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But last month, the board abruptly changed course — rejecting a slate of proposals designed to keep renters in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turn comes amid backlash from property owners that could signal future resistance statewide, some tenant and landlord advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Leo Esclamado, organizer, My Eden Voice\"]‘What it feels like is really a turning back of a lot of work and conversations, a lot of hope and trust.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it feels like is really a turning back of a lot of work and conversations, a lot of hope and trust,” said Leo Esclamado, an organizer with the community group My Eden Voice, which lobbied hard to extend renter protections in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures would have banned landlords from doing criminal background checks on potential tenants, created a rental registry meant to help the county enforce code violations and rent-control laws, and only allowed “just cause” evictions for things like not paying rent or violating lease terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors also voted to cut off funding for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/?locale=en\">the county’s Housing Secure program\u003c/a>, which has provided legal services to both tenants and homeowners since 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants rights advocates and county housing department staff are reeling from the decisions, which they said signal a profound philosophical shift. Meghan Gordon, who runs the East Bay Community Law Center’s housing program, said the board appeared to be reacting to landlords’ complaints without consideration of tenants’ needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have lost sight of planning for the realities and implications of their decisions,” she said. “There’s no plan for moving forward, and there’s no discussion of what could happen to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the Eviction Defense Center, said the decisions come at the worst possible time — with \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/01/eviction-moratorium-ending-alameda-county-oakland-landlord-protest/\">the county’s eviction moratorium set to expire at the end of April\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that the landlord lobby has a loud voice and the financial backing, but our elected leaders still have a duty to protect the most vulnerable residents in our community,” she said. “This will directly result in an immediate rise in homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s about-face follows the recent deaths of two of its members, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/11/04/alameda-county-supervisor-wilma-chan-killed-by-motorist-while-on-morning-walk/\">Wilma Chan\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/08/alameda-county-supervisor-richard-valle-dies-at-73\">Richard Valle\u003c/a>, who both championed tenants’ causes. While Valle’s seat remains unfilled, Chan’s replacement, Lena Tam, who abstained from voting on the three ordinances, has proved friendlier to real-estate interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11943521 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A blond-haired woman stands near a countertop in a kitchen, holding a coffee mug, with a man wearing a baseball hat and a plaid shirt washing something in the sink behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Macias heats up coffee while her partner, Carlos Archuleta, cleans up the kitchen after taking their kids to school at the home they rent in Castro Valley on March 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to make sure that what we’re putting in place is not a solution in search of a problem,” Tam said of her decision, noting that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&search_keywords=rent+cap\">California’s Tenant Protection Act of 2019\u003c/a> already places limits on evictions and rent hikes. She said she’d like to see a revised version of the tenant protection measures with changes that are more palatable to landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates have accused Tam of bowing to the interests of property-owner groups after receiving campaign contributions from them, an allegation she disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance records, Tam received at least $34,000 — or roughly 13% of total contributions to her campaign last year — from real-estate interests, and got an additional boost from the California Apartment Association, which raised over $241,000 to defeat her rival, Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association, which represents around 24,000 landlords statewide, said there has been a sea change in how property owners are responding to public policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a matter of survival for them to show up, explain their business to elected officials and get a hearing,” he said. “No one wants to be at a city council meeting at 8:30 [p.m.] protesting a rental ordinance. But it’s become necessary to our business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowery said he has seen attendance surge at the association’s monthly organizing meetings, where landlords receive advocacy training. And he said more property owners are now paying attention to state and local policy proposals and meeting with lawmakers.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11942106,news_11920788,news_11919866\"]“We’ve just seen across all avenues that are available to us an increased level of activity,” Lowery said. He noted that the association filed multiple lawsuits challenging COVID eviction bans around the state, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230306005212/en/Apartment-Association-of-Greater-L.A.-Files-Lawsuit-Against-the-City-of-Los-Angeles\">its members recently sued the city of Los Angeles\u003c/a> to block new measures enacted before its local moratorium ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some tenant advocates said this is just business as usual for landlord groups: Wherever tenants are organizing for stronger protections, property owner associations show up to fight them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you see where they are going, it’s [to] places tenants have been organizing for several years,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute (ACCE), a tenants rights group. “So they’re trying to take the power back from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lowery said property owners are getting more traction now with lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a renewed sense of urgency years into the pandemic, years into an eviction moratorium,” he said. “It gets easier for people to understand that no business [can] stay open without revenue coming in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic wore on, property owners in Alameda County became increasingly frustrated with supervisors’ refusal to consider changes to the moratorium, said Joshua Howard, executive vice president of the California Apartment Association. Last year, the group \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/alamedasuit/\">sued the county to end the moratorium\u003c/a> and has encouraged landlords to advocate against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing providers have been trying to speak out,” Howard said. “They’ve sent thousands of letters, made thousands of phone calls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chris Moore, who owns property in Oakland and unincorporated parts of Alameda County, and who sits on the board of the East Bay Rental Housing Association, the Board of Supervisors’ shift on the issue is a refreshing change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are listening to both sides,” he said. “That really was not happening before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Nate Miley argues that supervisors helped create the conditions for a backlash by refusing to ease the eviction ban months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To try to push other tenant-protection measures through when you have the strongest eviction moratorium in place, I just don’t think that’s being reasonable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miley voted in favor of the ordinance barring criminal background checks and supported extending legal services, but abstained from voting on the other two measures. Supervisors Tam and David Haubert abstained on all four items, effectively killing the proposals for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It breaks our heart as a community that worked so hard for so long,” said Carlos Archuleta, a renter in unincorporated Castro Valley who advocated for the measures. “Basically, special interests bought a seat and took that vote from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centro Legal de la Raza Executive Director Monique Berlanga said she was particularly surprised by the supervisors’ decision to defund the tenant and homeowner legal services program.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Russell Lowery, executive director, California Rental Housing Association\"]‘There’s a renewed sense of urgency years into the pandemic, years into an eviction moratorium. It gets easier for people to understand that no business [can] stay open without revenue coming in.’[/pullquote]There are now 27 attorneys in the county who provide free eviction defense and other housing-centered legal services to tenants and homeowners in under-resourced communities, up from just six in 2017, before the Housing Secure program was funded, according to Centro Legal de la Raza, which administers it. Since the program’s inception, the program has served nearly 3,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless there is some type of new funding added by the county really quickly over the next few months, the only tenants in this county who will have access to legal services are probably tenants in Oakland and Berkeley,” which already offer access to some city-funded resources, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miley, who voted to continue funding the program, is hopeful the contract will come back to the board in a few weeks, when county staff present options for keeping tenants housed and compensating landlords for lost rent after the moratorium ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was shocking to me. I had no idea,” he said of his colleagues’ decision to stop funding the program. “I think it serves the public interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenant protection ordinances will come back eventually, too, Miley said, likely with amendments that property owners pushed for, like carve-outs for single-family homes and duplexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this latest setback for tenants in the county, ACCE’s Simon-Weisberg said the pandemic helped motivate tenants across the state to fight for expanded rights. And that movement, she said, is still strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Landlord groups] have their lobbyists turning out all over the state,” she said. “But what I think is important is tenants are turning out all over the state asking for protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Meghan Gordon, who runs the East Bay Community Law Center’s housing program, said the board appeared to be reacting to landlords’ complaints without consideration of tenants’ needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have lost sight of planning for the realities and implications of their decisions,” she said. “There’s no plan for moving forward, and there’s no discussion of what could happen to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the Eviction Defense Center, said the decisions come at the worst possible time — with \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/01/eviction-moratorium-ending-alameda-county-oakland-landlord-protest/\">the county’s eviction moratorium set to expire at the end of April\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that the landlord lobby has a loud voice and the financial backing, but our elected leaders still have a duty to protect the most vulnerable residents in our community,” she said. “This will directly result in an immediate rise in homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s about-face follows the recent deaths of two of its members, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/11/04/alameda-county-supervisor-wilma-chan-killed-by-motorist-while-on-morning-walk/\">Wilma Chan\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/08/alameda-county-supervisor-richard-valle-dies-at-73\">Richard Valle\u003c/a>, who both championed tenants’ causes. While Valle’s seat remains unfilled, Chan’s replacement, Lena Tam, who abstained from voting on the three ordinances, has proved friendlier to real-estate interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11943521 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A blond-haired woman stands near a countertop in a kitchen, holding a coffee mug, with a man wearing a baseball hat and a plaid shirt washing something in the sink behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63664_012_KQED_CarlosArchuletaCastroValley_03142023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Macias heats up coffee while her partner, Carlos Archuleta, cleans up the kitchen after taking their kids to school at the home they rent in Castro Valley on March 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to make sure that what we’re putting in place is not a solution in search of a problem,” Tam said of her decision, noting that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&search_keywords=rent+cap\">California’s Tenant Protection Act of 2019\u003c/a> already places limits on evictions and rent hikes. She said she’d like to see a revised version of the tenant protection measures with changes that are more palatable to landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates have accused Tam of bowing to the interests of property-owner groups after receiving campaign contributions from them, an allegation she disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance records, Tam received at least $34,000 — or roughly 13% of total contributions to her campaign last year — from real-estate interests, and got an additional boost from the California Apartment Association, which raised over $241,000 to defeat her rival, Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association, which represents around 24,000 landlords statewide, said there has been a sea change in how property owners are responding to public policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a matter of survival for them to show up, explain their business to elected officials and get a hearing,” he said. “No one wants to be at a city council meeting at 8:30 [p.m.] protesting a rental ordinance. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’ve just seen across all avenues that are available to us an increased level of activity,” Lowery said. He noted that the association filed multiple lawsuits challenging COVID eviction bans around the state, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230306005212/en/Apartment-Association-of-Greater-L.A.-Files-Lawsuit-Against-the-City-of-Los-Angeles\">its members recently sued the city of Los Angeles\u003c/a> to block new measures enacted before its local moratorium ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some tenant advocates said this is just business as usual for landlord groups: Wherever tenants are organizing for stronger protections, property owner associations show up to fight them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you see where they are going, it’s [to] places tenants have been organizing for several years,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute (ACCE), a tenants rights group. “So they’re trying to take the power back from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lowery said property owners are getting more traction now with lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a renewed sense of urgency years into the pandemic, years into an eviction moratorium,” he said. “It gets easier for people to understand that no business [can] stay open without revenue coming in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic wore on, property owners in Alameda County became increasingly frustrated with supervisors’ refusal to consider changes to the moratorium, said Joshua Howard, executive vice president of the California Apartment Association. Last year, the group \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/alamedasuit/\">sued the county to end the moratorium\u003c/a> and has encouraged landlords to advocate against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing providers have been trying to speak out,” Howard said. “They’ve sent thousands of letters, made thousands of phone calls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chris Moore, who owns property in Oakland and unincorporated parts of Alameda County, and who sits on the board of the East Bay Rental Housing Association, the Board of Supervisors’ shift on the issue is a refreshing change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are listening to both sides,” he said. “That really was not happening before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Nate Miley argues that supervisors helped create the conditions for a backlash by refusing to ease the eviction ban months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To try to push other tenant-protection measures through when you have the strongest eviction moratorium in place, I just don’t think that’s being reasonable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miley voted in favor of the ordinance barring criminal background checks and supported extending legal services, but abstained from voting on the other two measures. Supervisors Tam and David Haubert abstained on all four items, effectively killing the proposals for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It breaks our heart as a community that worked so hard for so long,” said Carlos Archuleta, a renter in unincorporated Castro Valley who advocated for the measures. “Basically, special interests bought a seat and took that vote from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centro Legal de la Raza Executive Director Monique Berlanga said she was particularly surprised by the supervisors’ decision to defund the tenant and homeowner legal services program.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>George Wu is willing to die to end Alameda County’s eviction ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Leandro property owner launched a hunger strike Sunday to protest the moratorium, which he blames for $120,000 and counting in unpaid rent. Wu plans to camp out in front of the county administration building day and night, through cold and rain, until lawmakers lift the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need the rent to feed my family,” said Wu, whose triplex is his primary source of income. “I will continue there until the government listens to my story and until they have a new fair policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While COVID eviction protections are long expired in most cities and counties around the state, Alameda County is one of three Bay Area counties holding out — but not for much longer. \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/covid19-assets/docs/press/press-release-2023.02.28.pdf\">The county’s local COVID-19 public health emergency expired Tuesday (PDF)\u003c/a>, the same day as the state’s. With it gone, the county’s eviction moratorium will sunset in 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants in Solano County, another Bay Area county with a moratorium in place, will lose their pandemic-era protections in 90 days. And in San Francisco, there’s no end date yet, but advocates speculate that will come in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has lawmakers and advocates in the three counties scrambling to put in place new policies to stem a wave of evictions they fear will follow, while property owners who desperately want out from under the bans are pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu wants Alameda County to fully reimburse landlords for lost rent and end its moratorium immediately. But local officials there have cautioned against an abrupt end to these pandemic-era protections.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Nate Miley, president, Alameda County Board of Supervisors\"]‘We know there’s going to be an eviction tsunami. I feel the board, because we’ve put ourselves in this hole, we also have an obligation to help vulnerable populations. We need to figure out how we’re going to mitigate the damage that we’ve caused.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s going to be an eviction tsunami,” said Alameda County Board of Supervisors President Nate Miley, who aims to develop a program to support tenants and landlords coming out of the moratorium. He sees it as causing harm to both landlords and tenants who’ve racked up debt. “I feel the board, because we’ve put ourselves in this hole, we also have an obligation to help vulnerable populations. We need to figure out how we’re going to mitigate the damage that we’ve caused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, where the local eviction moratorium ended in September of last year, attorney Sunny Noh of Legal Aid of Sonoma County said that surge of evictions never came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected kind of a tidal wave of cases, and that’s not what we saw,” Noh said. Instead, she said they’ve seen a gradual increase, which they expect will ultimately top pre-pandemic eviction numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moratorium reduced evictions by two-thirds compared to pre-pandemic numbers, said Margaret DeMatteo, housing policy attorney for Legal Aid of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to DeMatteo’s analysis of court data, in 2019, there were 932 unlawful detainers in the county. In 2021, the only full year covered by the moratorium, the figure dropped to 332. In 2022, with the moratorium in effect through September, numbers rebounded to 786. The figures don’t account for illegal evictions or notices that lead people to move before an eviction goes to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s our workforce. Those are vulnerable populations,” she said. “My takeaway is that the county has a lot of power to stabilize the community and improve the ability for our workforce to remain and our seniors and people with disabilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders in Alameda and San Francisco counties are weighing their options to lessen the blow of losing eviction protections for tenants, but it hasn’t come without pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro City Councilmember Celina Reynes’ recent proposal to extend the city’s eviction moratorium was met with a threat, wishing for her to have a miscarriage and get hit by a car, according to a social media post she shared with KQED. But \u003ca href=\"https://sanleandro.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1060044&GUID=D7E045C3-8D7C-4AAD-A2D2-8681EE919B4B&Options=info%7C&Search=\">last week city leaders backed her plan\u003c/a>, shielding renters affected by COVID from evictions through February 2024. Tenants must be able to prove that their inability to pay is due to the pandemic to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very narrow ordinance, but what it’s doing is protecting some of our residents who are most vulnerable to displacement and homelessness,” Reynes said, noting the city doesn’t have rent stabilization or just cause eviction protections in place. “It gives us time to work on more permanent solutions for both tenants and housing providers in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11920788,news_11919866 label='Related Coverage']San Leandro isn’t the first city to enact tougher renter protections in the wake of temporary COVID measures lapsing. These solutions have proliferated across the state over the past couple of years as cities adopted or strengthened rent control and just cause eviction laws, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/understanding-evictions-in-oakland\">which limit evictions to those a city deems reasonable\u003c/a>, like failure to pay rent, significantly damaging a unit or violating the lease after receiving a written notice to stop. In the Bay Area, Antioch, Richmond and Oakland all increased protections last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are going back to the toolkit of policies that we’ve been advocating for years,” said Shanti Singh, communications and legislative director for Tenants Together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, where Singh is based, there are already strong rules in place to protect tenants. What she hopes to see before the moratorium lifts is a new infusion of funding for city programs that offer \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/renthelp\">emergency rent relief\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://evictiondefense.org/services/right-to-counsel/#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9CNo%20Eviction%20without%20Representation%20Act%E2%80%9D%20requires%20that%20all%20eligible,to%20Counsel%20program%20(TRC).\">provide attorneys for tenants facing eviction\u003c/a>. As for a policy solution, advocates in the city say they’re just beginning to think about what a phaseout of the eviction moratorium should look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, the city council adopted \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/city-council-special-eagenda-february-27-2023\">a proposal to stretch the city’s moratorium for an additional 60 days\u003c/a> after the end of the local emergency. The plan would create a transition period through the end of August during which only certain kinds of evictions would be allowed, including some due to an owner moving back into the property, those due to health and safety issues and those for nonpayment, unless a tenant has proof the delay is related to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just can’t end this right now. We have to have a plan,” Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said, adding that the proposal is meant to prevent people from becoming homeless. “We don’t need thousands more people on the streets just because we didn’t give them the time and the space and the resources to be able to pay back the rent that they owe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also asking for another $300,000 for the city’s COVID rent relief program, which now has a waitlist of six tenants seeking a total of $44,142.86, according to the resolution. He expects demand to grow when the eviction ban lifts.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín\"]‘We just can’t end this right now. We have to have a plan. We don’t need thousands more people on the streets just because we didn’t give them the time and the space and the resources to be able to pay back the rent that they owe.’[/pullquote]In Oakland, City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas is working on a plan to phase the city’s moratorium out. She said she’s listening to input from both tenants and small property owners as she drafts the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hopeful that we will craft a proposal that helps provide housing security to tenants and balances the concerns of small property owners,” she said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As lawmakers consider ways to ease out of the bans, landlords are pushing to take back greater control over their properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These elected officials set these tenants up for failure by allowing them to continue to accumulate debt,” said Krista Gulbransen, executive director of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, “but they’re never, ever going to be able to pay [it] back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association recently surveyed members and found the average respondent had at least two units with tenants who hadn’t been paying rent for an extended period of time. The amount of debt ranged from $1,000 to north of $80,000, with an average of about $30,000 that wasn’t covered by rent relief funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gulbransen sees it, the best solution is to require cities to cover any remaining debt through its rent relief program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That really is the only thing that’s going to keep tenants housed,” she said. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Krista Gulbransen, executive director, Berkeley Property Owners Association\"]‘These elected officials set these tenants up for failure by allowing them to continue to accumulate debt.’[/pullquote]Miley, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors president, has asked county staff to look into resources available to support the transition out of the moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to come up with programs that are going to help work with landlords and tenants to ameliorate and hopefully bring about some type of compromise,” he said, “so that we don’t have the level of evictions that are anticipated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county may not have the money to make landlords whole, Miley said he’d like to see it cover a portion of the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute, wants local leaders to think bigger. Housing affordability in California was a crisis before the pandemic. And, she said it’s still a crisis for millions of families in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real question is, what do we do for the folks who can’t pay for their housing on minimum wage, who can’t have three jobs now because there aren’t three jobs to have?” she said. “We’ve now returned to our regularly scheduled housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She worked on a survey of more than 100 people living in Oakland’s homeless encampments and found that 73% had criminal records. National research has found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\">formerly incarcerated people are almost 10 times more likely to experience homelessness\u003c/a> than the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly incarcerated people face barriers to living in all forms of housing, including private rental housing, nonprofit housing and the Section 8 voucher program, Lin says: “So where can people live?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to reduce those barriers, Alameda County has become the first in the country to ban landlords from doing criminal background checks for potential tenants. Lin championed the plan after helping to pass similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhlp.org/nhlp-publications/fair-chance-ordinances-an-advocates-toolkit/\">“fair chance” housing policies\u003c/a> two years ago in \u003ca href=\"https://berkeley.municipal.codes/BMC/13.106.030\">Berkeley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/oakland-now-has-the-states-strongest-fair-chance-housing-law\">Oakland\u003c/a>. The three are among the strongest rules in the country because they allow for few exceptions. Seattle, Portland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Cook County in Illinois and other localities also place some limits on the use of criminal background checks, as does the state of New Jersey. Locally, Richmond and San Francisco also have laws in place, though they’re far more narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_12_06_22/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/CDA_341608.pdf\">Alameda County’s plan (PDF)\u003c/a> only applies to unincorporated parts of the county. It doesn’t cover properties of four units or fewer if the landlord lives on site, or tenants who are subletting their space. Landlords will still be able to check sex offender registries and comply with federal laws that bar people convicted of certain drug and sex offenses from publicly funded properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936260\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man and a Latino man talk as they study a document in an office.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taqwaa Bonner (right) speaks with Legal Services for Prisoners With Children program manager Errol Veron at their offices in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All we’re asking for is to judge people based on the merits of who they are today. Period,” Lin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonner says that’s what it took for him to finally secure an apartment. As a housing advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://prisonerswithchildren.org/all-of-us-or-none/\">All of Us or None\u003c/a>, a project of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, he became an outspoken champion of these policies locally and says a landlord offered him a spot after recognizing him from the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They took on the moral courage and said, ‘It’s OK.’ And so for the first time in my life, 50 years old, I had a lease of my own,” says Bonner, who now lives in Dublin with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all property owners have been as receptive. Many landlords have voiced fears about endangering other tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have such a responsibility to maintain the safety, peace and tranquility for the living enjoyment of the people that are paying rents in the Bay Area,” says Elizabeth Moreno, who owns apartment buildings in unincorporated areas of San Leandro and Hayward. She says landlords need every tool at their disposal to ensure a sound community for tenants, including background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, where a fair chance ordinance is already in place, property owners have raised concerns about the confluence of the rule with other local laws that make it tough to oust tenants, like the city and county eviction moratoriums and recently strengthened just cause protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do make a mistake, we can’t just say, OK, we made a mistake, this didn’t work out. You can’t really get rid of them,” says Carmen Madden, who owns a 30-unit building down the street from where she grew up in East Oakland, near Mills College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, she says, the stakes feel especially high, with six tenants who she says haven’t been paying rent under the moratorium and owe around $100,000. Property owners around the county raised similar concerns. That led supervisors to amend the plan, delaying implementation until the county moratorium expires, which could come at the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madden and others have also raised concerns about the law’s unintended consequences. In the absence of background checks, Madden says landlords find other ways to screen tenants, some of which she worries could worsen discrimination. Since Oakland increased protections for renters, she’s stopped looking at criminal records, but now she pays more attention to employment history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researcher Lin is currently studying the effects of Oakland and Berkeley’s fair chance policies in what she calls the nation’s first impact evaluation of such a law. Lin says preliminary results from a survey of 41 formerly incarcerated people found that about a third said they’d benefited directly from the ordinances. Final study findings won’t be out for a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut.jpg\" alt='A Black woman with a white shirt that reads \"All of Us or None\" and sunglasses with her house reflected in the lenses, wearing a blue cap and smiling.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The reflection of Katie Dixon’s apartment building can be seen in her sunglasses in the backyard of her home in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those eagerly awaiting them is the Alameda County Probation Department, which is helping to fund the work, says Shauna Conner, the department’s community reentry and outreach director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says stable housing is essential for the clients she works with. “It’s difficult to get people to participate in other services if they’re not housed,” she says. “You’re dealing with not only potential recidivism due to homelessness, but also interruption to their ability to adjust to the reentry process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Katie Dixon, finding an apartment after years of homelessness changed everything. “In the two years that I’ve had stable housing, the whole quality of my life has improved,” says Dixon, who spent more than a decade going in and out of juvenile detention facilities, jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that stable housing reduces the likelihood of recidivism. One of the best regarded among the studies \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/25716/412632-Supportive-Housing-for-Returning-Prisoners-Outcomes-and-Impacts-of-the-Returning-Home-Ohio-Pilot-Project.PDF\">examined the Returning Home–Ohio Pilot Program (PDF)\u003c/a>, which provided permanent supportive housing to formerly incarcerated people with a history or risk of homelessness. Researchers found that participants were 40% less likely to be rearrested and 61% less likely to be reincarcerated than a comparison group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Dixon the reasons are obvious: Without a stable place to live, someone on probation might be forced into destructive choices, like crashing with friends who are involved in criminal activities, which could lead to a probation violation, or staying in an abusive relationship that exacerbates mental health issues just to keep a roof over their head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Dixon got her own place, she’s been able to exercise, eat healthier food and meditate. Having a private space and reliable internet connection also allowed her to complete a virtual policy training program she credits for her current job as an organizer with the ACLU of Northern California.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11935806,news_11927968,news_11932895\"]Oakland property owner Madden has one vacancy to fill at the moment. One potential applicant recently got out of jail, a fact she learned from a local pastor who referred the man. Over the years she’s rented to a few people with criminal records. What the experience has shown her, more than anything, is that people reentering the community don’t get the support they need. If landlords are going to do their part, she says, the government should do its part, too, and make sure people leaving prisons and jails can succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I found from those programs is that after they get them in, they leave them. So all their counseling stops, everything stops. And once it all stops, they stop,” she says. “So I get very nervous about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avoiding this “cliff” is something the probation department’s Conner thinks a lot about. She says the agency has been expanding its transition services, in part by doubling down on case management, life skills training and discharge planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that solves the biggest problem she sees when it comes to housing: affording it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conner sees fair chance ordinances as an important step, but, she says, “Even once we get people access, there’s still a limited pool of things that they can actually rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a study set to be released early next year, the Council of State Governments Justice Center asked state departments of correction across the country to identify \u003ca href=\"https://csgjusticecenter.org/people/charles-francis/\">the biggest barriers to reentry housing success\u003c/a>. According to the Center’s Charles Francis, 84% named discrimination and stigma as a top concern, while 74% named restrictive policies on the part of housing providers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, March 20:\u003c/strong> The Alameda County Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943467/landlord-backlash-prompts-return-to-pre-pandemic-rules-in-alameda-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reversed course and rejected the Fair Chance ordinance\u003c/a> on its second reading on Feb. 28, 2023. Second readings are normally considered a formality, but in this case the makeup of the board changed significantly between the first and second readings because of the deaths of two pro-tenant supervisors: Wilma Chan (replaced by Lena Tam) and Richard Valle. The board voted 2-0-2, with two supervisors voting in favor, none opposed, and Supervisors Tam and David Haubert abstaining, effectively killing the proposal for now. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Nate Wiley told KQED there is a possibility the proposal could come back to the board, though there is no estimation of when that might happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, Dec. 23, 2022:\u003c/strong> Taqwaa Bonner didn’t have a hard time getting a job when he got out of prison in 2016, after serving 30 years. Getting a car and a girlfriend wasn’t a problem either. The challenge was finding a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He applied for apartment after apartment around the East Bay without success. Property owners asked about his criminal history, and Bonner, 56, suspects that revealing his felony conviction landed his applications in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had family in the area, but couldn’t live with any of them because they all had rules in their leases that prohibited someone with a felony from moving in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That forced me to be homeless,” he says. For months Bonner slept in his car, sneaking into his girlfriend’s apartment when he could.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There is a direct pipeline from prison into homelessness,” says Margaretta Lin, executive director of Just Cities, a policy group focused on social justice, and a researcher with UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. She worked on a survey of more than 100 people living in Oakland’s homeless encampments and found that 73% had criminal records. National research has found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\">formerly incarcerated people are almost 10 times more likely to experience homelessness\u003c/a> than the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly incarcerated people face barriers to living in all forms of housing, including private rental housing, nonprofit housing and the Section 8 voucher program, Lin says: “So where can people live?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to reduce those barriers, Alameda County has become the first in the country to ban landlords from doing criminal background checks for potential tenants. Lin championed the plan after helping to pass similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhlp.org/nhlp-publications/fair-chance-ordinances-an-advocates-toolkit/\">“fair chance” housing policies\u003c/a> two years ago in \u003ca href=\"https://berkeley.municipal.codes/BMC/13.106.030\">Berkeley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/oakland-now-has-the-states-strongest-fair-chance-housing-law\">Oakland\u003c/a>. The three are among the strongest rules in the country because they allow for few exceptions. Seattle, Portland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Cook County in Illinois and other localities also place some limits on the use of criminal background checks, as does the state of New Jersey. Locally, Richmond and San Francisco also have laws in place, though they’re far more narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_12_06_22/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/CDA_341608.pdf\">Alameda County’s plan (PDF)\u003c/a> only applies to unincorporated parts of the county. It doesn’t cover properties of four units or fewer if the landlord lives on site, or tenants who are subletting their space. Landlords will still be able to check sex offender registries and comply with federal laws that bar people convicted of certain drug and sex offenses from publicly funded properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936260\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man and a Latino man talk as they study a document in an office.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61712_002_KQED_TaqwaaBonner_12162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taqwaa Bonner (right) speaks with Legal Services for Prisoners With Children program manager Errol Veron at their offices in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All we’re asking for is to judge people based on the merits of who they are today. Period,” Lin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonner says that’s what it took for him to finally secure an apartment. As a housing advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://prisonerswithchildren.org/all-of-us-or-none/\">All of Us or None\u003c/a>, a project of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, he became an outspoken champion of these policies locally and says a landlord offered him a spot after recognizing him from the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They took on the moral courage and said, ‘It’s OK.’ And so for the first time in my life, 50 years old, I had a lease of my own,” says Bonner, who now lives in Dublin with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all property owners have been as receptive. Many landlords have voiced fears about endangering other tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have such a responsibility to maintain the safety, peace and tranquility for the living enjoyment of the people that are paying rents in the Bay Area,” says Elizabeth Moreno, who owns apartment buildings in unincorporated areas of San Leandro and Hayward. She says landlords need every tool at their disposal to ensure a sound community for tenants, including background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, where a fair chance ordinance is already in place, property owners have raised concerns about the confluence of the rule with other local laws that make it tough to oust tenants, like the city and county eviction moratoriums and recently strengthened just cause protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do make a mistake, we can’t just say, OK, we made a mistake, this didn’t work out. You can’t really get rid of them,” says Carmen Madden, who owns a 30-unit building down the street from where she grew up in East Oakland, near Mills College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, she says, the stakes feel especially high, with six tenants who she says haven’t been paying rent under the moratorium and owe around $100,000. Property owners around the county raised similar concerns. That led supervisors to amend the plan, delaying implementation until the county moratorium expires, which could come at the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madden and others have also raised concerns about the law’s unintended consequences. In the absence of background checks, Madden says landlords find other ways to screen tenants, some of which she worries could worsen discrimination. Since Oakland increased protections for renters, she’s stopped looking at criminal records, but now she pays more attention to employment history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researcher Lin is currently studying the effects of Oakland and Berkeley’s fair chance policies in what she calls the nation’s first impact evaluation of such a law. Lin says preliminary results from a survey of 41 formerly incarcerated people found that about a third said they’d benefited directly from the ordinances. Final study findings won’t be out for a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut.jpg\" alt='A Black woman with a white shirt that reads \"All of Us or None\" and sunglasses with her house reflected in the lenses, wearing a blue cap and smiling.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61754_025_KQED_KatieDixon_12162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The reflection of Katie Dixon’s apartment building can be seen in her sunglasses in the backyard of her home in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those eagerly awaiting them is the Alameda County Probation Department, which is helping to fund the work, says Shauna Conner, the department’s community reentry and outreach director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says stable housing is essential for the clients she works with. “It’s difficult to get people to participate in other services if they’re not housed,” she says. “You’re dealing with not only potential recidivism due to homelessness, but also interruption to their ability to adjust to the reentry process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Katie Dixon, finding an apartment after years of homelessness changed everything. “In the two years that I’ve had stable housing, the whole quality of my life has improved,” says Dixon, who spent more than a decade going in and out of juvenile detention facilities, jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that stable housing reduces the likelihood of recidivism. One of the best regarded among the studies \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/25716/412632-Supportive-Housing-for-Returning-Prisoners-Outcomes-and-Impacts-of-the-Returning-Home-Ohio-Pilot-Project.PDF\">examined the Returning Home–Ohio Pilot Program (PDF)\u003c/a>, which provided permanent supportive housing to formerly incarcerated people with a history or risk of homelessness. Researchers found that participants were 40% less likely to be rearrested and 61% less likely to be reincarcerated than a comparison group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Dixon the reasons are obvious: Without a stable place to live, someone on probation might be forced into destructive choices, like crashing with friends who are involved in criminal activities, which could lead to a probation violation, or staying in an abusive relationship that exacerbates mental health issues just to keep a roof over their head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Dixon got her own place, she’s been able to exercise, eat healthier food and meditate. Having a private space and reliable internet connection also allowed her to complete a virtual policy training program she credits for her current job as an organizer with the ACLU of Northern California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:30 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela Price has won the closely watched and closely contested Alameda County district attorney’s race, with opponent Terry Wiley conceding the race late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank my family and everyone who supported me in my campaign, including my volunteers and everyone who voted for me,” Wiley said Saturday. “Although I expected a different result, I’m grateful for everyone’s support. I congratulate Pamela Price on becoming Alameda County’s first-ever African American District Attorney. I look forward to working with Pamela in her transition to District Attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a progressive civil-rights attorney, had over 53% of the vote in the latest results Saturday, and Wiley — the county’s chief assistant district attorney under retiring DA Nancy O'Malley — had just under 47%, a difference of nearly 27,000 votes. Price had already \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PPriceCares/status/1593818402992308225\">declared herself the victor on Friday\u003c/a> with a tweet that said “WE DID IT!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotly contested race reflected two starkly different approaches to crime, which Alameda County voters consistently named a top priority — the increase in gun violence in Oakland, in particular — during the months leading up to the election. Price's win seems to reflect East Bay voters' appetite for progressive criminal justice reform: Her campaign offered voters a vision for a district attorney who proposed bold stances to eliminate racial inequity in the criminal legal system and provide alternatives to incarceration focused on healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, a career prosecutor, offered a more moderate approach, calling for flexibility and arguing that pretrial detention and life-without-parole sentencing — things that Price spoke out against using — are sometimes necessary to protect public safety. Among other campaign promises, Wiley proposed to focus his office's work on what he called \"the 2,000 repeat offenders who commit the majority of crime in Alameda County,\" and increasing referrals from the court system to the county's drug and mental health care treatment programs. A win for Wiley would have preserved much of the status quo with the Alameda district attorney's office, whose work he defended on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the June primary, Price was the favorite, taking 40% of the vote over Terry Wiley, who garnered slightly less than 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young Black man in a black coat smiles in a portrait at the library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leron Garret voted at the Oakland Public Library on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Election Day, voters at the Oakland Public Library on 14th Street said they had been closely following the candidates' campaigns. Oakland resident Leron Garret didn’t share whom he voted for, but said he felt like crime had gotten worse in the city, and he wanted a DA who would thoughtfully address it — within reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very nuanced, especially when you consider the deleterious effects of long sentences and what it can do to someone’s life long-term,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another voter, teacher Erin Hartfield, said voting for a Black candidate was important to her. Both Wiley and Price are Black. But Price, who opposes cash bail and charging youths as adults, won Hartfield's support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She actually thinks about the youth and is very strategic about saying that,” said Hartfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiling broadly and looking directly at the camera, with a bald head and wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark gray suit, a light dress shirt, and a tie with diagonal blue and red stripes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Wiley is seen among supporters at a campaign party held at Mimosa 2 in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiley was widely endorsed by elected officials including the mayors of several Alameda County cities, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell. He also had the support of local and state district attorneys’ associations and police and sheriffs’ associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley's campaign often took aim at his competitor’s lack of prosecutorial and managerial experience. Price’s detractors were also quick to draw parallels between her and San Francisco’s recently recalled former District Attorney Chesa Boudin — including at Wiley's election night party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chesa Boudin experiment was tried in San Francisco and it failed,\" Deputy District Attorney Butch Ford told the crowd, referring to the former DA across the bay whose tenure was marked by efforts to end cash bail, reduce jail time, and criminally charge police accused of misconduct. Ford continued, saying that Wiley \"made it real clear he'd be damned that the 'Pamela Price experiment' be tried here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price shares Boudin's opposition to cash bail and to charging youths as adults, put forth ambitious plans to combat sex trafficking, and sought to expand the role the DA plays in advocating for mental health care services and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s campaign, her second for Alameda DA after an unsuccessful run in 2018, was widely endorsed by local Democratic clubs, progressive labor unions and justice reform advocacy groups including Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931593 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with long, curly black hair dressed in a purple sequin dress smiles among people smiling at her.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda county district attorney candidate Pamela Price greets guests at her election night party at Q's Lounge in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, campaign funding flowed to the candidates from different sides of the courtroom. Current attorneys and inspectors for the Alameda County district attorney’s office contributed heavily to Wiley’s campaign, both individually and collectively, including a $75,000 donation from the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association. Over the course of his two-year campaign, Wiley raised more than $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price received numerous individual donations from attorneys in the Alameda County Public Defender’s office. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:30 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela Price has won the closely watched and closely contested Alameda County district attorney’s race, with opponent Terry Wiley conceding the race late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank my family and everyone who supported me in my campaign, including my volunteers and everyone who voted for me,” Wiley said Saturday. “Although I expected a different result, I’m grateful for everyone’s support. I congratulate Pamela Price on becoming Alameda County’s first-ever African American District Attorney. I look forward to working with Pamela in her transition to District Attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a progressive civil-rights attorney, had over 53% of the vote in the latest results Saturday, and Wiley — the county’s chief assistant district attorney under retiring DA Nancy O'Malley — had just under 47%, a difference of nearly 27,000 votes. Price had already \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PPriceCares/status/1593818402992308225\">declared herself the victor on Friday\u003c/a> with a tweet that said “WE DID IT!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotly contested race reflected two starkly different approaches to crime, which Alameda County voters consistently named a top priority — the increase in gun violence in Oakland, in particular — during the months leading up to the election. Price's win seems to reflect East Bay voters' appetite for progressive criminal justice reform: Her campaign offered voters a vision for a district attorney who proposed bold stances to eliminate racial inequity in the criminal legal system and provide alternatives to incarceration focused on healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, a career prosecutor, offered a more moderate approach, calling for flexibility and arguing that pretrial detention and life-without-parole sentencing — things that Price spoke out against using — are sometimes necessary to protect public safety. Among other campaign promises, Wiley proposed to focus his office's work on what he called \"the 2,000 repeat offenders who commit the majority of crime in Alameda County,\" and increasing referrals from the court system to the county's drug and mental health care treatment programs. A win for Wiley would have preserved much of the status quo with the Alameda district attorney's office, whose work he defended on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the June primary, Price was the favorite, taking 40% of the vote over Terry Wiley, who garnered slightly less than 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young Black man in a black coat smiles in a portrait at the library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leron Garret voted at the Oakland Public Library on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Election Day, voters at the Oakland Public Library on 14th Street said they had been closely following the candidates' campaigns. Oakland resident Leron Garret didn’t share whom he voted for, but said he felt like crime had gotten worse in the city, and he wanted a DA who would thoughtfully address it — within reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very nuanced, especially when you consider the deleterious effects of long sentences and what it can do to someone’s life long-term,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another voter, teacher Erin Hartfield, said voting for a Black candidate was important to her. Both Wiley and Price are Black. But Price, who opposes cash bail and charging youths as adults, won Hartfield's support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She actually thinks about the youth and is very strategic about saying that,” said Hartfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiling broadly and looking directly at the camera, with a bald head and wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark gray suit, a light dress shirt, and a tie with diagonal blue and red stripes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Wiley is seen among supporters at a campaign party held at Mimosa 2 in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiley was widely endorsed by elected officials including the mayors of several Alameda County cities, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell. He also had the support of local and state district attorneys’ associations and police and sheriffs’ associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley's campaign often took aim at his competitor’s lack of prosecutorial and managerial experience. Price’s detractors were also quick to draw parallels between her and San Francisco’s recently recalled former District Attorney Chesa Boudin — including at Wiley's election night party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chesa Boudin experiment was tried in San Francisco and it failed,\" Deputy District Attorney Butch Ford told the crowd, referring to the former DA across the bay whose tenure was marked by efforts to end cash bail, reduce jail time, and criminally charge police accused of misconduct. Ford continued, saying that Wiley \"made it real clear he'd be damned that the 'Pamela Price experiment' be tried here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price shares Boudin's opposition to cash bail and to charging youths as adults, put forth ambitious plans to combat sex trafficking, and sought to expand the role the DA plays in advocating for mental health care services and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s campaign, her second for Alameda DA after an unsuccessful run in 2018, was widely endorsed by local Democratic clubs, progressive labor unions and justice reform advocacy groups including Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931593 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with long, curly black hair dressed in a purple sequin dress smiles among people smiling at her.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda county district attorney candidate Pamela Price greets guests at her election night party at Q's Lounge in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, campaign funding flowed to the candidates from different sides of the courtroom. Current attorneys and inspectors for the Alameda County district attorney’s office contributed heavily to Wiley’s campaign, both individually and collectively, including a $75,000 donation from the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association. Over the course of his two-year campaign, Wiley raised more than $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price received numerous individual donations from attorneys in the Alameda County Public Defender’s office. 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Detectives were still searching for the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both victims, a 42-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man whose names were not immediately released, were pronounced dead at the scene.[aside tag=\"police, justice\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Williams was hired by the Alameda County sheriff’s office last year, after a brief stint with Stockton Police. Officials said he did not pass a field probationary period in Stockton, and was let go by that department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams knew the couple, but investigators were still trying “to fine-tune their connection” and determine the motive, according to Alameda County sheriff’s spokesperson Lt. Ray Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department says both victims, a man and a woman, died in the residence. They have one child, whom law enforcement believe was at home at the time of the shooting and was not injured. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in 2021, Ira Hudson was looking for a new apartment in Berkeley, but couldn’t find anything she could afford. For the past nine years, she had been living in downtown Oakland. But when her building’s management changed last year, Hudson started noticing infestations of bugs in the halls and in her apartment. She started to feel unsafe around new neighbors who were loud and behaved erratically. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Before, they used to screen the people they let in, but [then] they started to let any and everybody come in here,” she said. “The place was just [falling apart] and I couldn’t stand the bugs” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hudson, 71, is a lifelong resident of Alameda County. All of her family lives nearby. On most weekdays, she drives to Alameda to take care of her sister who recently suffered a stroke. On the weekends, she visits her daughter and grandchildren who live in Berkeley. One of her brothers lives a few blocks away while the other is in a convalescent home in Martinez. She couldn’t imagine moving away from all of that.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rev. Phil Brochard, All Souls Episcopal Parish\"]‘We wanted to be part of strengthening the community in a different way and one that was going to provide space for people who are most vulnerable.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hudson was limited by her budget, too. In her retirement, she relies on her Social Security benefits to pay the bills. She looked into getting an apartment in the same complex as her sister in Alameda, but the waitlist was too long. As her search dragged on for months, Hudson heard about Jordan Court, a housing complex for seniors with low incomes built by All Souls Episcopal Parish in Berkeley. She applied for a spot, but wasn’t hopeful she’d get in. The church had received more than 850 applications to fill a mere 34 studio units. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Then out of the blue, I get a call,” Hudson said. “They said, ‘You got the apartment here.’ I said, ‘You gotta be kidding me.’ That is nothing but a blessing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hudson moved into Jordan Court in early March, along with 33 other seniors with low incomes. The apartment sits between North Oakland and South Berkeley, just a block away from a busy thoroughfare with lots of small restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores. Hudson’s new apartment has a big kitchen, big closets and a walk-in shower with a seat inside. She can park her car safely in the parking lot. And when she doesn’t want to drive, she can walk or take the bus to wherever she needs to be.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A common area with TVs and a meeting room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Court, located next door to All Souls Episcopal Parish, offers many amenities for their residents, including game and movie nights along with a community garden filled with fresh fruits and vegetables. This photo was taken on June 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I just love the place. It’s just a really nice community,” she said. “And people are out to help you. If you have any problems, you let them know and it’s taken care of.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Jordan Court succeeded when many others couldn’t\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As California’s housing crisis becomes more dire and cities feel mounting pressure to build more housing, many are eyeing church-owned real estate as a potential solution. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11922337,forum_2010101889665,news_11914765\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Churches are one of the largest landowners in the country. The Catholic Church is\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://archive.curbed.com/2017/10/18/16483194/catholic-church-gis-goodlands-esri-molly-burhans\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> one of the largest private landowners\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the world. According to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Mapping_the_Potential_and_Identifying_the_Barriers_to_Faith-Based_Housing_Development_May_2020.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, California faith institutions collectively own about 38,800 acres of undeveloped land. Almost half of that land is located in “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://localhousingsolutions.org/housing-issues/affordable-housing-in-opportunity-areas-or-resource-rich-neighborhoods/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resource rich\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” areas, where there is better access to schools, public transportation, grocery stores and economic opportunities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The movement to take advantage of that land is known as YIGBY — Yes in God’s Backyard. But it’s not been easy. Affordable housing is notoriously difficult to build in California, and without deep pockets or the experience of developers, many churches have tried and failed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The apartment building is in a ‘resource rich’ neighborhood with many grocery stores, transit stops, small businesses and restaurants just a few blocks away. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jordan Court is one of the few church-led affordable housing developments successfully built in the Bay Area. The process started in 2014, when Rev. Phil Brochard and the All Souls Episcopal congregation were trying to decide what to do with an apartment building the church owned next door. The parish had used it as a makeshift office space, but it was becoming decrepit and underused. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“At the same time, we had members of our congregation who were themselves starting to feel the housing crunch that was happening,” said Brochard. “We wanted to be part of strengthening the community in a different way and one that was going to provide space for people who are most vulnerable.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The church decided on an affordable housing development specifically for seniors with low incomes, to help serve the city’s aging population. They also figured senior housing would be a pretty easy sell to neighbors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a black shirt sits outside with his hand resting on a table.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Phil Brochard had been wanting to transform the underused and decrepit apartment the church owned into something useful for the community. In 2014, the congregation decided to turn the building into affordable housing, desperately needed in the increasingly expensive city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the project’s road to completion was a long and tiresome one with all the usual speed bumps that face affordable housing developments: high construction costs, bureaucracy and neighbors saying “not in my backyard.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For some, they didn’t want to see a bigger structure here — we added a story to the building that was previously here,” Brochard said. “For some, it was just that they didn’t want poor people living in ‘their neighborhood’ and they felt like they or their families would be at more risk.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One neighbor appealed the project, causing All Souls to miss out on an opportunity for millions of dollars in funding.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But All Souls had their advantages, too. The project got some help from the state Legislature, with a new state law designed to spur housing construction. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 35\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was passed in 2017, and streamlines project approvals in cities that have failed to build enough housing to meet state-mandated requirements. If a project meets certain criteria and contains fewer than 150 units, local governments must greenlight them within 60 days. Jordan Court contained 34 units and met all the criteria.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another thing going for All Souls: its size and financial stability. The church has many affluent congregants who volunteered their skills toward developing Jordan Court, including an architect who assisted in the design process and an attorney who helped sort through the legal red tape. The church could also afford to build affordable rather than market-rate housing, which would have earned a profit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re also in a position where we didn’t need the income stream for us to be able to survive,” Brochard said. “We’ve been a pretty stable congregation over the last 15 years or so. We felt we had enough stability that we could make this choice.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why aren’t there more Jordan Courts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All Souls built Jordan Court in partnership with Satellite Affordable Housing Associates. Though SAHA has helped house 4,000 residents across the Bay Area, this is the first project it has completed on church property. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’ve had other glimpses and potential projects with congregations, but this is really the first successful one we’ve done,” said SAHA CEO Susan Friedland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt stand in the middle of a garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Friedland, CEO of Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, has talked with many churches who were interested in building affordable housing on their property. Jordan Court is the first project they have completed in partnership with a church. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friedland has talked with parishes who wanted to build affordable housing for their congregants, but backed out after realizing there’s no guarantee that the finished projects would have room for them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under fair housing laws, affordable housing projects must be open to anyone who qualifies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Because we take government money we can’t lease the building only to a certain group of people — we have to open it up widely. That’s often a game changer for a congregation,” said Friedland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another misconception is how financially lucrative an affordable housing project could be. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Some organizations see they have surplus land and they want to monetize it,” said Friedland. “But building affordable housing isn’t always a great way to maximize profit. It’s not a moneymaker.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Developing affordable housing takes a lot of time and resources, which can be daunting for new developers like churches. Since 2020, state Sen. Scott Wiener has been working on legislation that would make the approval process easier specifically for churches that want to develop affordable housing, but it has failed both times he has introduced it. Wiener plans to introduce a similar bill in December. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making affordable housing work for more churches\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a brown jacket and light jeans stands outside a building by a fence.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor L.J. Jennings, outside the Blessings of Faith church in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pastor L.J. Jennings leads the Kingdom Builders Christian Fellowship in Oakland. Born and raised in the East Bay, Jennings has seen his neighbors and family members get pushed out of the area by the rising cost of living.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We talk about gentrification, but my word is ‘displacement,’” Jennings said. “When I look at who is being pushed out, it’s minority folks, it’s people of color. It’s changing the demographics of our city, of our communities.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before becoming a pastor, Jennings worked in residential and commercial real estate and decided to put his experience and skills to use. In 2010, a year after opening the Kingdom Builders Christian Fellowship, he built a sober-living facility on land the church owned. Seven years later, he opened a hundred-bed home for formerly incarcerated individuals looking to reenter society. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“All of [the tenants in our facilities] are classified as homeless,” said Jennings. “We knew right away early on that we needed to address the homelessness crisis, so that’s what we’ve been doing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After learning the ins and outs of building subsidized housing, Jennings wanted to help other churches do the same. In 2019, he started the Kingdom Builders Project, a nonprofit with two goals: to help churches build affordable housing and to make the projects as financially sound as possible to help struggling churches stay afloat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Kingdom Builders Project has been working with churches across the East Bay on housing projects: four in Oakland and one in Hayward. All the churches are Black churches. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know in the Black community that Blacks are being displaced in record numbers,” Jennings said. “So as a community, we’re really trying to stem the tide of Black displacement. We’re fighting for our survival.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While building housing may align with a church’s mission to serve its community, it’s not always cost-effective. According to Jennings, this is because faith institutions aren’t familiar with the financing of housing developments and therefore don’t know how to negotiate with savvy housing developers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have these situations where nonprofit housing developers are getting land from the church and the church doesn’t benefit from it other than their name on the building,” Jennings said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, many affordable housing developers make money through a “developer fee,” a sum of money included in the total housing development costs. Jennings argues housing developers should share that fee with churches, especially if the church is involved in that development process and owns the highly valuable land. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are other ways to access revenue streams, Jennings says, if only churches knew how to tap into them. Traditionally, an affordable housing developer would manage the apartment property or contract it out, but if church members learned how to manage the property, they could keep that revenue. Jennings envisions the church providing other services, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Whether it’s computer assistance, whether it’s after-school care, whatever it is — it’s for the community and the residents,” he said. “We would help them develop their services that are going to be housed inside the development so that they can create additional revenue.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jennings also wants to increase the odds that churches can house their own members who are at risk of displacement. Getting a unit in an affordable housing project usually happens by lottery, to make it a fair process. Jennings says that in the time it takes to build the housing, churches can work with their members to help them qualify. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re working with them on their credit, we’re working with them on their budgeting, making sure there’s job stability,” Jennings said. “We’re working with them on all the areas so that when the application opens, our people are ready to apply.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The four housing projects in Oakland are in the early stages and haven’t started construction yet, but Jennings says they look promising. The project in Hayward, however, is running into roadblocks from the church’s neighbors and confusing county regulations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Blessings of Faith church, located a few blocks away from downtown Hayward, wants to build a 42-unit complex for seniors with low incomes in a small parking lot behind the church. Pastor Tally Knott grew up in Hayward, attended the church and witnessed the displacement of seniors and others in her community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was always around seniors, so my care for older people came about by just being around them,” said Knott. “This is my home, these are my people. I understand the community here and the needs of the people.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since starting the development process, Knott says the church has gotten pushback from neighbors who fear the apartment building will be too large for the area. Others in surrounding homes fear it will bring crime and disorder to their quiet community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We live in a community where people are comfortable and don’t want change, but everyone’s going to become older one day,” said Knott. “I was even thinking about putting up signs that say ‘Seniors Matter.’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the setbacks, Knott and Jennings are resolute in their goal to build affordable housing in their communities. There’s no guarantee that these projects will work out exactly as envisioned, but it makes sense that faith organizations like the Kingdom Builders Project are giving it a try. Churches and other faith institutions have provided shelter to their communities for centuries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“With the affordable housing crisis, there are no silver bullets,” said Tia Hicks, program officer at the Bay Area chapter of the nonprofit Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). “This is just one opportunity to really get at our regional affordable housing crisis.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2019, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has worked with 20 churches in the East Bay that wanted to develop housing on their property. One church is set to start construction on their property by the end of this year while others are selecting development partners and getting started on the approval process. Hicks says faith institutions are some of the best organizations to get involved in housing because they are usually entrenched in the communities they serve and understand the specific needs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It enables communities to retain ownership over what gets built,” she said. “Especially if we’re prioritizing racial equity in our work, in supporting Black congregations, there’s a lot of powerful synergy there.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hudson was limited by her budget, too. In her retirement, she relies on her Social Security benefits to pay the bills. She looked into getting an apartment in the same complex as her sister in Alameda, but the waitlist was too long. As her search dragged on for months, Hudson heard about Jordan Court, a housing complex for seniors with low incomes built by All Souls Episcopal Parish in Berkeley. She applied for a spot, but wasn’t hopeful she’d get in. The church had received more than 850 applications to fill a mere 34 studio units. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Then out of the blue, I get a call,” Hudson said. “They said, ‘You got the apartment here.’ I said, ‘You gotta be kidding me.’ That is nothing but a blessing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hudson moved into Jordan Court in early March, along with 33 other seniors with low incomes. The apartment sits between North Oakland and South Berkeley, just a block away from a busy thoroughfare with lots of small restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores. Hudson’s new apartment has a big kitchen, big closets and a walk-in shower with a seat inside. She can park her car safely in the parking lot. And when she doesn’t want to drive, she can walk or take the bus to wherever she needs to be.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A common area with TVs and a meeting room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57015_009_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Court, located next door to All Souls Episcopal Parish, offers many amenities for their residents, including game and movie nights along with a community garden filled with fresh fruits and vegetables. This photo was taken on June 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I just love the place. It’s just a really nice community,” she said. “And people are out to help you. If you have any problems, you let them know and it’s taken care of.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Jordan Court succeeded when many others couldn’t\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As California’s housing crisis becomes more dire and cities feel mounting pressure to build more housing, many are eyeing church-owned real estate as a potential solution. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Churches are one of the largest landowners in the country. The Catholic Church is\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://archive.curbed.com/2017/10/18/16483194/catholic-church-gis-goodlands-esri-molly-burhans\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> one of the largest private landowners\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the world. According to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Mapping_the_Potential_and_Identifying_the_Barriers_to_Faith-Based_Housing_Development_May_2020.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, California faith institutions collectively own about 38,800 acres of undeveloped land. Almost half of that land is located in “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://localhousingsolutions.org/housing-issues/affordable-housing-in-opportunity-areas-or-resource-rich-neighborhoods/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resource rich\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” areas, where there is better access to schools, public transportation, grocery stores and economic opportunities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The movement to take advantage of that land is known as YIGBY — Yes in God’s Backyard. But it’s not been easy. Affordable housing is notoriously difficult to build in California, and without deep pockets or the experience of developers, many churches have tried and failed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57013_004_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The apartment building is in a ‘resource rich’ neighborhood with many grocery stores, transit stops, small businesses and restaurants just a few blocks away. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jordan Court is one of the few church-led affordable housing developments successfully built in the Bay Area. The process started in 2014, when Rev. Phil Brochard and the All Souls Episcopal congregation were trying to decide what to do with an apartment building the church owned next door. The parish had used it as a makeshift office space, but it was becoming decrepit and underused. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“At the same time, we had members of our congregation who were themselves starting to feel the housing crunch that was happening,” said Brochard. “We wanted to be part of strengthening the community in a different way and one that was going to provide space for people who are most vulnerable.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The church decided on an affordable housing development specifically for seniors with low incomes, to help serve the city’s aging population. They also figured senior housing would be a pretty easy sell to neighbors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a black shirt sits outside with his hand resting on a table.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57020_015_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Phil Brochard had been wanting to transform the underused and decrepit apartment the church owned into something useful for the community. In 2014, the congregation decided to turn the building into affordable housing, desperately needed in the increasingly expensive city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the project’s road to completion was a long and tiresome one with all the usual speed bumps that face affordable housing developments: high construction costs, bureaucracy and neighbors saying “not in my backyard.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For some, they didn’t want to see a bigger structure here — we added a story to the building that was previously here,” Brochard said. “For some, it was just that they didn’t want poor people living in ‘their neighborhood’ and they felt like they or their families would be at more risk.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One neighbor appealed the project, causing All Souls to miss out on an opportunity for millions of dollars in funding.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But All Souls had their advantages, too. The project got some help from the state Legislature, with a new state law designed to spur housing construction. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 35\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was passed in 2017, and streamlines project approvals in cities that have failed to build enough housing to meet state-mandated requirements. If a project meets certain criteria and contains fewer than 150 units, local governments must greenlight them within 60 days. Jordan Court contained 34 units and met all the criteria.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another thing going for All Souls: its size and financial stability. The church has many affluent congregants who volunteered their skills toward developing Jordan Court, including an architect who assisted in the design process and an attorney who helped sort through the legal red tape. The church could also afford to build affordable rather than market-rate housing, which would have earned a profit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re also in a position where we didn’t need the income stream for us to be able to survive,” Brochard said. “We’ve been a pretty stable congregation over the last 15 years or so. We felt we had enough stability that we could make this choice.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why aren’t there more Jordan Courts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All Souls built Jordan Court in partnership with Satellite Affordable Housing Associates. Though SAHA has helped house 4,000 residents across the Bay Area, this is the first project it has completed on church property. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’ve had other glimpses and potential projects with congregations, but this is really the first successful one we’ve done,” said SAHA CEO Susan Friedland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt stand in the middle of a garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57022_016_KQED_HousingJordanCourt_06292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Friedland, CEO of Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, has talked with many churches who were interested in building affordable housing on their property. Jordan Court is the first project they have completed in partnership with a church. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friedland has talked with parishes who wanted to build affordable housing for their congregants, but backed out after realizing there’s no guarantee that the finished projects would have room for them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under fair housing laws, affordable housing projects must be open to anyone who qualifies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Because we take government money we can’t lease the building only to a certain group of people — we have to open it up widely. That’s often a game changer for a congregation,” said Friedland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another misconception is how financially lucrative an affordable housing project could be. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Some organizations see they have surplus land and they want to monetize it,” said Friedland. “But building affordable housing isn’t always a great way to maximize profit. It’s not a moneymaker.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Developing affordable housing takes a lot of time and resources, which can be daunting for new developers like churches. Since 2020, state Sen. Scott Wiener has been working on legislation that would make the approval process easier specifically for churches that want to develop affordable housing, but it has failed both times he has introduced it. Wiener plans to introduce a similar bill in December. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making affordable housing work for more churches\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a brown jacket and light jeans stands outside a building by a fence.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1408-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor L.J. Jennings, outside the Blessings of Faith church in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pastor L.J. Jennings leads the Kingdom Builders Christian Fellowship in Oakland. Born and raised in the East Bay, Jennings has seen his neighbors and family members get pushed out of the area by the rising cost of living.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We talk about gentrification, but my word is ‘displacement,’” Jennings said. “When I look at who is being pushed out, it’s minority folks, it’s people of color. It’s changing the demographics of our city, of our communities.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before becoming a pastor, Jennings worked in residential and commercial real estate and decided to put his experience and skills to use. In 2010, a year after opening the Kingdom Builders Christian Fellowship, he built a sober-living facility on land the church owned. Seven years later, he opened a hundred-bed home for formerly incarcerated individuals looking to reenter society. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“All of [the tenants in our facilities] are classified as homeless,” said Jennings. “We knew right away early on that we needed to address the homelessness crisis, so that’s what we’ve been doing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After learning the ins and outs of building subsidized housing, Jennings wanted to help other churches do the same. In 2019, he started the Kingdom Builders Project, a nonprofit with two goals: to help churches build affordable housing and to make the projects as financially sound as possible to help struggling churches stay afloat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Kingdom Builders Project has been working with churches across the East Bay on housing projects: four in Oakland and one in Hayward. All the churches are Black churches. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know in the Black community that Blacks are being displaced in record numbers,” Jennings said. “So as a community, we’re really trying to stem the tide of Black displacement. We’re fighting for our survival.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While building housing may align with a church’s mission to serve its community, it’s not always cost-effective. According to Jennings, this is because faith institutions aren’t familiar with the financing of housing developments and therefore don’t know how to negotiate with savvy housing developers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have these situations where nonprofit housing developers are getting land from the church and the church doesn’t benefit from it other than their name on the building,” Jennings said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, many affordable housing developers make money through a “developer fee,” a sum of money included in the total housing development costs. Jennings argues housing developers should share that fee with churches, especially if the church is involved in that development process and owns the highly valuable land. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are other ways to access revenue streams, Jennings says, if only churches knew how to tap into them. Traditionally, an affordable housing developer would manage the apartment property or contract it out, but if church members learned how to manage the property, they could keep that revenue. Jennings envisions the church providing other services, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Whether it’s computer assistance, whether it’s after-school care, whatever it is — it’s for the community and the residents,” he said. “We would help them develop their services that are going to be housed inside the development so that they can create additional revenue.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jennings also wants to increase the odds that churches can house their own members who are at risk of displacement. Getting a unit in an affordable housing project usually happens by lottery, to make it a fair process. Jennings says that in the time it takes to build the housing, churches can work with their members to help them qualify. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re working with them on their credit, we’re working with them on their budgeting, making sure there’s job stability,” Jennings said. “We’re working with them on all the areas so that when the application opens, our people are ready to apply.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The four housing projects in Oakland are in the early stages and haven’t started construction yet, but Jennings says they look promising. The project in Hayward, however, is running into roadblocks from the church’s neighbors and confusing county regulations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Blessings of Faith church, located a few blocks away from downtown Hayward, wants to build a 42-unit complex for seniors with low incomes in a small parking lot behind the church. Pastor Tally Knott grew up in Hayward, attended the church and witnessed the displacement of seniors and others in her community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was always around seniors, so my care for older people came about by just being around them,” said Knott. “This is my home, these are my people. I understand the community here and the needs of the people.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since starting the development process, Knott says the church has gotten pushback from neighbors who fear the apartment building will be too large for the area. Others in surrounding homes fear it will bring crime and disorder to their quiet community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We live in a community where people are comfortable and don’t want change, but everyone’s going to become older one day,” said Knott. “I was even thinking about putting up signs that say ‘Seniors Matter.’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the setbacks, Knott and Jennings are resolute in their goal to build affordable housing in their communities. There’s no guarantee that these projects will work out exactly as envisioned, but it makes sense that faith organizations like the Kingdom Builders Project are giving it a try. Churches and other faith institutions have provided shelter to their communities for centuries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“With the affordable housing crisis, there are no silver bullets,” said Tia Hicks, program officer at the Bay Area chapter of the nonprofit Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). “This is just one opportunity to really get at our regional affordable housing crisis.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2019, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has worked with 20 churches in the East Bay that wanted to develop housing on their property. One church is set to start construction on their property by the end of this year while others are selecting development partners and getting started on the approval process. Hicks says faith institutions are some of the best organizations to get involved in housing because they are usually entrenched in the communities they serve and understand the specific needs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It enables communities to retain ownership over what gets built,” she said. “Especially if we’re prioritizing racial equity in our work, in supporting Black congregations, there’s a lot of powerful synergy there.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three years ago, Melissa Rodriguez and dozens of her peers in Oakland Unified had a bold idea. Unhappy with the civics education at their schools, among other issues, they decided to enact their own real-life civics lesson: by fighting for 16- and 17-year-olds to have the right to vote in school board elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They circulated petitions. They went door to door in every neighborhood of the city. They collected endorsements and raised money for advertising. They did email blasts, social media campaigns and phone banking. And in the fall 2020 election, they won. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland,_California,_Measure_QQ,_Allow_16-Year-Olds_to_Vote_for_School_Board_Director_Charter_Amendment_(November_2020)\">Measure QQ\u003c/a> passed with almost 68% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"mindshift_56725,arts_13889129\"]But that, so far, is where the story ends. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has yet to implement Measure QQ, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Berkeley,_California,_School_Director_Election_Youth_Voting,_Measure_Y1_(November_2016)\">a similar measure, Y1\u003c/a>, that passed in Berkeley in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so disappointing. As much as we tried to hold adults accountable, it didn’t happen. Even when they promised it would,” Rodriguez said. “And it’s not even our fault. No matter how much work we put into something, it doesn’t change anything. It makes me really mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in Oakland and Berkeley isn’t unique. Youth-led civic engagement initiatives typically struggle to maintain momentum, said Chuck Corra, associate director at Generation Citizen, which advocates for youth civics education. 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It feels like there's a renewed momentum.'[/pullquote]California election law is unclear as to how long an agency can wait before implementing a voter-approved measure. But some delays related to Measures QQ and Y1 might be unique to Alameda County. Youth voting measures in Maryland and other states have passed and been implemented with little trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zo Pancoast, who was among the Berkeley students who pushed for Y1 six years ago, said the delay is disappointing, but it hasn’t deterred her and her peers from fighting for change. Now a student at Scripps College in Claremont, she’s remained active with \u003ca href=\"https://generationcitizen.org/policy-and-advocacy/vote16usa/\">Vote16USA\u003c/a>, a movement to lower the voting age, and is busy working on other political issues. 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It feels like there’s a renewed momentum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921998\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11921998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a student march in Seattle in 1969\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg 450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young people in Seattle march in support of lowering the national voting age to 18, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One place of momentum is Culver City in Los Angeles County, where high school students have successfully campaigned to get a youth voting measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. 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Shutting them out of the electoral process is essentially taxation without representation, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our voices do matter, and we have this opportunity to create substantive change,” Meighan-Thiel said. “Hopefully this leads to something meaningful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ada Meighan-Thiel, student activist\"]'Our voices do matter, and we have this opportunity to create substantive change. Hopefully this leads to something meaningful.'[/pullquote]For Frans, the top issue for which she’d like to hold local leaders accountable is climate change and environmental sustainability. She wants to see schools in Culver City have plant-based, organic food and generate less food waste in the cafeterias; use more renewable energy, such as solar power; and use less plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Meighan-Thiel, the issue is affordable housing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But that, so far, is where the story ends. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has yet to implement Measure QQ, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Berkeley,_California,_School_Director_Election_Youth_Voting,_Measure_Y1_(November_2016)\">a similar measure, Y1\u003c/a>, that passed in Berkeley in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so disappointing. As much as we tried to hold adults accountable, it didn’t happen. Even when they promised it would,” Rodriguez said. “And it’s not even our fault. No matter how much work we put into something, it doesn’t change anything. It makes me really mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in Oakland and Berkeley isn’t unique. Youth-led civic engagement initiatives typically struggle to maintain momentum, said Chuck Corra, associate director at Generation Citizen, which advocates for youth civics education. Students graduate and move on, priorities change, and — as any policy wonk will attest — the wheels of democracy can grind maddeningly slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be frustrating. Sometimes municipalities drag their feet,” Corra said. “There’s all this grassroots activism and then nothing happens. … Young people are tired of seeing a lot of talk on issues that affect them. They want a seat at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of youth voting initiatives in Berkeley and Oakland, the measures have stalled at the registrar’s office, where staff have hired a consultant and an attorney to work out the complexities of issuing ballots, in multiple languages, to a select group of voters for only one race: school board. The ballots and voting methods also must be accessible to people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to integrate the voting rolls, so students who vote in school board races and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/pre-register-16-vote-18\">those who’ve preregistered\u003c/a>, which became legal in California in 2017, can seamlessly join the regular rolls once they turn 18, according to Cynthia Cornejo, deputy registrar in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a perfect world, this would be easy to implement. But we want to make sure we do it right,” Cornejo said. “I completely understand how frustrated people are. We all hoped this would be done sooner. … We’ve done a lot of work on this already, and it’s going well. We’re very close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California election law is unclear as to how long an agency can wait before implementing a voter-approved measure. But some delays related to Measures QQ and Y1 might be unique to Alameda County. Youth voting measures in Maryland and other states have passed and been implemented with little trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zo Pancoast, who was among the Berkeley students who pushed for Y1 six years ago, said the delay is disappointing, but it hasn’t deterred her and her peers from fighting for change. Now a student at Scripps College in Claremont, she’s remained active with \u003ca href=\"https://generationcitizen.org/policy-and-advocacy/vote16usa/\">Vote16USA\u003c/a>, a movement to lower the voting age, and is busy working on other political issues. Although she noted a “definite relaxation after the 2020 election,” young people are now launching new initiatives aimed at reproductive rights, affordable housing, mental health services in schools and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have this anger. They’re madder than I’ve seen them in a long time,” she said. “But there’s also hope. It feels like there’s a renewed momentum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921998\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11921998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a student march in Seattle in 1969\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg 450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young people in Seattle march in support of lowering the national voting age to 18, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One place of momentum is Culver City in Los Angeles County, where high school students have successfully campaigned to get a youth voting measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. If it passes, 16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote for school board, city council and local measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ada Meighan-Thiel, Ava Frans and Julia Rottenberg, students at Culver City High School, are among a group who’ve been organizing for years to bring the measure to voters. For them, the idea is not radical. After all, the national voting age was lowered to 18 only in 1971, through the \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xxvi\">26th Amendment\u003c/a>, and suffrage movements are as old as the country itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also note that 16-year-olds can vote in numerous other countries, including Brazil, Scotland, Argentina and Austria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since young people work, pay taxes, drive and have a stake in their communities, they should have a right to vote, they said. Shutting them out of the electoral process is essentially taxation without representation, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our voices do matter, and we have this opportunity to create substantive change,” Meighan-Thiel said. “Hopefully this leads to something meaningful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For Frans, the top issue for which she’d like to hold local leaders accountable is climate change and environmental sustainability. She wants to see schools in Culver City have plant-based, organic food and generate less food waste in the cafeterias; use more renewable energy, such as solar power; and use less plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Meighan-Thiel, the issue is affordable housing. As in many parts of California, housing is increasingly out of reach for young people in Culver City, and homelessness is an urgent concern. For Rottenberg, social justice and civil rights are the most pressing issues she’d like to see local officials address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can’t we take these theoretical things we do in school, like debate and Model U.N., and apply them to tangible, real-world problems?” she said. “We’re not exempt from things that happen in our community. We should have a voice in the things that affect us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921999\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11921999 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman sits in a car in a green shirt \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ixchel Arista, a senior at Oakland High, was among the students who campaigned for Alameda County Measure QQ in 2020. \u003ccite>(EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Rodriguez and her peers, who’ve been working closely with a local advocacy group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandkidsfirst.org/\">Oakland Kids First\u003c/a>, are hopeful that the county registrar will eventually implement Measure QQ so some future cohort of 16-year-olds can finally have their say at the voting box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And meanwhile, they believe they’ve learned some important lessons about the powers and limitations of activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we’re leaving a legacy,” said Holly Yu, a graduate of Oakland High who’s planning to attend UC Merced this fall. “Social justice and change are a marathon. They don’t happen overnight. They don’t even happen in a generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ixchel Arista, an incoming senior at Oakland High, said she’s comforted by the hope that her younger sister “and countless others” will benefit from Measure QQ. And she’s also grateful for the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, personally, my eyes were so closed to the potential that young people have,” she said. “I would get so mad about things, and say, ‘Oh, my God, this is outrageous,’ but I didn’t realize that we have the power to make a difference. Knowing that now, that’s what keeps me going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As Horace Cage tells it, the formula that got him off the streets is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I changed all my nouns,” he says, referring to his social circle. “The people I hang around, the places I go, the things I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it took him a long time. The 55-year-old Oakland native spent a little over two decades homeless or behind bars. He couch surfed and lived in his car. He settled into a tiny home encampment, then a safe RV parking site. That’s where he heard about Project Roomkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was skeptical. The offer sounded a little too good to be true — his own motel room, free meals and permanent housing placement within three months — but he was trying to clean up. He says he’d stopped using meth after an accidental fentanyl overdose almost killed him late last year, so he took a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921176 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black man in a white shirt makes pancakes, standing at the stove in his apartment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horace Cage makes pancakes at his home in Oakland. Cage was formerly unhoused and through Project Roomkey lived in a Radisson hotel before being placed in an apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He got his room at the Radisson, near the Oakland airport, in mid-February. The first thing he did was get in the shower. After relying on porta-potties and a twice weekly visit from a mobile shower truck at the RV site, having a private bathroom was a small miracle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t missed a day of showering since I started,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cage joined the more than 50,000 people Project Roomkey has served across the state since April 2020, when California leaders took the unprecedented step of making motels available for use as homeless shelters early in the pandemic. Now, with funding drying up, the last remaining sites are preparing to close. That means finding a new place to live for some 6,000 people statewide who still call the motels home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Radisson was Alameda County’s last Roomkey site, closing just last week, and Cage was among the last wave of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his time there, Cage worked with Roomkey staff to line up all the necessary documents and applications needed to get a Section 8 voucher. By late June, he had an apartment in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sunny one-bedroom. His dog, Little Girl, happily gnaws a bone on one of Cage’s new rugs while he works on assembling his bed — “the meat and potatoes of the apartment,” as he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921214 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white shirt and blue shorts stands in the kitchen, petting a big black dog\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horace Cage pets his dog at his home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his first night in the apartment he couldn’t sleep, overwhelmed by the change. In the unfamiliar quiet, his mind reeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You reflect on things you really didn’t want to deal with, like pains that come from things you’ve done, things you want to do, things you should have done,” says Cage, who has been too ashamed to see his three children for years. “It all takes a toll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the place has him hopeful, too. One of the first things he tacked on the wall is a Christmas stocking that had been rolling around his RV for years, waiting for a grandkid to claim its contents. Cage, who was once married, had a job as a machine operator and owned a house, is thinking about having family over for the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transforming the system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Living on his own, with help paying rent and bills, Cage is considered a Project Roomkey success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcomes have just been phenomenally high in terms of getting people placed into permanent housing and not seeing people exit back to the street,” says Kerry Abbott, director of the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/\">Office of Homeless Care and Coordination\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11909202,news_11847782\"]Almost two-thirds of the 2,100 people who’ve left Project Roomkey in Alameda County have gone on to permanent housing, compared to less than 30% of those coming out of emergency shelters. Abbott credits the privacy of the hotels and housing resources available at the sites for enticing more people to leave the streets in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes with a hefty price tag. According to a county report, Roomkey costs about $260 a night per person, while congregate shelters cost around $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, the program hasn’t seen the same level of success. As of February, 22% of Roomkey participants left for permanent housing, while 15% returned to the streets and 18% to unknown destinations. Another 35% exited to temporary housing or congregate shelter, while 10% have moved to institutions or other destinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Roomkey sunsets, Abbott says her office is carrying the program’s lessons forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has permanently changed our outlook on shelter,” she says, explaining the county is looking to boost its non-congregate shelter capacity. “We’re transforming our system rather than letting this really important intervention go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The devil is in the details’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Tajanik Thompson, the prospect of a private room and bathroom sold her on Project Roomkey. Now 31, Thompson had preferred the streets to shelters since she was a teenager, choosing tents or cars over sleeping in a dorm with strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Cage, Thompson says she was working to improve her situation when the Project Roomkey offer came up. She’d stopped doing sex work, but getting clean and addressing her mental health concerns on the streets wasn’t easy “because of my environment,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in West Oakland,” she says, “and there’s nothing but drugs around there everywhere, just surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921167 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling Black woman with bright red braids stands against a window and the yellow wall of a hotel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tajanik Thompson stands outside of a former Comfort Inn that has been converted to supportive housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thompson, who grew up in Oakland, was kidnapped as an adolescent and forced into sex work, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-police-seek-missing-girl-2633097.php\">news reports\u003c/a>. She’d lived on the streets since then, and says she’s been assaulted numerous times. Between worrying about her safety and staying warm and fed, there wasn’t a lot of energy for meeting with counselors, tracking down documents and all the other steps required to line up housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the hotels did is it gave stability to a population that otherwise doesn’t have it,” says Andrea Henson, an attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a> and longtime advocate for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says she got to be alone at the Radisson. She made a schedule for the first time in her life. She enrolled in a GED program, and started working with a therapist and a housing navigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to think, period,” she says. “I had peace of mind. I was able to get away from everything and everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921186 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black woman with bright red braids eats takeout lunch at a table in a motel lobby in front of an orange wall and a display case full of pamphlets\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tajanik Thompson sits in the lobby of Project Homekey housing, a former Comfort Inn, after receiving lunch. She is living at the hotel while waiting for permanent housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Project Roomkey is successful because so many people are supporting the residents,” Henson says, emphasizing that the support network that made the program successful extended far beyond Roomkey staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson, for example, found herself shuffled from one Roomkey case manager to another, feeling left in the dark about her housing prospects. Then Kai Gault, an outreach specialist for \u003ca href=\"http://homelessactioncenter.org/\">Homeless Action Center\u003c/a>, stepped in to shepherd her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Kai who’s actually been there for me, let me know things, given me updates,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Thompson couldn’t get answers from her Roomkey case manager, her anxiety would spike. It often fell to Gault to sort things out and assuage Thompson’s fears, though Gault also found it difficult to contact staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921187 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg\" alt='A Black woman wearing a black suit and glasses sits in front of a blue and red mural that reads \"Home\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai Gault, a housing navigator, sits outside of the Homeless Action Center in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My experience with Roomkey, specifically, is that some of these sites are staffed by people who aren’t proficient in helping people with disabilities — mental or physical disabilities,” Gault says. “Sometimes they don’t understand how the system truly works. I’ve had to explain how the document gathering process works, which is a pretty fundamental part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Thompson is working with Gault to get ready to move into permanent supportive housing. There’s an apartment designated for her, but it’s in a new building that’s not quite ready for her to move in yet, and Thompson is getting antsy. In the meantime, she’s moved from the Radisson to the Comfort Inn next door, a former Roomkey site now owned by the county through Project Homekey, a separate state-sponsored program that buys motels, hotels and office buildings to convert into long-term housing. But Thompson won’t be sticking around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m ready to get the hell out of here,” says Thompson, who, like other Roomkey residents, has complained about moldy walls and room doors with crowbar marks from forced entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gault expects Thompson will be moving into her apartment this month.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101883846,news_11910405\"]“There are people getting housed. They are getting off the streets and that’s amazing, that’s very needed,” Gault says. “The devil’s in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think overall, we did a really phenomenal job in housing as many people as we did,” says Vince Russo, who manages the Radisson for \u003ca href=\"https://www.abodeservices.org/\">Abode Services\u003c/a>, a housing nonprofit that’s run Roomkey sites around the Bay Area. “Could some of us use more empathy in working with others? Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo says staff turnover has been a challenge. People who weren’t performing were fired; others quit. A single case manager could be working with as many as 50 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of mid-July, there were still about 60 people living at the Radisson, and it’s up to Russo and his team to place them in a new home. Some residents will likely end up back on the street if they refuse what is offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really going to be their choice,” Russo says. “If we say, ‘Look, these are the only two choices we have … where do you want to be? Do you want to go back to the street?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impossible choices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Currently, one in five people who’ve participated in Project Roomkey in Alameda County are either back on the streets or in a shelter, according to county data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Michael Dailey and his family, who ended up at the Radisson this spring after getting bumped from one Roomkey hotel to another. They were given choices, but it wasn’t that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They offered us three different places to live, all in East Oakland, really far away from our kids’ school,” Dailey says.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brigitte Nicoletti, attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center\"]‘It shouldn’t be on this mother-of-three to badger her case manager to find her housing.’[/pullquote]Dailey and his wife, Danielle Desjardins, have two of their three kids enrolled in elementary school in Berkeley. Commuting from the Radisson in East Oakland, especially with high gas prices, made getting the kids to school a daily struggle. They knew living out there wouldn’t be sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t get them there,” Desjardins says. “We couldn’t get them to school and it made me feel like a really shitty mother that I couldn’t do a better job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told the Radisson staff they were desperate to live closer to the school. But they felt trapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kept saying, ‘Can we just leave? Can we still get housing assistance if we go somewhere else?’” Desjardins says. “And they would tell us that we would be on our own and we wouldn’t get housing help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921213 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a makeshift sign that says 'community' above a homeless encampment\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community garden grows outside a homeless encampment in Oakland. According to county data, one in five people who have participated in Project Roomkey in Alameda County are either in a shelter or back on the streets. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After almost two years bouncing between Roomkey sites in the East Bay, the family finally managed to get a Section 8 voucher for Berkeley with the help of a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that it’s taken them this long is really shocking,” says Brigitte Nicoletti, a lawyer with the East Bay Community Law Center who’s representing the family. “It shouldn’t be on this mother-of-three to badger her case manager to find her housing. It should be the other way around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the family could find an apartment, they say they got kicked out of the Radisson. They’d been trying to build a tiny home in Berkeley and hadn’t been spending enough time at the hotel to keep their spot. The family stayed in their car, in their storage unit, and with Dailey’s mom in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also don’t mind camping,” their seven-year-old daughter, Esme, pipes up. “Set up in a nice park, park our car outside and just camp. It doesn’t matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least you get to school on time every day, right?” Desjardins responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Section 8 voucher doesn’t guarantee that they’ll find a place with a landlord who’ll embrace their family of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a scary time of changes and uncertainty,” Desjardins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated to reflect that the Radisson closed at the end of July.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As Horace Cage tells it, the formula that got him off the streets is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I changed all my nouns,” he says, referring to his social circle. “The people I hang around, the places I go, the things I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it took him a long time. The 55-year-old Oakland native spent a little over two decades homeless or behind bars. He couch surfed and lived in his car. He settled into a tiny home encampment, then a safe RV parking site. That’s where he heard about Project Roomkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was skeptical. The offer sounded a little too good to be true — his own motel room, free meals and permanent housing placement within three months — but he was trying to clean up. He says he’d stopped using meth after an accidental fentanyl overdose almost killed him late last year, so he took a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921176 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black man in a white shirt makes pancakes, standing at the stove in his apartment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horace Cage makes pancakes at his home in Oakland. Cage was formerly unhoused and through Project Roomkey lived in a Radisson hotel before being placed in an apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He got his room at the Radisson, near the Oakland airport, in mid-February. The first thing he did was get in the shower. After relying on porta-potties and a twice weekly visit from a mobile shower truck at the RV site, having a private bathroom was a small miracle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t missed a day of showering since I started,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cage joined the more than 50,000 people Project Roomkey has served across the state since April 2020, when California leaders took the unprecedented step of making motels available for use as homeless shelters early in the pandemic. Now, with funding drying up, the last remaining sites are preparing to close. That means finding a new place to live for some 6,000 people statewide who still call the motels home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Radisson was Alameda County’s last Roomkey site, closing just last week, and Cage was among the last wave of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his time there, Cage worked with Roomkey staff to line up all the necessary documents and applications needed to get a Section 8 voucher. By late June, he had an apartment in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sunny one-bedroom. His dog, Little Girl, happily gnaws a bone on one of Cage’s new rugs while he works on assembling his bed — “the meat and potatoes of the apartment,” as he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921214 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white shirt and blue shorts stands in the kitchen, petting a big black dog\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horace Cage pets his dog at his home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his first night in the apartment he couldn’t sleep, overwhelmed by the change. In the unfamiliar quiet, his mind reeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You reflect on things you really didn’t want to deal with, like pains that come from things you’ve done, things you want to do, things you should have done,” says Cage, who has been too ashamed to see his three children for years. “It all takes a toll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the place has him hopeful, too. One of the first things he tacked on the wall is a Christmas stocking that had been rolling around his RV for years, waiting for a grandkid to claim its contents. Cage, who was once married, had a job as a machine operator and owned a house, is thinking about having family over for the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transforming the system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Living on his own, with help paying rent and bills, Cage is considered a Project Roomkey success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcomes have just been phenomenally high in terms of getting people placed into permanent housing and not seeing people exit back to the street,” says Kerry Abbott, director of the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/\">Office of Homeless Care and Coordination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Almost two-thirds of the 2,100 people who’ve left Project Roomkey in Alameda County have gone on to permanent housing, compared to less than 30% of those coming out of emergency shelters. Abbott credits the privacy of the hotels and housing resources available at the sites for enticing more people to leave the streets in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes with a hefty price tag. According to a county report, Roomkey costs about $260 a night per person, while congregate shelters cost around $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, the program hasn’t seen the same level of success. As of February, 22% of Roomkey participants left for permanent housing, while 15% returned to the streets and 18% to unknown destinations. Another 35% exited to temporary housing or congregate shelter, while 10% have moved to institutions or other destinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Roomkey sunsets, Abbott says her office is carrying the program’s lessons forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has permanently changed our outlook on shelter,” she says, explaining the county is looking to boost its non-congregate shelter capacity. “We’re transforming our system rather than letting this really important intervention go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The devil is in the details’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Tajanik Thompson, the prospect of a private room and bathroom sold her on Project Roomkey. Now 31, Thompson had preferred the streets to shelters since she was a teenager, choosing tents or cars over sleeping in a dorm with strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Cage, Thompson says she was working to improve her situation when the Project Roomkey offer came up. She’d stopped doing sex work, but getting clean and addressing her mental health concerns on the streets wasn’t easy “because of my environment,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in West Oakland,” she says, “and there’s nothing but drugs around there everywhere, just surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921167 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling Black woman with bright red braids stands against a window and the yellow wall of a hotel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tajanik Thompson stands outside of a former Comfort Inn that has been converted to supportive housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thompson, who grew up in Oakland, was kidnapped as an adolescent and forced into sex work, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-police-seek-missing-girl-2633097.php\">news reports\u003c/a>. She’d lived on the streets since then, and says she’s been assaulted numerous times. Between worrying about her safety and staying warm and fed, there wasn’t a lot of energy for meeting with counselors, tracking down documents and all the other steps required to line up housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the hotels did is it gave stability to a population that otherwise doesn’t have it,” says Andrea Henson, an attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a> and longtime advocate for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says she got to be alone at the Radisson. She made a schedule for the first time in her life. She enrolled in a GED program, and started working with a therapist and a housing navigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to think, period,” she says. “I had peace of mind. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There are people getting housed. They are getting off the streets and that’s amazing, that’s very needed,” Gault says. “The devil’s in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think overall, we did a really phenomenal job in housing as many people as we did,” says Vince Russo, who manages the Radisson for \u003ca href=\"https://www.abodeservices.org/\">Abode Services\u003c/a>, a housing nonprofit that’s run Roomkey sites around the Bay Area. “Could some of us use more empathy in working with others? Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo says staff turnover has been a challenge. People who weren’t performing were fired; others quit. A single case manager could be working with as many as 50 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of mid-July, there were still about 60 people living at the Radisson, and it’s up to Russo and his team to place them in a new home. Some residents will likely end up back on the street if they refuse what is offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really going to be their choice,” Russo says. “If we say, ‘Look, these are the only two choices we have … where do you want to be? Do you want to go back to the street?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impossible choices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Currently, one in five people who’ve participated in Project Roomkey in Alameda County are either back on the streets or in a shelter, according to county data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Michael Dailey and his family, who ended up at the Radisson this spring after getting bumped from one Roomkey hotel to another. They were given choices, but it wasn’t that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They offered us three different places to live, all in East Oakland, really far away from our kids’ school,” Dailey says.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dailey and his wife, Danielle Desjardins, have two of their three kids enrolled in elementary school in Berkeley. Commuting from the Radisson in East Oakland, especially with high gas prices, made getting the kids to school a daily struggle. They knew living out there wouldn’t be sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t get them there,” Desjardins says. “We couldn’t get them to school and it made me feel like a really shitty mother that I couldn’t do a better job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told the Radisson staff they were desperate to live closer to the school. But they felt trapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kept saying, ‘Can we just leave? Can we still get housing assistance if we go somewhere else?’” Desjardins says. “And they would tell us that we would be on our own and we wouldn’t get housing help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921213 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a makeshift sign that says 'community' above a homeless encampment\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community garden grows outside a homeless encampment in Oakland. According to county data, one in five people who have participated in Project Roomkey in Alameda County are either in a shelter or back on the streets. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After almost two years bouncing between Roomkey sites in the East Bay, the family finally managed to get a Section 8 voucher for Berkeley with the help of a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that it’s taken them this long is really shocking,” says Brigitte Nicoletti, a lawyer with the East Bay Community Law Center who’s representing the family. “It shouldn’t be on this mother-of-three to badger her case manager to find her housing. It should be the other way around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the family could find an apartment, they say they got kicked out of the Radisson. They’d been trying to build a tiny home in Berkeley and hadn’t been spending enough time at the hotel to keep their spot. The family stayed in their car, in their storage unit, and with Dailey’s mom in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also don’t mind camping,” their seven-year-old daughter, Esme, pipes up. “Set up in a nice park, park our car outside and just camp. It doesn’t matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least you get to school on time every day, right?” Desjardins responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Section 8 voucher doesn’t guarantee that they’ll find a place with a landlord who’ll embrace their family of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a scary time of changes and uncertainty,” Desjardins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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