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"content": "\u003cp>Late in the afternoon on Nov. 14, a historic email landed in the inboxes of hundreds of California farmers whose land lies within the \u003ca href=\"https://wwd.ca.gov/\">Westlands Water District\u003c/a>, the largest agricultural irrigation agency in the country — and one of the most controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Westlands has led the fight against environmental rules that restrict the flow of water from California’s rivers to its farmers. It \u003ca href=\"https://www.farmprogress.com/westlands-water-district-files-lawsuit-biological-opinion\">sued the government\u003c/a>, lobbied friendly politicians and took on critics wherever it found them, even in Congress. “Where’s the outrage, that government decisions have created zero water supplies for communities in the San Joaquin Valley?” Westlands General Manager Tom Birmingham admonished a congressional committee in 2016.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim Quinn, visiting fellow, Water in the West program, Stanford University\"]‘I spent much of my career in the San Joaquin Valley watching [these groups] fight with each other. I wasn’t really convinced that they were ready for the kind of collaboration that I thought was necessary. And turns out, by God, they were.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.watereducation.org/western-water/he-steps-aside-tim-quinn-talks-about-adversarialists-collaboration-and-hope-solving\">Tim Quinn\u003c/a>, former executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies, says the leaders of Westlands “were pretty entrenched in adversarial decision-making. It was us versus them, and we were going to win and they were going to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email, however, revealed that the old guard at Westlands had been swept aside in voting for board seats at the farmer-run organization. The winning candidates, part of a self-described Change Coalition, are demanding that the district spend less time fighting legal and political battles and more time figuring out ways to live with less water. Birmingham, an imperious figure who has run Westlands for more than 20 years, later announced he’ll retire at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote is a sign that even in the most conservative parts of California’s Central Valley, the biggest single source of America’s fresh produce, attitudes are shifting. Farmers are coming to terms with the fact that their operations will have to change — and, in many areas, shrink — to survive chronic drought, depleted aquifers and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A legacy of political power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://waterwise.ag/about-us\">Sarah Woolf\u003c/a>, one of the new guard, is an unlikely rebel. She grew up in a farming family just outside the boundary of Westlands Water District, then married into another one — the Woolfs, who run one of the biggest farming operations in the district. She became an expert on water policy, and runs her own consulting business, Water Wise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than anyone else, she catalyzed the movement for change at Westlands. “I just didn’t feel that it was appropriate to go along to get along,” she says. “We weren’t making positive strides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand what she wanted to change, you have to go back in time to the 1950s and 1960s. The farmers who’d been growing food on the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley needed water. There are no big rivers on this side of the valley; growers relied instead on deep wells drilled into aquifers. But that underground reservoir wouldn’t last long, and everyone knew it.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11933826,news_11931467\"]The farmers and their backers got the federal government to build a new dam and canal that connected their land to the system of dams and aqueducts known as the Central Valley Project. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B7V-xrvgro\">President Kennedy himself showed up\u003c/a> for the groundbreaking. The new canal delivered water from dams hundreds of miles to the north, like Shasta and Trinity. Westlands Water District was formed to distribute that water to 600,000 acres of land. \u003ca href=\"https://mark-arax.com/the-dreamt-land/\">Mark Arax\u003c/a>, a writer who has chronicled the rise of Central Valley agriculture, calls it an act of “pure political power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a fair amount of clout, legislatively,” Woolf says. “We were a very rich district; we had politically active landowners. We hired very talented lobbyists.” The 700 or so farms within Westlands are mostly large, high-tech operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1992, though, Westlands met the limits of its power. Over its protests, Congress enacted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/central-valley-project-improvement-act\">Central Valley Project Improvement Act\u003c/a>. This law limited deliveries of water to farmers when this could threaten the survival of wildlife, such as fish in the \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Water-Basics/The-Delta\">Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta\u003c/a> — the sprawling network of waterways that empties into the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11934738 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, a long-sleeved blouse, and a white puffer vest stands in the shade in a field between two rows of trees. She smiles at the camera.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-800x407.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-1020x519.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-1536x782.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-2048x1043.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-1920x978.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmer and Water Wise business owner Sarah Woolf has been a catalyst for change. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This law, together with rulings from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, cut the flow of water to Westlands dramatically during years of drought. Some years, the \u003ca href=\"https://wwd.ca.gov/district-water-supply/\">growers got no water at all\u003c/a>. They were shocked and furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district’s approach was to fight it. Tooth and nail,” Woolf says. “They hired the best attorneys. They hired the best lobbyists.” Their approach, she says, was simple: “We will fight this and we will win because we are right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Woolf grew increasingly convinced that this battle was futile. Farmers were up against too many other powerful interests. She decided that cooperation was the only solution and urged Westlands to stop pushing legislation “that was only beneficial to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, after she was appointed to a vacant seat on the Westlands board, she tried unsuccessfully to get Westlands to sit down with other groups, including environmentalists, to explore possible compromises. She ended up butting heads with Tom Birmingham, partly over policies and partly over Birmingham’s personal style. “He’s an authoritarian, even a dictator,” Woolf says with a laugh. “It’s his show.” Birmingham declined to be interviewed for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://gvwire.com/2018/09/06/woolf-resigns-from-westlands-board-whats-next-for-water-district/\">Woolf resigned from the Westlands board with a public letter of protest\u003c/a>. She wrote that her efforts to “direct our district in a more collaborative and progressive direction” had met stubborn resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, other farmers started reaching out to her. They were increasingly worried. Drought was becoming more frequent. In four of the past nine years, Westlands has received no water at all from the Central Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westlands farmers had stayed in business by pumping enormous amounts of groundwater from shrinking aquifers. But a new California law, the \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/programs/groundwater-management/sgma-groundwater-management\">Sustainable Groundwater Management Act\u003c/a>, will severely restrict their ability to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this farming community is really struggling at this point,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.redrockranchinc.com/ourteam\">Justin Diener\u003c/a>, whose family grows vegetables and almonds near Five Points. “There are a lot of people who are kind of looking at the walls, wondering what they are going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sat down with many of [the growers], gave them the history of what I had seen, and they started attending meetings,” Woolf says. “They started being challenged by the general manager when they would ask questions. And then they got riled up and upset. And we made it clear, if you want to make a change, you have to get on the board and do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, dissident farmers named themselves The Change Coalition for Westlands Landowners, and settled on four candidates to run for the board. Diener was one of them. Woolf worked behind the scenes, but chose not to run herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Storing water underground\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a range of views within the Change Coalition about what exactly they’d like to accomplish. Justin Diener wants a realistic plan to survive. With climate change, droughts are persisting longer. The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is melting faster. Future floods may be more intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the most recent decade is a guide to the future, he says, the district can only expect to receive enough water to grow crops on about 300,000 acres in an average year. That’s half the original area of Westlands Water District, and 40% less than what’s available to grow crops today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s worse, the water comes in bursts. In 2017, when rain drenched California, Westlands actually turned away potential water deliveries because no growers wanted it. Other years, the district gets no water at all, except for what it can buy on the open market at exorbitant prices. That’s been especially tough on growers with almond trees that require water every year just to stay alive. Growers now are ripping out some of those parched orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s urgently needed, according to Diener and other growers, is the infrastructure to store water underground when it’s abundant, so that it’s available when the rains stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11934742 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water.jpg\" alt=\"A seemingly endless row of upprooted almond trees by the side of a dry irrigation channel.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-800x405.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-1020x517.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-1536x778.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-2048x1037.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-1920x972.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almond growers in Westlands Water District have been tearing out their older almond orchards because water is scarce. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarah Woolf has an example. On some Woolf family land just southeast of the city of Huron, a line of trees alongside the fields marks the course of a dry creek bed. When it rains, that creek bed fills with runoff from foothills to the west. Occasionally, every half-dozen years or so, it floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creek’s natural course is blocked by a giant canal, part of the Central Valley Project, so floodwater spills across a floodplain. Because built-up silt prevents it from percolating into the earth, much of it simply evaporates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Woolfs and other neighboring landowners have now \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2022/04/04/farmland-repurposing-project-benefits-groundwater-recharge-flood-management-community-resilience/\">built a system to capture and store that water\u003c/a>. When the next flood comes, they’ll divert that water to a field where it will soak into the ground, all the way down to the aquifer. Farmers — and the nearby city of Huron — will be able to pump that water from their wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westlands should be doing much more of this, Woolf says. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1037370430/water-is-scarce-in-california-but-farmers-have-found-ways-to-store-it-undergroun\">Other water agencies in the San Joaquin Valley certainly are.\u003c/a> But Westlands has lagged behind. “That’s a lack of vision, and a lack of focus on things that we can control,” says \u003ca href=\"https://es.ucmerced.edu/seminars/jonReiter\">Jon Reiter\u003c/a>, a farmer and consultant who works with Westlands growers. Instead, Westlands focused “on things that we can’t control,” like decisions by courts and Congress, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replenishing the aquifers during periodic storms won’t bring back the old days, of course. It can ease the pain during drought, but it also means that growers can’t expand their fields when water is plentiful. They’ll have to restrain themselves, keeping land fallow, allowing that water to soak into the ground so it’s there when they truly need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Talking with adversaries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sarah Woolf, meanwhile, wants Westlands to be a better neighbor. “What we do is important; growing food is important, it’s something to be proud of,” she says. “But if we’re just fighting with people, I’m not very proud of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fighting, she says, blocks discussions — and, potentially, compromises — between farmers and other groups with their own claims on California’s water. This shift in approach is already underway at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mwdoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/San-Joaquin-Valley-Water-Collaborative-Action-Program-Prospectus.pdf\">San Joaquin Valley Water Collaborative Action Program (PDF)\u003c/a>, formed in 2020. It brings together farmers, advocates for safe drinking water in marginalized communities, local governments, water agencies and environmentalists. Westlands is not participating, but Sarah Woolf and Jon Reiter are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent much of my career in the San Joaquin Valley watching [these groups] fight with each other,” says Tim Quinn, now a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s \u003ca href=\"https://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/\">Water in the West \u003c/a>program, who helped launch the group. “I wasn’t really convinced that they were ready for the kind of collaboration that I thought was necessary. And turns out, by God, they were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino man with greying hair looks past the camera and out a window while seated indoors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rey León, activist mayor of the small farmworker town of Huron. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, the group released its goals, which include safe drinking water for communities that don’t have it now, better management of water for agriculture, and coordinated shifts in the use of land, including converting some previously irrigated farmland into habitat for wildlife. “That’s the future,” says Quinn. “You can’t make progress in 21st-century California without adopting a collaborative approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Westlands, collaboration of this sort might mean working with \u003ca href=\"https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/online/riding-around-with-mayor-rey-leon/\">Rey León\u003c/a>, mayor of the mostly Latino town of Huron, in the heart of the Westlands Water District. He’s launched efforts to plant trees, reuse wastewater, share electric cars and build bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s had very little contact with Westlands and has never met Tom Birmingham. Most of the landowners of Westlands don’t live nearby, on the land that they farm, but in Fresno, 30 or more miles away. Yet the fate of Huron’s residents has long been linked to decisions that those landowners make about water and farming. Farmworkers no longer crowd the town at harvest time, since many growers switched from vegetables that require hand labor. Instead they are growing almonds that are harvested by machine. If there’s another shift, this time from agriculture to, say, solar farms, León wants local residents to get access to those jobs. “We have to be innovative, and develop new models of collaboration, because they haven’t existed in the past,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change wins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In October, a month before the Westlands board election, the candidates who were running as the Change Coalition laid out their priorities in a letter to Westlands landowners. They proposed storing more water underground, relying less on “legal and political solutions” to the district’s water problems. They also advocated developing a long-term plan for the district’s land that includes other uses, such as solar farms and wildlife habitat, and improving relationships with “moderate environmental groups, disadvantaged communities, and safe drinking water advocates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Change Coalition candidates won all four seats up for grabs. Together with two allies already on the nine-member board, it gives them a majority. A week after the election results were announced, \u003ca href=\"https://wwd.ca.gov/wwd-media/press-release-11-23-2022/\">Tom Birmingham announced he’d be stepping down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Errotabere, a retiring member of the board who supported Birmingham, is skeptical that the new board members really will do anything different, or better, than their predecessors. He says he examined the Change Coalition’s program and “there’s nothing that we’re not doing. We are doing all those things. I think they’ll recognize that, when they get on the board, and they see all the fine details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn calls the Westlands transition a “sea change.” Mark Arax, the author, says it’s a historic step for the leaders of Westlands to accept the fact that water is scarce, and that their farms will have to shrink. “I don’t think that’s window dressing,” he says. “I think it’s a real change, and if that’s acknowledged, that’s a big story. Westlands, this behemoth, has cut itself in half.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org\">Food and Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The farmers and their backers got the federal government to build a new dam and canal that connected their land to the system of dams and aqueducts known as the Central Valley Project. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B7V-xrvgro\">President Kennedy himself showed up\u003c/a> for the groundbreaking. The new canal delivered water from dams hundreds of miles to the north, like Shasta and Trinity. Westlands Water District was formed to distribute that water to 600,000 acres of land. \u003ca href=\"https://mark-arax.com/the-dreamt-land/\">Mark Arax\u003c/a>, a writer who has chronicled the rise of Central Valley agriculture, calls it an act of “pure political power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a fair amount of clout, legislatively,” Woolf says. “We were a very rich district; we had politically active landowners. We hired very talented lobbyists.” The 700 or so farms within Westlands are mostly large, high-tech operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1992, though, Westlands met the limits of its power. Over its protests, Congress enacted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/central-valley-project-improvement-act\">Central Valley Project Improvement Act\u003c/a>. This law limited deliveries of water to farmers when this could threaten the survival of wildlife, such as fish in the \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Water-Basics/The-Delta\">Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta\u003c/a> — the sprawling network of waterways that empties into the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11934738 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, a long-sleeved blouse, and a white puffer vest stands in the shade in a field between two rows of trees. She smiles at the camera.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-800x407.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-1020x519.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-1536x782.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-2048x1043.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01c.-WestlandsWater-1920x978.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmer and Water Wise business owner Sarah Woolf has been a catalyst for change. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This law, together with rulings from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, cut the flow of water to Westlands dramatically during years of drought. Some years, the \u003ca href=\"https://wwd.ca.gov/district-water-supply/\">growers got no water at all\u003c/a>. They were shocked and furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district’s approach was to fight it. Tooth and nail,” Woolf says. “They hired the best attorneys. They hired the best lobbyists.” Their approach, she says, was simple: “We will fight this and we will win because we are right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Woolf grew increasingly convinced that this battle was futile. Farmers were up against too many other powerful interests. She decided that cooperation was the only solution and urged Westlands to stop pushing legislation “that was only beneficial to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, after she was appointed to a vacant seat on the Westlands board, she tried unsuccessfully to get Westlands to sit down with other groups, including environmentalists, to explore possible compromises. She ended up butting heads with Tom Birmingham, partly over policies and partly over Birmingham’s personal style. “He’s an authoritarian, even a dictator,” Woolf says with a laugh. “It’s his show.” Birmingham declined to be interviewed for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://gvwire.com/2018/09/06/woolf-resigns-from-westlands-board-whats-next-for-water-district/\">Woolf resigned from the Westlands board with a public letter of protest\u003c/a>. She wrote that her efforts to “direct our district in a more collaborative and progressive direction” had met stubborn resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, other farmers started reaching out to her. They were increasingly worried. Drought was becoming more frequent. In four of the past nine years, Westlands has received no water at all from the Central Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westlands farmers had stayed in business by pumping enormous amounts of groundwater from shrinking aquifers. But a new California law, the \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/programs/groundwater-management/sgma-groundwater-management\">Sustainable Groundwater Management Act\u003c/a>, will severely restrict their ability to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this farming community is really struggling at this point,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.redrockranchinc.com/ourteam\">Justin Diener\u003c/a>, whose family grows vegetables and almonds near Five Points. “There are a lot of people who are kind of looking at the walls, wondering what they are going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sat down with many of [the growers], gave them the history of what I had seen, and they started attending meetings,” Woolf says. “They started being challenged by the general manager when they would ask questions. And then they got riled up and upset. And we made it clear, if you want to make a change, you have to get on the board and do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, dissident farmers named themselves The Change Coalition for Westlands Landowners, and settled on four candidates to run for the board. Diener was one of them. Woolf worked behind the scenes, but chose not to run herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Storing water underground\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a range of views within the Change Coalition about what exactly they’d like to accomplish. Justin Diener wants a realistic plan to survive. With climate change, droughts are persisting longer. The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is melting faster. Future floods may be more intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the most recent decade is a guide to the future, he says, the district can only expect to receive enough water to grow crops on about 300,000 acres in an average year. That’s half the original area of Westlands Water District, and 40% less than what’s available to grow crops today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s worse, the water comes in bursts. In 2017, when rain drenched California, Westlands actually turned away potential water deliveries because no growers wanted it. Other years, the district gets no water at all, except for what it can buy on the open market at exorbitant prices. That’s been especially tough on growers with almond trees that require water every year just to stay alive. Growers now are ripping out some of those parched orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s urgently needed, according to Diener and other growers, is the infrastructure to store water underground when it’s abundant, so that it’s available when the rains stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11934742 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water.jpg\" alt=\"A seemingly endless row of upprooted almond trees by the side of a dry irrigation channel.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-800x405.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-1020x517.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-1536x778.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-2048x1037.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/01a.-Westlands-Water-1920x972.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almond growers in Westlands Water District have been tearing out their older almond orchards because water is scarce. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarah Woolf has an example. On some Woolf family land just southeast of the city of Huron, a line of trees alongside the fields marks the course of a dry creek bed. When it rains, that creek bed fills with runoff from foothills to the west. Occasionally, every half-dozen years or so, it floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creek’s natural course is blocked by a giant canal, part of the Central Valley Project, so floodwater spills across a floodplain. Because built-up silt prevents it from percolating into the earth, much of it simply evaporates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Woolfs and other neighboring landowners have now \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2022/04/04/farmland-repurposing-project-benefits-groundwater-recharge-flood-management-community-resilience/\">built a system to capture and store that water\u003c/a>. When the next flood comes, they’ll divert that water to a field where it will soak into the ground, all the way down to the aquifer. Farmers — and the nearby city of Huron — will be able to pump that water from their wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westlands should be doing much more of this, Woolf says. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1037370430/water-is-scarce-in-california-but-farmers-have-found-ways-to-store-it-undergroun\">Other water agencies in the San Joaquin Valley certainly are.\u003c/a> But Westlands has lagged behind. “That’s a lack of vision, and a lack of focus on things that we can control,” says \u003ca href=\"https://es.ucmerced.edu/seminars/jonReiter\">Jon Reiter\u003c/a>, a farmer and consultant who works with Westlands growers. Instead, Westlands focused “on things that we can’t control,” like decisions by courts and Congress, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replenishing the aquifers during periodic storms won’t bring back the old days, of course. It can ease the pain during drought, but it also means that growers can’t expand their fields when water is plentiful. They’ll have to restrain themselves, keeping land fallow, allowing that water to soak into the ground so it’s there when they truly need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Talking with adversaries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sarah Woolf, meanwhile, wants Westlands to be a better neighbor. “What we do is important; growing food is important, it’s something to be proud of,” she says. “But if we’re just fighting with people, I’m not very proud of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fighting, she says, blocks discussions — and, potentially, compromises — between farmers and other groups with their own claims on California’s water. This shift in approach is already underway at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mwdoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/San-Joaquin-Valley-Water-Collaborative-Action-Program-Prospectus.pdf\">San Joaquin Valley Water Collaborative Action Program (PDF)\u003c/a>, formed in 2020. It brings together farmers, advocates for safe drinking water in marginalized communities, local governments, water agencies and environmentalists. Westlands is not participating, but Sarah Woolf and Jon Reiter are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent much of my career in the San Joaquin Valley watching [these groups] fight with each other,” says Tim Quinn, now a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s \u003ca href=\"https://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/\">Water in the West \u003c/a>program, who helped launch the group. “I wasn’t really convinced that they were ready for the kind of collaboration that I thought was necessary. And turns out, by God, they were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino man with greying hair looks past the camera and out a window while seated indoors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Mayor-Ray-Leon-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rey León, activist mayor of the small farmworker town of Huron. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, the group released its goals, which include safe drinking water for communities that don’t have it now, better management of water for agriculture, and coordinated shifts in the use of land, including converting some previously irrigated farmland into habitat for wildlife. “That’s the future,” says Quinn. “You can’t make progress in 21st-century California without adopting a collaborative approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Westlands, collaboration of this sort might mean working with \u003ca href=\"https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/online/riding-around-with-mayor-rey-leon/\">Rey León\u003c/a>, mayor of the mostly Latino town of Huron, in the heart of the Westlands Water District. He’s launched efforts to plant trees, reuse wastewater, share electric cars and build bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s had very little contact with Westlands and has never met Tom Birmingham. Most of the landowners of Westlands don’t live nearby, on the land that they farm, but in Fresno, 30 or more miles away. Yet the fate of Huron’s residents has long been linked to decisions that those landowners make about water and farming. Farmworkers no longer crowd the town at harvest time, since many growers switched from vegetables that require hand labor. Instead they are growing almonds that are harvested by machine. If there’s another shift, this time from agriculture to, say, solar farms, León wants local residents to get access to those jobs. “We have to be innovative, and develop new models of collaboration, because they haven’t existed in the past,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change wins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In October, a month before the Westlands board election, the candidates who were running as the Change Coalition laid out their priorities in a letter to Westlands landowners. They proposed storing more water underground, relying less on “legal and political solutions” to the district’s water problems. They also advocated developing a long-term plan for the district’s land that includes other uses, such as solar farms and wildlife habitat, and improving relationships with “moderate environmental groups, disadvantaged communities, and safe drinking water advocates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Change Coalition candidates won all four seats up for grabs. Together with two allies already on the nine-member board, it gives them a majority. A week after the election results were announced, \u003ca href=\"https://wwd.ca.gov/wwd-media/press-release-11-23-2022/\">Tom Birmingham announced he’d be stepping down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Errotabere, a retiring member of the board who supported Birmingham, is skeptical that the new board members really will do anything different, or better, than their predecessors. He says he examined the Change Coalition’s program and “there’s nothing that we’re not doing. We are doing all those things. I think they’ll recognize that, when they get on the board, and they see all the fine details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn calls the Westlands transition a “sea change.” Mark Arax, the author, says it’s a historic step for the leaders of Westlands to accept the fact that water is scarce, and that their farms will have to shrink. “I don’t think that’s window dressing,” he says. “I think it’s a real change, and if that’s acknowledged, that’s a big story. Westlands, this behemoth, has cut itself in half.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org\">Food and Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Nov. 8, Californians overwhelmingly passed Proposition 28, which will bring a windfall of arts education funding to California schools. Advocates say the investment is long overdue, as arts education has declined in most districts — particularly those in lower-income areas — for decades. While the state requires arts education in grades one to six and a year of arts education in high school, it’s up to districts to decide how to fund and implement it. The result has been an inconsistent patchwork of arts programs that leave many children with little exposure to music, dance, art and other creative forms of expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11928837,news_11927353,mindshift_58668\"]Proposition 28 funds will be distributed according to enrollment, with 70% based on overall enrollment and 30% based on Title 1 enrollment. In all, districts will receive an additional 1% of their funding allotment to spend on the arts. School boards must certify districts’ Prop. 28 budgets annually, post the expenses on the district’s website and submit the information to the state Department of Education, where it will be available to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools must spend 80% of the money on teachers and aides, which should help alleviate California’s teacher shortage, with the remainder of the funds earmarked for art supplies and materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to former Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner, a chief backer of Proposition 28, about what students, families and schools can expect when the measure goes into effect in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What, specifically, will Proposition 28 do for California schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 28 will provide about $1 billion each year in funding to California public schools, so all 6 million students in pre-K through 12th grade can participate in arts and music at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where will the money come from?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds will come from the state’s general fund. There will be no new taxes or increase in tax rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is arts education important to you, personally?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a shy kid entering a new school in fifth grade during the middle of a school year, my concern was not literacy or math. It was who was I going to have lunch with my first day of school since I didn’t know anyone. Fortunately, a music teacher invited me to a lunchtime class. Cello became bass and then guitar. Along with it came a sense of agency and confidence. I could play in front of thousands of people before I could speak in front of tens. But it all started with a group of friends and a sense of belonging in that fifth grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone who has had the opportunity to participate in arts and music has a story like mine. The arts are universal, and they’re the glue that bonds together literacy and math in a good education. I want to make sure every child in every classroom has the opportunity to participate in arts and music and experience their own story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the status of arts education in California schools currently?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, barely 1 in 5 California public schools has a full-time arts or music teacher. That’s not acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What kinds of arts activities and projects can students and families expect to see come out of this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 28 will provide funding for traditional forms of creative expression like music, theater, dance and visual arts, as well as more contemporary areas including filmmaking, animation and graphic design. A novel feature of Prop. 28 is each school community will get to decide how the funds are used. We didn’t want the bureaucrats in Sacramento or school districts to dictate any particular approach. Families can help decide what they want for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS35690__DSC6710-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11934207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS35690__DSC6710-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"three high school students work on a colorful nature-inspired mural\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS35690__DSC6710-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS35690__DSC6710-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS35690__DSC6710-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS35690__DSC6710-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS35690__DSC6710-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students work on a mural in an urban art class at Rudsdale Newcomer High School in Oakland in 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will there be a broader impact in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact will be seen in schools and communities, where Prop. 28 will create more than 15,000 additional jobs for teachers and teachers’ aides as well as in community arts organizations. This will help prepare California schoolchildren for good-paying jobs, not just in the arts but in other sectors where the creative-thinking and problem-solving skills they learn can be applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer term, Prop. 28 will lead to greater diversity in the technology, media and entertainment industries as a broader population of students in California public schools find the doors of opportunity open for them with their newfound skills and experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the benefit of arts education generally for students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows children who participate in the arts have better attendance in school and higher achievement in academic subjects. In addition, the arts help students with their social and emotional well-being. That’s timely and important as school communities and the children they serve recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With the passage of Proposition 28, how will California compare to other states in arts education?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of Prop. 28 makes California a leader in arts education and will lead to the largest investment in arts and music in our nation’s history. My hope is this will start a movement which other states join to provide all 55 million children in public schools the opportunity to participate in arts and music at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prop. 28 passed by a wide margin. What does that tell you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 28 passed with more than 64% of the vote, the largest margin of victory ever for an education initiative in California. The state Voter Guide showed our arguments for the initiative while the opposing page was blank but for the words, “No Argument Was Submitted in Opposition to Prop. 28.” Because there are none.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in a long, long time, teachers and school staff were joined by artists and entrepreneurs along with business, labor and community organizations to support public education. Proposition 28 is the first guaranteed increase in funding for California public schools in 34 years. I hope we can build on this and continue to advocate for the best possible education for the children in California’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/what-prop-28-funding-will-mean-for-arts-education-in-california/682054\">This story was originally published by EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Gavin Newsom.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mary Creasman, CEO, California Environmental Voters\"]‘Where’s the money going to come from? If the governor has some exciting, innovative new stuff that he can pull out of his pocket and say, ‘Here’s how we’re gonna pay for it,’ we are all in.’[/pullquote]“You can’t remove the governor from it,” said Matt Rodriguez, campaign manager for No on 30. “He’s a credible messenger on the opposition side, simply because I think a lot of people and a lot of Democrats take their cues from him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/09/california-propositions-newsom/\">come out swinging against Proposition 30\u003c/a> in mid-September caught many political observers by surprise. That’s both because his position seemed at odds with his reputation as a climate advocate in general and as a booster of electric cars specifically, and because his opposition was so fervent. Of the seven measures on the state ballot this year, the governor only lent his likeness and directed his own campaign resources to two — the overwhelmingly successful Proposition 1 to codify abortion rights in the California Constitution, and Proposition 30, a riskier political gambit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a coup for the anti-Proposition 30 forces. Comparing polls taken before and after the governor cut his first No on 30 ad, public support wilted — especially among his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drop among those who approve of Newsom was three times greater than those who were disapproving,” said Dean Bonner, associate survey director at the Public Policy Institute of California. The No campaign found a similar shift in its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/M-14394-No-on-Prop-30-09-12-22.jpg\">private polling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Creasman, CEO of California Environmental Voters and a member of the campaign supporting Proposition 30, also said Newsom’s role “100%” contributed to the measure’s demise, though she also blamed the No campaign for what she said were “lies” about what the ballot measure would actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 30 “had a record number of billionaires against it, it had complete falsehoods thrown at it, and it had the most popular Democratic leader in the state against it,” she said. “And we still got 40% of the vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932083\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Gavin Newsom greets voters at a Prop 1 rally\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Newsom at a rally endorsing ballot Prop. 1 at Long Beach City College on Nov. 6, 2022. Newsom’s opposition was a key factor in voters’ rejection of Prop. 30. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Creasman said the suggestion, made by Newsom and in many No on 30 ads, that Proposition 30 would have specifically benefited Lyft was false. In fact, though the measure could have helped the rideshare company meet some of the state’s vehicle electrification mandates, it would have done so by subsidizing zero-emission vehicles and expanding charging infrastructure in general, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-ballot-measures-prop-30-key-numbers/#8f9fce7f-c7fd-4f1c-b2ce-aff54c57df33\">not by providing money to Lyft directly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft, however, provided roughly 94% of the funding, nearly $48 million, for the Yes on Proposition 30 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creasman said she was especially puzzled by the governor’s position, given his support for a state policy to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/electric-cars-california-to-phase-out-gas-cars/\">phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035\u003c/a>. The governor and Legislature have committed $10 billion to zero-emission programs and subsidies over the next five years. But Creasman argued that making the mandated transition will require more, and more reliable, public funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failure of Proposition 30 puts the ball in the governor’s court, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s the money going to come from?” said Creasman. “If the governor has some exciting, innovative new stuff that he can pull out of his pocket and say, ‘Here’s how we’re gonna pay for it,’ we are all in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not a referendum on climate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Creasman and Rodriguez cautioned against drawing any sweeping conclusions about California voters’ policy preferences from the outcome of this single contentious proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will voters “still be progressive on tax policy? I think possibly,” said Rodriguez. “Will they still be very progressive on climate? I think absolutely. I don’t think any of that is gone. I just think that voters weren’t fooled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Vogel, author of “California Greenin’: How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader” and a UC Berkeley professor emeritus, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see it as a referendum at all on climate change or the environment,” he said of Proposition 30. He pointed to the governor’s opposition, the neutrality of some high-profile environmental organizations including the Sierra Club and the allegations of self-dealing by Lyft as top reasons for voter skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/california/2022-endorsements\">The Sierra Club’s decision not to endorse\u003c/a> was motivated by concerns that some of the money that the measure would have directed toward wildfire mitigation could have funded clear-cutting forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was only one of many dueling endorsements and non-endorsements in the Proposition 30 campaign that may have confused voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opposing the measure, Newsom joined traditional allies in the state’s two largest teachers’ unions, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/our-advocacy/election-2022/no-on-proposition-30\">warned that Proposition 30 could reduce state funding\u003c/a> to public schools. But he broke with many\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Democrats and was on the same side\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>as stranger political bedfellows, including the California Republican Party, the state Chamber of Commerce and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Mitchell, analyst, Political Data\"]‘Confusion is the best friend of the No side. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Voting down Proposition 30 might seem a little off-brand for the California electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the voters, after all, who showed no qualms just a decade ago about \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-nov-08-la-me-jerry-brown-20121109-story.html\">hiking income taxes on top earners\u003c/a> and who also \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_63,_Tax_Increase_on_Income_Above_%241_Million_for_Mental_Health_Services_Initiative_(2004)\">hit up millionaires in 2004\u003c/a> to pay for mental health services. These are the California majorities who, as recently as June (PDF), told pollsters that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/crosstabs-likely-voters-0722.pdf\">they were either considering purchasing or had already purchased an electric car\u003c/a>. Most named air pollution, wildfires and climate change as areas of major personal concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/propositions/prop-30-income-tax-electric-cars/\">ballot measure\u003c/a> that would have increased taxes on about 43,000 multimillionaires (on income above $2 million a year) to fund electric-car rebates and to combat wildfires has suffered an unambiguous defeat. In the statewide vote count as of late Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-election-results/#5f96571e-ac80-453f-be3a-1b2c8f977df5\">59% rejected the proposal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the fate of Proposition 30 may be the most compelling head-scratcher of the 2022 California election. But for the campaigns on both sides of the highly contested measure, and for many independent political observers to boot, there’s an obvious answer to this electoral mystery — and its name is Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Of the seven measures on the state ballot this year, the governor only lent his likeness and directed his own campaign resources to two — the overwhelmingly successful Proposition 1 to codify abortion rights in the California Constitution, and Proposition 30, a riskier political gambit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a coup for the anti-Proposition 30 forces. Comparing polls taken before and after the governor cut his first No on 30 ad, public support wilted — especially among his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drop among those who approve of Newsom was three times greater than those who were disapproving,” said Dean Bonner, associate survey director at the Public Policy Institute of California. 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In fact, though the measure could have helped the rideshare company meet some of the state’s vehicle electrification mandates, it would have done so by subsidizing zero-emission vehicles and expanding charging infrastructure in general, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-ballot-measures-prop-30-key-numbers/#8f9fce7f-c7fd-4f1c-b2ce-aff54c57df33\">not by providing money to Lyft directly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft, however, provided roughly 94% of the funding, nearly $48 million, for the Yes on Proposition 30 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creasman said she was especially puzzled by the governor’s position, given his support for a state policy to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/electric-cars-california-to-phase-out-gas-cars/\">phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035\u003c/a>. The governor and Legislature have committed $10 billion to zero-emission programs and subsidies over the next five years. 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In fact, despite having plenty of campaign cash, Newsom didn’t even air a campaign ad for his reelection, choosing instead to put his weight behind the passage of Proposition 1 for abortion rights; against Proposition 30, a measure to tax the wealthy to fund climate goals; and to attack the conservative policies of governors in Texas and Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that is settled here today is who we are as a state and what we hold dear in terms of our values,” Newsom told supporters at a Proposition 1 election night party in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we turn the page on this campaign — and I hope we turn the page on this polarization in our national discourse, once the dust settles with all these national elections — we can start to reconcile those differences and all start to focus on these universal values, this journey for recognition,” he said.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"gavin-newsom\"]Dahle, a state Senator from Lassen County, was unable to come anywhere close to matching Newsom’s fundraising prowess, relying mostly on radio and television interviews across the state. 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Newsom, though, has repeatedly denied both, claiming he has “subzero” interest in running for president. He has insisted he backs Biden and said he wants Vice President Kamala Harris, a friend and fellow Californian, to be president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked by KQED’s Marisa Lagos \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929646/newsom-dahle-spar-over-abortion-gas-tax-and-crime-in-california-governor-debate\">during an October 23 debate\u003c/a> if he would commit to serving a full four-year term if he were reelected, Newsom said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with no political threats at home, Newsom has spent the past year signing a raft of liberal legislation that could help him win over Democratic voters in a contested presidential primary — even as he broke with many progressives in the state over his recent staunch opposition to Proposition 30, which would have funded electric vehicle infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He enacted more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-california-df6dd40a7e2af65a1c6a4042e4ffa485\">a dozen laws\u003c/a> aimed at making California a sanctuary for patients in other states seeking abortions now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929931/elecciones-2022-encuentre-su-sitio-de-votacion-anticipada-o-lugar-de-entrega-de-papeletas\">Leer en Español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Ask us: What do you want to know about voting in the 2022 midterm elections?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The midterm elections are upon us. And if you’re a registered voter and you haven’t already received your ballot in the mail, it should be on its way!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Election Day itself is November 8, you have several options for casting your vote before then. So read on if you’re a Bay Area resident and are still wondering where to drop off your completed mail-in ballot, where you can vote early in person, or how you can find your polling place on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885679/how-to-fill-out-your-recall-ballot-and-how-to-correct-a-mistake#missingballot\">\u003cstrong>Haven’t received your ballot yet? What to do\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#countylist\">Need to contact your county direct about voting? Find your county in our list\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And if you’re concerned you might have made a mistake when filling out your ballot, read \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927744/election-2022-fill-out-your-ballot-correct-a-mistake\">our guide to addressing common errors on your ballot (\u003cem>before\u003c/em> you mail it)\u003c/a> — and find out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927744/election-2022-fill-out-your-ballot-correct-a-mistake#mistake\">how to get a fresh ballot or vote in person\u003c/a> if you’ve really messed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#find\">How to find my early voting site or ballot drop-off location\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#county\">How to find my polling place for Election Day\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Can I mail my ballot through the Postal Service?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, you can mail your completed ballot via the U.S. Postal Service at any regular collection box. The envelope is postage paid, so it doesn’t require a stamp, and it’ll be counted as long as it’s postmarked by Election Day (November 8) and arrives at the registrar’s office by November 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re planning to mail your ballot on Election Day, be \u003cem>very\u003c/em> sure you don’t miss the last collection time for that specific mailbox (which at many locations is 5 p.m. or earlier). You also shouldn’t drop off your ballot on Election Day at a post office that’s already closed. Doing either will mean your ballot will not be postmarked on Election Day, and won’t be counted when it reaches your county’s election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I drop off my ballot in a drop box or at a voting location?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once you’ve completed your mail-in ballot, you can drop it off at an official drop box or voting location instead of mailing it via a U.S. Postal Service collection box. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#find\">Find your nearest drop box or voting location\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#find\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few reasons you might prefer to hand-deliver your completed ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Peace of mind:\u003c/strong> There’s a satisfaction that comes with knowing your ballot should now travel straight to your county elections office, rather than having to go through USPS collection and sorting for delivery.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Timing:\u003c/strong> If Election Day is drawing near, using a drop box or a voting location to drop off your ballot directly is the best way to be sure it’ll reach your county elections office in time to be counted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Assistance:\u003c/strong> If you drop off your ballot at a voting location during operating hours, and you have a few lingering questions about your ballot or the process, chances are good that you’ll find someone there to help answer them.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how you deliver it, you can \u003ca href=\"https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/\">sign up to track your ballot’s progress with the “Where’s My Ballot?” online tool\u003c/a>, and be reassured it’s on its way to being counted. And if you’re still waiting to receive your ballot entirely, you can use that same tool to verify it was sent out. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927744/election-2022-fill-out-your-ballot-correct-a-mistake#missingballot\">Get more advice on what to do if you haven’t received your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11841859 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Hand holding ballot drops it in red cardboard ballot box\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco resident drops off a mail-in ballot at a voting center near City Hall on Oct. 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>I want to vote in person. When is early voting available in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of October 10, in-person voting is available at every county registrar’s office in the Bay Area, except for in San Francisco, San Mateo and Solano counties, which opened for voting on Tuesday, October 11. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices\">Find your county registrar’s office and opening hours.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More early voting locations will open across the Bay Area starting in the coming weeks. \u003ca href=\"#find\">Find where to vote early in your county and when those locations open.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: If you’d like to cast a ballot in person, it’s a good idea to bring the blank ballot you were mailed, as some counties may require you to vote provisionally if you don’t bring it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Provisional votes are subject to extra checks — confirming that you’re actually registered to vote in California, or that you didn’t already complete and mail your ballot — and this extra layer of confirmation takes time. That means that although your vote will eventually be counted, it might not be tallied on Election Day itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/\">register online to vote in the midterm elections \u003c/a>was October 24. But if you missed that deadline, don’t worry: You can still register afterward at one of these early voting locations via what’s called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/same-day-reg\">same-day voter registration\u003c/a> (also known as conditional voter registration), which enables you to fill out and submit your ballot then and there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to voter registration, many voting locations also offer replacement ballots, accessible voting machines and language assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"find\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>How can I find my early voting site or ballot drop-off?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit the \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">state of California lookup tool\u003c/a>, where you will:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Enter your county (adding your city or ZIP code will give more localized results, but it’s optional);\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Check the “Early Voting” and/or “Drop Off Location” boxes; and\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hit “Search” to see all the early voting and drop-off locations in that area.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’re choosing to vote early in your county, remember that voting hours may differ by location, and some locations may not be open every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"county\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Where can I vote in person on Election Day?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you live in San Francisco, Contra Costa or Solano counties, you are assigned a specific polling place, though Contra Costa county election officials say they can process your ballot no matter where you show up to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in Alameda, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara or Sonoma counties, you can vote at any voting location, including your county registrar’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/polling-place\">find your polling place through the state’s lookup tool\u003c/a>, although please note that this information will only become available closer to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re hoping to vote in person, be sure to check your mail-in ballot well before Election Day to see where you can vote, and whether you’ve been assigned a specific polling place. And again, remember: Even if you live in a county that assigns you a particular polling place, you can still vote at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices\">your county registrar’s office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"countylist\">\u003c/a>How can I contact my county directly about voting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area, elections officials are encouraging voters to reach out — early — with any questions or concerns. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929931/elecciones-2022-encuentre-su-sitio-de-votacion-anticipada-o-lugar-de-entrega-de-papeletas\">Leer en Español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Ask us: What do you want to know about voting in the 2022 midterm elections?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The midterm elections are upon us. And if you’re a registered voter and you haven’t already received your ballot in the mail, it should be on its way!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Election Day itself is November 8, you have several options for casting your vote before then. 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Doing either will mean your ballot will not be postmarked on Election Day, and won’t be counted when it reaches your county’s election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I drop off my ballot in a drop box or at a voting location?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once you’ve completed your mail-in ballot, you can drop it off at an official drop box or voting location instead of mailing it via a U.S. Postal Service collection box. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#find\">Find your nearest drop box or voting location\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#find\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few reasons you might prefer to hand-deliver your completed ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Peace of mind:\u003c/strong> There’s a satisfaction that comes with knowing your ballot should now travel straight to your county elections office, rather than having to go through USPS collection and sorting for delivery.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Timing:\u003c/strong> If Election Day is drawing near, using a drop box or a voting location to drop off your ballot directly is the best way to be sure it’ll reach your county elections office in time to be counted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Assistance:\u003c/strong> If you drop off your ballot at a voting location during operating hours, and you have a few lingering questions about your ballot or the process, chances are good that you’ll find someone there to help answer them.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how you deliver it, you can \u003ca href=\"https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/\">sign up to track your ballot’s progress with the “Where’s My Ballot?” online tool\u003c/a>, and be reassured it’s on its way to being counted. And if you’re still waiting to receive your ballot entirely, you can use that same tool to verify it was sent out. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927744/election-2022-fill-out-your-ballot-correct-a-mistake#missingballot\">Get more advice on what to do if you haven’t received your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11841859 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Hand holding ballot drops it in red cardboard ballot box\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco resident drops off a mail-in ballot at a voting center near City Hall on Oct. 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>I want to vote in person. 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He \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/10/california-homeless-crisis-latinos/\">sheltered tens of thousands of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> amid a pandemic and dedicated more dollars to housing and homelessness than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as he finalizes his first term and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/election-2022/2022/10/gavin-newsom-campaign-president/\">coasts into the second\u003c/a>, Newsom finds himself mired in an even deeper housing and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/10/california-homeless-crisis-latinos/\">homelessness crisis\u003c/a> than the one he inherited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running for governor in 2017, then-Lt. Gov. Newsom pledged to spur a never-before-seen tsunami of homebuilding in California to bridge the gap between the growing population and shrinking stock of housing driving the affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Governor, I will lead the effort to develop the 3.5 million new housing units we need by 2025 because our solutions must be as bold as the problem is big,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@GavinNewsom/the-california-dream-starts-at-home-9dbb38c51cae\">wrote on Medium\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal was true to character: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/10/gavin-newsom-profile-california-governor-election/\">big, hairy and audacious\u003c/a>. It would have required building an average of 500,000 homes a year in a state that has only surpassed the 300,000 mark \u003ca href=\"https://la.curbed.com/2018/11/8/18073066/california-governor-election-gavin-newsom-housing-plan\">twice in more than 50 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom didn’t get even close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly four years since he took office, California cities are projected to have permitted a total of about 452,000 homes — fewer than Newsom pledged he’d build in one year alone, according to local data collected by the Construction Industry Research Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/Re1mI4JBl1bUtlSDHcnI?src=embed\" title=\"2022 Housing production in California\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about his shortcomings at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSy2VOGkBF8&t=1s\">recent press conference\u003c/a>, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-21/newsom-gavin-affordable-housing-homeless-q-a\">wrote off his original goal\u003c/a> as he has many times before, by paraphrasing Michelangelo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest risk in life, however one defines risk, is not that we aim too high and miss it. It’s that we aim too low and reach it,” Newsom said. “It was always a stretch goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates acknowledge that policy change is by nature slow and incremental, and like many other proposals, long-term housing goals took a back seat to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reality on the ground — that there aren’t enough houses for everyone and the ones that exist are hideously expensive — continues to exasperate \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-may-2022/\">Californians who repeatedly rank housing and homelessness among their top concerns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Brian Dahle, the \u003ca href=\"https://briandahle.com/homelessness/\">Republican candidate for governor\u003c/a>, and other state Republicans have routinely attacked Newsom’s record on housing, including \u003ca href=\"https://republicans.senate.ca.gov/content/legislative-republicans-call-special-session-combat-homeless-crisis-immediately\">calling for a special session\u003c/a> on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need government to treat this the way we treat a natural disaster, because that’s how it’s impacting people’s lives,” said Chione Lucina Muñoz Flegal, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.housingca.org/\">Housing California\u003c/a>, a housing advocacy organization. “And that’s not what we see happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-a-marshall-plan-for-housing\">A Marshall Plan for housing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing policy advocates described Newsom’s stated goal of 3.5 million new homes in four years the same way he has: aspirational. They say that’s because the state doesn’t build housing in California — private developers do, with the approval of local governments. So what really grabbed advocates’ attention was the “Marshall Plan for affordable housing” Newsom pledged to launch during his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/01/gavin-newsom-california-inauguration-speech-policy-highlights/\">inaugural speech\u003c/a>, recalling the multibillion-dollar program to rebuild Western Europe following World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as the number was important, the idea of building a streamlined process of building, that was amazing, because that’s really the challenge of California,” said Dan Dunmoyer, president of the California Building Industry Association. He said that dream remains elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/housing-costs-high-california/\">highest housing costs\u003c/a> in the nation because of how little “marshaling” there is, Dunmoyer said. Land costs are prohibitive, and zoning rules limit much of what can be built. Housing must get approved at the local level, which has ample opportunity for community input. Those communities can then block unpopular projects, such as multifamily or affordable housing. Another culprit: impact fees cities charge to fund infrastructure that can \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/residential-impact-fees/\">exceed $150,000 a home\u003c/a>, some of the highest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Louis Mirante, vice president of public policy, Bay Area Council\"]'To stop a project, you only need one red light. But to make a project go, you need at least 100 green lights. A lot of the legislation the governor has been signing has been those green lights.'[/pullquote]The closest Newsom may have gotten to bulldozing those barriers is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/11/newsom-pandemic-beat-homelessness/\">Project Homekey\u003c/a>. After COVID-19 hit, the administration scrambled to turn 94 hotels and motels into more than 6,000 shelter units for people experiencing homelessness, which would later become permanent homes, within record-setting months. The projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/main-recoverylab-cities-la-sros-518602\">bypassed local land use rules and a marquee environmental law\u003c/a> often blamed for slowing or killing controversial projects. The state has since expanded the $800 million project with more than $2.75 billion in new funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom signed more than a dozen bills allowing housing types that met certain conditions to skip lengthy approval processes at the local level. Two are expected to have the biggest impact: one that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/08/california-housing-crisis-zoning-bill/\">legalized duplexes and fourplexes\u003c/a> on the two-thirds of developable land in California \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SB-9-Brief-July-2021-Final.pdf\">previously zoned for single-family homes\u003c/a>, and another that \u003ca href=\"https://urbanfootprint.com/ab2011-analysis/\">allows apartments\u003c/a> on land previously allotted for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/05/california-housing-crisis-unions/\">retail centers, parking lots and offices along arterial roads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a zoning change doesn’t build housing, it’s a first step to making it legal. Combined, the two laws could open up previously blocked space for more than 2 million housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effect of legislation is often hard to prove, because it’s only one factor of many in the development process,” said Louis Mirante, vice president of public policy at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>. “To stop a project, you only need one red light. But to make a project go, you need at least 100 green lights. A lot of the legislation the governor has been signing has been those green lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But yellow and red lights abound, including rising interest rates and prohibitive material costs. While it took political courage to sign a controversial measure like the one streamlining duplex and fourplex construction, Newsom remained largely quiet on those bills until they reached the finish line, and hasn’t championed a more sweeping production policy proposal on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He can step in and resolve the problems if he really wanted to prioritize the issue,” said Chris Martin, policy director at Housing California. “He has the power to do it, but politically, it’s challenging. He’s going to have to make some uncomfortable decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-moving-the-goalposts\">Moving the goalposts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Newsom has repeatedly called the 3.5 million goal taken from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/public%20and%20social%20sector/our%20insights/closing%20californias%20housing%20gap/closing-californias-housing-gap-full-report.pdf\">2016 McKinsey study\u003c/a> a moon shot, he has put his weight behind another number: 2.5 million. That’s how many homes the Legislature has mandated California cities to plan for by 2030, and Newsom’s team is making sure they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we can reach our stretch goals, before you can reach the moon, you’ve got to get off the launch pad,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']The planning law has been on the books for decades, but it wasn’t until 2017 that the state Legislature gave the process teeth by creating standards and penalties cities must abide by. The \u003cem>plans\u003c/em> for the housing that those standards and penalties apply to weren’t even due for most cities until this year. And the deadlines are different for different regions. It’s a slow process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities now have to zone for more than double the housing they did in previous years, and it has to be on sites where housing could actually be built. And if they don’t do it, they risk \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/03/california-housing-goals/\">losing affordable housing dollars\u003c/a> or even \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/10/california-housing-crisis-nimby/\">forgoing housing approval decisions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But having laws on the books — even if they feature new penalties — doesn’t mean anything unless someone is there to enforce them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Newsom staffed up a $4.65 million \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/04/california-duplex-housing/\">accountability and enforcement unit\u003c/a> within the housing department, with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/05/california-housing-podcast-rob-bonta-housing-enforcement/\">reinforcements at the state’s Justice Department\u003c/a>. Cities seem to be paying heed, but it’s all fun and games until actual homes get built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many years in California, the Regional Housing Needs [Allocation] process was an afterthought at best,” Elliott said. “It was not taken seriously because there were largely no consequences for local governments failing to meet their responsibilities. And that’s not ancient history, but through a very concerted effort by this governor and the administration in partnership with the Legislature, RHNA is now very serious. And I think communities are taking it seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, planning isn’t building, and a recurring complaint about the process from cities is that while it requires a lot of affordable housing to be planned for — 1 million of the 2.5 million units must be affordable to the lowest earners — the state doesn’t provide nearly enough tax credits and other subsidies to build it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re funding a quarter of that, at best,” said Paavo Monkkonen, associate professor of urban planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. “So that’s an interesting conundrum, where their own goal is unattainable. And there’s not really a Manhattan Project to make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/9c485c33-4c31-4f78-ae36-07dc50a75dc3?src=embed\" title=\"Affordable housing production\" width=\"800\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Legislature, Newsom has dedicated unprecedented dollars to affordable housing, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/19/governor-newsom-signs-historic-housing-and-homelessness-funding-package-as-part-of-100-billion-california-comeback-plan/\">$10.3 billion in 2021\u003c/a>. Funding the current affordable housing need alone, however, would require \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/roadmaphome2030/\">nearly $18 billion a year over a decade\u003c/a>, according to a recent estimate from Housing California and California Housing Partnership. And there is no long-term source of funding for housing in California. As budget projections for next year sour, affordable housing advocates worry those funds might dry up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In these years of good budget outlook, the administration has done a really good job,” said Marina Wiant, vice president of government affairs at the \u003ca href=\"https://calhsng.org/\">California Housing Consortium\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan housing advocacy organization. “It’s going to be interesting to see what they do when they have to make tough budget choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running for governor in 2017, then-Lt. Gov. Newsom pledged to spur a never-before-seen tsunami of homebuilding in California to bridge the gap between the growing population and shrinking stock of housing driving the affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Governor, I will lead the effort to develop the 3.5 million new housing units we need by 2025 because our solutions must be as bold as the problem is big,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@GavinNewsom/the-california-dream-starts-at-home-9dbb38c51cae\">wrote on Medium\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal was true to character: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/10/gavin-newsom-profile-california-governor-election/\">big, hairy and audacious\u003c/a>. It would have required building an average of 500,000 homes a year in a state that has only surpassed the 300,000 mark \u003ca href=\"https://la.curbed.com/2018/11/8/18073066/california-governor-election-gavin-newsom-housing-plan\">twice in more than 50 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom didn’t get even close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly four years since he took office, California cities are projected to have permitted a total of about 452,000 homes — fewer than Newsom pledged he’d build in one year alone, according to local data collected by the Construction Industry Research Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/Re1mI4JBl1bUtlSDHcnI?src=embed\" title=\"2022 Housing production in California\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about his shortcomings at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSy2VOGkBF8&t=1s\">recent press conference\u003c/a>, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-21/newsom-gavin-affordable-housing-homeless-q-a\">wrote off his original goal\u003c/a> as he has many times before, by paraphrasing Michelangelo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest risk in life, however one defines risk, is not that we aim too high and miss it. It’s that we aim too low and reach it,” Newsom said. “It was always a stretch goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates acknowledge that policy change is by nature slow and incremental, and like many other proposals, long-term housing goals took a back seat to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reality on the ground — that there aren’t enough houses for everyone and the ones that exist are hideously expensive — continues to exasperate \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-may-2022/\">Californians who repeatedly rank housing and homelessness among their top concerns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Brian Dahle, the \u003ca href=\"https://briandahle.com/homelessness/\">Republican candidate for governor\u003c/a>, and other state Republicans have routinely attacked Newsom’s record on housing, including \u003ca href=\"https://republicans.senate.ca.gov/content/legislative-republicans-call-special-session-combat-homeless-crisis-immediately\">calling for a special session\u003c/a> on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need government to treat this the way we treat a natural disaster, because that’s how it’s impacting people’s lives,” said Chione Lucina Muñoz Flegal, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.housingca.org/\">Housing California\u003c/a>, a housing advocacy organization. “And that’s not what we see happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-a-marshall-plan-for-housing\">A Marshall Plan for housing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing policy advocates described Newsom’s stated goal of 3.5 million new homes in four years the same way he has: aspirational. They say that’s because the state doesn’t build housing in California — private developers do, with the approval of local governments. So what really grabbed advocates’ attention was the “Marshall Plan for affordable housing” Newsom pledged to launch during his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/01/gavin-newsom-california-inauguration-speech-policy-highlights/\">inaugural speech\u003c/a>, recalling the multibillion-dollar program to rebuild Western Europe following World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as the number was important, the idea of building a streamlined process of building, that was amazing, because that’s really the challenge of California,” said Dan Dunmoyer, president of the California Building Industry Association. He said that dream remains elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/housing-costs-high-california/\">highest housing costs\u003c/a> in the nation because of how little “marshaling” there is, Dunmoyer said. Land costs are prohibitive, and zoning rules limit much of what can be built. Housing must get approved at the local level, which has ample opportunity for community input. Those communities can then block unpopular projects, such as multifamily or affordable housing. Another culprit: impact fees cities charge to fund infrastructure that can \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/residential-impact-fees/\">exceed $150,000 a home\u003c/a>, some of the highest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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