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Dyer said the overall intent of the law is to protect small businesses and housed people and get people living with serious mental health illnesses and addiction into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12005474 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240808-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEP-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than help, though, advocates for people experiencing homelessness warn it will push unhoused people further to the margins as they cycle in and out of jail and rack up debt, making it harder to get off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Criminalizing homelessness has long proven to be a total destabilizing factor in their lives. It increases the chances of being homeless on the streets again, and it’s not a resolution,” local activist Bob McCloskey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city council passed the law in mid-August over loud complaints from McCloskey and other advocates. It builds on a similar 2018 ordinance that wasn’t carried out because it included a provision that allowed for enforcement only if there were enough shelter beds for the city’s entire unhoused population, said Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz, a policy that was in keeping with standing legal precedent at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the Supreme Court’s decision opened the door for local law enforcement to cite and arrest unhoused people regardless of whether a city has shelter beds to offer. Since then, 46 jurisdictions across the country have enacted new policies or, as in Fresno’s case, amended existing policies, according to Eric Tars, legal director of the National Homelessness Law Center. 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It builds on a similar 2018 ordinance that wasn’t carried out because it included a provision that allowed for enforcement only if there were enough shelter beds for the city’s entire unhoused population, said Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz, a policy that was in keeping with standing legal precedent at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the Supreme Court’s decision opened the door for local law enforcement to cite and arrest unhoused people regardless of whether a city has shelter beds to offer. Since then, 46 jurisdictions across the country have enacted new policies or, as in Fresno’s case, amended existing policies, according to Eric Tars, legal director of the National Homelessness Law Center. 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When it comes to people living in vehicles, Castro said officers would make case-by-case determinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a reluctance to take people into custody,” she said. “This helps them have the confidence to make a lawful arrest when the circumstances are proper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said Monday that police would prioritize enforcement in sensitive areas, such as near schools, and continue offering shelter and services first. If unhoused residents turn them down, the police will ask them to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, if they are habitual offenders of the ordinance, then we’ll use a different approach,” Dyer said. Neither he nor Castro provided clarity on what defines a “habitual offender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After issuing a citation, Dyer said officers would then have the option to take people to a treatment facility if a bed is available and they’re willing. If they complete the program, he said the police report wouldn’t be filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the press conference ended, Dez Martinez, a longtime homeless advocate, had a different scenario in mind: “Where do we go if we say ‘yes’ and there’s no bed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing next to her, Corina Cruz, who said she’d been unhoused in Fresno for seven years, said she had accepted a spot at a shelter that provides mental health services, Sierra Sunrise, and wound up back on the streets when her time there was up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went into the programs, and they didn’t help me,” Cruz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a product of what they’re talking about,” Martinez said of the new law. “It’s not gonna work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez and other activists have been handing out information cards that instruct anyone under threat of arrest to tell police they are “traveling” rather than sitting, sleeping, lying or camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,500 hotel workers are on strike in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a>, marking the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002682/strikes-start-at-top-hotel-chains-as-housekeepers-seek-higher-wages-and-daily-room-cleaning-work\">second major hospitality walkout this month\u003c/a> as labor organizers push for higher wages and protest understaffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike, organized by the UNITE HERE Local 2 union representing bellhops, housekeepers, cooks and other hotel employees, started Sunday after months of challenging negotiations with Westin St. Francis, Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Grand Hyatt San Francisco. The union’s previous contract with the hotels expired on Aug. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 40 workers marched in front of the Hilton on Monday morning, protesting high workloads and wages that don’t match the Bay Area’s high cost of living, as well as a need for affordable healthcare and pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hotel is not offering us a fair contract,” said Genevieve Obando, a housekeeper at the Hilton. “We want to see an improvement in our salary and to keep our insurance since insurance is very expensive. We are trying to fight for our rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999702/san-francisco-hotel-workers-vote-yes-to-potential-strike\">2,000 UNITE HERE hotel workers across the Bay Area\u003c/a> went on strike over Labor Day weekend, demanding higher wages and a reversal of pandemic-era service and staffing cuts in one of the largest national hotel workers’ walkouts since 2018. That walkout lasted three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/quality-of-life/2024/09/18/san-diego-city-council-throws-support-behind-striking-hilton-bayfront-hotel-workers\">700 employees are also currently on strike\u003c/a> at the Hilton Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005989\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,500 hotel workers in San Francisco are on strike, marking the Bay Area’s second major hospitality walkout this month. Organized by UNITE HERE Local 2, which represents bellhops, housekeepers, and cooks, the strike began Sunday after months of tough negotiations with Westin St. Francis, Hilton Union Square, and Grand Hyatt San Francisco. The union’s contract expired on Aug. 14. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the pandemic caused major disruptions to the hospitality industry, hotels and travel seem to be bouncing back. Although hotels haven’t quite reached pre-pandemic levels of occupancy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahla.com/news/hotels-will-pay-historic-wages-generate-record-level-tax-revenue-2024\">hoteliers can expect higher rates than last year\u003c/a>, according to data collected by the American Hotel and Lodging Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade organization also projected California’s hotels will pay employees a record of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahla.com/sites/default/files/Oxford.Wages_.and_.Salaries.pdf\">$15.3 billion in wages, salaries and other compensation\u003c/a> in 2024, up from $14.7 billion in 2023 and $13.3 billion in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, union members, hotel representatives and experts agree that the picture of post-pandemic recovery is more complicated. Wages have been growing slower than inflation, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor, meaning hotel workers’ pay has less buying power than it did previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers strike outside of the Hilton’s Union Square location in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Jacobs added, “companies significantly cut the number of workers, which created a big increase in workload for other employees. As people come back to hotels, the workloads remain much greater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has implications for the health and safety of hotel employees, said Lizzy Tapia, president of UNITE HERE Local 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about respect,” Tapia said. “We’re fighting for our members who are at home, who no longer have full-time work, and also our members who are currently working and having to do double or triple the amount of work because their coworkers are not here to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12005037 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177834356485-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Hilton San Francisco Union Square said in a statement that the hotel is “committed to negotiating in good faith to reach fair and reasonable agreements that are beneficial to both our valued Team Members and to our hotel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lewin, the general manager of the Grand Hyatt, told KQED that business is not likely to make a full recovery for the next three to five years. He cited a lack of conventions in the area, a decrease in Asian tourists, and less business locally as fewer people commute to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “less than savory light” cast upon San Francisco’s reputation in recent years hasn’t helped either, he said. Despite those challenges, he said the company remains committed to negotiating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain ready to be at the table tomorrow,” Lewin said. “Our goal is a mutually satisfactory resolution and a contract that lasts for the next three to five years. And we’re ready to do that whenever the noise stops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union pointed out that Salesforce just held its annual Dreamforce conference — attended by 45,000 people — and that employees waited until it was over to strike. Now that the conference has ended, workers like Janet Wong, a housekeeper at the Hilton, said they will not return to work until better benefits are on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our last three-day strike was very strong. That’s why I’m not going to the table for bargaining, Wong said from the picket line. “That’s why we continue. We need to get our benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may be joined by thousands of hotel workers across the U.S. who have authorized strikes at Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Omni hotel properties where contract negotiations remain unresolved. Over 10,000 workers in Baltimore, Boston, Honolulu, Kauai, New Haven, San Diego, San Francisco, San José, San Mateo County and Seattle have already gone on strike, and strikes have also been authorized in Oakland and Sacramento, according to a union press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/gilarezada\">Gilare Zada\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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That walkout lasted three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/quality-of-life/2024/09/18/san-diego-city-council-throws-support-behind-striking-hilton-bayfront-hotel-workers\">700 employees are also currently on strike\u003c/a> at the Hilton Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005989\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,500 hotel workers in San Francisco are on strike, marking the Bay Area’s second major hospitality walkout this month. Organized by UNITE HERE Local 2, which represents bellhops, housekeepers, and cooks, the strike began Sunday after months of tough negotiations with Westin St. Francis, Hilton Union Square, and Grand Hyatt San Francisco. The union’s contract expired on Aug. 14. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the pandemic caused major disruptions to the hospitality industry, hotels and travel seem to be bouncing back. Although hotels haven’t quite reached pre-pandemic levels of occupancy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahla.com/news/hotels-will-pay-historic-wages-generate-record-level-tax-revenue-2024\">hoteliers can expect higher rates than last year\u003c/a>, according to data collected by the American Hotel and Lodging Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade organization also projected California’s hotels will pay employees a record of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahla.com/sites/default/files/Oxford.Wages_.and_.Salaries.pdf\">$15.3 billion in wages, salaries and other compensation\u003c/a> in 2024, up from $14.7 billion in 2023 and $13.3 billion in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, union members, hotel representatives and experts agree that the picture of post-pandemic recovery is more complicated. Wages have been growing slower than inflation, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor, meaning hotel workers’ pay has less buying power than it did previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers strike outside of the Hilton’s Union Square location in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Jacobs added, “companies significantly cut the number of workers, which created a big increase in workload for other employees. 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That lawsuit seeks compensation for cleanup costs incurred by the organizations, as well as injunctive relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco Bay has some of the highest levels of microplastics in the world,” Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, said in a statement. “People and wildlife around the Bay deserve to live free from exposure to toxic petrochemicals and microplastics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both lawsuits are filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, and in a joint press conference, plaintiffs said they would coordinate prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our nonprofits, with the mission they’ve had for decades, could not sit by and say, ‘Well, someone else is taking the mantle, so we’ll sit back,’” said Niall P. 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Half of these homes will be reserved for veterans with behavioral health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002010 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/014_Richmond_JeanStanley_07152021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom singled out the city of Huntington Beach for its ongoing efforts to stymie new housing production, saying he’d use a newly signed law, SB 1037, to enforce steep fines of up to $50,000 a month against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who turn their backs on this crisis, we’re turning up the heat,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill gives the attorney general more power to seek penalties against local governments that refuse to adopt a compliant housing element or break housing law, money that would go toward developing affordable housing within the community where the violation occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of two bills Attorney General Rob Bonta sponsored. Together, the legislation provides greater incentives, encouragement and clarity to help locals meet their housing obligations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that all of our incredible, good faith-acting cities … will help us get to where we need to go when it comes to creating what we all know we need — an affordable California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Assemblymember Buffy Wicks authored a bill that updates the state’s “builder’s remedy” provision, in place since 1990, that gets triggered when a local government fails to pass a housing plan that meets state requirements and limits local government’s ability to reject certain affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks’ legislation, AB 1893, makes more projects eligible for that streamlined approval and gives city planners clarity about the application requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inertia and the status quo are no longer acceptable in California,” Wicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said over 70 housing-related bills made it to his desk this year. He signed 32 today. Here are some of them:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preventing and ending homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 799 by Assemblymember Luz Rivas: Aims to enhance the coordination and transparency of efforts to address homelessness in California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 1395 by Sen. Josh Becker: Encourages the construction of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988728/should-california-double-down-on-building-tiny-homes-for-people-experiencing-homelessness\">tiny homes and other interim housing\u003c/a> by streamlining zoning and CEQA requirements.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Accountability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 1893 by Assemblymember Wicks: Updates the original \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945744/california-building-boom-a-new-law-promised-big-but-has-yet-to-deliver-in-the-bay-area\">Builder’s Remedy law\u003c/a> to reduce the amount of affordable housing required, among other changes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 1037 by Sen. 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Administrators at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University and Sonoma State University negotiated with student organizers and agreed to some demands. 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