to change the narrative, to change how things are being done, how we treat unhoused people in Oakland right now and in Alameda County and be a leader in change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge\">Beth LaBerge\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">crackdown on RV parking\u003c/a> is one step closer to reality after a key committee gave it the green light on Wednesday, despite unhoused residents and advocates’ pleas to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Budget and Finance Committee voted unanimously to recommend policy changes limiting the amount of time RVs can park on streets citywide to two hours, sending the ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors after years of strife over the large vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, San Franciscans who have lived in RVs for years asked board members to drop the legislation proposed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, which they said would exacerbate their housing difficulties and pose challenges for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m asking you to please legislate from your heart,” a woman named Lucy told the supervisors in Spanish. She was one of dozens who opposed the policy during public comment. “We feel like we were not heard. I feel personally destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t bother anybody, we’re not asking for money, please just let us be in a place where we can have our home and be at peace,” she continued, speaking through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023, near San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s plan is the latest effort to reduce the number of people living in RVs in pockets of the city, estimated to total hundreds citywide. The vehicles have blocked sidewalks, caused traffic congestion and created health hazards that harm surrounding neighborhoods, Lurie’s chief of health, homelessness and family services, Kunal Modi, told the supervisors on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the ongoing controversy has centered on the quiet westside streets around Lake Merced, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">dozens of families have lived for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents parked along Winston Drive behind Stonestown Galleria were forced to move last year after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency passed new parking restrictions for the area in 2023. The changes came amid mounting complaints from neighbors and were meant to clear space for San Francisco State students and staff to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those limits briefly went into effect over the summer of 2024, RV dwellers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">moved to Zoo Road near Lake Merced\u003c/a> before facing similar pushback and notices to vacate.[aside postID=news_12047353 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In the months since, oversized vehicles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">shuffled around the area\u003c/a> as then-Mayor London Breed and now Lurie proposed plans that sought to appease residents in surrounding neighborhoods while coming up with housing solutions, including promises to find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970299/city-delays-parking-restrictions-near-sf-state-offering-brief-reprieve-to-rv-community\">new westside spaces for a safe parking site\u003c/a> similar to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/solutions/bayview-vehicle-triage-center/\">opened in the Bayview\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Breed proposed a plan that would have allowed SFMTA to tow large vehicles if people living in them refused shelter and housing services. That ban on overnight parking was set to go into effect in November, but an \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appeal\u003c/a> from homelessness advocates delayed it, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">the Board of Supervisors later reversed it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi told the board’s Budget and Finance Committee that his plan, which seems to have wider support, differs from previous attempts to restrict RV parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We owe our small businesses and residents safe and clean public spaces,” he said. “People experiencing RV homelessness deserve compassion and pathways to stability. At the same time, our neighborhoods and small businesses deserve safe and clean streets. We really do believe that we can do both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-person committee — including Supervisors Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar, who had voted to overturn Breed’s policy — unanimously forwarded the proposal with a positive recommendation. It also has support from Board President Rafael Mandelman and Supervisors Stephen Sherrill, Matt Dorsey and Joel Engardio, who are co-sponsors of the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, some RV dwellers who are actively pursuing housing options would be eligible to receive temporary parking permits for up to six months while they wait to relocate, Modi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots, which policy documents say would be in addition to over 300 of these subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget for families, adults and young people this year. About 437 vehicles are currently being used as housing in San Francisco, according to city documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new half-million-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">rebate program\u003c/a> would also allow residents to sell their vehicles back to the city — an idea some advocates believe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">could be valuable\u003c/a> so long as RV owners get fair compensation, but others view as possibly coercive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, co-chair of San Francisco’s Homeless Oversight Commission, warned that the ban on long-term parking might not have a significant effect on the level of street homelessness in the city, since it’s unlikely many families will agree to a communal or highly regulated housing option over their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not really a rational choice for somebody to make to switch out of a vehicle where they have privacy, a private bathroom, and move into a congregate shelter where they’re in a very crowded situation,” Evans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">told KQED earlier this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If vehicles are towed or impounded as a result of the crackdown, she said, it could increase the strain on the city’s shelters and housing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those resources, I don’t know that that should be our priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other homelessness advocates have urged supervisors to reconsider before the whole board is expected to hear the proposal in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the months since, oversized vehicles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">shuffled around the area\u003c/a> as then-Mayor London Breed and now Lurie proposed plans that sought to appease residents in surrounding neighborhoods while coming up with housing solutions, including promises to find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970299/city-delays-parking-restrictions-near-sf-state-offering-brief-reprieve-to-rv-community\">new westside spaces for a safe parking site\u003c/a> similar to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/solutions/bayview-vehicle-triage-center/\">opened in the Bayview\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Breed proposed a plan that would have allowed SFMTA to tow large vehicles if people living in them refused shelter and housing services. 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