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"content": "\u003cp>After a five-year legal battle, nearly $1 billion generated from an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> sales tax can finally go toward solving its homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous decision on Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors came amid \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandside.org/2025/07/02/measure-w-alameda-county-homelessness-bas/\">some uncertainty\u003c/a> over whether all the revenue would go toward housing and homelessness — as initially billed to voters, when the measure narrowly passed in 2020 — or if some should go to other county programs, such as mental health or violence prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the board decided to allocate the vast majority of the funds to its original purpose, with a smaller portion going to other county programs. The 10-year half-cent sales tax has accrued about $810 million through June, according to county officials. Those funds will continue to grow through 2031, and officials estimate they could generate a total of more than $1.8 billion, with roughly $1.4 billion dedicated to solving the county’s homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windfall comes amid federal reductions in other safety net programs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/news/senatevotejuly25\">food stamps\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/putting-880-billion-in-potential-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-context-of-state-budgets-and-coverage/\">Medicaid\u003c/a>. At the state level, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget late last month, which includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045673/newsom-slashes-funding-for-homelessness-in-state-budget-leaving-cities-scrambling\">no new funding for a key statewide homelessness grant program\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders argued that the recently released cash from Measure W puts Alameda County in a unique position to continue progress on housing people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t made a dent in the last 20 years, 10 years,” Board President David Haubert said. “We have more needs than we have resources, which is why we have to be smart about the dollars that we’re spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland on Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the point-in-time survey of Alameda County’s homeless population. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">Alameda County’s most recent count,\u003c/a> more than 9,400 people were estimated to be experiencing homelessness in the county, but for the first time since 2013, that number has declined — down 3% compared to 2022. Unsheltered homelessness declined even more — 11% during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realize that the Trump administration means that there are significant cuts that are coming your way,” Oakland City Council President Kevin Jenkins told supervisors at the meeting. “All of you guys represent an area where people are literally dying in our streets. And so we have the resources with Measure W to start getting people off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been held up in litigation after the Alameda Taxpayers Association sued the county, a\u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2025/a168775.html\">rguing it was actually a special tax\u003c/a>, requiring a two-thirds majority to pass. Voters had only narrowly approved it with a 50.09% majority. Earlier this year, however, a judge ruled the measure was indeed a general tax and released the funds, which had been sitting in escrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco faced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837613/proposition-c-court-win-delivers-nearly-500-million-for-san-franciscos-homeless-but-how-will-it-be-spent\">similar battle\u003c/a> over Proposition C, which voters approved in 2018 and was subsequently tied up in litigation. In 2020, the state supreme court ruled the tax was valid and could be implemented as originally promised. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">Mayor Daniel Lurie announced plans\u003c/a> to reallocate some of the funds from homelessness prevention programs to interim shelters.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']When Measure W was presented to Alameda County voters, officials estimated it could generate $150 million per year. Since the tax started collection in July 2021, its revenue has mildly exceeded expectations, generating a little more than $160 million per year. County officials expect future years will yield roughly $170 million for the duration of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board agreed to allocate 80% of Measure W funds to the county’s Home Together Fund, which is used for a wide range of services, including acquiring and maintaining temporary and permanent housing and providing services for people experiencing or exiting homelessness. And if the tax generates more than $170 million in a given year, any additional funds would also go into the Home Together Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 20% of Measure W’s revenue will be set aside for safety net programs, including food security, behavioral health care and senior services. And, following a recommendation from county staff, the board created a $170 million reserve, which the county can dip into if economic conditions worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda supervisors adopted guiding principles for how the fund will be allocated on Tuesday, the granular allocations will be decided at a special meeting next Wednesday. In the meantime, cities are vying for their piece of the pie. Oakland’s newly elected mayor, Barbara Lee, campaigned on a promise to get \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/19/oakland-mayor-election-loren-taylor-barbara-lee-difference-comparison/#h-homelessness-and-housing\">her city’s fair share of Measure W\u003c/a> funds. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">More than half\u003c/a> of Alameda County’s homeless population lives in Oakland, despite its residents making up only a quarter of the county’s total population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the No Kings protest in Oakland on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As decisions are being made about where those dollars go, it’s important to ground those conversations based on the need,” Lee said at the meeting. “In Oakland, that need is urgent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents Oakland, agreed with Lee, while also emphasizing the need to address racial disparities in the county’s homeless population. According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">county data\u003c/a>, the largest racial group experiencing homelessness in Alameda County is Black. Black residents make up 41% of people experiencing homelessness, despite representing only a tenth of the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to Measure W, I do agree that we have to invest the funds where there is the most need,” she told KQED. “And we have to work towards eliminating those racial disparities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the board’s discussion on Tuesday, Haubert challenged the idea that throwing money at the problem will actually solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I think it’s kind of the opposite — the more money you pour into something, the less urgency there is to actually perform,” he said. “I wanna see progress on things year by year, so I’d like to see us reallocate this every year based on what’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:24 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s district attorney is blaming her predecessor for policies that she said led to the February release of a man now charged with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048706/california-parole-officer-is-shot-killed-in-east-oakland-office-building\">killing a state parole agent\u003c/a> in Oakland last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Keith Hall, who was arrested in the fatal shooting of agent Joshua Lemont Byrd at the Division of Adult Parole Operations office in East Oakland on Thursday, faces a first-degree murder charge in the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall had been on parole in Oakland since early this year after pleading no contest to assault with a deadly weapon for a random stabbing near Lake Merritt in 2022. As part of a plea deal, other charges associated with the attack, including an attempted murder charge and multiple enhancements for repeat offenses, were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson said Monday that a special directive put in place by her predecessor, Pamela Price — a progressive prosecutor who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017506/these-maps-show-where-pamela-price-lost-the-most-support-from-voters-in-the-recall-election\">recalled last Novembe\u003c/a>\u003cu>r\u003c/u> — prevented the office from considering charge enhancements in Hall’s plea negotiations, including one for great bodily harm and another for his previous felony convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could not use those strikes as it relates to any plea bargaining without permission from the prior administration,” she told reporters ahead of Hall’s arraignment. “There was a plea taken in January of 2025 while that directive was still in place, and sentencing occurred on February 7, 2025, again, while that directive was still in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049206\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/EBT-L-HALLCHARGE-0721-01-scaled-e1753214975639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Keith Hall, who is suspected of opening fire on state parole agent Joshua Lemont Byrd at the Division of Adult Parole Operations office in East Oakland last Thursday. \u003ccite>(Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25038309-special-directive-23-01/\">The directive\u003c/a>, which aimed to decrease prison sentences in favor of alternatives to incarceration, was one of Price’s first major policy shifts after taking office in 2023. The policy said that in most instances, “prosecutors shall not file or require defendants to plead to sentence enhancements or other sentencing allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first order of business when I came to this office was to get rid of that directive,” Jones Dickson said. \u003ca href=\"https://substack.com/home/post/p-157524235?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web\">She did so\u003c/a> the day after her inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued earlier Monday, Price said the plea was negotiated under the administration of Jones Dickson, who was sworn in on Feb. 18, and called the blame placed on her administration “disinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Hall’s crime took place before I was in the office and his negotiated plea deal was made after I left office,” she wrote.[aside postID=news_12048706 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01_qed.jpg']According to Price, the plea decision was made by an attorney in Jones Dickson’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was paroled immediately after his sentencing, nearly two weeks before Jones Dickson took office, because he had completed the maximum sentence for the crime in county jail, awaiting his conviction, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an evidentiary hearing in the stabbing case in November, Hall’s public defender told the court they believed his attack against that victim was likely “driven by some sort of mental health issues” based on testimony about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After initially refusing to appear for his Monday morning arraignment in the shooting case, Hall appeared for a rescheduled arraignment at 2 p.m. but declined to enter a plea. He is currently being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail. His arraignment is now set for Aug. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to charging documents, the shooting occurred after Hall entered the parole office around 12:40 p.m. Thursday and was told to leave because his parole officer was not there. He had missed a scheduled meeting there with his officer the previous day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 12:50 p.m., Byrd was shot. Minutes later, a witness saw Hall leaving the building with a firearm, the charging documents allege. Video footage shows Hall running outside the building before boarding an Alameda County transit bus. He is believed to have committed a robbery on the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handwritten notes indicate that The CDCR Division of Adult Parole Operations office is closed in Oakland on July 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Department officers found Hall and arrested him hours later near 90th Avenue and International Boulevard, about two miles from the parole office. In a nearby dumpster, they found a firearm and an orange safety jacket that they said Hall was seen stripping off as he fled, according to doorbell camera footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrd, 40, died of his injuries after being immediately transferred to a hospital, marking the first line-of-duty death of an officer in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation since 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how Hall was able to bring a firearm into the office, which serves as a common meeting space for parolees and their officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR declined KQED’s request for comment on its security protocols at the site, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including the 2022 stabbing, Hall has 10 prior felony convictions in California dating back to 1996. They include assault, second-degree robbery, evading police and illegally possessing a firearm as a felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, he was convicted of illegally taking a vehicle in Contra Costa County. Court records show that while paroled following that conviction, he had his release revoked twice because of parole violations, first in November 2015 and again in April the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said Byrd was not Hall’s parole officer. It’s unclear if they had a relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrd had only joined the Oakland office in October, after 10 years in other roles within CDCR, including as a correctional officer and sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Lt. Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:25 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> sale has officially passed one of its last major hurdles: Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">of standstill\u003c/a>, waiting for the board’s approval, supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to reassign the county’s interest in the Coliseum property to local developers known as the African American Sports and Entertainment Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important critical step in a monumental process,” Ray Bobbitt, managing partner of AASEG, said ahead of the vote. “This community has stepped forward and allowed us to be patient, perseverant and to make sure that we have been in prayer. We just want to say thank you so much for the opportunity to move this forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a year ago, AASEG excitedly announced their intent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">buy and redevelop the former home of the Oakland A’s\u003c/a>, but contract negotiations and complicated ownership hang-ups have plagued the deal process, especially with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to finalize the county’s role in the deal, according to Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, will finally give the group the power and assurance to begin that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’ll be one organization that will own the entire Coliseum so that redevelopment and revitalization can move forward,” she told KQED ahead of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening:\u003c/strong> Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has been in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">monthslong negotiation\u003c/a> with AASEG over the developers’ purchase of the A’s stake in the Coliseum. Even though the county \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742341/alameda-county-oks-plan-to-sell-its-share-of-oakland-coliseum-complex-to-as\">agreed to sell its half\u003c/a> to the Major League Baseball team in 2019, it has to approve the AASEG deal as the original owners, reassigning its interest from the A’s to a group formed by AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s meant a series of closed-door meetings between negotiators, which Bas said have been spent hammering out the “complex” real estate deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, as the board inched closer to finalizing the agreement, Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said there were just two outstanding documents that the county needed from AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the board finally voted to reassign its interest in the property to the purchasing company, Oakland Acquisition Company, which is an affiliate of AASEG. Board President David Haubert and Supervisors Elisa Márquez, Nate Miley and Nikki Fortunato Bas all voted in favor of the sale. Board Vice President Lena Tam was excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036060 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In early 2023, AASEG entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Oakland to develop the Coliseum site. Over the summer of 2024, as the A’s prepared to play their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\"> final game at the Coliseum\u003c/a>, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">Oakland\u003c/a> and the team signed deals formalizing sales of their shares to AASEG for $105 million and $125 million, respectively. Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">Oakland renegotiated its deal\u003c/a> with AASEG to increase its revenue by $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sale timelines have been delayed as months went by without Alameda County reassigning its interest in the site to the development company. The A’s deal cannot go through until the county does so, and AASEG has paused payments to Oakland, falling behind on its previously negotiated schedule, until the county deal is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those deals are set to close in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zoom out: \u003c/strong>Slow-moving negotiations with Alameda County have been far from the only bump in the road for the Coliseum deal since 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, then-Mayor Sheng Thao announced that more than $60 million in revenue from the sale would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cutshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">used to help patch an even larger hole in Oakland’s budget\u003c/a>. Shortly after AASEG and the city finalized their deal in July 2024, though, the payment timeline was pushed back, forcing the city to institute a bare-bones “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">contingency budget\u003c/a>” that caused fire station closures and police cuts, and eroded public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has not made any payments to the city since the start of the year. The projected revenue from the sale is not included in the city’s 2025 budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear if AASEG plans to hand Oakland a lump sum for the payments missed due to county delays, or if the deal timeline with either the city or Oakland will be further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s $5 billion plan has raised eyebrows — and concerns about feasibility — since it was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sole owners, AASEG will also have to begin work on a community benefits agreement, which was required by its city deal. The deal aims to ensure that development \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">serves the surrounding East Oakland community\u003c/a>, where decades of disinvestment by businesses and the A’s have decimated the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has already committed to making 25% of any housing built affordable, and in the next five years, will have to begin to negotiate a bundle of other community benefits with stakeholders like Black Cultural Zone, Brotherhood of Elders, local youth centers and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shonda Scott, one of the entertainment group’s members, told KQED when the deals were being negotiated that AASEG is looking forward to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s us being of the community, giving back to the community and making sure it’s done equitably, especially for those who have been historically disenfranchised in these sixth and seventh district areas that the Coliseum is a part of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a year ago, AASEG excitedly announced their intent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">buy and redevelop the former home of the Oakland A’s\u003c/a>, but contract negotiations and complicated ownership hang-ups have plagued the deal process, especially with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to finalize the county’s role in the deal, according to Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, will finally give the group the power and assurance to begin that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’ll be one organization that will own the entire Coliseum so that redevelopment and revitalization can move forward,” she told KQED ahead of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening:\u003c/strong> Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has been in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">monthslong negotiation\u003c/a> with AASEG over the developers’ purchase of the A’s stake in the Coliseum. Even though the county \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742341/alameda-county-oks-plan-to-sell-its-share-of-oakland-coliseum-complex-to-as\">agreed to sell its half\u003c/a> to the Major League Baseball team in 2019, it has to approve the AASEG deal as the original owners, reassigning its interest from the A’s to a group formed by AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s meant a series of closed-door meetings between negotiators, which Bas said have been spent hammering out the “complex” real estate deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, as the board inched closer to finalizing the agreement, Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said there were just two outstanding documents that the county needed from AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the board finally voted to reassign its interest in the property to the purchasing company, Oakland Acquisition Company, which is an affiliate of AASEG. Board President David Haubert and Supervisors Elisa Márquez, Nate Miley and Nikki Fortunato Bas all voted in favor of the sale. Board Vice President Lena Tam was excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In early 2023, AASEG entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Oakland to develop the Coliseum site. Over the summer of 2024, as the A’s prepared to play their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\"> final game at the Coliseum\u003c/a>, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">Oakland\u003c/a> and the team signed deals formalizing sales of their shares to AASEG for $105 million and $125 million, respectively. Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">Oakland renegotiated its deal\u003c/a> with AASEG to increase its revenue by $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sale timelines have been delayed as months went by without Alameda County reassigning its interest in the site to the development company. The A’s deal cannot go through until the county does so, and AASEG has paused payments to Oakland, falling behind on its previously negotiated schedule, until the county deal is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those deals are set to close in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zoom out: \u003c/strong>Slow-moving negotiations with Alameda County have been far from the only bump in the road for the Coliseum deal since 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, then-Mayor Sheng Thao announced that more than $60 million in revenue from the sale would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cutshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">used to help patch an even larger hole in Oakland’s budget\u003c/a>. Shortly after AASEG and the city finalized their deal in July 2024, though, the payment timeline was pushed back, forcing the city to institute a bare-bones “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">contingency budget\u003c/a>” that caused fire station closures and police cuts, and eroded public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has not made any payments to the city since the start of the year. The projected revenue from the sale is not included in the city’s 2025 budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear if AASEG plans to hand Oakland a lump sum for the payments missed due to county delays, or if the deal timeline with either the city or Oakland will be further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s $5 billion plan has raised eyebrows — and concerns about feasibility — since it was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sole owners, AASEG will also have to begin work on a community benefits agreement, which was required by its city deal. The deal aims to ensure that development \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">serves the surrounding East Oakland community\u003c/a>, where decades of disinvestment by businesses and the A’s have decimated the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has already committed to making 25% of any housing built affordable, and in the next five years, will have to begin to negotiate a bundle of other community benefits with stakeholders like Black Cultural Zone, Brotherhood of Elders, local youth centers and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shonda Scott, one of the entertainment group’s members, told KQED when the deals were being negotiated that AASEG is looking forward to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s us being of the community, giving back to the community and making sure it’s done equitably, especially for those who have been historically disenfranchised in these sixth and seventh district areas that the Coliseum is a part of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Lateefah Simon of Oakland described Israel’s recent attack on aid seekers as “devastating, deplorable and unacceptable.” She said Congress needs to do more to end the bloodshed in Gaza, and that the United States has been complicit in the murder of tens of thousands of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gaza is all but leveled. The folks are sick and starving there,” Simon said. “We should be ashamed of ourselves. We should be looking at the photos. We should be listening to the cries of mothers. We should be looking at the region that has been in turmoil for years and years and decades and decades and realize that we cannot be complicit in an endless war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trucks sent by the United Nations’ World Food Programme crossed the Israeli border of Zikim and entered northern Gaza on Sunday morning with bags of flour and other essential food supplies. As civilians approached the trucks, the Israeli military fired at the crowd with tanks, snipers and other weapons, the organization said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply concerned and saddened by this tragic incident resulting in the loss of countless lives,” the statement read. “These people were simply trying to access food to feed themselves and their families on the brink of starvation. This terrible incident underscores the increasingly dangerous conditions under which humanitarian operations are forced to be conducted in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, the Israel Defense Forces said its troops encountered thousands of Palestinians and “fired warning shots in order to remove an immediate threat posed to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Israeli military said it was examining the incident but that an “initial review suggests that the number of casualties reported does not align with the information held by the IDF.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12047968 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-13-BL-KQED.jpg']Hundreds of billions of dollars have been appropriated for defense and military spending through Congress, despite cuts being made to health care, education and other critical services across the country, Simon said, adding that she is committed to voting ‘no’ on every legislative move that funds warfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center in San Francisco, said Israel’s actions on Sunday are nothing new to organizers who have been working to send aid to Gaza, where Palestinians have endured months of severe famine. Tens of thousands of people have been killed by military forces and starvation, and the situation has only escalated over the last few months, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger in Gaza is a humanitarian crisis, according to the World Food Programme. Malnutrition is on the rise, and nearly one person in three goes days without food. An estimated 90,000 women and children are in urgent need of treatment due to starvation, and a single bag of flour costs over US$100, the organization reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of nonprofits and volunteer organizations across the world are working to get food and other essential resources into Gaza, but many of them are stopped from entering by the Israeli government, Kiswani said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Aisha Knowles’ father grew up in a place that no longer exists: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">Russell City\u003c/a>, a 12-block unincorporated area within Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The predominantly Black and Latino community was bulldozed by the county and the city of Hayward in the early 1960s, forcibly displacing more than 1,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Knowles and her father, James Knowles, work to keep the memory of the once close-knit community alive. James Knowles serves on Alameda County’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bnc/#/board/a0U4N00000NObxiUAD\"> Reparations Commission\u003c/a>, and Aisha Knowles volunteers for Hayward’s committee focused on\u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/hayward-history/russell-city/steering-committee\"> Russell City\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the daughter of someone who lived in Russell City, I didn’t start this fight,” Knowles said. “But I feel like … it is part of my responsibility in living and paying things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, decades later, Knowles’ father and other former residents of Russell City may receive a form of payment from Alameda County and Hayward to make amends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard the news last week, Knowles said her emotions ranged from surprised to grateful to “a little bit cautious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a positive start,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was Russell City?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Due to widespread racist policies like redlining, Russell City was one of the rare places where Black and Latino people could own homes in the Bay Area after World War II. It was a thriving community with schools, clubs, a church and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">a vibrant culture hub\u003c/a> for blues music, with legendary performers like Etta James and Ray Charles taking the stage there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048781\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A motorcycle drives by a mural depicting scenes from Russell City at A Street and Maple Court in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021. Mural artists are Joshua Powell, assisted by Wythe Bowart, Nicole Pierret and Brent McHugh. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But because Russell City was unincorporated, it lacked basic city services such as sewage or plumbing. Residents repeatedly petitioned the county and the city of Hayward for assistance, but were denied. Instead, officials declared the community a “blight,” seized property through eminent domain and made plans to redevelop it into an industrial park. In 1963, officials cleared out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">the entire community\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 1,400 people were forcibly dislocated, including Knowles’ family. She said many former residents struggled to recover, including her grandfather, who lost the auto shop he owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult for him to recover from not being able to have a business,” she said. “He died at the age of 48 …There are a lot of memories, harm, and trauma that many families have experienced.”[aside postID=news_12044638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/12m-Reparations-1.jpg']After the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, cities across the country, including in the Bay Area, began taking steps to acknowledge their discriminatory and racist histories. In 2021, Hayward issued\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\"> a public apology\u003c/a> to former residents of Russell City. The following year, the city launched the Russell City Reparative Justice Project, which presented recommendations to the city council in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were in support and happy when we did the apology, but it did feel like it wasn’t enough. Those are just words. It wasn’t anything tangible,” said Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, Hayward, Márquez and fellow Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000 fund\u003c/a> dedicated to the former residents of Russell City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our commitment to say, ‘We meant what we said publicly with apology,’” Márquez said. “By no means is it meant to cover the cost of what they lost because that’s insurmountable. But we do want to publicly tell them, ‘We care about you. We care about the pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could be just the beginning as well. There might be other ways that we can get at redressing the harm for Russell City,” added Miley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Márquez, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote to approve the funding for the Russell City fund on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really important that we act as quickly as possible,” Márquez said. “It is really painful to learn every year that another elder has passed away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money is in the fund?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000\u003c/a> in the redress fund:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$250,000 will come from the city of Hayward\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$400,000 from Márquez’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$250,000 from Miley’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Márquez added she is hoping the fund can reach a million dollars, and that “we’re all gonna work collectively — really hard — engaging in philanthropy as well as local businesses and anyone interested in contributing to the redress fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"Three women stand together. The woman on the left is wearing glasses, a turquoise sweater with a brown purse. The woman in the middle with her hand holding her wrist is wearing a green shirt and light brown bag. The woman on the right is wearing a grey shirt with a black purse on her left shoulder.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Doyal (left), Winny Knowles (center) and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Knowles pointed out that there have been other government agencies in the area who could also contribute to the redress fund since they “had a role in what happened in Russell City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fund is] a good start. It also is a sign to these other agencies to look at the history within their own organizations,” Knowles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Márquez said she is also working with the city of Hayward to find a local foundation that can administer the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her priority is for the funds to go to former residents and elders who are still living. They may consider expanding that criteria depending on how much money is ultimately raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of kids playing volleyball by an empty field. Some low buildings rise up in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large group of children playing volleyball on a dirt playground at Russell School, circa 1950. Former Russell City residents fondly remember playing together at the edge of town. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To identify past residents and collect their information, Márquez said the city did a survey with close to 400 respondents and held two town halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That data is being compiled, and that’s what we’ll have to look at, in terms of who do we know that actually lived there,” she said. “Now that the issue has been elevated, [it] is very likely that we’ll learn of more former residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much does a former resident get?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It depends on how much the fund raises, Márquez said. She said the county is aiming to launch a website containing details in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will people see the compensation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her “ideal” timeline would be 60 to 90 days to get the fund running.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is the precedent for this?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I do feel it’s historic,” said Márquez. “This is a blueprint of what you could do at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamilah Moore, an attorney who chaired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California’s Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, said some local governments and states created funds or programs to address past harms. In 2019, Evanston, Illinois, established a fund for Black residents using the city’s\u003ca href=\"https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/22/city/poetic-justice-how-cannabis-fuels-evanstons-reparations/\"> 3% sales tax on marijuana\u003c/a>. In the 1990s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/rosewood-reparations/\">Florida passed a law\u003c/a> allowing descendants of a Black majority town that suffered a massacre in 1923 to attend college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamilah Moore at Northeastern University in Oakland on Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This fund in Russell City seems to be unique,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her studies of international law and reparations, Moore said a key component of making amends is providing payments to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about recommendations, at the end of the day, we’ve got to make sure it includes compensation,” she said.[aside postID=news_11897843 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Hayward_RussellCity_Mural-672x372.jpg']From her perspective, conversation about reparations has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044638/california-reparations-bills-definition-12-million-explainer\">stagnated on the state level\u003c/a>, even as California officials discuss how to disperse the $12 million allocated toward reparative legislation. But she sees the Russell City fund as an example of momentum building locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Localities are still doing what they need to do to make sure that they’re rectifying harms,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowles — who produced a documentary about Russell City called \u003ca href=\"https://www.theapologyfilm.com/\">\u003cem>The Apology\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — said it is important for communities across California to research past discrimination and violence, ensure harm is repaired and “prevent it from happening in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an adult, it seems like there were efforts made to erase the history of Russell City,” she said, her voice breaking as she held back tears. “I feel like my grandparents and my relatives who are no longer here are proud of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother had faith all the time. She was not an angry woman,” she added. “She believed that there would always be something greater, even if she didn’t get to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the creation of the redress fund, there is a little bit of peace that I received, in understanding maybe this is what she knew that this would happen one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other questions do you have?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we aim to publish guides and explainers that dispel confusion and answer pressing questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have more inquiries about reparations or racial justice in California, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to answer. It will make our reporting stronger and will help us decide what to cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwcbTYMD7fA9T1Tm7VvQfBTB1KZpCweq-RO5DfwzU5rfk2mQ/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"690\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/swhitney\">\u003cem>Spencer Whitney\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922175/remembering-russell-city-a-thriving-east-bay-town-razed-by-racist-government\">\u003cem>Katrina Schwartz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the daughter of someone who lived in Russell City, I didn’t start this fight,” Knowles said. “But I feel like … it is part of my responsibility in living and paying things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, decades later, Knowles’ father and other former residents of Russell City may receive a form of payment from Alameda County and Hayward to make amends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard the news last week, Knowles said her emotions ranged from surprised to grateful to “a little bit cautious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a positive start,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was Russell City?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Due to widespread racist policies like redlining, Russell City was one of the rare places where Black and Latino people could own homes in the Bay Area after World War II. It was a thriving community with schools, clubs, a church and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">a vibrant culture hub\u003c/a> for blues music, with legendary performers like Etta James and Ray Charles taking the stage there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048781\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A motorcycle drives by a mural depicting scenes from Russell City at A Street and Maple Court in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021. Mural artists are Joshua Powell, assisted by Wythe Bowart, Nicole Pierret and Brent McHugh. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But because Russell City was unincorporated, it lacked basic city services such as sewage or plumbing. Residents repeatedly petitioned the county and the city of Hayward for assistance, but were denied. Instead, officials declared the community a “blight,” seized property through eminent domain and made plans to redevelop it into an industrial park. In 1963, officials cleared out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">the entire community\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 1,400 people were forcibly dislocated, including Knowles’ family. She said many former residents struggled to recover, including her grandfather, who lost the auto shop he owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult for him to recover from not being able to have a business,” she said. “He died at the age of 48 …There are a lot of memories, harm, and trauma that many families have experienced.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, cities across the country, including in the Bay Area, began taking steps to acknowledge their discriminatory and racist histories. In 2021, Hayward issued\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\"> a public apology\u003c/a> to former residents of Russell City. The following year, the city launched the Russell City Reparative Justice Project, which presented recommendations to the city council in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were in support and happy when we did the apology, but it did feel like it wasn’t enough. Those are just words. It wasn’t anything tangible,” said Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, Hayward, Márquez and fellow Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000 fund\u003c/a> dedicated to the former residents of Russell City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our commitment to say, ‘We meant what we said publicly with apology,’” Márquez said. “By no means is it meant to cover the cost of what they lost because that’s insurmountable. But we do want to publicly tell them, ‘We care about you. We care about the pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could be just the beginning as well. There might be other ways that we can get at redressing the harm for Russell City,” added Miley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Márquez, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote to approve the funding for the Russell City fund on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really important that we act as quickly as possible,” Márquez said. “It is really painful to learn every year that another elder has passed away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money is in the fund?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000\u003c/a> in the redress fund:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$250,000 will come from the city of Hayward\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$400,000 from Márquez’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$250,000 from Miley’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Márquez added she is hoping the fund can reach a million dollars, and that “we’re all gonna work collectively — really hard — engaging in philanthropy as well as local businesses and anyone interested in contributing to the redress fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"Three women stand together. The woman on the left is wearing glasses, a turquoise sweater with a brown purse. The woman in the middle with her hand holding her wrist is wearing a green shirt and light brown bag. The woman on the right is wearing a grey shirt with a black purse on her left shoulder.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Doyal (left), Winny Knowles (center) and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Knowles pointed out that there have been other government agencies in the area who could also contribute to the redress fund since they “had a role in what happened in Russell City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fund is] a good start. It also is a sign to these other agencies to look at the history within their own organizations,” Knowles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Márquez said she is also working with the city of Hayward to find a local foundation that can administer the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her priority is for the funds to go to former residents and elders who are still living. They may consider expanding that criteria depending on how much money is ultimately raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of kids playing volleyball by an empty field. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a fire station in the East Bay, on Meekland Avenue, with a mosaic depicting big homes in a pastoral landscape. It evokes a time long ago when this area, the stretch of the East Bay flats sandwiched between San Leandro and Hayward, was known for its orchards. \u003ca href=\"https://cargocollective.com/davidburke/Public-Projects-by-Hungry-Ghost-Studio\">A local artist named David Burke created the mosaic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the artist’s friend, Sam Hopkins, learned about the project at the Cherryland Fire Station, he remembered slogging through traffic on the 238 connector between I-580 and I-880 and seeing somewhat mystifying signs that said “entering Cherryland” and “entering Ashland.” He thought to himself, “Where’s Cherryland?” When Hopkins finally stopped by to see his friend’s work at \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/ecd/projects/cherryland_fire_station.htm\">the single-engine fire station\u003c/a>, he noticed something. “It says Alameda County Fire Department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he looked it up, he realized that sprinkled throughout the densely residential East Bay flats are several unincorporated areas, two of which are called Ashland and Cherryland. Hopkins hadn’t even realized they were there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wondered: “What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an ‘unincorporated’ community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places wedged between San Leandro and Hayward are urban now and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities, but also come with consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation, housing protections and a sense of community identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Welcome to unincorporated Alameda County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land. That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works. And, they often pay lower property taxes because of this setup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County depend on the county for those things, which often confuses new residents to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Barros, a longtime San Lorenzo resident and community advocate, walks through a neighborhood in the unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department,” said Keith Barros, a longtime resident of Ashland, giving an example of a mixup. “[But if] you call the San Leandro Police Department, it’s like, ‘I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents who live in cities like Oakland or Hayward don’t have this problem because police and fire are among the many services provided by their city governments, funded by local taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big issue Barros, a former UPS driver, has been fighting for is formal recognition of their community identity on legal mail. Until recently, unincorporated residents had to list the nearest city as their official addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, Ashland residents would list their addresses with San Leandro, even though they aren’t part of the city. Earlier this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/addresschange.htm\">county successfully petitioned the U.S. Postal Service\u003c/a> to allow it to list the community, like Cherryland or Ashland, as its official address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ashland Youth Center in an unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there have been other wins as well. Barros advocated for building the \u003ca href=\"https://reachashland.org/\">REACH Ashland Youth Center\u003c/a> on a once-blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go,” Barros said. “It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no hyperlocal government to reach out to for help. Instead, residents like Barros have to go to the county board of supervisors, where they’ve had limited success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, there’s more of a transient population that lives here,” Barros said. “A lot of renters, they’ve been kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barros said even though Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have bigger, countywide issues on their plates. Unincorporated residents said it has been hard to get them to pay attention to their local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t like injustice,” Barros said. “I don’t like it when things are not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barros spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. In 2020, they formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/edenareavision/documents/EALICommunityProfile.pdf\">Eden Area\u003c/a> is the collective term for a 25-square-mile section of unincorporated area that includes Ashland, Cherryland, Castro Valley, Fairview, and San Lorenzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their voices are being heard, and they’re there,” Barros said. “Their opinions are making their way up to where they need to, at the [County] Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Organizing to protect tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power,” said Claudia Albano, deputy chief of staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas. “The only people who had community power were the landlords, the real estate industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home under construction in Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been Albano’s job over the past eight years to bring different community groups together and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass. They are more vulnerable to eviction in a power imbalance favoring landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been terrible,” said Elena Torres, a low-income renter in the area. “Like in my case, I have a two-year battle with my landlord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.[aside postID=news_12044710 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000647_qed.jpg']“They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking [for it] to be fixed, you are out,” Torres said. “Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience prompted Torres to get involved with a social justice group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.myedenvoice.org/\">My Eden Voice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/In-the-Shadows-of-Eden-Report.pdf\">issued a report\u003c/a> that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction, all while having no clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go and make a complaint that he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything because it’s his property,” Torres said. “So you have to go to the actual court and go through the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite winning in court, Torres said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having and they didn’t do anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres, evicted from her previous home in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, holds a drawing her daughter made during their housing struggle at their new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row,” she said. “The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Torres and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year, she and her daughter moved in with a friend — who was also facing eviction — while her husband lived in their only car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres kept reaching out to the county for help, but she was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres stands outside her new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025, after being displaced from her previous home in an unincorporated area — a change that led her to get involved with My Eden Voice, where she now advocates for housing justice. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are the ones dealing with landlords,” she said. “They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years of discussion, \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/eden-area-renters-win-key-vote-in-years-long-battle-for-tenants-rights/#:~:text=For%20single%20mother%20Zuleny%20Pais,Board%20can%20protect%20our%20families.%E2%80%9D\">Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections\u003c/a> in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Renting in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. After six months living separately in makeshift accommodations, Torres recently found her family a new place to live together under one roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> On the east side of the bay, towns fan out across the flatlands, sandwiched between the East Bay hills and the water. Oakland is the biggest, of course, but drive south from there and you’re soon in San Leandro, Hayward, Union City and Fremont. But there are some far less well-known communities hidden in that same stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachel Osajima: \u003c/strong>Thank you for being here for the Ashland-Cherryland community identifier ribbon cutting ceremony. \u003cem>(sounds of crowd cheering)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland are two unincorporated communities wedged between San Leandro and Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bill Ouirk: \u003c/strong>They want to be recognized as communities. As Ashland, as Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The thing is, it’s really easy to miss these places. That’s why \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_6_29_16/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Identifier_Mural_Draft_report_6_29_16.pdf\">the county commissioned a muralist \u003c/a>to paint an overpass on East 14th Street. One side reads Ashland and the other Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barisha Spriggs: \u003c/strong>We’re very proud of this accomplishment. That this will be a lasting memento to all of our unincorporated communities for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious listener, Sam Hopkins, was one of the many people who hadn’t thought much…if ever… about these places until recently. His friend was asked to work on a mosaic at a fire station in Cherryland. When Sam heard that, he thought to himself: Where’s Cherryland? And when he saw on the map that both Ashland and Cherryland are smack in the middle of the East Bay, he got curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/strong>What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an “unincorporated” community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places are definitely urban now, and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities. Today on the show, we’ll explain what it means for an area to be “unincorporated.” It turns out living in one of these communities has big consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation and housing protections. I’m Katrina Schwartz, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda is the second most populous county in the Bay Area…after Santa Clara. Oakland is the biggest city, but the county stretches all the way out to Livermore in the East and Fremont in the South. It’s a big swath of land, and about half of it is “unincorporated,” including two areas known as Cherryland and Ashland. KQED reporter Brian Krans set out to discover more about the day-to-day realities of living in an unincorporated area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans:\u003c/strong> About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, people who live in unincorporated communities like Cherryland and Ashland depend on the county for those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This is 94578, which is a San Leandro zip code. But it’s not, it’s not the city of San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith Barros knows all about the headaches that come with being unincorporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a lot of times, residents themselves don’t know that \u003cem>where they live\u003c/em> is unincorporated, leading to mistakes like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>So, okay, I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department. You call the San Leandro Police Department. It’s like, I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>East Bay residents who live in cities don’t have this problem. If they need to call the police or fire department, it’s a city service. But for the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County, it’s not that simple. They depend on county-level services, like the sheriff or county fire department, in an emergency. And as so often happens, that adversity has made residents even more invested in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Because I think those of us here, number one, we want to hold on to our own identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith is proud that he’s from unincorporated Alameda County and has worked to gain recognition for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Where we happen to be standing right now, this used to be a blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Take the Ashland REACH center where we’re standing. Keith advocated hard to get this youth center built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go. It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no city council to complain to when things need doing. Instead, residents like Keith have to go to the county board of supervisors. And it’s been tough to get folks organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, are more there’s more of a transient population that lives here. A lot of renters, and they’ve been, they’re kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith says even though the Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have big countywide issues on their plates. It’s hard to get them to pay attention to local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>I really don’t like injustice. I don’t like it when things are not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>He spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. They finally formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a> in 2020. “Eden Area” is the collective name for Ashland and Cherryland and several other nearby unincorporated areas together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>They’re being heard. Their voices are being heard, and they’re there. Their opinions are, you know, are making their way up to where they need to, at the Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Claudia Albano is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley … who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The only people who had community power were the small the landlords, the real estate industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>It has been Claudia’s job over the past eight years to bring together different community groups and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass, making them more vulnerable to eviction. That’s left an imbalance of power in communities like Ashland and Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income renters like Elena Torres have paid the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It has been terrible. Like in my case, I have a two-years battle with my landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>She says she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking to be fixed, to have any reparation. You are out. Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The experience prompted Elena to get involved with a social justice group called My Eden Voice. Two years ago, the organization issued a report that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction. And they don’t have clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>If you go and make a complaint, he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything, because it’s his property. So you have to go to the court, to the actual court, and go through the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Despite winning in court, Elena said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres:\u003c/strong> I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having, and they didn’t do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year. She and her daughter moved in with a friend who was also facing eviction, while her husband lived in their only car. Elena kept reaching out to the county for help, but was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>We are the ones dealing with landlords. They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row. The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>After five years of discussion, Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Living in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. Especially now that Elena recently found a new place for her family and they’re celebrating being under one roof together — a first in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> That was KQED reporter Brian Krans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our question-asker, Sam Hopkins. His question won a Bay Curious voting round. You can vote on what we cover next, by heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">kqed.org slash baycurious\u003c/a>. And while you’re there, consider making a donation to KQED. As you may have heard, this is a perilous time for public media and every little bit helps to support the shows you love. Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. 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What defines an ‘unincorporated’ community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places wedged between San Leandro and Hayward are urban now and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities, but also come with consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation, housing protections and a sense of community identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Welcome to unincorporated Alameda County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land. That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works. And, they often pay lower property taxes because of this setup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County depend on the county for those things, which often confuses new residents to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Barros, a longtime San Lorenzo resident and community advocate, walks through a neighborhood in the unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department,” said Keith Barros, a longtime resident of Ashland, giving an example of a mixup. “[But if] you call the San Leandro Police Department, it’s like, ‘I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents who live in cities like Oakland or Hayward don’t have this problem because police and fire are among the many services provided by their city governments, funded by local taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big issue Barros, a former UPS driver, has been fighting for is formal recognition of their community identity on legal mail. Until recently, unincorporated residents had to list the nearest city as their official addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, Ashland residents would list their addresses with San Leandro, even though they aren’t part of the city. Earlier this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/addresschange.htm\">county successfully petitioned the U.S. Postal Service\u003c/a> to allow it to list the community, like Cherryland or Ashland, as its official address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ashland Youth Center in an unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there have been other wins as well. Barros advocated for building the \u003ca href=\"https://reachashland.org/\">REACH Ashland Youth Center\u003c/a> on a once-blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go,” Barros said. “It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no hyperlocal government to reach out to for help. Instead, residents like Barros have to go to the county board of supervisors, where they’ve had limited success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, there’s more of a transient population that lives here,” Barros said. “A lot of renters, they’ve been kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barros said even though Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have bigger, countywide issues on their plates. Unincorporated residents said it has been hard to get them to pay attention to their local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t like injustice,” Barros said. “I don’t like it when things are not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barros spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. In 2020, they formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/edenareavision/documents/EALICommunityProfile.pdf\">Eden Area\u003c/a> is the collective term for a 25-square-mile section of unincorporated area that includes Ashland, Cherryland, Castro Valley, Fairview, and San Lorenzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their voices are being heard, and they’re there,” Barros said. “Their opinions are making their way up to where they need to, at the [County] Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Organizing to protect tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power,” said Claudia Albano, deputy chief of staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas. “The only people who had community power were the landlords, the real estate industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home under construction in Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been Albano’s job over the past eight years to bring different community groups together and help them advocate for themselves. 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And it’s not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience prompted Torres to get involved with a social justice group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.myedenvoice.org/\">My Eden Voice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/In-the-Shadows-of-Eden-Report.pdf\">issued a report\u003c/a> that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction, all while having no clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go and make a complaint that he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything because it’s his property,” Torres said. “So you have to go to the actual court and go through the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite winning in court, Torres said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having and they didn’t do anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres, evicted from her previous home in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, holds a drawing her daughter made during their housing struggle at their new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row,” she said. “The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Torres and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year, she and her daughter moved in with a friend — who was also facing eviction — while her husband lived in their only car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres kept reaching out to the county for help, but she was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres stands outside her new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025, after being displaced from her previous home in an unincorporated area — a change that led her to get involved with My Eden Voice, where she now advocates for housing justice. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are the ones dealing with landlords,” she said. “They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years of discussion, \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/eden-area-renters-win-key-vote-in-years-long-battle-for-tenants-rights/#:~:text=For%20single%20mother%20Zuleny%20Pais,Board%20can%20protect%20our%20families.%E2%80%9D\">Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections\u003c/a> in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Renting in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. After six months living separately in makeshift accommodations, Torres recently found her family a new place to live together under one roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> On the east side of the bay, towns fan out across the flatlands, sandwiched between the East Bay hills and the water. Oakland is the biggest, of course, but drive south from there and you’re soon in San Leandro, Hayward, Union City and Fremont. But there are some far less well-known communities hidden in that same stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachel Osajima: \u003c/strong>Thank you for being here for the Ashland-Cherryland community identifier ribbon cutting ceremony. \u003cem>(sounds of crowd cheering)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland are two unincorporated communities wedged between San Leandro and Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bill Ouirk: \u003c/strong>They want to be recognized as communities. As Ashland, as Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The thing is, it’s really easy to miss these places. That’s why \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_6_29_16/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Identifier_Mural_Draft_report_6_29_16.pdf\">the county commissioned a muralist \u003c/a>to paint an overpass on East 14th Street. One side reads Ashland and the other Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barisha Spriggs: \u003c/strong>We’re very proud of this accomplishment. That this will be a lasting memento to all of our unincorporated communities for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious listener, Sam Hopkins, was one of the many people who hadn’t thought much…if ever… about these places until recently. His friend was asked to work on a mosaic at a fire station in Cherryland. When Sam heard that, he thought to himself: Where’s Cherryland? And when he saw on the map that both Ashland and Cherryland are smack in the middle of the East Bay, he got curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/strong>What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an “unincorporated” community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places are definitely urban now, and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities. Today on the show, we’ll explain what it means for an area to be “unincorporated.” It turns out living in one of these communities has big consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation and housing protections. I’m Katrina Schwartz, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda is the second most populous county in the Bay Area…after Santa Clara. Oakland is the biggest city, but the county stretches all the way out to Livermore in the East and Fremont in the South. It’s a big swath of land, and about half of it is “unincorporated,” including two areas known as Cherryland and Ashland. KQED reporter Brian Krans set out to discover more about the day-to-day realities of living in an unincorporated area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans:\u003c/strong> About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, people who live in unincorporated communities like Cherryland and Ashland depend on the county for those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This is 94578, which is a San Leandro zip code. But it’s not, it’s not the city of San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith Barros knows all about the headaches that come with being unincorporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a lot of times, residents themselves don’t know that \u003cem>where they live\u003c/em> is unincorporated, leading to mistakes like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>So, okay, I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department. You call the San Leandro Police Department. It’s like, I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>East Bay residents who live in cities don’t have this problem. If they need to call the police or fire department, it’s a city service. But for the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County, it’s not that simple. They depend on county-level services, like the sheriff or county fire department, in an emergency. And as so often happens, that adversity has made residents even more invested in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Because I think those of us here, number one, we want to hold on to our own identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith is proud that he’s from unincorporated Alameda County and has worked to gain recognition for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Where we happen to be standing right now, this used to be a blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Take the Ashland REACH center where we’re standing. Keith advocated hard to get this youth center built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go. It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no city council to complain to when things need doing. Instead, residents like Keith have to go to the county board of supervisors. And it’s been tough to get folks organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, are more there’s more of a transient population that lives here. A lot of renters, and they’ve been, they’re kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith says even though the Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have big countywide issues on their plates. It’s hard to get them to pay attention to local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>I really don’t like injustice. I don’t like it when things are not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>He spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. They finally formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a> in 2020. “Eden Area” is the collective name for Ashland and Cherryland and several other nearby unincorporated areas together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>They’re being heard. Their voices are being heard, and they’re there. Their opinions are, you know, are making their way up to where they need to, at the Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Claudia Albano is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley … who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The only people who had community power were the small the landlords, the real estate industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>It has been Claudia’s job over the past eight years to bring together different community groups and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass, making them more vulnerable to eviction. That’s left an imbalance of power in communities like Ashland and Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income renters like Elena Torres have paid the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It has been terrible. Like in my case, I have a two-years battle with my landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>She says she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking to be fixed, to have any reparation. You are out. Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The experience prompted Elena to get involved with a social justice group called My Eden Voice. Two years ago, the organization issued a report that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction. And they don’t have clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>If you go and make a complaint, he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything, because it’s his property. So you have to go to the court, to the actual court, and go through the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Despite winning in court, Elena said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres:\u003c/strong> I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having, and they didn’t do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year. She and her daughter moved in with a friend who was also facing eviction, while her husband lived in their only car. Elena kept reaching out to the county for help, but was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>We are the ones dealing with landlords. They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row. The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>After five years of discussion, Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Living in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. Especially now that Elena recently found a new place for her family and they’re celebrating being under one roof together — a first in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> That was KQED reporter Brian Krans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our question-asker, Sam Hopkins. His question won a Bay Curious voting round. You can vote on what we cover next, by heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">kqed.org slash baycurious\u003c/a>. And while you’re there, consider making a donation to KQED. As you may have heard, this is a perilous time for public media and every little bit helps to support the shows you love. Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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/p>\n\u003cp>Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than four years after the Taliban took control of Kabul, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898843/theres-a-lot-thats-not-working-within-the-system-afghan-evacuees-struggle-with-housing-and-immigration-bureaucracy\">thousands of fragmented Afghan families\u003c/a> are still waiting for the U.S. to fulfill promises it made to take them in for helping the American war effort. But now, the Trump administration appears set to kick thousands of recently arrived refugees out of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan turned the South Asian country into a war zone, waves of Afghan refugees have landed in California looking to build new lives and reunite with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Afghan has their own journey,” said Fouzia Azizi, who left Afghanistan in 1994. She now directs refugee services at Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay, a local office of one of the nation’s largest resettlement agencies. “But one thing they all have in common is, in one way or another, they have all faced some level of persecution. There is no hope to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially true, she added, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894472/walking-from-san-francisco-to-mountain-view-as-an-ode-to-lgbtq-afghans-and-refugees\">children, women, religious and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people\u003c/a> and any Afghan who helped the U.S. military in the 20 years after Americans invaded in 2001 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re living in a limbo,” Azizi said. “There is a sense of trauma. There is a sense of anxiety. Mental health is to the next level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. The business became a staple for the Afghan community in the East Bay, who have come together over the past three and a half years to create networks of support for incoming Afghan families, who fled their country after the Taliban takeover in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886733/san-francisco-turns-out-in-solidarity-with-worldwide-protest-for-afghan-lives\">chaotic withdrawal of American troops\u003c/a> in 2021, roughly 198,000 Afghans have come to the U.S., according to internal government documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them came with official refugee status or were granted special visas for working for the U.S. mission as lawyers, interpreters and drivers. They have a path to permanent residence and eventual citizenship. But tens of thousands more are in limbo, with only temporary humanitarian protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/13/2025-08201/termination-of-the-designation-of-afghanistan-for-temporary-protected-status#citation-26-p20311\">has terminated\u003c/a> one of those protections, known as Temporary Protected Status, for an estimated 11,700 Afghans. While some of them have obtained green cards, as the program ends on July 14, roughly 8,000 Afghans with TPS are now vulnerable to deportation. Some refugees have also sought temporary protection through humanitarian parole and are applying for asylum, but the Trump administration has deported people with pending asylum applications and could also revoke parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020620/thebay-tps-trump\"> historically allowed people already in the U.S.\u003c/a> to stay and work legally if their countries are deemed unsafe. This includes countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters or other extraordinary conditions. The U.S. State Department still lists Afghanistan as “\u003ca href=\"https://2021-2025.state.gov/afghanistan-inquiries/\">Level 4: Do Not Travel\u003c/a>” because of the risk of terrorism, unlawful detention, civil unrest and kidnapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing of the notice in the \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-08201.pdf\">Federal Register\u003c/a> rescinding TPS for Afghan refugees asserted conditions in Afghanistan are improving, noting that Chinese tourism there has increased, as the rates of kidnappings have dropped. In that same notice, Noem noted the number of those in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan has dropped to 23.7 million this year, compared to 29 million last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11890467 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/019_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As former governor of South Dakota, Noem\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1JG492yg8s\"> criticized\u003c/a> the Biden administration programs taking in Afghan refugees during and after the fall of Kabul, doubting the adequacy of the vetting process. In recent days, Matthew Tragesser, chief of public affairs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, echoed that partisan language in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USCIS/status/1921928708216045702\">post\u003c/a> on social media platform X announcing the end of TPS: “Bad actors are taking advantage of this humanitarian program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who fled Afghanistan under the auspices of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/information-for-afghan-nationals\">Operation Allies Welcome\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.militaryonesource.mil/benefits/enduring-welcome-program/\">Operation Enduring Welcome\u003c/a> waited for years in third countries like Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar, often at U.S. military bases, as U.S. immigration authorities adjudicated their claims. Hundreds of thousands of people who have qualified to be in the pipeline for some kind of U.S. visa, including roughly 211,000 still in Afghanistan, now presumably have no hope of reuniting with family members in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, 2025, the Trump administration’s attack on immigration to the U.S. began with a \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/u-s-department-of-state-abandons-u-s-responsibility-for-safely-resettling-refugees/\">“no work”\u003c/a> order for resettlement services like JFCS East Bay. Since then, an unknown number of Afghans in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://abc11.com/post/department-homeland-security-deportation-afghan-refugees-triangle-receive-dhs-email-urging-deport/16188536/\">received emails\u003c/a> telling them to self-deport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afghan refugees in the U.S. have been trying to lay low since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. “They’re so afraid. They’re terrified,” said Harris Mojadedi, a child of refugees born and raised in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harris Mojadedi, Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives, poses for a portrait at UC Berkeley on May 14, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are people who are really ‘enemy number one’ for the Taliban, and so to send them back, to deport them, would really be a death sentence,” Mojadedi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our federal representatives, I know, are advocating and supporting us, but the actions this government is taking are just so out of the realm of how, you know, the government typically operates,” Mojadedi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Eric Swalwell represents most of eastern Alameda County and its Afghan community. In a statement, he condemned the decision to end TPS and called upon the administration to reverse course. He also called attention to the administration’s recent choice to extend refugee status to white South Africans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know many of my Republican colleagues feel the same, but it is time for them to grow a spine and stand up to Trump,” he wrote. “Trump is apparently more concerned with \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/10/afrikaner-refugees-trump-welcoming-white-south-africans/83557827007/\">protecting white South Africans\u003c/a> who have done nothing to protect American troops than he is with our Afghan Allies. It is unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mojadedi said he understands there’s a limit to what California’s predominantly Democratic representatives can do in a G.O.P.-dominated Washington D.C., but the cause of the Afghans is not politically partisan, any more than it was for Vietnamese refugees following the Vietnam War. 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"content": "\u003cp>They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-international-airport\">SFO\u003c/a> is not buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Oakland’s airport announced last month it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046379/oakland-airport-renamed-again-in-ongoing-legal-dispute-with-san-francisco\">change its name for a second time\u003c/a> in just over a year amid a legal battle with San Francisco, the city across the bay still isn’t satisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Port of Oakland officials say the latest rebrand — which changes its official title from “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983384/san-francisco-sues-oakland-over-plan-to-change-airport-name\">San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport\u003c/a>” to “Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport” — puts its East Bay roots first. The city of San Francisco, however, has the same problem with the new name as it did with the one Oakland adopted last year, which it alleges infringes on SFO’s trademark privileges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland San Francisco Bay name is just more of the same,” San Francisco International Airport spokesperson Doug Yakel said during public comment at a heated Oakland port commissioners meeting on Thursday afternoon, where the board unanimously approved the second name change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once again, the port has chosen to ignore the city’s rights and the interests of travelers, and the end result will be detrimental to the public,” Yakel said. “Once again, the port has chosen to surprise the city of San Francisco with this latest renaming announcement barely over a week before voting on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk into Oakland International Airport in Oakland on April 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yakel’s comments came after San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu’s office released a statement accusing the Port of Oakland of continuing to try to capitalize on SFO’s international reputation. When he took the public comment podium, commission president Michael Colbruno shot back, welcoming him with faux niceties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome across San Francisco Bay,” he said to laughs from around the meeting room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his comments before the vote, Colbruno slammed SFO as hypocritical and disingenuous, reminding meeting attendees that San Francisco International is actually located in Millbrae — which, he said, is only considered inside the bounds of San Francisco “because you guys got a little carve-out.”[aside postID=news_12046379 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240412-OAKAirport-009-BL_qed.jpg']“In 1927, the San Francisco airport in Millbrae was named Mills Field,” Colbruno said. “They changed the name because people didn’t know where Mills Field and Millbrae was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be crystal clear, so you can come here and ask about our name change when you did the exact same thing,” he continued. “It’s really upsetting to me … to bring that kind of elitism over here and to talk about us, when you think you’re special and privileged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tension between the airports has built since the Port of Oakland, which operates the city’s airport, announced in a video message last March that the “Metropolitan Oakland International Airport” would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982744/oakland-officials-to-proceed-with-controversial-move-to-rename-airport\">renamed the “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.\u003c/a>” The move was meant to improve the public’s geographic awareness and increase the number of flights in and out of the East Bay airport, port officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the first name change was approved by Port of Oakland commissioners in April 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983384/san-francisco-sues-oakland-over-plan-to-change-airport-name\">quickly slapped with a lawsuit\u003c/a> from Chiu and the city of San Francisco, which operates SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the suit, Chiu wrote that the Port of Oakland failed to give San Francisco officials reasonable notice of the coming change and said the move was an escalation of years of “jabs” Oakland’s airport has made toward SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has perceived itself to be in a rivalry with [San Francisco] over airlines and passengers,” Chiu wrote in legal documents. “Oakland’s fixation on and negativity toward SFO is exemplified by a pre-pandemic video ad campaign titled ‘Inferiority Complex,’ which features ‘stereotypical’ San Franciscans touting the superiority of the Oakland airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For another event with airline partners, OAK also made custom fortune cookies containing paper slips that read “SFO? Just say no,” according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of Oakland counter-sued San Francisco in May, asking a judge to rule that its new name was not a trademark infringement.[aside postID=news_12043328 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-01_qut-1020x680.jpg']Both of those suits are pending, and in the meantime, each side is growing increasingly hostile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland airport was\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014130/judge-blocks-oakland-from-using-san-francisco-bay-in-airport-name\"> temporarily blocked from calling itself “San Francisco Bay Oakland International”\u003c/a> after a judge granted SFO a preliminary injunction in November. While the Port of Oakland\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018113/oakland-airport-puts-up-fight-keep-san-francisco-bay-new-name\"> continues to appeal that injunction\u003c/a>, officials last month unveiled the second name change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year’s name, like last year’s name, invites traveler confusion and risks jeopardizing the brand identity we have built through decades of investment and service to the region,” Jen Kwart, spokesperson for the San Francisco city attorney’s office, said in a statement ahead of the Port of Oakland’s Thursday meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether San Francisco plans to pursue further litigation in response to the now-approved name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwart said the office was still assessing next steps, adding that since the city’s original suit is now tied up with a preliminary injunction appeal, “we can’t drop the lawsuit right now even if we wanted to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trial for that suit is set for August 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My advice to you is let it be for the benefit of the whole region,” Colbruno said to Yakel. “It’s a benefit to travelers; it’s to the benefit of people coming to the East Bay, who may be going to Livermore or Berkeley or Napa — or San Francisco, which is actually closer [to Oakland] than Millbrae.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In 1927, the San Francisco airport in Millbrae was named Mills Field,” Colbruno said. “They changed the name because people didn’t know where Mills Field and Millbrae was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be crystal clear, so you can come here and ask about our name change when you did the exact same thing,” he continued. “It’s really upsetting to me … to bring that kind of elitism over here and to talk about us, when you think you’re special and privileged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tension between the airports has built since the Port of Oakland, which operates the city’s airport, announced in a video message last March that the “Metropolitan Oakland International Airport” would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982744/oakland-officials-to-proceed-with-controversial-move-to-rename-airport\">renamed the “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.\u003c/a>” The move was meant to improve the public’s geographic awareness and increase the number of flights in and out of the East Bay airport, port officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the first name change was approved by Port of Oakland commissioners in April 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983384/san-francisco-sues-oakland-over-plan-to-change-airport-name\">quickly slapped with a lawsuit\u003c/a> from Chiu and the city of San Francisco, which operates SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the suit, Chiu wrote that the Port of Oakland failed to give San Francisco officials reasonable notice of the coming change and said the move was an escalation of years of “jabs” Oakland’s airport has made toward SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has perceived itself to be in a rivalry with [San Francisco] over airlines and passengers,” Chiu wrote in legal documents. “Oakland’s fixation on and negativity toward SFO is exemplified by a pre-pandemic video ad campaign titled ‘Inferiority Complex,’ which features ‘stereotypical’ San Franciscans touting the superiority of the Oakland airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For another event with airline partners, OAK also made custom fortune cookies containing paper slips that read “SFO? Just say no,” according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of Oakland counter-sued San Francisco in May, asking a judge to rule that its new name was not a trademark infringement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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At least five residents remain, city officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, Crawford signed the lease on a new home. She was only meant to stay at the cabin for 90 days, but June marked two years living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at the cabin falling apart,” she said. “We fix it ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After BOSS stopped managing the sites in May, Crawford said, “We’ve been winging it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the city and Caltrans began evicting unhoused residents from a sprawling, nearly milelong encampment on a vacant lot underneath Interstate 580 that runs parallel to Wood Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047669\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident SheMika Crawford stands near the Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the RVs and makeshift homes were on Caltrans’ land, which the agency closed in the fall of 2022. A portion of the encampment, which was on city-owned land, remained there until the spring of 2023, when the city moved many of the remaining residents into the newly opened cabin community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It partnered with nonprofit Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) to operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.self-sufficiency.org/post/wood-street-community-cabins-registration-is-open\">both sites\u003c/a>. Along with RV spaces and cabin beds, BOSS also promised to provide services to find stable housing and employment opportunities. During its two years of operation, 185 people lived between the two sites.[aside postID=news_12032734 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1020x680.jpg']But in late May, the nonprofit stopped operating the sites \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032734/homeless-services-nonprofits-oakland-fails-pay-contracts\">after months of late or missing payments\u003c/a> from the city of Oakland. In June, the City Council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045763/oaklands-wood-street-shelters-to-close-on-june-30\">decommission the two sites\u003c/a> and return them to the owner by December. According to a city notice, residents remaining after 5 p.m. on Monday will be arrested. Any belongings will be discarded and vehicles will be towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city estimates that the work to restore the property to returnable condition will require up to six months,” Sean Maher, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland, wrote in an email to KQED. “Work to implement this closure and find alternative support for the program residents has been underway for the last several months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSS started providing housing and employment services for people living at the RV safe parking site on Wood Street in July 2022, according to the company. From then through late May, the nonprofit served 48 people. Of those, 75% found permanent housing before the nonprofit left the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the numbers look more grim for those who lived in the cabins. Of the 137 residents, fewer than a quarter found permanent housing and nearly 84% went to other shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Frazier, CEO of the nonprofit, said the program had its issues — the roads leading to the sites were riddled with potholes, staff slowly left and services dwindled as the city’s payments to the nonprofit grew less frequent. Though people are remaining on the sites, he said it’s not for a lack of trying on BOSS’s part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were brought in from the beginning to provide housing navigation services, clinical services and just day-to-day services, food and making sure that everything is operational,” he said. “A vast majority of people were successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Oakland%20PIT%202024%20Infographic.pdf\">city’s latest count\u003c/a>, roughly 5,480 unhoused people were living in Oakland last year, about two-thirds of whom were living in tents, cars and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher said the city is working with Alameda County officials to place those remaining at the sites into temporary housing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But in late May, the nonprofit stopped operating the sites \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032734/homeless-services-nonprofits-oakland-fails-pay-contracts\">after months of late or missing payments\u003c/a> from the city of Oakland. In June, the City Council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045763/oaklands-wood-street-shelters-to-close-on-june-30\">decommission the two sites\u003c/a> and return them to the owner by December. According to a city notice, residents remaining after 5 p.m. on Monday will be arrested. Any belongings will be discarded and vehicles will be towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city estimates that the work to restore the property to returnable condition will require up to six months,” Sean Maher, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland, wrote in an email to KQED. “Work to implement this closure and find alternative support for the program residents has been underway for the last several months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSS started providing housing and employment services for people living at the RV safe parking site on Wood Street in July 2022, according to the company. From then through late May, the nonprofit served 48 people. Of those, 75% found permanent housing before the nonprofit left the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the numbers look more grim for those who lived in the cabins. Of the 137 residents, fewer than a quarter found permanent housing and nearly 84% went to other shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Frazier, CEO of the nonprofit, said the program had its issues — the roads leading to the sites were riddled with potholes, staff slowly left and services dwindled as the city’s payments to the nonprofit grew less frequent. Though people are remaining on the sites, he said it’s not for a lack of trying on BOSS’s part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were brought in from the beginning to provide housing navigation services, clinical services and just day-to-day services, food and making sure that everything is operational,” he said. “A vast majority of people were successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Oakland%20PIT%202024%20Infographic.pdf\">city’s latest count\u003c/a>, roughly 5,480 unhoused people were living in Oakland last year, about two-thirds of whom were living in tents, cars and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher said the city is working with Alameda County officials to place those remaining at the sites into temporary housing. In the meantime, John Janosko, a former resident of the Wood Street cabins, hopes the city and the county consider the solutions he and other housing rights advocates proposed to address housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>The city needs to really start listening to us,” he said. “We have an opportunity because of Barbara Lee right now to change the narrative, to change how things are being done, how we treat unhoused people in Oakland right now and in Alameda County and be a leader in change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge\">Beth LaBerge\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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