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"content": "\u003cp>The first time William Joseph Brown filled out a survey to try to get into permanent housing, he was living beside a highway. That was December 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late August this year, when California’s transportation agency cleared him from the same strip of land tucked behind the San Clemente off-ramp on the northbound Interstate 5, he still had nowhere to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans removed Brown and about 20 other campers due to the “immediate safety threat of fire,” as they were “using open flames to cook near dry vegetation,” a spokesperson told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said six of those people were matched to permanent housing. Brown said he got a voucher for a hotel room for about a week, and then another, which recently expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s still waiting on the permanent housing voucher he was promised two years ago. Brown said none of his friends exited homelessness since they were removed from the camp, either: “They’re just in a different place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were on the off-ramp because we were out of the way,” he said. “People don’t want to see homeless people. A lot of us were there because that was the last place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1556px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png\" alt=\"A man stands wearing a backpack and jacket around his next while holding a pole outdoors.\" width=\"1556\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png 1556w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-1536x1021.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1556px) 100vw, 1556px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Brown, 42 , in the woods in San Clemente on Nov. 6, 2021. Brown said he lost $1,000 worth of belongings while being removed from an encampment on Caltrans property and was left with only a backpack and bag. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is spending more than ever before on homelessness — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/HousingandHomelessness.pdf\">$12 billion between 2021 and 2023\u003c/a> — which also means there’s more pressure to make an impact. The bulk of that money will go to creating more living spaces and providing mental health resources for people who are now on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of the money is being used by Caltrans in a ramped-up effort to move people like Brown off the state’s bustling freeways in the name of safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with homelessness,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at the 2021 California Economic Summit in Monterey on Nov. 9. “We’ve got to deal with cleaning the state, the streets, cleaning up our thoroughfares, our underpasses, our overpasses, removing graffiti, dealing with encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=homelessness\"]Reducing homelessness is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2021/\">top of mind for many voters.\u003c/a> And it’s likely to be a big campaign issue in 2022, as it was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/newsom-recall-republicans-homelessness/\">for the Sept. 14 election on whether to recall Newsom.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while it may be good politics to move homeless people out of visible public locations, experts say it’s just moving the problem somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spending state money on harassing people who are struggling under the impacts of local, state and federal policy failures is counterproductive,” said Margot Kushel, director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. “I would present the radical idea of taking the perspective of the people living there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There aren’t enough beds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time volunteers and local officials counted the number of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">people experiencing homelessness in California\u003c/a> was on a January night in 2020. They came across more than 161,000 people, in and out of shelters. That is the largest number in the nation, but the tally is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2020/01/homeless-point-in-time-count-california-inaccurate-politicized-fresno/\">widely considered an underestimate,\u003c/a> and it doesn’t take into account the economic devastation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic that started two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 36% of those people had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">homeless for at least a year,\u003c/a> which means the other two-thirds were newly homeless, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No beds for the night?\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-F8U77\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/F8U77/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0px; border: none; min-width: 100% !important; width: 800;\" height=\"800\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, cities and counties across California reported last year a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2020.pdf\">53,000 beds in either an emergency shelter or transitional housing\u003c/a> — or fewer than one bed for every three people. In some areas, the ratio is as high as five people per bed; no county has at least one full bed per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, however, some shelter beds — in churches for example — that aren’t counted in these official statistics because they don’t receive any money from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot more beds became available in California during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/05/newsom-end-homelessness-pandemic-lessons/\">in hotel and motel rooms leased or bought by the state\u003c/a> at a record clip. Project Roomkey has provided temporary shelter to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/main-recoverylab-cities-la-sros-518602?utm_source=pocket_mylist\">more than 48,000 people\u003c/a> during the pandemic, and Project Homekey temporarily sheltered thousands more across 94 hotels that created about 6,000 permanent housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the latter program was tripled in the most recent budget, from $846 million to $2.75 billion. Another $2.2 billion over the next three years will go to create behavioral health facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, officials found that between the loss in warehouse-style shelter capacity brought on by COVID safety measures, and the gain mostly in motel rooms made available by the state, total shelter capacity in the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5503-2021-hic-and-shelter-count-presentation\">didn’t vary significantly between 2020 and 2021.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say achieving a one-to-one ratio on shelter beds for people shouldn’t be the ultimate goal. Running shelters can be very expensive, and while it treats the problem temporarily, it can be a dead end when there’s no permanent housing on the other side. The Los Angeles Housing Authority, for example, found it \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5503-2021-hic-and-shelter-count-presentation\">needed more than triple\u003c/a> the existing permanent supportive housing supply to match demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, many people say they don’t want to go into congregate shelters, where they often are not only \u003ca href=\"https://archive.kpcc.org/news/2018/05/09/82908/rats-roaches-bedbugs-mold-why-thousands-of-las-hom/\">exposed to substandard living conditions,\u003c/a> but potential assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you offer traumatized people to be in a huge shelter where there can be violence, where there can be no end in sight, where your things will get stolen, or could get stolen, that’s not really an offer,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Brown’s camp by I-5, he said he and two other campers were offered a shelter bed, but turned it down. He suffers from a degenerative eye condition that blocks his peripheral vision, and said he had his belongings stolen multiple times at shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s in the budget for Caltrans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Transportation.pdf\">$1.1 billion for a project called Clean California,\u003c/a> with most of the money going to litter pickup and beautification. Newsom has said it will add \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-08/newsom-1-billion-statewide-cleanup-plan\">about 11,000 jobs over three years,\u003c/a> with at-risk youth and people who were formerly homeless or incarcerated getting priority. Caltrans is also using a small portion of the funding to clear homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation with encampments in California is unacceptable,” Newsom said in a recent statement. “I refuse to accept the status quo — our fellow Californians suffering in tents, under highway overpasses, exposed to the elements, and living in unsanitary conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the economic summit, the governor said that his office had identified 100 encampments as top priorities and was working with Caltrans to clear them “in a thoughtful and strategic way” — a promise he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWHkjlIsbk\">made multiple times.\u003c/a>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Gov. Gavin Newsom at the Nov. 9 Economic Summit']‘We’ve got to deal with cleaning the state, the streets, cleaning up our thoroughfares, our underpasses, our overpasses, removing graffiti, dealing with encampments.’[/pullquote]But so far his office and Caltrans have declined to identify the locations, citing privacy and security concerns for the campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are we supposed to know what’s happening with these resources?” asked Christopher Martin, policy director at Housing California, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It’s very behind closed doors, and I think that’s a little bit frightening because we need some accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans also got an additional $2.7 million this fiscal year for homeless coordinators to mitigate safety risks at encampments, clean trash and debris, and connect people living in these camps to support services and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to CalMatters, Caltrans said it spent more than $15 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 and projects to spend nearly $36 million in the next year specifically on homeless camp cleanups. It conducted just 19 encampment relocations in all of 2020, when federal health officials advised against them during the pandemic. This year, Caltrans has completed 347 through mid-October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the agency deals with the shortage of shelter and housing units, Caltrans officials said they “coordinate with cities and social service providers, which can connect people experiencing homelessness with services. However, on high priority encampments where an immediate threat to safety or to essential infrastructure has been identified, the department must proceed with the encampment clearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/29/california-launches-encampment-resolution-grant-program/\">$50 million in new grants\u003c/a> to help local governments deal with encampments. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/encampment_rfa.pdf\">applications opened recently,\u003c/a> and the money will be distributed next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that money will fund encampment clearings, according to Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. Instead, he said, grantees will get funds to provide services tailored to the needs of people in those camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heimerich directed any questions about the Caltrans cleanups to the transportation agency, while Caltrans directed questions about the encampment service programs to the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council. Both declined multiple requests for phone interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said the apparent lack of coordination between the programs was “a little concerning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s state auditor in February \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\">raised concerns about a lack of coordination\u003c/a> between the multiple agencies dealing with homelessness in California: “At least nine state agencies administer and oversee 41 different programs that provide funding to mitigate homelessness, yet no single entity oversees the State’s efforts or is responsible for developing a statewide strategic plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new programs raise a bigger question for Josh Barocas, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado who studies homelessness and substance use: Why is transportation money going toward clearing homeless camps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t actually take into account the long-term health effects of those being displaced and doing the displacement, and their future needs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a computer modeling study that did not undergo peer review, Barocas found that in Boston, disbanding a homeless camp was more likely to drive up overdoses, hospitalizations and mortality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what I would call social theater,” he said. “It’s showing your neighborhood that you are trying to do something by literally sweeping the problem away….The only way to actually fix this problem is to get at the social and structural issues that are perpetuating poverty, perpetuating homelessness in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Barocas doesn’t believe in clearing encampments, he said there is value in continued community outreach, even when the housing isn’t there yet. “Bringing resources to where people are, and literally meeting them where they’re at, never loses utility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eve Garrow, a homelessness policy analyst and advocate at the ACLU of Southern California, said many of the people now camping alongside California’s highways were originally in safer spots such as parks with restrooms. But they’ve moved into the fringes because of law enforcement harassment, often brought on by calls to service made by their housed neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The answer is simple,” she said. “Stop criminalizing people.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Josh Barocas, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado']‘It’s what I would call social theater.It’s showing your neighborhood that you are trying to do something by literally sweeping the problem away.’[/pullquote]In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/outsidethelaw-aclufdnsca-report.pdf\">recent report,\u003c/a> Garrow and her colleagues argue housing status should be a protected social group, a policy Martin’s group and the Western Center on Law and Poverty hope to advance in the Legislature’s next session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeking stable shelter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who is 42, said he had worked with several county health workers to get on the waitlist for a permanent housing voucher, but all of them had since quit. “It just seems like nobody can even give me an answer as to why it’s not moving forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The voucher would subsidize Brown’s housing so he has to spend only a third of his disability check on rent. But he’ll still need to find a landlord willing to rent to a man who’s been homeless for more than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he wants to be able to host his grandmother, which he couldn’t do on the side of a freeway. He also wants a cure for his vision; he learned about a clinical trial when he was living in the camp, but said it was very difficult for him to consider the option if he had to take medication, as it would likely get stolen. And he wants to stop worrying about getting his stuff stolen every night, when he can barely see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1552px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM.png\" alt=\"A man wearing a hat and backpack with a sheath for a knife holds a paddle while kneeling on a raft on a creek.\" width=\"1552\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM.png 1552w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1552px) 100vw, 1552px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Lowe, 32, made a raft out of longboards and wood to cross the San Mateo Creek and reach where he has been staying in San Clemente. Lowe moved to the woods with his dog after an encampment on Caltrans property was removed on Aug. 27. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since getting kicked out of the camp, Brown connected with another service provider who’s scheduled to call him to sort out his case. Staying in a hotel with his friend, Megan, provided some much-needed stability. “I got very used to that, and then we were told we had to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and three of his fellow campers wrote a letter urging elected leaders, public officials, and service providers involved in the camp clearing to be honest about the plight of many homeless people:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Admit that the process of getting assistance is lengthy, that there is not enough housing for everyone who qualifies for it, and that there are people on the street who do want help and are doing what they’re supposed to do to receive it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reducing homelessness is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2021/\">top of mind for many voters.\u003c/a> And it’s likely to be a big campaign issue in 2022, as it was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/newsom-recall-republicans-homelessness/\">for the Sept. 14 election on whether to recall Newsom.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while it may be good politics to move homeless people out of visible public locations, experts say it’s just moving the problem somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spending state money on harassing people who are struggling under the impacts of local, state and federal policy failures is counterproductive,” said Margot Kushel, director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. “I would present the radical idea of taking the perspective of the people living there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There aren’t enough beds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time volunteers and local officials counted the number of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">people experiencing homelessness in California\u003c/a> was on a January night in 2020. They came across more than 161,000 people, in and out of shelters. That is the largest number in the nation, but the tally is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2020/01/homeless-point-in-time-count-california-inaccurate-politicized-fresno/\">widely considered an underestimate,\u003c/a> and it doesn’t take into account the economic devastation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic that started two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 36% of those people had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">homeless for at least a year,\u003c/a> which means the other two-thirds were newly homeless, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No beds for the night?\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-F8U77\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/F8U77/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0px; border: none; min-width: 100% !important; width: 800;\" height=\"800\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, cities and counties across California reported last year a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2020.pdf\">53,000 beds in either an emergency shelter or transitional housing\u003c/a> — or fewer than one bed for every three people. In some areas, the ratio is as high as five people per bed; no county has at least one full bed per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, however, some shelter beds — in churches for example — that aren’t counted in these official statistics because they don’t receive any money from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot more beds became available in California during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/05/newsom-end-homelessness-pandemic-lessons/\">in hotel and motel rooms leased or bought by the state\u003c/a> at a record clip. Project Roomkey has provided temporary shelter to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/main-recoverylab-cities-la-sros-518602?utm_source=pocket_mylist\">more than 48,000 people\u003c/a> during the pandemic, and Project Homekey temporarily sheltered thousands more across 94 hotels that created about 6,000 permanent housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the latter program was tripled in the most recent budget, from $846 million to $2.75 billion. Another $2.2 billion over the next three years will go to create behavioral health facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, officials found that between the loss in warehouse-style shelter capacity brought on by COVID safety measures, and the gain mostly in motel rooms made available by the state, total shelter capacity in the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5503-2021-hic-and-shelter-count-presentation\">didn’t vary significantly between 2020 and 2021.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say achieving a one-to-one ratio on shelter beds for people shouldn’t be the ultimate goal. Running shelters can be very expensive, and while it treats the problem temporarily, it can be a dead end when there’s no permanent housing on the other side. The Los Angeles Housing Authority, for example, found it \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5503-2021-hic-and-shelter-count-presentation\">needed more than triple\u003c/a> the existing permanent supportive housing supply to match demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, many people say they don’t want to go into congregate shelters, where they often are not only \u003ca href=\"https://archive.kpcc.org/news/2018/05/09/82908/rats-roaches-bedbugs-mold-why-thousands-of-las-hom/\">exposed to substandard living conditions,\u003c/a> but potential assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you offer traumatized people to be in a huge shelter where there can be violence, where there can be no end in sight, where your things will get stolen, or could get stolen, that’s not really an offer,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Brown’s camp by I-5, he said he and two other campers were offered a shelter bed, but turned it down. He suffers from a degenerative eye condition that blocks his peripheral vision, and said he had his belongings stolen multiple times at shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s in the budget for Caltrans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Transportation.pdf\">$1.1 billion for a project called Clean California,\u003c/a> with most of the money going to litter pickup and beautification. Newsom has said it will add \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-08/newsom-1-billion-statewide-cleanup-plan\">about 11,000 jobs over three years,\u003c/a> with at-risk youth and people who were formerly homeless or incarcerated getting priority. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The federal government says California is ineligible for about $12 billion in public transit funding because of a long-running dispute over changes to the state’s public pension law that the Biden administration recently determined are improper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law says state and local agencies must protect the interests of their employees to be eligible for federal public transit grants. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/about/laws-legislation-regulations/public-employees-pension-reform-act\">state law that took effect in 2013\u003c/a> made changes to California’s public pension system, including making pensions less generous for new employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Sacramento Bee reports the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article255720896.html?ac_cid=DM561699&ac_bid=-1997988967\">U.S. Department of Labor recently determined those changes were improper\u003c/a> because they were imposed by law instead of collectively bargained with public employee unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government’s latest decision means the state would be ineligible for about $9.5 billion in money set aside for California public transit agencies in the infrastructure bill Congress approved last week. California would also forfeit about $2.5 billion in grants for public transit that were part of the most recent federal coronavirus relief legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This relief funding has served as a lifeline for them, and in the absence of these federal dollars flowing to California transit agencies, we will absolutely see a reduction in service and losses in our workforce, making it more difficult for agencies to rebound,” said Michael Pimentel, executive director of the California Transit Association, a nonprofit representing public transit agencies in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Across the state, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news//what-bidens-congressional-infrastructure-bill-might-help-fund-in-california\">16% of transit vehicles are past their useful lives\u003c/a> but still in use. In San Francisco, MUNI’s parent agency, SFMTA, has more than $3 billion worth of needs identified for a five-year period through 2023, and more than $30 billion in infrastructure needs over the next 20 years. The Bay Area is host to 27 transit agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal officials have been arguing over this funding since the pension law was passed nearly a decade ago. After former President Barack Obama’s administration blocked grant funding for two California transit agencies, the state sued and won. But that decision only applied to the Sacramento Regional Transit District and Monterey-Salinas Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, former Republican President Donald Trump’s administration ruled the state’s pension law did not make it ineligible for public transit grants. But Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration reversed that decision on Oct. 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Congress last week passed a massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1050012853/the-house-has-passed-the-1-trillion-infrastructure-plan-sending-it-to-bidens-des\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bipartisan infrastructure bill\u003c/a>, a much-needed political win for President Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package calls for more than $550 billion in new spending over five years, with a sizable chunk earmarked for California infrastructure projects, including work on roads, bridges, transit systems, cyberattack prevention and increased access to high-speed internet service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill will fund projects across the Bay Area, including $24 million toward restoring the region’s wetlands, said Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, who represents parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost almost 90% of the wetlands in the San Francisco Bay Estuary over the last 100 years. This is going to be an effort to help us restore much of those wetlands and allow us to continue to enjoy the Bay,” Speier told KQED on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House passed the measure 228-206 late Friday night, largely along party lines, prompting prolonged cheers from the relieved Democratic side of the chamber. Just 13 mostly moderate Republicans supported the legislation. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-vote-massive-infrastructure-package-centerpiece-biden-agenda-n1276134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate had approved a version of the bill\u003c/a> in August, but it then was held up for months as House progressives clashed with Democratic centrists over funding priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package is financed through a combination of funds, including repurposing unspent emergency relief money from the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthening tax enforcement for cryptocurrencies. While negotiators said that the cost of the plan would be offset entirely, the Congressional Budget Office predicted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/bipartisan-infrastructure-plan-senate-cbo-score/index.html\">it would add about $256 billion to projected deficits over 10 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"infrastructure\"]The infrastructure package, which Biden called a “blue-collar blueprint to rebuilding America,” is a historic investment by any measure, the breadth of which he compared to the building of the interstate highway system over the last century, or the transcontinental railroad the century before that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet despite the win, Democrats were dealt a major setback when they were forced to postpone a vote on a second, even larger bill until later this month. That 10-year, $1.85 trillion measure, bolstering health, family and climate change programs — which Biden refers to as “human infrastructure” — was sidetracked after Democratic moderates demanded a cost estimate on the measure from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The postponement dashed hopes that the day would produce a double-barreled win for Biden with passage of both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notwithstanding those setbacks, California officials are still hailing the historic investment in local transit and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Modernizing California’s infrastructure\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/11/06/governor-newsom-statement-on-passage-of-1-2-trillion-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-by-congress/\">Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statement Saturday lauding the House’s passage of the bill\u003c/a>, saying it will help create quality jobs for Californians and support the modernization of state infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The infrastructure package passed by Congress builds on California’s unprecedented investments to maintain and modernize the state,” he said. “This historic infrastructure package stands to accelerate investments in our clean transportation infrastructure, help mitigate some of the worst impacts of climate change and accelerate new projects that will create thousands of jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission Chair Alfredo Pedroza, who is also a Napa County supervisor, said the infrastructure package will help fund long-term regional plans to revamp transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only will the big increase in transit capital funding help modernize our existing transit network to serve a new generation of customers but expansion of the discretionary grant programs will allow the Bay Area to compete for money that can move big new projects from the plan to reality,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the governor’s office, California expects to receive:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Federal-aid highway apportioned programs: $25.3 billion, with $4.2 billion for bridge replacement and repairs.\u003c/strong> California has 1,536 bridges and more than 14,000 miles of highway in poor condition, according to the governor’s office. California commute times have increased by 14.6% in the state, with drivers paying nearly $800 a month due to driving on roads needing repair. The governor’s office said this investment will be the “single-largest dedicated bridge investment” in California since the construction of the interstate highway system. Exactly which bridges would net that funding is still an open question: The MTC said they would “compete for funds” in the multibillion-dollar set-aside.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Improved public transportation: $9.45 billion.\u003c/strong> That may aid many people of color across the state: Non-white households are 1.6 times more likely to commute via public transit in California, according to the governor’s office. And in California, 16% of transit vehicles are past their useful lives, but still in use. Still, the amount may not make a dent in overall transit needs in the Bay Area — Muni’s parent agency, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2021/07/7-20-21_mtab_item_17_state_of_good_repair_-_report.pdf\">has more than $3 billion worth of needs identified for a five-year period through 2023\u003c/a>, and more than $30 billion in infrastructure needs over the next 20 years. The Bay Area is host to 27 transit agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Expansion of an EV charging network: $384 million, and the opportunity to apply for the $2.5 billion in grant funding dedicated to EV charging.\u003c/strong> The investment is part of Biden’s effort to boost plug-in electric vehicle sales by building out a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CALIFORNIA_The-Infrastructure-Investment-and-Jobs-Act-State-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">“first-ever national network of EV chargers” in the U.S.\u003c/a>, according to a statement from the White House.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Broadband coverage across the state: $100 million. \u003c/strong>About 545,000 Californians don’t have access to broadband internet, and under the new infrastructure bill, some 10 million Californians in lower-income households will be eligible for a benefit to afford internet access. In July, California lawmakers passed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/20/governor-newsom-signs-historic-broadband-legislation-to-help-bridge-digital-divide/\">$6 billion investment to expand broadband coverage\u003c/a>, including building out new high-speed fiber lines, connecting rural homes to internet access, and creating a new broadband lead position in the state’s Department of Technology.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Protection against wildfires: $84 million.\u003c/strong> Californians are no strangers to wildfire’s devastating impacts, which have displaced residents from Paradise to Tahoe and beyond, costing the state an estimated $50 billion to $100 billion in damages, according to the White House. Newsom’s investment strategy also includes $2 billion toward the purchase of new firefighting equipment like air tankers and helicopters, as well as supporting forest and wildfire resilience strategies across the state. Still, Newsom’s recent budgets have pledged hundreds of millions less toward wildfire prevention than what he had initially proposed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879034/newsom-misled-the-public-about-wildfire-prevention-efforts-ahead-of-worst-fire-season-on-record\">NPR’s California Newsroom recently published an investigation\u003c/a> — led by CapRadio — reporting that the governor has overstated, by 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in projects he said needed to be prioritized.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Improvements to water infrastructure and clean drinking water: $3.5 billion. \u003c/strong>That investment includes funding toward water recycling and ecosystem restoration in California (like the Bay Area’s wetlands), according to the MTC.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Infrastructure development for airports: $1.5 billion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Bay City News, The Associated Press, NPR’s Barbara Sprunt and KQED’s Cesar Saldaña, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Lakshmi Sarah. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The postponement dashed hopes that the day would produce a double-barreled win for Biden with passage of both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notwithstanding those setbacks, California officials are still hailing the historic investment in local transit and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Modernizing California’s infrastructure\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/11/06/governor-newsom-statement-on-passage-of-1-2-trillion-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-by-congress/\">Gov. 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California commute times have increased by 14.6% in the state, with drivers paying nearly $800 a month due to driving on roads needing repair. The governor’s office said this investment will be the “single-largest dedicated bridge investment” in California since the construction of the interstate highway system. Exactly which bridges would net that funding is still an open question: The MTC said they would “compete for funds” in the multibillion-dollar set-aside.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Improved public transportation: $9.45 billion.\u003c/strong> That may aid many people of color across the state: Non-white households are 1.6 times more likely to commute via public transit in California, according to the governor’s office. And in California, 16% of transit vehicles are past their useful lives, but still in use. 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