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So instead we are proposing strict accountability, comprehensive audits and a ‘do-it-or-lose-it’ policy to hold local governments responsible for results,” he said. “Take action or lose access to this new funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also tried to put the crisis in historical context, particularly around the issue of chronically homeless people who have what he called “complex behavioral health needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]Newsom noted that while federal and state governments shut down mental health institutions en masse five decades ago, there was never adequate investment in community mental health needs, and that changes in law made it more difficult for government to compel mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients and their families were left with inadequate options to get the mental health care they needed,” he said. “In a politically polarized world, liberals and conservatives blame one another for these failures. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom noted that while federal and state governments shut down mental health institutions en masse five decades ago, there was never adequate investment in community mental health needs, and that changes in law made it more difficult for government to compel mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients and their families were left with inadequate options to get the mental health care they needed,” he said. “In a politically polarized world, liberals and conservatives blame one another for these failures. Historically speaking, both are right. It’s time to stop pointing fingers and join hands in a transformational solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called for a more integrative health care approach — one that links health care to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health care and housing can no longer be divorced. After all, what’s more fundamental to a person’s well-being than a roof over their head?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the specific proposals Newsom laid out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Making 286 state properties available to local governments for free to be used for homeless solutions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sending more trailers to five municipalities — the city of Stockton and counties of Santa Clara, Riverside, Contra Costa and Sonoma — to be used for emergency housing (Oakland and Los Angeles County were already sent trailers earlier this year).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Massively increasing housing production by “cutting red tape”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he understands that cities need to match housing production to their community, but that “doing nothing is no longer an option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I respect local control but not at the cost of creating a two-class California. Not at the cost of imperiling the California Dream,” he said. “It’s time for California to say yes to housing. We cannot wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom made homelessness the focus of his State of the State address Wednesday, reflecting not only \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/press-release/sanders-biden-and-warren-lead-in-californias-primary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians’ top concern\u003c/a> but also nearly 20 years of wrangling on an issue that’s followed him from San Francisco City Hall to the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No amount of progress can camouflage the most pernicious crisis in our midst,” Newsom said, “the ultimate manifestation of poverty: homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://priceschool.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Press-Release-USC-Price-USC-Schwarzenegger-Institute-Homelessness-Poll.pdf\">recent statewide poll\u003c/a> showed homelessness and housing are top of mind for likely California voters ahead of the state’s March 3 primary election. About 42% of those surveyed said they see many tents and encampments in the public places and streets where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his address, Newsom called for new and ongoing revenue sources to pay for homeless services and new housing. He warned that cities and counties would be held accountable to ensure they spend state health care dollars on homeless people suffering from mental illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social services advocate Jennifer Friedenbach with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness said she’s thrilled Newsom is taking the issue seriously, but that the state must focus deeply on investment or else these will only be temporary fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks with severe mental health issues that are out on the streets are victims of a system,” she said. “They feel that the system is resistant to helping them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a San Francisco supervisor in 2002, Newsom drew national attention with his “Care Not Cash” ballot initiative that diverted public assistance from homeless residents to pay landlords for shelter, instead. The program rankled advocates and challenged the city’s status as a progressive stronghold. It also helped get him elected mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen years later, Newsom has again made homelessness one of his top priorities as the number of people experiencing homelessness in California \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grew to more than 151,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some people who followed Newsom’s early career are optimistic about his willingness to attach his name to such a thorny issue — going so far as to say he’ll “own homelessness” in California, a state with more than a quarter of the nation’s unhoused people — others aren’t sure he’ll focus on the kind of solutions needed to right this societal wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Care Not Cash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Care Not Cash went to the ballot in 2002, homelessness had reached peak levels. There were 8,640 residents without homes on a given night in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a biennial survey\u003c/a> for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s about 8 percent more than the 8,011 homeless residents counted during the \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same survey in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the decade, Dot-Com companies were swarming San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, while elsewhere in the city, rents rose and evictions spiked. The average two-bedroom apartment in 2001 was going for about $3,500 in today’s dollars, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/1862-sfhousingdatabook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a 2002 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of progressive politicians, many without prior political experience, had swept the Board of Supervisors in 2000 — a citizen revolt to the pro-development Mayor Willie Brown, said Richard DeLeon, professor emeritus of political science at San Francisco State University. Newsom was seen then as somewhat of a pariah, DeLeon said, a centrist who had been hand-picked by Brown to fill a mid-term vacancy on the board in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Dot Com bubble burst and office spaces in the city’s South of Market neighborhood started becoming vacant. Care Not Cash, Newsom’s signature issue, became a test of the city’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other city officials claimed out-of-towners were coming into San Francisco to get public assistance checks. And those that were here were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-ewEmPwhY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely using that money for drugs and alcohol\u003c/a>. In one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">television ad\u003c/a> for Care Not Cash, a series of disheveled men speak directly into the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take your cash, and I buy drugs,” the commercial begins, “crack, heroin, alcohol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was pretty harmful to public sentiment around supporting real solutions,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters sided with Newsom, and the measure won with \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/sf/meas/N/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60 percent\u003c/a> approval. It was the boost Newsom needed to launch his mayoral campaign a few months later, De Leon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It put him on the map, politically,” DeLeon said. “It certainly put a spotlight on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, who has served as the executive director of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency since 2000 and oversaw the implementation of Care Not Cash, remembers a young supervisor and later mayor who seemed to genuinely care about the plight of homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer received so many requests for information from Supervisor Newsom that he set up weekly meetings. Reports that Rhorer gave him would return dog-eared and highlighted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have these two-hour sessions … and the meetings would just go on and on and on,” Rhorer recalled. “When he left the office, [Newsom] knew more about homelessness than I did, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony's Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony’s Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Care Not Cash officially launched in May 2004, reducing the amount of money homeless residents received from a maximum of $410 per month to $59. In exchange, program enrollees got food and a guaranteed bed at a shelter or in a single-room occupancy hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city updated its homeless survey in 2005, it saw a 2\u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8 percent reduction\u003c/a> in the number of homeless people compared to 2002. Friedenbach believes it’s unlikely Care Not Cash contributed to that reduction since the program didn’t create any new housing. Newsom’s predecessor, Mayor Brown, approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11765010/timeline-the-frustrating-political-history-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of new affordable housing units\u003c/a>, which Friedenbach said had just finished construction around that time and probably made more of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rhorer says ending homelessness was never the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about welfare reform,” Rhorer said. And in that way, it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Care Not Cash began in the spring of 2004, the city immediately saw a reduction in the number of homeless people claiming benefits. In December 2003, there were 2,632 people who received assistance, which dropped to 642 in December 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In Newsom’s Wake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of people experiencing homelessness then remained relatively stable during Newsom’s tenure until it began to increase again in 2011, right around the time he left to become lieutenant governor, growing from nearly 5,700 people to more than 8,000 in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Newsom’s leadership would have helped stem the increase is impossible to know, but Bevan Dufty thinks it would have helped. Dufty, now a BART board director, served on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors with Newsom. He later served as Mayor Ed Lee’s head of homeless policy.[aside label='Related Coverage' postID=news_11801313,news_11796428,news_11795888 ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin was mayor during a lot of years when the cupboard was dry,” when the Great Recession hit, Dufty said. “I think San Francisco’s homeless problem would seem very different because he wouldn’t be afraid, if he had had the resources, to put them to use to house people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much has changed about Care Not Cash since its inception, Rhorer said, except that now, the city uses a more sophisticated screening matrix to prioritize people who are disabled, chronically homeless or have other special needs — and the amount of public assistance has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Newsom had also launched an ambitious 10-year plan in 2004 to end chronic homelessness and pledged to build 3,000 new units of supportive housing. By 2014, San Francisco built 2,669 of the units that Newsom pledged as mayor but homelessness still rose — climbing to 6,775 people by 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade after Newsom left the mayor’s office, homelessness is a bigger issue than ever, with solutions seeming more out of reach than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He kicked off the year with a proposal to direct \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794687084/california-governor-pushes-1-4-billion-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1.4 billion of the state budget\u003c/a> to pay for rent subsidies, board and care homes, health services and affordable housing, and then went on a statewide tour of emergency shelters and mental health care centers. And he started distributing the first two dozen of 100 former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796428/newsom-to-unveil-travel-trailers-for-homeless-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FEMA trailers and tents\u003c/a> to provide immediate housing for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Newsom said the state would make available 286 state-owed properties such as vacant lots, fairgrounds, armories and other state buildings for potential shelter options that local governments can use for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speed up construction of affordable housing and shelters, Newsom said he would like to bypass state environmental reviews, which are sometimes used to block and delay projects. He also urged the Legislature to reform land use laws to eliminate delays on affordable housing projects around transit hubs and downtown areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I respect local control, but not at the cost of creating a two-class California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach, a staunch critic of Newsom’s tenure in San Francisco, is hopeful. She was pleased to see Newsom’s executive order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801313/newsom-offers-vacant-land-for-homeless-shelters-but-local-officials-worry-who-will-pay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use surplus state land for emergency shelters\u003c/a> and his push to provide significant one-time funds to address homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a big believer in redemption,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Care Not Cash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Care Not Cash went to the ballot in 2002, homelessness had reached peak levels. There were 8,640 residents without homes on a given night in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a biennial survey\u003c/a> for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s about 8 percent more than the 8,011 homeless residents counted during the \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same survey in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the decade, Dot-Com companies were swarming San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, while elsewhere in the city, rents rose and evictions spiked. The average two-bedroom apartment in 2001 was going for about $3,500 in today’s dollars, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/1862-sfhousingdatabook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a 2002 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of progressive politicians, many without prior political experience, had swept the Board of Supervisors in 2000 — a citizen revolt to the pro-development Mayor Willie Brown, said Richard DeLeon, professor emeritus of political science at San Francisco State University. Newsom was seen then as somewhat of a pariah, DeLeon said, a centrist who had been hand-picked by Brown to fill a mid-term vacancy on the board in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Dot Com bubble burst and office spaces in the city’s South of Market neighborhood started becoming vacant. Care Not Cash, Newsom’s signature issue, became a test of the city’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other city officials claimed out-of-towners were coming into San Francisco to get public assistance checks. And those that were here were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-ewEmPwhY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely using that money for drugs and alcohol\u003c/a>. In one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">television ad\u003c/a> for Care Not Cash, a series of disheveled men speak directly into the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take your cash, and I buy drugs,” the commercial begins, “crack, heroin, alcohol.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Usyn5yg6ejk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Usyn5yg6ejk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“That was pretty harmful to public sentiment around supporting real solutions,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters sided with Newsom, and the measure won with \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/sf/meas/N/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60 percent\u003c/a> approval. It was the boost Newsom needed to launch his mayoral campaign a few months later, De Leon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It put him on the map, politically,” DeLeon said. “It certainly put a spotlight on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, who has served as the executive director of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency since 2000 and oversaw the implementation of Care Not Cash, remembers a young supervisor and later mayor who seemed to genuinely care about the plight of homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer received so many requests for information from Supervisor Newsom that he set up weekly meetings. Reports that Rhorer gave him would return dog-eared and highlighted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have these two-hour sessions … and the meetings would just go on and on and on,” Rhorer recalled. “When he left the office, [Newsom] knew more about homelessness than I did, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony's Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony’s Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Care Not Cash officially launched in May 2004, reducing the amount of money homeless residents received from a maximum of $410 per month to $59. In exchange, program enrollees got food and a guaranteed bed at a shelter or in a single-room occupancy hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city updated its homeless survey in 2005, it saw a 2\u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8 percent reduction\u003c/a> in the number of homeless people compared to 2002. Friedenbach believes it’s unlikely Care Not Cash contributed to that reduction since the program didn’t create any new housing. Newsom’s predecessor, Mayor Brown, approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11765010/timeline-the-frustrating-political-history-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of new affordable housing units\u003c/a>, which Friedenbach said had just finished construction around that time and probably made more of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rhorer says ending homelessness was never the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about welfare reform,” Rhorer said. And in that way, it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Care Not Cash began in the spring of 2004, the city immediately saw a reduction in the number of homeless people claiming benefits. In December 2003, there were 2,632 people who received assistance, which dropped to 642 in December 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In Newsom’s Wake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of people experiencing homelessness then remained relatively stable during Newsom’s tenure until it began to increase again in 2011, right around the time he left to become lieutenant governor, growing from nearly 5,700 people to more than 8,000 in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Newsom’s leadership would have helped stem the increase is impossible to know, but Bevan Dufty thinks it would have helped. Dufty, now a BART board director, served on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors with Newsom. He later served as Mayor Ed Lee’s head of homeless policy.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s March 3 primary election is right around the corner. The deadline to register or update your voter information online was Feb. 18, but if you forgot, don’t fret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB207\">a new law\u003c/a> that makes it way easier to update your voter registration information in the two weeks before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s particularly important for this election, since in a presidential primary, your party determines which presidential candidates you can vote for,” said Sam Mahood, spokesman for California Secretary of State Alex Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means if you want to vote in the Democratic primary — even if you’re not a registered Democrat — you need to ask for a Democratic ballot. And if you want to vote in the Republican primary, you need to register as a Republican. More on that below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s going to be a unique election, Mahood added, since it’s also California’s first presidential primary that will allow same-day voter registration at polling places statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about voting in California’s primary election:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>When is the last day to register and re-register to vote?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Feb. 18 at midnight was the cutoff for online \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/\" rel=\"noopener\">registration and re-registration\u003c/a> to vote in California’s primary election. You can still register or re-register at any polling place on election day, or at a voting center or your county’s elections office on or before then. \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here\u003c/a> is where you can find an early voting center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Secretary of State’s Office is encouraging people not to wait until election day if they know they have to make changes to their voter registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re expecting really high turn out this year, so we’re really encouraging people to vote early if possible,” Mahood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>How do I change my party preference or my address? Is there a deadline?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before Feb. 18 at midnight, voters could re-register online through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/\">voter registration form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you missed the deadline, the in person process to update your party preference or address within the same county just got more simple, thanks to Newsom signing \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 207\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of filling out an entire new voter registration form in person, people will be given a simplified form to request a change of address within the same county or change their party preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who want to make these changes also won’t have to request a provisional ballot like they used to, and their vote will be counted after the form is processed by election officials on the back end. This new law is meant to simplify the in person voting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is that it helps streamline processes at your early voting centers and on election day at polling locations, so that voters don’t have to stand there in line filling out an entire voter re-registration form,” Mahood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I request a vote-by-mail ballot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The last day to apply for a vote-by-mail ballot \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vote-by-mail/pdf/vote-by-mail-application.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by mail\u003c/a> was Feb. 25. In the week before election day, you must apply in person at your \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county’s elections office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>If I’m registered as “no party preference,” can I vote for a Democratic candidate in the primary?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>NPP voters can request a ballot for the Democratic, Independent or Libertarian Parties — all of which have chosen to allow NPP voters to participate in their primaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You had the option to request a Democratic, Independent or Libertarian vote-by-mail ballot by Feb. 25 if you’re registered as NPP. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was two hours after dusk in Santa Ana, and the temperature had dropped 10 degrees since sundown. A line of men and women bundled against the chill curled past the National Guard Armory’s entrance, around the side of the building and into the parking lot, about 150 in all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, the layout looked like something provided to evacuees after a disaster: row after row of black sleeping pads, lined up edge to edge. But for the people staying here, this is not temporary shelter: Each year for the last decade, from mid-December until the funding runs out in April or May, the same group calls the concrete floor and five bathrooms home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Orange County’s answer to its growing, highly concentrated homeless population. On this day in January, the elderly, people with disabilities and a family were let in early and picked out their sleeping mats first. A trio of men, lined up at least an hour before the shelter doors opened, trickled in with camping gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every December, when the shelter opens, “I’m always amazed. It’s like the first day of school,” said Larry Haynes, executive director of Mercy House, the nonprofit that operates the 10,000-square foot armory shelter. “Everyone says hello like they’re old friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This shelter — on state land, run by a nonprofit agency — should serve as the basic model of what Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 8, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EO-N-23-20-Homelessness-Crisis-01.08.2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsom issued an executive order\u003c/a> that tasked state agencies with evaluating excess land for use as possible emergency homeless shelters. A state \u003ca href=\"https://cadgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=392e5e687e9041bb8f20e3acc5b211c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map \u003c/a>created last year shows more than 1,000 parcels, ranging from a quarter-acre near a San Diego freeway to 70 acres next to a minimum-security prison in Chino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Santa Ana armory has become a harbinger of the problems that mayors and county executives foresee with new emergency shelters in their backyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Pushback from Local Leaders\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a federal judge lauded Orange County for a cooperative plan to avoid arresting homeless people while directing them toward county housing and health services. The judge called the agreement between the county and homeless activists a model for the rest of the state, if not the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peace barely lasted into the new year. Santa Ana, the county’s poorest city, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/7760866/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed suit in January,\u003c/a> alleging that three other Orange County cities are dropping off their homeless population at the armory in a community that already has a disproportionate amount of shelters. The county has a 400-bed shelter in downtown Santa Ana, with plans to expand it, and the city has a 200-bed shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In recent years, the city of Santa Ana has been compelled to spend millions of dollars from its general fund to address health and safety concerns attributable to the homeless population now living here,” the city said in the lawsuit. “That money would otherwise have been spent on providing core services to residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several cities and counties contacted by CalMatters, local leaders expressed concern about the governor’s plan to open land for shelters in their jurisdictions. Some see it as ineffective and unfair — offering state land but not paying for the costs associated with a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Richmond Mayor Tom Butt\"]‘The governor’s task force on homelessness decided that cities and counties should be responsible for this. I think that’s just wrong.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elected leaders say they’ve received little information about how the shelters will operate or who will operate them. They don’t know how people will get to and from the sites. They don’t know how neighbors might react. And they’re still unclear who will pay for it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unlikely the governor is going to come to the city of Oceanside and say, here’s several million dollars to go build a new sobering center, or a new shelter. Just because the governor orders something doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen,” said Peter Weiss, mayor of Oceanside, in northern San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s goals may run into the same not-in-my-backyard resistance that faces nearly every local plan for homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a small piece of excess land in the Bay Area city of Richmond, next to Interstate 80, that could be an emergency shelter. But Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said he’s “not optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor’s task force on homelessness decided that cities and counties should be responsible for this,” Butt said. “I think that’s just wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state expects to make 100 parcels available this year to governments that apply to use the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>State Land, Local Burden\u003c/strong>:\u003cstrong> Each Shelter Costs Millions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nothing can compel a city or county to use the state land as a shelter; they would have to apply for permission to use the land. But if they do, the burden of operating it falls on their own shoulders. That includes food, bedding and transportation, liability arising from fire or violence and the cost of administrators and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration says the excess land plan will help offset shelter costs for cities and counties — at least, those willing to seek the help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local government has a responsibility to put their hands up and be part of the solution,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness. “A good number at the county and city level are answering the call by leaning forward and embracing solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some state funding is available to local governments, and more is on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jason Elliott, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness\"]‘The governor has made available a historic amount of resources, in addition to the money that naturally goes to cities and counties for homelessness and mental health resources.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Newsom pledged $650 million to cities, counties and regional associations called Continuums of Care to fight homelessness. Of that, Newsom has made \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/hhap_allocations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$500 million\u003c/a> available; the other $150 million will be disbursed once the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development certifies the 2019 “point in time” count of homeless people. Newsom is asking the Legislature for another $750 million in this year’s budget, some of which would go to shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor has made available a historic amount of resources, in addition to the money that naturally goes to cities and counties for homelessness and mental health resources,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opening and running a homeless shelter for even just a short time can cost millions. A\u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article235394812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tent shelter underneath a bridge\u003c/a> for 420 people cost Modesto $1.6 million during the 10 months it was open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article230135694.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A shelter in Sacramento\u003c/a> with services focused on finding temporary or permanent housing cost the city $5 million in public and private money over 17 months, raising hackles on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say that the shelters will reduce the cost of jails, emergency room visits and other services that would result from people living outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to bring people indoors,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who is co-chair of the governor’s council on homelessness. “I view this as all new opportunity. Land is costly, and if the state’s willing to partner with us and provide land, I only have two words: thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reducing homelessness and its associated issues, including mental health, are big challenges, said Weiss, mayor of Oceanside. Many residents have negative perceptions of homeless people because of crime, litter and frequent calls for police, so they may oppose a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said he would welcome a new shelter — but not the associated costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a 17-acre parcel of excess land south of State Route 76 in Oceanside, but Weiss said he doesn’t know how the city or county would pay for a shelter there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/pdf/2015-CoC-Application.pdf\">Richmond and Contra Costa County homeless coalition\u003c/a> will be allocated one-time funding of up to $2.7 million in emergency homeless aid from the state, along with another $2.5 million that’s available directly to the county as part of the state’s $650 million going directly to cities, counties and regional care associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Richmond’s mayor says that’s not nearly enough when counts show his city alone has at least 400 unsheltered people at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re either gonna continue to put Band-Aids on it and push these people into shelters and Tuff Sheds and that, or the state is going to pay up. California’s rich enough to afford it, the United States is rich enough to afford it,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read this thing that the problem’s gonna get pushed down to cities and counties, that’s just crazy and it makes no sense. We’re either gonna solve it or we’re gonna keep pushing it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Whatever-It-Takes Mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, Sacramento’s mayor, said the counties and regions could work together to solve the homeless crisis, but they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one would ask the counties or cities to do what they can’t do, but we are in whatever-it-takes mode,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Gore, a Sonoma County supervisor and first vice president of the California State Association of Counties, said there could be electoral consequences for officials that push forward with shelter plans. “Diving into homelessness and affordable housing is a good way for elected officials to get voted out of office in a world run by NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard),” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Gore said the governor’s shelter plan is urgently necessary, especially since local efforts haven’t been effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would look at my colleagues who are criticizing the governor and say the time for criticism is over. There was local control, and there haven’t been results,” he said. “For cities and counties that think they don’t have enough money, they have a reckoning coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, Steinberg said, is how Californians think about the word “shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter has been and in many ways continues to be a pejorative term,” Steinberg said. “It implies to people who are skeptics that the only kind of shelter is a long-term, dusty, mis-run facility where people are helpless without the ability to get long-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a stereotype and it may have been an accurate stereotype at one point. But now, when we say shelter, we’re talking about navigation centers, where the point is to gain stability to get off the streets permanently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on August 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on Aug. 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what kind of shelters would be built on excess state land. The governor’s office has mandated that they all have “service provisions” such as housing assistance and medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing yet compels cities and counties to work together to resolve their homelessness crises, but the Steinberg-led governor’s coalition wants to change that. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/gavin-newsom-homelessness-task-force/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Under a coalition proposal,\u003c/a> the state could sue cities and counties that fail to house the majority of their homeless population. The Legislature would have to design the plan, and it would have to go before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is pushing even further with the idea of turning government land into shelter space. On Jan. 21, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/amp/Newsom-asks-to-have-surplus-federal-land-used-for-14995834.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the governor asked \u003c/a>U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to “match our commitment by similarly providing surplus federal land to local governments across the state so they can build housing for the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shelter 1.0: A Roof and a Bathroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Haynes, who runs the National Guard Armory shelter in Santa Ana, describes it as a “shelter 1.0,” which are deliberately temporary. “Here’s a roof, here’s a door, here’s a bathroom, do the best you can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"homelessness\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the armories are used by the Guard during the day, everything has to be picked up — and cleaned to military standards — by 8 a.m. daily. That means a predawn wake-up call for the people laid out elbow-to-elbow on the floor of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it difficult to get them up? It’s \u003cem>awful\u003c/em>,” Haynes said. “But that’s not our call. It’s got to be mopped, broomed, like no one was ever here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for this model [of shelter] to sunset. There are a lot of options out there. I think there’s a growing frustration with the lack of space, the lack of privacy, and as someone who operates this shelter, I can say, I get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters of more recent vintage, or in more permanent locations, afford better privileges. Some have bunk beds instead of mats. People have a designated spot so they don’t have to line up before the shelter opens. Some have housing assistance programs and a medical clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haynes gazed around at the 150 people inside the armory, shuffling from dinner — that day it was chicken noodle soup, bread and a salad — to the tightly packed mats on the concrete floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, whether there’s going to be legal persuasion or not, at some point in time a policymaker — whether it’s a councilmember, a board of [supervisors] member, a governor, whatever — is going to have to take the heat for making the decision to have a shelter sited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nigel Duara is a reporter at CalMatters. This article is part of\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 8, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EO-N-23-20-Homelessness-Crisis-01.08.2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsom issued an executive order\u003c/a> that tasked state agencies with evaluating excess land for use as possible emergency homeless shelters. A state \u003ca href=\"https://cadgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=392e5e687e9041bb8f20e3acc5b211c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map \u003c/a>created last year shows more than 1,000 parcels, ranging from a quarter-acre near a San Diego freeway to 70 acres next to a minimum-security prison in Chino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Santa Ana armory has become a harbinger of the problems that mayors and county executives foresee with new emergency shelters in their backyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Pushback from Local Leaders\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a federal judge lauded Orange County for a cooperative plan to avoid arresting homeless people while directing them toward county housing and health services. The judge called the agreement between the county and homeless activists a model for the rest of the state, if not the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peace barely lasted into the new year. Santa Ana, the county’s poorest city, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/7760866/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed suit in January,\u003c/a> alleging that three other Orange County cities are dropping off their homeless population at the armory in a community that already has a disproportionate amount of shelters. The county has a 400-bed shelter in downtown Santa Ana, with plans to expand it, and the city has a 200-bed shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In recent years, the city of Santa Ana has been compelled to spend millions of dollars from its general fund to address health and safety concerns attributable to the homeless population now living here,” the city said in the lawsuit. “That money would otherwise have been spent on providing core services to residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several cities and counties contacted by CalMatters, local leaders expressed concern about the governor’s plan to open land for shelters in their jurisdictions. Some see it as ineffective and unfair — offering state land but not paying for the costs associated with a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elected leaders say they’ve received little information about how the shelters will operate or who will operate them. They don’t know how people will get to and from the sites. They don’t know how neighbors might react. And they’re still unclear who will pay for it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unlikely the governor is going to come to the city of Oceanside and say, here’s several million dollars to go build a new sobering center, or a new shelter. Just because the governor orders something doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen,” said Peter Weiss, mayor of Oceanside, in northern San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s goals may run into the same not-in-my-backyard resistance that faces nearly every local plan for homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a small piece of excess land in the Bay Area city of Richmond, next to Interstate 80, that could be an emergency shelter. But Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said he’s “not optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor’s task force on homelessness decided that cities and counties should be responsible for this,” Butt said. “I think that’s just wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state expects to make 100 parcels available this year to governments that apply to use the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>State Land, Local Burden\u003c/strong>:\u003cstrong> Each Shelter Costs Millions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nothing can compel a city or county to use the state land as a shelter; they would have to apply for permission to use the land. But if they do, the burden of operating it falls on their own shoulders. That includes food, bedding and transportation, liability arising from fire or violence and the cost of administrators and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration says the excess land plan will help offset shelter costs for cities and counties — at least, those willing to seek the help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local government has a responsibility to put their hands up and be part of the solution,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness. “A good number at the county and city level are answering the call by leaning forward and embracing solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some state funding is available to local governments, and more is on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Newsom pledged $650 million to cities, counties and regional associations called Continuums of Care to fight homelessness. Of that, Newsom has made \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/hhap_allocations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$500 million\u003c/a> available; the other $150 million will be disbursed once the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development certifies the 2019 “point in time” count of homeless people. Newsom is asking the Legislature for another $750 million in this year’s budget, some of which would go to shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor has made available a historic amount of resources, in addition to the money that naturally goes to cities and counties for homelessness and mental health resources,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opening and running a homeless shelter for even just a short time can cost millions. A\u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article235394812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tent shelter underneath a bridge\u003c/a> for 420 people cost Modesto $1.6 million during the 10 months it was open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article230135694.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A shelter in Sacramento\u003c/a> with services focused on finding temporary or permanent housing cost the city $5 million in public and private money over 17 months, raising hackles on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say that the shelters will reduce the cost of jails, emergency room visits and other services that would result from people living outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to bring people indoors,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who is co-chair of the governor’s council on homelessness. “I view this as all new opportunity. Land is costly, and if the state’s willing to partner with us and provide land, I only have two words: thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reducing homelessness and its associated issues, including mental health, are big challenges, said Weiss, mayor of Oceanside. Many residents have negative perceptions of homeless people because of crime, litter and frequent calls for police, so they may oppose a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said he would welcome a new shelter — but not the associated costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a 17-acre parcel of excess land south of State Route 76 in Oceanside, but Weiss said he doesn’t know how the city or county would pay for a shelter there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/pdf/2015-CoC-Application.pdf\">Richmond and Contra Costa County homeless coalition\u003c/a> will be allocated one-time funding of up to $2.7 million in emergency homeless aid from the state, along with another $2.5 million that’s available directly to the county as part of the state’s $650 million going directly to cities, counties and regional care associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Richmond’s mayor says that’s not nearly enough when counts show his city alone has at least 400 unsheltered people at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re either gonna continue to put Band-Aids on it and push these people into shelters and Tuff Sheds and that, or the state is going to pay up. California’s rich enough to afford it, the United States is rich enough to afford it,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read this thing that the problem’s gonna get pushed down to cities and counties, that’s just crazy and it makes no sense. We’re either gonna solve it or we’re gonna keep pushing it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Whatever-It-Takes Mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, Sacramento’s mayor, said the counties and regions could work together to solve the homeless crisis, but they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one would ask the counties or cities to do what they can’t do, but we are in whatever-it-takes mode,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Gore, a Sonoma County supervisor and first vice president of the California State Association of Counties, said there could be electoral consequences for officials that push forward with shelter plans. “Diving into homelessness and affordable housing is a good way for elected officials to get voted out of office in a world run by NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard),” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Gore said the governor’s shelter plan is urgently necessary, especially since local efforts haven’t been effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would look at my colleagues who are criticizing the governor and say the time for criticism is over. There was local control, and there haven’t been results,” he said. “For cities and counties that think they don’t have enough money, they have a reckoning coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, Steinberg said, is how Californians think about the word “shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter has been and in many ways continues to be a pejorative term,” Steinberg said. “It implies to people who are skeptics that the only kind of shelter is a long-term, dusty, mis-run facility where people are helpless without the ability to get long-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a stereotype and it may have been an accurate stereotype at one point. But now, when we say shelter, we’re talking about navigation centers, where the point is to gain stability to get off the streets permanently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on August 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on Aug. 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what kind of shelters would be built on excess state land. The governor’s office has mandated that they all have “service provisions” such as housing assistance and medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing yet compels cities and counties to work together to resolve their homelessness crises, but the Steinberg-led governor’s coalition wants to change that. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/gavin-newsom-homelessness-task-force/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Under a coalition proposal,\u003c/a> the state could sue cities and counties that fail to house the majority of their homeless population. The Legislature would have to design the plan, and it would have to go before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is pushing even further with the idea of turning government land into shelter space. On Jan. 21, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/amp/Newsom-asks-to-have-surplus-federal-land-used-for-14995834.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the governor asked \u003c/a>U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to “match our commitment by similarly providing surplus federal land to local governments across the state so they can build housing for the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shelter 1.0: A Roof and a Bathroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Haynes, who runs the National Guard Armory shelter in Santa Ana, describes it as a “shelter 1.0,” which are deliberately temporary. “Here’s a roof, here’s a door, here’s a bathroom, do the best you can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Milk and waters in kids’ meals. Smaller “Big Gulps.” No teens on tanning beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials here pride themselves as national leaders in protecting the health of Californians — so much so that conservatives deride it as the “nanny-state.” And that’s particularly true when it comes to its youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet California is behind some other states and the Trump administration when it comes to cracking down on flavored tobacco and e-cigarette use — nor has it moved to block the sale of flavored vape products containing cannabis. San Francisco-based Juul Labs Inc., maker of vape pens and nicotine pods, poured hundreds of thousands into lobbying and political campaigns — and until now successfully quashed bills to ban flavored tobacco in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year could change that. The skyrocketing use of flavored vape products among kids, a rash of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vape-related\u003c/a> hospitalizations and deaths, and the governor’s public support for a ban on flavors could turn the tide. So could a market shift at Juul, which amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191028075943.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evidence\u003c/a> that flavors entice teen users, has stopped U.S. sales of flavored pods including mango and mint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jim Knox, director of government relations for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network\"]'Politics gets down to money. The tobacco industry has been for decades, and remains, a very substantial power at the state Capitol.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year eight other states, temporarily at least, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/factsheets/0398.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned\u003c/a> flavored e-cigarettes, prompting legal challenges. Several states similarly \u003ca href=\"https://mjbizdaily.com/oregon-bans-flavored-marijuana-vaping-products-for-six-months/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prohibited\u003c/a> the sale of flavored cannabis products. So far in 2020, of at least 184 vaping bills in 20 state legislatures, 47 include flavor restrictions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 60 California \u003ca href=\"https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/factsheets/0398.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cities and counties\u003c/a> have taken matters into their own hands by banning flavors or restricting the sale of e-cigarettes. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/SF-vape-shops-scramble-with-ban-taking-effect-15006119.php#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first e-cigarette sales ban in the nation\u003c/a> went into effect in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politics gets down to money,” said Jim Knox, director of government relations for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fightcancer.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network\u003c/a>. “The tobacco industry has been for decades, and remains, a very substantial power at the state Capitol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tempting Flavors Attract Younger Users\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When e-cigarettes hit the U.S. market \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020143/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2007\u003c/a>, there was little regulation of sales, advertising or use. They were typically touted as a tar-free alternative to smoking, a way to reduce cigarette consumption. But they also surged in popularity among new, younger users. As of last year, 1 in 10 middle-schoolers and a quarter of high-schoolers reported using e-cigarettes in 2019,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/youth_data/tobacco_use/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> according\u003c/a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11800898 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/VAPING-graphic-1-1-e1581367337462.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"749\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among recent users in middle school, 49% said they used a flavored product in 2018. Among high school tobacco users that number was 67%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led some California legislators to try to regulate vaping — triggering fierce opposition from tobacco companies and the vape industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year in the Assembly, a bill to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products was killed without even a hearing in the Assembly’s Government Organization Committee, chaired by Merced Democrat Adam Gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee is “the main vise the legislative leadership has used to deliver for big tobacco,” said Stanton Glantz, UC San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/people/stanton-glantz-phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">professor\u003c/a> of medicine and director of its Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the tobacco control policies that are out there,” Glantz continued, “the one they are most desperate to stop is flavor bans. Because that goes to the key of how they get all of these kids addicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar 2019 flavor ban proposal in the California Senate grew so weakened by amendments that its author abandoned the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then reports of vaping tragedies nationwide began mounting — as of last week, vaping had caused 2,600 hospitalizations and 60 deaths nationwide. The majority of those who became sick were vaping tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a cannabis product, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according\u003c/a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which identified the culprit as the additive vitamin E acetate. But the mounting health toll heightened awareness of the rising trend of teens vaping cannabis and tobacco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump initially called in September for a ban on all flavored e-cigarette products, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/health/trump-vaping-ban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">then backpedaled\u003c/a>. Instead, in January his administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-finalizes-enforcement-policy-unauthorized-flavored-cartridge-based-e-cigarettes-appeal-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued\u003c/a> a more limited mandate that manufacturers stop selling certain products, such as prefilled flavor pods. Exempted are menthol cartridges and also tank-based systems that allow users to refill vape pens with their choice of flavored liquid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after Trump’s September announcement, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing various California agencies to crack down on the vaping black market, research new ways to tax vape products and develop a $20 million awareness campaign about the risks of vaping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also has said he supports a new flavor-ban bill sponsored by the same senator whose bill was stymied last year — and like last year’s, the new state bill would bar more types of flavored products than the Trump administration has restricted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Mateo Democratic Sen. Jerry Hill\"]'This is affecting our youth. The gateway is the flavored product, and we can’t leave it to the industry to police themselves, because they failed to do that.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo Democratic Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://sd13.senate.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jerry Hill’s\u003c/a> pending \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 793\u003c/a> would prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products — not just pods for vape pens in flavors such as mint, fruit, cotton candy, but also tank-based systems, menthol cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars and hookah tobacco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is affecting our youth,” Hill said. “The gateway is the flavored product, and we can’t leave it to the industry to police themselves, because they failed to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to do more than the federal government did on the flavors,” Newsom said when he released his proposed budget earlier this month. “And I just want to thank Jerry Hill and everybody else upstairs for their leadership on this. I’m all in on what they are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Costly Industry Fight\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hill’s bill faces opposition from some quarters of the tobacco and vaping industries, and millions of smokers or vapers who oppose any restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unintended consequences of policies like these could be more young people smoking cigarettes or switching to illicit THC cartridges,” said Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, in a statement. “Prohibitionist groups can complain all day long but the reality is that flavored vaping products do help adult smokers quit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Juul Labs Inc.\"]'Our customer base is the world’s 1 billion adult smokers and we do not intend to attract underage users.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juul spokesman Ted Kwong said Juul does not have a position on the proposed flavor ban. The\u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.juul.com/juul-labs-stops-the-sale-of-mint-juulpods-in-the-united-states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> company\u003c/a> stopped its U.S. sales of mint-flavored pods in November and had previously ended sales of other flavors including mango. Only its menthol products would be directly affected by Hill’s flavor-ban bill, although critics note that teens who start vaping flavored pods made by other companies could eventually “outgrow” sweet flavors and switch to Juul’s products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Juul said, “We remain focused on resetting the vapor category in the U.S. and earning the trust of society by working cooperatively with lawmakers, regulators, public health officials, and other stakeholders to combat underage use and convert adult smokers from combustible cigarettes ... Our customer base is the world’s 1 billion adult smokers and we do not intend to attract underage users.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, last year Juul spent more than $600,000 on political donations and lobbying activities in California, including $20,000 it gave to the Los Angeles Democratic Party, according to state records. At a state Democratic Party \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11752126/a-california-democratic-convention-brought-to-you-by-e-cigarettes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">convention\u003c/a> last summer, logos identifying Juul as a sponsor flashed on big screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tobacco industry will make every conceivable effort to curry favor, and that makes them a very formidable adversary,” said Knox. “They have untold amounts of money and they are spending it on lobbying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11800901 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/VAPING-graphic-2-e1581368110861.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"625\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partial reports for last year indicate that Juul gave Assemblyman Gray’s Valley Solutions ballot committee $4,700. The year before, Gray received $8,000 and the committee received $25,000. In total, since 2014, Gray has received more than $200,000 from Juul, RJ Reynolds and other companies. On the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s \u003ca href=\"http://action.fightcancer.org/site/PageNavigator/CA_tobacco_money_challenge_rejected.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tracker\u003c/a> of elected officials who take tobacco money, Gray is at the top of the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly we have a chair who is friendly to the tobacco industry,” Knox said. “And that’s not new, he carries on a tradition that has been going on for decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray’s office said that his positions arise from him balancing the issues of adult choice, government interference and the rising risk of teens using tobacco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email statement, he said, “If you want to support my agenda, my voting record, and the things I stand for, I’m happy to receive that support. But it has zero role in how I represent my district or how I make decisions on public policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pending \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1639\">bill\u003c/a> by Gray would treat vape products more like alcohol — with restrictions on ads and signs, and stronger penalties for retailers who sell to minors. It originally would have restricted candy and fruit flavors but not mint or menthol, but those provisions were struck from the bill in previous committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Gray intends to amend the bill to include a tax on pods of nicotine used in e-cigarettes to match how packs of cigarettes are taxed, at about $2.87 a box, according to his legislative director, Adam Capper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shifting Attention to Cannabis Vaping\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gray has argued for focusing attention on what he has characterized as a critical but under-emphasized problem: cannabis vaping. In a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/vaping-health/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commentary\u003c/a> for CalMatters last September, he stressed that vaping hospitalizations and deaths have primarily occurred after the person vaped marijuana products. Capper said his boss is considering options to regulate flavored cannabis vape products by including it in his existing bill or doing so through another vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, the Legislature hasn’t considered any bills to restrict flavored cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flavored vape cartridges and liquids made with THC are used in vape pens and sold in legal vape shops, and illicitly. Like nicotine, they also come in a variety of fruit and candy flavors including grape, pineapple, sherbet and gelato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how many Californians are vaping cannabis, but nationally, in five states including California where marijuana is legal, vapes made up nearly a quarter of the share of sales of cannabis in the first three quarters of 2019, according to BDS Analytics, a global cannabinoid market research and analytics company based in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"vaping\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research links the vape-related lung illness outbreak last year to a drop in cannabis vape sales. The industry saw the monthly sales of cannabis vape products, including flavors, drop from a high of $160 million in August to $119 million in October, BDS Analytics reported for the states of California, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon. And in California, cannabis vape sales dropped 20% between August and September, when sales totaled $66 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those figures do not include the sales of illicit cannabis vaping products, which the federal government says are mainly to blame for the vape-related lung illness. In California, experts estimate that market is still larger than the legal market because of the challenges to enter the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, none of the cases in California of vaping illness have been linked to legal marijuana shops, according to the state Bureau of Cannabis Control. There have been 204 cases of the illness and four deaths in California, according to the state Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of Cannabis Control has been \u003ca href=\"https://bcc.ca.gov/about_us/documents/media_20200127.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conducting\u003c/a> seizures at unlicensed marijuana shops, and in December confiscated more than 10,000 illegal vape pens in Los Angeles. Those products were tested and the state found they contained undisclosed additives and also had less THC than they claimed to have. To help consumers ensure they are buying from a legitimate cannabis retailer, the state has launched a campaign to get users to scan a QR code linking to the state’s online license database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://CalMatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Milk and waters in kids’ meals. Smaller “Big Gulps.” No teens on tanning beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials here pride themselves as national leaders in protecting the health of Californians — so much so that conservatives deride it as the “nanny-state.” And that’s particularly true when it comes to its youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet California is behind some other states and the Trump administration when it comes to cracking down on flavored tobacco and e-cigarette use — nor has it moved to block the sale of flavored vape products containing cannabis. San Francisco-based Juul Labs Inc., maker of vape pens and nicotine pods, poured hundreds of thousands into lobbying and political campaigns — and until now successfully quashed bills to ban flavored tobacco in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year could change that. The skyrocketing use of flavored vape products among kids, a rash of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vape-related\u003c/a> hospitalizations and deaths, and the governor’s public support for a ban on flavors could turn the tide. So could a market shift at Juul, which amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191028075943.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evidence\u003c/a> that flavors entice teen users, has stopped U.S. sales of flavored pods including mango and mint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/SF-vape-shops-scramble-with-ban-taking-effect-15006119.php#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first e-cigarette sales ban in the nation\u003c/a> went into effect in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politics gets down to money,” said Jim Knox, director of government relations for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fightcancer.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network\u003c/a>. “The tobacco industry has been for decades, and remains, a very substantial power at the state Capitol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tempting Flavors Attract Younger Users\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When e-cigarettes hit the U.S. market \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020143/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2007\u003c/a>, there was little regulation of sales, advertising or use. They were typically touted as a tar-free alternative to smoking, a way to reduce cigarette consumption. But they also surged in popularity among new, younger users. As of last year, 1 in 10 middle-schoolers and a quarter of high-schoolers reported using e-cigarettes in 2019,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/youth_data/tobacco_use/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> according\u003c/a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11800898 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/VAPING-graphic-1-1-e1581367337462.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"749\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among recent users in middle school, 49% said they used a flavored product in 2018. Among high school tobacco users that number was 67%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led some California legislators to try to regulate vaping — triggering fierce opposition from tobacco companies and the vape industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year in the Assembly, a bill to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products was killed without even a hearing in the Assembly’s Government Organization Committee, chaired by Merced Democrat Adam Gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee is “the main vise the legislative leadership has used to deliver for big tobacco,” said Stanton Glantz, UC San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/people/stanton-glantz-phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">professor\u003c/a> of medicine and director of its Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the tobacco control policies that are out there,” Glantz continued, “the one they are most desperate to stop is flavor bans. Because that goes to the key of how they get all of these kids addicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar 2019 flavor ban proposal in the California Senate grew so weakened by amendments that its author abandoned the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then reports of vaping tragedies nationwide began mounting — as of last week, vaping had caused 2,600 hospitalizations and 60 deaths nationwide. The majority of those who became sick were vaping tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a cannabis product, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according\u003c/a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which identified the culprit as the additive vitamin E acetate. 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