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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie took a victory lap on Thursday after successfully convincing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">President Donald Trump to walk back plans\u003c/a> for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">federal immigration enforcement surge\u003c/a> in San Francisco — with some observers praising his political acumen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several city leaders are angered by the mayor telling the president during a late-night phone call this week that he still welcomes support from other federal law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing neighborhoods with dense immigrant populations were quick to criticize Lurie for calling for additional federal law enforcement under the Trump administration, worried such cooperation could ultimately lead to more immigration-related arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district includes the diverse Mission District, has been particularly vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take issue with the mayor meeting with Pam Bondi and his statements to welcome ATF, FBI, DEA under Trump’s leadership, because they’ve all been deputized to carry out immigration enforcement,” Fielder said. “They are looking for any reason to criminalize immigrants, and lumping them in with drug dealers is only helping them with that task of having a mass deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Lurie, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">refrained from saying Trump’s name publicly\u003c/a>, said he spoke directly to Attorney General Pam Bondi about working with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF on drug enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061109\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She echoed her willingness to partner with our local law enforcement to combat fentanyl and hold drug traffickers accountable,” Lurie said in a speech announcing Trump had changed his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s swift pivot, after weeks of threatening to send in the National Guard, comes amid a backdrop of increasing arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents often directly outside San Francisco’s immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments after Lurie’s press conference on Thursday, announcing that Trump had backed off, Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, told reporters that one of his constituents had recently been arrested by ICE outside the city’s immigration courthouse.[aside postID=news_12061545 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg']“A man from Pakistan, which was the home country where my family is originally from, was detained at immigration court. These tactics create trauma and erode trust in the public institutions intended to serve and protect all residents,” Mahmood said. “[Trump] may be holding back for now, but whether it’s 100 agents or one, this is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the mayor’s dealings with the Trump administration come as a relief to many who worried troops on the ground in San Francisco would only inspire more fear and chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie deserves credit. There’s no doubt that he initiated some of these conversations, and it seems like a deliberate strategy to enlist the support of people such as Marc Benioff, a rich businessman, that Trump might listen to,” said Jason McDaniel, a politics professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who formerly supported Democratic candidates, came under fire for praising Trump and supporting calls to send the National Guard to San Francisco. Lurie spoke directly with Benioff, who later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060384/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-walks-back-call-for-national-guard-to-san-francisco\">walked back his remarks and apologized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions this week over a potential National Guard deployment loomed, Lurie repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">affirmed the city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a>, meaning local police cannot aid federal immigration enforcement. But the city also can’t interfere with these agencies operating in San Francisco, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on May 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city already partners with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/hendricks-sf-fentanyl-sanctuary\">multi-agency crackdown on fentanyl dealing in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>. These agencies also assist with immigration enforcement, have the power to arrest and can turn people over to ICE for potential deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city leaders want to see more of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If drug dealers are undocumented immigrants and committing a crime in our city, they should be deported,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney general’s office has cut back on street-level drug-dealing cases, Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was disappointing … having a good, strong cooperative federal partnership could mean a big difference,” Dorsey said, applauding the mayor’s negotiation with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous administrations have also brought in state resources like the California Highway Patrol to assist with drug trafficking. Last year, Lurie made combating outdoor drug use and dealing a key component of his mayoral campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asking for help from federal and state governments to bring more resources to bear is certainly something that I can see being a popular position and one that is consistent with the positions that Lurie has laid out,” McDaniel said of Lurie’s messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug arrests and citations have increased in San Francisco this year, according to city data, and the first-term mayor claimed that the support of federal law enforcement has been helpful in that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an ongoing partnership … to tackle fentanyl,” Lurie said when asked about concerns that increased law enforcement from other federal agencies could threaten immigrants. “We’ve made progress, but we still have a lot of work to do on this front. Fentanyl is a scourge in our city, and we will work with anybody that will help us end the fentanyl crisis on our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall for a press conference organized by faith, labor and immigrant rights groups opposing federal intervention and calling for community protection and solidarity on Oct 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During his address Thursday, Lurie stood flanked by the city’s public safety leaders, who supported the mayor’s calls for more cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies on drug issues. Trump also \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">posted to Truth Social, praising Lurie\u003c/a> for the city’s progress on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But outside City Hall, at a rally with labor unions, nurses echoed Fielder’s concerns. Many feared that immigrants with no connections to the drug trade could be targeted and racially profiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said increasing law enforcement to handle street-level drug challenges, including fentanyl dealing and overdoses, could have adverse public health effects.[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']“It would just exacerbate the problem,” said Amy Erb, a registered ICU nurse in San Francisco and member of the California Nurses Association board of directors. “If we need any help from the feds, it’s to help give us health care, housing and education. Things that would support this community so that those who have been displaced won’t seek to escape with drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Lurie’s announcement that the National Guard was called off, Fielder and other supervisors on Thursday announced legislation to increase funding for legal aid and other services for the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor can’t have it both ways,” said Supervisor Shamann Walton, echoing Fielder’s concerns. “We have a moral obligation to not allow for federal troops or anyone to come in and attack our communities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“A man from Pakistan, which was the home country where my family is originally from, was detained at immigration court. These tactics create trauma and erode trust in the public institutions intended to serve and protect all residents,” Mahmood said. “[Trump] may be holding back for now, but whether it’s 100 agents or one, this is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the mayor’s dealings with the Trump administration come as a relief to many who worried troops on the ground in San Francisco would only inspire more fear and chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie deserves credit. There’s no doubt that he initiated some of these conversations, and it seems like a deliberate strategy to enlist the support of people such as Marc Benioff, a rich businessman, that Trump might listen to,” said Jason McDaniel, a politics professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who formerly supported Democratic candidates, came under fire for praising Trump and supporting calls to send the National Guard to San Francisco. Lurie spoke directly with Benioff, who later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060384/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-walks-back-call-for-national-guard-to-san-francisco\">walked back his remarks and apologized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions this week over a potential National Guard deployment loomed, Lurie repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">affirmed the city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a>, meaning local police cannot aid federal immigration enforcement. But the city also can’t interfere with these agencies operating in San Francisco, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on May 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city already partners with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/hendricks-sf-fentanyl-sanctuary\">multi-agency crackdown on fentanyl dealing in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>. These agencies also assist with immigration enforcement, have the power to arrest and can turn people over to ICE for potential deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city leaders want to see more of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If drug dealers are undocumented immigrants and committing a crime in our city, they should be deported,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney general’s office has cut back on street-level drug-dealing cases, Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was disappointing … having a good, strong cooperative federal partnership could mean a big difference,” Dorsey said, applauding the mayor’s negotiation with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous administrations have also brought in state resources like the California Highway Patrol to assist with drug trafficking. Last year, Lurie made combating outdoor drug use and dealing a key component of his mayoral campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asking for help from federal and state governments to bring more resources to bear is certainly something that I can see being a popular position and one that is consistent with the positions that Lurie has laid out,” McDaniel said of Lurie’s messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug arrests and citations have increased in San Francisco this year, according to city data, and the first-term mayor claimed that the support of federal law enforcement has been helpful in that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an ongoing partnership … to tackle fentanyl,” Lurie said when asked about concerns that increased law enforcement from other federal agencies could threaten immigrants. “We’ve made progress, but we still have a lot of work to do on this front. Fentanyl is a scourge in our city, and we will work with anybody that will help us end the fentanyl crisis on our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall for a press conference organized by faith, labor and immigrant rights groups opposing federal intervention and calling for community protection and solidarity on Oct 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During his address Thursday, Lurie stood flanked by the city’s public safety leaders, who supported the mayor’s calls for more cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies on drug issues. Trump also \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">posted to Truth Social, praising Lurie\u003c/a> for the city’s progress on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But outside City Hall, at a rally with labor unions, nurses echoed Fielder’s concerns. Many feared that immigrants with no connections to the drug trade could be targeted and racially profiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said increasing law enforcement to handle street-level drug challenges, including fentanyl dealing and overdoses, could have adverse public health effects.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It would just exacerbate the problem,” said Amy Erb, a registered ICU nurse in San Francisco and member of the California Nurses Association board of directors. “If we need any help from the feds, it’s to help give us health care, housing and education. Things that would support this community so that those who have been displaced won’t seek to escape with drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Lurie’s announcement that the National Guard was called off, Fielder and other supervisors on Thursday announced legislation to increase funding for legal aid and other services for the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor can’t have it both ways,” said Supervisor Shamann Walton, echoing Fielder’s concerns. “We have a moral obligation to not allow for federal troops or anyone to come in and attack our communities. We know that the leadership of this country right now at the federal level, most certainly, wants to attack our residents here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDaniel, the San Francisco State professor, said Lurie’s strategy with Trump is also enhanced by the fact that the mayor comes from a wealthy background and has strong business ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many leaders in our country who are not given that benefit of the doubt from Trump. People like our former mayor, London Breed, who also had some working relationships with Marc Benioff,” McDaniel said. He also warned that Trump’s good graces are often slippery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump is known for turning on people with the slightest provocation,” he said, “or even lack thereof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Outside his tent, among the dead leaves and saplings, Eric Adams keeps a neat stack of bags stuffed with garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just try to pick it up and try to do the best that I can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams is one of twenty-some people who live on a wooded strip of land tucked between a freeway and a busy street in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/el-sobrante\">El Sobrante\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 48-year-old keeps his patch tidy, but all around him the ground is strewn with plastic bags, food wrappers, even a mattress and a tire. He’s so fed up that he’s started confronting his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, ‘This is nasty,’” he said. “‘I don’t want to pick up this mess for you to throw it all back.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams doesn’t just pick up garbage. He pulls debris from the creek nearby and yanks out invasive ivy, “because I enjoy it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t always like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I would give a damn,” he said. “I’m aware now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program remove English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That changed after Adams joined a pilot program teaching unhoused residents ecological literacy and creek restoration. It’s a novel approach to addressing the environmental harms brought on by the growing number of people setting up camp along creeks and canals as homelessness surges in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-week program was put on this summer by the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/sos-richmond-housing-crisis-california-homelessness/\">Safe Organized Spaces Richmond\u003c/a> and a pair of researchers. It’s part of \u003ca href=\"https://pasternack.ucdavis.edu/research/projects/stream-side-encampments\">a larger study\u003c/a> examining the intersection of homelessness, climate change, and urban streams across the Bay Area’s nine counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers estimate 10% of California’s unhoused population — about 18,700 people — lives along waterways. In the absence of enough affordable housing and shelter, it feels like the best of bad options for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044669 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reading “Pinole Creek don’t trash it” is posted by Pinole Creek in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People like to be along streams because they’re out of sight, out of mind,” said Costanza Rampini, an environmental studies professor at San José State University and one of the study leads. She and her students interviewed more than 300 people living along waterways. “They’re not on our sidewalks where they’re going to be confronted more with local residents, with local law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even more true since cities started cracking down on encampments last year. But people are also seeking out water for drinking, bathing and washing clothes, and for shade and softer ground to sleep on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is it’s polluting the water,” said Eileen White, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. “We want to protect our waterways, for the beauty, for the environment, for the wildlife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stewards of their streams\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pilot program Adams joined was designed to test whether encampment residents could become partners in protecting streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rampini’s hope is that the program can benefit the environment while improving people’s well-being and helping them stabilize their lives. “Can we provide opportunities for them to maybe make some income and feel a sense of usefulness and agency?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Walker, a participant of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program, pulls out English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Friday afternoon this summer, Adams and a group of unhoused and formerly homeless men and women gathered along a stream behind the Pinole Library. They had just finished a class on erosion control and were putting it into practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in the shade of tall trees, they trimmed willow branches into stakes and hammered them into the soil to stabilize the banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ooh! This is the kid in me now,” Adams said, scrambling down to the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knee-deep in the creek, he and classmates Brianni Peters and Ronnie Walker scouted spots to drive the stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, Eric! Look where I put mine,” Peters shouted. “I did it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianni Peters, a participant of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program, right, speaks during a classroom session, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They laughed as water splashed into Walker’s boots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My bad!” Adams said with a mischievous grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m having fun, man,” Walker said. “I’m here for the journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has also learned about steelhead trout and their habitat, studied invasive and native plants, and practiced other restoration techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m halfway a botanist right now,” said Walker, who’s 36 and has been homeless for three years. “I love the environment. I love being outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A dire need for cleanups\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As more encampments spring up along streams and canals, trash, human waste and chemicals are taking a toll on water quality, drawing pressure from regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere in the Bay Area is this challenge more evident than in San José, where \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14775079&GUID=75AEB53E-EE69-472A-AF32-C23354EC09CA\">at least 1,200 people\u003c/a> were living along streams earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program remove English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was just unmanageable,” said Rajani Nair, deputy director of the Watershed Protection Division of the city’s Environmental Services Department. “The best solution was really to ensure these encampments are not living in the waterways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure from regulators, the \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7652910&GUID=D042E67C-69C8-4595-9BD6-00019551F223&Options=&Search=\">city cleared encampments\u003c/a> from 16 miles of waterways last fiscal year. Workers hauled away almost 2,000 tons of trash and set up no-encampment zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cost the city nearly $64 million, including the cost of building new shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say their efforts have led to healthier streams. But despite new shelter investments, there are still \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/county-santa-clara-releases-preliminary-results-2025-point-time-homeless-count\">far more unsheltered people\u003c/a> than \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-has-1-shelter-bed-for-every-3-homeless-people/\">beds in San José\u003c/a> and across the state. And, advocates say, what is available doesn’t work for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the city’s tiny homes, motel shelters and sanctioned campgrounds offer a welcome alternative to creekside life. For others, giving up their belongings for a short-term placement is a losing bet, said Tristia Bauman, directing attorney of housing at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. “There are also many people who are in far worse situations, who will be far less able to be self-sufficient, who lost a lot of money and lost a lot of trust in the system,” Bauman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Gelfand, Habitat Restoration Manager at Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, center, leads a classroom session for Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program participants, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As long as that’s the case, the researchers say people will find their way back to waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are voting with their feet where they want to be,” UC Davis hydrology professor and study co-lead Greg Pasternack said. That’s why he and Rampini are looking for a way to work with encampment residents where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to find a way that the environmental goals of our society and the social goals of our society can coexist,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a scientist who’s spent nearly three decades working in environmental restoration, Pasternack admits he didn’t always see things this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve dedicated my life — made major sacrifices — to try to help support the environment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time he’s spent studying encampments and talking with the people who live in them, shifted his perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t look at the suffering of people and say that we should just ignore that, that the stream in and of itself is more important,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Restoration as recovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s plenty of evidence that spending time in nature improves mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Rampini pointed out, “We haven’t really extended that idea to people experiencing homelessness, who may actually be dealing with … more mental and physical health issues than a majority of housed folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the goal isn’t to turn restoration into a career track out of homelessness, but to test whether it can be beneficial for those living along waterways and at the fringes of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program do a group activity during a classroom session, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walker and Adams say it has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought in a million years I’d be out here doing what I’m doing now. It’s so surreal. And it’s so relaxing,” Adams said. “There are a lot of things that went on in my lifetime, and I just get to sit here and just think about it and realize everything’s not all that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Adams said he was working as a substitute teacher. He has a college degree, a teenage son and he had a partner. Then his life unraveled. He said he got shot, his relationship fell apart, and he lost his closest family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost my crutch, my grandmother, and I lost my dad, who was my best friend,” he said. His father had himself been homeless for much of Adams’ life.[aside postID=news_12054270 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02100_TV-KQED.jpg']After his father’s death, Adams began spending more time on the streets with people who’d known him. He went from couch surfing to sleeping in his car to pitching a tent. He stopped working, and his drug problem got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I literally just gave up. I sat down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years of homelessness and often-debilitating depression, he said the creek restoration program has given him motivation again. He was one of three participants kept on after the initial training and now earns $19 an hour doing part-time restoration work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw something inside of us, regardless of our living situation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the part-time work isn’t enough to get Adams out of his tent. But it’s given him something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I got a purpose now in life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said he wants to keep learning ecology. He knows jobs in the field aren’t easy to come by, but if he could, he’d work full-time for the county conservation district — restoring the same creek he lives beside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want this to be my creek,” he said. “I want to take pride in cleaning up this creek.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, ‘This is nasty,’” he said. “‘I don’t want to pick up this mess for you to throw it all back.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams doesn’t just pick up garbage. He pulls debris from the creek nearby and yanks out invasive ivy, “because I enjoy it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t always like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I would give a damn,” he said. “I’m aware now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program remove English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That changed after Adams joined a pilot program teaching unhoused residents ecological literacy and creek restoration. It’s a novel approach to addressing the environmental harms brought on by the growing number of people setting up camp along creeks and canals as homelessness surges in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-week program was put on this summer by the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/sos-richmond-housing-crisis-california-homelessness/\">Safe Organized Spaces Richmond\u003c/a> and a pair of researchers. It’s part of \u003ca href=\"https://pasternack.ucdavis.edu/research/projects/stream-side-encampments\">a larger study\u003c/a> examining the intersection of homelessness, climate change, and urban streams across the Bay Area’s nine counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers estimate 10% of California’s unhoused population — about 18,700 people — lives along waterways. In the absence of enough affordable housing and shelter, it feels like the best of bad options for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044669 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reading “Pinole Creek don’t trash it” is posted by Pinole Creek in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People like to be along streams because they’re out of sight, out of mind,” said Costanza Rampini, an environmental studies professor at San José State University and one of the study leads. She and her students interviewed more than 300 people living along waterways. “They’re not on our sidewalks where they’re going to be confronted more with local residents, with local law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even more true since cities started cracking down on encampments last year. But people are also seeking out water for drinking, bathing and washing clothes, and for shade and softer ground to sleep on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is it’s polluting the water,” said Eileen White, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. “We want to protect our waterways, for the beauty, for the environment, for the wildlife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stewards of their streams\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pilot program Adams joined was designed to test whether encampment residents could become partners in protecting streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rampini’s hope is that the program can benefit the environment while improving people’s well-being and helping them stabilize their lives. “Can we provide opportunities for them to maybe make some income and feel a sense of usefulness and agency?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Walker, a participant of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program, pulls out English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Friday afternoon this summer, Adams and a group of unhoused and formerly homeless men and women gathered along a stream behind the Pinole Library. They had just finished a class on erosion control and were putting it into practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in the shade of tall trees, they trimmed willow branches into stakes and hammered them into the soil to stabilize the banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ooh! This is the kid in me now,” Adams said, scrambling down to the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knee-deep in the creek, he and classmates Brianni Peters and Ronnie Walker scouted spots to drive the stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, Eric! Look where I put mine,” Peters shouted. “I did it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianni Peters, a participant of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program, right, speaks during a classroom session, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They laughed as water splashed into Walker’s boots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My bad!” Adams said with a mischievous grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m having fun, man,” Walker said. “I’m here for the journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has also learned about steelhead trout and their habitat, studied invasive and native plants, and practiced other restoration techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m halfway a botanist right now,” said Walker, who’s 36 and has been homeless for three years. “I love the environment. I love being outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A dire need for cleanups\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As more encampments spring up along streams and canals, trash, human waste and chemicals are taking a toll on water quality, drawing pressure from regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere in the Bay Area is this challenge more evident than in San José, where \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14775079&GUID=75AEB53E-EE69-472A-AF32-C23354EC09CA\">at least 1,200 people\u003c/a> were living along streams earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program remove English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was just unmanageable,” said Rajani Nair, deputy director of the Watershed Protection Division of the city’s Environmental Services Department. “The best solution was really to ensure these encampments are not living in the waterways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure from regulators, the \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7652910&GUID=D042E67C-69C8-4595-9BD6-00019551F223&Options=&Search=\">city cleared encampments\u003c/a> from 16 miles of waterways last fiscal year. Workers hauled away almost 2,000 tons of trash and set up no-encampment zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cost the city nearly $64 million, including the cost of building new shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say their efforts have led to healthier streams. But despite new shelter investments, there are still \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/county-santa-clara-releases-preliminary-results-2025-point-time-homeless-count\">far more unsheltered people\u003c/a> than \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-has-1-shelter-bed-for-every-3-homeless-people/\">beds in San José\u003c/a> and across the state. And, advocates say, what is available doesn’t work for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the city’s tiny homes, motel shelters and sanctioned campgrounds offer a welcome alternative to creekside life. For others, giving up their belongings for a short-term placement is a losing bet, said Tristia Bauman, directing attorney of housing at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. “There are also many people who are in far worse situations, who will be far less able to be self-sufficient, who lost a lot of money and lost a lot of trust in the system,” Bauman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Gelfand, Habitat Restoration Manager at Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, center, leads a classroom session for Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program participants, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As long as that’s the case, the researchers say people will find their way back to waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are voting with their feet where they want to be,” UC Davis hydrology professor and study co-lead Greg Pasternack said. 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Payouts would occur over the next 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement would also require the Sacklers to give up control of the company. The future of Purdue Pharma would be left up to a board of trustees selected by participating states and others who sued the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opioid epidemic has ravaged communities in California and across the country,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. “By holding Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family accountable for their role in fueling the opioid epidemic, we’re bringing much-needed funds for addiction treatment, prevention, and recovery to those impacted by this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company’s alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past 20 years. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agreement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family represents the nation’s largest settlement relating to the opioid crisis, and the money will be used to fund addiction treatment, recovery and prevention efforts across the country, according to Bonta’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a previous settlement deal involving Purdue Pharma because it protected members of the Sackler family from civil lawsuits over OxyContin even though the family did not file for bankruptcy. The new agreement would only protect the Sacklers from lawsuits brought forward by people who participate in the settlement; others would still be allowed to sue the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creditors can preserve their right to take legal action against the Sacklers if they do not opt in to the Sackler releases contained in the Plan,” Purdue Pharma said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.purduepharma.com/news/2025/03/18/purdue-pharma-l-p-files-new-plan-of-reorganization-providing-for-more-than-7-4-billion-in-creditor-distributions/\">a statement\u003c/a> in March, when the company filed the deal in bankruptcy court.[aside postID=news_12044201 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/VaccinationsStory.jpg']Over the past several years, lawsuits against the company and others accused of facilitating the drug epidemic have been filed by local and state officials, Native American tribal governments and others. Settlements amounting to nearly $50 billion have already been announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has already secured nearly $4 billion from companies that state officials say helped fuel the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2023, pharmacy giant Walgreens agreed to pay San Francisco nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949888/walgreens-pay-san-francisco-230-million-opioid-crisis\">$230 million\u003c/a> after it was accused of issuing thousands of suspect opioid prescriptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months before that, Walmart and CVS Pharmacy offered to pay the county up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946346/walmart-cvs-set-to-pay-san-francisco-19-million-in-opioid-settlements\">$18.8 million\u003c/a> after San Francisco joined nationwide lawsuits accusing the corporations of negligent prescription practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court hearing for the Purdue Pharma settlement is scheduled for Wednesday, according to a statement issued by the company. If the court approves the disclosure statement, the terms of the settlement will be voted on by the company’s creditors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announcement of unanimous support among the states and territories is a critical milestone towards confirming a Plan of Reorganization that will provide billions of dollars to compensate victims, abate the opioid crisis, and deliver opioid use disorder and overdose rescue medicines that will save American lives,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">\u003cem>Sydney Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Together, he and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman announced their new legislation to prioritize drug-free recovery housing in front of advocates and the community. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The change came after doctors pointed to the fact that many people who are trying to curb their drug use may still experience relapse or could be seeking different outcomes than complete abstinence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts, including members of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society, representing more than 3,500 physicians, recommended that the ordinance broaden the definition of recovery to show that harm reduction and recovery are not mutually exclusive concepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data shows that recovery is often a non-linear process of self-actualization where harm reduction efforts, abstinence, and treatment are not in opposition with one another or mutually exclusive,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14150937&GUID=D2FA34F8-1232-47E2-9CC7-0C2D2AA182D8\">a letter recommending the amendments\u003c/a> from the medical society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other advocates for harm reduction, a philosophy that emphasizes meeting drug users where they are at by promoting safer use practices, also called on supervisors to amend the policy. Programs such as safe needle exchanges and Narcan distribution provide life-saving tools that should also remain a priority within the city’s approach, speakers said at a recent committee hearing for the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038376 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey said both recovery and harm reduction have a role to play. But in the yearslong battle to reduce overdose deaths and outdoor drug use, these two camps have become political lightning rods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the brevity of its one-sentence operative provision, (the ordinance) became something of a flashpoint in our drug policy debate,” said Dorsey, who identifies as a former drug addict in recovery. “In the end, I think that debate was truly helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder was among those pushing for adjustments in the final version of the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank the social workers, the street outreach workers and medical professionals who advocated for a more expansive and inclusive definition of recovery and a substance use disorder policy that affirms the dignity and potential of every single person struggling with addiction,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who represents District 9, will lead a hearing next week on a proposal for San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">incorporate a model used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, where outdoor drug use and overdoses were similarly a major problem. The model calls for strong coordination and support for addressing all stages of drug-related issues, including prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey has also expressed support for the approach, known as the Four Pillars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Mayor Daniel Lurie has already taken steps to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">scale back the city’s harm reduction efforts\u003c/a>, as some voters have grown frustrated over a lack of progress on the drug crisis. His recent directive required health providers to only distribute safer use supplies, such as clean needles, to drug users who agree to participate in some form of counseling or treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has also ended all outdoor distribution of safer smoking supplies like pipes and foil, which some studies have shown can help drug users move away from more risky forms of consumption like injecting drugs. He has also ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">increased police crackdowns\u003c/a> on drug users and dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034214 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250218-SFDowntown-07-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many health providers are still waiting for answers on where funding for the newly required counseling services will come from. 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These factors lower the barrier of entry for unhoused people, Tsai said. Additionally, the combination of a bed and treatment plan means that clients don’t have to coordinate the two themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brief stay is meant to stabilize clients and put them on the path to recovery, which varies significantly from person to person.[aside postID=news_12035625 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-1020x680.jpg']Keith Humphreys, a Stanford University professor and addiction policy researcher, said even one or two weeks could provide a “time-out” that is long enough to get people back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a period of stability where they can stop taking any substances that they’re taking, start taking any medications they should be taking for their mental illness or for their addiction and have a sort of headspace to make good decisions about their future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsai said the biggest problem is capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our biggest barriers is we only have 35 beds, and there are people on the street who are willing to start treatment in this sort of setting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in light of the upcoming expansion, Humphreys noted that scaling services like those offered through RESTORE can quickly run into quality issues, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to HealthRIGHT 360, the city’s largest, publicly-funded addiction treatment provider, which saw five \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/healthright-360-drug-overdoses-19897492.php\">fatal overdoses\u003c/a> in 13 months. 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Let’s talk about where you want to be in a month or six months, as opposed to where you want to be in five minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expansion of RESTORE follows a slight decrease in accidental overdose deaths, down from 68 overdose deaths in February, breaking a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031847/sf-sees-decline-in-overdose-deaths-but-fentanyl-remains-a-major-threat\">trend of monthly increases since October\u003c/a>. Of the 192 total deaths from January through March of this year, the vast majority are fentanyl-related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That translates to an average of at least two deaths per day, Tsai noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every overdose death we have here in the city and county of San Francisco is preventable, and it’s unacceptable, and it’s tragic,” Tsai said. “The current approach of what we’ve done historically here has not delivered the results that we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco, Black men born between 1951 and 1970 accounted for 12% of overdose deaths between January 2020 and October 2024, despite representing less than 1% of the city’s population. The disparity in San Francisco is greater than any other major city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, we hear from Richard Beal, director of recovery services at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, about his personal story of addiction and recovery, and later talk with The San Francisco Standard’s David Sjostedt about what’s behind this trend of Black overdose deaths in the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3650415089&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/20/san-francisco-losing-black-men-overdose-crisis/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SF is losing a generation of Black men to overdoses. It’s worse here than anywhere\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While it has been reviewed by our team, there may be some errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Today, we’re gonna talk about the San Francisco standards reporting on why this disparity is so bad. But first, we wanted to talk with someone from this generation who has personal experience with addiction and recovery. So we went to the Tenderloin to meet up with Richard Beal, who now leads the recovery program at the Tendloin Housing Clinic. But 30 years ago, he was in the throes of drug addiction. in the streets of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:01:49] My name is Richard Beal. I am known throughout the Tenderloin and the recovery community as the Ambassador for Recovery. I’ve been an ambassador for recovery for the last almost 30 years here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m currently the Director of Recovery Services for Tenderloin Housing Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:09] You live in Antioch now, but where did you grow up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:02:12] I grew up in Richmond, California. I got three older brothers, I got two younger brothers, and I got four sisters. So I was born in the 60s. My heroes was Huey Newton. You got, you know, H. Rap Brown and Bobby Seale and Angela Davis and you know, this is the Black Power movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bobby Seale \u003c/strong>[00:02:38] It’s good to be here to see so many people trying to move and understand the revolutionary struggle that’s going on within the confines of racist decadent America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:02:50] Felix Mitchell, you know, Mickey Moore, they was ghetto legends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsreeel \u003c/strong>[00:02:55] 32-year-old convicted drug racketeer Felix Mitchell was convicted in San Francisco federal court earlier this year after allegations that he was the kingpin in an East Oakland heroin dealership that featured fancy cars…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] Back then, it was hard for a person of color, a Black person, to get a job that can pay enough. And so my father, because he made more money in the streets, you know, that’s what he gravitated to. People can only give you what they got. And so he gave us what he had, which was knowledge about how to survive in the street. You know, he sold weed. He did a lot of things. When I was six months old, my father went to prison for 19 counts of armed robbery. I was the youngest at that time. My three older brothers were born and my mother, she was 20 years old with four kids. She sent my father one of those Dear John letters in prison. Said she was going back to her mother in Mississippi. And my father said, yeah, I understand you’re going back to Mississippi, but leave my kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:04:06] I had a resentment against my mother. How could you leave your six-month-old baby? You know, it took me a long time coming into recovery, because my father never forgave her. He said, I’m never going back in Mississippi, and he never forgave my mother. Anyway, they let him out after the five years, and my father never went back to the penitentiary after. He didn’t do no more robberies or anything like that, but he started selling weed and gambling and he ran a gambling house and all that type of stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] That sounds like a pretty, I mean, intense childhood and you mention your addiction and your recovery. How did you, I guess, get caught up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:04:45] My father got out and I started stealing doobies out of my father’s ashtray. And so nine years old, I started smoking weed. My father found out we were smoking weed, me and my older brothers, they was already into it. At 12 years old he started giving it to us, to sell. And so at 12 years I was selling 50 cent joints, five dollar matchboxes and three finger lids. That’s what they called it back in the 70s. Joint is a joint, you know. Five dollar matchboxes, they would literally be a box of matches filled with weed, three fingers of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] And so I smoked weed, just weed, for a long time. And I got kicked out of school, every high school I went to. And then, you know, I was caught up with crack. And when I got caught up crack, it was like, I smoked crack for like 10 years. That’s what led me to San Francisco. And so in the early 80s, I came out to San Fransisco. I went from Richmond to Berkeley. You know, and I went from, didn’t have enough dope, didn’t have enough money there. I went from Berkeley to Oakland, didn’t have enough money, didn’ have enough dope there. Then I went the San Francisco. And it was like, free drugs, drug heaven, you can use, you know, it was, like, you know. San Francisco, people up all night long getting high. You know sometimes the police would mess with you, sometimes they wouldn’t. But it was just a lot different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] I wanted to go back to the point where I could just smoke weed and not use those harder drugs. And every time I always ended up back with crack. It took me 12 years to get 30 days. I’m talking about from 83 to 95. The last day I used, I could remember laying down that night, just sleeping out in the alley right there by the entrance of the detox and a woman named Deborah Williams, she let me in and she tried, I was too tore up really still to be, you know, fully conscious and do an assessment. So she just told me to lay down on the mat and at that time I was tired. I said, I’m ready. I said I’m tired of this. I don’t want to do crack no more. I tried everything else and nothing has worked. And so that was the day I really surrendered. On July 20th, I went into a St. Anthony’s program right there at 55 Jones Street. I did the intake and everything, and I went to Seton Hall. You know, I graduated the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:13] How old were you then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:07:15] I was 29 years old when I came into recall. So I’ve been out through my 30s and 40s and now 50s and been clean. So I’ll be celebrating 30 years clean on July 18th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] When you were going through your own recovery, was it common to see other folks in the community going through what you were doing through, especially, and in particular, black men?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:07:39] Two of my brothers ended up dying from the disease of addiction. My brother Anthony, you know, he passed away. You know, I found him dead 2017. You know I tried to get him to come out and get clean and I let him come live with me. I found him in a room right next to me. I had a two, three bedroom in Hayward. And then my other brother, William, he went into a program and he tried to detox and off a crack. It wasn’t, he wasn’t an IV drug user. I tried it all, but he loved crack though and he loved, he used to smoke meth every now and then. He had a heart attack in the program, in treatment. And then he left the program at the hospital, didn’t go back and ended up dying. Two days before his 46th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] What have you learned over the last 30 years about what black men in particular need?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:08:36] They need people like me to talk to him and let him know that you can recover. The disease of addiction is addressed through applying treatment and talking about trauma and talking why did you use the exact nature of where all of that came from? What are you suffering from that let you, if drugs is the answer, what is the question? Why do you think that you need a drug to get through life, to deal with your emotions and your feelings? That’s the question! And a good counselor is not a person that has all the answers. A good counselor, a good case manager is the ability to ask the right question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:21] Twice a week, Richard leads a relapse prevention meeting. We followed him there. In a packed room on a Thursday morning with donuts and coffee, participants shared their stories and why having a group like this was important to their recovery journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:09:41] How’s everybody doing this morning? Good. All right, all right, y’all. And so I just want to say, you know, I really, really appreciate you. Each and every one of y’all. When y’all made the decision to come to New Horizons Transitional Housing, when you came here for being in custody, when you came here from going through residential treatment, everybody made a decision that they want to improve the quality of their life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting participant \u003c/strong>[00:10:05] One thing I noticed that this program did build for everybody and. I know it may not seem important to everybody, but it really is. It’s bringing structure back into our life. Because we really didn’t have no structure. The 25th of this month, I’ve made three years clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting participant \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] The drugs basically took away my youth, like I didn’t have an education before until I went to prison and got my high school diploma. But then ever since I’ve been to this program it gave me that safe haven to actually study and I go to San Francisco City College and my major is environmental science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting participant \u003c/strong>[00:10:49] I can just tell you that, like, I grew up in most underprivileged areas around here, like around, you know, 3rd Street and Cortland, and I’ve been using since I was 12 years old. I’m 59 years old, but thanks to the program and thanks to being able to come to Horizons, like I got a job now as an SUD counselor at a methadone clinic, and I got a second job at Horizons in San Mateo in detox. And I go to school, I’m pursuing my B.A. and my certification for SUD Counseling. And I couldn’t do it without being here. You know what I’m saying? And I’m so grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] Recovery has done so much for me. I’m not a 9 to 5 recovery guy. Some people are just 9 to 5 people. I’m a one o’clock in the morning, two o’ clock in the mornin’ — if you call me, I’m a respond type of person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:49] Why is that? Why do you work it sounds like so hard beyond the 9 to 5, like what keeps you going, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:12:00] Because what God in this program has done for me and recovery has done to me, the gift of recovery is just priceless. Some of the places that I go to now, they used to put me out the crack house because I tweaked so hard. Now when I walk into places, they embrace me. And so I embrace the same suffering addict. The whole thing about the newcomer is the most important person at any meeting. I understand that, but then it says the old timer is invaluable to the group because it shows the newcomer that the program works. So we need each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:35] Thank you so much, Richard, for your time. Appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:12:38] Hey, thank you. I really appreciate y’all coming out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:22] In the first part of this episode, we paid a visit to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and heard from Richard Beal, who himself suffered from addiction for decades. Beal is part of a whole generation of Black men in San Francisco whose lives have been disrupted by drug addiction. And according to reporting by the San Francisco Standard, it’s worse here than anywhere. David Sjostedt is a staff writer for the San Francisco Standard. He reported this story with the Standard’s Noah Baustin and George Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:58] What exactly do the numbers show in terms of the impact of overdose deaths on this specific group of folks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:14:08] The Black men born from 1951 to 1970 have died of overdoses at a higher rate than any other demographic group in dozens of U.S. counties. In San Francisco, that disparity was worse than anywhere else. So just between January 2020 and October 2024, there was at least 410 black men from this age group who died of overdoses in San Francisco. A lot of them are dying from fentanyl, but what we do know that is different between Black men in this age group and other races is that Black men are far more likely to have died with cocaine in their systems. And so there is some speculation based on that data that a lot of these deaths and a lot of this disparity is being caused by a laced cocaine supply in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:08] What did your reporting find about why it’s so bad for this cohort of men, and specifically this age group in particular?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:15:17] So we spoke with dozens of members of this community, including family members of people who were lost, people who have survived, people who are working in the city, around the city, advocates, researchers, and it’s a combination of factors. But one of the most striking is that this generation, many of them grew up during redevelopment in San Francisco that saw many black families torn apart, displaced. The community in the Fillmore, Western Addition, you know, there was this mass exodus of Black families from that neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:15:54] In the late 90s to the early 2000s, San Francisco saw this influx of tech jobs, but the city’s Black community did not see a corresponding increase in their employment in these sectors. In 2023, the median income for Black households in San Francisco was about $47,000. That’s less than a third of white household median and less than Black communities nationwide, which is wild considering how expensive it is to live in this city compared to other places in the country. Dr. Philip Coffin, the director of substance use research at the Department of Public Health said that when he went through the overdose death data and filtered out people who were recently homeless or still homeless, the disparity went away. From their eyes, this disparity is as much caused by economic factors as much as the health disparities that have happened for generations back to slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:06] Richard talked with us about how he had a really rocky childhood. I mean, his dad was incarcerated. His mother left their family when he was really young. He started selling drugs, I think at like somewhere between 9 and 12 years old. Was in and out of schools. I mean was that also similar to the other people that you talked with in this story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:17:31] Yeah, I did a roundtable with, I think, about seven people in this cohort while I was reporting on this story. And when I was asking them, why do you think this disparity exists? That was the first answer I got from everybody was, well, we grew up around it. This is what our dad did. This is what our brother did. This is what everybody did. Then, of course, we had to ask the question, why was that happening? And yeah, I mean, there was just so much trauma. Back to the main family that we profiled, they watched their neighbors’ homes taken away on trucks. They stood in front of bulldozers to keep their community from being torn down. We ended up speaking with the family of Mary Helen Rogers, who was a storied activist in the Fillmore fighting against redevelopment and found that two of her sons had died of overdoses in this time period. They were both in this cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:29] There’s a lot of disagreement right now about the best way to tackle the overdose crisis. For years, San Francisco has promoted harm reduction, this idea of providing people tools to use drugs safely. But others want to see the city promote abstinence. Mayor Daniel Lurie recently ordered the city to cut back on harm reduction programs that offered safe smoking supplies such as pipes, foils, and straws. Some medical experts have spoken out saying that these programs save lives and that getting rid of them will make the crisis worse. And you could see this disagreement within the black community, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:18] What did you hear from Black folks in San Francisco, especially the surviving family members of those who’ve died of overdoses, and people like Richard even, about what they think is needed to address this problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:19:33] The thorough line that I heard from many people, there’s a lot of disagreement on nuanced policy choices and how the city should move forward, but one point of agreement is that there needs to be acknowledgement and inclusion of these Black community leaders. There are some Black service providers in the city who still feel as if the Department of Public Health doesn’t listen to them, and that even when decisions come down to work with. members of this group that is most affected by the overdose crisis, it comes from white leadership rather than coming from the community itself. And that leads to a huge distrust in public health but also in some of these strategies that many people say are effective at reducing overdoses such as fentanyl test strips and naloxone which is an overdose antidote. those strategies fall under this label of harm reduction, which many people in the Black community have no trust in and it’s seen as a white thought coming into their communities. What’s funny is even with all the political disagreement going on in the city, when you really get down to the brass tacks with a lot of these people who are outspoken against one approach or another, a lot them really are in agreement that there needs to be some of both. 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I’ve been an ambassador for recovery for the last almost 30 years here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m currently the Director of Recovery Services for Tenderloin Housing Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:09] You live in Antioch now, but where did you grow up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:02:12] I grew up in Richmond, California. I got three older brothers, I got two younger brothers, and I got four sisters. So I was born in the 60s. My heroes was Huey Newton. You got, you know, H. Rap Brown and Bobby Seale and Angela Davis and you know, this is the Black Power movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bobby Seale \u003c/strong>[00:02:38] It’s good to be here to see so many people trying to move and understand the revolutionary struggle that’s going on within the confines of racist decadent America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:02:50] Felix Mitchell, you know, Mickey Moore, they was ghetto legends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsreeel \u003c/strong>[00:02:55] 32-year-old convicted drug racketeer Felix Mitchell was convicted in San Francisco federal court earlier this year after allegations that he was the kingpin in an East Oakland heroin dealership that featured fancy cars…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] Back then, it was hard for a person of color, a Black person, to get a job that can pay enough. And so my father, because he made more money in the streets, you know, that’s what he gravitated to. People can only give you what they got. And so he gave us what he had, which was knowledge about how to survive in the street. You know, he sold weed. He did a lot of things. When I was six months old, my father went to prison for 19 counts of armed robbery. I was the youngest at that time. My three older brothers were born and my mother, she was 20 years old with four kids. She sent my father one of those Dear John letters in prison. Said she was going back to her mother in Mississippi. And my father said, yeah, I understand you’re going back to Mississippi, but leave my kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:04:06] I had a resentment against my mother. How could you leave your six-month-old baby? You know, it took me a long time coming into recovery, because my father never forgave her. He said, I’m never going back in Mississippi, and he never forgave my mother. Anyway, they let him out after the five years, and my father never went back to the penitentiary after. He didn’t do no more robberies or anything like that, but he started selling weed and gambling and he ran a gambling house and all that type of stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] That sounds like a pretty, I mean, intense childhood and you mention your addiction and your recovery. How did you, I guess, get caught up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:04:45] My father got out and I started stealing doobies out of my father’s ashtray. And so nine years old, I started smoking weed. My father found out we were smoking weed, me and my older brothers, they was already into it. At 12 years old he started giving it to us, to sell. And so at 12 years I was selling 50 cent joints, five dollar matchboxes and three finger lids. That’s what they called it back in the 70s. Joint is a joint, you know. Five dollar matchboxes, they would literally be a box of matches filled with weed, three fingers of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] And so I smoked weed, just weed, for a long time. And I got kicked out of school, every high school I went to. And then, you know, I was caught up with crack. And when I got caught up crack, it was like, I smoked crack for like 10 years. That’s what led me to San Francisco. And so in the early 80s, I came out to San Fransisco. I went from Richmond to Berkeley. You know, and I went from, didn’t have enough dope, didn’t have enough money there. I went from Berkeley to Oakland, didn’t have enough money, didn’ have enough dope there. Then I went the San Francisco. And it was like, free drugs, drug heaven, you can use, you know, it was, like, you know. San Francisco, people up all night long getting high. You know sometimes the police would mess with you, sometimes they wouldn’t. But it was just a lot different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] I wanted to go back to the point where I could just smoke weed and not use those harder drugs. And every time I always ended up back with crack. It took me 12 years to get 30 days. I’m talking about from 83 to 95. The last day I used, I could remember laying down that night, just sleeping out in the alley right there by the entrance of the detox and a woman named Deborah Williams, she let me in and she tried, I was too tore up really still to be, you know, fully conscious and do an assessment. So she just told me to lay down on the mat and at that time I was tired. I said, I’m ready. I said I’m tired of this. I don’t want to do crack no more. I tried everything else and nothing has worked. And so that was the day I really surrendered. On July 20th, I went into a St. Anthony’s program right there at 55 Jones Street. I did the intake and everything, and I went to Seton Hall. You know, I graduated the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:13] How old were you then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:07:15] I was 29 years old when I came into recall. So I’ve been out through my 30s and 40s and now 50s and been clean. So I’ll be celebrating 30 years clean on July 18th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] When you were going through your own recovery, was it common to see other folks in the community going through what you were doing through, especially, and in particular, black men?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:07:39] Two of my brothers ended up dying from the disease of addiction. My brother Anthony, you know, he passed away. You know, I found him dead 2017. You know I tried to get him to come out and get clean and I let him come live with me. I found him in a room right next to me. I had a two, three bedroom in Hayward. And then my other brother, William, he went into a program and he tried to detox and off a crack. It wasn’t, he wasn’t an IV drug user. I tried it all, but he loved crack though and he loved, he used to smoke meth every now and then. He had a heart attack in the program, in treatment. And then he left the program at the hospital, didn’t go back and ended up dying. Two days before his 46th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] What have you learned over the last 30 years about what black men in particular need?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:08:36] They need people like me to talk to him and let him know that you can recover. The disease of addiction is addressed through applying treatment and talking about trauma and talking why did you use the exact nature of where all of that came from? What are you suffering from that let you, if drugs is the answer, what is the question? Why do you think that you need a drug to get through life, to deal with your emotions and your feelings? That’s the question! And a good counselor is not a person that has all the answers. A good counselor, a good case manager is the ability to ask the right question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:21] Twice a week, Richard leads a relapse prevention meeting. We followed him there. In a packed room on a Thursday morning with donuts and coffee, participants shared their stories and why having a group like this was important to their recovery journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:09:41] How’s everybody doing this morning? Good. All right, all right, y’all. And so I just want to say, you know, I really, really appreciate you. Each and every one of y’all. When y’all made the decision to come to New Horizons Transitional Housing, when you came here for being in custody, when you came here from going through residential treatment, everybody made a decision that they want to improve the quality of their life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting participant \u003c/strong>[00:10:05] One thing I noticed that this program did build for everybody and. I know it may not seem important to everybody, but it really is. It’s bringing structure back into our life. Because we really didn’t have no structure. The 25th of this month, I’ve made three years clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting participant \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] The drugs basically took away my youth, like I didn’t have an education before until I went to prison and got my high school diploma. But then ever since I’ve been to this program it gave me that safe haven to actually study and I go to San Francisco City College and my major is environmental science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting participant \u003c/strong>[00:10:49] I can just tell you that, like, I grew up in most underprivileged areas around here, like around, you know, 3rd Street and Cortland, and I’ve been using since I was 12 years old. I’m 59 years old, but thanks to the program and thanks to being able to come to Horizons, like I got a job now as an SUD counselor at a methadone clinic, and I got a second job at Horizons in San Mateo in detox. And I go to school, I’m pursuing my B.A. and my certification for SUD Counseling. And I couldn’t do it without being here. You know what I’m saying? And I’m so grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] Recovery has done so much for me. I’m not a 9 to 5 recovery guy. Some people are just 9 to 5 people. I’m a one o’clock in the morning, two o’ clock in the mornin’ — if you call me, I’m a respond type of person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:49] Why is that? Why do you work it sounds like so hard beyond the 9 to 5, like what keeps you going, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:12:00] Because what God in this program has done for me and recovery has done to me, the gift of recovery is just priceless. Some of the places that I go to now, they used to put me out the crack house because I tweaked so hard. Now when I walk into places, they embrace me. And so I embrace the same suffering addict. The whole thing about the newcomer is the most important person at any meeting. I understand that, but then it says the old timer is invaluable to the group because it shows the newcomer that the program works. So we need each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:35] Thank you so much, Richard, for your time. Appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Beal \u003c/strong>[00:12:38] Hey, thank you. I really appreciate y’all coming out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:22] In the first part of this episode, we paid a visit to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and heard from Richard Beal, who himself suffered from addiction for decades. Beal is part of a whole generation of Black men in San Francisco whose lives have been disrupted by drug addiction. And according to reporting by the San Francisco Standard, it’s worse here than anywhere. David Sjostedt is a staff writer for the San Francisco Standard. He reported this story with the Standard’s Noah Baustin and George Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:58] What exactly do the numbers show in terms of the impact of overdose deaths on this specific group of folks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:14:08] The Black men born from 1951 to 1970 have died of overdoses at a higher rate than any other demographic group in dozens of U.S. counties. In San Francisco, that disparity was worse than anywhere else. So just between January 2020 and October 2024, there was at least 410 black men from this age group who died of overdoses in San Francisco. A lot of them are dying from fentanyl, but what we do know that is different between Black men in this age group and other races is that Black men are far more likely to have died with cocaine in their systems. And so there is some speculation based on that data that a lot of these deaths and a lot of this disparity is being caused by a laced cocaine supply in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:08] What did your reporting find about why it’s so bad for this cohort of men, and specifically this age group in particular?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:15:17] So we spoke with dozens of members of this community, including family members of people who were lost, people who have survived, people who are working in the city, around the city, advocates, researchers, and it’s a combination of factors. But one of the most striking is that this generation, many of them grew up during redevelopment in San Francisco that saw many black families torn apart, displaced. The community in the Fillmore, Western Addition, you know, there was this mass exodus of Black families from that neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:15:54] In the late 90s to the early 2000s, San Francisco saw this influx of tech jobs, but the city’s Black community did not see a corresponding increase in their employment in these sectors. In 2023, the median income for Black households in San Francisco was about $47,000. That’s less than a third of white household median and less than Black communities nationwide, which is wild considering how expensive it is to live in this city compared to other places in the country. Dr. Philip Coffin, the director of substance use research at the Department of Public Health said that when he went through the overdose death data and filtered out people who were recently homeless or still homeless, the disparity went away. From their eyes, this disparity is as much caused by economic factors as much as the health disparities that have happened for generations back to slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:06] Richard talked with us about how he had a really rocky childhood. I mean, his dad was incarcerated. His mother left their family when he was really young. He started selling drugs, I think at like somewhere between 9 and 12 years old. Was in and out of schools. I mean was that also similar to the other people that you talked with in this story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:17:31] Yeah, I did a roundtable with, I think, about seven people in this cohort while I was reporting on this story. And when I was asking them, why do you think this disparity exists? That was the first answer I got from everybody was, well, we grew up around it. This is what our dad did. This is what our brother did. This is what everybody did. Then, of course, we had to ask the question, why was that happening? And yeah, I mean, there was just so much trauma. Back to the main family that we profiled, they watched their neighbors’ homes taken away on trucks. They stood in front of bulldozers to keep their community from being torn down. We ended up speaking with the family of Mary Helen Rogers, who was a storied activist in the Fillmore fighting against redevelopment and found that two of her sons had died of overdoses in this time period. They were both in this cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:29] There’s a lot of disagreement right now about the best way to tackle the overdose crisis. For years, San Francisco has promoted harm reduction, this idea of providing people tools to use drugs safely. But others want to see the city promote abstinence. Mayor Daniel Lurie recently ordered the city to cut back on harm reduction programs that offered safe smoking supplies such as pipes, foils, and straws. Some medical experts have spoken out saying that these programs save lives and that getting rid of them will make the crisis worse. And you could see this disagreement within the black community, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:18] What did you hear from Black folks in San Francisco, especially the surviving family members of those who’ve died of overdoses, and people like Richard even, about what they think is needed to address this problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Sjostedt \u003c/strong>[00:19:33] The thorough line that I heard from many people, there’s a lot of disagreement on nuanced policy choices and how the city should move forward, but one point of agreement is that there needs to be acknowledgement and inclusion of these Black community leaders. There are some Black service providers in the city who still feel as if the Department of Public Health doesn’t listen to them, and that even when decisions come down to work with. members of this group that is most affected by the overdose crisis, it comes from white leadership rather than coming from the community itself. And that leads to a huge distrust in public health but also in some of these strategies that many people say are effective at reducing overdoses such as fentanyl test strips and naloxone which is an overdose antidote. those strategies fall under this label of harm reduction, which many people in the Black community have no trust in and it’s seen as a white thought coming into their communities. What’s funny is even with all the political disagreement going on in the city, when you really get down to the brass tacks with a lot of these people who are outspoken against one approach or another, a lot them really are in agreement that there needs to be some of both. The city needs to continue investing in these communities in ways that give people purpose. Addiction, it doesn’t live and die by drug use. It’s a whole confluence of factors that are happening when somebody is suffering from addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:21:23] Well, David, thanks so much for joining us on the show. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Kull Murray felt like the pieces were finally falling into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than three years of living sober at Delancey Street Foundation, a residential drug rehabilitation program in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, he had lined up a job and reconnected with family. His future dimmed on a trip home one night in early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just one drink would be fine, he thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ended up drinking at least a 12 pack. And then, the next thing I know, I’m at a park with people I’m familiar with and I’m smoking meth,” Murray, a Central Valley native, said. “It happened so quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slip cost Murray his bed at Delancey Street, where drug use is prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came back the next morning, they called me in to drug test me. I definitely failed, so I just walked out ‘cause I knew what they were gonna do,” Murray, 41, said. “I was about to graduate. And I’ve been trying to rack my brain, why I made this decision. It was a very unfortunate one. Now I’m stuck on the streets in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033472\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12033472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_SoberHousing_GC-2-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_SoberHousing_GC-2-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_SoberHousing_GC-2-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_SoberHousing_GC-2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_SoberHousing_GC-2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_SoberHousing_GC-2.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kull Murray poses for a photo at Hallidie Plaza in San Francisco on March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Murray’s experience comes as San Francisco supervisors push for more low-income housing options that require sobriety in response to the city’s drug crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say it’s a much-needed component of the city’s public housing inventory for people in recovery or low-income residents seeking a drug-free environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been running transitional housing right down the street for the last 10 years. When they discharge, I gotta look and scramble for them to go to a place that’s safe,” Richard Beal, director of recovery services at Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said at a recent town hall about the city’s response to drug use and homelessness in the Tenderloin neighborhood. “We need drug-free housing. We need to complete the bridge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who oversees the South of Market neighborhood, is leading the charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Virtually 100%, or close to it, of permanent supportive housing right now has a drug-tolerant policy that people can’t be evicted for the use of illicit drugs,” Dorsey told KQED. “There are people that I hear from who are in recovery and in permanent supportive housing who are asking for drug-free options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unhoused for the first time, Murray slept outside the first two nights. On the third day of homelessness, he visited a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a>, where he heard he might find help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that this place will get me a bed in a shelter, if that’s what happens here. I don’t even really know. I just know they have food, and I haven’t eaten in a couple days; that definitely drew me in,” Murray said, sitting on the facility’s picnic bench one recent morning. “I just don’t want to sleep outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A social worker found a shelter bed for Murray, where he’s since been sleeping as he applies to jobs and navigates the city’s web of social services. He said he hasn’t used drugs since the relapse, but every day is difficult trying to maintain sobriety while facing the harsh realities of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What’s creeping into my head and giving me anxiety now is having a uniform or the clothing that I’ll need for a job and the ability to maintain my hygiene,” Murray said on a phone call a few days into his shelter stay. “I’ve taken showers here, but I’m literally putting on the same clothes that I have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It starts wearing on you, like, the hopelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, under President George W. Bush, the federal government adopted a “housing first” model requiring permanent supportive housing providers to accept residents regardless of drug use, credit history or criminal background. The idea is backed by studies showing that having a place to live increases a person’s likelihood of stabilizing their health and income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing that some people in recovery prefer abstinence housing, in 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development modified its policy to include drug-free programs.[aside postID=news_12028499 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg']California adopted its housing-first policy in 2016, and state law still prohibits tax dollars from funding drug-free housing. That could soon change. Assemblymember Matt Haney, who represents San Francisco, has proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">legislation\u003c/a> to allow state housing-first dollars to go towards residential programs where up to 25% of units are drug-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, it would also “prohibit eviction on the basis of relapse,” according to the bill’s text. “If a tenant is no longer interested in living in a supportive-recovery residence or is at risk of eviction,” then they should receive “assistance in accessing housing operated with harm-reduction principles that is also permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directives from the Trump administration are already filtering down to the local level. HUD officials said they “will not enforce” grant agreements with the City of San Francisco “to the extent that they require the project to use a housing first program model,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/Housing-First-SF-R.pdf\">memo obtained by \u003cem>Kaiser Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">Efforts to expand drug-free housing\u003c/a> in San Francisco have percolated for years, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032892/billionaire-influence-deepens-divisions-among-san-francisco-democrats\">a shift toward the center\u003c/a> among the city’s political leadership has accelerated efforts. The city is on track to open its first drug-free housing facility at the Civic Center Motor Inn this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state and federal changes could boost momentum around legislation that Dorsey plans to reintroduce to grow the city’s abstinence housing stock. His plan would restrict funding for subsidized housing for homeless adults unless a portion of the units are drug-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dorsey, who identifies as a recovering drug addict, said that a relapse in drug-free housing would not immediately trigger an eviction. Ideally, a person who relapses would be referred to other treatment options in a different setting to keep them connected to care and protect other residents hoping to avoid drug use, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone were to have a return to use, the policy would actually require that we place people into a more appropriate level of care,” as opposed to being placed on the street, Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that the city lacks adequate alternatives, and situations like Murray’s aren’t uncommon. “We have to make sure we have treatment on demand and expand our recovery options,” Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction experts who agree that drug-free housing can support recovery goals have raised concerns over the heightened emphasis on abstinence. Relapse is a regular experience for many substance use disorders.[aside postID=news_12033622 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240903-OverdoseResponse-56-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“People who are working towards abstinence have a right to be in a space where there’s no drug use. But we are first obligated to see how we can work with them, if we can figure out what support they need,” said Vitka Eisen, who leads one of the city’s largest drug treatment providers, HealthRIGHT360. “Returning to old ways that didn’t work is not the answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone has a relapse in HealthRIGHT360’s residential drug treatment programs, Eisen said they are typically evaluated for alternative care, including withdrawal management, medication-assisted treatment, counseling or other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An abstinence-based transitional housing program at the Drake Hotel takes similar approaches to relapses, using discharge as a last resort only if someone has been violent or shown other disruptive behavior, according to Beal of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to keep people connected to care. That’s the most important thing, to the degree to which we can turn a single slip from a deepening crisis for the individual,” Eisen said. “The worst outcome is when people are disconnected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living away from drug use helped Murray stick to his sobriety. He’s desperate to find a place to live, but he isn’t looking to move back to Delancy Street, which has residents commit to a two-year stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even really an option,” Murray said. “I’m 41 years old. I have kids that I’m desperately trying to get to, and I’ve been there already for three years. I just can’t justify in my head being away from them for another two years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s now hoping for a subsidized housing unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made a mistake, there’s no denying that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ended up drinking at least a 12 pack. And then, the next thing I know, I’m at a park with people I’m familiar with and I’m smoking meth,” Murray, a Central Valley native, said. “It happened so quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slip cost Murray his bed at Delancey Street, where drug use is prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came back the next morning, they called me in to drug test me. I definitely failed, so I just walked out ‘cause I knew what they were gonna do,” Murray, 41, said. “I was about to graduate. And I’ve been trying to rack my brain, why I made this decision. It was a very unfortunate one. 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When they discharge, I gotta look and scramble for them to go to a place that’s safe,” Richard Beal, director of recovery services at Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said at a recent town hall about the city’s response to drug use and homelessness in the Tenderloin neighborhood. “We need drug-free housing. We need to complete the bridge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who oversees the South of Market neighborhood, is leading the charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Virtually 100%, or close to it, of permanent supportive housing right now has a drug-tolerant policy that people can’t be evicted for the use of illicit drugs,” Dorsey told KQED. “There are people that I hear from who are in recovery and in permanent supportive housing who are asking for drug-free options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unhoused for the first time, Murray slept outside the first two nights. On the third day of homelessness, he visited a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a>, where he heard he might find help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that this place will get me a bed in a shelter, if that’s what happens here. I don’t even really know. I just know they have food, and I haven’t eaten in a couple days; that definitely drew me in,” Murray said, sitting on the facility’s picnic bench one recent morning. “I just don’t want to sleep outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A social worker found a shelter bed for Murray, where he’s since been sleeping as he applies to jobs and navigates the city’s web of social services. He said he hasn’t used drugs since the relapse, but every day is difficult trying to maintain sobriety while facing the harsh realities of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What’s creeping into my head and giving me anxiety now is having a uniform or the clothing that I’ll need for a job and the ability to maintain my hygiene,” Murray said on a phone call a few days into his shelter stay. “I’ve taken showers here, but I’m literally putting on the same clothes that I have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It starts wearing on you, like, the hopelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, under President George W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California adopted its housing-first policy in 2016, and state law still prohibits tax dollars from funding drug-free housing. That could soon change. Assemblymember Matt Haney, who represents San Francisco, has proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">legislation\u003c/a> to allow state housing-first dollars to go towards residential programs where up to 25% of units are drug-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, it would also “prohibit eviction on the basis of relapse,” according to the bill’s text. “If a tenant is no longer interested in living in a supportive-recovery residence or is at risk of eviction,” then they should receive “assistance in accessing housing operated with harm-reduction principles that is also permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directives from the Trump administration are already filtering down to the local level. HUD officials said they “will not enforce” grant agreements with the City of San Francisco “to the extent that they require the project to use a housing first program model,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/Housing-First-SF-R.pdf\">memo obtained by \u003cem>Kaiser Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">Efforts to expand drug-free housing\u003c/a> in San Francisco have percolated for years, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032892/billionaire-influence-deepens-divisions-among-san-francisco-democrats\">a shift toward the center\u003c/a> among the city’s political leadership has accelerated efforts. The city is on track to open its first drug-free housing facility at the Civic Center Motor Inn this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state and federal changes could boost momentum around legislation that Dorsey plans to reintroduce to grow the city’s abstinence housing stock. His plan would restrict funding for subsidized housing for homeless adults unless a portion of the units are drug-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dorsey, who identifies as a recovering drug addict, said that a relapse in drug-free housing would not immediately trigger an eviction. Ideally, a person who relapses would be referred to other treatment options in a different setting to keep them connected to care and protect other residents hoping to avoid drug use, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone were to have a return to use, the policy would actually require that we place people into a more appropriate level of care,” as opposed to being placed on the street, Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that the city lacks adequate alternatives, and situations like Murray’s aren’t uncommon. “We have to make sure we have treatment on demand and expand our recovery options,” Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction experts who agree that drug-free housing can support recovery goals have raised concerns over the heightened emphasis on abstinence. Relapse is a regular experience for many substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People who are working towards abstinence have a right to be in a space where there’s no drug use. But we are first obligated to see how we can work with them, if we can figure out what support they need,” said Vitka Eisen, who leads one of the city’s largest drug treatment providers, HealthRIGHT360. “Returning to old ways that didn’t work is not the answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone has a relapse in HealthRIGHT360’s residential drug treatment programs, Eisen said they are typically evaluated for alternative care, including withdrawal management, medication-assisted treatment, counseling or other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An abstinence-based transitional housing program at the Drake Hotel takes similar approaches to relapses, using discharge as a last resort only if someone has been violent or shown other disruptive behavior, according to Beal of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to keep people connected to care. That’s the most important thing, to the degree to which we can turn a single slip from a deepening crisis for the individual,” Eisen said. “The worst outcome is when people are disconnected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living away from drug use helped Murray stick to his sobriety. He’s desperate to find a place to live, but he isn’t looking to move back to Delancy Street, which has residents commit to a two-year stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even really an option,” Murray said. “I’m 41 years old. I have kids that I’m desperately trying to get to, and I’ve been there already for three years. I just can’t justify in my head being away from them for another two years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s now hoping for a subsidized housing unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made a mistake, there’s no denying that. But to have three years of sobriety and getting under my feet then to just be cast out like garbage, it’s pretty tough,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between job applications, Murray mostly keeps busy watching YouTube videos about astronomy, history and cute animals. “I spend a lot of time trying to watch positive stuff like educational videos because if I just sit alone and I’m not occupying my mind, it’s pretty depressing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the shelter, he said he sees many people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders who need supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in the same situation they are in, but my situation is not hopeless. I can figure this out and get my shit together,” Murray said. “Some of these other folks, it’s not their fault and they’re really, really struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">scales back some harm reduction programs\u003c/a> amid the city’s crackdown on open-air drug markets, UCSF doctors are raising concerns and emphasizing the integral role that such public health strategies play in keeping drug users safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harm reduction, which aims to mitigate the risks of death and long-term damage associated with drug use, has spurred increasingly polarized debate between coalitions that support and oppose the strategy. However, doctors and policy experts say increasing collaboration is the best way to ensure public health for the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harm reduction and treatment are like part and parcel of each other,” Dr. Ayesha Appa, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, said during a town hall on Thursday hosted by the Treatment on Demand Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that for one of her patients, “having relationships with people who are offering safer-use supplies allowed him to feel valued and then think, ‘I’m worth something. I can do this,’” and get on methadone, a medication used to treat opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>November’s election results, though, show a city growing more concerned with getting drugs and drug users off the streets and out of public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm reduction program representative speaks with people on a popular alleyway in the Tenderloin neighborhood to hand out Narcan, fentanyl detection packets and tinfoil to those who need them as a part of drug addiction outreach in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> campaigned on public safety, saying the city needed to crack down on open-air drug markets. He and other candidates running against incumbent London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">criticized\u003c/a> some of her efforts focused on harm reduction, including the shuttered Tenderloin Center, which was the city’s first publicly run overdose prevention site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s latter years as mayor, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">moved away\u003c/a> from a harm-reduction approach to the drug crisis, which progressive politicians had embraced. 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But Humphreys said what it fails to account for is the public health of non-drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A psychiatric clinical pharmacist with the San Francisco Department of Public Health packs a backpack with harm reduction supplies before making deliveries to SROs and Permanent Supportive Housing in San Francisco on March 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of taking drug dealers off the street is not to change the overdose rate,” he told KQED. “The purpose is to make neighborhoods safe for families and get drug dealers off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said an integrated public health approach — which the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-drug-dealing-tenderloin-emergency-center-18132343.php\">has been working on for years\u003c/a> but continues to need more of — would combine a nighttime bust by police with onsite harm reduction services, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Europe, in cities that have closed down open-air things, the police and the public health people work side by side,” he told KQED. “Police will say we’re closing down this open-air drug corner and the dealers are ours and the users are yours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will arrest the people … but then drive the methadone vans saying, ‘Who wants treatment, who needs clean needles right here?’ They use it as an opportunity to engage people into care because your dealer’s gone, but you know you could get to treatment right this second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033114 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/005_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8366_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four UCSF doctors who spoke about the importance of harm reduction on Thursday stressed the importance of linking harm reduction and treatment services by offering them in the same spaces and making the on-ramp to treatment less intimidating for drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said that reducing the distribution of safer drug supplies and medications that treat opioid addiction will make people less safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in the city, I have kids … so that allows me to understand people who say, ‘Why the hell are you handing out opioids to people with opioid use disorder …handing out supplies to people that help them use drugs?’” said Dr. Scott Steiger, a professor in the departments of Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. “I could wave a magic wand and stop all of that, but we can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular city has done this before and is very good at figuring out ways to be more inclusive, to bring people back into the larger community who are otherwise stigmatized or outsiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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