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The state receives over a quarter of all of these diversity grants, since it has a high percentage of minority students, especially Latinos, and it has more college campuses than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s community college system could lose $20 million next year as a result of the funding cuts, said Chris Ferguson, who supports finance and strategic relations at the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. The Cal State University and the University of California systems, which also receive this money, did not respond to questions about the amount of funding at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laney College, located just a few blocks from Oakland’s Chinatown and Little Saignon, has used these federal grants for the past 15 years to run the Asian Pacific American Student Success center on campus, helping students improve their English, build community and find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_18-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a dark blazer stands in a covered walkway holding a framed certificate of appreciation with both hands. The background shows a corridor with concrete walls, doors, and bulletin boards.\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director David Lee stands outside the Asian Pacific American Student Success center. Lee will be left without a job at the end of the month due to President Donald Trump’s cuts on funding for minority-serving colleges. Photo by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of the month, David Lee, its longtime director, will lose his job. “It’s like a gut punch,” he said, standing in his basement office, which doubles as the Asian student center. All around him are signs of his legacy — posters on the wall from various campus events, photos of students and staff who treat the center as a second home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After CalMatters reached out to the college about the future of the student center, Laney College’s Vice President of Student Services Lily Espinoza sent an email to faculty, saying that the space will continue to be available to students after Lee leaves, although with fewer staff to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of California’s 116 community colleges, 22 California State University campuses, and 10 UC campuses, about two-thirds receive these diversity grants. Colleges that receive these grants get to decide how they use the money to support students. The grants max out at about $600,000 per school per year.[aside postID=news_12056908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-03-1020x680.jpg']Laney College gets much less than that, though. Lee said the school’s federal grant, about $300,000 a year, supports his salary, the salary of up to three part-time counselors and various expenses for events. The state also provides some money, and the college grants access to the basement office and community space for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is next to the boiler, which emits a loud humming noise for hours each day. A slanted pole runs through the middle of it, hiding wires and breaking up the space, which can only accommodate a few students at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lee is proud of the program and the impact it has had. “There’s a lot of history here,” he said. “We’re the only center serving Asian students in Peralta.” Last year, roughly 5,500 Asian students attended one of the four schools in the Peralta Community College District, which includes Laney College, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget for next year, which was released in May, President Trump proposed expanding this federal grant program, known as “minority-serving institutions” grants, but he didn’t say why. Both Republicans and Democrats have long supported the program, especially those who represent states with large Latino populations such as California, Texas and Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump’s support for the program didn’t last long. In June, the attorney general for Tennessee and a legal advocacy group, Students for Fair Admissions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2025/2025-6-hsi.pdf\">sued\u003c/a> the U.S. Department of Education, claiming that the grant program was discriminatory. In July, the Department of Justice, which is representing the Education Department in the case, told the judge it would not defend against the lawsuit, saying grants to certain minority-serving institutions violate the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/oip/media/1411811/dl?inline\">discrimination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_32-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Office workspace with a large sign reading “APASS Asian and Pacific American Student Success” above cubicles, decorated with international flags, photos, papers, and a gift bag hanging from the cabinet.\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Asian Pacific American Student Success center has provided a platform for students to build community and access academic support as they navigate college life. Photo by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Education Department reiterated that reasoning with its decision last week to stop funding minority-serving institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some minority-serving institutions, namely historically Black colleges and tribal colleges, are exempt from the department’s decision. McMahon said last week that she’ll use the money that’s earmarked for minority-serving institutions, especially Hispanic-serving institutions, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-makes-historic-grant-investments-programs-bolster-educational-outcomes\">redirect\u003c/a> it toward those exempt schools instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision effectively pulls money away from California, which has a high concentration of Hispanic-serving institutions, and moves it to the exempt schools, which are generally located in \u003ca href=\"https://collegefund.org/tribal-colleges-and-universities/\">swing states\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1zx-DKOdr0Mc42eGiC0nJbDBYz96EnJp9&ll=33.73239834721144%2C-86.34591083746132&z=5\">states that voted for Trump in 2024\u003c/a>. While California has many minority-serving institutions, and even one historically Black graduate school, none are recognized as historically Black colleges or official tribal colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The first Mongolian student club\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To be considered a historically Black college, the undergraduate institution must have been established prior to 1964 and have a track record of serving Black students, which is less applicable to a newer state like California. Becoming a registered tribal college is also difficult, even for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2021/08/california-tribal-colleges/\">schools that might otherwise meet the criteria.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, most other minority-serving schools, including many schools with a high percentage of Black or Native American students, apply for a more general federal grant that only asks the institution to prove that it has less money per-student than the average school in the U.S. and that it serves a diverse population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_30-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits at a desk in an office, partly hidden by the blurred foreground of another person holding a phone. The individual at the desk rests their hand on their chin while looking toward a computer screen, with stacks of papers, framed certificates, and colorful notes on the wall around them.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff assistant Huizhen Joan Su looks at student Narmandakh Suurinburneebaatar as she shows videos from a Mongolian cultural activity. Photos by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laney College easily qualifies. Its enrollment is almost equally divided among Latino, Asian, Black and white students. The school is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/06/california-bay-area-community-colleges-funding-formula/\">struggling financially\u003c/a> under the state’s new community college funding formula, potentially requiring it to merge with another local college in the coming years. Its hard-scrabble reputation was depicted in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXRJL52ZD8\">2020 Netflix documentary\u003c/a> Last Chance U, which profiled Laney College football players and the issues they faced in addition to their sport — including hunger and caring for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laney College uses all of its minority-serving institution grant funding for the Asian Pacific American Student Success center. Colleges are typically only eligible for one of these grants, even when it may have numerous communities that need support. Though the center is focused on Asian students, anyone is technically welcome to the services it provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is what kept Narmandakh Suurinburneebaatar in school. After moving from Mongolia to Oakland in 2008, she spent years knowing just a few words of English. When she enrolled in an English-language learning course at Laney College in 2013, she wasn’t aware of the Asian student center. She was nervous at the time and struggled to talk with other students and teachers, she said. She dropped out before the end of the semester. She also enrolled in 2016 but dropped out again after the first semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Laney College offered free classes in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/09/community-college-enrollment-3/#:~:text=At%20its%20lowest%20point%20following%20the%20start%20of%20the%20pandemic%2C%20the%20California%20Community%20Colleges%20system%20had%20lost%20just%20over%20417%2C000%20students%2C%20an%2018.5%25%20drop%C2%A0%20compared%20to%20the%202018%2D19%20academic%20year.\">decline in student enrollment \u003c/a>during the COVID-19 pandemic. Suurinburneebaatar’s son had also started moving through the Oakland school system, and she wanted to communicate with his teachers. She re-enrolled again, but this time, a representative from the Asian student center came to her English class, offering interpretation services for Mongolian speakers. It changed her entire trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_10-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to Director David Lee, many of the students who work part time at the Asian Pacific American Student Success center are immigrant single mothers. Photos by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The center offered support, she said repeatedly: support in school, in finding a job, and in taking care of her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2023, soon after discovering the Asian student center, she founded a Mongolian students club with a goal of strengthening the community, including one event that brought over 100 Mongolians to campus. Now Mongolian students from other colleges come to Laney because of its support services, and Suurinburneebaatar works part time at the Asian student center, tutoring others.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proven success\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Asian center has never been financially secure, even before the Trump administration’s support for minority-serving institutions began to wane. The federal grant is awarded on a five-year cycle and Laney College’s final year was scheduled to end this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the college applied again for another five-year grant, and has received the grant for the past 15 years, successfully navigating three different grant cycles, it’s a competitive process and the money is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/hispanic-serving-institutions-programs-funding/\">never guaranteed\u003c/a>. To receive the money repeatedly, schools need to prove their programs are successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Lee co-published \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15210251221134686\">a study\u003c/a> that looked at how counseling for English-language learners affected their performance. The study found that students who received counseling support were more likely to “return and re-enroll” than those who didn’t, though the study also found that academic performance was roughly the same for both groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_28-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Reflection through a circular surface showing an office with a desk, computer, certificate on the wall, and a banner for the Asian and Pacific American Student Success program. A person is seated at the desk, hand partially covering their face, surrounded by papers and office supplies.\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>A clock hangs inside the Asian Pacific American Student Success center at Laney College. 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An \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/southwesterncollege/viz/EnrollmentandCourseOutcomesDashboard/EnrollmentandCourseOutcomesDashboard\">evaluation\u003c/a> conducted by the school found that students who participated in the grant-funded learning community were far more likely to stay in school, to graduate and to transfer to a four-year institution, said President Mark Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because minority-serving institutions have wide discretion as to how they use federal money, evaluating the efficacy of the entire program — including hundreds of institutions and thousands of programs — is tough, said Marcela Cuellar, a professor at UC Davis. Some programs are\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2022/11/hispanic-serving-institutions-california/\"> a mixed bag\u003c/a> in terms of results. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few weeks, over 100 colleges and universities across \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> will lose access to essential funding for tutoring, academic counseling and other support services aimed at helping Black, Latino, Asian and Native American students succeed in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change comes after the U.S. Department of Education said earlier this month that it was ending \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-funding-racially-discriminatory-discretionary-grant-programs-minority-serving-institutions\">a grant program \u003c/a>that supports “minority-serving institutions,” claiming that it illegally favors certain racial or ethnic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every state will lose money, but the Education Department’s decision hits California hardest. The state receives over a quarter of all of these diversity grants, since it has a high percentage of minority students, especially Latinos, and it has more college campuses than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s community college system could lose $20 million next year as a result of the funding cuts, said Chris Ferguson, who supports finance and strategic relations at the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. The Cal State University and the University of California systems, which also receive this money, did not respond to questions about the amount of funding at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laney College, located just a few blocks from Oakland’s Chinatown and Little Saignon, has used these federal grants for the past 15 years to run the Asian Pacific American Student Success center on campus, helping students improve their English, build community and find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_18-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a dark blazer stands in a covered walkway holding a framed certificate of appreciation with both hands. The background shows a corridor with concrete walls, doors, and bulletin boards.\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director David Lee stands outside the Asian Pacific American Student Success center. Lee will be left without a job at the end of the month due to President Donald Trump’s cuts on funding for minority-serving colleges. Photo by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of the month, David Lee, its longtime director, will lose his job. “It’s like a gut punch,” he said, standing in his basement office, which doubles as the Asian student center. All around him are signs of his legacy — posters on the wall from various campus events, photos of students and staff who treat the center as a second home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After CalMatters reached out to the college about the future of the student center, Laney College’s Vice President of Student Services Lily Espinoza sent an email to faculty, saying that the space will continue to be available to students after Lee leaves, although with fewer staff to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of California’s 116 community colleges, 22 California State University campuses, and 10 UC campuses, about two-thirds receive these diversity grants. Colleges that receive these grants get to decide how they use the money to support students. The grants max out at about $600,000 per school per year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Laney College gets much less than that, though. Lee said the school’s federal grant, about $300,000 a year, supports his salary, the salary of up to three part-time counselors and various expenses for events. The state also provides some money, and the college grants access to the basement office and community space for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is next to the boiler, which emits a loud humming noise for hours each day. A slanted pole runs through the middle of it, hiding wires and breaking up the space, which can only accommodate a few students at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lee is proud of the program and the impact it has had. “There’s a lot of history here,” he said. “We’re the only center serving Asian students in Peralta.” Last year, roughly 5,500 Asian students attended one of the four schools in the Peralta Community College District, which includes Laney College, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget for next year, which was released in May, President Trump proposed expanding this federal grant program, known as “minority-serving institutions” grants, but he didn’t say why. Both Republicans and Democrats have long supported the program, especially those who represent states with large Latino populations such as California, Texas and Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump’s support for the program didn’t last long. In June, the attorney general for Tennessee and a legal advocacy group, Students for Fair Admissions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2025/2025-6-hsi.pdf\">sued\u003c/a> the U.S. Department of Education, claiming that the grant program was discriminatory. In July, the Department of Justice, which is representing the Education Department in the case, told the judge it would not defend against the lawsuit, saying grants to certain minority-serving institutions violate the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/oip/media/1411811/dl?inline\">discrimination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_32-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Office workspace with a large sign reading “APASS Asian and Pacific American Student Success” above cubicles, decorated with international flags, photos, papers, and a gift bag hanging from the cabinet.\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Asian Pacific American Student Success center has provided a platform for students to build community and access academic support as they navigate college life. Photo by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Education Department reiterated that reasoning with its decision last week to stop funding minority-serving institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some minority-serving institutions, namely historically Black colleges and tribal colleges, are exempt from the department’s decision. McMahon said last week that she’ll use the money that’s earmarked for minority-serving institutions, especially Hispanic-serving institutions, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-makes-historic-grant-investments-programs-bolster-educational-outcomes\">redirect\u003c/a> it toward those exempt schools instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision effectively pulls money away from California, which has a high concentration of Hispanic-serving institutions, and moves it to the exempt schools, which are generally located in \u003ca href=\"https://collegefund.org/tribal-colleges-and-universities/\">swing states\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1zx-DKOdr0Mc42eGiC0nJbDBYz96EnJp9&ll=33.73239834721144%2C-86.34591083746132&z=5\">states that voted for Trump in 2024\u003c/a>. While California has many minority-serving institutions, and even one historically Black graduate school, none are recognized as historically Black colleges or official tribal colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The first Mongolian student club\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To be considered a historically Black college, the undergraduate institution must have been established prior to 1964 and have a track record of serving Black students, which is less applicable to a newer state like California. Becoming a registered tribal college is also difficult, even for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2021/08/california-tribal-colleges/\">schools that might otherwise meet the criteria.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, most other minority-serving schools, including many schools with a high percentage of Black or Native American students, apply for a more general federal grant that only asks the institution to prove that it has less money per-student than the average school in the U.S. and that it serves a diverse population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_30-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits at a desk in an office, partly hidden by the blurred foreground of another person holding a phone. The individual at the desk rests their hand on their chin while looking toward a computer screen, with stacks of papers, framed certificates, and colorful notes on the wall around them.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff assistant Huizhen Joan Su looks at student Narmandakh Suurinburneebaatar as she shows videos from a Mongolian cultural activity. Photos by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laney College easily qualifies. Its enrollment is almost equally divided among Latino, Asian, Black and white students. The school is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/06/california-bay-area-community-colleges-funding-formula/\">struggling financially\u003c/a> under the state’s new community college funding formula, potentially requiring it to merge with another local college in the coming years. Its hard-scrabble reputation was depicted in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXRJL52ZD8\">2020 Netflix documentary\u003c/a> Last Chance U, which profiled Laney College football players and the issues they faced in addition to their sport — including hunger and caring for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laney College uses all of its minority-serving institution grant funding for the Asian Pacific American Student Success center. Colleges are typically only eligible for one of these grants, even when it may have numerous communities that need support. Though the center is focused on Asian students, anyone is technically welcome to the services it provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is what kept Narmandakh Suurinburneebaatar in school. After moving from Mongolia to Oakland in 2008, she spent years knowing just a few words of English. When she enrolled in an English-language learning course at Laney College in 2013, she wasn’t aware of the Asian student center. She was nervous at the time and struggled to talk with other students and teachers, she said. She dropped out before the end of the semester. She also enrolled in 2016 but dropped out again after the first semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Laney College offered free classes in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/09/community-college-enrollment-3/#:~:text=At%20its%20lowest%20point%20following%20the%20start%20of%20the%20pandemic%2C%20the%20California%20Community%20Colleges%20system%20had%20lost%20just%20over%20417%2C000%20students%2C%20an%2018.5%25%20drop%C2%A0%20compared%20to%20the%202018%2D19%20academic%20year.\">decline in student enrollment \u003c/a>during the COVID-19 pandemic. Suurinburneebaatar’s son had also started moving through the Oakland school system, and she wanted to communicate with his teachers. She re-enrolled again, but this time, a representative from the Asian student center came to her English class, offering interpretation services for Mongolian speakers. It changed her entire trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_10-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to Director David Lee, many of the students who work part time at the Asian Pacific American Student Success center are immigrant single mothers. Photos by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The center offered support, she said repeatedly: support in school, in finding a job, and in taking care of her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2023, soon after discovering the Asian student center, she founded a Mongolian students club with a goal of strengthening the community, including one event that brought over 100 Mongolians to campus. Now Mongolian students from other colleges come to Laney because of its support services, and Suurinburneebaatar works part time at the Asian student center, tutoring others.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proven success\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Asian center has never been financially secure, even before the Trump administration’s support for minority-serving institutions began to wane. The federal grant is awarded on a five-year cycle and Laney College’s final year was scheduled to end this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the college applied again for another five-year grant, and has received the grant for the past 15 years, successfully navigating three different grant cycles, it’s a competitive process and the money is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/hispanic-serving-institutions-programs-funding/\">never guaranteed\u003c/a>. To receive the money repeatedly, schools need to prove their programs are successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Lee co-published \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15210251221134686\">a study\u003c/a> that looked at how counseling for English-language learners affected their performance. The study found that students who received counseling support were more likely to “return and re-enroll” than those who didn’t, though the study also found that academic performance was roughly the same for both groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091225_Laney-College_MO_CM_28-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Reflection through a circular surface showing an office with a desk, computer, certificate on the wall, and a banner for the Asian and Pacific American Student Success program. A person is seated at the desk, hand partially covering their face, surrounded by papers and office supplies.\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>A clock hangs inside the Asian Pacific American Student Success center at Laney College. 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An \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/southwesterncollege/viz/EnrollmentandCourseOutcomesDashboard/EnrollmentandCourseOutcomesDashboard\">evaluation\u003c/a> conducted by the school found that students who participated in the grant-funded learning community were far more likely to stay in school, to graduate and to transfer to a four-year institution, said President Mark Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because minority-serving institutions have wide discretion as to how they use federal money, evaluating the efficacy of the entire program — including hundreds of institutions and thousands of programs — is tough, said Marcela Cuellar, a professor at UC Davis. Some programs are\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2022/11/hispanic-serving-institutions-california/\"> a mixed bag\u003c/a> in terms of results. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than five years after the brutal beating of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961693/californias-anti-asian-hate-crimes-decline-but-long-term-pattern-persists\">Yik Oi Huang\u003c/a> shook many in San Francisco’s Asian American community, the trial for a suspect charged with the attack — and a string of other violent crimes against Asian Americans — began Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keonte Gathron, 25, has been in custody since late January 2019, when he was charged in connection with seven attacks, including Huang’s beating, multiple armed robberies, a kidnapping and two carjackings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s facing more than two dozen counts ranging from elder abuse and felony robbery to murder, upgraded from attempted murder after Huang died a year after her attack. If convicted, he could face life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the alleged criminal encounters have been officially called a hate crime, and during his opening statement, Assistant District Attorney Nathan Quigley did not allege that Asian Americans were directly targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But six of Gathron’s seven alleged victims were of Asian descent. Asian Justice Movement organizer Charles Jung said even without that distinction, the pattern speaks for itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the effect on the community, he said, has been the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Five people congregate around park benches in front of a jungle gym in an outdoor park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors spend time together at Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Formerly Visitacion Valley Park, it was renamed in May 2022 in memory of Yik Oi Huang, a senior who was brutally beaten at the park and a year later, died from her injuries. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When someone allegedly victimizes multiple people of the same ethnicity in rapid succession, as is alleged, the impact is the same, I would say,” he told KQED. “It has the impact of terrorizing a community and making people feel unsafe because of who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quigley laid out the harrowing series of Gathron’s attacks to the jury in great detail, first illustrating how he knocked over Dhung My Chung from behind, stealing his keys and driving off in his car on Jan. 3, 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Quigley alleged that Gathron robbed Guifeng Yu on the street at gunpoint, grabbing his phone and cash before demanding Yu lead him back to his home.[aside postID=news_11961693 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Yu, who lives alone, instead led Gathron to a family member’s home nearby, hoping they would be there to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the house was empty when they arrived. As Gathron ransacked the place, Yu ran to hide in a locked room. Among the items he allegedly stole was a gold necklace that closely resembled one Gathron is seen wearing in surveillance footage captured at the scenes of his later crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gathron was also accused of stealing the car of a man dropping his wife off at a bus stop on Vicente Avenue in the Sunset, days later, pointing a pistol at him and demanding the keys to his Jeep. He then allegedly stole phones from two minors at gunpoint. Quigley said he let a third teenager — his only non-Asian victim — go with her phone after she told him she needed it for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most high-profile of the attacks occurred in the middle of his alleged spree, on Jan. 8. Gathron is accused of attacking 88-year-old Yik Oi Huang, who was known affectionately by many in the Visitation Valley neighborhood as “Grandma Huang,” while she was practicing her usual qigong, a traditional Chinese exercise that combines movement, breathing and meditation, at a local park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before sunrise, Huang had walked to the Leland Avenue park across the street from her home. According to Quigley, Gathron allegedly approached her there, beat her and stole her keys. 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After they arrived and found her home empty, Huang’s son-in-law retraced her steps, finding her at the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her shirt had been pulled up, her pants pulled down and she had sustained severe head injuries. Huang was taken to the hospital and eventually placed in long-term care until she died almost a year later, on Jan. 3, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She suffered through the massive pain and had been clinging for her life courageously,” her family wrote on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memories-of-grandma-huang\">GoFundMe \u003c/a>page set up to help pay for her funeral expenses after her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today it was very hard to watch the timeline being put together,” Jung said following the city’s opening statement. “Seeing the pictures and the video, that brought me to tears.”[aside postID=news_12033789 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250324-WongKimArk-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Gathron, who is defending himself, will deliver his remarks on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack sent shockwaves through Visitation Valley, where Huang had lived for nearly two decades. She immigrated from Toi San, China, in 1986, moving into an SRO in Chinatown while she worked as a seamstress and nanny, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rememberyikoihuang.com/who-is-yik-oi\">according to her memorial website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, when all of her children were able to immigrate to the U.S., the family pooled together enough to move into their Visitacion Valley home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over nearly 20 years, Huang’s family said she became a community presence — often walking with friends around the park or leading the Visitacion Valley Friendship Club, an advocacy and senior group serving her Chinese immigrant neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her death, the community renamed the park in her honor. The “Yik Oi Peace & Friendship Park” was dedicated last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The renaming effort is unifying us with the goals of ending cycles of violence and healing long-simmering cultural and racial divisions,” said Anne Seeman, cofounder of Visitacion Valley Greenway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the attack and the other crimes Gathron allegedly committed occurred more than a year before anti-Asian hate and rhetoric exploded in response to the spread of COVID-19, Jung believes the violence was symptomatic of a problem that predates the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What stood out to me … was that [six] of the victims were of Asian-American descent. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030561/alameda-county-child-care-providers-wait-anxiously-long-held-relief-funds\">Lisa Zarodney\u003c/a> has spent 25 years caring for children in her single-story home in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no sign on the front door or even a name for her business. Her work is hidden from view. But inside, she’s juggling a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, Zarodney rocked a 3-month-old girl in her arms while three toddlers stacked blocks on her living room floor. They had just finished eating the lunch she made in her kitchen and were squeezing in a bit of play time before taking their naps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The work is never easy, but it’s what I love to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates that she has cared for hundreds of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But earlier this year, she thought she would have to shutter her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zarodney had racked up $50,000 in credit card debt to get through the pandemic and its aftermath. Parents working from home kept their kids at home too, or opted for California’s expanding transitional kindergarten program. At one point, only two kids were coming to her house full-time, even though she could handle up to eight. With the program underenrolled, Zarodney earned less but still had to cover food, rent, insurance and other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney stands in the doorway of the day care center she runs out of her home in Livermore on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was also diagnosed with cervical cancer, which led to thousands of dollars in medical bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was freaking out, I didn’t see (my debt) going down because interest rates don’t go down unless you pay it off,” she said, “You take one shovel out and two go in, and you just bury yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, she received a $40,000 check. The money came from Measure C, a half-cent sales tax to increase access to child care throughout Alameda County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043521/alameda-county-supervisors-approve-long-awaited-child-care-funding\">After a yearslong holdup\u003c/a>, funds from the measure are flowing to providers like Zarodney, helping them get back on track financially so they don’t close or leave for better-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, something went right after everything that I went through,” Zarodney said. “It was finally going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, where child care costs are among the highest in the nation, Alameda County is the latest to distribute dedicated tax revenue to caregivers and the families who rely on them.[aside postID=news_12051850 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-08-BL-KQED.jpg']San Francisco is offering families \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/annual-impact-report-2024/\">free or subsidized child care\u003c/a>, adding more child-care space and paying early educators a living wage, using funds from a commercial property tax. Last month, Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/08/26/sonoma-county-board-of-supervisors-approves-release-of-first-114-million-raised-by-tax-measure-to-support-child-care/\">released the first batch of funds\u003c/a> from a half-cent sales tax to offer grants to early educators and improve early learning facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local tax measures come as California’s tobacco tax, which has long funded early childhood services, dwindles and federal programs like Head Start face an uncertain future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of Alameda, San Francisco and Sonoma counties is the envy of advocates around the Bay who are looking for local solutions to make child care more affordable for families struggling with the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the only way we’re gonna be able to address it,” said Marin County Supervisor Eric Lucan, who wants to place a child care funding tax on next year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar effort failed in 2016, but Lucan thinks the issue is gaining political support now that the cost of infant care in Marin has \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/price-by-age-care-setting-2022\">risen to $32,000 per year\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Database of Childcare Prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government considers child care affordable when it costs no more than 7% of a family’s annual income. That means a family must earn $400,000 a year to afford infant care in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney sits with children at the day care center she runs from her home in Livermore on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>It’s not just very low-income families, we’re talking working families making good salaries that are [struggling],” Lucan said. “And when you throw in housing costs with child care costs and energy costs and everything, it’s becoming very, very unaffordable for families of young children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucan said he and his wife paid about $2,000 per month in child care for each of their two kids, and whenever he mentions the figure in conversations, “it’s pretty mind-blowing for a lot of folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who can’t afford those high monthly costs make other difficult tradeoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting in East Palo Alto, a college student described taking two-hourlong bus rides to drop off her toddler with her sister because she couldn’t find affordable child care closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier have held three of the meetings to hear from families and child care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier and Gauthier said they’re both grandmothers whose adult children are grappling with the shortage of reliable, affordable child care. They’re worried that high child care prices are driving down the birth rate, pushing young families out of the county and harming the local economy. Speier is particularly struck by \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcalltogetherbetter.org/\">a countywide survey \u003c/a>that found more than 45% of parents left the workforce to care for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think it’s a crisis that we have ignored, and we can’t do that anymore, not for the health of our communities,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said she would like to place a half-cent sales tax measure to fund child care on the November 2026 ballot, but worries about competing with a potential sales tax measure to fund the Bay Area’s crippling transit systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to approve placing the measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said if that happens, she will seek an alternative solution, such as tapping into funds from a \u003ca href=\"https://smcmeasurek.org/\">previously approved half-cent sales tax\u003c/a> and fees from car rentals at San Francisco International Airport. She also wants to introduce “Tri-Share,” in which workers, their employers, and government split the cost of child care. The concept was first launched in Michigan in 2021 to help families afford child care and businesses recruit and retain workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I can convince some employers to recognize that this is the way to go,” Speier said. “And it’s a benefit that they can also deduct on their business taxes. 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A five-year spending plan calls for boosting early educators’ wages to at least $25 per hour, subsidizing 2,400 child care slots and offering monthly stipends to an often overlooked group known as license-exempt Family, Friends and Neighbors who receive subsidies for their caregiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinetta Lewis is the director of St. Mary’s Center in West Oakland, which received a $50,000 emergency grant from the county. She gave her teachers $1,000 stipends and plans to hire a substitute so they can plan their lessons and undergo training for their professional development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although St. Mary’s pays teachers between $25 and $32 per hour, Lewis said the preschool has a hard time retaining new hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People find that this job is too hard or too taxing, so they choose a different field to be in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Zarodney said the grant she received will help her pay down her debt to a manageable level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People keep saying ‘you must have a lot of money because you run a day care.’ And I’m like, no, you really don’t. I never pay myself,” she said. “Everything I make goes back into the day care, every single thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she will be at capacity once again, as she starts caring for the babies of two teachers who are heading back to the classroom. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco is offering families \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/annual-impact-report-2024/\">free or subsidized child care\u003c/a>, adding more child-care space and paying early educators a living wage, using funds from a commercial property tax. Last month, Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/08/26/sonoma-county-board-of-supervisors-approves-release-of-first-114-million-raised-by-tax-measure-to-support-child-care/\">released the first batch of funds\u003c/a> from a half-cent sales tax to offer grants to early educators and improve early learning facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local tax measures come as California’s tobacco tax, which has long funded early childhood services, dwindles and federal programs like Head Start face an uncertain future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of Alameda, San Francisco and Sonoma counties is the envy of advocates around the Bay who are looking for local solutions to make child care more affordable for families struggling with the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the only way we’re gonna be able to address it,” said Marin County Supervisor Eric Lucan, who wants to place a child care funding tax on next year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar effort failed in 2016, but Lucan thinks the issue is gaining political support now that the cost of infant care in Marin has \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/price-by-age-care-setting-2022\">risen to $32,000 per year\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Database of Childcare Prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government considers child care affordable when it costs no more than 7% of a family’s annual income. That means a family must earn $400,000 a year to afford infant care in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney sits with children at the day care center she runs from her home in Livermore on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>It’s not just very low-income families, we’re talking working families making good salaries that are [struggling],” Lucan said. “And when you throw in housing costs with child care costs and energy costs and everything, it’s becoming very, very unaffordable for families of young children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucan said he and his wife paid about $2,000 per month in child care for each of their two kids, and whenever he mentions the figure in conversations, “it’s pretty mind-blowing for a lot of folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who can’t afford those high monthly costs make other difficult tradeoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting in East Palo Alto, a college student described taking two-hourlong bus rides to drop off her toddler with her sister because she couldn’t find affordable child care closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier have held three of the meetings to hear from families and child care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier and Gauthier said they’re both grandmothers whose adult children are grappling with the shortage of reliable, affordable child care. They’re worried that high child care prices are driving down the birth rate, pushing young families out of the county and harming the local economy. Speier is particularly struck by \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcalltogetherbetter.org/\">a countywide survey \u003c/a>that found more than 45% of parents left the workforce to care for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think it’s a crisis that we have ignored, and we can’t do that anymore, not for the health of our communities,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said she would like to place a half-cent sales tax measure to fund child care on the November 2026 ballot, but worries about competing with a potential sales tax measure to fund the Bay Area’s crippling transit systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to approve placing the measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said if that happens, she will seek an alternative solution, such as tapping into funds from a \u003ca href=\"https://smcmeasurek.org/\">previously approved half-cent sales tax\u003c/a> and fees from car rentals at San Francisco International Airport. She also wants to introduce “Tri-Share,” in which workers, their employers, and government split the cost of child care. The concept was first launched in Michigan in 2021 to help families afford child care and businesses recruit and retain workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I can convince some employers to recognize that this is the way to go,” Speier said. “And it’s a benefit that they can also deduct on their business taxes. I mean, it’s not like it’s a heavy lift.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees hold signs at the Day Without Childcare rally in front of the Federal Building in San José on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She wishes San Mateo County could boldly replicate New Mexico, which is \u003ca href=\"https://knpr.org/2025-09-18/new-mexico-takes-a-big-step-toward-universal-childcare\">about to offer free child care to all parents\u003c/a>, using profits from oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Alameda County officials approved a plan to spend roughly $1 billion generated from Measure C in the last four years. A five-year spending plan calls for boosting early educators’ wages to at least $25 per hour, subsidizing 2,400 child care slots and offering monthly stipends to an often overlooked group known as license-exempt Family, Friends and Neighbors who receive subsidies for their caregiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinetta Lewis is the director of St. Mary’s Center in West Oakland, which received a $50,000 emergency grant from the county. She gave her teachers $1,000 stipends and plans to hire a substitute so they can plan their lessons and undergo training for their professional development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although St. Mary’s pays teachers between $25 and $32 per hour, Lewis said the preschool has a hard time retaining new hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People find that this job is too hard or too taxing, so they choose a different field to be in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Zarodney said the grant she received will help her pay down her debt to a manageable level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People keep saying ‘you must have a lot of money because you run a day care.’ And I’m like, no, you really don’t. I never pay myself,” she said. “Everything I make goes back into the day care, every single thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she will be at capacity once again, as she starts caring for the babies of two teachers who are heading back to the classroom. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inyo County, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, has two hospitals. In a matter of weeks it may be down to one, local and state officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern Inyo Healthcare District, a 37-bed hospital in Lone Pine, had eight days of cash on hand as of Sept.12, chief executive Dr. Kevin Flanigan told CalMatters. Local officials have sent a letter asking Gov. Gavin Newsom for an emergency $3 million to stabilize its finances through the end of the year, but absent state intervention the hospital may have to severely cut services and staff — or close altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t come through and nobody else comes through then…the board of directors is going to have some very hard decisions to make,” Flanigan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, hospitals generally have more than 200 days of cash on hand, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-costs/most-nonprofit-hospitals-and-health-systems-had-strong-days-of-cash-on-hand-in-2022-though-about-one-in-10-were-vulnerable/\">KFF analysis\u003c/a>. Hospitals with less than 80 days of cash on hand are considered “highly vulnerable” to a “financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located in Lone Pine, a town at the base of Mt. Whitney with just 1,300 residents, Southern Inyo Healthcare District is the only hospital within a nearly 60-mile radius. It’s the closest stop for injured hikers and dehydrated tourists visiting Whitney or nearby Death Valley, which regularly receives over 1 million visitors per year. Without it there would be a 136-mile stretch between the next closest hospitals in the eastern Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11954574 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/011_KQED_SFGeneralMethadoneClinic_02102023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman leans on a walker while holding a clear prescription bottle with pink fluid inside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/011_KQED_SFGeneralMethadoneClinic_02102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/011_KQED_SFGeneralMethadoneClinic_02102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/011_KQED_SFGeneralMethadoneClinic_02102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/011_KQED_SFGeneralMethadoneClinic_02102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/011_KQED_SFGeneralMethadoneClinic_02102023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman leans on a walker while holding a clear prescription bottle with pink fluid inside on Feb. 10, 2023. The financial crisis at Southern Inyo Healthcare District comes as rural hospitals nationwide face rising costs and federal Medicaid cuts. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hospital’s financial distress comes as rural hospitals across the country face rising costs related to labor and supplies as well as projected future decreases in revenue from federal Medicaid cuts. Three weeks ago \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/09/glenn-county-hospital-medicaid-lamalfa-oz-closure/\">Glenn Medical Center\u003c/a>, the only hospital in Glenn County in Northern California, said it would shut down by October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember David Tangipa, Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, and Inyo County supervisors said in the letter to Newsom that the hospital faces a short-term deficit and a one-time infusion from the state would be enough to stabilize the facility long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If doors close, thousands of elderly and rural Californians will be left without access to critical healthcare, creating a true medical desert in another region of the state,” the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sami Gallegos, a spokesperson for the California Health and Human Services agency, said in a statement that the administration is working with Southern Inyo Healthcare District to expedite payments due to the hospital “where possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our top priority is to ensure Californians in all areas of the state have access to quality, equitable health care,” Gallegos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not address whether the administration would be able to give the hospital the emergency infusion of cash it has requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hospital struggles to pay bills, employees\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During a board meeting Tuesday, Flanigan said the hospital has about $2 million in unpaid bills. Since asking the state for help, the hospital has received about $11,000 in payment owed for medical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s small stuff, but important,” he said. “It’s helping us make payroll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Wadelton, the county supervisor for the area that encompasses the hospital, said the county doesn’t have the money to bail the hospital out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pursuing all other options to keep the hospital solvent,” Wadelton said, including soliciting donations and hoping for state intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/051123-Eastern-Sierra-LV_07-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"View of snow on top of the Eastern Sierra mountains from Alabama Hills outside of Lone Pine on May 11, 2023. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local\">\u003cfigcaption>View of snow on top of the Eastern Sierra mountains from Alabama Hills outside of Lone Pine on May 11, 2023. \u003cem>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how lawmakers could appropriate money to the hospital quickly. Local officials requested emergency funding on the last regular day of the legislative session, meaning the state’s checkbook can’t be adjusted until lawmakers reconvene in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flanigan said he is still hopeful the hospital will find a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flanigan, who started the job as CEO just four weeks ago, said the hospital’s dire financial straits had been masked by leftover money from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time the federal government pumped billions of dollars into health care to help keep hospitals and other facilities afloat while costs rose and other revenue sources declined. \u003ca href=\"https://lci.ca.gov/sch/docs/20240403-FY21_FederalGrantFundingtoCA.pdf\">State agencies received more than $109 billion\u003c/a> in 2021 to support health services while counties and cities got additional money to assist with local response.[aside postID=news_12053773 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-14_qed.jpg']Flanigan said emergency funding from the state would give him time to reduce operating costs to a sustainable level and allow the facility to access additional revenue expected in January that would sustain the hospital in the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this funding I would be able to adjust the operations of the hospital without being disruptive and have the highest probability of success,” Flanigan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money from the $50 billion rural health fund included in the Republican “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to placate conservative lawmakers from rural states would not be available soon enough to help Southern Inyo Healthcare District, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, Glenn Medical’s financial difficulties began when the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services stripped it of its “critical access” status — a special designation given to qualifying rural hospitals — causing it to lose 40% of its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern Inyo Healthcare District is also a critical access hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s of utmost importance to us to not let another rural hospital close,” said Austin Gilbert, a spokesperson for Tangipa’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. 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Since asking the state for help, the hospital has received about $11,000 in payment owed for medical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s small stuff, but important,” he said. “It’s helping us make payroll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Wadelton, the county supervisor for the area that encompasses the hospital, said the county doesn’t have the money to bail the hospital out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pursuing all other options to keep the hospital solvent,” Wadelton said, including soliciting donations and hoping for state intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/051123-Eastern-Sierra-LV_07-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"View of snow on top of the Eastern Sierra mountains from Alabama Hills outside of Lone Pine on May 11, 2023. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom/\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> today signed a set of bills meant to check the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in California, including a first-in-the nation measure to prohibit officers from wearing masks and others that limit their access to schools and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new laws echo the “resistance” measures California adopted during the first administration, when it passed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sanctuary-state/\">so-called sanctuary law\u003c/a> to limit local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration agents, among other policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrants have rights and we have the right to stand up and push back,” Newsom said at an event in Los Angeles where he signed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\">President Trump\u003c/a> promised a historic deportation effort and assault on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/sanctuary-cities-san-diego-letter/\">sanctuary-style policies\u003c/a> when he took office for the second time. His administration criticized the state’s new immigration laws even before Newsom signed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/16/dhs-calls-governor-newsom-veto-californias-no-secret-police-act#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Department%20of%20Homeland,coverings%20to%20conceal%20their%20identities.\">called on Newsom to veto the mask bill\u003c/a> — one of the more contentious pieces of immigration legislation — calling it “despicable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once again sanctuary politicians are trying to outlaw officers wearing masks to protect themselves from being doxed and targeted by known and suspected terrorist sympathizers,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a Sept. 16 press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101911301 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/09/Cali-vs-Florida.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may struggle to enforce the new laws, some of which have already raised constitutional questions around the state’s role in federal operations, but lawmakers maintain that they are legally defensible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California political consultant Mike Madrid said in signing the laws Newsom is showing that he can stand up and fight, whether or not he has a chance of winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this moment, when there are very few cards to play for state governments and state legislatures, California has done what no other state has done: establish itself as the tip of the spear on resisting a lot of these efforts that are an affront to its values,” said Madrid, a longtime Republican consultant who co-founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“99% of this is the purview of the federal government. So a lot of it is just symbolic, but symbolism matters. It’s both politically astute but also morally right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package of bills Newsom signed included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab49\">Assembly Bill 49\u003c/a> prohibits schools from allowing immigration enforcement officers on campus without a warrant.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb627\">Senate Bill 627\u003c/a> widely prohibits federal and local law enforcement officers from wearing face masks while conducting their duties.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb805\">Senate Bill 805\u003c/a> requires that law enforcement officers identify themselves while conducting their duties, with some exceptions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb81\">Senate Bill 81\u003c/a> prohibits immigration enforcement from entering restricted areas of a health facility without a judicial warrant or court order.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb98\">Senate Bill 98\u003c/a> requires schools and higher education institutions to send community notifications when immigration enforcement is on campus, and prohibits immigration enforcement from entering certain areas without a judicial warrant or court order.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California Democrats began drafting immigration-related bills almost as soon Trump took office in January. Those efforts accelerated after the Trump administration launched \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/taken-la-immigration-raids/\">aggressive immigration sweeps\u003c/a> throughout Los Angeles, which led to weeks of protests and a subsequent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/trump-national-guard-posse-comitatus/\">National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this legislative resistance is to protect Angelenos from their own federal government. That is profound,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said at a news conference with Newsom and other Democratic leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will the laws make a difference?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kevin Johnson, an immigration law professor and former dean of the UC Davis School of Law, said the legislation may have a marginal impact on federal immigration enforcement operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for instance, California passed a law to restrict \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">immigration arrests at superior court buildings\u003c/a>. That hasn’t stopped the Trump administration from \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/386953-california-chief-justice-condemns-immigration-enforcement-at-courthouses\">detaining people at those courts\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is going to continue doing what it’s doing, in one form or another,” he said. “I do think the legislation gives some hope and optimism to communities that feel under fire, vulnerable and basically hated by the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shiu-Ming Cheer, deputy director at California Immigrant Policy Center, remains hopeful that the package of bills will ensure safety for people attending school and accessing health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With most laws, there has to be really vigorous monitoring, both by the state as well as by advocates to ensure that it’s truly being implemented and followed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California police opposed mask ban\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most controversial bill in the package was Democratic Sen. 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Jesse Arreguín, Sasha Pérez and Aisha Wahab championed the legislation after seeing footage of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/immigration-raids-who/\">masked and unidentifiable agents\u003c/a> carrying out operations.[aside postID=news_12055416 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg']“ICE’s recklessness creates chaos as agents run around with what are effectively ski masks and no identification, grabbing people, throwing them in unmarked vehicles, and disappearing them,” Wiener of San Francisco said at a legislative hearing in August. “When law enforcement officers hide their identities, it destroys community trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s law enforcement groups widely opposed the bill, arguing it will largely apply to local police, rather than federal agents, because the federal government is likely to sue on constitutional grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s using an emotionally charged issue on a federal level to pass a bill that will only affect local peace officers,” said Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, an umbrella labor organization that lobbies on behalf of police unions. “You’re upset with the feds, but you’re going to punish us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other law enforcement experts echoed those concerns, arguing that it’s illegal to interfere with federal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California cops are not going to enforce this law,” said Ed Obayashi, a longtime California police officer who now is a special prosecutor and policy adviser to the Modoc County Sheriff’s Office. “You cannot regulate lawful federal conduct, whether the Legislature likes it or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law allows officers to be sued personally for “tortious conduct,” including if they assault or falsely arrest someone while masked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Private enforcement could be the avenue where enforcement is the likeliest,” said Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill caused hours of contentious debate on the Senate and Assembly floors, with many Republicans calling it misguided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My immigrant family is not afraid” of ramped-up immigration enforcement, Fresno Republican Assemblymember David Tangipa said, “because we did not break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats were animated because just days before, the U.S. Supreme Court had sided with the Trump administration and ICE for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/la-immigration-sweeps-supreme-court/\">conducting roving sweeps through Los Angeles\u003c/a>, apparently catching bystander day laborers or anyone who appeared Latino in their dragnet. 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Chavez, a former teacher and now president of his local school board in Nuevo, similarly defended his decision to switch districts as a choice to represent his home community and refrained from any pro-Proposition 50 language in his \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Abel4Congress/status/1965114481865839035\">social media announcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Republican Kevin Lincoln is eyeing a district swap should voters approve the new maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lincoln, the former mayor of Stockton, has already launched a rematch campaign against Democratic incumbent Rep. Josh Harder, to whom he lost in 2024. But if voters embrace the new maps, Lincoln has indicated he might instead challenge the more vulnerable Democratic Rep. 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He’s a photographer, and he stumbled upon the stairways during his work trips to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between shoots in San Francisco … [I’d] ride public transportation to a neighborhood that I had not been to before, and then just walk the streets with my camera doing street photography,” Krause said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every neighborhood in San Francisco has got these hidden stairway walks, Castro and Potrero Hill and Excelsior and you name it … they’re everywhere. So it’s like a free, fun thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0008_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0008_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The twists and turns of Oakhurst Lane snake up the hillside, offering one of San Francisco’s longest and most hidden climbs on July 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All this got him wondering. What’s the shortest stairway in San Francisco? What’s the longest? What’s the steepest?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Shortest Stairway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes to measuring the city’s stairways, there’s a lot more debate than data. I sat down with one of the city’s leading stair enthusiasts, Alexandra Kenin, to try to get to the bottom of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenin claims to have walked 99.99% of all the city’s stairs. She’s also compiled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbanhikersf.com/sfstairmap\">digital stairway map.\u003c/a>[aside postID=news_11907457 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/garden-from-above-1020x574.jpeg']According to Kenin, San Francisco’s shortest stair is a single step in the city’s Financial District. It’s on Sansome Street, between Broadway and Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s literally railings like you would have on a multi-step stairway, yet there is just one stair,” Kenin said. “So it kind of looks like a stairway, because there’s stairway infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people would not call this one step a stairway; others would swear that it is. San Francisco Public Works, which maintains public rights of way, including stairs, offers an alternative. They list the city’s shortest stair as a five-stepper at \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/yTWf4T9d8a7XXxHD6\">14th Avenue and Fanning Way.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Longest Stairway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you ask most San Franciscans to name the city’s longest stairway, they’ll probably point you towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907457/how-the-filbert-steps-came-to-be-an-oasis-in-san-francisco\">the famous Filbert or Greenwich steps\u003c/a>. Located in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood, they both offer scenic climbs up to Coit Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a catch: those stairways are broken up by roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Kenin pauses at the top of Oakhurst Lane, the longest staircase in San Francisco, on July 30, 2025. The staircase winds through the Forest Knolls neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So we should debate, is it the longest continuous stairway?” Kenin queried. Or is it the most total steps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Public Works, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfstairways.com/stairways/oakhurst-lane/\">Oakhurst Lane stairs\u003c/a> are actually the longest. They’re on the sloping hillside of Mount Sutro near Laguna Honda Hospital. Unlike the Telegraph Hill steps, Oakhurst Lane is uninterrupted — a steady climb that amounts to an estimated 290 feet. That’s roughly 10 feet higher than the Filbert and Greenwich steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Steepest Stairway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nailing down San Francisco’s steepest staircase is even trickier. Public works doesn’t track the steepest stairways, and it’s hard to pull together accurate data about the city’s stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But based on some Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping endeavors and Kenin’s real-life experience, here are a few top contenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Filbert Street Steps:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThese steps are scenic and punishing, climbing through lush gardens up Telegraph Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a red t-shirt, sunglasses and backpack poses on a set of wooden steps with a lush garden to his right.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Curious listener Eric Johnson poses on the Filbert steps. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Normandie Terrace Steps:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis little-known but dizzying flight of stairs connects one street to a cul-de-sac far above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056079\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stairs connect Vallejo Street between Divisadero and Scott streets to the north end of Normandie Terrace in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>22nd Street and Vicksburg Steps:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis block is one of the steepest streets in the city. The grade? An estimated 31.5%. The sidewalk is a stairway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man makes his way up the staircase at 22nd and Vicksburg streets on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iron Alley Steps:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis steep stairway is no joke. One stair \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfstairways.com/stairways/iron-alley-clayton-street-to-corbett-avenue/\">database \u003c/a>lists measurements that amount to a 51% grade slope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056078\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wooden stairs connect Clayton Street near Market Street to Corbett Avenue at Iron Alley in San Francisco’s Upper Market/Twin Peaks neighborhood on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why People Love San Francisco’s Stairs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Kenin, stairway walks aren’t just about exercise or views. They’re about connecting with the city in a more mindful way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get a visceral experience,” she said. “It all of a sudden becomes quieter. You can see beauty with your eyes. You might smell a jasmine plant that is blooming in someone’s lawn right next to the stairway. … You could hear a hummingbird float by.”[aside postID=news_11185731 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1180x785.jpg']The stairs also offer a link to San Francisco’s history. Back in the day, when people got around on horseback, stairs were a practical pedestrian solution. Some streets were just too steep for horse-drawn carriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a cool connection to the past because people have been going up and down these stairways, probably some of them since the 1800s,” Kenin said. “So I like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re interested in walking some of San Francisco’s most iconic stairs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbanhikersf.com/sfstairmap\">check out Kenin’s stairway map to chart out a route of your own.\u003c/a> And, October happens to be \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/our-work/programs-events/sf-stairway-month/\">“SF Stairway Month,”\u003c/a> a new thing that started in 2024. So, it’s the perfect time to get out and explore!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Almost every day when I get home from work I strap on a baby carrier and take my one year old daughter, Esme, out for a walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>So, Esme and I are walking up the Franconia Street Steps in Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Esme humming\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>Look at that, Esme, you can see the fog comin’ in. Isn’t it beautiful?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Esme babbling sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Some of the stairways we take have swings on them. Others are beautifully cared for, with terraced gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>Hello. We love your steps, they’re so beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>All have sweeping views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>Phew, at the top of the hill now\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Esme sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>San Francisco has countless winding pathways like this, from simple wooden stairs to mosaiced climbs and utilitarian concrete steps. It’s incredibly charming and a delightful surprise to many visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>George Krause: \u003c/strong>Every neighborhood in San Francisco has got these hidden stairway watch Castro and Potrero Hill and Excelsior and you name it. You know, there’s, they’re everywhere. So it’s like a free, fun thing to do, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Our question asker this week, George Krause, is a photographer. He often comes to the city for work and likes to spend time on the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>George Krause: \u003c/strong>When I wasn’t shooting, you know, between shoots in San Francisco. That’s basically what I did — ride public transportation to a neighborhood that I had not been to before, and then just walk the streets with my camera, doing street photography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>San Francisco is one of the hilliest cities in the world — and stairs are often the most direct way to get from A to B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this got George wondering. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>George Krause:\u003c/strong> What is the longest stairway in San Francisco? What is the shortest? What is the steepest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>George’s question won a Bay Curious voting round, so we know many of you are stair-curious too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we’re devoting the show to walking San Francisco’s iconic stairways. We’ll meet some stair lovers and see what’s powering their uphill devotion. Then we’ll talk with a map expert to try and answer some basic questions about the city’s stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Katrina Schwartz, you’re listening to Bay Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>With more than 900 public stairways, it’s safe to say that San Francisco is a city of stairs. But when it comes to measuring them, there’s a lot more debate than data. Pinpointing the longest, the shortest, and the steepest stairways turned out to be a bigger challenge than we imagined, but Bay Curious producer Gabriela Glueck was up to the job. She met up with one stair fanatic to get some answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Alexandra Kenin is a quintessential stair enthusiast. She claims to have hiked 99.99% of all the city’s stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an obsession that started back in 2007, when she first moved to San Francisco and started leafing through some guidebooks her dad had given her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> So he gave me, at the time, what was popular, which was a Zagat guide for restaurants, and he gave me Stairway Walks in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Stairway Walks in San Francisco \u003c/em>was written by Adah Bakalinsky, the so-called Queen of San Francisco’s stairs. It’s got step-by-step directions to find hidden stairways, gives background info on neighborhood history and generally celebrates this unique side of San Francisco life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alex, that book became a lifesaver when the coronavirus pandemic hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> You know, we were stuck at home, and I was kind of going stir crazy. My partner and I found ourselves juggling a one and a half year old between meetings, and it was really stressful, and we needed a stress release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>So, she started walking, following Adah’s directions. Her quest? Walk \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of the city’s stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> You get a visceral experience …It all of a sudden becomes quieter. You can see beauty with your eyes. You might smell a jasmine plant that is blooming in someone’s lawn right next to the stairway. You could hear a hummingbird float by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>The stairs also offer a window into the city’s past. Back in the day, when people got around on horseback, stairs were a practical pedestrian solution. Some streets were just too steep for horse-drawn carriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin: \u003c/strong>And it’s kind of a cool connection to the past, because people have been going up and down these stairways, probably, some of them, since the 1800s, so I like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>But Alex has also brought stair walking into the 21st century with an online map that features many of Adah’s favorites as well as some new ones. If there’s anyone who can help me figure out the longest, shortest and steepest stairway — it’s Alex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll start with the shortest. Sansome Street, between Broadway and Pacific\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> There is literally a random one step, which makes me laugh. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>The Sansome Street step is on the edge of the city’s Financial District, with a nice view of the Transamerica Pyramid in the background. And then, the single stair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin: \u003c/strong>There’s literally railings like you would have on a multi-step stairway, yet there is just one stair. So it kind of looks like a stairway, because there’s stairway infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene:\u003c/strong> So here I am at the shortest staircase in San Francisco. It is just one step. For the sake of journalism, I’m gonna walk it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of taking a step\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>I feel like this is a good place to talk about the definition of a stairway. Some people would \u003cem>not\u003c/em> call this one-step a staircase … others would swear that it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> It really depends on your definition of a stairway. So I didn’t know if I should put that in there, but it is a stair. So I did want to include it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>Many people define a stairway as two or more steps. Alex says there are plenty of two-steppers throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to San Francisco Public Works — which maintains public rights of way, including stairs — the shortest stair is a five-stepper at 14th Avenue and Fanning Way. Do with that what you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> So I think it’s either the Filbert or Greenwich Street steps going up to Telegraph Hill. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>The Filbert and Greenwich Street steps are many people’s first guesses. They both offer scenic climbs up to Coit Tower. The lush Filbert Street steps are also home to a famous flock of parrots featured in film, “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Parrot sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>But — and this is where things started to get even trickier — how do you define “the longest?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin: OK\u003c/strong>, so we should debate, is it the longest continuous stairway? So when you do the Filbert or Greenwich Street steps, you are crossing various roads. So does that count?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>Or is it the most total steps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> Those two stairways, Greenwich Street steps, Filbert Street steps, are around 380 to 390.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>According to Public Works, the Oakhurst Lane stairs — on Mount Sutro near Laguna Honda Hospital — are actually the longest. That’s because, unlike Filbert and Greenwich, the lane is a continuous stairway; there aren’t roads in the middle breaking it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has fewer total steps, but climbs an estimated 290 feet. Making it the longest continuous stairway in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Alex and I headed to Mount Sutro to check it out for ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> Alright, here we go. We’re climbing the first flight of stairs. We’ve got some concrete steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of climbing stairs\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> It’s a foggy day. The eucalyptus trees are swaying. It’s a very atmospheric day. And if you take a look, it’s kind of funny. There’s moss growing on the stairs. I’m pretty sure it’s foggy here a lot of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>As we make our way up the steps, the city kind of fades away. It feels like an isolated residential path, sandwiched between houses. And, like many San Francisco stairs, it’s cared for by community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rick:\u003c/strong> I’m just clipping the poison oak so people can walk up and down Oakhurst Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>This is Rick, Alex and I ran into him on our walk. He lives in the neighborhood and has been walking the lane for 30 years. He’s seen all kinds of people on these steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rick: \u003c/strong>There was one guy, he was training to go up Mount Whitney, and he put on this really heavy pack, and I think he went up and down like 15 times. But this guy was sweating, and he was just like, step by step by step. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>OK, we’ve been to the shortest and longest stairways and my legs are officially warmed up. Time for part three of the question. What is the steepest stair? Or, as our question asker George reframed it, what’s the most challenging one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where I started to run into some \u003cem>real\u003c/em> trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin: \u003c/strong>This is a thing that people debate. What is the steepest Street in San Francisco? I can find 10 articles on the internet right now telling me different streets are the steepest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>There are a lot of close contenders and not a lot of accurate measuring going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Public Works about the steepest stairway, one representative said that quote, “We don’t track the steepest but likely will capture that in a longer-term asset management initiative.” Translation: they don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this seemed like the kind of problem you could answer, if only you had a digital mapping specialist in your corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>OK, the analysis question that I’m trying to answer is, which San Francisco City staircase is the steepest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>David Medeiros is a geospatial reference and instruction specialist at Stanford. Basically, a map expert.Which is why I sent him a city data set dedicated to structures in the public right-of-way, including stairs. Then I asked him for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>So, from a technical standpoint, the process is not difficult. So, you just need one other piece of data, and that’s an elevation model for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>David’s plan? Take a map of all the stairs and overlay it on a map of the city’s peaks and valleys and boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>OK, I have QGIS open, and I’m going to add the data sets now. … I’m going to bring in the 1-meter digital elevation model for San Francisco. \u003cem>(Fades under)\u003c/em> First, I’m going to go grab the SF stairs, or the stairs structures, line features and overlay them on the digital elevation model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>I’m fast forwarding here, but once he’s got the two maps, it’s a simple slope calculation. Rise over run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>So now I have a list or a table of the slope, the percent slopes for all of these things that the city has in this structures data set, that includes stairs and viaducts and retaining walls and that sort of stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene:\u003c/strong> And what is the steepest stair? What did you find?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>If you thought this was gonna be the payoff moment — so did I. But no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we started looking at our top steep contenders on Google Street View, many of them just didn’t look that steep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>The more difficult part of it is the data itself. It’s the staircase data is a mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>David says the lengths weren’t precise enough. That the public right-of-way info is more like a rough sketch. Not the kind of picture you could build a case on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>So I feel like, I feel like I failed a little bit, in a sense, like the all the work that we did, all the information it, the the actual workflow is fine. It works. The underlying elevation data is a good resource. It’s just that we don’t have good data for the stairs, the real stairs, what they really look like in the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>According to David, this data-to-real-world gap is a pretty common digital mapping challenge. Sometimes there’s no substitute for just going to see for yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene:\u003c/strong> So I’m at the first stop on the steepest stair tour, and we are at the Glendale street stairs, and they look pretty, pretty steep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>With the help of David’s data, Alex’s real-world experience, and countless internet searches, I compiled a list of top five \u003cem>potentially\u003c/em> — and I emphasize potentially — steepest stairs in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, I devoted an entire day to \u003cem>walking all of them.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first one? Glendale street stairs in Twin Peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene:\u003c/strong> They’re kind of boring. …They’re in between two apartment buildings, and below it is this really steep road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of walking\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene:\u003c/strong> OK, so I’m at the second stair stop on this steep stairs journey, and I’m at the Normandy terrace stairs in Pacific Heights. They’re very grand, they kind of zigzag up a vertical wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of walking up steps\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene, out of breath:\u003c/strong> You can see the bay and kind of the whole expanse of the city stretching out before you. And it is a pretty good view. And recommend you\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene:\u003c/strong> All right, I’m walking over to our next stair stop, and it’s 22nd Street and Vicksburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>These stairs are in Noe Valley… a small stretch of the 22nd street incline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene: \u003c/strong>So these are pretty amazing. It’s on an extremely steep San Francisco street, and the … basically, the sidewalk is a staircase. They’ve carved out stairs in the concrete because it’s just … it’s just too steep to walk by yourself. So here goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>This block is one of the steepest streets in the city. The grade? An estimated 31.5%. As local resident Laura tells me, it’s enough to make drivers change their plans. Also, she says it’s a prime spot for shenanigans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura: \u003c/strong>Halloween? People roll pumpkins down the hill. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene:\u003c/strong> So I’m here at the Iron Alley stairways in the Twin Peaks neighborhood, and this one looks pretty steep, not gonna lie, goes straight down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>Iron Alley is no joke. Averaging numbers from one stair website and my own online mapping endeavors, I’m estimating something around a 46- to-51% grade slope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene and out of breath: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>1.2.3.4.5.6. …\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>Given the information available and my experience walking them, I think Iron Alley might be the steepest stairway. Some neighborhood gardeners I met on the stairs seemed to agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neighbor: \u003c/strong>Man, you take a tumble, you could be going all the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>I have to say that defining the longest, shortest, and steepest stairs in San Francisco ended up being a lot harder than I’d imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in some ways, besides the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First stair love note:\u003c/strong> Really, I love stairs because they are a vital part of urban infrastructure, they are beautiful, they are a great workout, they give you a sense of accomplishment when you climb them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Second stair love note: \u003c/strong>It feels like I’m living in a game or story universe where I’m discovering new pieces of the map\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Third stair love note:\u003c/strong> My favorite hike is starting in the Forest Knolls neighborhood. The stairs are green and floating and surrounded by eucalyptus trees\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fourth stair love note:\u003c/strong> they are so beautiful and surprising and mysterious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Those were stair love notes from Bay Curious listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That story was brought to you by producer Gabriela Glueck. If you were listening closely, you may have noticed that Gabriela said she was going to walk the five steepest stairways, but she only talked about 4. You’re right! The fifth contender was the Filbert Street steps, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907457/how-the-filbert-steps-came-to-be-an-oasis-in-san-francisco\">we have an entire episode about the history of that stairway \u003c/a>and the beautiful garden that runs next to it. I’ll put a link in our show notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced at member-supported KQED in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz.\u003cbr>\nWith extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks for listening. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to Kenin, San Francisco’s shortest stair is a single step in the city’s Financial District. It’s on Sansome Street, between Broadway and Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s literally railings like you would have on a multi-step stairway, yet there is just one stair,” Kenin said. “So it kind of looks like a stairway, because there’s stairway infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people would not call this one step a stairway; others would swear that it is. San Francisco Public Works, which maintains public rights of way, including stairs, offers an alternative. They list the city’s shortest stair as a five-stepper at \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/yTWf4T9d8a7XXxHD6\">14th Avenue and Fanning Way.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Longest Stairway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you ask most San Franciscans to name the city’s longest stairway, they’ll probably point you towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907457/how-the-filbert-steps-came-to-be-an-oasis-in-san-francisco\">the famous Filbert or Greenwich steps\u003c/a>. Located in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood, they both offer scenic climbs up to Coit Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a catch: those stairways are broken up by roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730_BAY-CURIOUS_-STAIRS_-0005_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Kenin pauses at the top of Oakhurst Lane, the longest staircase in San Francisco, on July 30, 2025. The staircase winds through the Forest Knolls neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So we should debate, is it the longest continuous stairway?” Kenin queried. Or is it the most total steps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Public Works, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfstairways.com/stairways/oakhurst-lane/\">Oakhurst Lane stairs\u003c/a> are actually the longest. They’re on the sloping hillside of Mount Sutro near Laguna Honda Hospital. Unlike the Telegraph Hill steps, Oakhurst Lane is uninterrupted — a steady climb that amounts to an estimated 290 feet. That’s roughly 10 feet higher than the Filbert and Greenwich steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Steepest Stairway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nailing down San Francisco’s steepest staircase is even trickier. Public works doesn’t track the steepest stairways, and it’s hard to pull together accurate data about the city’s stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But based on some Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping endeavors and Kenin’s real-life experience, here are a few top contenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Filbert Street Steps:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThese steps are scenic and punishing, climbing through lush gardens up Telegraph Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a red t-shirt, sunglasses and backpack poses on a set of wooden steps with a lush garden to his right.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Curious listener Eric Johnson poses on the Filbert steps. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Normandie Terrace Steps:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis little-known but dizzying flight of stairs connects one street to a cul-de-sac far above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056079\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0015_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stairs connect Vallejo Street between Divisadero and Scott streets to the north end of Normandie Terrace in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>22nd Street and Vicksburg Steps:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis block is one of the steepest streets in the city. The grade? An estimated 31.5%. The sidewalk is a stairway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man makes his way up the staircase at 22nd and Vicksburg streets on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iron Alley Steps:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis steep stairway is no joke. One stair \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfstairways.com/stairways/iron-alley-clayton-street-to-corbett-avenue/\">database \u003c/a>lists measurements that amount to a 51% grade slope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056078\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_BAY-CURIOUS-STAIRS-0011_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wooden stairs connect Clayton Street near Market Street to Corbett Avenue at Iron Alley in San Francisco’s Upper Market/Twin Peaks neighborhood on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why People Love San Francisco’s Stairs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Kenin, stairway walks aren’t just about exercise or views. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Almost every day when I get home from work I strap on a baby carrier and take my one year old daughter, Esme, out for a walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>So, Esme and I are walking up the Franconia Street Steps in Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Esme humming\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>Look at that, Esme, you can see the fog comin’ in. Isn’t it beautiful?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Esme babbling sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Some of the stairways we take have swings on them. Others are beautifully cared for, with terraced gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>Hello. We love your steps, they’re so beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>All have sweeping views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>Phew, at the top of the hill now\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Esme sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>San Francisco has countless winding pathways like this, from simple wooden stairs to mosaiced climbs and utilitarian concrete steps. It’s incredibly charming and a delightful surprise to many visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>George Krause: \u003c/strong>Every neighborhood in San Francisco has got these hidden stairway watch Castro and Potrero Hill and Excelsior and you name it. You know, there’s, they’re everywhere. So it’s like a free, fun thing to do, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Our question asker this week, George Krause, is a photographer. He often comes to the city for work and likes to spend time on the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>George Krause: \u003c/strong>When I wasn’t shooting, you know, between shoots in San Francisco. That’s basically what I did — ride public transportation to a neighborhood that I had not been to before, and then just walk the streets with my camera, doing street photography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>San Francisco is one of the hilliest cities in the world — and stairs are often the most direct way to get from A to B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this got George wondering. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>George Krause:\u003c/strong> What is the longest stairway in San Francisco? What is the shortest? What is the steepest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>George’s question won a Bay Curious voting round, so we know many of you are stair-curious too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we’re devoting the show to walking San Francisco’s iconic stairways. We’ll meet some stair lovers and see what’s powering their uphill devotion. Then we’ll talk with a map expert to try and answer some basic questions about the city’s stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Katrina Schwartz, you’re listening to Bay Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>With more than 900 public stairways, it’s safe to say that San Francisco is a city of stairs. But when it comes to measuring them, there’s a lot more debate than data. Pinpointing the longest, the shortest, and the steepest stairways turned out to be a bigger challenge than we imagined, but Bay Curious producer Gabriela Glueck was up to the job. She met up with one stair fanatic to get some answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Alexandra Kenin is a quintessential stair enthusiast. She claims to have hiked 99.99% of all the city’s stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an obsession that started back in 2007, when she first moved to San Francisco and started leafing through some guidebooks her dad had given her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> So he gave me, at the time, what was popular, which was a Zagat guide for restaurants, and he gave me Stairway Walks in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Stairway Walks in San Francisco \u003c/em>was written by Adah Bakalinsky, the so-called Queen of San Francisco’s stairs. It’s got step-by-step directions to find hidden stairways, gives background info on neighborhood history and generally celebrates this unique side of San Francisco life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alex, that book became a lifesaver when the coronavirus pandemic hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> You know, we were stuck at home, and I was kind of going stir crazy. My partner and I found ourselves juggling a one and a half year old between meetings, and it was really stressful, and we needed a stress release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>So, she started walking, following Adah’s directions. Her quest? Walk \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of the city’s stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> You get a visceral experience …It all of a sudden becomes quieter. You can see beauty with your eyes. You might smell a jasmine plant that is blooming in someone’s lawn right next to the stairway. You could hear a hummingbird float by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>The stairs also offer a window into the city’s past. Back in the day, when people got around on horseback, stairs were a practical pedestrian solution. Some streets were just too steep for horse-drawn carriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin: \u003c/strong>And it’s kind of a cool connection to the past, because people have been going up and down these stairways, probably, some of them, since the 1800s, so I like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>But Alex has also brought stair walking into the 21st century with an online map that features many of Adah’s favorites as well as some new ones. If there’s anyone who can help me figure out the longest, shortest and steepest stairway — it’s Alex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll start with the shortest. Sansome Street, between Broadway and Pacific\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> There is literally a random one step, which makes me laugh. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>The Sansome Street step is on the edge of the city’s Financial District, with a nice view of the Transamerica Pyramid in the background. And then, the single stair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin: \u003c/strong>There’s literally railings like you would have on a multi-step stairway, yet there is just one stair. So it kind of looks like a stairway, because there’s stairway infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in scene:\u003c/strong> So here I am at the shortest staircase in San Francisco. It is just one step. For the sake of journalism, I’m gonna walk it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of taking a step\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>I feel like this is a good place to talk about the definition of a stairway. Some people would \u003cem>not\u003c/em> call this one-step a staircase … others would swear that it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> It really depends on your definition of a stairway. So I didn’t know if I should put that in there, but it is a stair. So I did want to include it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>Many people define a stairway as two or more steps. Alex says there are plenty of two-steppers throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to San Francisco Public Works — which maintains public rights of way, including stairs — the shortest stair is a five-stepper at 14th Avenue and Fanning Way. Do with that what you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> So I think it’s either the Filbert or Greenwich Street steps going up to Telegraph Hill. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>The Filbert and Greenwich Street steps are many people’s first guesses. They both offer scenic climbs up to Coit Tower. The lush Filbert Street steps are also home to a famous flock of parrots featured in film, “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Parrot sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>But — and this is where things started to get even trickier — how do you define “the longest?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin: OK\u003c/strong>, so we should debate, is it the longest continuous stairway? So when you do the Filbert or Greenwich Street steps, you are crossing various roads. So does that count?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>Or is it the most total steps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> Those two stairways, Greenwich Street steps, Filbert Street steps, are around 380 to 390.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>According to Public Works, the Oakhurst Lane stairs — on Mount Sutro near Laguna Honda Hospital — are actually the longest. That’s because, unlike Filbert and Greenwich, the lane is a continuous stairway; there aren’t roads in the middle breaking it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has fewer total steps, but climbs an estimated 290 feet. Making it the longest continuous stairway in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Alex and I headed to Mount Sutro to check it out for ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> Alright, here we go. We’re climbing the first flight of stairs. We’ve got some concrete steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of climbing stairs\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin:\u003c/strong> It’s a foggy day. The eucalyptus trees are swaying. It’s a very atmospheric day. And if you take a look, it’s kind of funny. There’s moss growing on the stairs. I’m pretty sure it’s foggy here a lot of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>As we make our way up the steps, the city kind of fades away. It feels like an isolated residential path, sandwiched between houses. And, like many San Francisco stairs, it’s cared for by community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rick:\u003c/strong> I’m just clipping the poison oak so people can walk up and down Oakhurst Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>This is Rick, Alex and I ran into him on our walk. He lives in the neighborhood and has been walking the lane for 30 years. He’s seen all kinds of people on these steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rick: \u003c/strong>There was one guy, he was training to go up Mount Whitney, and he put on this really heavy pack, and I think he went up and down like 15 times. But this guy was sweating, and he was just like, step by step by step. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>OK, we’ve been to the shortest and longest stairways and my legs are officially warmed up. Time for part three of the question. What is the steepest stair? Or, as our question asker George reframed it, what’s the most challenging one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where I started to run into some \u003cem>real\u003c/em> trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexandra Kenin: \u003c/strong>This is a thing that people debate. What is the steepest Street in San Francisco? I can find 10 articles on the internet right now telling me different streets are the steepest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>There are a lot of close contenders and not a lot of accurate measuring going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Public Works about the steepest stairway, one representative said that quote, “We don’t track the steepest but likely will capture that in a longer-term asset management initiative.” Translation: they don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this seemed like the kind of problem you could answer, if only you had a digital mapping specialist in your corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>OK, the analysis question that I’m trying to answer is, which San Francisco City staircase is the steepest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>David Medeiros is a geospatial reference and instruction specialist at Stanford. Basically, a map expert.Which is why I sent him a city data set dedicated to structures in the public right-of-way, including stairs. Then I asked him for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>So, from a technical standpoint, the process is not difficult. So, you just need one other piece of data, and that’s an elevation model for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>David’s plan? Take a map of all the stairs and overlay it on a map of the city’s peaks and valleys and boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Medeiros: \u003c/strong>OK, I have QGIS open, and I’m going to add the data sets now. … I’m going to bring in the 1-meter digital elevation model for San Francisco. \u003cem>(Fades under)\u003c/em> First, I’m going to go grab the SF stairs, or the stairs structures, line features and overlay them on the digital elevation model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/strong>I’m fast forwarding here, but once he’s got the two maps, it’s a simple slope calculation. 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I’ll put a link in our show notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced at member-supported KQED in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz.\u003cbr>\nWith extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks for listening. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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