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Newsom today vetoed AB 1840,” Arambula said in a statement Friday. “The veto doesn’t change the fact that many people — including undocumented immigrants — dream of owning a home so that generational wealth can be passed to their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other housing questions do you have for KQED?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing is one of the most crucial — and contentious — issues in the Bay Area, and here at KQED, we have a whole team dedicated to exploring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">stories about housing affordability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of our work, we also want to bring you explainers and guides about housing in the region, offering practical advice and insight for renters, homeowners and unhoused folks on a wide range of housing situations. 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Those salary figures are somewhat higher than the national average, Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather said, because the Bay Area leads the country in salaries for recent college graduates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are graduating with a degree that doesn’t bring you a high-tech income, then it will be even more difficult for you to be able to afford rent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Share of income a typical recent college grad would need to spend on a 2-bedroom apartment (with a roommate)\" aria-label=\"Grouped Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-DXhNA\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/DXhNA/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"622\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Labor Center organizer Brad Hirn said because rent prices increased at record rates before and during the pandemic, softening rents should not be viewed as a move toward affordability. 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Unhoused residents could also face citation or arrest if the resolution passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our staff to continue to make a shelter offer when practicable,” Kesarwani said. “But sometimes, we have encampments that have created a fire or health risk for neighboring businesses or residents, and we need to be able to address those health and safety issues by enforcing our state and local laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Kesarwani’s proposal, encampments could be cleared if they pose a fire or health hazard, constitute a “public nuisance,” or sit in the way of traffic, construction or maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those exceptions are broad enough to apply to every encampment in the city, according to Andrea Henson, who provides legal counsel to the homeless advocacy group Where Do We Go Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to sweep all these camps, where’s everyone going to go? 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Henson said it could take years to get people into housing, adding that an independent audit of Berkeley’s shelters could identify the roadblocks to helping people off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Henson said the city should prioritize options like safe parking sites instead of sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11996949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/005_KQED_Housing_Berkeley_ShadowStandards_02272020__qed-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a federal court ruling in 2022, sweeps were restricted and cities could not fine or jail people for camping in public if insufficient shelter was available. In June, the Supreme Court’s ruling in the City of Grants Pass, Ore. v. Gloria Johnson overturned that precedent, leading Gov. 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The California Highway Patrol and the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a text message sent through Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal counsel for the pro-Khalistan group Sikhs for Justice, who translated, Raju said he believes the shooting was an assassination attempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States, he said, “must hold [the] Modi Indian government accountable for assassinations attempts on Khalistan activists,” referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose party is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/india-election-narendra-modi-hindu-nationalism-rss-79c30c8ae750a9c037d86b9e2c1b640c\">backed by the country’s Hindu majority\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Pannun, Raju and two other activists were riding in a truck on their way to get food when a white car sped up behind their vehicle. The car moved into the left lane, returned to its initial position and then moved back into the left lane alongside the truck when someone in the car began shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001433\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12001433 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240822-Sikh-Assassination-Attempt-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240822-Sikh-Assassination-Attempt-KQED.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240822-Sikh-Assassination-Attempt-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo appears to show four bullet holes in the driver’s window of a car that Satinder Pal Singh Raju, a Sikh organizer, was riding in when someone shot at it on Interstate 505 on Aug. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Satinder Pal Singh Raju)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The driver lost control of the truck, which veered off the highway toward the exit. Raju and the other activists ran toward a field, where they hid behind a haystack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies responding to a report of shots being fired from one vehicle to another found several spent casings on the ground, and one person involved appeared to have a minor injury to his hand, Yolo County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Don Harmon told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A photo provided by Pannun appears to show four bullet holes in the driver’s side window of a car. A video \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-3fj6rxcQ-/\">posted to the Sikhs for Justice Instagram account\u003c/a> shows the same image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP’s Valley Division Investigative Services Unit is leading the probe. A spokesperson for the FBI’s Sacramento field office said it continues to collaborate with CHP in support of the investigation. No arrests have been made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each and every circumstantial evidence leads to [the conclusion] that this is an assassination attempt,” Pannun told KQED in an interview. “But ultimately, it is for the investigating agencies to investigate and see who is behind this attempt on the life of Raju.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pannun noted that Raju was a close associate of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistan movement activist who was shot to death in Canada last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981407 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/khalistan-referendum-rally-e63968edd3a1e9da64fe817f9e76d58efdbcfa14-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian police \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sikh-leader-killed-canada-india-court-nijjar-7611e393e50324e1337637ec986fdec3\">arrested three men\u003c/a> in May on suspicion of killing Nijjar. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last year there were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/canada-india-sikh-killing-allies-8db67791c0d647c6051bb65f9283e45f\">“credible allegations” of Indian involvement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists have received threats since global non-binding referendum votes on whether to create the state of Khalistan in the Sikh-majority Punjab region began in the U.K. in 2021, Pannun said. Raju was a key organizer in the Khalistan referendum votes that took place in San Francisco and Sacramento this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, U.S. authorities thwarted a murder-for-hire plot to kill Pannun. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-connection-foiled-plot-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york\">indicted Nikhil Gupta\u003c/a> in November, alleging an Indian government employee recruited him to orchestrate the assassination attempt. 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