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The Foster Farms plants had between 25 and 27 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the outbreak in early October, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service threatened to shut down the plants by withdrawing its inspectors, who have to be on-site for the plants to operate. Under pressure, the company said it would implement new processes. The plants stayed open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One change at the plants: Chicken parts now will be washed with an antimicrobial treatment, according to the USDA. This is done already at another Foster Farms plant in Washington state, where federal inspectors found a much lower rate of salmonella on chicken parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re treating their parts with an additional antimicrobial treatment, which all of the rest of the industry does not use, which we’re encouraging the industry to do,” Engeljohn said. 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For every reported illness from salmonella, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 29 more cases might remain unreported, putting the likely toll closer to 10,000 infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, federal inspectors have documented food safety violations at the three Foster Farms plants, including fecal material on carcasses. But federal food safety officials say those violations are no worse than what you’d see in a typical chicken processing plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those same plants had such a strong record on salmonella that their young chicken carcasses were tested for it by federal inspectors only about once every two years, Engeljohn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most recent tests, which took place within the year, fewer than 2 percent of the carcasses tested were tainted with the human pathogen. Under federal rules, no more than \u003ca href=\"http://h\">7.5 percent of broilers\u003c/a> tested should show evidence of the bacteria, which underscores that some salmonella is tolerated in chicken meat in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At these three Foster Farms facilities, something appears to have gone wrong later in the process.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Exactly what happened is still unclear. If the company knows what happened, it has not disclosed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government does not typically inspect chicken for salmonella once it’s been chopped into parts from whole. It did so at these three plants once the outbreak happened, though the rates it discovered were only slightly higher than those found at other plants across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government estimates 24 percent of all chicken parts have salmonella at plants nationwide. The Foster Farms plants had between 25 and 27 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the outbreak in early October, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service threatened to shut down the plants by withdrawing its inspectors, who have to be on-site for the plants to operate. Under pressure, the company said it would implement new processes. The plants stayed open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One change at the plants: Chicken parts now will be washed with an antimicrobial treatment, according to the USDA. This is done already at another Foster Farms plant in Washington state, where federal inspectors found a much lower rate of salmonella on chicken parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re treating their parts with an additional antimicrobial treatment, which all of the rest of the industry does not use, which we’re encouraging the industry to do,” Engeljohn said. Regulators do not have the authority to mandate that all plants adopt that treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, even if the federal government develops performance standards for salmonella on chicken parts, the USDA is unlikely to shut down facilities that do not meet those standards before people get sick. A pivotal 2001\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>court case, \u003ca href=\"http://h\">Supreme Beef Processors v. USDA\u003c/a>, found that the agency cannot close a meat processing plant that consistently fails salmonella testing because, in this country, the bacteria is not considered an “adulterant” in meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s treated as an unfortunate food safety hazard and\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>a natural constituent of poultry that consumers should cook properly to destroy. 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Wiener addressed that history in an interview with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tax-on-soda-to-be-floated-in-San-Francisco-4932025.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I try to cross my t’s and dot my i’s, and I wouldn’t pursue this if I didn’t think it had a chance,” Wiener said. “There will be a big fight – the beverage industry will try to pull all the shenanigans they have pulled elsewhere – but we have a strong coalition behind this. San Francisco is always at the forefront of public health issues and trying to find innovative ways to keep the city healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said Richmond’s proposal – which was handily defeated by 67 percent of voters – “was too easy to attack” because it did not require that the money be spent on health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was carefully crafted to ensure the money is spent on nutrition, physical activity and health – and that it’s not used as a replacement,” for existing public health dollars, he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This afternoon, Californians For Food and Beverage Choice, an anti-soda tax group, called measures like Wiener’s “unncecesary, wasteful distractions from serious policymaking. Providing people with education, opportunities for physical activity and diverse beverage choices to fit their lifestyles are proven strategies for maintaining health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the poor showing last year of the two soda taxes up before voters, a February Field Poll found that the public may be more receptive to the idea, depending on how the initiative is crafted. As \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/02/14/most-californians-support-soda-tax-if-it-benefits-childrens-health/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=most-californians-support-soda-tax-if-it-benefits-childrens-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED State of Health’s Lisa Aliferis blogged\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While only 40 percent of voters said they favor a sugar-sweetened beverage tax, that number jumped to 68 percent if the proceeds will benefit school nutrition and physical activity programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters in general don’t trust taxes that aren’t earmarked. 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(\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/07/10/whooping-cough-staging-comeback-in-california/\">Whooping cough cases have been on the rise\u003c/a> in California and across the country; as of the end of June, Marin had reported more cases than almost any other county in the state.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At many schools in the county, vaccination levels are now below what’s needed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.vaccines.gov/basics/protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">herd immunity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Herd immunity is an important concept because we need to have 85 to 95 percent of children in a community vaccinated in order to protect the community,” said Dr. Nelson Branco of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tamalpaispediatrics.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tamalpais Pediatrics\u003c/a>. “When the herd immunity is low, we start to see outbreaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on Vaccinations\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/06/more-california-parents-opting-out-of-vaccines-look-up-your-school-online/\">More California Parents Opting Out of Vaccines; Look Up Your School Online\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/21/marin-vaccinations/\">Marin Vaccination Opt-Outs Increase, Despite the Science\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/23/5-things-you-should-know-about-vaccines/\">5 Things You Should Know About Vaccines\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/30/vaccine-refusals-fueled-california-whooping-cough-epidemic-personal-belief-exemption/\">Vaccine Refusals Fueled California Whooping Cough Epidemic\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dr. Branco finds the opt-out trend so troubling that he decided to take a stand last spring. His office refuses to see patients who don’t get the MMR shot for measles, mumps and rubella by age two.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Playing with fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Measles is dangerous. Infants under one can’t be immunized for measles,” Dr. Branco said. “In the 2008 outbreak in San Diego, there were 11 children who were ill with measles. Four of them were exposed in their doctors’ waiting room. We didn’t want that happening in our waiting room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamalpais Pediatrics has about 8,000 patients. After the new policy was put in place, 20 families left Dr. Branco’s practice. Many of them went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pediatricalternatives.com/main_page.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pediatric Alternatives\u003c/a>, which accepts families that don’t want to get all of the standard vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get a lot of families that come to us that want to vaccinate, but they’re really concerned about the fact that they might have to give five or even six vaccines to their 2-month-old,” said Pediatric Alternatives’ Dr. Sarabenet Sequeira.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">We know that the same ingredients that caused the outbreak at the end of last year are present at the beginning of this year.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dr. Sequeira says she believes most immunizations offer far more benefits than risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, county health officials sent a survey to 3,000 parents of kindergarteners asking about their feelings on vaccines. They’re hoping the results will help them better understand why parents opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also hoping a new law in January will help reverse the trend by requiring parents to consult with a health care provider before asking for a personal belief exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even under that law, however, parents can sidestep the consultation by claiming a religious exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County’s Public Health Officer, Dr. Matt Willis, recalls how he came very close to shutting down a school to unvaccinated children toward the end of the last school year after a pertussis outbreak made 100 students ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the same ingredients that caused the outbreak at the end of last year are present at the beginning of this year,” Dr. Willis said. “It’s partly because we have so many parents who are opting out of vaccines” on behalf of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, the county has seen 140 cases of whooping cough. The problem extends well beyond Marin, as in 2010, more Californians came down with whooping cough than in any year since 1947. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/30/vaccine-refusals-fueled-california-whooping-cough-epidemic-personal-belief-exemption/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten babies died\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The video above is from the premiere episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>KQED NEWSROOM\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online, featuring \u003cstrong>Thuy Vu\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Scott Shafer\u003c/strong>. Tune in to KQED Public Television 9 on Friday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. to watch the entire show. Listen to a rebroadcast at KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM on Sunday, Oct. 20, at 6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/07/10/whooping-cough-staging-comeback-in-california/\">Whooping cough cases have been on the rise\u003c/a> in California and across the country; as of the end of June, Marin had reported more cases than almost any other county in the state.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At many schools in the county, vaccination levels are now below what’s needed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.vaccines.gov/basics/protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">herd immunity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Herd immunity is an important concept because we need to have 85 to 95 percent of children in a community vaccinated in order to protect the community,” said Dr. Nelson Branco of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tamalpaispediatrics.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tamalpais Pediatrics\u003c/a>. “When the herd immunity is low, we start to see outbreaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on Vaccinations\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/06/more-california-parents-opting-out-of-vaccines-look-up-your-school-online/\">More California Parents Opting Out of Vaccines; Look Up Your School Online\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/21/marin-vaccinations/\">Marin Vaccination Opt-Outs Increase, Despite the Science\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/23/5-things-you-should-know-about-vaccines/\">5 Things You Should Know About Vaccines\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/30/vaccine-refusals-fueled-california-whooping-cough-epidemic-personal-belief-exemption/\">Vaccine Refusals Fueled California Whooping Cough Epidemic\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dr. Branco finds the opt-out trend so troubling that he decided to take a stand last spring. His office refuses to see patients who don’t get the MMR shot for measles, mumps and rubella by age two.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Playing with fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Measles is dangerous. Infants under one can’t be immunized for measles,” Dr. Branco said. “In the 2008 outbreak in San Diego, there were 11 children who were ill with measles. Four of them were exposed in their doctors’ waiting room. We didn’t want that happening in our waiting room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamalpais Pediatrics has about 8,000 patients. After the new policy was put in place, 20 families left Dr. Branco’s practice. Many of them went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pediatricalternatives.com/main_page.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pediatric Alternatives\u003c/a>, which accepts families that don’t want to get all of the standard vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get a lot of families that come to us that want to vaccinate, but they’re really concerned about the fact that they might have to give five or even six vaccines to their 2-month-old,” said Pediatric Alternatives’ Dr. Sarabenet Sequeira.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">We know that the same ingredients that caused the outbreak at the end of last year are present at the beginning of this year.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dr. Sequeira says she believes most immunizations offer far more benefits than risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, county health officials sent a survey to 3,000 parents of kindergarteners asking about their feelings on vaccines. They’re hoping the results will help them better understand why parents opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also hoping a new law in January will help reverse the trend by requiring parents to consult with a health care provider before asking for a personal belief exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even under that law, however, parents can sidestep the consultation by claiming a religious exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County’s Public Health Officer, Dr. Matt Willis, recalls how he came very close to shutting down a school to unvaccinated children toward the end of the last school year after a pertussis outbreak made 100 students ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the same ingredients that caused the outbreak at the end of last year are present at the beginning of this year,” Dr. Willis said. “It’s partly because we have so many parents who are opting out of vaccines” on behalf of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, the county has seen 140 cases of whooping cough. 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Jane Carretero, the daughter of farmworkers in Fresno, recorded her impressions for this food diary, produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theknowfresno.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kNOw Youth Media\u003c/a>, a project of \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New America Media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114376 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Jane-15.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Carretero has been learning more about nutrition, but finds lifestyle changes hard. (Marci Lopez/The kNOw at New America Media)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Carretero, 15, has been learning more about nutrition, but finds lifestyle changes hard. (Marci Lopez/The kNOw at New America Media)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16, 2013\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My name’s Jane Carretero. I turned 15 years old on August 12th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything’s OK. As OK as I can be, being a 15 year old that’s pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I got pregnant, my doctor and mom have really been trying to get me to eat vegetables, but I can usually get away with not eating any vegetables or fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever I\u003cins cite=\"mailto:Olivia%20Hubert-Allen\" datetime=\"2013-10-09T11:58\"> \u003c/ins>pass by McDonald’s I usually end up getting something, which I eat instead of the food my mom makes. She gets really mad because she tells us it’s not healthy. My doctor tells me the same thing. It’s not healthy for me or the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do care about being healthy, but it’s just to a point where if I really want a certain food I’m not going to think about it being healthy or not. I hardly ever eat any real food. I see that I should be healthy, but if I really want something I’m going to eat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The things in my fridge right now? We have the milk, tortillas and eggs and the tapatio sauce that you’d find in every Mexican household ‘fridge. We also have a corner in our refrigerator filled with packets from fast food restaurants: ketchup and hot sauce. 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She’s the kind of mom who likes listening to old-school Mexican music while she cooks. She’s hardly ever home, but when she is she likes listening to old-school music and cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She makes posole, menudo and tamales, all traditional Mexican dishes. I love it when my mom makes birria, the whole house smells like it and makes it feel like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I usually end up eating hot Cheetos or slushies instead of the food my mom makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She the only parent I really have left. She does everything she can to support us and feed me and my two older sisters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She usually works in the grape fields or picking string beans. She works even though it’s 100 degrees outside and she’s in the hot sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad passed away when I was in third grade. He had leukemia and lymphoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the greatest dad ever. Even while he was doing chemotherapy, he was still working in the fields, and trying hard to support me and my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, my dad was really sick and weak, and he couldn’t go to work. That’s when we had to go to the food bank. We didn’t have any money or food. We were only able to get hamburger buns and jam, that was what we ate for a whole week before we went back to the food bank. At one point my mom gave us her food because she didn’t want to see us not having anything to eat. We learned even though fruit grows on trees, food doesn’t come free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I live in an apartment in the west side of Fresno. People say it’s horrible. There are drug dealers and drive-by shootings sometimes. There are people that do drugs around. But as long as you stay clear from them, they don’t bother you. My apartment is surrounded by fencing, so I feel safe at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom and stepdad get one room and my two older sisters get another room. That leaves me with no room. I sleep in the living room with an air mattress next to the sofa. It’s not the greatest thing, but I’d rather be sleeping on an air mattress than on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to be the black sheep of the family. I would sneak out easily since I was right next to the door, and no one could tell I was leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSept. 25, 2013\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last week of my pregnancy, I ate a lot of takeout and fast food. I had McDonald’s breakfasts two days in a row. I didn’t mind it. It was food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114379\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/08/114275/baby/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114379\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/baby-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Carretero feeds her infant son. (Marci Lopez/The kNOw at New American Media)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carretero feeds her infant son. (Marci Lopez/The kNOw at New American Media)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My baby boy was born on September 11, 2013. It’s crazy how you look at the baby that was in you, and now you’re holding him in your arms and you think, ‘wow, you were in me for the past nine months.’ On the day he was born, I found out about a new kind of love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that I have the baby, I have to watch my diet, because I really want to go back to my original weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve never told anyone my weight before, but I’m going to tell you now. By the end of my pregnancy, I was at 200 lbs. When I found out about my weight, I started crying. Now I need to start watching what I eat and stay away from McDonald’s or junk food.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Part 3 of 4 in “Hunger in the Valley of Plenty,” a series by KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of access to fresh produce is one problem in farmworker communities. Another is changing young people’s eating habits. Jane Carretero, the daughter of farmworkers in Fresno, recorded her impressions for this food diary, produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theknowfresno.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kNOw Youth Media\u003c/a>, a project of \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New America Media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114376 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Jane-15.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Carretero has been learning more about nutrition, but finds lifestyle changes hard. (Marci Lopez/The kNOw at New America Media)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Carretero, 15, has been learning more about nutrition, but finds lifestyle changes hard. (Marci Lopez/The kNOw at New America Media)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16, 2013\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My name’s Jane Carretero. I turned 15 years old on August 12th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything’s OK. As OK as I can be, being a 15 year old that’s pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I got pregnant, my doctor and mom have really been trying to get me to eat vegetables, but I can usually get away with not eating any vegetables or fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever I\u003cins cite=\"mailto:Olivia%20Hubert-Allen\" datetime=\"2013-10-09T11:58\"> \u003c/ins>pass by McDonald’s I usually end up getting something, which I eat instead of the food my mom makes. She gets really mad because she tells us it’s not healthy. My doctor tells me the same thing. It’s not healthy for me or the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do care about being healthy, but it’s just to a point where if I really want a certain food I’m not going to think about it being healthy or not. I hardly ever eat any real food. I see that I should be healthy, but if I really want something I’m going to eat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The things in my fridge right now? We have the milk, tortillas and eggs and the tapatio sauce that you’d find in every Mexican household ‘fridge. We also have a corner in our refrigerator filled with packets from fast food restaurants: ketchup and hot sauce. It’s all from McDonald’s, Jack in the Box, Panda Express and Carl’s Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cstrong>The series:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/07/hunger-in-the-san-joaquin-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Part 1:\u003c/strong> For Many in the Valley of Plenty, Next Meal Is Uncertain\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/08/114173/hunger-in-the-valley-and-unhealthy-food-donations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Part 2:\u003c/strong> Food Banks Face Tough Choices on Donations\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/08/getting-harvest-to-the-hungry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Part 4:\u003c/strong> Getting the Harvest to the Hungry\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/hunger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series home page:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Hunger in the Valley of Plenty\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSept. 5, 2013\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom is a traditional Mexican mom. She’s the kind of mom who likes listening to old-school Mexican music while she cooks. She’s hardly ever home, but when she is she likes listening to old-school music and cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She makes posole, menudo and tamales, all traditional Mexican dishes. I love it when my mom makes birria, the whole house smells like it and makes it feel like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I usually end up eating hot Cheetos or slushies instead of the food my mom makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She the only parent I really have left. She does everything she can to support us and feed me and my two older sisters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She usually works in the grape fields or picking string beans. She works even though it’s 100 degrees outside and she’s in the hot sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad passed away when I was in third grade. He had leukemia and lymphoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the greatest dad ever. Even while he was doing chemotherapy, he was still working in the fields, and trying hard to support me and my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, my dad was really sick and weak, and he couldn’t go to work. That’s when we had to go to the food bank. We didn’t have any money or food. We were only able to get hamburger buns and jam, that was what we ate for a whole week before we went back to the food bank. At one point my mom gave us her food because she didn’t want to see us not having anything to eat. We learned even though fruit grows on trees, food doesn’t come free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I live in an apartment in the west side of Fresno. People say it’s horrible. There are drug dealers and drive-by shootings sometimes. There are people that do drugs around. But as long as you stay clear from them, they don’t bother you. My apartment is surrounded by fencing, so I feel safe at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom and stepdad get one room and my two older sisters get another room. That leaves me with no room. I sleep in the living room with an air mattress next to the sofa. It’s not the greatest thing, but I’d rather be sleeping on an air mattress than on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to be the black sheep of the family. I would sneak out easily since I was right next to the door, and no one could tell I was leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSept. 25, 2013\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last week of my pregnancy, I ate a lot of takeout and fast food. I had McDonald’s breakfasts two days in a row. I didn’t mind it. It was food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114379\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/08/114275/baby/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114379\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/baby-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Carretero feeds her infant son. (Marci Lopez/The kNOw at New American Media)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carretero feeds her infant son. (Marci Lopez/The kNOw at New American Media)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My baby boy was born on September 11, 2013. It’s crazy how you look at the baby that was in you, and now you’re holding him in your arms and you think, ‘wow, you were in me for the past nine months.’ On the day he was born, I found out about a new kind of love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that I have the baby, I have to watch my diet, because I really want to go back to my original weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve never told anyone my weight before, but I’m going to tell you now. By the end of my pregnancy, I was at 200 lbs. When I found out about my weight, I started crying. Now I need to start watching what I eat and stay away from McDonald’s or junk food.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Tom Prete/\u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/\">Ocean Beach Bulletin\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-113884\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/covered-california-opens.jpg\" alt=\"covered california opens\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\"> Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee speaks to advocates and reporters in San Francisco Tuesday morning at the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/10/02/obamacare-day-one-a-tale-of-2-states-california-and-virginia/\">opening of the Covered California health exchange\u003c/a>. “While Washington is talking about shutdown, we’re talking about startup,” said Lee, as he declared an end to the era of a punishing individual insurance market. (Angela Hart/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-113885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/coverd-ca-patient.jpg\" alt=\"coverd ca patient\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\"> Brad Stevens has been uninsured for the past 30 years. He took care of himself and didn’t think too much about the various health care debates that have consumed the nation during those decades. Because of the health care law, Stevens will now \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/10/04/former-young-invincible-looks-forward-to-health-insurance-medicaid-obamacare-uninsured/#more-15461\">qualify for Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid\u003c/a>, the federal program for low-income families and individuals. Before the health law, Medi-Cal was available only to children, pregnant women and the disabled. Now all low-income people in states that are expanding Medicaid will qualify. Stevens earns less than $15,000 a year in his struggling massage business. (Sarah Varney/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-113886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/PhotoWeek131004carliving.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek131004carliving\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\"> Housing and tenant rights advocates say evictions are happening all over the city at an alarming rate and it’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids#more-113651\">driving some LGBT people into homelessness\u003c/a>. The city’s most recent homeless count found that 29 percent are LGBT, and 9 percent said they were homeless because of an eviction. Tim Oviatt was forced to live in his car for more than eight months. 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Ardrina Hoxey, who served in the Navy for over a decade was diagnosed with PTSD after leaving the service. She says that the program helped her find a sense of tranquility and peace. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-113890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/PhotoWeek131004farmersmarke.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek131004farmersmarke\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\"> Kara Wong peruses the pear selection at K and J Orchards stand at the California Avenue Farmers’ Market in Palo Alto last Sunday. The stand is run by wife-and-husband team Kalayada and James, who have been working the same farm for over 17 years. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/_mg_1258/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113667\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113667\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/MG_1258-e1380834965940.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Oviatt was forced to live in his car for more than eight months. (Myleen Hollero/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Oviatt was forced to live in his car for more than eight months. (Myleen Hollero/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For 28 years, Peter Greene lived in a rent-controlled Victorian flat above a travel agency he co-founded in San Francisco’s Castro District. Originally from New York City, he hitchhiked here in the mid-’70s from Colorado, where he went to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe when I walked down Castro Street there was just freedom,” Greene recalled. “I just never felt like I could be harmed again in any way. It was a sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the 1980s the AIDS crisis hit “and the Castro became a sad place for many years.” Greene helped run\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nowvoyager.com/\">Now, Voyager\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, the gay and lesbian travel service, for a decade until he found out he had AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The thing with these buyouts is where to do you go? You’re just essentially being told to get out of town. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of his life since then, he said, has been spent fighting illness. One thing he didn’t have to worry about, until recently, was his apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been under rent control, which has made so much possible for me to live in the city and I just never really considered what it would be like without this apartment,” said Greene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, the owner decided to sell and the new owner opted to move in. After months of what Greene calls “lawyering,” he agreed to a buyout and left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing with these buyouts is where to do you go? People say well, you got ‘blah, blah, blah amount of dollars,’ but it doesn’t create a new life here in San Francisco. You’re just essentially just being told to get out of town, and here’s a few bucks to try and figure it out.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/img_0112/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113671\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/IMG_0112-e1380906845136.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Greene was evicted from his home in the Castro. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Greene was forced to leave his home above the travel shop earlier this year. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No place like San Francisco for those with AIDS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greene said for people living with HIV and AIDS, leaving San Francisco is a daunting prospect, because it has been at the forefront of research and care. Greene has participated in more than 20 clinical trials. He has been rooted in his beloved Castro neighborhood, even though it’s changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re scared because you feel like you’ve been kept alive by this thing that you’ve set in place that has taken many, many years,” said Greene. “By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have been especially hard since April when Jonathan Klein, the longtime owner of Now, Voyager, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68685\">committed suicide\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> six months after he took a buyout and was forced to leave his apartment. Klein had been staying with Greene, and when the building’s owner decided to sell, Klein’s travel shop was in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were told to leave, it was another blow. It was just a trifecta when one day he got up and went out to the Golden Gate Bridge and jumped,” said Greene. “I’ve lived through the AIDS crisis and lost a lot of friends, but there’s something about suicide. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Greene, who’s almost 60, said he’s been lucky because he’s been able to couch-surf with friends. He plans to move to Palm Springs to help care for a friend with cancer. “I still have the opportunity to make something of myself. It just gets harder as you get older and wake up with more of this and that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to. \u003c/aside>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>LGBT seniors at risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing and tenant rights advocates say evictions are happening all over the city at an alarming rate, and driving some LGBT people into homelessness. The city’s most recent homeless count found that 29 percent are LGBT, and 9.2 percent said they were homeless because of an eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a 12-year high for evictions in San Francisco, fueled by real estate speculation,” said Brian Basinger, the executive director of the \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ahasf.org/\">AIDS Housing Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent report by the city’s budget analyst found that the highest rates of no-fault evictions in the city were in the Castro and Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the historically gay male and lesbian women communities,” he said. “We are the most disproportionate community targeted for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basinger said disabled LGBT seniors are among the most vulnerable. A recent \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-hrc.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2363\">report\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by the city’s LGBT Aging Policy Task Force found that 40 percent of LGBT seniors surveyed did not have the minimum income to meet their basic needs. Fifteen percent have contemplated suicide in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113672\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/now-voyager-window/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113672\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Now-Voyager-Window--e1380907671564.jpg\" alt=\"A tribute to Jonathan Klein, the late owner of Now Voyager. It opened as the first gay travel agency in the Castro in 1984. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tribute to Jonathan Klein, the late owner of Now Voyager. It opened as the first gay travel agency in the Castro in 1984. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F113878216\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\u003cstrong>All-American boy\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Oviatt, 64, had a tough time getting into low-income housing after he was kicked out of his apartment. He has a job at a local retail store. When I interviewed him, he took me to the store’s parking lot, where he was living in his Chrysler convertible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have blankets and pillows in the trunk and just put the seat down as low as it’ll go and just cocoon up in there. It doesn’t make for a great night’s sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 26 years, Oviatt, who moved to San Francisco in the 1970s from Detroit, owned a boutique store in the heart of the Castro known as All American Boy. When the recession hit, a string of calamitous events began. He lost his shop, made some bad business decisions, couldn’t pay his mortgage and his partner died from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street because you have no place to cook. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oviatt, also living with AIDS, said his feet swell up when he sleeps in the car, and it’s been broken into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It truly has worn me down. I mean, I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street, because you have no place to cook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oviatt said his co-workers were supportive for the eight months he was forced to live in his car. Since our interview in July, he’s found housing, thanks to the AIDS Housing Alliance, which in recent years has helped more than 1,000 LGBT people avoid becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t have a good safety net in this society,” said Oviatt. “I don’t know what the solution is but there has to be a better way then there is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More elected officials are paying attention to the problem, according to Basinger, and he’s urging the city to direct more money into preventing and getting LGBT people out of homelessness. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bevan Dufty, the former Castro District supervisor who is Mayor Ed Lee’s point person on homelessness, said he was alarmed to find out that 29 percent of homeless are LGBT, and he would like to see the number reduced by 50 percent within three or four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in discussions with some of the key city departments such as the Human Services Agency and our public health department to really look at strategies we can collaborate on that really focus in on LGBT homelessness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> We’ve been going out to a lot of different locations recognizing that LGBT homeless individuals are in our shelter system, they are sleeping in Golden Gate Park, they are on Castro Street. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those strategies would include addressing “the insecurity and the lack of housing stability that people can feel in this very changing and heated rental market in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LGBTQ Connect \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way city officials and housing and tenant advocates are collaborating to address LGBT homelessness is bringing together organizations that serve the LGBT community with organizations that have typically served the general homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the LGBT Community Center will host a first-of-its-kind event for those LGBT people who are homeless or at risk. Called LGBTQ Connect, it’s modeled after \u003ca href=\"http://www.projecthomelessconnect.com/\">Project Homeless Connect\u003c/a>. Dufty said that program has helped more than 2,000 homeless individuals get access to services, such as dental care, over the past 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been going out to a lot of different locations recognizing that LGBT homeless individuals are in our shelter system, they are sleeping in Golden Gate Park, they are on Castro Street, and we’re reaching far and wide to bring people in,” said Dufty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event will take place Monday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcenter.org/\">LGBT Community Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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You’re just essentially just being told to get out of town, and here’s a few bucks to try and figure it out.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/img_0112/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113671\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/IMG_0112-e1380906845136.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Greene was evicted from his home in the Castro. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Greene was forced to leave his home above the travel shop earlier this year. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No place like San Francisco for those with AIDS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greene said for people living with HIV and AIDS, leaving San Francisco is a daunting prospect, because it has been at the forefront of research and care. Greene has participated in more than 20 clinical trials. He has been rooted in his beloved Castro neighborhood, even though it’s changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re scared because you feel like you’ve been kept alive by this thing that you’ve set in place that has taken many, many years,” said Greene. “By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have been especially hard since April when Jonathan Klein, the longtime owner of Now, Voyager, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68685\">committed suicide\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> six months after he took a buyout and was forced to leave his apartment. Klein had been staying with Greene, and when the building’s owner decided to sell, Klein’s travel shop was in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were told to leave, it was another blow. It was just a trifecta when one day he got up and went out to the Golden Gate Bridge and jumped,” said Greene. “I’ve lived through the AIDS crisis and lost a lot of friends, but there’s something about suicide. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Greene, who’s almost 60, said he’s been lucky because he’s been able to couch-surf with friends. He plans to move to Palm Springs to help care for a friend with cancer. “I still have the opportunity to make something of myself. It just gets harder as you get older and wake up with more of this and that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to. \u003c/aside>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>LGBT seniors at risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing and tenant rights advocates say evictions are happening all over the city at an alarming rate, and driving some LGBT people into homelessness. The city’s most recent homeless count found that 29 percent are LGBT, and 9.2 percent said they were homeless because of an eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a 12-year high for evictions in San Francisco, fueled by real estate speculation,” said Brian Basinger, the executive director of the \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ahasf.org/\">AIDS Housing Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent report by the city’s budget analyst found that the highest rates of no-fault evictions in the city were in the Castro and Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the historically gay male and lesbian women communities,” he said. “We are the most disproportionate community targeted for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basinger said disabled LGBT seniors are among the most vulnerable. 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