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The couple and other tenants in their 39-unit building say they plan to try to negotiate rent forgiveness with their landlord, San Francisco-based Mosser Companies. They say the only thing keeping them housed now is Oakland’s eviction moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the relief, there’s no way we would be able to afford rent right now,” Hodson said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal pandemic assistance came through in a big way for their landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government records show Mosser Companies received a loan of between $2 million and $5 million under the Paycheck Protection Program, passed by Congress in March to help small businesses avoid layoffs during the pandemic. 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You’ll call it ‘home,’ ” the company’s website says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says the thought that federal assistance has been unable to help him and his wife meet their rent while Mosser got millions in federal support makes him furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them to take advantage of a program like this that’s intended for small business — that doesn’t have access to capital in the way that they do — it’s just kind of insulting that they would abuse the program in that way,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies did not respond to repeated requests for comment on its loan and its response to tenants in Furtkamp’s building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser is just one of several large Bay Area property and development firms that scored PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among companies identified for KQED by tenant advocates and industry sources are some of the region’s biggest landlords. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Emerald Fund, developer of 37 projects with more than 5,000 housing units, received a loan of between $1 and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maximus Real Estate Partners, which manages San Francisco’s Parkmerced, got a loan of $2 million to $5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reliant Group Management, which manages 23 properties in the Bay Area and more than 70 in the United States, received between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grosvenor Properties, which manages four properties in San Francisco, got between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Woodmont Real Estate Services, which owns roughly 80 multifamily properties across California, received between $5 million and $10 million\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Deep Pockets — and Big Loans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The news comes on the heels of public outcry over a $3.6 million PPP loan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11818912/after-pelosi-pressure-sf-biggest-landlord-veritas-says-they-will-repay-loan\">granted to Veritas Investments\u003c/a>. San Francisco’s biggest landlord, the company owns and operates more than 250 apartment buildings in the city and has $3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans have received negative attention in part because of some companies’ poor reputations with tenants and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms on the list, such as Veritas, have been criticized in the past for allegedly trying to push tenants out of rent-controlled buildings. 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But if they didn’t, borrowing has become more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were, say, saying, ‘Oh, I need to pull out cash to shore up my cash flow for the next six months,’ it’d be a very difficult thing to do right now,” he said. That’s because it is “really hard to refinance in this market,” Quinn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason banks would be reluctant to refinance is that borrowers might not have a reliable flow of rent payments because so many tenants have lost income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn said that the vast majority of tenants have kept up with rent payments so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent payments, rent collections have been pretty good until July,” Quinn said. “We saw roughly over 95% of all renters paying their rent” nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Quinn added, who is vulnerable depends on when you bought your properties. 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And one writes a term sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which builds “co-living” apartment units meant to appeal to younger tenants, took out a $1.2 million PPP loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount pales in comparison to the hundreds of millions it needs to build its projects, but Dishotsky says it’s helped the company get through the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our corporate entity certainly could have run into a lot of trouble” without the PPP loan, which he said was used to hire back about six furloughed staffers out of a total of roughly 50. According to Small Business Administration data, Starcity said it retained 42 jobs with its loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his company may be able to raise some capital, Dishotsky said, PPP loans had another favorable feature: speed. Investments may take time to raise, but the PPP loan let them pay employees right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, said “it makes sense to me” why property management firms and housing developers would need PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge dislocation in the lending market,” David said. “Projects they were counting on to bring in revenue got delayed and may have been delayed indefinitely, and they still have expenses to pay with employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to complaints that firms like Veritas with its massive property portfolio don’t need government help, David said “just because they manage assets of $3 billion doesn’t mean those assets are on their balance sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Deserves a PPP Loan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Should big Bay Area property owners and developers have benefited from PPP loans? Debbie Nunez, a San Francisco native and Lowell High School graduate doesn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last three decades she’s lived in a Sutter Street apartment building that Veritas bought about five years ago. She hasn’t had a particularly happy relationship with her new landlord, which launched what she’s certain was unnecessary construction inside her building. She filed an administrative appeal with the city to stop the construction, which Veritas critics say the company has used as a tactic to oust tenants from rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than a dozen Veritas tenant activists, Nunez trooped to the Russian Hill home of Veritas CEO Yat-Pang Au one Sunday last month to read a letter demanding that the company distribute at least some of its $3.6 million PPP loan to small businesses that are struggling through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veritas does not qualify as a small business in need,” Nunez said. One sign of that, his tenants say: Au’s own personal wealth, estimated by Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-25/landlord-who-built-3-billion-san-francisco-empire-draws-fire#:~:text=He%20got%20the%20first%20taste,million%2C%20according%20to%20Bloomberg%20estimates.\">at more than $100 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paycheck Protection Program was initially aimed at companies with 500 employees or fewer and later adjusted to include companies with more workers who met the federal definition of a “small business.” PPP loans can be forgiven if the recipients can prove the funds were used to keep employees on payrolls or for a limited set of other business needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832140\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-800x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-800x632.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-1020x806.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-1536x1214.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Nunez is fighting Veritas over construction in her multifamily apartment building. She claims the work is unnecessary. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because many property management firms operate under “a very unique circumstance” — they have outsize assets and revenues but relatively few employees — they could easily meet that basic PPP requirement, despite the program being touted publicly as being aimed at small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JLL’s Alexander Quinn notes that the program’s primary goal was to get a lot of cash into the economy quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the PPP was mostly a shotgun approach. It wasn’t really about, you know, who is deserving, or who isn’t,” Quinn said. “Setting the rules was not as important as just the urgency of delivering the funds to private companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There really is no referee,” Quinn added. “So as a result, a lot of people were opportunistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Limited Offer of Help, Then ‘Total Silence’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As to how property firms that got PPP loans are behaving toward tenants, Quinn says some California companies have provided rental relief to tenants during the pandemic. Notably, on Thursday, San Francisco’s largest landlord – Veritas – offered 50% rent forgiveness for tenants between April and July, if they enter a repayment plan for the remaining rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Quinn noted, “others have not” offered rent relief, and what little has been offered has been extremely limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brianne Hodson\"]‘Every month we have this terrified waiting period of seeing whether the City Council and the Board of Supervisors will extend the [eviction] protections that are in place.’[/pullquote]Oakland tenants Ryan Furtkamp and Brianne Hodson say that their PPP recipient landlord, Mosser Companies, has offered some help — but not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp and Hodson have organized with fellow tenants with the help of housing advocacy group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Mosser offered to give tenants up to six months to repay their back rent — an offer Furtkamp said is simply unaffordable for him and most of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since then, total silence in terms of willingness to work with tenants who haven’t been able to pay rent. What they have been doing though, is harassing tenants who haven’t been able to pay rent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notices began appearing outside apartments declaring them “abandoned” and warning that they would soon be entered by Mosser employees. Tours would be given for prospective new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Furtkamp said the apartments have not been abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those neighbors simply stopped paying rent, he says. They can’t be evicted at this point because Oakland, Alameda County and the state of California all have eviction moratoriums in place. In Furtkamp’s view, Mosser’s declaration of abandonment is sinister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Mosser, a property management company, at an apartment building in Oakland on July 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to email Mosser and be like, ‘Hey, this is a violation of the county health code that is ordering the shelter in place. Have you attempted to even make contact with this person to see if they’re still here?’ ” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email response from Mosser to Furtkamp and Hodson, the company said it was canceling the threatened property tours “due to resident concerns regarding visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says Mosser’s PPP loan could be a help — to neighborhood businesses that are struggling because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our neighborhood alone, we’re seeing some bars and restaurants that just aren’t going to be able to survive, that have closed already,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And soon, Furtkamp and Hodson say, they may have to leave the neighborhood, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we’re renters,” Hodson said. “We don’t have assets. The eviction moratorium has been really essential to us staying afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every month we have this terrified waiting period of seeing whether the City Council and the Board of Supervisors will extend the protections that are in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the eviction moratoriums end, she said, they will have to make “very hard” decisions. Should they be ousted from their apartment, she said she doesn’t have answers on what they would do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about it every day,” Hodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Editor’s note: KQED is among the local businesses and media organizations that have received a PPP loan. This helps us continue to provide essential information and service to our audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correction: This story originally reported that San Francisco’s Grosvenor Properties, which received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, owns buildings in Japan, France and China. In fact, it’s a separate company, Grosvenor Americas, which did not receive a PPP loan, that owns those overseas properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government records show Mosser Companies received a loan of between $2 million and $5 million under the Paycheck Protection Program, passed by Congress in March to help small businesses avoid layoffs during the pandemic. The data, posted last month by the federal Small Business Administration, shows loan amounts in broad ranges, not specific amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s property management arm, Mosser Living, offers rental units in 55 properties across San Francisco, 20 properties in Oakland and eight properties in Los Angeles, promising a “blend” of “vintage with modern upgrades in all the right places, striking the perfect balance between authentic and awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call this Mosser Living. You’ll call it ‘home,’ ” the company’s website says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says the thought that federal assistance has been unable to help him and his wife meet their rent while Mosser got millions in federal support makes him furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them to take advantage of a program like this that’s intended for small business — that doesn’t have access to capital in the way that they do — it’s just kind of insulting that they would abuse the program in that way,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies did not respond to repeated requests for comment on its loan and its response to tenants in Furtkamp’s building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser is just one of several large Bay Area property and development firms that scored PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among companies identified for KQED by tenant advocates and industry sources are some of the region’s biggest landlords. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Emerald Fund, developer of 37 projects with more than 5,000 housing units, received a loan of between $1 and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maximus Real Estate Partners, which manages San Francisco’s Parkmerced, got a loan of $2 million to $5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reliant Group Management, which manages 23 properties in the Bay Area and more than 70 in the United States, received between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grosvenor Properties, which manages four properties in San Francisco, got between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Woodmont Real Estate Services, which owns roughly 80 multifamily properties across California, received between $5 million and $10 million\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Deep Pockets — and Big Loans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The news comes on the heels of public outcry over a $3.6 million PPP loan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11818912/after-pelosi-pressure-sf-biggest-landlord-veritas-says-they-will-repay-loan\">granted to Veritas Investments\u003c/a>. San Francisco’s biggest landlord, the company owns and operates more than 250 apartment buildings in the city and has $3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans have received negative attention in part because of some companies’ poor reputations with tenants and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms on the list, such as Veritas, have been criticized in the past for allegedly trying to push tenants out of rent-controlled buildings. Others, such as Maximus, have been the target of community anger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10984844/the-monster-is-back-updated-proposal-for-project-at-16th-and-mission\">for proposing projects that could gentrify neighborhoods and displace longtime residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians, pundits, housing rights activists and those renting from these corporate landlords also argue that the loan recipients are too big and too wealthy to need government help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/3374695/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%!;margin-top: 4px!important;text-align: right!important\">\u003ca class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important\" href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/3374695/?utm_source=embed&utm_campaign=visualisation/3374695\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important;height: 16px!important;border: none!important;margin: 0!important\" src=\"https://public.flourish.studio/resources/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies, for instance, includes Mosser Capital, which offers real estate investment opportunities and boasts $1.3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local firms that got PPP loans illustrate the massive amounts of capital that property firms are dealing in as they buy, sell and invest in Bay Area real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starcity Properties, which received a loan of between $1 and $2 million, owns seven buildings in San Francisco and two in Oakland. It has offered properties on the market for as much as $30 million and sold properties for $11 million and $16 million, according to filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballast Investments, which received a PPP loan between $1 and $2 million, manages $97 million in assets, according to its SEC filings, with custody of $38 million across 78 clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Tough Borrowing Environment for Property Managers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But those working in the real estate industry say some of these wealthy-looking firms may need the short-term help the PPP loans can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander Quinn, director of research for Northern California at real estate services firm JLL, says big property owners typically have access to what’s often called “dry powder” — buildings in their portfolio that can be refinanced to raise cash reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, some of them pulled some of that out, put it into cash, but a lot of them didn’t,” Quinn said. But if they didn’t, borrowing has become more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were, say, saying, ‘Oh, I need to pull out cash to shore up my cash flow for the next six months,’ it’d be a very difficult thing to do right now,” he said. That’s because it is “really hard to refinance in this market,” Quinn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason banks would be reluctant to refinance is that borrowers might not have a reliable flow of rent payments because so many tenants have lost income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn said that the vast majority of tenants have kept up with rent payments so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent payments, rent collections have been pretty good until July,” Quinn said. “We saw roughly over 95% of all renters paying their rent” nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Quinn added, who is vulnerable depends on when you bought your properties. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Starcity Properties CEO Jon Dishotsky said that the availability of capital, including cash to meet payroll, has changed dramatically since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of a hundred people I normally talk to for capital … 30 write a term sheet in a normal environment, and I get down to three or five (funders) at the end of the day,” he said. “Now, out of a hundred people, five pick up the phone. And one writes a term sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which builds “co-living” apartment units meant to appeal to younger tenants, took out a $1.2 million PPP loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount pales in comparison to the hundreds of millions it needs to build its projects, but Dishotsky says it’s helped the company get through the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our corporate entity certainly could have run into a lot of trouble” without the PPP loan, which he said was used to hire back about six furloughed staffers out of a total of roughly 50. According to Small Business Administration data, Starcity said it retained 42 jobs with its loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his company may be able to raise some capital, Dishotsky said, PPP loans had another favorable feature: speed. Investments may take time to raise, but the PPP loan let them pay employees right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, said “it makes sense to me” why property management firms and housing developers would need PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge dislocation in the lending market,” David said. “Projects they were counting on to bring in revenue got delayed and may have been delayed indefinitely, and they still have expenses to pay with employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to complaints that firms like Veritas with its massive property portfolio don’t need government help, David said “just because they manage assets of $3 billion doesn’t mean those assets are on their balance sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Deserves a PPP Loan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Should big Bay Area property owners and developers have benefited from PPP loans? Debbie Nunez, a San Francisco native and Lowell High School graduate doesn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last three decades she’s lived in a Sutter Street apartment building that Veritas bought about five years ago. She hasn’t had a particularly happy relationship with her new landlord, which launched what she’s certain was unnecessary construction inside her building. She filed an administrative appeal with the city to stop the construction, which Veritas critics say the company has used as a tactic to oust tenants from rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than a dozen Veritas tenant activists, Nunez trooped to the Russian Hill home of Veritas CEO Yat-Pang Au one Sunday last month to read a letter demanding that the company distribute at least some of its $3.6 million PPP loan to small businesses that are struggling through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veritas does not qualify as a small business in need,” Nunez said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hyunjoo Albrecht runs a kimchi and hot sauce manufacturing company called \u003ca href=\"https://sintogourmet.com/\">Sinto Gourmet\u003c/a>. Over the last decade, she has had an unusually intimate vantage on “food tech” companies. That’s because she has been a landlord to many of the Silicon Valley delivery apps and other venture-backed businesses who were trying to “disrupt the food space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the story of how Albrecht had to partner with these companies to build her own food business in the Bay Area, why she vowed to stop working with them and how in the pandemic she ended up partnering with a company that had burned her in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11832209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hyunjoo Albrecht works in her Bayview kitchen to package kimchi on Aug. 6, 2020. Albrecht began selling the products in grocery stores and then directly to individuals. Eventually, the business grew enough that she needed a commercial kitchen \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Road to a Sustainable Business\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike food tech companies that spring to life with venture capital, it took Albrecht years to build her business. She immigrated from South Korea in 2003 and started Sinto Gourmet with some recipes from her North Korean grandmother. Then she started slowly expanding her fermented offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sells tubs of spicy napa cabbage kimchi. There is a mild version and a crunchy option. In 2014, she started selling a mixture of fermented California root vegetables: red beets, daikon, turnips, rutabaga and carrots. Alongside the kimchi, Albrecht has developed two hot sauces: tangy apple and sesame garlic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"food\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht began selling the products in grocery stores and then directly to individuals. Eventually, the business grew enough that she needed a commercial kitchen, which is hard to find in San Francisco. So she decided to take her life savings and build a large kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her kitchen is one of the larger commercial cooking facilities in the city. It's in a roughly 5,000-square-foot warehouse in the Bayview neighborhood. The walk-in freezer alone is 500 square feet. She jokes that it's bigger than most one-bedroom apartments in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht's plan was to make her kimchi there and rent out the extra space to other local cooks. But the tenants that flocked to her space were not small independent chefs, but instead venture capital-backed food companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albercht began leasing them unused space in her kitchen. Many of the companies she leased space to came with big plans and then disappeared when they ran out of venture capital. 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Albrecht's kitchen is one of the larger commercial cooking facilities in the city. It's in a roughly 5,000-square-foot warehouse in the Bayview neighborhood. The walk-in freezer alone is 500 square feet. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Different Business Philosophy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years in the U.S., there have been over 2,000 venture capital investments made into what folks call \"food tech companies,” which includes everything from delivery to bioengineered meat. According to a report from a venture capital fund called AgFunder, there was almost $20 billion invested in 2019 alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the companies that have sprung up over the years, like Sprig and Munchery, have gone bust. At KQED, we covered how the local chefs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801762/meet-the-baker-who-got-her-money-back-from-the-venture-capitalists\">Munchery was working with had to fight for over a year\u003c/a> to get paid the debts they were owed when the business closed. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Hyunjoo Albrecht']'They just don’t listen. The only things they care about are their goals, their investors and their ‘scalability.’'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Albrecht watched these kinds of food tech companies come and go in her kitchen, she’s sometimes tried to give the young executives tips. “They just don’t listen,” Albrecht says. “The only things they care about are their goals, their investors and their ‘scalability.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht says most of the people she has met at these companies are very different from her and owners of other local food businesses. She struggled to characterize the difference, but it was more than just their corporate philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the people she knows trying to make a living selling food are immigrants, women and people of color — far different than the food tech would-be entrepreneurs. “They are young, white,” she says, “the kind of people you see in a J. Crew catalog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a big difference in who they bring in to work at their companies. Albrecht hires local workers to make her kimchi, many of whom have worked preparing and handling food for years. They look very different from the workers at the food tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these people they hire are also from Silicon Valley companies who have no experience in a food manufacturing company,” Albrecht says. “Often these positions are for logistics, operations, marketing, all those people. Those are the people they hire.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One anecdote about a former tenant of hers really hits home regarding how different her business is from their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tenant with a meal kit company wanted to automate filling a container with a few ounces of sauce, so Albrecht says they bought a giant machine to squeeze sauce into cups. It came in on a big pallet, and it was a huge operation to assemble. Albrecht says they were really excited about this machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when they finally got it hooked up, it didn’t work as expected. She can’t help laughing while she tells the story. “When the sauce comes out of this machine and lands into the little saucer cup it doesn’t land 'pretty' enough. So they just stopped using it. They just left it there.” The giant machine sat hulking on a pallet, unused, for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht says she she quickly realized her tenants weren’t trying to build a sustainable business like her. They were swinging for the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to grow little by little,” Albrecht says, “and luckily I have never lost money. My business is profitable. I can pay myself. I can pay my employees. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’re a Bay Area parent, you’ve probably heard by now that most schools are starting the fall in distance learning mode. That’s got some parents looking to create or find small in-person learning groups for their kids as they seek to limit their exposure to COVID-19 and blunt the havoc remote learning is wreaking on child care needs and educational norms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the idea of so-called pandemic pods is catching fire, so, too, are concerns that these arrangements will worsen inequities among students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley mom Liana Chavarín said that despite the best efforts of her 9-year-old son's public school teachers, the experience of distance learning during the spring semester after schools were shut down was “absolute hell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While trying to keep the preschool she founded and its staff afloat, she was also overseeing her son’s Zoom lessons and homework. 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The frenzy is palpable. The types of pods and small groupings proliferating through grassroots networks and being discussed on Facebook groups (one hub quadrupled in size to nearly 30,000 members in little more than a week) vary in form. Some are shared child care arrangements, others are more like microschools with tutors and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By design, however, there is one thing about pandemic pods that remains constant: exclusivity. 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She thought that didn’t sit well with one mom she courted who had been more strictly sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After meeting with this one person, I just feel like she's going to say no,” Wildenberg said. “I don't want her to say no. But on the other hand, I think she's going to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildenberg instead ended up securing a spot for her daughter at the preschool she attended in the spring, which opened a kindergarten program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safety concerns can be an even bigger barrier for families with living arrangements or jobs that are perceived as less safe — say, a grocery store or health care worker, or residents of a multifamily household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some well-intentioned families have floated the idea of sponsoring other children in their pod, for example by covering that child’s share of the costs for a tutor, safety concerns can thwart such a match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Oakland mom Elisa Cecaci supports the much-debated idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's vital that a child with less resources be offered a space, tutoring,” Cecaci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elisa Cecaci and her two sons Keli'i, 6, and Kanoa, 18, at their home in Oakland on July 27, 2020. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elisa Cecaci and her two sons Keli'i, 6, and Kanoa, 18, at their home in Oakland on July 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cecaci has been working behind the scenes in online forums to try to get moms — yes, they’re mostly moms — to think more critically about issues of fairness and community. That’s despite the fact that she won’t be participating in a pod herself. One of her sons has Type 1 diabetes. Their grandmother, 72, also lives in the home. Cecaci feared that her son and his grandmother would be more vulnerable to COVID-19, so she quit her lifelong job as a nanny and said it’s unlikely she’ll send the boys back to a physical school until there is a vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cecaci is committed to sticking with distance learning for another reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thing that's really sad for me is that in all the time that all four of my sons have been in school, it has been maybe once or twice that they've had an African American male teacher,” she said. “[My son] has an African American male teacher this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, her husband’s income as a truck driver will allow their first grader to continue on — virtually — at the private school where he has a teacher who resembles him. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’re a Bay Area parent, you’ve probably heard by now that most schools are starting the fall in distance learning mode. That’s got some parents looking to create or find small in-person learning groups for their kids as they seek to limit their exposure to COVID-19 and blunt the havoc remote learning is wreaking on child care needs and educational norms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the idea of so-called pandemic pods is catching fire, so, too, are concerns that these arrangements will worsen inequities among students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley mom Liana Chavarín said that despite the best efforts of her 9-year-old son's public school teachers, the experience of distance learning during the spring semester after schools were shut down was “absolute hell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While trying to keep the preschool she founded and its staff afloat, she was also overseeing her son’s Zoom lessons and homework. She even recruited relatives to virtually tutor him while she worked. But it got to be too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we ended up just saying, forget it,” Chavarín said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t an easy choice, she said, in part because of the attitudes ingrained in her as the child of Mexican immigrant parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming from a background common in immigrant communities, you listen to the teacher. You do the work. You don't question the teacher,” Chavarín said. “ I had to just let that go and say, ‘You know what? We can't do it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Chavarín and her son came up with an individual learning plan and schedule of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fall approaching, she decided to go even further: She withdrew her son from public school. Even if it were to reopen for in-person instruction, she wants to avoid yet another transition. As a single mom who sends money back to support her parents, she's also worried about either of them catching the virus if school campuses were to reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Chavarín plans to expand her preschool, the Berkeley Forest School, to create small pods for her son and other elementary school-aged children in the same boat. She plans to prioritize former preschoolers, other families of color, and less-resourced families. She’s already hearing from parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just emailed me off the bat and they want to pay double to guarantee them a spot,” Chavarín said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said she isn’t offering enrollment to the highest bidder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents in her preschool pay a sliding scale of tuition from anywhere between $50 to $2,000 per month, and she intends to do the same with the elementary groupings as part of her mission to “center less-resourced families, and families of color seeking a safer space (outdoors) to have community and mitigate risk, since we all know of the inequity in medical care for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832045\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44041_003_KQED_Berkeley_ForestPreschoolPortrait_07242020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Liana Chavarín runs the private Berkeley Forest School and is expanding it to include small learning groups for elementary-school-aged students.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44041_003_KQED_Berkeley_ForestPreschoolPortrait_07242020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44041_003_KQED_Berkeley_ForestPreschoolPortrait_07242020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44041_003_KQED_Berkeley_ForestPreschoolPortrait_07242020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44041_003_KQED_Berkeley_ForestPreschoolPortrait_07242020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44041_003_KQED_Berkeley_ForestPreschoolPortrait_07242020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liana Chavarín runs the private Berkeley Forest School and is expanding it to include small learning groups for elementary school-aged students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Chavarín’s profession allowed for a fortuitous fix to her child care and educational woes, many parents aren’t so well positioned. The frenzy is palpable. The types of pods and small groupings proliferating through grassroots networks and being discussed on Facebook groups (one hub quadrupled in size to nearly 30,000 members in little more than a week) vary in form. Some are shared child care arrangements, others are more like microschools with tutors and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By design, however, there is one thing about pandemic pods that remains constant: exclusivity. Who gets in and who's left out isn’t just about money, however; it can be about how strictly your family is quarantining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When El Cerrito mother of two Andrea Wildenberg heard that her eldest daughter wouldn't be able to start kindergarten in a classroom, she thought, “I just can't do another year of just ignoring her while I sit at my laptop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildenberg explored joining together with another family to bring in a tutor to teach and also give the kids some opportunity to socialize, maybe in her own backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she sensed that others might not share the same standards when it came to quarantining. Wildenberg said her family is careful — both she and her husband work from home, but they do take their kids out for hikes and other allowed activities. She thought that didn’t sit well with one mom she courted who had been more strictly sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After meeting with this one person, I just feel like she's going to say no,” Wildenberg said. “I don't want her to say no. But on the other hand, I think she's going to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildenberg instead ended up securing a spot for her daughter at the preschool she attended in the spring, which opened a kindergarten program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safety concerns can be an even bigger barrier for families with living arrangements or jobs that are perceived as less safe — say, a grocery store or health care worker, or residents of a multifamily household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some well-intentioned families have floated the idea of sponsoring other children in their pod, for example by covering that child’s share of the costs for a tutor, safety concerns can thwart such a match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Oakland mom Elisa Cecaci supports the much-debated idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's vital that a child with less resources be offered a space, tutoring,” Cecaci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elisa Cecaci and her two sons Keli'i, 6, and Kanoa, 18, at their home in Oakland on July 27, 2020. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44113_002_KQED_Oakland_SchoolPods_ElisaCecaci_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elisa Cecaci and her two sons Keli'i, 6, and Kanoa, 18, at their home in Oakland on July 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cecaci has been working behind the scenes in online forums to try to get moms — yes, they’re mostly moms — to think more critically about issues of fairness and community. That’s despite the fact that she won’t be participating in a pod herself. One of her sons has Type 1 diabetes. Their grandmother, 72, also lives in the home. Cecaci feared that her son and his grandmother would be more vulnerable to COVID-19, so she quit her lifelong job as a nanny and said it’s unlikely she’ll send the boys back to a physical school until there is a vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cecaci is committed to sticking with distance learning for another reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thing that's really sad for me is that in all the time that all four of my sons have been in school, it has been maybe once or twice that they've had an African American male teacher,” she said. “[My son] has an African American male teacher this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, her husband’s income as a truck driver will allow their first grader to continue on — virtually — at the private school where he has a teacher who resembles him. Cecaci is of Mexican and European heritage, while her husband is African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Antonio Rael has California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) on speed dial, but he knows the numbers and call-in process by heart anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD is one of the state’s largest departments, and oversees all unemployment claims for Californians. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Antonio Rael']'I even know, like the codes: You press ‘1, 6, 7, 3’ to get through. You put in your Social Security Number, press ‘1’. And ... now they have it where it just hangs up on you. ‘Sorry, we can't help you’ — After you’ve done all that.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even know, like the codes: you press 1, 6, 7, 3 to get through,\" Rael said. \"You put in your Social Security Number, press 1. And ... now they have it where it just hangs up on you. ‘Sorry, we can't help you’ — After you’ve done all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael's had plenty of time to internalize the information. Since the pandemic started, he says he’s called EDD around 5,600 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finally got through last week to a representative who could re-certify his application. But, until then, Rael’s was just another of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-30/edd-california-unemployment-agency-hearing-complaints\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at least 1 million claims\u003c/a> in EDD’s processing backlog, which has left thousands of Californians without the benefits they're entitled to, and has drawn criticism from multiple state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though unemployment applicants must confirm they are looking for work (as long as they’re not too sick) to be eligible for benefits, in Rael’s case he had to make a full-time job out of pursuing his payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Just Starting to Get My Mojo Back’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rael is 56 and lives in West Hollywood. He normally works as a makeup artist and TV stand-in. In the last five years he’s survived cancer and a heart attack, he said. He’d just gotten back into a routine with work in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-800x800.jpeg\" alt=\"Antonio Rael during one of many hospital visits in the last few years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1472x1472.jpeg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1104x1104.jpeg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-912x912.jpeg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-550x550.jpeg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-470x470.jpeg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Rael during one of many hospital visits in the last few years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was starting to get, you know, my mojo back. And, you know, I was trying to get on top of my bills because the cancer had bankrupt me pretty much,” Rael explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the pandemic hit. Rael applied for regular unemployment benefits, but EDD said he wasn’t eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess because I had cancer, I hadn't put in enough time,” Rael said. “They go 18 months previous, and I was sick. So they said that I didn't have enough hours to qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Rael is an independent contractor, his situation was even more complicated. The CARES Act \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=91191FD9-9ECF-448E-B533-BF257066CBD0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did make pandemic assistance available to unemployed freelancers\u003c/a> starting at the end of April. But, even though he was eligible, it took Rael more than 3,600 calls over the course of 10 weeks to get eight weeks’ worth of pandemic assistance back-paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hurry Up and Wait: Grappling with Re-certification\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But just because Rael was approved didn’t mean the trouble with EDD was over. He, along with many other unemployment recipients, hit roadblocks when they tried to re-certify their unemployment — which they’re required to do every two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/04/15/edd-confusing-unemployment-question-clarified/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Since the first months of the pandemic\u003c/a>, EDD has acknowledged that certain qualifying questions on its forms are confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, according to EDD spokesperson Loree Levy, one of the questions on the re-certification form is still stymieing applicants: “Question number two asks, ‘Was there any reason other than sickness or injury where you couldn't accept a job offer?’ And a lot of people say ‘yes.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But answering \"yes,\" according to Levy, disqualifies the application in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Loree Levy, EDD spokesperson']'You've got to remain able and available to accept that job if it were offered. It may not be out there right now, but if the job were offered, you’d be ready to take that job. And that's what we have to look for and what we're required to look for in order to pay you benefits'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are likely answering \"yes\" because they work in fields where opportunity is very limited right now due to the pandemic, and they don’t think there are any jobs to be had. So in their minds, there is another reason: COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You've got to remain able and available to accept that job if it were offered. It may not be out there right now, but if the job were offered, you’d be ready to take that job. And that's what we have to look for and what we're required to look for in order to pay you benefits,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael said he only figured out he was supposed to answer \"no” after he finally reached a representative who was willing to walk him through the form, question by question. They were on the phone for at least an hour and a half, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When applicants make mistakes on their forms, the forms aren’t processed. And when forms aren’t processed, people don’t get their benefits until the application is updated. That’s what happened to Rael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>EDD: 'Staffing Isn't the Issue'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The one key obstacle to getting his benefits approved and re-certified, according to Rael, was that the EDD workers who had the most direct access to update his application only worked morning hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are the only people that can really change your account unless they call you back for an appointment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EmEffHarvin/status/1291177491068002306?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy confirmed that the more complicated questions are reserved for certain early shift workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more experienced representatives we have that require about six months of training, they are the ones that we try to reserve to be able to actually take claims over the phone in the mornings and then they process claims in the afternoon so that we don't get behind on payments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rael to get re-certified, it took more than 2,000 calls and hours on the phone with seven different representatives. He says he also got some assistance from Assemblymember Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, and encourages others who feel lost in the process to reach out to their representatives if they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his more than 5,000 calls, Rael said the workers he reached outside of the 8 a.m.-noon block and his individually scheduled phone appointments could only communicate basic information that could have just as easily been shared on a taped recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD is in the process of hiring \u003ca href=\"http://www.oesnews.com/california-workers-struggling-through-pandemic-receive-41-3-billion-in-unemployment-benefits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 5,000 new workers\u003c/a>. But, according to Levy, the issue isn’t too few workers in the mornings. It’s other people calling in when they could find answers online. She said the agency has a triage system to expedite the efficiency of processing claims, but it’s not working because the lines are tied up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talk to a lot of people who have spent so much time trying to get through on the phone lines,” Levy said. “And when I get their question, it was easily answered just by looking at those \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/faqs.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top FAQs\u003c/a> that we change up every week based on what we're hearing from customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EmEffHarvin/status/1291177508688343043?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy thinks if Californians started taking the time to consult the FAQs instead of tying up the phone lines with simple questions the people who need more specific answers would be able to reach the representatives who can help them more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rael disagrees with Levy’s characterization of many of the people calling. A lot of the guidance that was most helpful to Rael he got off social media. And it’s clear to him from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/583459392371625\">online worker forums\u003c/a> that he participates in that people \u003cem>are\u003c/em> consulting the digital resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know people that have called over 10,000 times, and they still don’t have their money,” Rael said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Million More Like Rael\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rael is now figuring out paying off the debts that piled up while he was waiting for EDD to process his claim. Now that he isn’t spending all of his time trying to secure his unemployment, he’s putting together online art classes to post on YouTube and Udemy for kids stuck at home right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/03/coronavirus-unemployment-1-million-california-workers-edd-payment-trap/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New reports\u003c/a> show the breakdown of the current unemployment claims in EDD’s backlog: 889,000 workers who “may be eligible with additional information” and 239,000 worker with claims “pending EDD resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael’s experience gives ominous context to the likelihood they’ll be processed anytime soon. However, Gov. 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And so a hit from the IRS was pretty devastating to my family.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in April, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/4.23.20-EO-N-57-20-text.pdf\">executive order\u003c/a> to stop debt collectors from garnishing COVID-19 stimulus checks. He also provided relief for private student loan borrowers. But Sidhu doesn’t believe this relief is enough to save families struggling from debt, especially as the pandemic continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“States should really be careful about how they begin to reopen and continue business as usual,” Sidhu said. “Families still have not recovered from the 2008 financial recession and this on top of that is going to exacerbate issues for folks who are already reeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Nowlan’s debt fits into that category. She lives in Oakland with her three kids and, after experiencing homelessness for several years, worked her way up to become executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youngwomenfree.org/\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that I finally felt like a grown-up. I can take care of myself. I just moved, I bought a couch,” Nowlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Jessica-Nowlan-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Nowlan lives in Oakland with her sons, Myles Green (left) and James Green (right) in Oakland. 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But Nowlan didn’t realize that and now owes the IRS over $20,000 in back taxes. Two weeks ago, the IRS garnished $6,000 from her bank account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a history of poverty that I haven’t been able to climb out of. And so a hit from the IRS was pretty devastating to my family,” Nowlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now on a six-year payment plan with the IRS to pay those back taxes, but there won’t be a lot of money left in her account for extra purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Coronavirus Resources\" tag=\"resource\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Djemal, director of the Consumer Justice Clinic at the \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a>, is getting calls from clients concerned about the debt they’re accumulating now, on top of the debt they already had pre-pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are getting lots of calls and are very stressed about getting calls or letters regarding some of the debt they’ve accumulated over the past few months,” Djemal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it can take a year for a case to get into the court system and she expects to see a deluge of cases next year because of debt accumulated during the pandemic. 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That’s a lot of risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition could prove easier in the 15 counties that already switched to a ‘vote center’ model in previous elections — including Napa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties — where many of the polling sites are large enough to provide for physical distancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t been as much of a challenge,” said April Bracamonte, Santa Clara County’s Election Process Supervisor, noting that the county is close to its goal of securing 100 vote centers. “The facilities are concerned and want to have a lengthy conversation, but we haven’t had any resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other counties are turning to unique solutions in their attempt to find safe voting sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Sacramento County announced that Golden 1 Center, home of the Sacramento Kings, will be converted into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.saccounty.net/news/latest-news/Pages/CountyElectionsAnnouncesVoteCenteratGolden1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gigantic vote center\u003c/a> for 10 days before the election. 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