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"content": "\u003cp>The place with the highest rate of evictions in the Bay Area during the pandemic wasn’t a big city like Oakland or San Francisco — instead it was a suburb that has been radically transformed by housing crisis after housing crisis. Antioch, a working-class town on the outskirts of the Bay, has seen an influx of Black and Brown folks pushed from more expensive cities in search of a place they can afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our first episode of Season 2 of Sold Out, we visit a neighborhood in Antioch with a high concentration of evictions. We’ll hear from renters, activists and politicians to find out how a lack of affordable housing is remaking the suburbs, not just in the Bay Area but across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4565731200&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h5>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Evicted: A Suburban Story [TRANSCRIPT] \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hey, I’m \u003cb>Erin Baldassari (host)\u003c/b>.\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I’m \u003c/span>\u003cb>Molly Solomon (host)\u003c/b>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We want to take you back in time — two years ago — to the beginning of the pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: We were all told to shelter in place. And as housing reporters, our first thought — how will people pay rent? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: We heard from a lot of people who lost jobs, or had hours cut.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LAURA YOPIHUA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t know what to do after that without job, without income.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People were forced to make really difficult decisions. Like choosing between buying groceries or paying rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LAURA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t have any money to pay the bills. I just have saving the money for the food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And we heard from people afraid they’d end up on the streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACKIE LOWERY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s just really scary right now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entire families were at risk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACKIE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have to have a roof over my head. You know, I just have to, and of course, my grandbabies and the whole family does.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Millions across the country were on the edge of eviction. The stakes could not have been higher. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SAN FRANCISCO CITY ATTORNEY DAVID CHIU\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If tens of thousands of folks are forced from their homes, COVID will be much more likely to spread and have devastating consequences.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: States, local governments, even the CDC knew they had to act — so they put in moratoriums to block evictions. And Congress handed out nearly $50 billion to help people catch up on missed rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we don’t act now, there could be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: But people were\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">still being evicted.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANEE BRICE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sheriff came out, and I ended up having to move with my daughter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">:\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And now, as those pandemic protections expire — it’s getting worse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sold Out theme song begins.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In this season of Sold Out, we’re looking at the patterns of evictions. The ones in the headlines, and the ones that have quietly devastated lives for decades.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The more we looked at who is getting evicted and where, it became clear that evictions are a symptom of a larger problem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Over the next few weeks, we’ll show you how this problem sits at the crossroads of inequality, racism, power and privilege.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And we’ll introduce you to the people fighting for change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From KQED, this is \u003c/span>Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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She’d rented her whole life, and was ready to buy a place where she could raise her two sons. When she looked around, she found that most parts of the San Francisco Bay Area were too expensive. But not Antioch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA TORRES-WALKER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antioch just showed up as like this place that was still affordable for people who wanted to become first-time homebuyers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even though the place she found wasn’t her dream house, it checked a lot of boxes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The house picked me. It was like it had everything a single mom with two sons could need. We needed three bedrooms: It had it. I wanted a fireplace: It had it. 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So we asked her to show us around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antioch is home to more than 115,000 people. It’s a commuter town on the outer fringes of the Bay Area, about an hour’s drive from San Francisco. Highway 4 divides it in two.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re like right up against Highway 4 right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> On one side of the highway, there are rows and rows of single-family homes, peppered with strip malls, big box stores and a golf course. On the other side, there’s Tamisha’s district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s a huge district — stretching about 15 miles along the San Joaquin River Delta. There’s a quaint, historic downtown, and a lot of industry. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out) \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we drive along the waterfront, she points out paper mills, chemical plants and oil refineries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of people call it “Refinery Row.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her district is also where a lot the apartment buildings and townhomes are. 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And when we crunched the numbers, Antioch stood out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was the city with the highest eviction rate\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> —\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 22 times higher than in Oakland. Almost a year and a half into the pandemic, there had been 91 evictions in Antioch. In Oakland, a city four times bigger, there had been just 33. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11904602 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM-800x394.png\" alt=\"A map showing the number of evictions in East Bay Area cities, California, shaded in different colors to show lower and higher numbers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM-800x394.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM-1020x503.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM-160x79.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM.png 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But it’s important to note that our data only captures evictions enforced by the sheriff. And many people leave before that point, so we know even more people were evicted during that time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought that we were not supposed to be evicting people during a global pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The highest concentration of evictions in Antioch was right here in the Sycamore Corridor, and we saw clear signs of that as we drove around. As we turned one corner, we saw two houses with big piles of stuff on the front lawn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s probably somebody being put out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> All of that stuff outside?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s probably somebody being put out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was furniture, kids’ toys, cardboard boxes with papers and letters spilling out of them — all of it wet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today’s the sixth. So that means that if you got a three-day ‘pay or quit’ on the first?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You might be out now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You might be out now, yeah. People might be starting to leave right now, yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A couple doors down, there was another empty house. The neighbors said the family had left months ago. An eviction notice was still taped to the front door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Talking to people in Tamisha’s district, it seemed like everyone had an eviction story. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>NATE HAYES\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They gave us a notice, and we didn’t really know what to do, so we just moved. I’ve been staying with my friends mostly. Just staying with my friends, and trying to get by.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DEVIN URBACH\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You know, it’s been so hard to get help. You have to really, like, know somebody that knows somebody. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MARY ROBERTSON\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s not easy after you have an eviction. It’s not easy finding another place. It’s not easy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not the vision of the suburbs we thought we knew. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS SCHILDT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ve had this story that’s been told to us, that the suburbs is the place of white picket fences. And that has been true, but it’s never been the entire story.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/schildtchris\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Schildt\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She’s the director of the Regional Suburban Organizing Project. And she says, this idea that suburbs represent white middle-class success, that’s not really the case anymore. Across the country, suburbs are home to the largest and fastest-growing population of people living in poverty. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/book/confronting-suburban-poverty-in-america/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s according to research from the Brookings Institution.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We can’t deny there are more people of color living in the suburbs. There are more low-income people living in suburbs. There are more renters living in suburbs than ever before.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So we need to look at and understand what’s happening in suburban places like Antioch in order to understand what’s happening in this country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The evictions we’re seeing in Antioch are tied to the nation’s housing crisis, and the seeds of those evictions were planted 30 years ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the early ’90s, Antioch was a destination. There was a building boom going on, and a lot of middle-class people of color were moving in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of Latinx and African American folks who had moved out to buy a home, maybe to buy their first home, or to move into a bigger or better home from where they were living before. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael Carter grew up in East Oakland, a historically Black neighborhood. He’s an investment banker, and in the early ’90s, he wanted a safer place to raise his two sons. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MICHAEL CARTER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeing how Oakland was beginning to change and the amount of crime that I was beginning to notice, I didn’t want my boys growing up in that area.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He saw opportunity in Antioch. He found a really nice four-bedroom home for less than $150,000. It was in one of the fancier parts of town, out by a golf course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MICHAEL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That wasn’t going to happen in Oakland, no way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Michael and his family were part of this wave of Black families moving to Antioch. It was a big shift for the city. In 1980, Antioch was almost \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Antioch70.htm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">90% white\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and it had a history as a sundown town. There had actually been laws in place to prohibit people of color from walking the streets after dark. Even after those laws were repealed, some people of color told us they still didn’t feel safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But between 1990 and 2000, the city’s Black population \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Antioch70.htm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more than quadrupled\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, rising to almost 10% of the population. The Latino population doubled.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MICHAEL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were actually seeing a diverse demographic moving to Antioch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then the foreclosure crisis hit, and it hit families like Michael’s especially hard. He ended up losing his home and becoming a renter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MICHAEL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2008 hit and everything just got slammed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foreclosures tore through low-income suburbs across the country. Again, here’s Chris Schildt: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was specifically low-income suburban cities with large African American, Latinx homeowners of color nationally that had the highest foreclosure rates.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Antioch, a quarter of all homeowners with mortgages lost their homes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That area was one of the hardest hit in the country for foreclosures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris says that a lot of those homes weren’t bought by new homeowners — they were bought by investors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you saw this dramatic shift.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Over the past 20 years, the population in Antioch has continued to grow. But the number of homeowners has stayed relatively flat, even dropping slightly, while the number of renters grew by 60%.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a complete flip. It went from being a home-owning community to a renter community in terms of who is moving in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A big part of that was surging rents in cities like San Francisco and Oakland, pushing renters further and further away in search of any place they could afford. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think Antioch’s story is unique.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can see the effects of gentrification in suburbs around Chicago, Atlanta, Boston. Places that were once affordable have gotten more and more expensive. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is part of a regional trend and part of a national trend of what’s happening in the suburbs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616048\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Antioch_California-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suburb of Antioch.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As more low-income renters move out to the suburbs, evictions there are going up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We talked to someone who studies this. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/team/tim-thomas-ph-d/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tim Thomas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is the research director at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban Displacement Project at the University of California in Berkeley\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And he says he noticed the same trend around Seattle: High prices there pushed people south of the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TIM\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were a lot of Black households, in particular, moving to South King County because that was the last affordable space to be. But now we see that’s the space where most evictions are happening. Over half of the evictions in the whole county are happening in very few neighborhoods where that displacement has happened.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not a coincidence that evictions are hitting Black neighborhoods the hardest, because evictions and race are deeply connected. When Tim looked at our data on evictions in the Bay Area, he saw that Black households were evicted at a higher rate than white households. It’s the same pattern he saw in Seattle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TIM\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In just one year of data, I found that Black women were getting evicted seven times more than white women, and Black households in general are getting evicted four times more than white households, which was a huge disparity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a lot of ways, the suburbs haven’t caught up to this new reality. They don’t typically have the money or staffing for social services that big cities have. Again, here’s Chris Schildt: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We really stopped investing in our suburbs in the ’80s and ’90s. In community infrastructure, in nonprofits and social services, in our schools. We’ve moved away from investing in our communities in general in the past 30, 40 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And, suburbs don’t have the kinds of renter protections that big cities have to help people stay in their homes. It leaves renters with few options when things do\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">go wrong. When that eviction notice gets taped to the front door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s coming up, after this break.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Advertisement]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: People walking, greeting one another)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hi, how are you? I’m Erin. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hi. Carmen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hola,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cómo estás?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bien, gracias.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We met Carmen Ponce at her apartment in Antioch. It’s a small place on the ground floor of a two-story building. And immediately, when you walk in, you see these boxes: big plastic bins stacked on top of each other, ready in case she needs to leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Si miras alrededor de mi apartamento, casi todo ya esta en caja, todo vacío.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carmen lives here with her teenage daughter and 1-year-old granddaughter. She also has two adult sons who sometimes stay with her. Ever since they got an eviction notice, they’ve been living in this sort of limbo.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The problems with her landlord started when the pandemic shut down businesses like hers. Carmen cuts hair at a barbershop in a town nearby. And because of COVID, she was out of work for almost a year. She fell behind on the $1,300 she pays in rent every month. It was a difficult time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pues,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fue una temporada bien difícil, de verdad.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So many people we talked to while reporting on evictions told us they were already struggling to pay rent. And then something else would happen, something that made catching up nearly impossible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Carmen’s case, she was shot just outside her home, in an incident that had nothing to do with her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tengo mi hija que apenas tiene diecisiete años, y que tenía su bebe de un año, que yo me hago responsable de ella. Eso es que hace manternerme fuerte.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Carmen spent a month in the hospital and another four months recovering at home. She started working again last July, but it wasn’t full time. Then, things got a lot worse. Her property manager dropped off a notice at her door. It said, pay the back rent or get out. She owed at least $15,000.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A donde me voy con mi hija y con mi nieta? O sea, la única opción era sacar mis cosas en la calle y dormir en mi carro afuera.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where would she go with her daughter and granddaughter? She thought their only option would be to stay in her car because she didn’t have enough money to move somewhere else.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this point in the pandemic, Carmen was still covered by California’s eviction moratorium. So, rather than leaving right away, she waited. Legally, the landlord would need to file a formal eviction in court to actually force her out. But that lawsuit never came.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No para el acosto constante del manager. Porque también me hable por telefono, que cuando me voy a ir?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Carmen says the property manager keeps harassing her, calling her again and again, asking her when she’s going to leave. They even gave her a second eviction notice in January this year, but they still haven’t filed a lawsuit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BOB GUNSON\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was no harassment, it was just getting her attention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Bob Gunson is Carmen’s property manager, and he says his office only called to get her signed up for the rent relief program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BOB\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s the only reason. And we’ve got quite a few tenants. We’ve got some signed into that program, and they weren’t aware of it, and it’s helped them out a lot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carmen did sign up for rent relief. She got a partial payout, but not for everything she owes, and doesn’t know when the rest of the money will come. Work has been slow, and she still isn’t making the same amount she was before the pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yo estoy, pues, que no se que va pasar el dia de mañana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She says she doesn’t know what’s going to happen from one day to the next. It’s depressing, and Carmen knows there’s lots of people in Antioch going through the same thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Da tristeza, da tristeza en la situación en la que, en lo personal en la que yo me encuentro y en la que mucha gente en Antioch estamos viviendo porque yo se que todavía hay mucha gente que está pasando lo mismo que yo.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904499\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in an apartment room stands to the left of boxes and plastic bins filled with her family's belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Ponce inside her apartment in Antioch. After the business where she worked closed due to COVID’s effects on the economy, she has most of her belongings in boxes should she ever need to pick up and leave. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s because Antioch is becoming less affordable. During the pandemic, rents here shot up \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/antioch-ca\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">26%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/indicators/housing-burden#/?breakdown=2&geo=07000000000602252\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly two-thirds of all Antioch renters\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are cost burdened, meaning they pay more than a third of their income on housing. As housing gets more expensive, it’s harder to hold on to, especially for people living paycheck to paycheck. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That leads to more turnover. People leave, they’re priced out, or they’re evicted. City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker says that churn hurts the whole community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It creates anxiety, instability, it creates uncertainty, and that’s unfortunate because neighborhoods can’t thrive like that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s one reason why Tamisha is helping to lead a growing movement of Antioch renters pushing for change — a movement that started in the Sycamore Corridor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s coming up after this break.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Advertisement]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a long time after Tamisha Torres-Walker moved to Antioch, it didn’t really feel like home. She was actually thinking about leaving. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then I started to care about the conditions in the community and actually like being here, and made a bigger commitment to change where I lived. So in a sense, I made a commitment to stay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And she realized there wasn’t anyone on Antioch’s City Council who she felt really represented her district. So, she decided to run. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I heard not one elected official talk about the conditions in the community, the real issues and conditions in the community, here in this district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Tamisha spent countless hours knocking on doors — a lot of it in the Sycamore Corridor. She talked to people, asking them what kinds of issues they were dealing with.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, poverty, harm, violence, police misconduct and brutality, dilapidated conditions, just the quality of life, the way people were living.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a lot of people were getting evicted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were talking to people and they were telling us, ‘Oh, this person, that person next door don’t live here no more. They moved out last week.’ Like literally, like they got kicked out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One man who would become instrumental in Tamisha’s campaign was Francisco Torres. He’s a tenant organizer for the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Most people just call it ACCE.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As more low-income renters moved to suburbs like Antioch, Francisco’s seen the fight for renters’ rights follow close behind. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>FRANCISCO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because it’s much more expensive now, it’s much more expensive, and there’s less and less places to move into.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Francisco heard Tamisha was running for city council, he and other ACCE members jumped in to support her campaign.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>FRANCISCO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the reason I got involved is because I knew that if Tamisha won, we could change the city council.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Maybe they would actually have a chance of passing policies to help renters. She did win, and that’s when their work really began.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antioch doesn’t have the history of tenant activism that you see in big cities like San Francisco or Los Angeles. And they knew Tamisha wouldn’t be able to get any new policies passed unless renters spoke up. So ACCE began recruiting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: A man knocking on a door)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JAIME CALDER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello? How are you? My name is Jaime, I’m with ACCE institute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They got people to write letters to their representatives, hold signs outside of City Hall, and show up on Zoom meetings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACKIE LOWERY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hi, can everyone hear me? OK. Good evening, Mayor, city council members, staff and residents of Antioch. My name is Jackie Lowery and I’m a resident of Antioch, a renter, and a member of ACCE.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Antioch City Council is now actively debating tenant protections, and renters are\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACKIE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My family and I moved to Antioch for a better life. But from what I’ve been seeing in our city with our tax-paying and rent-paying citizens is shameful. You have a rental community in Antioch that needs your help right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Families are struggling to pay their rent, and live with the daily worry if the next rent increase will be what puts them out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rents are constantly increasing. Many of us are just going back to work because of the pandemic. We simply can’t afford the high rents and don’t see a way forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They’re demanding three big things: a cap on yearly rent increases, a new law to make it illegal for landlords to harass their tenants, and another that makes it harder for landlords to evict. It’s the first time renters are pushing for these kinds of protections in Antioch. And it’s by no means a sure thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lots of people don’t want these policies to pass — landlords and other property owners don’t want more government regulation. Not to mention a couple city council members who are pushing back. There’s more meetings on the books before the council will cast their final votes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But no matter what happens with these proposals, Tamisha is hopeful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People are organizing. There are people who are organizing themselves as they’re starting to see that they need to create a voice from the ground. And I think that’s the greatest change any community could see is people building community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Renters are taking a stand, and fighting to stay in Antioch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think that’s happened here in Antioch, especially for people who have transitioned here. And I see it happening now and I’m excited about it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>FRANCISCO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people don’t even realize that you could actually fight in a big group, and win.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Francisco and members of ACCE, there’s no fight more important than the fight to stay housed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>FRANCISCO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s important to protect that, because what else do you have if you don’t have a home?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s the question that really got us thinking about evictions in the first place. Because home is the center of our lives, where we can be ourselves. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It shapes our identities and keeps our families safe. And if we suddenly had to leave, we’d feel lost, disconnected. But that’s what happens when you’re evicted — you lose your home, and so much more. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming up on \u003c/span>Sold Out:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We’ll look at who’s more likely to be on the receiving end of evictions, and how the consequences can follow you for years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JEAN KENDRICK\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s hard. Not even my worst enemy, I wouldn’t wish this on. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>U.S. REPRESENTATIVE CORI BUSH\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who speaks for us, and who speaks for single parents? 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Additional editing from Jessica Placzek and Otis Taylor Jr.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you liked this episode, we think you’ll like another podcast from KQED, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Suburb\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A big thank-you to Sandhya Dirks, whose previous reporting on Antioch really helped guide us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We couldn’t have made this season without Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Holly Kernan, Erika Aguilar and Vinnee Tong.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks for listening. We’ll see you next week!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more in-depth reporting on the housing crisis, check out our podcast, Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We want to take you back in time — two years ago — to the beginning of the pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: We were all told to shelter in place. And as housing reporters, our first thought — how will people pay rent? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: We heard from a lot of people who lost jobs, or had hours cut.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LAURA YOPIHUA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t know what to do after that without job, without income.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People were forced to make really difficult decisions. Like choosing between buying groceries or paying rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LAURA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t have any money to pay the bills. I just have saving the money for the food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And we heard from people afraid they’d end up on the streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACKIE LOWERY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s just really scary right now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entire families were at risk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACKIE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have to have a roof over my head. You know, I just have to, and of course, my grandbabies and the whole family does.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Millions across the country were on the edge of eviction. The stakes could not have been higher. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SAN FRANCISCO CITY ATTORNEY DAVID CHIU\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If tens of thousands of folks are forced from their homes, COVID will be much more likely to spread and have devastating consequences.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: States, local governments, even the CDC knew they had to act — so they put in moratoriums to block evictions. And Congress handed out nearly $50 billion to help people catch up on missed rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we don’t act now, there could be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: But people were\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">still being evicted.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JANEE BRICE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sheriff came out, and I ended up having to move with my daughter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">:\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And now, as those pandemic protections expire — it’s getting worse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sold Out theme song begins.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In this season of Sold Out, we’re looking at the patterns of evictions. The ones in the headlines, and the ones that have quietly devastated lives for decades.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The more we looked at who is getting evicted and where, it became clear that evictions are a symptom of a larger problem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Over the next few weeks, we’ll show you how this problem sits at the crossroads of inequality, racism, power and privilege.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And we’ll introduce you to the people fighting for change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From KQED, this is \u003c/span>Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Stay tuned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sold Out theme song ends.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 657px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11839127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336.png 657w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/SOLD-OUT-Web-Banners__Tune-In_656x336-160x82.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s podcast Sold Out looks at the history of and solutions to California’s housing crisis. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: Birds, sprinklers on lawns, light happy music)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When most people think about the suburbs, they think about good schools and safe neighborhoods, single-family houses with manicured lawns, and white picket fences.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tamisha Torres-Walker wanted that for her family. She’d rented her whole life, and was ready to buy a place where she could raise her two sons. When she looked around, she found that most parts of the San Francisco Bay Area were too expensive. But not Antioch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA TORRES-WALKER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antioch just showed up as like this place that was still affordable for people who wanted to become first-time homebuyers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even though the place she found wasn’t her dream house, it checked a lot of boxes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The house picked me. It was like it had everything a single mom with two sons could need. We needed three bedrooms: It had it. I wanted a fireplace: It had it. My sons wanted dogs: It had a huge backyard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2015, Tamisha bought her first home. But living in Antioch, she noticed a lot of other newcomers weren’t buying homes — they were renting. They’d been priced out of bigger cities, like San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rental crisis, the unaffordability of, like, rents skyrocketing in the Bay Area is what started to push everybody else out this way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Tamisha isn’t just a homeowner. She’s a city council member, has been for the last year. So we asked her to show us around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antioch is home to more than 115,000 people. It’s a commuter town on the outer fringes of the Bay Area, about an hour’s drive from San Francisco. Highway 4 divides it in two.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re like right up against Highway 4 right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> On one side of the highway, there are rows and rows of single-family homes, peppered with strip malls, big box stores and a golf course. On the other side, there’s Tamisha’s district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s a huge district — stretching about 15 miles along the San Joaquin River Delta. There’s a quaint, historic downtown, and a lot of industry. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out) \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we drive along the waterfront, she points out paper mills, chemical plants and oil refineries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of people call it “Refinery Row.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her district is also where a lot the apartment buildings and townhomes are. Especially in this one neighborhood — the Sycamore Corridor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is us, Sycamore Square, and a lot more apartments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> On the neighborhood’s busiest street, there’s a small shopping center, with a liquor store, a smoke shop, and a fried fish and chicken joint.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So this, all of this, is high-density housing. Like, everything on this side of the street is all high-density housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We came here because we’d been gathering data on pandemic evictions in the Bay Area. And when we crunched the numbers, Antioch stood out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was the city with the highest eviction rate\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> —\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 22 times higher than in Oakland. Almost a year and a half into the pandemic, there had been 91 evictions in Antioch. In Oakland, a city four times bigger, there had been just 33. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11904602 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM-800x394.png\" alt=\"A map showing the number of evictions in East Bay Area cities, California, shaded in different colors to show lower and higher numbers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM-800x394.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM-1020x503.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM-160x79.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-9.53.34-AM.png 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But it’s important to note that our data only captures evictions enforced by the sheriff. And many people leave before that point, so we know even more people were evicted during that time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought that we were not supposed to be evicting people during a global pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The highest concentration of evictions in Antioch was right here in the Sycamore Corridor, and we saw clear signs of that as we drove around. As we turned one corner, we saw two houses with big piles of stuff on the front lawn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s probably somebody being put out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> All of that stuff outside?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s probably somebody being put out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was furniture, kids’ toys, cardboard boxes with papers and letters spilling out of them — all of it wet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today’s the sixth. So that means that if you got a three-day ‘pay or quit’ on the first?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You might be out now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You might be out now, yeah. People might be starting to leave right now, yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A couple doors down, there was another empty house. The neighbors said the family had left months ago. An eviction notice was still taped to the front door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Talking to people in Tamisha’s district, it seemed like everyone had an eviction story. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>NATE HAYES\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They gave us a notice, and we didn’t really know what to do, so we just moved. I’ve been staying with my friends mostly. Just staying with my friends, and trying to get by.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DEVIN URBACH\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You know, it’s been so hard to get help. You have to really, like, know somebody that knows somebody. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MARY ROBERTSON\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s not easy after you have an eviction. It’s not easy finding another place. It’s not easy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not the vision of the suburbs we thought we knew. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS SCHILDT\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ve had this story that’s been told to us, that the suburbs is the place of white picket fences. And that has been true, but it’s never been the entire story.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/schildtchris\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Schildt\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She’s the director of the Regional Suburban Organizing Project. And she says, this idea that suburbs represent white middle-class success, that’s not really the case anymore. Across the country, suburbs are home to the largest and fastest-growing population of people living in poverty. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/book/confronting-suburban-poverty-in-america/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s according to research from the Brookings Institution.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We can’t deny there are more people of color living in the suburbs. There are more low-income people living in suburbs. There are more renters living in suburbs than ever before.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So we need to look at and understand what’s happening in suburban places like Antioch in order to understand what’s happening in this country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The evictions we’re seeing in Antioch are tied to the nation’s housing crisis, and the seeds of those evictions were planted 30 years ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the early ’90s, Antioch was a destination. There was a building boom going on, and a lot of middle-class people of color were moving in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of Latinx and African American folks who had moved out to buy a home, maybe to buy their first home, or to move into a bigger or better home from where they were living before. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael Carter grew up in East Oakland, a historically Black neighborhood. He’s an investment banker, and in the early ’90s, he wanted a safer place to raise his two sons. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MICHAEL CARTER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeing how Oakland was beginning to change and the amount of crime that I was beginning to notice, I didn’t want my boys growing up in that area.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He saw opportunity in Antioch. He found a really nice four-bedroom home for less than $150,000. It was in one of the fancier parts of town, out by a golf course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MICHAEL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That wasn’t going to happen in Oakland, no way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Michael and his family were part of this wave of Black families moving to Antioch. It was a big shift for the city. In 1980, Antioch was almost \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Antioch70.htm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">90% white\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and it had a history as a sundown town. There had actually been laws in place to prohibit people of color from walking the streets after dark. Even after those laws were repealed, some people of color told us they still didn’t feel safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But between 1990 and 2000, the city’s Black population \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Antioch70.htm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more than quadrupled\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, rising to almost 10% of the population. The Latino population doubled.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MICHAEL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were actually seeing a diverse demographic moving to Antioch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then the foreclosure crisis hit, and it hit families like Michael’s especially hard. He ended up losing his home and becoming a renter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MICHAEL\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2008 hit and everything just got slammed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foreclosures tore through low-income suburbs across the country. Again, here’s Chris Schildt: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was specifically low-income suburban cities with large African American, Latinx homeowners of color nationally that had the highest foreclosure rates.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Antioch, a quarter of all homeowners with mortgages lost their homes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That area was one of the hardest hit in the country for foreclosures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris says that a lot of those homes weren’t bought by new homeowners — they were bought by investors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you saw this dramatic shift.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Over the past 20 years, the population in Antioch has continued to grow. But the number of homeowners has stayed relatively flat, even dropping slightly, while the number of renters grew by 60%.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a complete flip. It went from being a home-owning community to a renter community in terms of who is moving in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A big part of that was surging rents in cities like San Francisco and Oakland, pushing renters further and further away in search of any place they could afford. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think Antioch’s story is unique.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music out)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can see the effects of gentrification in suburbs around Chicago, Atlanta, Boston. Places that were once affordable have gotten more and more expensive. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is part of a regional trend and part of a national trend of what’s happening in the suburbs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616048\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Antioch_California-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suburb of Antioch.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As more low-income renters move out to the suburbs, evictions there are going up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We talked to someone who studies this. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/team/tim-thomas-ph-d/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tim Thomas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is the research director at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban Displacement Project at the University of California in Berkeley\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And he says he noticed the same trend around Seattle: High prices there pushed people south of the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TIM\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were a lot of Black households, in particular, moving to South King County because that was the last affordable space to be. But now we see that’s the space where most evictions are happening. Over half of the evictions in the whole county are happening in very few neighborhoods where that displacement has happened.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not a coincidence that evictions are hitting Black neighborhoods the hardest, because evictions and race are deeply connected. When Tim looked at our data on evictions in the Bay Area, he saw that Black households were evicted at a higher rate than white households. It’s the same pattern he saw in Seattle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TIM\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In just one year of data, I found that Black women were getting evicted seven times more than white women, and Black households in general are getting evicted four times more than white households, which was a huge disparity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a lot of ways, the suburbs haven’t caught up to this new reality. They don’t typically have the money or staffing for social services that big cities have. Again, here’s Chris Schildt: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CHRIS\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We really stopped investing in our suburbs in the ’80s and ’90s. In community infrastructure, in nonprofits and social services, in our schools. We’ve moved away from investing in our communities in general in the past 30, 40 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And, suburbs don’t have the kinds of renter protections that big cities have to help people stay in their homes. It leaves renters with few options when things do\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">go wrong. When that eviction notice gets taped to the front door.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s coming up, after this break.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Advertisement]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: People walking, greeting one another)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hi, how are you? I’m Erin. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hi. Carmen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hola,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cómo estás?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bien, gracias.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We met Carmen Ponce at her apartment in Antioch. It’s a small place on the ground floor of a two-story building. And immediately, when you walk in, you see these boxes: big plastic bins stacked on top of each other, ready in case she needs to leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Si miras alrededor de mi apartamento, casi todo ya esta en caja, todo vacío.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carmen lives here with her teenage daughter and 1-year-old granddaughter. She also has two adult sons who sometimes stay with her. Ever since they got an eviction notice, they’ve been living in this sort of limbo.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The problems with her landlord started when the pandemic shut down businesses like hers. Carmen cuts hair at a barbershop in a town nearby. And because of COVID, she was out of work for almost a year. She fell behind on the $1,300 she pays in rent every month. It was a difficult time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pues,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fue una temporada bien difícil, de verdad.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So many people we talked to while reporting on evictions told us they were already struggling to pay rent. And then something else would happen, something that made catching up nearly impossible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Carmen’s case, she was shot just outside her home, in an incident that had nothing to do with her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tengo mi hija que apenas tiene diecisiete años, y que tenía su bebe de un año, que yo me hago responsable de ella. Eso es que hace manternerme fuerte.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Carmen spent a month in the hospital and another four months recovering at home. She started working again last July, but it wasn’t full time. Then, things got a lot worse. Her property manager dropped off a notice at her door. It said, pay the back rent or get out. She owed at least $15,000.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A donde me voy con mi hija y con mi nieta? O sea, la única opción era sacar mis cosas en la calle y dormir en mi carro afuera.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where would she go with her daughter and granddaughter? She thought their only option would be to stay in her car because she didn’t have enough money to move somewhere else.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this point in the pandemic, Carmen was still covered by California’s eviction moratorium. So, rather than leaving right away, she waited. Legally, the landlord would need to file a formal eviction in court to actually force her out. But that lawsuit never came.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No para el acosto constante del manager. Porque también me hable por telefono, que cuando me voy a ir?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Carmen says the property manager keeps harassing her, calling her again and again, asking her when she’s going to leave. They even gave her a second eviction notice in January this year, but they still haven’t filed a lawsuit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BOB GUNSON\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was no harassment, it was just getting her attention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Bob Gunson is Carmen’s property manager, and he says his office only called to get her signed up for the rent relief program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BOB\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s the only reason. And we’ve got quite a few tenants. We’ve got some signed into that program, and they weren’t aware of it, and it’s helped them out a lot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carmen did sign up for rent relief. She got a partial payout, but not for everything she owes, and doesn’t know when the rest of the money will come. Work has been slow, and she still isn’t making the same amount she was before the pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yo estoy, pues, que no se que va pasar el dia de mañana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She says she doesn’t know what’s going to happen from one day to the next. It’s depressing, and Carmen knows there’s lots of people in Antioch going through the same thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CARMEN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Da tristeza, da tristeza en la situación en la que, en lo personal en la que yo me encuentro y en la que mucha gente en Antioch estamos viviendo porque yo se que todavía hay mucha gente que está pasando lo mismo que yo.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904499\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in an apartment room stands to the left of boxes and plastic bins filled with her family's belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_8546-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Ponce inside her apartment in Antioch. After the business where she worked closed due to COVID’s effects on the economy, she has most of her belongings in boxes should she ever need to pick up and leave. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s because Antioch is becoming less affordable. During the pandemic, rents here shot up \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/antioch-ca\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">26%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/indicators/housing-burden#/?breakdown=2&geo=07000000000602252\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly two-thirds of all Antioch renters\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are cost burdened, meaning they pay more than a third of their income on housing. As housing gets more expensive, it’s harder to hold on to, especially for people living paycheck to paycheck. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That leads to more turnover. People leave, they’re priced out, or they’re evicted. City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker says that churn hurts the whole community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It creates anxiety, instability, it creates uncertainty, and that’s unfortunate because neighborhoods can’t thrive like that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s one reason why Tamisha is helping to lead a growing movement of Antioch renters pushing for change — a movement that started in the Sycamore Corridor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s coming up after this break.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Advertisement]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a long time after Tamisha Torres-Walker moved to Antioch, it didn’t really feel like home. She was actually thinking about leaving. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then I started to care about the conditions in the community and actually like being here, and made a bigger commitment to change where I lived. So in a sense, I made a commitment to stay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And she realized there wasn’t anyone on Antioch’s City Council who she felt really represented her district. So, she decided to run. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I heard not one elected official talk about the conditions in the community, the real issues and conditions in the community, here in this district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Tamisha spent countless hours knocking on doors — a lot of it in the Sycamore Corridor. She talked to people, asking them what kinds of issues they were dealing with.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, poverty, harm, violence, police misconduct and brutality, dilapidated conditions, just the quality of life, the way people were living.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a lot of people were getting evicted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were talking to people and they were telling us, ‘Oh, this person, that person next door don’t live here no more. They moved out last week.’ Like literally, like they got kicked out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One man who would become instrumental in Tamisha’s campaign was Francisco Torres. He’s a tenant organizer for the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Most people just call it ACCE.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As more low-income renters moved to suburbs like Antioch, Francisco’s seen the fight for renters’ rights follow close behind. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>FRANCISCO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because it’s much more expensive now, it’s much more expensive, and there’s less and less places to move into.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Francisco heard Tamisha was running for city council, he and other ACCE members jumped in to support her campaign.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>FRANCISCO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the reason I got involved is because I knew that if Tamisha won, we could change the city council.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Maybe they would actually have a chance of passing policies to help renters. She did win, and that’s when their work really began.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antioch doesn’t have the history of tenant activism that you see in big cities like San Francisco or Los Angeles. And they knew Tamisha wouldn’t be able to get any new policies passed unless renters spoke up. So ACCE began recruiting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sounds: A man knocking on a door)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JAIME CALDER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello? How are you? My name is Jaime, I’m with ACCE institute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They got people to write letters to their representatives, hold signs outside of City Hall, and show up on Zoom meetings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACKIE LOWERY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hi, can everyone hear me? OK. Good evening, Mayor, city council members, staff and residents of Antioch. My name is Jackie Lowery and I’m a resident of Antioch, a renter, and a member of ACCE.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Antioch City Council is now actively debating tenant protections, and renters are\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACKIE\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My family and I moved to Antioch for a better life. But from what I’ve been seeing in our city with our tax-paying and rent-paying citizens is shameful. You have a rental community in Antioch that needs your help right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Families are struggling to pay their rent, and live with the daily worry if the next rent increase will be what puts them out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rents are constantly increasing. Many of us are just going back to work because of the pandemic. We simply can’t afford the high rents and don’t see a way forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They’re demanding three big things: a cap on yearly rent increases, a new law to make it illegal for landlords to harass their tenants, and another that makes it harder for landlords to evict. It’s the first time renters are pushing for these kinds of protections in Antioch. And it’s by no means a sure thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lots of people don’t want these policies to pass — landlords and other property owners don’t want more government regulation. Not to mention a couple city council members who are pushing back. There’s more meetings on the books before the council will cast their final votes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But no matter what happens with these proposals, Tamisha is hopeful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Music in)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People are organizing. There are people who are organizing themselves as they’re starting to see that they need to create a voice from the ground. And I think that’s the greatest change any community could see is people building community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Renters are taking a stand, and fighting to stay in Antioch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>TAMISHA\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think that’s happened here in Antioch, especially for people who have transitioned here. And I see it happening now and I’m excited about it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>FRANCISCO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people don’t even realize that you could actually fight in a big group, and win.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Francisco and members of ACCE, there’s no fight more important than the fight to stay housed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>FRANCISCO\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s important to protect that, because what else do you have if you don’t have a home?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s the question that really got us thinking about evictions in the first place. Because home is the center of our lives, where we can be ourselves. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It shapes our identities and keeps our families safe. And if we suddenly had to leave, we’d feel lost, disconnected. But that’s what happens when you’re evicted — you lose your home, and so much more. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming up on \u003c/span>Sold Out:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We’ll look at who’s more likely to be on the receiving end of evictions, and how the consequences can follow you for years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JEAN KENDRICK\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s hard. Not even my worst enemy, I wouldn’t wish this on. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>U.S. REPRESENTATIVE CORI BUSH\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who speaks for us, and who speaks for single parents? Who speaks for Black women? Who speaks for us?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>JACOB FABER\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would argue that one of the biggest reasons, if not the biggest reason, is this weight of history.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: Sold Out \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is a production of KQED. This episode was written and reported by us, Erin Baldassari and Molly Solomon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adhiti Bandlamudi produced this episode. Kyana Moghadam is our senior producer. Brendan Willard is our sound engineer. Rob Speight wrote our theme song. Natalia Aldana is our senior engagement producer, and Gerald Fermin is our engagement intern.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MOLLY\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks to our editor, Erika Kelly. Additional editing from Jessica Placzek and Otis Taylor Jr.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you liked this episode, we think you’ll like another podcast from KQED, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Suburb\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A big thank-you to Sandhya Dirks, whose previous reporting on Antioch really helped guide us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ERIN\u003c/b>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We couldn’t have made this season without Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Holly Kernan, Erika Aguilar and Vinnee Tong.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks for listening. We’ll see you next week!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Screech! Chirp, chirp. Bwwwwaaaaaa. Hyphy!\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sounds of California are eclectic, and here at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we’re pretty big fans of noise. So we dug through the Bay Curious archives to celebrate the soundtrack of the Golden State, from the sounds that guide us home, to the people who brighten up our day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is your excuse to stay in bed, snuggle deeper into your couch, and join Bay Curious on a truly immersive experience for your ears. So put on your headphones, follow along on our Spotify playlist below, settle in and turn up the volume.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3pnC5RuL20oLb74k2FoMt4?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11030282/why-are-bart-trains-so-loud\">\u003cstrong>Why are BART trains so loud?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-960x612.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train at Oakland’s Coliseum station. \u003ccite>(Paul Sullivan/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bay Area is full of sounds. But one sound, in particular, stood out to Bay Curious listener Eric Bauer: “Why does BART scream like a banshee?” he so vividly asked us. Eric’s no stranger to trains — he rode them all the time when he lived in Chicago. To figure out what makes the noises of our subway system so unique, we visited BART’s repair shop to ask the experts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881696/how-hyphy-came-to-define-bay-area-hip-hop\">\u003cstrong>‘It’s pure energy’: How hyphy came to define Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-40 at DeFremery Park in West Oakland, Oct. 12, 2018. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to perhaps the most energizing history lesson you’ll ever have: how the hyphy movement created a distinctly Bay Area sound. We’re joined by Pendarvis Harshaw, host of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Rightnowish podcast\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to answer Bay Curious listener Lauren Tankeh’s question on how hyphy music started, and what the movement represented for Bay culture. Requirements for this episode: “Gig,” not just dance, to the hyperactive up-tempo beats while you learn about the pioneers and legacy of this hip-hop subgenre.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11272504/foghorns-who-presses-the-play-button\">\u003cstrong>Foghorns: Who presses the play button?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11272505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This Golden Gate Bridge fog horn points west on the concrete base of the bridge's south tower, guiding ships safely in the fog.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Golden Gate Bridge foghorn points west on the concrete base of the bridge’s south tower, guiding ships safely in the fog. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on where you live in the Bay Area, the sight of fog can also mean hearing foghorns. After Bay Curious listeners Andy MacKinnon and Jen Liu moved from San Francisco’s SOMA district to the Sunset, they realized foghorns were becoming a constant part of their lives — for better or for worse. They had so many questions for us, such as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Where are these foghorns?\u003cbr>\n2. How many of them are there?\u003cbr>\n3. Why do we still use them despite technology like radar and GPS?\u003cbr>\n4. Who, or what, turns them on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We went out into the fog to help Andy and Jen get some much-needed answers.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719871/why-the-myth-of-the-san-francisco-accent-persists\">\u003cstrong>Why does the myth of the ‘San Francisco accent’ persist?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An accent is different from a word choice. It’s about how a word is pronounced. \u003ccite>(Kelly Heigert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Is there such a thing as a San Francisco accent?” That’s what Bay Curious listener Jonathan Morton wanted to know. When you think of New Yorkers, Bostonians or Texans, you might have a pretty good idea of a general accent, down to the rhythms and tones. But that gets harder to do with San Franciscans. In this episode, we dive deep into accents, the myth of the “Mission brogue,” and how naming just one accent in San Francisco actually says more about who has political power than how people speak.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795009/why-do-some-crosswalks-make-a-machine-gun-sound\">\u003cstrong>Why do some crosswalks make a machine-gun sound?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the accessible pedestrian signals in San Francisco look like this. \u003ccite>(Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The official name for the sound is the rapid tick. But one Bay Curious listener asked why so many crosswalks in the Bay Area sound like a “machine gun,” as opposed to the more commonplace cuckoo-chirp signals. Find out how the rapid tick was designed and how it’s meant to ensure accessibility for all pedestrians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">\u003cstrong>Why is San Francisco’s Fillmore District no longer the ‘Harlem of the West’?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11825842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut.jpg 497w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut-160x129.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie with San Francisco Mayor George Christopher in 1957. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you were walking down San Francisco’s Fillmore Street in the 1950s, chances are you might have run into any number of stars, from Billie Holiday to Ella Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk. The Fillmore was known as the “Harlem of the West” for fostering a booming jazz scene and a vibrant Black community. “It was just magic,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://marystallingsjazz.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">jazz singer Mary Stallings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These days, however, the Fillmore isn’t booming like it once was. In this story, which won a public voting round, we explore how the Fillmore came to be a cultural center, and why that ultimately changed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11185731/where-did-the-wild-parrots-of-san-francisco-come-from\">\u003cstrong>Where did the wild parrots of San Francisco come from?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The parrots have been spotted from the Embarcadero, all the way down to Sunnyvale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The famous parrots of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill. \u003ccite>(Patrick Buechner/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They can be found from the Ferry Building in San Francisco all the way south to Sunnyvale, but you’ll likely \u003cem>hear\u003c/em> the cherry-headed conures before you \u003cem>see\u003c/em> them. Wild parrots are not what you would expect to find atop Bay Area trees and traffic signals, and Bay Curious listener Colleen McClowry wanted to know how they became Bay residents. “I think they’re probably not native to the city. But I’m interested to know how they got there,” Colleen asked. There are a lot of theories, and we start in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill to learn more about these colorful cuties.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755398/whats-it-like-to-navigate-the-bay-area-while-blind\">What’s it like to navigate the Bay Area while blind?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, stands at a varnished wood podium in a blue suit, speaking at a gala put on for his organization.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, stands at a varnished wood lectern in a blue suit, speaking at a gala for the organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LightHouse for the Blind)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This episode is a little different from most Bay Curious episodes. For this sonic experience, we’re joined by Sam Harnett and Chris Hoff, hosts of the podcast, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/\">“The World According to Sound,”\u003c/a> as they get a sense of what it’s like to navigate a chaotic city while blind. They’re guided by \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, on his morning commute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Screech! Chirp, chirp. Bwwwwaaaaaa. Hyphy!\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sounds of California are eclectic, and here at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we’re pretty big fans of noise. So we dug through the Bay Curious archives to celebrate the soundtrack of the Golden State, from the sounds that guide us home, to the people who brighten up our day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is your excuse to stay in bed, snuggle deeper into your couch, and join Bay Curious on a truly immersive experience for your ears. So put on your headphones, follow along on our Spotify playlist below, settle in and turn up the volume.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3pnC5RuL20oLb74k2FoMt4?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11030282/why-are-bart-trains-so-loud\">\u003cstrong>Why are BART trains so loud?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-960x612.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train at Oakland’s Coliseum station. \u003ccite>(Paul Sullivan/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bay Area is full of sounds. But one sound, in particular, stood out to Bay Curious listener Eric Bauer: “Why does BART scream like a banshee?” he so vividly asked us. Eric’s no stranger to trains — he rode them all the time when he lived in Chicago. To figure out what makes the noises of our subway system so unique, we visited BART’s repair shop to ask the experts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881696/how-hyphy-came-to-define-bay-area-hip-hop\">\u003cstrong>‘It’s pure energy’: How hyphy came to define Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-40 at DeFremery Park in West Oakland, Oct. 12, 2018. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to perhaps the most energizing history lesson you’ll ever have: how the hyphy movement created a distinctly Bay Area sound. We’re joined by Pendarvis Harshaw, host of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Rightnowish podcast\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to answer Bay Curious listener Lauren Tankeh’s question on how hyphy music started, and what the movement represented for Bay culture. Requirements for this episode: “Gig,” not just dance, to the hyperactive up-tempo beats while you learn about the pioneers and legacy of this hip-hop subgenre.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11272504/foghorns-who-presses-the-play-button\">\u003cstrong>Foghorns: Who presses the play button?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11272505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This Golden Gate Bridge fog horn points west on the concrete base of the bridge's south tower, guiding ships safely in the fog.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Golden Gate Bridge foghorn points west on the concrete base of the bridge’s south tower, guiding ships safely in the fog. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on where you live in the Bay Area, the sight of fog can also mean hearing foghorns. After Bay Curious listeners Andy MacKinnon and Jen Liu moved from San Francisco’s SOMA district to the Sunset, they realized foghorns were becoming a constant part of their lives — for better or for worse. They had so many questions for us, such as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Where are these foghorns?\u003cbr>\n2. How many of them are there?\u003cbr>\n3. Why do we still use them despite technology like radar and GPS?\u003cbr>\n4. Who, or what, turns them on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We went out into the fog to help Andy and Jen get some much-needed answers.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719871/why-the-myth-of-the-san-francisco-accent-persists\">\u003cstrong>Why does the myth of the ‘San Francisco accent’ persist?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An accent is different from a word choice. It’s about how a word is pronounced. \u003ccite>(Kelly Heigert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Is there such a thing as a San Francisco accent?” That’s what Bay Curious listener Jonathan Morton wanted to know. When you think of New Yorkers, Bostonians or Texans, you might have a pretty good idea of a general accent, down to the rhythms and tones. But that gets harder to do with San Franciscans. In this episode, we dive deep into accents, the myth of the “Mission brogue,” and how naming just one accent in San Francisco actually says more about who has political power than how people speak.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795009/why-do-some-crosswalks-make-a-machine-gun-sound\">\u003cstrong>Why do some crosswalks make a machine-gun sound?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the accessible pedestrian signals in San Francisco look like this. \u003ccite>(Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The official name for the sound is the rapid tick. But one Bay Curious listener asked why so many crosswalks in the Bay Area sound like a “machine gun,” as opposed to the more commonplace cuckoo-chirp signals. Find out how the rapid tick was designed and how it’s meant to ensure accessibility for all pedestrians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">\u003cstrong>Why is San Francisco’s Fillmore District no longer the ‘Harlem of the West’?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11825842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut.jpg 497w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut-160x129.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie with San Francisco Mayor George Christopher in 1957. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you were walking down San Francisco’s Fillmore Street in the 1950s, chances are you might have run into any number of stars, from Billie Holiday to Ella Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk. The Fillmore was known as the “Harlem of the West” for fostering a booming jazz scene and a vibrant Black community. “It was just magic,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://marystallingsjazz.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">jazz singer Mary Stallings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These days, however, the Fillmore isn’t booming like it once was. In this story, which won a public voting round, we explore how the Fillmore came to be a cultural center, and why that ultimately changed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11185731/where-did-the-wild-parrots-of-san-francisco-come-from\">\u003cstrong>Where did the wild parrots of San Francisco come from?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The parrots have been spotted from the Embarcadero, all the way down to Sunnyvale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The famous parrots of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill. \u003ccite>(Patrick Buechner/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They can be found from the Ferry Building in San Francisco all the way south to Sunnyvale, but you’ll likely \u003cem>hear\u003c/em> the cherry-headed conures before you \u003cem>see\u003c/em> them. Wild parrots are not what you would expect to find atop Bay Area trees and traffic signals, and Bay Curious listener Colleen McClowry wanted to know how they became Bay residents. “I think they’re probably not native to the city. But I’m interested to know how they got there,” Colleen asked. There are a lot of theories, and we start in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill to learn more about these colorful cuties.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755398/whats-it-like-to-navigate-the-bay-area-while-blind\">What’s it like to navigate the Bay Area while blind?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, stands at a varnished wood podium in a blue suit, speaking at a gala put on for his organization.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, stands at a varnished wood lectern in a blue suit, speaking at a gala for the organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LightHouse for the Blind)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This episode is a little different from most Bay Curious episodes. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area is one of the most eclectic places in the world, if we do say so ourselves. It’s filled with people and places that prove time and again why so many yearn to visit us. As we’re contemplating how we want to start this new year, the Bay Curious team wanted a way to get out and explore the unique, rich history surrounding us in a safe — and relatively cost-free — way. So we dug through the archives for some fun activities you and yours can enjoy this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are seven places to visit to learn more about what makes the Bay so special. Listen to our Spotify playlist of these Bay Curious episodes on the road, while you’re there, or on your way to the next adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3wc6RFluIltLRclRN3yHsb?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11428075/whos-behind-the-colorful-lights-at-san-francisco-city-hall\">Who’s Behind the Colorful Lights at San Francisco City Hall?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11428739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11428739 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Katie Emigh met up with her best friend Kim Ish for St. Patrick's Day — but first a stop at her favorite landmark.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Emigh (left) met up with her best friend, Kim Ish, for St. Patrick’s Day — but first a stop at her favorite landmark. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By day, San Francisco City Hall is a monument to a place many of us call home. And at night, the lights reflect the city’s unique identity. Like every great structure in every great city, San Francisco City Hall has a story to tell. Its history can be explored through the special days when its granite exterior takes on a vibrant new look: perhaps the colors of the rainbow for Pride Week, or a radiant shamrock green on St. Patty’s Day. Head on over to the historic steps and listen to Bay Curious to discover who makes the lighting decisions, and how it comes together.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655269/how-oakland-became-a-gnome-mans-land\">How Oakland Became a Gnome-Man’s Land\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11655279 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This gnome sits against its telephone pole alongside a liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This gnome is nailed to a telephone pole alongside a liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every time Bay Curious listener Lauren Bresnahan takes her dog for a walk, she sees them: a collection of painted gnomes at the bases of utility poles all over her Lake Merritt neighborhood. Seems kind of random, right? It’s a cute oddity, so we set out to find the story behind the little gnomes painted around this cherished Oakland neighborhood.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">What’s With the Bison in Golden Gate Park?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11809842 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Five new bison are joining the heard at Golden Gate Park in honor of the park's Sesquicentennial.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five members of the herd at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(James Watkins/Courtesy of San Francisco Recreation and Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might be wondering, why are there bison in San Francisco? Bay Curious listener Paul Irving had the same question. So we headed over to the lush fields of Golden Gate Park in search of the herd of American bison that call a section of the 1,000-acre urban park home. Bison aren’t native to San Francisco, after all, so what’s the story behind their presence at Golden Gate Park? The answer goes back hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831229/the-unassuming-east-bay-beach-with-hidden-ceramic-treasures\">The Unassuming East Bay Beach Strewn With Ceramic Treasures \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831244\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"TEPCO beach in Richmond\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TEPCO Beach is strewn with broken pieces of TEPCO pottery, dumped there when the factory was operating in El Cerrito. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this beach off the southern side of Point Isabel in Richmond, you’ll find broken pottery, not sand. It feels like you’ve happened upon some kind of archaeological site right next to the Costco. Bay Curious listener Jo Anne Yada stumbled upon this beach, affectionately called TEPCO Beach by locals, and wondered why it has so much pottery on it. The bizarre ceramic-strewn beach’s history tells us a lot about a beloved Bay Area porcelain business, its legacy, and changing views on environmentalism.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634601/is-the-castro-getting-less-gay\">Is the Castro Getting Less Gay?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Castro residents say the neighborhood has evolved as house prices have gone up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1920x1436.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1180x882.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-960x718.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-520x389.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Castro residents say the neighborhood has evolved as house prices have gone up. \u003ccite>(oversnap/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had never seen a gayer place,” journalist Ryan Levi said when he first moved to San Francisco in 2016. He was blown away by the endless expressions of love and community in the Castro. But Bay Curious listener Bob Girard has a different perspective. As someone who has visited the Castro a lot over the years, he noticed a changing neighborhood, one that is less of a haven for LGBTQ+ people than it once was. “Doesn’t seem to be quite the same old Castro as in years past,” he said. So, what has changed, and why? Bay Curious explores the changing dynamics of one of San Francisco’s most famous neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\">El Camino Not-So-Real: The True Story of the ‘Ancient Road’\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11621286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San José in Fremont once controlled a huge expanse of what we now know as the East Bay. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El Camino Real runs the length of the Peninsula between San Francisco and San José. Its very name implies a regal history, translating to “The King’s Highway” in Spanish. Legend has it that El Camino Real in Silicon Valley is part of the historic Mission Trail, an ancient road that connects the Spanish missions that stretch along the California coast. But is that true? Join us as we unravel a series of falsehoods that have become “common wisdom.”\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834961/the-swans-at-san-franciscos-palace-of-fine-arts-have-attitude\">The Secret Lives of the Palace of Fine Arts Swans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834980 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Swan at the Palace of Fine Arts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the swans at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasontho/7984114855/in/photolist-dawFbF-dQim3j-7pRZus-6RdUub-4xeUJK-TKz9yu-6R9TGV-6R9MGF-6RdSEG-ij3Vv-wDA17y-6WpZDU-b76S2g-AUFCu-6Wq3gE-eyfZv-6Wmana-9W6KEf-nNnE2i-5LD1GD-5LHjsq-6Wm2yg-eBgK6B-PZzmK-9W3W7i-9W3WMr-56PXb-9W6Lq5-2zCEqN-9W6L7G-9W3WrK-9W3WAZ-9W6KY9-9W3Wjg-9W3Xak-9W3Wbv-9W3WnD-5j8jip-9W6LjY-9W3WS6-MBFw-9W6LAh-9W6KT3-jHc8Lx-5LHh79-9W6Lby-rMwYX-9W6Ldj-9W6Lr1-9W3WKR\">Jason Thompson\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Palace of Fine Arts is an architectural gem tucked into a corner of the Marina district, offering a lovely space for a stroll, a picnic and a selfie session. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Bay Area is one of the most eclectic places in the world, if we do say so ourselves. It’s filled with people and places that prove time and again why so many yearn to visit us. As we’re contemplating how we want to start this new year, the Bay Curious team wanted a way to get out and explore the unique, rich history surrounding us in a safe — and relatively cost-free — way. So we dug through the archives for some fun activities you and yours can enjoy this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are seven places to visit to learn more about what makes the Bay so special. Listen to our Spotify playlist of these Bay Curious episodes on the road, while you’re there, or on your way to the next adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3wc6RFluIltLRclRN3yHsb?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11428075/whos-behind-the-colorful-lights-at-san-francisco-city-hall\">Who’s Behind the Colorful Lights at San Francisco City Hall?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11428739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11428739 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Katie Emigh met up with her best friend Kim Ish for St. Patrick's Day — but first a stop at her favorite landmark.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Emigh (left) met up with her best friend, Kim Ish, for St. Patrick’s Day — but first a stop at her favorite landmark. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By day, San Francisco City Hall is a monument to a place many of us call home. And at night, the lights reflect the city’s unique identity. Like every great structure in every great city, San Francisco City Hall has a story to tell. Its history can be explored through the special days when its granite exterior takes on a vibrant new look: perhaps the colors of the rainbow for Pride Week, or a radiant shamrock green on St. Patty’s Day. Head on over to the historic steps and listen to Bay Curious to discover who makes the lighting decisions, and how it comes together.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655269/how-oakland-became-a-gnome-mans-land\">How Oakland Became a Gnome-Man’s Land\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11655279 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This gnome sits against its telephone pole alongside a liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This gnome is nailed to a telephone pole alongside a liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every time Bay Curious listener Lauren Bresnahan takes her dog for a walk, she sees them: a collection of painted gnomes at the bases of utility poles all over her Lake Merritt neighborhood. Seems kind of random, right? It’s a cute oddity, so we set out to find the story behind the little gnomes painted around this cherished Oakland neighborhood.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">What’s With the Bison in Golden Gate Park?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11809842 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Five new bison are joining the heard at Golden Gate Park in honor of the park's Sesquicentennial.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five members of the herd at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(James Watkins/Courtesy of San Francisco Recreation and Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might be wondering, why are there bison in San Francisco? Bay Curious listener Paul Irving had the same question. So we headed over to the lush fields of Golden Gate Park in search of the herd of American bison that call a section of the 1,000-acre urban park home. Bison aren’t native to San Francisco, after all, so what’s the story behind their presence at Golden Gate Park? The answer goes back hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831229/the-unassuming-east-bay-beach-with-hidden-ceramic-treasures\">The Unassuming East Bay Beach Strewn With Ceramic Treasures \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831244\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"TEPCO beach in Richmond\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TEPCO Beach is strewn with broken pieces of TEPCO pottery, dumped there when the factory was operating in El Cerrito. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this beach off the southern side of Point Isabel in Richmond, you’ll find broken pottery, not sand. It feels like you’ve happened upon some kind of archaeological site right next to the Costco. Bay Curious listener Jo Anne Yada stumbled upon this beach, affectionately called TEPCO Beach by locals, and wondered why it has so much pottery on it. The bizarre ceramic-strewn beach’s history tells us a lot about a beloved Bay Area porcelain business, its legacy, and changing views on environmentalism.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634601/is-the-castro-getting-less-gay\">Is the Castro Getting Less Gay?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Castro residents say the neighborhood has evolved as house prices have gone up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1920x1436.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1180x882.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-960x718.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-520x389.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Castro residents say the neighborhood has evolved as house prices have gone up. \u003ccite>(oversnap/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had never seen a gayer place,” journalist Ryan Levi said when he first moved to San Francisco in 2016. He was blown away by the endless expressions of love and community in the Castro. But Bay Curious listener Bob Girard has a different perspective. As someone who has visited the Castro a lot over the years, he noticed a changing neighborhood, one that is less of a haven for LGBTQ+ people than it once was. “Doesn’t seem to be quite the same old Castro as in years past,” he said. So, what has changed, and why? 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Join us as we unravel a series of falsehoods that have become “common wisdom.”\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834961/the-swans-at-san-franciscos-palace-of-fine-arts-have-attitude\">The Secret Lives of the Palace of Fine Arts Swans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834980 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Swan at the Palace of Fine Arts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the swans at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasontho/7984114855/in/photolist-dawFbF-dQim3j-7pRZus-6RdUub-4xeUJK-TKz9yu-6R9TGV-6R9MGF-6RdSEG-ij3Vv-wDA17y-6WpZDU-b76S2g-AUFCu-6Wq3gE-eyfZv-6Wmana-9W6KEf-nNnE2i-5LD1GD-5LHjsq-6Wm2yg-eBgK6B-PZzmK-9W3W7i-9W3WMr-56PXb-9W6Lq5-2zCEqN-9W6L7G-9W3WrK-9W3WAZ-9W6KY9-9W3Wjg-9W3Xak-9W3Wbv-9W3WnD-5j8jip-9W6LjY-9W3WS6-MBFw-9W6LAh-9W6KT3-jHc8Lx-5LHh79-9W6Lby-rMwYX-9W6Ldj-9W6Lr1-9W3WKR\">Jason Thompson\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Palace of Fine Arts is an architectural gem tucked into a corner of the Marina district, offering a lovely space for a stroll, a picnic and a selfie session. 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"content": "\u003cp>Skip to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Where can I find the latest on Bay Area weather?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alerts\">How do I sign up for emergency weather updates?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A series of heavy storms has hit the Bay Area and Northern California and is expected to continue through the weekend, bringing potentially record-breaking amounts of rain of up to 7 inches in parched parts of the state. The rains coming later this week could be the biggest storms the state’s Central Valley region has seen in nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local residents got a taste of what’s coming over the weekend when smaller storms sprinkled some areas in the valley while dumping 10 inches of snow in higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is definitely going to be one of those ground-soaking events,” said Emily Heller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Tuesday, officials advised that all Californians should be prepared. Officials are most concerned about mudslides in areas with burn scars from the Caldor and Dixie fires. The most dangerous conditions occur hours after a storm when the rain stops and water is absorbed into the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alerts\">If you’re concerned about weather conditions in your area, sign up for alerts through your county.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A series of weather system will bring periods of light to moderate rainfall ️ to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayArea?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayArea\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CentralCoast?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CentralCoast\u003c/a> through Friday. A more potent atmospheric river then takes aim on the region late in the weekend with widespread rainfall and gusty winds. Stay tuned!⚠️\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CAwx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAwx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayAreaWX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayAreaWX\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/usmXHUzWfk\">pic.twitter.com/usmXHUzWfk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1450800366941990912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of more wet weather, KQED host Natalia Navarro sat down with reporter Dan Brekke to find out what storms could mean for California’s drought and the fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This interview from Oct. 19 has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Natalia Navarro: What is significant about this forecast?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong>: It’s a huge relief to people just to see rain, period, after our usual summer dry spell. But we’re also in a really serious, prolonged drought. I think the main thing that we’re going to see is a lot of rain. We’re going to get one round of rain coming in tonight into tomorrow, another one Thursday into Friday, and then over the weekend starting Sunday and into Monday. [We could see] potentially really heavy rains that could fall across most of the northern half of the state. This is an opportunity — perhaps — to see the end of the fire season that has also been pretty rough on the state all year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How much rain can the Bay Area expect?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It depends on where you are. Around the Bay Area, the rainiest locations are in northern Sonoma County and in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and those places could see — by the end of this whole series of storms — more than 6 inches of rain. [In] San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, we could see maybe 3 to 4 inches of rain, which is a lot for October. We’ll see much less in the South Bay and further south.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=science_1935067 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/11/atmoriver.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you expand out and start to look beyond, there’s going to be really heavy rain in the Feather River watershed — where Lake Oroville is, around Shasta Lake and at the head of the Sacramento River. And in the northern and central Sierra, very heavy precipitation [is expected] in all of those places over the next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What could this amount of rain mean for this year’s fire season?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hope is that if this forecast pans out for the next week, there will be enough rain over the northern half of the state that it’s really going to end the fire threat for the season — meaning that the vegetation that might burn in a fire is basically thoroughly soaked enough that it’s just not going to be something that’s going to catch fire if there was a thunderstorm (which is less likely at this time of year) or in the event of a big windstorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, for the southern half of the state, we’re not going to get enough rain over this period to really end the fire threat, from, say, Monterey County south to Los Angeles and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are there any concerns about flooding or mudslides?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are concerns, and those concerns are directly related to the fires that we’ve seen over the last couple of years. We had immense fires around the Bay Area and throughout Northern California last year and again this year. And all of those areas are places that are prone to debris flows and landslides because of the heavy amounts of rain that could be falling — especially the storm that’s coming in Sunday and Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/What-We-Do/Flood-Preparedness/Flood-Preparedness-Week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>How to prepare for floods in California \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Will this series of storms help us get out of this drought?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not really going to end the drought. I like the term that the National Weather Service office for the Bay Area uses: They speak of “beneficial rains,” and that’s really a short-term thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is really a series of storms that is going to bring us some short-term benefits. Some of our reservoirs may bounce back from where they’ve been, and we’re going to get enough rain across our terribly brown, dry-looking landscape that will green up later in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought is really a long-term issue. The long-term climate forecast for this coming season is that we’re in a La Niña pattern, which generally means less rain for Northern California than a normal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line [is that] what we really need to get is three really wet months in December, January and February to really say that we were out of the drought. But even then, you’re dealing with long-term effects. [The drought] really won’t be over until we have several seasons of normal rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11893022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/G17_sector_psw_GEOCOLOR_24fr_20211020-1202.gif\" alt=\"Animated gif of a satellite image of the Bay Area region with clouds and rainstorms moving through the frame.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite image captured the morning of October 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(NWS Bay Area)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>Resources for tracking Bay Area weather\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of online resources and apps available for tracking weather in real time, especially ahead of rain, storms and extreme conditions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Skip to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Where can I find the latest on Bay Area weather?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alerts\">How do I sign up for emergency weather updates?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A series of heavy storms has hit the Bay Area and Northern California and is expected to continue through the weekend, bringing potentially record-breaking amounts of rain of up to 7 inches in parched parts of the state. The rains coming later this week could be the biggest storms the state’s Central Valley region has seen in nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local residents got a taste of what’s coming over the weekend when smaller storms sprinkled some areas in the valley while dumping 10 inches of snow in higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is definitely going to be one of those ground-soaking events,” said Emily Heller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Tuesday, officials advised that all Californians should be prepared. Officials are most concerned about mudslides in areas with burn scars from the Caldor and Dixie fires. The most dangerous conditions occur hours after a storm when the rain stops and water is absorbed into the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alerts\">If you’re concerned about weather conditions in your area, sign up for alerts through your county.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A series of weather system will bring periods of light to moderate rainfall ️ to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayArea?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayArea\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CentralCoast?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CentralCoast\u003c/a> through Friday. A more potent atmospheric river then takes aim on the region late in the weekend with widespread rainfall and gusty winds. Stay tuned!⚠️\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CAwx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAwx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayAreaWX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayAreaWX\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/usmXHUzWfk\">pic.twitter.com/usmXHUzWfk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1450800366941990912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of more wet weather, KQED host Natalia Navarro sat down with reporter Dan Brekke to find out what storms could mean for California’s drought and the fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This interview from Oct. 19 has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Natalia Navarro: What is significant about this forecast?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong>: It’s a huge relief to people just to see rain, period, after our usual summer dry spell. But we’re also in a really serious, prolonged drought. I think the main thing that we’re going to see is a lot of rain. We’re going to get one round of rain coming in tonight into tomorrow, another one Thursday into Friday, and then over the weekend starting Sunday and into Monday. [We could see] potentially really heavy rains that could fall across most of the northern half of the state. This is an opportunity — perhaps — to see the end of the fire season that has also been pretty rough on the state all year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How much rain can the Bay Area expect?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It depends on where you are. Around the Bay Area, the rainiest locations are in northern Sonoma County and in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and those places could see — by the end of this whole series of storms — more than 6 inches of rain. [In] San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, we could see maybe 3 to 4 inches of rain, which is a lot for October. We’ll see much less in the South Bay and further south.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And in the northern and central Sierra, very heavy precipitation [is expected] in all of those places over the next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What could this amount of rain mean for this year’s fire season?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hope is that if this forecast pans out for the next week, there will be enough rain over the northern half of the state that it’s really going to end the fire threat for the season — meaning that the vegetation that might burn in a fire is basically thoroughly soaked enough that it’s just not going to be something that’s going to catch fire if there was a thunderstorm (which is less likely at this time of year) or in the event of a big windstorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, for the southern half of the state, we’re not going to get enough rain over this period to really end the fire threat, from, say, Monterey County south to Los Angeles and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are there any concerns about flooding or mudslides?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are concerns, and those concerns are directly related to the fires that we’ve seen over the last couple of years. We had immense fires around the Bay Area and throughout Northern California last year and again this year. And all of those areas are places that are prone to debris flows and landslides because of the heavy amounts of rain that could be falling — especially the storm that’s coming in Sunday and Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/What-We-Do/Flood-Preparedness/Flood-Preparedness-Week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>How to prepare for floods in California \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Will this series of storms help us get out of this drought?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not really going to end the drought. I like the term that the National Weather Service office for the Bay Area uses: They speak of “beneficial rains,” and that’s really a short-term thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is really a series of storms that is going to bring us some short-term benefits. Some of our reservoirs may bounce back from where they’ve been, and we’re going to get enough rain across our terribly brown, dry-looking landscape that will green up later in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought is really a long-term issue. The long-term climate forecast for this coming season is that we’re in a La Niña pattern, which generally means less rain for Northern California than a normal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line [is that] what we really need to get is three really wet months in December, January and February to really say that we were out of the drought. But even then, you’re dealing with long-term effects. [The drought] really won’t be over until we have several seasons of normal rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11893022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/G17_sector_psw_GEOCOLOR_24fr_20211020-1202.gif\" alt=\"Animated gif of a satellite image of the Bay Area region with clouds and rainstorms moving through the frame.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite image captured the morning of October 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(NWS Bay Area)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>Resources for tracking Bay Area weather\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of online resources and apps available for tracking weather in real time, especially ahead of rain, storms and extreme conditions. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to: \u003ca href=\"#help\">How to help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\">Two explosions outside the international airport in Kabul on Thursday\u003c/a> left dozens of people dead and injured, including members of the U.S. military and Afghan civilians. The attacks, which occurred at one of the gates to the airport and at a nearby hotel, came less than a day after the U.S. Embassy warned U.S. citizens to get out of the area. ISIS-K, the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan, has said it carried out the attack, according to The Associated Press and Reuters. In an afternoon address, President Joe Biden vowed to “hunt down” the attackers and “make [them] pay.” \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\">Follow NPR’s ongoing coverage\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mishkan Zahir Darbi, program manager of Fremont’s Afghan Coalition, told KQED on Thursday that the group had been bracing for the possibility of an attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that the behavior of this terrorism group is such that they will make certain to keep these individuals inside the country to torture essentially,” Darbi said. “It wasn’t a surprise, but it is devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Aug. 15, when Taliban soldiers took over Kabul, thousands of people have continued to make their way to the airport hoping to flee the country. On Aug. 16, some rushed the airport and were so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held onto a military jet as it took off, and plunged to their deaths. At least seven people were reported dead in that chaos, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-gunmen-killed-by-us-forces-kabul-airport-past-24-hours-official-2021-08-16/\">two people shot by the U.S. military\u003c/a> trying to control the crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area lawmakers are responding to the attacks, calling them “horrific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our urgent priority must be the safe and immediate evacuation of Americans and those who demonstrated allegiance to the U.S. during the war or are at risk if they remain in the country,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San José, said in a statement. “Today, we mourn the U.S. military men and women who lost their lives. Their bravery and sacrifices must not be forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) said in a statement that he is continuing to monitor the situation in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that we do all we can to secure the area so we can prioritize the safe and swift rescue of U.S. citizens, diplomatic personnel, U.S. servicemembers, as well other individuals at imminent risk, such as journalists, women, civil servants and Afghan allies,” Swalwell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) said in an interview with KQED Thursday there needs to be a review of U.S. evacuation operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we could have started the evacuation earlier,” he said. “I do think when we have those oversight questions in Congress we should look not just at the last 20 days but at the last 20 years of went wrong in the war in Afghanistan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Garamendi (D-Davis) urged Pres. Joe Biden to maintain the Aug. 31 withdrawal from Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is tragically obvious that the American soldiers are in harm’s way … so the sooner they’re out of there, the better,” Garamendi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the U.S., the Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15 was something many feared in their worst nightmares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just in complete shock and complete despair. I can’t control my emotions,” Nahid Fattahi told KQED through tears, shortly after the Aug. 15 takeover. “My nightmare came true today with the collapse of the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi said she feels let down, especially by the American government and by President Biden. “It was literally a slap on every Afghan’s face. It’s a very dark day for me — and millions of Afghans,” she said. “This is a dark day for anyone who believes in freedom and humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi, a human rights activist, said she’s been in disbelief since the collapse of Herat. Herat is Afghanistan’s third-largest city and her birthplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m extremely emotional because, for Afghans — we foresaw this,” she added.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mizgon Zahir Darby, freelance writer and former publisher of an Afghan American magazine\"]‘My concern for women in Afghanistan is the same as it would be here in the United States if women and girls lost their humanity — if they were being ripped out of their mother’s arms at 12 or 13 years old to marry terrorists.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Taliban tightened their grip on her hometown back in the mid-’90s, Fattahi says her parents made the agonizing choice to send her to Canada at the age of 14 to marry a man who promised to provide her a better life and an education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since coming to the U.S., she’s been outspoken about the dangers of the extremist group and the importance of making sure women’s rights are included when negotiating peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We warned the American government about this,” she said through tears. “I and millions of Afghans around the world … we just feel betrayed, let down and hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/pres-biden-and-congress-ensure-afghan-women-s-rights-alongside-peace-with-the-taliban?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Change.org\u003c/a> petition over two years ago to ensure women’s rights were considered in discussions with the Taliban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Taliban cannot be trusted,” she said. “Women will pay a huge price for this, and for generations to come.” But she also said the impact will be felt globally. “I think the world will eventually pay a huge price for this because we are not separate — the world is very much connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward-based Mizgon Zahir Darby, a freelance writer and former publisher of an Afghan American magazine, echoed Fattahi shortly after the Taliban takeover in saying that there’s a sense of hopelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women and girls have lost their rights, but in addition, they have lost their humanity,” Darby said. “My concern for women in Afghanistan is the same as it would be here in the United States if women and girls lost their humanity — if they were being ripped out of their mother’s arms at 12 or 13 years old to marry terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Farhad Yousafzai, who came to Sacramento in 2014 after working for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, he’s worried neighboring countries will help fund proxy armies, which could lead to even more death. He told KQED he’s disappointed and mad. “What was the point of all the death?” he asked, of the many years of instability and war in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>How to help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell — who represents parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties and one of the largest Afghan American populations in the Bay Area — said following the Taliban takeover, “right now, the best thing I believe we can do as leaders in the community is to help give comfort and support to families who are looking for answers over in Afghanistan.” He’s also been working to assist those with visa applications already in place. 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Alex Padilla, D-California, joined 28 senators in writing \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Afghan-Parole-Letter-8.25.21.pdf\">a letter urging the Biden administration to expedite efforts to evacuate Afghans at risk\u003c/a> . Previously, Padilla said his office would work with the State Department to process special immigration visa requests “as expeditiously as possible,” in a statement released Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve compiled some additional resources to support Afghans and Afghan Americans in the U.S. and abroad:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a local or international organization \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family and Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JFCS East Bay has already welcomed dozens of people from Afghanistan to begin new lives in the East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">in an Aug. 20 update\u003c/a> said they expected dozens more Afghans to arrive this week, noting that they often get very little notice before being called to meet arriving planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has an \u003ca href=\"https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1CW3QPCLGZMBC/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon wish list\u003c/a> where items can be shipped to their Concord office and distributed to refugees directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also especially in need of gift cards to low-cost grocery stores like FoodMaxx or Grocery Outlet or Target,” Ami Dodson, who coordinates volunteer services, wrote in an email to KQED. “We have actually been inundated with responses. This community is so compassionate and generous,” Dodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Refugee Services Fouzia Azizi thanked the thousands of Bay Area residents who have offered their help so far. “Each of these actions ensure that our new neighbors are welcomed with dignity and care,” Azizi wrote on the JFCS website. “We are overwhelmed by your heartfelt desire to help the new arrivals move from trauma to comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested in donating furniture can reach out to her via email (adodson@jfcs-eastbay.org) with a photo of what they’d like to donate. Dodson said they do not have a pickup service available, so donations would need to be delivered to their storage unit in Walnut Creek. They are also unable to take queen- or king-size mattresses, sofas/couches, or other large or heavy items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also requesting volunteers to sign up through this \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPhmo7tSgUe6kSu18TC3ubHExjXv8E7fukUAmOUmFtcCSSVQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Form\u003c/a> to assist case managers with airport pickups, signing up for social services and providing language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial donations can also be made \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/donate-now-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Fremont Afghan Refugee Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Fremont, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the country, has established a fund through the Human Services Department. The fund is specifically for direct assistance to Afghan refugees arriving in Fremont, Newark and Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Rescue Committee, which operates branches in Oakland as well as internationally, has launched a $10 million appeal to raise funds for the emergency response to ensure aid can still be provided within Afghanistan, as well as to continue to provide support and protection for internally displaced people in Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Humanitarians like the IRC have remained in Afghanistan through crisis after crisis and have proven remarkably effective in delivering impartial and principled responses in challenging operating environments,” said Amanda Catanzano, IRC senior director for international programs policy and advocacy, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-urges-leaders-protect-civilians-and-safeguard-aid-workers-afghanistan-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> on Aug. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a ‘Scholars at Risk’ fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A ‘\u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>‘ fund has been created by \u003ca href=\"https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center\u003c/a>, in partnership with San José State’s Human Rights Institute and the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association. The fund is specifically “to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and the urgent need to help journalists, lawyers, and other academics—especially women—flee the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal is to raise $100,000 by August 27. If that number is reached, the UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Office has pledged to match it in an effort to enable emergency travel and placement in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donate \u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Volunteer as a U.S.-based attorney for pro bono cases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaGqsmuMLBr6H36GAwYgSpLNS-h1FbNSE9aRkmNeh8HKfCRg/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google form\u003c/a> is an effort to put individuals who have immigration questions related to Afghanistan in contact with attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/maitelsadany/status/1427016158503477249\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support journalists\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://cpj.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Committee to Protect Journalists\u003c/a> has warned that journalists in Afghanistan face extreme dangers, specifically women who are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/10/please-pray-for-me-female-reporter-being-hunted-by-the-taliban-tells-her-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terrified\u003c/a>” with the Taliban returning to power.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The International Women’s Media Foundation offers an \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/emergency-fund/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emergency Fund\u003c/a> to assist journalists in distress.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mediasupport.org/news/hundreds-of-afghan-media-workers-are-under-threat-support-afghanistans-journalists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AJSC (Afghan Journalists Safety Committee)\u003c/a> provides shelters, safe houses and other support for journalists and their families.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area individuals and organizations are encouraging people to call their congresspeople to provide emergency aid to support fleeing Afghan migrants. Reach out to your representative \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got something to add on how to help in the Bay Area? Let us know by sending an email to lsarah@kqed.org or tagging us on @kqednews.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on Aug. 17. This post includes reporting from KQED’s Gabriella Frenes, The Associated Press and NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell said he spoke with the secretaries of state and defense on Aug. 15, and they had pledged to look into ways of streamlining applications. “Of course, we want to honor the interpreters who worked with us on the battlefield through the special immigration visa,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/politics/afghan-interpreters-evacuated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">18,000 Afghans have been caught “in bureaucratic limbo”\u003c/a> after applying for special immigrant visas — available to those facing threats as a result of working for the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 25, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, joined 28 senators in writing \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Afghan-Parole-Letter-8.25.21.pdf\">a letter urging the Biden administration to expedite efforts to evacuate Afghans at risk\u003c/a> . Previously, Padilla said his office would work with the State Department to process special immigration visa requests “as expeditiously as possible,” in a statement released Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve compiled some additional resources to support Afghans and Afghan Americans in the U.S. and abroad:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a local or international organization \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family and Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JFCS East Bay has already welcomed dozens of people from Afghanistan to begin new lives in the East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">in an Aug. 20 update\u003c/a> said they expected dozens more Afghans to arrive this week, noting that they often get very little notice before being called to meet arriving planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has an \u003ca href=\"https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1CW3QPCLGZMBC/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon wish list\u003c/a> where items can be shipped to their Concord office and distributed to refugees directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also especially in need of gift cards to low-cost grocery stores like FoodMaxx or Grocery Outlet or Target,” Ami Dodson, who coordinates volunteer services, wrote in an email to KQED. “We have actually been inundated with responses. This community is so compassionate and generous,” Dodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Refugee Services Fouzia Azizi thanked the thousands of Bay Area residents who have offered their help so far. “Each of these actions ensure that our new neighbors are welcomed with dignity and care,” Azizi wrote on the JFCS website. “We are overwhelmed by your heartfelt desire to help the new arrivals move from trauma to comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested in donating furniture can reach out to her via email (adodson@jfcs-eastbay.org) with a photo of what they’d like to donate. Dodson said they do not have a pickup service available, so donations would need to be delivered to their storage unit in Walnut Creek. They are also unable to take queen- or king-size mattresses, sofas/couches, or other large or heavy items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also requesting volunteers to sign up through this \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPhmo7tSgUe6kSu18TC3ubHExjXv8E7fukUAmOUmFtcCSSVQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Form\u003c/a> to assist case managers with airport pickups, signing up for social services and providing language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial donations can also be made \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/donate-now-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Fremont Afghan Refugee Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Fremont, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the country, has established a fund through the Human Services Department. The fund is specifically for direct assistance to Afghan refugees arriving in Fremont, Newark and Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Rescue Committee, which operates branches in Oakland as well as internationally, has launched a $10 million appeal to raise funds for the emergency response to ensure aid can still be provided within Afghanistan, as well as to continue to provide support and protection for internally displaced people in Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Humanitarians like the IRC have remained in Afghanistan through crisis after crisis and have proven remarkably effective in delivering impartial and principled responses in challenging operating environments,” said Amanda Catanzano, IRC senior director for international programs policy and advocacy, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-urges-leaders-protect-civilians-and-safeguard-aid-workers-afghanistan-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> on Aug. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a ‘Scholars at Risk’ fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A ‘\u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>‘ fund has been created by \u003ca href=\"https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center\u003c/a>, in partnership with San José State’s Human Rights Institute and the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association. The fund is specifically “to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and the urgent need to help journalists, lawyers, and other academics—especially women—flee the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal is to raise $100,000 by August 27. 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"content": "\u003cp>For the fifth straight day, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-india-coronavirus-1bda2318594d65be400074da41fa13c6\">India set a global daily record of new coronavirus infections\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has been filled with desperate pleas from those in India seeking hospital beds and oxygen concentrators. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/hope-and-heartbreak-on-indian-covid-twitter\">One journalist, Vinay Srivastava, even live-tweeted his declining oxygen levels until he died\u003c/a>. And on Sunday, the National Security Council announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/25/990676453/u-s-pledges-medical-aid-to-india-where-covid-19-is-overwhelming-hospitals\">the United States will now make more medical aid available to India\u003c/a> in an effort to fight the spike in COVID-19 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Indians and Indian Americans in the Bay Area, what many are experiencing in daily life — the excitement of getting the vaccine and reopening businesses — contrasts starkly with the reality of family and friends sick and dying in New Delhi and other parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Indian you speak to will tell you we know somebody who has passed away in the last few days because they weren’t able to find a hospital to take them — or they weren’t able to get access to oxygen,” said Palo Alto resident Kanika Mediratta, who has family and friends in New Delhi. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kanika Mediratta, started CovidReliefIndia.com\"]‘Every Indian you speak to will tell you we know somebody who has passed away in the last few days because they weren’t able to find a hospital to take them — or they weren’t able to get access to oxygen.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just 10 minutes ago I got a call from one of my very close friends asking if we knew of any supply for a patient [in India] who has oxygen only for the next three hours,” Mediratta said. “Without that, they will die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mediratta’s brother-in-law — her husband Rohit’s brother — is a neurosurgeon at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, and told the Palo Alto couple of his firsthand experiences with the region’s severe oxygen shortage that was being mirrored across India. So the Medirattas decided to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/oxygen-concentrators-for-delhi?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> to raise money for the \u003ca href=\"https://savelifefoundation.org/covid19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Life Foundation,\u003c/a> a nonprofit working with the New Delhi government. In about 48 hours they raised enough money to procure 200 units of oxygen. They’ve also created the website \u003ca href=\"http://covidreliefindia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CovidReliefIndia.com\u003c/a> which explains the severity of India’s need for oxygen and \u003ca href=\"http://covidreliefindia.com/faqs/\">how people can help\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s expected that this first shipment of oxygen units will start reaching the people in need in public hospitals “in the next week or so,” said Rohit Mediratta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their campaign has been amplified by people including Bay Area Congressman Ro Khanna, whose California District 17 encompasses Silicon Valley. Thus far, through their networks, the couple say they’ve seen people donating money from around the world — Australia, UK, the Middle East. “People who know people, who know people, have been contacting us,” Kanika Mediratta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1385794794186813443?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the \u003ca href=\"https://savelifefoundation.org/covid19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Life Foundation,\u003c/a> the Medirattas are also directing donations to the humanitarian nonprofit organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.sewausa.org/Kanikas-Campaign-for-COVID-19-Relief-India\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sewa International\u003c/a>. For those unsure which place to donate to, Kanika Mediratta gave some guidance: “If you’re looking to donate specifically for the Delhi region, then Save Life Foundation is working with the Delhi government, and is probably the biggest impact that we will have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Bay Area residents wanting their donations to go beyond government agencies, or into other cities and regions in India, Sewa International is a good choice, say the Medirattas. Both organizations are registered nonprofits in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of people are dying every single day” in India, said Gitesh Desai, a Texas-based spokesperson for Sewa International on the COVID-19 crisis. According to Johns Hopkins University data, \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/india\">on April 25 alone there were 2,812 deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desai said Sewa International is buying oxygen concentrators and has already bought 400 that will be given to hospitals in India. With additional funds raised, Desai said they will be providing food and medicine to families as well as other basic needs to orphanages and senior citizen homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want our money to get used in the best way possible and as quickly as possible, because each hour matters right now,” Kanika Mediratta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that it’s not just hours that count right now — it’s minutes. “We don’t have till Monday morning, or Tuesday morning, for action to be taken. If you have the capacity to contribute, to participate, to volunteer, we need the help and we need it now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a moment to lose right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we can do to help, if we can do anything at all, it’s still not enough,” her husband Rohit added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Severity of COVID-19 in India\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As of April 25, the country had over 16.9 million recorded cases, second behind only the United States. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-india-religion-coronavirus-c644fc9eb09beb04e16d0215a6693886\">The Health Ministry reported another 2,767 deaths in the past 24 hours\u003c/a>, pushing India’s fatalities to 192,311.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet experts say this toll could be a huge undercount, as suspected cases are not included, and many COVID-19 deaths are being attributed to underlying conditions. [aside tag=\"india, coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unfolding crisis is most visceral in India’s overwhelmed graveyards and crematoriums, and in heartbreaking images of gasping patients dying on their way to hospitals due to lack of oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burial grounds in the capital New Delhi are running out of space. The situation is equally grim at unbearably full hospitals, where desperate people are dying in line — sometimes on the roads outside — waiting to see doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials are scrambling to expand critical care units and stock up on dwindling supplies of oxygen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dressed in a traditional Korean hanbok, Stella Kim stood among hundreds in San Francisco's Chinatown to support the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Kim sees the shooting of eight people in Atlanta, including six Asian women, as a backlash against progress and an assertion of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can't stand, she said, and people who want progress need to keep showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wore a hanbok as a sign of resistance,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area at large joined in that resistance. Hundreds gathered, marched and even skated on Saturday, to mourn the lives of those killed or hurt by the recent rise of anti-AAPI violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865809\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1152px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Names of victims in the Atlanta spa shootings on March 16 are written on the Portsmouth Square Bridge on March 20, 2021, during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From a vigil in San Francisco's Chinatown to a solidarity glide on roller skates in Oakland, with actions also planned soon in San Jose and elsewhere, people across the region are showing their support for the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BayAreaJulie/status/1373359012914196483\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That community has grappled with rising racism and violence, including in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between March 19, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021, there were at least 3,795 incidents of anti-Asian hate across the nation, ranging from physical assault and verbal harassment to various civil rights violations, according to a report released Tuesday by \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>. The project, based out of San Francisco State University, asks members of AAPI communities to self-report acts of hate and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 of those incidents occurred in the Bay Area, according to a report from the same organization released last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'These Are Our Community Members'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, people hung love letters to friends, family or the AAPI community at large on a clothesline, which was strung across a bridge connecting Portsmouth Square to the Chinese Culture Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sign simply read \"grandma,\" written in Korean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many AAPI people attacked in the Bay Area have been seniors, including a Thai man killed in North Beach, a neighborhood adjacent to the peaceful vigil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s San Francisco or Oakland, I think a lot of people are facing similar things,\" said Hyejin Shim, who works at Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11865827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"un Fong, 87, holds a yellow rose while listening to speakers at Portsmouth Square during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong.jpg 1503w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lun Fong, 87, holds a yellow rose while listening to speakers at Portsmouth Square during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She says the public discussions of whether or not the Atlanta women were engaging in sex work is a distraction — and dehumanizes people who lost their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that sex workers have always been a part of the community,\" Shim said. \"And so I think the question of whether these massage parlor workers were or were not is irrelevant. But the fact is that massage parlor workers who are Asian are often hypersexualized without their consent or their workplaces become a site of sexual harassment from clients. And that is both about race and gender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the San Francisco vigil was Esther Leong, who works at the nonprofit Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach. A San Franciscan with roots in Chinatown, Leong brought enlarged photos from books and family photos to the event to show the historic racism AAPI San Franciscans have faced, and to highlight AAPI's contributions to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s upset law enforcement in Atlanta hasn't called the shootings a hate crime. Leong said she wants government to figure out a way to determine that an incident is a hate crime without having the assailant utter words of hate.[aside postID=news_11860549 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/AAPI-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leong says the way the law is written is too high a burden because people have to show that the attacker said hateful words as evidence. “I mean, how often does someone say, 'I’m going to hit you because you’re Chinese?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco vigil was organized by a wide breadth of AAPI groups, including the Chinese Progressive Association, the API Council, Filipina Women's Network, Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Center for Asian American Media, Rose Pak Democratic Club and at least a dozen other organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us, including women and low-wage workers, deserve to be safe,\" said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our members — many of whom are women, mothers living in the [single room occupancy hotels], and young women — are already risking their safety to go to work, providing childcare and caring for family members, navigating distance learning, and trying their best to preserve their mental health during these trying times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865810\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1377px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1377\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34.jpg 1377w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1377px) 100vw, 1377px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roller skaters, skate boarders and bicyclists roll through Oakland on March 20, 2021, in solidarity with the AAPI community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, dozens came out in rollerskates to garner more attention for their support for the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those skaters, Ashley Silva, said she fears for her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m also a Filipino and Hawaiian. I’m hapa,\" Silva said. \"I have my grandmother who goes out and my grandpa used to walk every single day. These could be our family members. These are our community members. And we have to keep each other safe. It’s really dangerous out there. And there are so many attacks. We really need to address the racism and take care of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in Oakland, Lani Lee Marsden said the Atlanta shooting was a culmination of varying forms of hate.[aside postID=news_11865171 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47867_GettyImages-1231773402-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here because I’m half Chinese and I am really devastated and upset and I feel helpless, hurt and really mad about what happened in Atlanta as well as sexism, racism and classism combined,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City of Brisbane 'With you in Solidarity'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city of Brisbane in northern San Mateo County, where Asian Americans make up nearly 30% of the total population, held an afternoon rally in a park and made similar pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd heard speeches from local government and law enforcement officials calling for an end to hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific islanders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On behalf of the Brisbane police officers and myself, we stand here with you in solidarity to denounce violence and racism and promote peace, respect and safety for everyone,” Police Chief Elizabeth Macias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Mateo County, we stand united against hate. Unprovoked attacks against our neighbors for simply being Asian cannot and will not be tolerated,” said San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President David J. Canepa in a statement in February. “We need to celebrate who we are and not let racist behavior divide us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian American parents and business owners are fearful of their children or places of work being targeted, and many community members are afraid to go out in public, activists have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Taking Action Against Hate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even before the deadly shootings at spas in the Atlanta area killed six women of Asian descent, President Biden had taken steps to address the recent surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans by making forceful statements against hate and harassment, banning the federal government from employing the sort of \"inflammatory and xenophobic\" language used by his predecessor and tasking senior administration leaders to hold \"listening sessions\" with community leaders and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1252\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Biden salutes Marines as he steps off Marine One after a series of meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 19, 2021. President Biden leaves Atlanta, Georgia, after touring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and meeting with Georgia Asian American leaders, following the Atlanta spa shootings. \u003ccite>(Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, with a sharp focus on the disturbing trend, Asian American and Pacific Islander community leaders are calling for concrete, measurable responses from Biden and his Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, people are afraid to leave their homes,\" said Cynthia Choi, a co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate. \"I think that basic denial of your sense of safety, it is a violation of our human rights. And I think that this does need to be taken seriously and urgently.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lani Lee Marsden, Oakland\"]'I’m here because I’m half-Chinese and I am really devastated and upset and I feel helpless, hurt and really mad about what happened in Atlanta as well as sexism, racism and classism combined.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Biden and Vice President Harris, the first Asian American elected to that position, refocused a trip planned to tout the benefits of the coronavirus relief package to instead meet with Asian American lawmakers and other community leaders in Georgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Too many Asian Americans have been walking up and down the streets and worrying, waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety and the safety of their loved ones are stake,\" Biden said after the meeting. \"They've been attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a wide variety of proposed solutions aimed at curbing violence, many of which are focused on the role that the Justice Department could play. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Feb. 1, a military coup in Myanmar (formerly Burma) toppled the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent some 15 years under house arrest before leading the country’s first democratically elected government after decades of military rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suu Kyi — who held the title of state counselor and was the country’s de facto leader – was removed from power after elections in November handed her National League for Democracy a resounding victory. Those same elections resulted in an embarrassing defeat for the military, which immediately labeled the results fraudulent. The coup’s leaders have now leveled \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/968350007/myanmars-coup-leaders-level-more-charges-against-ousted-leader-suu-kyi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new charges against Suu Kyi\u003c/a>, which could result in her being held indefinitely without a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As thousands of protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/13/967714349/myanmar-protests-continue-in-wake-of-military-takeover\">continue to take to the streets in Myanmar\u003c/a> to demand Suu Kyi’s release and that power be handed back to civilian control, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/asia/myanmar-military-coup-people-intl-hnk/index.html\">told CNN this week he was “terrified”\u003c/a> of the potential for violence if continuing mass protests and military troops converge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ko Ko Lay, former 1988 student leader and Free Burma Action Committee member\"]‘I’m so upset, and so angry, and so worried for our new generation. But we have no choice — we have to fight for our freedom.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FBACSF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Free Burma Action Committee — San Francisco\u003c/a> has coordinated three rallies at UN Plaza in the past two weeks, and plans to continue until Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint – who was also arrested after the coup – are released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two of the rallies drew over 800 people, according to organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another rally “against China’s enabling Policy on Burma” is \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/432827808037471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">planned for this Saturday\u003c/a> at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. On Feb. 2, the United Nations Security Council failed to agree on a joint statement condemning the military coup \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55913947\">after China did not support it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MinThan16901630/status/1358328109456523265\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so upset, and so angry, and so worried for our new generation,” said Ko Ko Lay. “But we have no choice — we have to fight for our freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lay, who is in his early 60s, left Burma in 1988 after participating in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06gsyrz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8888 Uprising\u003c/a> as a student leader. The military killed hundreds of protesters during that uprising. Speaking with KQED on Sunday, Lay said he’d been awake until 7 a.m. trying to communicate with those in Myanmar during one of the recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/17/myanmars-internet-shutdown-whats-going-on-and-it-crush-dissent\">internet shutdowns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1361505276382359553\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lay helped form the Free Burma Action Committee — San Francisco on Feb. 1 in an effort to share information and to call on U.S. officials to act. He said the Burmese community across the U.S. cannot do all the work by themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need the help of all American people,” he said, emphasizing the importance of fighting the military through “peaceful means, and peaceful protest.” The Free Burma Action Committee is demanding the Myanmar military respect peaceful assembly, recognize the 2020 election and restore civilian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lay said the Myanmar military is more brutal than in North Korea. “[It’s] a regime that will kill and destroy our life, and our future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/1920_IMG_0013-scaled-e1613610829711.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstrator's at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860525\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally against the military takeover of Myanmar at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Feb. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Free Burma Action Committee – San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/asia/myanmar-burma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">figures cited by Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>, at least 326 people have been arrested since the coup in Myanmar, and more than 300 are still detained, though the real number could be much higher. They also report that police \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/09/myanmar-lethal-force-used-against-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">used lethal force, shooting at least one protester\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Maw Aung, who was born and raised in Myanmar and has been in the Bay Area for the past 18 years, the story of that protester – Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a young university student peacefully protesting when she was shot – is the most disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students weren’t doing anything … it was just a peaceful protest,” Aung said. “Those kind of things like that really scare me. It’s just not acceptable and it’s just not humane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A doctor \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/09/myanmar-lethal-force-used-against-protesters\">Human Rights Watch spoke with\u003c/a> said Mya Thwe Thwe Khine had a projectile consistent with live ammunition lodged in her head, that she remained in critical condition on Feb. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aung, who now lives in the East Bay, said some people in the Bay Area may not realize the things they take for granted, like water and electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over here, for the people who live and grew up here, we do take these things for granted,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t want to see Myanmar return to how it was when she was young — with a lack of access to basic necessities under a military dictatorship. She wants the world to see what is happening in Myanmar — so she’s been attending the protests in San Francisco with the hope that others will speak up and take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Economic Sanctions by the Biden Administration\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the national level, the Biden administration has imposed sanctions on 10 current and retired top-ranking leaders in Myanmar’s military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0024\">statement\u003c/a> issued Feb. 11, the Treasury Department announced it was freezing U.S.-based assets belonging to the sanctioned individuals. The list includes six members of the newly installed junta, including its head, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, and his deputy, Soe Win. Hlaing was already on a U.S. sanctions list from 2019, when he was targeted for the army’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the country’s western Rakhine state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/01/962758188/myanmar-coup-military-detains-aung-san-suu-kyi-plans-new-election-in-2022\">Feb. 1 coup\u003c/a> came in response to elections that easily returned Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy to power — defeating the military. After taking power, Min Aung Hlaing ordered the arrest of Suu Kyi, who held the title of state counselor, as well as President U Win Myint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that President Biden had called the coup “a direct assault on Burma’s transition to democracy and the rule of law,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the statement that the department “stands with the people of Burma — and we are doing what we must to help them in their effort to secure freedom and democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also prepared to take additional action should Burma’s military not change course,” Yellen said. “If there is more violence against peaceful protestors, the Burmese military will find that today’s sanctions are just the first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the U.S. Agency for International Development \u003ca href=\"https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/feb-11-2021-usaid-immediately-redirects-42-million-response-military-coup-burma\">announced \u003c/a>that it was “immediately redirecting $42.4 million of assistance away from work that would have benefited the Government of Burma. Rather than supporting the military, we will redirect these funds to support and strengthen civil society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people of Burma are making their voices heard, and the world is watching,” Biden said. “We’ll be ready to impose additional measures, and we’ll continue to work with our international partners to urge other nations to join us in these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military takeover has sparked the biggest protests in Myanmar since the 2007 “Saffron Revolution” that helped lay the groundwork for Suu Kyi’s eventual 2015 election victory after spending 15 years under house arrest at the hands of a previous junta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/designating-officials-and-entities-in-connection-with-the-military-coup-in-burma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> on Feb. 11, the State Department said the sanctions “specifically target current or former members of the military who played a leading role in the overthrow of Burma’s democratically-elected government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do not target the economy or people of Burma, and we have gone to great lengths to ensure we do not add to the humanitarian plight of the Burmese people,” the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>This story includes reporting from NPR’s Scott Neuman.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Lay helped form the Free Burma Action Committee — San Francisco on Feb. 1 in an effort to share information and to call on U.S. officials to act. He said the Burmese community across the U.S. cannot do all the work by themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need the help of all American people,” he said, emphasizing the importance of fighting the military through “peaceful means, and peaceful protest.” The Free Burma Action Committee is demanding the Myanmar military respect peaceful assembly, recognize the 2020 election and restore civilian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lay said the Myanmar military is more brutal than in North Korea. “[It’s] a regime that will kill and destroy our life, and our future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/1920_IMG_0013-scaled-e1613610829711.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstrator's at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860525\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally against the military takeover of Myanmar at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Feb. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Free Burma Action Committee – San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/asia/myanmar-burma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">figures cited by Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>, at least 326 people have been arrested since the coup in Myanmar, and more than 300 are still detained, though the real number could be much higher. They also report that police \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/09/myanmar-lethal-force-used-against-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">used lethal force, shooting at least one protester\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Maw Aung, who was born and raised in Myanmar and has been in the Bay Area for the past 18 years, the story of that protester – Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a young university student peacefully protesting when she was shot – is the most disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students weren’t doing anything … it was just a peaceful protest,” Aung said. “Those kind of things like that really scare me. It’s just not acceptable and it’s just not humane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A doctor \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/09/myanmar-lethal-force-used-against-protesters\">Human Rights Watch spoke with\u003c/a> said Mya Thwe Thwe Khine had a projectile consistent with live ammunition lodged in her head, that she remained in critical condition on Feb. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aung, who now lives in the East Bay, said some people in the Bay Area may not realize the things they take for granted, like water and electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over here, for the people who live and grew up here, we do take these things for granted,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t want to see Myanmar return to how it was when she was young — with a lack of access to basic necessities under a military dictatorship. She wants the world to see what is happening in Myanmar — so she’s been attending the protests in San Francisco with the hope that others will speak up and take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Economic Sanctions by the Biden Administration\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the national level, the Biden administration has imposed sanctions on 10 current and retired top-ranking leaders in Myanmar’s military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0024\">statement\u003c/a> issued Feb. 11, the Treasury Department announced it was freezing U.S.-based assets belonging to the sanctioned individuals. The list includes six members of the newly installed junta, including its head, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, and his deputy, Soe Win. Hlaing was already on a U.S. sanctions list from 2019, when he was targeted for the army’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the country’s western Rakhine state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/01/962758188/myanmar-coup-military-detains-aung-san-suu-kyi-plans-new-election-in-2022\">Feb. 1 coup\u003c/a> came in response to elections that easily returned Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy to power — defeating the military. After taking power, Min Aung Hlaing ordered the arrest of Suu Kyi, who held the title of state counselor, as well as President U Win Myint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that President Biden had called the coup “a direct assault on Burma’s transition to democracy and the rule of law,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the statement that the department “stands with the people of Burma — and we are doing what we must to help them in their effort to secure freedom and democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also prepared to take additional action should Burma’s military not change course,” Yellen said. “If there is more violence against peaceful protestors, the Burmese military will find that today’s sanctions are just the first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the U.S. Agency for International Development \u003ca href=\"https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/feb-11-2021-usaid-immediately-redirects-42-million-response-military-coup-burma\">announced \u003c/a>that it was “immediately redirecting $42.4 million of assistance away from work that would have benefited the Government of Burma. Rather than supporting the military, we will redirect these funds to support and strengthen civil society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people of Burma are making their voices heard, and the world is watching,” Biden said. “We’ll be ready to impose additional measures, and we’ll continue to work with our international partners to urge other nations to join us in these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military takeover has sparked the biggest protests in Myanmar since the 2007 “Saffron Revolution” that helped lay the groundwork for Suu Kyi’s eventual 2015 election victory after spending 15 years under house arrest at the hands of a previous junta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/designating-officials-and-entities-in-connection-with-the-military-coup-in-burma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> on Feb. 11, the State Department said the sanctions “specifically target current or former members of the military who played a leading role in the overthrow of Burma’s democratically-elected government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do not target the economy or people of Burma, and we have gone to great lengths to ensure we do not add to the humanitarian plight of the Burmese people,” the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>This story includes reporting from NPR’s Scott Neuman.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Polling places opened to voters over the weekend in the Bay Area. W\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ith much at stake in this election, many voters said they just didn’t want to leave their ballot to chance. [aside postID=\"news_11841547\" \u003ci>label=\u003c/i>\"Did you make a Mistake?\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's too important ... especially this year,\" said Jeff Robinette with his wife Flo. They dropped their mail in ballots at the Richmond Civic Center voting location. \"With all the craziness going on right now, we wanted to make sure it was at an official, preferably a county or city, building,\" Robinette said. \"It's a beautiful day. We've done our civic duty and now we're going down to Point Richmond to have breakfast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 22 million people are registered to vote in California, nearly 88% of all eligible adults. That’s the highest percentage heading into a general election in the past 80 years, according to the secretary of state’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11845096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election workers (from left) Robert Steffani and Carolyn Jones collect mail-in ballots at the Coliseum official ballot dropoff location in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richmond voter Abraham Rodriguez was going to use a secured drop box outside the Richmond Civic Center, until he learned that at least 29 ballots dropped there on October 12 were still unaccounted for.\u003c/span> \"I came in to the actual in-person voting place to make sure my ballot was safely in there,\" Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Dupuis, the Registrar of Voters for Alameda County said the county\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had to turn volunteers away after thousands stepped forward to fill 1,500 election worker spots. Election workers wore face shields, plastic ponchos, masks and gloves and cleaned electronic voting touch screens between voters. Those with the roll of judges had to complete a two hour in-person course followed by a 90-minute online test to be approved.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11845097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">At the Oakland Coliseum polling place, election judge Linda Zunas said she initially had concerns about volunteering because of COVID-19, but feels things are being run well. \"I was really relieved when I got assigned to the Coliseum because I know the Coliseum has good airflow, lots of space,\" Zunas said. \"We have a woman who has a compromised immune system working the drive-up drop boxes because she's thrilled she can be outside and still participate,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One voter said as far as safety is concerned, voting felt no more dangerous than going to the grocery store. \u003c/span>This year, all California voters got a ballot in the mail, part of the state’s effort to encourage people to vote remotely and avoid spreading the coronavirus. As of Sunday, more than 9.4 million people have returned their ballot, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all votes Californians cast during the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That points to a potential record-high turnout as vote centers opened in advance of Election Day on Tuesday. The 14.6 million votes cast in 2016 was the most ever in a California election. The highest percentage of registered voters to cast ballots since 1910 was 88.38% in 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature agreed to let counties offer fewer polling places this year, but only if they opened them earlier. But like most things in 2020, voting in person won’t be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The registrar for one Bay Area county is reporting that registered voters are returning their ballots early — and in large numbers. Napa County Registrar John Tuteur said that as of 5 p.m. Friday, the county's Registrar of Voters office has received and processed 46,869 ballots for Tuesday's presidential election. Tuteur added that this represents 55.4% of the overall turnout of the county's registered voters to date. \"I am pleased that voters are voting safely by using their vote by mail ballots and voting early to avoid congestion on Election Day,\" he said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Krystal Bastyr, a Sacramento voter\"]'I wouldn’t mail it. I won’t even drop it in this box. I’m taking it inside,” she said. “Nobody is going to mess with my vote.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the latest numbers for Tuesday's presidential election with the last presidential election in November 2016, only 33,117 registered voters returned their ballots at this point in the election cycle, which represented a 43 percent overall turnout. Tuteur added that when the 2016 election was certified, 82.3% of the county's registered voters had cast ballots. \"If this trend continues, we could approach a 90 percent final turnout which would be the highest turnout in the past 60 years,\" Tuteur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom cast his ballot on Thursday at the Golden 1 Center, home of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. \"Suppress the virus. Not the vote,\" Newsom tweeted on October 30, adding that as of the day before over 9 million ballots had been cast in California, compared to over 4 million at the same time in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1322298145762471936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the primary in March, Santa Barbara County opened 86 traditional polling places on Election Day. But this election, the county planned to have 35 consolidated polling places open on Saturday, three days ahead of Election Day. Registrar of Voters Joe Holland isn’t sure what to expect because, out of roughly 241,000 registered voters, more than 123,000 have already voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really fundamentally changing the way America votes,” he said. “The old-fashioned way of voting is history, and it’s really exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who do vote in person will be greeted by poll workers who will follow behind them to clean the equipment after they use it. It’s likely to slow down the process and could create long lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Vong puts on her 'I Voted' sticker at the Chase Center official ballot dropoff location in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials are also worried about the potential for violence, given the tense political environment this year. Businesses in Beverly Hills and some San Francisco Bay Area counties are boarding up windows and coming up with emergency plans, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A report by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project listed California as a “moderate risk” for election-related violence. [aside label=\"More 2020 Election Coverage\" tag=\"election-2020\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has also changed how election workers count the ballots. In a normal year, observers from campaigns and advocacy groups will look over the shoulders of election workers as they count ballots on Election Night, often sharing tight spaces. That’s not possible during a pandemic, with public health orders requiring people to stay socially distant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento County, observers can still watch the county this year through the eyes of a robot, affectionately nicknamed “Clyde,” purchased with the help of grant funding. County spokeswoman Janna Haynes said Clyde looks like “a tablet riding a Segway,” with its camera projecting video onto a screen in the lobby for observers to monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s pretty stealth,” Haynes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters drop off their mail-in ballots at the Chase Center official ballot dropoff location on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Republican President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubts about the integrity of mail-in voting, a message amplified by social media and conservative media outlets. California Republicans are working hard to boost turnout through other means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, the county GOP hosted a drive-thru ballot collection on Saturday, encouraging people to show up in costume to hand over their ballots to “trained collectors” who promise to deliver their ballots to the county elections office on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844849\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Nelson (L) and Travis Strong (R) pose for a portrait after dropping off their mail-in ballots in costume at the Chase Center official drop-off location in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In some counties with closely contested U.S. House races — including Orange and Los Angeles — Republicans have set up their unofficial ballot drop boxes to assuage any fears of spooked GOP voters. Secretary of State Alex Padilla initially said those boxes were illegal and ordered them removed. Republicans refused, arguing they are collecting ballots as allowed under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talk is impacting some Democratic voters, including 50-year-old Krystal Bastyr, who drove her ballot to the Sacramento County elections office earlier this week to deliver it in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t mail it. I won’t even drop it in this box. I’m taking it inside,” she said. “Nobody is going to mess with my vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Julia McEvoy contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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