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We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign.’[/pullquote]In short, thousands more people per capita in Florida have been infected with, and died from, COVID-19 than in California. And while unemployment remains about twice as high in California, some economists are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-02/la-fi-california-economy-recovery-ucla-forecast-june-2021\">predicting a faster overall recovery\u003c/a> in states like California that locked down early and kept those restrictions in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, given the two states’ widely contrasting approaches to the pandemic, some experts say they would have expected even more disparate health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most public health officials would say that Florida humbles us and makes us realize there are parts of this that we understand and there are parts of this that we don’t exactly understand,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, a leading epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to criticize California,” Wachter added. “The overall numbers of cases and deaths are so high. But that’s irrelevant, really. You have to look at the per capita rates because California is so much bigger than any other state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been nearly 2,400 fewer people dead there. As of this week, \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days\">transmission rates in Florida remain five times higher than in California\u003c/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, 57% of all Californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to about 48% of all Floridians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond health and economic impacts, there have been other trade-offs each state made, with outcomes that may take years to fully evaluate: For one, most Florida kids have been back in school since the fall; most California students did not return until this spring, and even then, not always full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wachter, assessing the success or failure of each state is complicated — and to some extent subjective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I think some of that will come down to how you value human life,” he said. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it. The number of deaths in Florida per capita is significantly higher than they are in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For community leaders on the ground in both states, the decisions made by DeSantis and Newsom had far-reaching implications — especially for communities of color, who were generally hardest hit by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">after we first compared these two states\u003c/a>, in a collaboration between KQED in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/\">WLRN\u003c/a> in Miami and \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>, we visited communities in each state: the Mission District in San Francisco and the city of Miami Gardens in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Mission District\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last spring, as the coronavirus was spreading across the nation, and the world, community leaders in San Francisco’s heavily Latino Mission District realized things were poised to get bad — quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although heavily gentrified in pockets, the Mission is still a largely working-class neighborhood. It’s home to many low-income families who often live in homes shared by multiple generations, allowing little room to quarantine if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, who grew up here and is active in local politics, said he and others watched with concern in March 2020 as San Francisco officials, and then state leaders, announced some of the nation’s first stay-at home orders — even as spring break continued to draw tourists to Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from the San Francisco Latino Task Force help register people at a COVID-19 testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The immediate thoughts, I think, for everybody were, ‘What is going to happen to the folks that are going to lose their jobs? … What’s going to happen to the individuals that have to go to work?’ ” he said. “Because there’s a lot of people that don’t have that luxury or that privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo and other volunteers — many of them Latino community members themselves — banded together to create what they called the Latino Task Force. Fearful of a coming wave of infections, they started asking the city for resources, including testing, tracing, rental assistance and food donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the time, tests were in short supply and the virus was spreading rapidly — more so in this neighborhood, it seemed to them, than in other nearby communities. So in April 2020, the Latino Task Force and other community leaders partnered with UCSF to set up a testing site in the neighborhood and put some numbers behind their hunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recruited volunteers. We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign,” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, over 4,000 people came to get tested. About 40% were Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that were positive — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/05/417356/initial-results-mission-district-covid-19-testing-announced\">it was 95% Latino, it was 100% people of color,\u003c/a>” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]In response, the city expanded testing opportunities and other help for people of color and essential workers throughout the city — in partnership with existing groups like the Latino Task Force, who already had deep ties to city neighborhoods. It’s a lesson San Francisco learned decades ago during the AIDS crisis: The best way to get to hard-to-reach populations, people who might distrust the government, is to use the networks they already trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Latino Task Force did this in the Mission by not only focusing on testing: They set up a resource hub at a large building at 701 Alabama St. Funded by the city, the street outside morphs every Thursday into a pop-up COVID-19 testing site, and now, a place where people can make vaccine appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also offering all the other things low-income residents have needed during the pandemic. For more than a year, the site has handed out groceries — serving as many as 9,000 families each week. There is also a community wellness team on-site that partners with families when someone tests positive to make sure they have the resources to survive quarantine. Mental health services and job training — all offered in multiple languages — are available as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the collaboration — one of many across the city — a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of working with the Latino Task Force had everything to do with making people feel comfortable about getting tested, no questions asked,” she said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this government and community support didn’t erase the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 cases on Latinos in San Francisco during its summer and winter surges. But Jacobo said it did offer a safety net for vulnerable residents — and it left the city and community with a playbook when the vaccines started to roll out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a community health team providing info on what the vaccine is or what the vaccine isn’t. And we’ll literally sign you up for your appointment here,” Jacobo said. “So you don’t have to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1403425020303396865\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It worked: By early June, San Francisco reported that \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Vaccinations-Maps/uue2-6gdn/\">more than 70% of residents in the neighborhood\u003c/a> had received at least one dose. Citywide, more than two-thirds of Latinos are vaccinated. And as California lifts nearly all COVID-19 restrictions — San Francisco officials this week announced more 80% of residents have received at least one dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed credits San Franciscans for trusting the science, the data and one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I must say, I am really proud of how San Franciscans, for the most part, handled this crisis, because if people didn’t comply and didn’t trust the information, we wouldn’t be here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same cannot be said across the country in Miami Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Miami Gardens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Located in Miami-Dade County, Miami Gardens is the largest Black-majority city in Florida — African Americans make up roughly 71% of the population. 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So [my office] started reaching out,” said Leon, who is Black. “We started reaching out to different groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the major vaccination sites was a state-run location at the Hard Rock Stadium in the city — home to the Miami Dolphins and where the 2020 Super Bowl was held shortly before the coronavirus hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the state previously offering testing at the site, Leon said the location just didn’t work for many residents of his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stadium wasn’t enough because you had people coming from everywhere to get into the stadium and the stadium didn’t have the flexibility for walk-ups and they didn’t have the flexibility for those people that didn’t have transportation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just about access, said Dr. Dwight Reynolds, an emergency physician working with the city of Miami Gardens. Many Black men like him were uncomfortable with the stadium site, he said, noting that it was set up by the state with help from the National Guard, and had a lot of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine for a moment that you are a male of color. You go into a place where you see white officers — let’s tell it like it is — with guns,” Reynolds said. “OK, would you feel comfortable pulling up to that site although it’s free? Probably not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1394293659441500160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So to try to increase vaccination rates among residents, the city partnered with a Black-owned company to open its own pop-up vaccination site at Brentwood Community Pool, about 2 miles away from the Hard Rock Stadium. At its pop-up site, the city offers doses of the Moderna vaccine, with Black nurses and doctors, including Reynolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he regularly hears from Black Floridians that they feel more comfortable with him holding the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people that look like you, talk like you, that’s kind of important,” he said. “We look like them. We talk like them. And guess what? We are them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith Heywood, a Black nurse herself, got her first shot there in mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been looking online and it’s, you know, very complicated,” she said. “I’m ready today. I don’t want to think about Monday or Tuesday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Despite the location and ease, though, it’s been hard to attract people: On one Friday in May only about four or five people came for a shot all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he’s often been in the difficult position of deciding whether or not to open a vial — and risk having doses go bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say at 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock — if you … can’t move those ones that you have left, then you end up having problems,” he said, adding he’s taken to driving extra doses as far as Coral Springs — some 30 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been slower going here than in San Francisco, where a deeper level of trust had already been established in some lower-income communities by the time the vaccines arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders in both Miami Gardens and San Francisco’s Mission District have centered their efforts around building trust on the ground, but say they have been both helped and stymied by the decisions made at their own state capitols.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Would Not Declare Victory Now’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Florida, Gov. DeSantis followed the lead of his ally, former President Donald Trump: He refused to institute many restrictions recommended by health experts, like a statewide mask mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by spring 2021, DeSantis also made it harder for local governments to enforce their own COVID-19 safety rules. In March, for example, he overturned fines cities and counties administered to individuals and businesses for breaking health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists in both states agree that while the two governors’ decisions did influence health outcomes, so did the individual decisions of the millions of residents in each state — who sometimes acted in spite of their leaders’ examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Prins, a University of Florida epidemiologist, said that’s probably one reason why things aren’t as bad in Florida as some experts predicted they would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people continued to wear masks, not go to restaurants, physically distance in some cases, in spite of the fact that things were opened up,” Prins said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Dwight Reynolds, emergency physician in Miami Gardens, Florida\"]‘To have people that look like you, talk like you, that’s kind of important. We look like them. We talk like them. And guess what? We are them.’[/pullquote]“It’s very hard to judge success because we don’t have the comparison group of what would have happened if everything was open the whole time,” she continued. “What’s the comparison if everything’s closed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wachter, from UCSF, stressed that this pandemic isn’t over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the Florida story is fully written yet,” he said. “There’s a lot of the variants down there. The variants are nastier. So I would not declare victory now in Florida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the actions of individual Californians — especially at family gatherings over the holiday season — prompted a major winter surge. Yet Wachter said those outbreaks were notably worse in the southern half of the state, showing that Newsom’s restrictions only went so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state had the same rules and standards. But people in L.A. and people in some of the other southern counties were acting differently than the people in the Bay Area were tending to. And you saw a divergence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">major finding\u003c/a> of our collaboration last spring, early in the pandemic: the huge significance of individual actions, particularly in the absence of a coordinated national response. We all ended up being the Dr. Fauci of our own homes, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where We Go From Here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, with vaccines widespread, the U.S. is entering a new phase of this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even now, DeSantis and Newsom are still being guided by their opposing ideologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 15 months, California lifted nearly all restrictions Tuesday, but counties are still permitted to enforce their own, and all unvaccinated residents are still being asked to mask in most public spaces. Attendees at indoor events with more than 5,000 people will have to either show they’re fully vaccinated or provide a recent negative COVID-19 test result; and Newsom’s administration is in the process of creating a digital “vaccine verification system,” allowing businesses to more easily check people’s vaccination status (though he’s quick to stress that using it is not required).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care worker Jaden Anderson tests a child for COVID-19 at a Unidos en Salud testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis recently \u003ca href=\"//www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article251147909.html\">overrode\u003c/a> all remaining local emergency pandemic-related orders and restrictions. He also signed a bill making it illegal for businesses, schools and governments to require proof of vaccination. Recently, he’s been in a legal battle with the CDC over requiring vaccines on cruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, each governor is playing to his political base — with mixed results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite better health outcomes in California, Newsom is facing a recall attempt largely fueled by anger over his strict lockdowns. Yet just months after the recall qualified, Newsom is looking increasingly strong as his state emerges from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, DeSantis’ star is also on the rise in the GOP — even though, or maybe because, he flouted many public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coming months will be crucial from a public health perspective. But the debate over whether DeSantis or Newsom best led his state through this crisis will likely drag on, especially given the two governors’ ambitious political aspirations: Both are thought to have presidential hopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Correction\u003c/b>: Dr. Bob Wachter’s initial estimate of how many fewer COVID-19 deaths there would have been in Florida if it had the same death rate as in California was miscalculated. The original version of this story states: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been roughly 5,000 fewer people dead there.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the correct estimate of fewer deaths (based on each state’s COVID death rate at the time of publication) is less than half that: 2,389. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>WLRN’s Verónica Zaragovia contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In short, thousands more people per capita in Florida have been infected with, and died from, COVID-19 than in California. And while unemployment remains about twice as high in California, some economists are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-02/la-fi-california-economy-recovery-ucla-forecast-june-2021\">predicting a faster overall recovery\u003c/a> in states like California that locked down early and kept those restrictions in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, given the two states’ widely contrasting approaches to the pandemic, some experts say they would have expected even more disparate health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most public health officials would say that Florida humbles us and makes us realize there are parts of this that we understand and there are parts of this that we don’t exactly understand,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, a leading epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to criticize California,” Wachter added. “The overall numbers of cases and deaths are so high. But that’s irrelevant, really. You have to look at the per capita rates because California is so much bigger than any other state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been nearly 2,400 fewer people dead there. As of this week, \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days\">transmission rates in Florida remain five times higher than in California\u003c/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, 57% of all Californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to about 48% of all Floridians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond health and economic impacts, there have been other trade-offs each state made, with outcomes that may take years to fully evaluate: For one, most Florida kids have been back in school since the fall; most California students did not return until this spring, and even then, not always full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wachter, assessing the success or failure of each state is complicated — and to some extent subjective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I think some of that will come down to how you value human life,” he said. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it. The number of deaths in Florida per capita is significantly higher than they are in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For community leaders on the ground in both states, the decisions made by DeSantis and Newsom had far-reaching implications — especially for communities of color, who were generally hardest hit by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">after we first compared these two states\u003c/a>, in a collaboration between KQED in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/\">WLRN\u003c/a> in Miami and \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>, we visited communities in each state: the Mission District in San Francisco and the city of Miami Gardens in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Mission District\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last spring, as the coronavirus was spreading across the nation, and the world, community leaders in San Francisco’s heavily Latino Mission District realized things were poised to get bad — quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although heavily gentrified in pockets, the Mission is still a largely working-class neighborhood. It’s home to many low-income families who often live in homes shared by multiple generations, allowing little room to quarantine if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, who grew up here and is active in local politics, said he and others watched with concern in March 2020 as San Francisco officials, and then state leaders, announced some of the nation’s first stay-at home orders — even as spring break continued to draw tourists to Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from the San Francisco Latino Task Force help register people at a COVID-19 testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The immediate thoughts, I think, for everybody were, ‘What is going to happen to the folks that are going to lose their jobs? … What’s going to happen to the individuals that have to go to work?’ ” he said. “Because there’s a lot of people that don’t have that luxury or that privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo and other volunteers — many of them Latino community members themselves — banded together to create what they called the Latino Task Force. Fearful of a coming wave of infections, they started asking the city for resources, including testing, tracing, rental assistance and food donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the time, tests were in short supply and the virus was spreading rapidly — more so in this neighborhood, it seemed to them, than in other nearby communities. So in April 2020, the Latino Task Force and other community leaders partnered with UCSF to set up a testing site in the neighborhood and put some numbers behind their hunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recruited volunteers. We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign,” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, over 4,000 people came to get tested. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>It worked: By early June, San Francisco reported that \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Vaccinations-Maps/uue2-6gdn/\">more than 70% of residents in the neighborhood\u003c/a> had received at least one dose. Citywide, more than two-thirds of Latinos are vaccinated. And as California lifts nearly all COVID-19 restrictions — San Francisco officials this week announced more 80% of residents have received at least one dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed credits San Franciscans for trusting the science, the data and one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I must say, I am really proud of how San Franciscans, for the most part, handled this crisis, because if people didn’t comply and didn’t trust the information, we wouldn’t be here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same cannot be said across the country in Miami Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Miami Gardens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Located in Miami-Dade County, Miami Gardens is the largest Black-majority city in Florida — African Americans make up roughly 71% of the population. And like the Latino community in San Francisco’s Mission District, it is not a monolithic group — there are Bahamians, Jamaicans, Afro-Cubans, residents from West African countries like Nigeria and Ghana; some are Florida natives, some are immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Miami-Dade County is doing pretty well when it comes to vaccines: About 58% of the total population has received at least one dose, according to county data from June 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a Friday in May, only four or five people came to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at the Brentwood Pool vaccination site in Miami Gardens, Florida. \u003ccite>(Caitie Switalski Muñoz/WLRN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, that number plummets among the county’s Black residents, only about 20% of whom have received at least one shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vice mayor of Miami Gardens, Reggie Leon, said he feels that disparity is probably due to a combination of inaccessibility and mistrust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that people of color had some trust issues, especially with vaccines. So [my office] started reaching out,” said Leon, who is Black. “We started reaching out to different groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the major vaccination sites was a state-run location at the Hard Rock Stadium in the city — home to the Miami Dolphins and where the 2020 Super Bowl was held shortly before the coronavirus hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the state previously offering testing at the site, Leon said the location just didn’t work for many residents of his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stadium wasn’t enough because you had people coming from everywhere to get into the stadium and the stadium didn’t have the flexibility for walk-ups and they didn’t have the flexibility for those people that didn’t have transportation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just about access, said Dr. Dwight Reynolds, an emergency physician working with the city of Miami Gardens. Many Black men like him were uncomfortable with the stadium site, he said, noting that it was set up by the state with help from the National Guard, and had a lot of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine for a moment that you are a male of color. You go into a place where you see white officers — let’s tell it like it is — with guns,” Reynolds said. “OK, would you feel comfortable pulling up to that site although it’s free? Probably not.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>So to try to increase vaccination rates among residents, the city partnered with a Black-owned company to open its own pop-up vaccination site at Brentwood Community Pool, about 2 miles away from the Hard Rock Stadium. At its pop-up site, the city offers doses of the Moderna vaccine, with Black nurses and doctors, including Reynolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he regularly hears from Black Floridians that they feel more comfortable with him holding the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people that look like you, talk like you, that’s kind of important,” he said. “We look like them. We talk like them. And guess what? We are them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith Heywood, a Black nurse herself, got her first shot there in mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been looking online and it’s, you know, very complicated,” she said. “I’m ready today. I don’t want to think about Monday or Tuesday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite the location and ease, though, it’s been hard to attract people: On one Friday in May only about four or five people came for a shot all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he’s often been in the difficult position of deciding whether or not to open a vial — and risk having doses go bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say at 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock — if you … can’t move those ones that you have left, then you end up having problems,” he said, adding he’s taken to driving extra doses as far as Coral Springs — some 30 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been slower going here than in San Francisco, where a deeper level of trust had already been established in some lower-income communities by the time the vaccines arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders in both Miami Gardens and San Francisco’s Mission District have centered their efforts around building trust on the ground, but say they have been both helped and stymied by the decisions made at their own state capitols.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Would Not Declare Victory Now’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Florida, Gov. DeSantis followed the lead of his ally, former President Donald Trump: He refused to institute many restrictions recommended by health experts, like a statewide mask mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by spring 2021, DeSantis also made it harder for local governments to enforce their own COVID-19 safety rules. In March, for example, he overturned fines cities and counties administered to individuals and businesses for breaking health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists in both states agree that while the two governors’ decisions did influence health outcomes, so did the individual decisions of the millions of residents in each state — who sometimes acted in spite of their leaders’ examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Prins, a University of Florida epidemiologist, said that’s probably one reason why things aren’t as bad in Florida as some experts predicted they would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people continued to wear masks, not go to restaurants, physically distance in some cases, in spite of the fact that things were opened up,” Prins said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s very hard to judge success because we don’t have the comparison group of what would have happened if everything was open the whole time,” she continued. “What’s the comparison if everything’s closed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wachter, from UCSF, stressed that this pandemic isn’t over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the Florida story is fully written yet,” he said. “There’s a lot of the variants down there. The variants are nastier. So I would not declare victory now in Florida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the actions of individual Californians — especially at family gatherings over the holiday season — prompted a major winter surge. Yet Wachter said those outbreaks were notably worse in the southern half of the state, showing that Newsom’s restrictions only went so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state had the same rules and standards. But people in L.A. and people in some of the other southern counties were acting differently than the people in the Bay Area were tending to. And you saw a divergence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">major finding\u003c/a> of our collaboration last spring, early in the pandemic: the huge significance of individual actions, particularly in the absence of a coordinated national response. We all ended up being the Dr. Fauci of our own homes, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where We Go From Here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, with vaccines widespread, the U.S. is entering a new phase of this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even now, DeSantis and Newsom are still being guided by their opposing ideologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 15 months, California lifted nearly all restrictions Tuesday, but counties are still permitted to enforce their own, and all unvaccinated residents are still being asked to mask in most public spaces. Attendees at indoor events with more than 5,000 people will have to either show they’re fully vaccinated or provide a recent negative COVID-19 test result; and Newsom’s administration is in the process of creating a digital “vaccine verification system,” allowing businesses to more easily check people’s vaccination status (though he’s quick to stress that using it is not required).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care worker Jaden Anderson tests a child for COVID-19 at a Unidos en Salud testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis recently \u003ca href=\"//www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article251147909.html\">overrode\u003c/a> all remaining local emergency pandemic-related orders and restrictions. He also signed a bill making it illegal for businesses, schools and governments to require proof of vaccination. Recently, he’s been in a legal battle with the CDC over requiring vaccines on cruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, each governor is playing to his political base — with mixed results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite better health outcomes in California, Newsom is facing a recall attempt largely fueled by anger over his strict lockdowns. Yet just months after the recall qualified, Newsom is looking increasingly strong as his state emerges from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, DeSantis’ star is also on the rise in the GOP — even though, or maybe because, he flouted many public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coming months will be crucial from a public health perspective. But the debate over whether DeSantis or Newsom best led his state through this crisis will likely drag on, especially given the two governors’ ambitious political aspirations: Both are thought to have presidential hopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Correction\u003c/b>: Dr. Bob Wachter’s initial estimate of how many fewer COVID-19 deaths there would have been in Florida if it had the same death rate as in California was miscalculated. The original version of this story states: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been roughly 5,000 fewer people dead there.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the correct estimate of fewer deaths (based on each state’s COVID death rate at the time of publication) is less than half that: 2,389. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>WLRN’s Verónica Zaragovia contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878067/la-gran-reapertura-de-california-que-ha-cambiado-y-que-no-el-15-de-junio\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s grand reopening day is finally here, but it comes with a few asterisks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Tuesday, our 15-month-long ordeal of public health restrictions, mandates, bans and color-coded tiers to stem the COVID-19 pandemic will finally come to an end. As Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\">said in April\u003c/a> and reaffirmed in May, June 15 is when “we can start to open up…business as usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as that much-touted date approaches, the governor’s promise of a sudden milestone is colliding with the loophole-ridden gradualism of California labor law, local control and the imperatives of fighting a diminishing — but not defeated — virus that has killed 62,500 Californians and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mixed messages along the way have added to the confusion. So what will — and won’t — actually happen on Tuesday? Many of your questions, answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will I be able to sit inside a bar, work out at a gym or go to the movies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average Californian can expect things to look fairly back-to-normal in most of the ways that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-Framework.aspx\">beyond the blueprint\u003c/a>,” to use the state’s branding, and instead using federal health guidance for public places means that most businesses can dispense with social distancing requirements, capacity limits and forced closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a difference between “can” and “must.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will still be free to impose their own public health restrictions if they choose to — but only if they’re stricter than what the state is requiring. So far, no counties have said that they’ll part ways with the state’s rules, though a few, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/what-will-the-bay-area-look-like-when-california-reopens-on-june-15/2561205/\">like San Francisco\u003c/a>, say they’re still mulling over their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, businesses aren’t taking any chances. On Tuesday, more than 35 business groups sent a letter to county governments across the state begging them to stick to the statewide rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though business groups, who don’t relish the idea of getting sued, are hoping for consistent, cheap and easy-to-follow standards, your favorite restaurant, movie theater or hair salon is also free to impose its own public health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you shouldn’t be surprised if you still spot a few “No Mask, No Service” signs after June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I go to a concert?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depends. Are we talking open mic at the local bar or Beyoncé at an arena?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-QA.aspx\">impose additional restrictions on “mega events.”\u003c/a> That’s defined as anything that draws more than 5,000 people indoors or 10,000 outside. (Sorry, nameless dude playing a melodica into a loop pedal, you are not a mega event).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent state guidance, concerts, conventions and other indoor mega events will only be open to people who can prove that they’ve either been vaccinated (by showing a vaccination card, a photo of the card, or documentation from a doctor) or that they tested negative for the coronavirus in the last 72 hours. That kind of proof won’t necessarily be required at outdoor events such as baseball games, but the state is recommending that stadiums either impose such a rule or require masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sitting inside a bar without facemasks.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fully vaccinated customers gather at the bar inside Risky Business, a private members-only club in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on May 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Once I’m inside the bar, gym or movie theater, can I finally take this mask off?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, if you’re vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s public health officials confirmed Wednesday that along with relaxed social distancing, the state will also drop its mask mandate on June 15 and instead adopt the recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Mark Ghaly, Health and Human Services Secretary\"]‘We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this.’[/pullquote]That means vaccinated adults should feel free to go mask-less in most public spaces. There are still exceptions for venues where the potential for many vulnerable people congregating in a confined place is high: hospitals and other health care settings, school classrooms, prisons and jails, public transit and nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unvaccinated, you’ll still be required to wear a mask indoors in most public places, though it’s not entirely clear if or how that will be enforced. On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said that businesses can require masks of all customers, implement a vaccination verification system or simply go with the honor system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg\" alt=\"Two people working at the grill of a restaurant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Armstrong, 51 and his wife, Paula Armstrong, 45, prepare pick up orders during lunch hour at their Long Beach restaurant, VBurger, on June 8, 2021. ‘It’s been very challenging for us, but we couldn’t back out,’ said Armstrong of opening mid-pandemic last year. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about when I’m at work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For anyone who has a job, doesn’t work from home and spends their work hours with other human beings, this Q&A just got a lot more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last November, the state’s workplace safety regulator has been requiring most employees across the state to mask up and maintain 6 feet of distance from one another when possible. They’ve also required stores, restaurants and other employers to provide personal protective equipment to their staff, offer testing when necessary and, in some cases, set up pathogen-blocking furnishings such as plexiglass shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those requirements seem to be on the way out, but not on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association\"]‘We can’t be the mask police. This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.’[/pullquote]Wednesday night, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Board agreed to take the new state public health mask guidance into account and vote on new workplace rules on June 17. If affirmed, those rules wouldn’t ordinarily become official policy until June 28. But on Monday, Newsom vowed to sign an executive order putting the rules into effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board unanimously voted to revoke a vote last week to adopt new workplace rules that would let workers go without a mask, but only so long as they and all their colleagues are vaccinated. Employers would have also been required to provide N95 masks to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea did not go over well with the state’s business interests. How, they asked, is an employer supposed to find out which workers are not vaccinated? What if vaccinated employees, chafing at their masks, begin harassing their unvaccinated colleagues? How expensive are all these masks going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']“We can’t be the mask police,” said Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association. “This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s business interests lobbied the governor directly, asking him to do an end run around the state’s workplace safety regulators and issue an executive order to “align” workplace guidelines with guidance from the state public health department and federal CDC. They renewed that request after the Cal/OSHA decision Wednesday night, urging Newsom to provide all employers with “consistency and certainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declined on Friday to say whether he would act on that request. On Wednesday, Ghaly said the administration was “in no way predisposing or pushing for one outcome over the other” but for now was simply leaving it up to the workplace safety board.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Presumably state agencies will be abiding by the state public health guidelines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might think that. And that might very well be the case. But at least for now, it appears to be up to the agencies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night — just hours before the state’s reopening at midnight — the California Department of Human Resources sent an advisory to department heads across state government. State offices that serve the public directly, like offices and stores across the state, will not be required “to inquire about a member of the public’s vaccine status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the advisory read, agencies “should provide notice to all customers, guests and members of the public that face coverings are required for unvaccinated individuals. If an individual without a face covering enters a state building, the department should assume the individual is complying with the requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State employers are also being told to keep their flexible work-from-home policies in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference to discuss the state reopening at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California on June 15, 2021. California will let fully vaccinated workers go maskless after June 17, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Is the state still going to be in a state of emergency?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean the state isn’t actually going to reopen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the governor was asked on Friday whether, come June 15, he would also rescind the state of emergency proclamation that he issued in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020, Newsom — to the surprise of many and dismay of some — said that he would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can the state possibly reopen for “business as usual” when it’s simultaneously under an emergency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer might be that the definition of “state of emergency” under California law doesn’t necessarily mean “emergency” in the everyday “something is on fire” sense of the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brandon Stracener, California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley\"]‘Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale … A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.’[/pullquote]While the California Emergency Services Act does give the governor exceptionally broad powers to govern by fiat during a period of crisis, in practice the governor has evoked that power during the pandemic to administer various public health and economic relief programs and to collect federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale,” said Brandon Stracener, research fellow at the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley. “A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With executive orders empowered by the proclamation, Newsom has loosened regulations to allow more people to administer vaccines, banned water shut-offs on homes with delinquent utility bills, given cities the ability to freeze commercial evictions, allowed local governments and courts to conduct public hearings over Zoom and given businesses on state roads the freedom to set up parklets and other street-side services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is hoping to extend some of the programs long past June 15 — either as long as the effects of the pandemic coursing through the state last, or until the Legislature can make it permanent by statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, for example, the governor’s office assured local governments that they would still be allowed to hold meetings remotely. “The Governor recognizes,” Cabinet Secretary Ana Matosantos wrote in an open letter, “the importance of an orderly return to the ordinary conduct of public meetings of state and local agencies and boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local governments are deciding to return somewhat to normal; San Francisco Mayor London Breed presided over four weddings at City Hall to mark its reopening Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature have long bristled at the governor’s unprecedented use of executive power during the pandemic, and are now attacking him leading up to an all-but-certain recall election this fall. On Monday, Assemblymembers Kevin Kiley of Rocklin and James Gallagher of Yuba City and state Sen. Melissa Melendez from Riverside County demanded that the administration explain what justified the continued proclamation of the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some emergencies from recent wildfires and past droughts are still active, Newsom’s office notes. State law does give the Legislature the ultimate check on the governor’s emergency powers. All they need to do is pass a resolution declaring the emergency to be over. But they haven’t. And with Democrats enjoying supermajorities in both the Assembly and Senate, they aren’t likely to anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol in Sacramento\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fence lines the perimeter of the state Capitol building in Sacramento on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about the state Capitol?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The halls of state government will be reopening on June 15, too. But befitting a deliberative body, it’ll be doing so at a slower pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting on Tuesday, the building will be open to a maximum of 500 members of the public. Masks will still be required and social distancing guidelines will still be in effect. After that, the rules committees in both the Assembly and Senate will “continue to assess increasing capacity to a total of 1,000 members of the public as soon as the week of June 21st,” according to a statement released Friday by legislative leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, lobbyists, reporters and the general public have been permitted to enter the Capitol only under very limited and supervised conditions.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\">said in April\u003c/a> and reaffirmed in May, June 15 is when “we can start to open up…business as usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as that much-touted date approaches, the governor’s promise of a sudden milestone is colliding with the loophole-ridden gradualism of California labor law, local control and the imperatives of fighting a diminishing — but not defeated — virus that has killed 62,500 Californians and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mixed messages along the way have added to the confusion. So what will — and won’t — actually happen on Tuesday? Many of your questions, answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will I be able to sit inside a bar, work out at a gym or go to the movies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average Californian can expect things to look fairly back-to-normal in most of the ways that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-Framework.aspx\">beyond the blueprint\u003c/a>,” to use the state’s branding, and instead using federal health guidance for public places means that most businesses can dispense with social distancing requirements, capacity limits and forced closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a difference between “can” and “must.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will still be free to impose their own public health restrictions if they choose to — but only if they’re stricter than what the state is requiring. So far, no counties have said that they’ll part ways with the state’s rules, though a few, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/what-will-the-bay-area-look-like-when-california-reopens-on-june-15/2561205/\">like San Francisco\u003c/a>, say they’re still mulling over their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, businesses aren’t taking any chances. On Tuesday, more than 35 business groups sent a letter to county governments across the state begging them to stick to the statewide rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though business groups, who don’t relish the idea of getting sued, are hoping for consistent, cheap and easy-to-follow standards, your favorite restaurant, movie theater or hair salon is also free to impose its own public health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you shouldn’t be surprised if you still spot a few “No Mask, No Service” signs after June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I go to a concert?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depends. Are we talking open mic at the local bar or Beyoncé at an arena?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-QA.aspx\">impose additional restrictions on “mega events.”\u003c/a> That’s defined as anything that draws more than 5,000 people indoors or 10,000 outside. (Sorry, nameless dude playing a melodica into a loop pedal, you are not a mega event).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent state guidance, concerts, conventions and other indoor mega events will only be open to people who can prove that they’ve either been vaccinated (by showing a vaccination card, a photo of the card, or documentation from a doctor) or that they tested negative for the coronavirus in the last 72 hours. 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"content": "\u003cp>California will offer six “dream vacation” incentives to spur more people to get coronavirus vaccinations and boost the state's hobbled tourism industry, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday, the day before the state lifts most pandemic restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotion is the latest in a string of game show-style drawings recently announced by Newsom to increase vaccination rates and, in this case, help jump-start the Golden State's travel and tourism industry, which has been in virtual hibernation for more than a year because of stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tourism industry “had a sledgehammer taken to it,” Newsom said at a press briefing Monday morning inside San Francisco's historic Ferry Building, a major tourist attraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tourism revenues nose-dived from a record $145 billion in 2019 to $65 billion last year as California enacted some of the nation's toughest pandemic restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom said it's now safe to travel in California again, as the state of nearly 40 million people boasts among the nation's lowest virus transmission rates, with \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/06/14/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them/\">close to half\u003c/a> of all residents fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was because of the health-first focus that this state is not poised to recover. It's poised ... to come roaring back,” Newsom said, emphasizing that from both health and economic standpoints, California weathered the pandemic better than many conservative states with much looser restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11877048,news_11877530,news_11876747\"]“Florida actually had worse economic outcome over the course of the last year than the state of California. So did Texas,” he said, calling out two of California's conservative rivals, while touting his state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873677/newsom-unveils-revised-budget-proposal-touting-historic-windfall\">record budget surplus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we're here primarily because California has excelled in another category, and that's vaccinations,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 80% of eligible city residents have received at least one dose of vaccine, and nearly 70% are fully vaccinated, becoming the first major American city to hit that threshold, Mayor London Breed said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city by the bay is the site of one of the six vacation packages offered by various donors through Visit California, the state's nonprofit travel promotion arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others destinations include Anaheim, Los Angeles, San Diego and a luxury hotel in Palm Springs. Newsom hastily added that he has never visited the luxury hotel, a caveat that comes after he was widely criticized for patronizing an exclusive Napa Valley restaurant during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And you can’t think of California without thinking about the Ritz Carlton down in Palm Springs. At least I’m told the Ritz Carlton down in Palm Springs is spectacular,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the goodies in the \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vax-for-the-win/\">various packages\u003c/a> — each available for up to four people — include floor seats at a Los Angeles Lakers game, as well as tickets to Disneyland, Legoland, SeaWorld and a symphony, Newsom said. Each winner also gets $2,000 in travel money, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all due respect, eat your heart out the rest of the United States,” he said “There's no state in America that has more in terms of experiences, more in terms of its culinary options than the great state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Californians 18 and older who are at least partially vaccinated are eligible for the drawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is also proposing $95 million in state funding to help a hospitality and tourism sector that at one point during the pandemic, he said, lost nearly half its 1.2 million jobs. The investment could speed the resumption of more than 300,000 jobs within a year, he projected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Beteta, president and CEO of Visit California, predicted it will take another four years for California's travel industry to fully recover, particularly because of the anticipated slow comeback of business and convention travel. She urged people to get the word out that California is fully open again and welcoming back visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California had some the nation's tightest and longest-lasting pandemic restrictions, the state “is perceived to be less destination ready than the rest of the United States, in particular our friends in Florida,” she said. “And that's the hard work we have to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Newsom said he expects California's workplace regulators this week to approve rules that allow employees to shed their masks at work if they “self-attest” that they have been fully vaccinated, “consistent with the CDC guidelines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rules, to be considered Thursday by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, would be a reversal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877530/in-another-reversal-california-regulators-withdraw-controversial-workplace-mask-rules\">the board's decision earlier this month\u003c/a> to retain masking requirements at most work sites. Newsom said once the board lifts those restrictions, he will issue an executive order putting the rules into effect immediately, bypassing the normal 10-day legal review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The methods of employer verification were not spelled out in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/COVID-19-Prevention-Emergency.html\">board's draft regulations\u003c/a> released Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board's staff confirmed Monday that employers would have options, including requiring workers to show proof of vaccination; requiring everyone to remain masked, vaccinated or not; or allowing employees to self-attest to their vaccination status, with the employer keeping a record of who does so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Self-attestation is a necessary option to help businesses — particularly small businesses — avoid getting into the murky waters of attempting to verify vaccinations when workers may have lost their vaccine cards,” said Robert Moutrie, a policy advocate at the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's new prize announcement is part of a weeks-long effort to entice residents who are still reluctant to get the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes on the eve of Newsom's plans to lift his stay-at-home order and end most restrictions on businesses. As of midnight, almost all capacity restrictions and masking rules placed on everything from restaurants to ballparks will be lifted. To mark the occasion, Newsom on Tuesday said he plans to oversee a drawing in which 10 vaccinated people will win $1.5 million each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the state began offering the incentives after California and the nation started seeing a decline in the number of initial vaccinations. But since the prize drawings in California began, he said, administered doses have increased 13.8% each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are confident these vaccine incentives have worked. That’s why we want to continue in that spirit,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drawings that have taken place so far, all streamed online, resemble game shows, officiated by Newsom as the slick-backed host giving out 30 $50,000 prizes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Hayes also said that far fewer people have applied to the system than anticipated. Applicants have complained of a clunky and cumbersome system and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869250/a-discriminatory-barrier-californias-rent-relief-website-lacks-translations-advocates-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lack of translation for non-English speakers\u003c/a> as inhibiting people from applying. In response to those concerns, HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez said the state streamlined the application, making it more user friendly, and has added more languages, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program launched, the application was only available in English and Spanish. It’s now available in simplified Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Tagalog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a redesigned application,” Velasquez said. “We have changed the flow of information required so that it is easier to understand and follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowery said that before the redesign it took her two days just to complete her husband’s rent relief application, which she helped him type out. That’s because she had to search for a number of documents — including proof of income, their lease and proof that he had a COVID-related hardship — and that all took time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In addition to the $2.6 billion approved in December during the second round of federal stimulus, the American Rescue Plan passed in March allocated another $2.6 billion to California for past and future rent relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has also proposed another \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/05/14/california-roars-back-governor-newsom-presents-100-billion-california-comeback-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2 billion to pay for past-due utility bills\u003c/a>, said Jason Elliott, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s senior counselor on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our most important priority is making sure the significant amount of federal rental assistance we have gets into the pockets of people who are entitled to it, and who need it,” he said. “We need to increase the amount of money we’re making available to individual renters and landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s eviction moratorium \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871848/housing-advocates-push-sacramento-to-extend-eviction-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expires on June 30\u003c/a>, but advocates for low-income renters are urging legislators to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He is a wholly owned subsidiary of the gun lobby of the National Rifle Association.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state already is appealing the same judge’s 2017 ruling against the state’s nearly two-decade-old ban on the sales and purchases of magazines holding more than 10 bullets, and his ruling last year blocking a 2019 California law requiring background checks for anyone buying ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to call this federal judge out. He will continue to do damage, mark my word,” Newsom said. “This is a very focused agenda to work through this judge, where the decision’s already made before it’s even presented, who writes ‘press releases’ on behalf of the gun lobby.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun owners’ rights groups have made no secret of their effort to get firearms restrictions before the nation’s high court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Firearms Policy Coalition, which led plaintiffs who won at the trial level, condemned the governor’s “outrageous and callous personal attacks” on the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom’s verbal assaults on a long-respected member of the judiciary shows his deep and continuing disrespect for the rule of law, the judiciary, the Constitution, and the human rights of California citizens,” the group said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benitez was appointed by Republican President George W. Bush. Newsom, a Democrat, also assailed Republicans who don’t support gun restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-judge appeals court panel agreed with Benitez on his ammunition magazine ruling, but the decision is being reconsidered by a larger appellate panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the three-page notice of appeal and plans to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay so the current 32-year assault weapons ban will remain in effect throughout the appeals process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48088_032_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48088_032_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48088_032_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48088_032_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48088_032_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48088_032_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks during a press conference on March 24, 2021, with Gov. 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The state has updated the law several times since then and overall has some of the nation’s strictest firearms laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, “we have one of the lowest gun death rates in the entire country,” said Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Firearms Policy Coalition said it will oppose any stay of Benitez’s order. It had argued in part that assault weapons are no more deadly than some other weapons that are not banned by the state. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The State’s desire to continue imposing its ban should not be allowed to prevail over the fundamental rights of law-abiding gun owners,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Bonta are longtime supporters of what they term commonsense gun restrictions. The governor likely faces a recall election this fall largely driven by his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Bonta took office in April to fill a vacancy and faces several more conservative challengers in next year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their move was backed earlier by 10 Democratic state lawmakers who said the restrictions help control gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats who control the state Assembly on Thursday revived for future consideration a bill that would raise taxes on the sale of guns and ammunition. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill requires a two-thirds vote because it would raise taxes, and last week it failed to muster enough votes. It would impose a 10% tax on the sales price of handguns and an 11% tax on the sales price of rifles, precursor parts and ammunition, using the money for gun violence prevention and recovery programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Adam Beam of The Associated Press contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Letta “Oneka” Glover checked into the shelter in San Rafael, she was exhausted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s 50 and has bad knees, a condition made worse by sleeping in her car. That’s where she was living in February when she heard about the new shelter on Kerner Boulevard. She moved in a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was relief,” Glover said. “I felt like I could kind of let my shoulders down, you know, and not have to be so on guard about everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Stories From KQED's Homekey Series\" postID=\"news_11877585,news_11876745\"]This shelter isn’t like others, where she’s stayed. It’s tucked into the third floor of an office building that was once home to a legal services company. But instead of desks and chairs inside the offices, there are cots. The old lobby is now a shared work space, with computers for residents to search for jobs and housing. Large windows line a common room, with views of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, temporary shelters are built in factories or warehouses, said Paul Fordham, deputy executive director of Homeward Bound of Marin, which is operating the shelter until it can be converted into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there’s so much light here,” he said. “It’s a very dignified, nice space to rebuild your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site is one of 94 projects funded through \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.shtml\">Homekey\u003c/a>, a statewide program that’s created nearly 6,000 new units of housing. While the majority are hotel and motel conversions, they also include tiny homes and former vacation rentals, a college dormitory and single-family houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Homekey Sites\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-x4dU5\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/x4dU5/11/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"852\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Homekey is barely a year old, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a massive $7 billion, 46,000-unit expansion of the program. Half of the funding would be dedicated to housing for people with acute behavioral and mental health needs. It’s all part of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873157/newsom-wants-12-billion-to-house-californias-homeless-residents-calling-situation-unacceptable\">$12 billion proposal\u003c/a> to combat homelessness over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy experts, service providers and others who work on homelessness in California have lauded Homekey as a monumental step in creating desperately needed new subsidized housing for the state’s more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">161,000 homeless residents\u003c/a>. But they’re only cautiously optimistic about its future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the projects will need additional money to convert to permanent housing, and they’ll also need ongoing funding to pay for services that are often critical for keeping people housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great concept,” said Ellen Hammerle, Catholic Charities’ chief programs officer. “My concern is that we need to sustain it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, this new housing will need to produce a visible reduction in chronic homelessness, said Andrew Hening, co-founder of the nonprofit Opening Doors Marin. It’s an issue voters say is one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/04/bay-area-residents-are-fed-up-with-the-homelessness-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top concerns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the public’s perception of this issue, if we don’t solve chronic homelessness, then it’s going to feel like nothing has been accomplished,” Hening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Herculean’ Task\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The idea of converting existing buildings into housing for people experiencing homelessness had been bandied about for years, said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing. But it had never been tried at this scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coronavirus pandemic hit California, Newsom’s administration first launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a>, an effort to temporarily house some 23,000 homeless seniors and medically vulnerable people in hotels and motels across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">where would they all go\u003c/a> once those hotels close? Homekey was one answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the question is,” Elliott said, “how do you get housing open as quickly and cost effectively as possible?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homekey \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/06/30/governor-newsom-visits-project-roomkey-site-in-bay-area-to-announce-homekey-the-next-phase-in-states-covid-19-response-to-protect-homeless-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched\u003c/a> in June 2020. To pay for it, the state relied on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/12/29/governor-newsom-announces-major-homekey-milestone-all-94-sites-closing-escrow-ahead-of-deadline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$750 million\u003c/a> in federal CARES Act funding and nearly $100 million in state general funds and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-27/behested-payments-newsom-top-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">philanthropic donations\u003c/a>. The federal money, however, had to be spent by the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant cities and counties had to identify and evaluate sites, find service providers and development partners, get the projects approved and close escrow — all within a matter of months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Parra sits in a communal dining area in a former office building in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The timeline was “Herculean,” said Ashley Hart McIntyre, Marin County’s homelessness policy analyst. But it also helped the projects quickly clear hurdles that typically take years to overcome: The state Legislature waived some environmental reviews to speed projects along, and there was less time for community opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the program has become a national model, said Diane Yentel, the president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest round of federal stimulus\u003c/a>, approved in March, Congress allocated $5 billion for states to create new affordable housing, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/08/homeless-hud-marcia-fudge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hotel and motel conversions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we would have been able to be successful in getting Congress to put that $5 billion forward for this purpose if we hadn’t had states like California take that first step,” Yentel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many city and county officials also say Homekey helped overcome some of the bureaucracy that’s come to define \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California’s disjointed approach\u003c/a> to addressing homelessness. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scathing audit\u003c/a> published earlier this year found there are nine state agencies administering 41 separate programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Mike Walsh, deputy director at the Riverside County Housing Authority, said his agency was able to apply to one large pot of money that was then used for multiple projects, including one for LGBTQ+ youth in downtown Riverside and another for immigrant farmworker communities in Oasis, Mecca and Thermal. To him, that was a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really allows us to be creative and come up with different types of projects,” he said. “That level of flexibility under one program creates efficiency without having to say, ‘OK, we apply for this bucket of money for the farmworkers, and this bucket of money for the LGBTQ youth.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hidden Costs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the speed and flexibility of the initiative, Newsom’s administration has touted Homekey’s comparatively low cost. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/docs/hcd100_homekeyreport_v18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frequently highlight\u003c/a> the average amount of CARES Act funding spent on each of Homekey’s nearly 6,000 housing units — $129,254 — pointing out that it’s well below the \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statewide average of $480,000 per unit\u003c/a> for new affordable housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that lower per-unit cost belies two important caveats: Most of the projects required city and county matching funds, bringing the total average development cost to $226,000, according to data from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development. And many of the projects — like the Kerner Boulevard office building in San Rafael — will need additional funding to convert from temporary to permanent housing, which means the full costs are not yet known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the Kerner Boulevard site, nonprofit developer Eden Housing is planning to apply for roughly $24 million in federal and state funding, plus a private loan, that will go toward seismic and Americans With Disabilities Act upgrades, as well as new interior walls, kitchenettes and bathrooms, said Andrea Osgood, the nonprofit’s vice president of real estate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877009\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11877009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of a former office building in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With 41 units and a total development cost of around $31 million, including the initial Homekey funding, the final per-unit cost comes in at around $756,000 — a price comparable to new construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Osgood said, Homekey’s real benefit is that it allowed her organization to quickly break through some of the biggest barriers affordable housing projects face: the permitting process and neighborhood opposition. Getting the building meant it could then be used to leverage other federal and state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Eden is working on another affordable housing project in San Rafael that will break ground around the same time as the Kerner Boulevard location. Osgood says she’s been working on that project for around seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Homekey money really helped us secure the opportunity and the building, and then operate it as a shelter in this interim phase,” Osgood said. “Just being able to have that site and also feel secure that housing is going to happen there — it’s huge.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Letta “Oneka” Glover, Homekey housing recipient\"]‘It was relief. I felt like I could kind of let my shoulders down, you know, and not have to be so on guard about everything.’[/pullquote]Oneka Glover has already moved out of the Kerner Boulevard shelter and into another nearby transitional housing program, which she said she really likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dorms are smaller and more private. There’s a garden. The kitchen has more food options and is open all day. And there are a ton of services onsite, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when I go out for the day, I can’t wait to get back,” Glover said, “because I feel like I’m coming home, you know? Even though it’s not my home, I just feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, her goal is to move into a place that will be home. And that’s the goal of Homekey: to provide permanent housing for more people like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Kerner Boulevard, however, shows that creating it often takes time and can be complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other projects have a more straightforward path. Many of the hotel conversions won’t require as large of an investment, because they’ll only need kitchenettes installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some won’t need any additional funding. In Oakland, Bay Area Community Services purchased 17 single-family houses that will be used as group homes, with an average per-unit cost of around $102,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the homes were move-in ready,” said Jamie Almanza, the nonprofit’s CEO. “We were able to acquire all the homes within a three-month span of time, and then we did very minor improvements as needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homekey’s Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But buying the building is only the first step, and it’s still unclear where ongoing funding for onsite services and maintenance will come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the same question that many others in the field have, which is what’s a sustainable source of funding?” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the Center for Vulnerable Populations at UCSF. “Because it’s not a one-time expense. A one-time expense is necessary, but not sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state required all of the applicants to submit plans for how they would pay for up to five years of operations. And, it’s also funding up to two years of operating expenses for some projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, once that funding expires, there aren’t many places for service providers to apply to get the money they would need to keep operating, said Catholic Charities’ Ellen Hammerle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we’re kind of in a creative process at the moment,” Hammerle said. “I would say, ‘It’s developing.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Daunte Floyd Beauchamp stands in his dorm room at an office space in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason Elliott, Newsom’s housing adviser, said it was better to act quickly to get the money out the door and buy the buildings than wait for all the details to be worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a challenge that every affordable housing project faces at some level and in some time frame,” Elliott said. “But, I’d rather answer those questions with people under roofs than with them living under overpasses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Kushel says there is a danger in moving too quickly — that speed could come at the cost of equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state looks to expand Homekey, Kushel said special attention must be paid to ensure Homekey doesn’t perpetuate the systems that have failed so many people of color, particularly African Americans. Black people make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6.5% of the general population\u003c/a> in California, but \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">31% of its homeless population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the application process, cities and counties had to explain how their proposed projects would address inequities in their communities. But it’s unclear whether the approved projects actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations\"]‘It has been so hard to separate the homelessness crisis from all of the impacts of structural racism.’[/pullquote]The state doesn’t yet have racial demographic data on who is benefiting from Homekey, said Housing and Community Development Department’s Zack Olmstead. But, he expects to have more data this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been so hard to separate the homelessness crisis from all of the impacts of structural racism,” Kushel said. “And I worry if we’re not being really intentional about it, you could wind up unintentionally replicating the racism or the disparities that we see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Kushel says, in the rush to house people quickly, there’s also the risk of leaving out people who need housing the most. People who have been homeless for years will need the most help transitioning into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people with the biggest impairments might not be able to walk through the door on the first day,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office agrees. In his proposal to expand Homekey, the governor proposed $3.5 billion for board and care homes and other types of clinical residential facilities to specifically target people with acute behavioral and mental health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking to make meaningful and sustainable change,” Elliott said. “The way to do that is through housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED staff reporters Molly Solomon and Adhiti Bandlamudi contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This shelter isn’t like others, where she’s stayed. It’s tucked into the third floor of an office building that was once home to a legal services company. But instead of desks and chairs inside the offices, there are cots. The old lobby is now a shared work space, with computers for residents to search for jobs and housing. Large windows line a common room, with views of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, temporary shelters are built in factories or warehouses, said Paul Fordham, deputy executive director of Homeward Bound of Marin, which is operating the shelter until it can be converted into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there’s so much light here,” he said. “It’s a very dignified, nice space to rebuild your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site is one of 94 projects funded through \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.shtml\">Homekey\u003c/a>, a statewide program that’s created nearly 6,000 new units of housing. While the majority are hotel and motel conversions, they also include tiny homes and former vacation rentals, a college dormitory and single-family houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Homekey Sites\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-x4dU5\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/x4dU5/11/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"852\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Homekey is barely a year old, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a massive $7 billion, 46,000-unit expansion of the program. Half of the funding would be dedicated to housing for people with acute behavioral and mental health needs. It’s all part of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873157/newsom-wants-12-billion-to-house-californias-homeless-residents-calling-situation-unacceptable\">$12 billion proposal\u003c/a> to combat homelessness over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy experts, service providers and others who work on homelessness in California have lauded Homekey as a monumental step in creating desperately needed new subsidized housing for the state’s more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">161,000 homeless residents\u003c/a>. But they’re only cautiously optimistic about its future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the projects will need additional money to convert to permanent housing, and they’ll also need ongoing funding to pay for services that are often critical for keeping people housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great concept,” said Ellen Hammerle, Catholic Charities’ chief programs officer. “My concern is that we need to sustain it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, this new housing will need to produce a visible reduction in chronic homelessness, said Andrew Hening, co-founder of the nonprofit Opening Doors Marin. It’s an issue voters say is one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/04/bay-area-residents-are-fed-up-with-the-homelessness-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top concerns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the public’s perception of this issue, if we don’t solve chronic homelessness, then it’s going to feel like nothing has been accomplished,” Hening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Herculean’ Task\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The idea of converting existing buildings into housing for people experiencing homelessness had been bandied about for years, said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing. But it had never been tried at this scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coronavirus pandemic hit California, Newsom’s administration first launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a>, an effort to temporarily house some 23,000 homeless seniors and medically vulnerable people in hotels and motels across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">where would they all go\u003c/a> once those hotels close? Homekey was one answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the question is,” Elliott said, “how do you get housing open as quickly and cost effectively as possible?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homekey \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/06/30/governor-newsom-visits-project-roomkey-site-in-bay-area-to-announce-homekey-the-next-phase-in-states-covid-19-response-to-protect-homeless-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched\u003c/a> in June 2020. To pay for it, the state relied on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/12/29/governor-newsom-announces-major-homekey-milestone-all-94-sites-closing-escrow-ahead-of-deadline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$750 million\u003c/a> in federal CARES Act funding and nearly $100 million in state general funds and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-27/behested-payments-newsom-top-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">philanthropic donations\u003c/a>. The federal money, however, had to be spent by the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant cities and counties had to identify and evaluate sites, find service providers and development partners, get the projects approved and close escrow — all within a matter of months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Parra sits in a communal dining area in a former office building in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The timeline was “Herculean,” said Ashley Hart McIntyre, Marin County’s homelessness policy analyst. But it also helped the projects quickly clear hurdles that typically take years to overcome: The state Legislature waived some environmental reviews to speed projects along, and there was less time for community opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the program has become a national model, said Diane Yentel, the president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest round of federal stimulus\u003c/a>, approved in March, Congress allocated $5 billion for states to create new affordable housing, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/08/homeless-hud-marcia-fudge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hotel and motel conversions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we would have been able to be successful in getting Congress to put that $5 billion forward for this purpose if we hadn’t had states like California take that first step,” Yentel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many city and county officials also say Homekey helped overcome some of the bureaucracy that’s come to define \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California’s disjointed approach\u003c/a> to addressing homelessness. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scathing audit\u003c/a> published earlier this year found there are nine state agencies administering 41 separate programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mike Walsh, deputy director at the Riverside County Housing Authority, said his agency was able to apply to one large pot of money that was then used for multiple projects, including one for LGBTQ+ youth in downtown Riverside and another for immigrant farmworker communities in Oasis, Mecca and Thermal. To him, that was a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really allows us to be creative and come up with different types of projects,” he said. “That level of flexibility under one program creates efficiency without having to say, ‘OK, we apply for this bucket of money for the farmworkers, and this bucket of money for the LGBTQ youth.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hidden Costs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the speed and flexibility of the initiative, Newsom’s administration has touted Homekey’s comparatively low cost. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/docs/hcd100_homekeyreport_v18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frequently highlight\u003c/a> the average amount of CARES Act funding spent on each of Homekey’s nearly 6,000 housing units — $129,254 — pointing out that it’s well below the \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statewide average of $480,000 per unit\u003c/a> for new affordable housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that lower per-unit cost belies two important caveats: Most of the projects required city and county matching funds, bringing the total average development cost to $226,000, according to data from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development. And many of the projects — like the Kerner Boulevard office building in San Rafael — will need additional funding to convert from temporary to permanent housing, which means the full costs are not yet known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the Kerner Boulevard site, nonprofit developer Eden Housing is planning to apply for roughly $24 million in federal and state funding, plus a private loan, that will go toward seismic and Americans With Disabilities Act upgrades, as well as new interior walls, kitchenettes and bathrooms, said Andrea Osgood, the nonprofit’s vice president of real estate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877009\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11877009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of a former office building in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With 41 units and a total development cost of around $31 million, including the initial Homekey funding, the final per-unit cost comes in at around $756,000 — a price comparable to new construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Osgood said, Homekey’s real benefit is that it allowed her organization to quickly break through some of the biggest barriers affordable housing projects face: the permitting process and neighborhood opposition. Getting the building meant it could then be used to leverage other federal and state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Eden is working on another affordable housing project in San Rafael that will break ground around the same time as the Kerner Boulevard location. Osgood says she’s been working on that project for around seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Homekey money really helped us secure the opportunity and the building, and then operate it as a shelter in this interim phase,” Osgood said. “Just being able to have that site and also feel secure that housing is going to happen there — it’s huge.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Oneka Glover has already moved out of the Kerner Boulevard shelter and into another nearby transitional housing program, which she said she really likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dorms are smaller and more private. There’s a garden. The kitchen has more food options and is open all day. And there are a ton of services onsite, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when I go out for the day, I can’t wait to get back,” Glover said, “because I feel like I’m coming home, you know? Even though it’s not my home, I just feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, her goal is to move into a place that will be home. And that’s the goal of Homekey: to provide permanent housing for more people like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Kerner Boulevard, however, shows that creating it often takes time and can be complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other projects have a more straightforward path. Many of the hotel conversions won’t require as large of an investment, because they’ll only need kitchenettes installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some won’t need any additional funding. In Oakland, Bay Area Community Services purchased 17 single-family houses that will be used as group homes, with an average per-unit cost of around $102,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the homes were move-in ready,” said Jamie Almanza, the nonprofit’s CEO. “We were able to acquire all the homes within a three-month span of time, and then we did very minor improvements as needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homekey’s Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But buying the building is only the first step, and it’s still unclear where ongoing funding for onsite services and maintenance will come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the same question that many others in the field have, which is what’s a sustainable source of funding?” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the Center for Vulnerable Populations at UCSF. “Because it’s not a one-time expense. A one-time expense is necessary, but not sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state required all of the applicants to submit plans for how they would pay for up to five years of operations. And, it’s also funding up to two years of operating expenses for some projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, once that funding expires, there aren’t many places for service providers to apply to get the money they would need to keep operating, said Catholic Charities’ Ellen Hammerle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we’re kind of in a creative process at the moment,” Hammerle said. “I would say, ‘It’s developing.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Daunte Floyd Beauchamp stands in his dorm room at an office space in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason Elliott, Newsom’s housing adviser, said it was better to act quickly to get the money out the door and buy the buildings than wait for all the details to be worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a challenge that every affordable housing project faces at some level and in some time frame,” Elliott said. “But, I’d rather answer those questions with people under roofs than with them living under overpasses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Kushel says there is a danger in moving too quickly — that speed could come at the cost of equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state looks to expand Homekey, Kushel said special attention must be paid to ensure Homekey doesn’t perpetuate the systems that have failed so many people of color, particularly African Americans. Black people make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6.5% of the general population\u003c/a> in California, but \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">31% of its homeless population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the application process, cities and counties had to explain how their proposed projects would address inequities in their communities. But it’s unclear whether the approved projects actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There have been vanishingly few upsides to the COVID-19 pandemic, but take-out cocktails might be one of them. Last week in San Francisco, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his decision to allow restaurants to keep offering cocktails to-go and be able to maintain expanded outdoor seating through the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To allow these businesses to expand their footprint and expand their opportunity to recover from this pandemic,” Newsom said. “And, moreover, to create new business opportunities in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move is just one of dozens Newsom has taken on his own, without legislative approval, since the beginning of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101876241/california-governor-newsom-declares-state-of-emergency-for-coronavirus\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> in California on March 4, 2020, which gave him wide latitude to act alone on issues he believed would help protect the state and its residents during the crisis. For instance, Newsom implemented a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1959566/california-gov-gavin-newsom-orders-state-to-shelter-in-place\">stay-at-home order\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11807102/newsom-authorizes-california-cities-to-stop-evictions-tenant-advocates-say-more-is-needed\">urged cities to halt the eviction of renters\u003c/a> affected by COVID-19 and spent hundreds of millions of dollars with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813179/state-lawmakers-want-more-say-in-californias-covid-19-response\">limited legislative oversight\u003c/a>. Newsom has issued 58 executive orders to alter or suspend hundreds of laws because of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson said Newsom was appropriately aggressive as the virus spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t say when we have exponential growth in a pandemic, I think we should all convene and talk about it and go through the committee process and vote,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state will reopen on June 15. Capacity restrictions, physical distancing and mask mandates for the fully vaccinated will largely be lifted. Levinson said it may be time for Newsom’s emergency powers to be lifted along with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole idea behind separation of powers is we don’t trust anyone that much, that we don’t want to give the so-called sovereign, the governor, too much power because they’ll just keep taking and taking and taking,” Levinson said. “Are we there? No. But are we at the place where we have to say if we can resume life as normal, then we can resume our government as normal? Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in California have long thought Newsom should give up his emergency powers. Gubernatorial candidates Kevin Faulconer and John Cox, both hoping to replace Newsom in the upcoming recall election, each criticized him for keeping the state of emergency in place. State Sen. Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, told San Diego television station \u003ca href=\"https://www.kusi.com/sen-melendezs-bill-may-end-state-of-emergency-and-gov-newsoms-emergency-powers/\">KUSI\u003c/a> last February that while some safety protocols should remain, it was time for the state of emergency to end. She introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR5\">legislation\u003c/a> at the end of 2020 to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take away this kind of one-man rule over the state and allow counties to determine what is best for their county,” Melendez said, “whether that is opening schools or opening businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melendez’s measure quickly stalled in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Newsom has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/state/court-upholds-california-governors-use-of-emergency-powers/article_28fadf7d-5f2b-58b8-a30a-9762d6ad795e.html\">beaten any legal challenges\u003c/a> to his authority, with the exception of limits placed on indoor religious services. And legislative Democrats have not been in any hurry to reclaim their power. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873575/anthony-rendon-on-the-state-budget-and-newsoms-executive-powers\">Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon\u003c/a>, D-Lakewood, told KQED he thinks things will soon go back to normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the state reopens on June 15, we anticipate that a lot of that stuff will recede. We, the Assembly and the Legislature more generally, obviously, we think we have a role in governance. And, yeah, if the emergency goes away, it’s time for the emergency powers to go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there’s currently no vote scheduled in either the Assembly or the Senate to end the state of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom could end it himself. 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And, they say, many undocumented immigrants are essential workers who should be recognized for their contributions to the state during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benyamin Chao, public benefits policy coordinator with the California Immigrant Policy Center, said the bill is especially important because the number of families facing hunger spiked during the pandemic, amid devastating job losses and a lack of universally available public assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that food is essential for everyone,” said Chao. “It’s essential for Californians to live a full and healthy life, regardless of your income, your race or ethnicity, or your immigration status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao, 25, whose family came to the U.S. from the Southeast Asian nation of Brunei when he was a small child, was once an undocumented immigrant himself — and he said he knows firsthand why expanded food aid is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he eventually became a legal permanent resident after marrying a U.S. citizen, Chao said the rest of his family is still undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family was always at risk of food insecurity,” he said. “I have a single mother. She had to work extra hard to put food on the table. … She’s a caregiver for the elderly. It’s very hard work, working seven days a week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After college, when Chao was still looking for a job, his partner applied for CalFresh and received a $200-a-month benefit. Chao said the security it gave them was a game-changer, allowing him to spend a little more on clothing and transportation for job interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helped me invest in myself because I wasn’t focused so much on spending money on food,” he said. “I was able to invest in ways where I could begin to not just survive, but to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao celebrated on Tuesday when the state Senate passed SB 464 on a party-line vote of 31 to 9. The same day, Democratic leaders in both houses included funding for the program in their joint budget package — with $5 million for the upcoming 2021-22 budget year, and a proposal to steadily increase that funding to $550 million within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill and the funding would expand the \u003ca href=\"http://calfresh.guide/california-food-assistance-program-cfap/\">California Food Assistance Program\u003c/a>, which provides food aid to roughly 35,000 legal immigrants and refugees who have been excluded from receiving federal food stamps since the passage of a 1990s federal welfare reform law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, as of June 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-calfresh-food-assistance-program/\">4.8 million Californians\u003c/a> received assistance from CalFresh, the state’s primary food stamp program, which is funded by the federal government. That’s a nearly 20% increase from just before the pandemic, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate’s analysis of the bill said the combined effects of the pandemic, wildfires and other disasters “have had a staggering effect on food security across the state.” It cited a U.S. Census Bureau finding that, as of February, nearly 30% of California households with children were food insecure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"food-assistance\"]Several Republican state senators contacted by KQED did not respond to a request for comment about their opposition to the bill, but the state Republican Party, \u003ca href=\"https://cagop.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#3i000000CsCG/a/3i000000CcJw/n51HS0ybBBUItXs68wA_ydonniApC3HK0BlfOmBXDLM\">as it states in its platform\u003c/a>, opposes giving any social benefits to people who do not have a legal right to be in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, who sponsored the bill, said immigrant farmworkers in her Central Valley district — many of them undocumented — have long faced hunger and poverty. But seeing them risk their health during the pandemic to harvest food for other people, she said, pushed her to take action to expand the social safety net to all Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food security is not just about someone’s legal status,” said Hurtado. “It’s about mankind, and making sure that we protect one another in a time of challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Assembly also passed a related bill this week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB221\">AB 221\u003c/a>, by an overwhelming majority. 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Some believe the surplus should include more support for immigrant workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue of political will is always a question, but financially it’s viable,” said Lucas Zucker, policy and communications director for Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, which organized the protest. “The rich have gotten richer in this pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11862122]Zucker said the state of New York has shown leadership on the issue with its establishment of an \u003ca href=\"https://access.nyc.gov/programs/excluded-workers-fund/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excluded workers fund\u003c/a>, which is a direct payment for low-income workers who don’t qualify for other benefits. 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