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"content": "\u003cp>Less than two months into this school year, three families seeking shelter in Monterey County asked for motel vouchers from their children’s schools and were turned away. The vouchers, along with several other services for students experiencing homelessness, are no more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families sought help from the schools because, in the past, that was where the county’s homeless liaison had provided them with vouchers for short stays at local motels, temporarily sheltering their homeless families with the ultimate goal of getting them into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the funds that paid for those vouchers came from a federal program, the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"http://american%20rescue%20plan-homeless%20children%20and%20youth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Rescue Plan-Homeless Children and Youth\u003c/a>, known as ARP-HCY. The historic allocation of $800 million for schools nationwide, of which California received $98.76 million, was one-time pandemic-era funding that must be committed by the end of this month and used by the end of January 2025. There is a possibility for schools to receive an extension on the timeline to spend the funds, though they won’t receive additional amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no plan either at the federal or state level to replace those funds at anywhere near the same level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a fair amount of heartache because the needs are high and higher than they were even before the pandemic, and homelessness is always a crisis,” said Barbara Duffield, executive director of youth homelessness nonprofit \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://schoolhouseconnection.org/arp-hcy?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9Km3BhDjARIsAGUb4nwON2QtPrh3rWupb3qeZxG64oBxcjoBu6ugYUCiuv6fcTr6ICK9c-kaAp2pEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SchoolHouse Connection\u003c/a>. “The prospect of the additional funds to meet those heightened needs going away is demoralizing. It’s true everywhere, but I think particularly true in California, where homelessness is unabated, to say the least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In preparation for the fiscal cliff, homeless liaisons — \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/liaisons-play-pivotal-role-in-connecting-california-homeless-children-to-services/667682\">school staff tasked with identifying and supporting students experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> — are ending some services for students that they’d begun offering during the pandemic, laying off staff, and braiding together other streams of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Rising rates of child homelessness as the funding to address it decreases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Homeless liaisons have long rung the alarm of rising child homelessness, and their concerns are not without merit. The rate of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/amid-pockets-of-rising-student-homelessness-california-districts-tap-covid-funding-to-help-families/691737\">student homelessness in California rose by 9%\u003c/a> during the 2022–23 school year from the year prior. Child poverty in the state also increased in 2023 for the third year in a row and, at 19.2%, is now higher than its pre-pandemic rate of 18.6%, according to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-poverty-increases-for-third-year-in-a-row-surpassing-pre-pandemic-rates\">a recent analysis\u003c/a> published by the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a significant dip in student homelessness rates at the peak of the pandemic, which was followed by a sharp increase once schools reopened. Experts attribute this dramatic shift to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-launches-effort-to-count-all-homeless-students-quick-guide/665252\">the identification efforts by liaisons\u003c/a>. While some of the increase can be attributed to rising homelessness amid skyrocketing rent prices and inflation, it is also in part due to the staff hired with ARP-HCY funds whose jobs were to figure out which students were homeless and to connect them with resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liaisons have also resoundingly cited a critical issue: There is no dedicated, ongoing funding for their work, which they say impedes their ability to implement long-term programming, hire staff and build out preventive measures to help families avoid homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The money that we received is the money that we should be receiving on a regular basis to do the work that we need to do,” said Jennifer Kottke, the homeless liaison for the Los Angeles County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other streams of funding for students experiencing homelessness, but most are one-time funds, too limited to be distributed across all schools, or they are not set aside specifically for this population of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, California’s funding formula for education requires that funds be set aside for high-needs students, which includes homeless students. But those dollars need to be distributed across all high-needs students, not only those experiencing homelessness. As such, the percentage of funds has long been disproportionate to the number of homeless children enrolled in schools statewide. And crucially, this funding requires first identifying students who are homeless — the very effort school staff said needs to first be funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act’s Education for Homeless Children And Youth grant, but at $129 million nationwide, it is a fraction of the windfall the ARP-HCY provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, there was \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/homeless-youth-advocates-call-for-dedicated-state-funding-local-flexibility/707855\">a statewide push to include $13 million in the state budget\u003c/a> as dedicated funding for students experiencing homelessness. The amount was a match for the federal McKinney-Vento dollars California received in the pre-pandemic years, but the state Legislature failed to pass it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What did liaisons do with ARP-HCY funding?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Liaisons are pointing to ARP-HCY dollars as an example of the possibilities for supporting students experiencing homelessness when they are given the opportunity to hire staff and expand their services for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing is that the work is intense, but the funding doesn’t match, so then you end up undercounting because you don’t have the time to do the proper identification process,” L.A. County’s Kottke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the influx of funds, Kottke hired someone to run a countywide free tutoring program for a year and a half that served about 600 students experiencing homelessness, a data analyst to navigate the complicated nature of homelessness data, and a community outreach specialist to distribute informational modules to other liaisons and share social media posts on homeless education resources. In the last school year alone, her office served at least 63,000 students and families experiencing homelessness, though they are still finalizing their numbers and expect that number to be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12005503,mindshift_64314,news_11999471\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her county office received just over $3 million in the first round of ARP-HCY distributions and about $253,000 in the second round — but these amounts include the funds for 78 districts and charters that Kottke contracted with as the head of her local consortium, which she and other county offices statewide had to create in order to distribute funds to any districts and charters that received less than $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/amid-pockets-of-rising-student-homelessness-california-districts-tap-covid-funding-to-help-families/691737\">motel vouchers in \u003c/a>Monterey County were paired with case management to guide families through the county’s housing assistance programs. The part-time staffer in charge of that was hired with ARP-HCY funds, which means that Donna Smith, the county’s homeless liaison, has had to eliminate the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Rescue Plan “was designed as a safety net to be able to help students still participate in school, still have access to the curriculum,” said Smith, whose county has \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/pockets-of-districts-across-california-show-increases-in-homeless-students-in-2022-23-school-year/691619\">some of the highest concentrations of student homelessness\u003c/a>. “It was really designed to keep them from failing in school because we know that school is very important no matter what you do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To highlight the importance of education, Smith also hired two people to run after-school programs for children at homeless shelters in the region. Every day, for two and a half years, children at the shelters were taught music and art, played sports, and went on field trips on the weekends. However, with the money drying up, the programs were shut down on June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s county office received about $423,000 in the first round of allocations and just under $29,000 in the second round. As with Kottke, she was also the head of her local consortium and distributed portions of that funding to other districts and charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, Smith had to lay off seven part-time employees, and Kottke is laying off two this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther north, Meagan Meloy, Butte County’s liaison, began offering what she calls “the next tier of support for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her two decades doing this work, Meloy has focused on ensuring that students experiencing homelessness were enrolled and could get a ride to school. “That always felt like a Band-Aid approach versus the more comprehensive case management,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with over $295,000 total in ARP-HCY funds, she was also able to support families with getting into housing, maintaining their housing, addressing their social-emotional needs, offering academic support, and distributing basic aid needs like food and clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just puts more restrictions on prioritizing which students and families we’re going to serve first,” Meloy said, referring to the end of ARP-HCY funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the uses of the federal funds was the increase in identification efforts. A significant dip in student homelessness followed school closures at the height of the pandemic, which experts agree occurred because the identification of students experiencing homelessness relies on school staff being able to see and interact with children. That became much more difficult, at times impossible, via video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If liaisons do not notice signs of potential homelessness, it is then up to the student and their families to self-identify. But, according to interviews with liaisons statewide, few children and families self-identify as homeless; they might feel ashamed, be fearful of their children being taken away from them, or might not consider themselves as being homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such challenges make identification of homelessness among students a key part of every homeless liaison’s job. Some schools, such as \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/amid-pockets-of-rising-student-homelessness-california-districts-tap-covid-funding-to-help-families/691737\">Santa Rita Union Elementary in \u003c/a>Monterey County, used their ARP-HCY money to hire staff who focused primarily on calling and visiting families they believed might be homeless. It’s a job that liaisons say requires significant investment in time, money and effort, as trust needs to be built with families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’ll see even a bigger bump (in homelessness rates) for ’23–’24 because that’s when ARP was fully out, but if it goes down next year, it’s not going to be because ‘Oh, we’re solving homelessness,’” Duffield said. “It’s because there are fewer people knocking on doors and following up and asking questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/looming-end-of-historic-student-homelessness-funding-has-arrived/719222\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no plan either at the federal or state level to replace those funds at anywhere near the same level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a fair amount of heartache because the needs are high and higher than they were even before the pandemic, and homelessness is always a crisis,” said Barbara Duffield, executive director of youth homelessness nonprofit \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://schoolhouseconnection.org/arp-hcy?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9Km3BhDjARIsAGUb4nwON2QtPrh3rWupb3qeZxG64oBxcjoBu6ugYUCiuv6fcTr6ICK9c-kaAp2pEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SchoolHouse Connection\u003c/a>. “The prospect of the additional funds to meet those heightened needs going away is demoralizing. It’s true everywhere, but I think particularly true in California, where homelessness is unabated, to say the least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In preparation for the fiscal cliff, homeless liaisons — \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/liaisons-play-pivotal-role-in-connecting-california-homeless-children-to-services/667682\">school staff tasked with identifying and supporting students experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> — are ending some services for students that they’d begun offering during the pandemic, laying off staff, and braiding together other streams of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Rising rates of child homelessness as the funding to address it decreases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Homeless liaisons have long rung the alarm of rising child homelessness, and their concerns are not without merit. The rate of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/amid-pockets-of-rising-student-homelessness-california-districts-tap-covid-funding-to-help-families/691737\">student homelessness in California rose by 9%\u003c/a> during the 2022–23 school year from the year prior. Child poverty in the state also increased in 2023 for the third year in a row and, at 19.2%, is now higher than its pre-pandemic rate of 18.6%, according to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-poverty-increases-for-third-year-in-a-row-surpassing-pre-pandemic-rates\">a recent analysis\u003c/a> published by the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a significant dip in student homelessness rates at the peak of the pandemic, which was followed by a sharp increase once schools reopened. Experts attribute this dramatic shift to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-launches-effort-to-count-all-homeless-students-quick-guide/665252\">the identification efforts by liaisons\u003c/a>. While some of the increase can be attributed to rising homelessness amid skyrocketing rent prices and inflation, it is also in part due to the staff hired with ARP-HCY funds whose jobs were to figure out which students were homeless and to connect them with resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liaisons have also resoundingly cited a critical issue: There is no dedicated, ongoing funding for their work, which they say impedes their ability to implement long-term programming, hire staff and build out preventive measures to help families avoid homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The money that we received is the money that we should be receiving on a regular basis to do the work that we need to do,” said Jennifer Kottke, the homeless liaison for the Los Angeles County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other streams of funding for students experiencing homelessness, but most are one-time funds, too limited to be distributed across all schools, or they are not set aside specifically for this population of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, California’s funding formula for education requires that funds be set aside for high-needs students, which includes homeless students. But those dollars need to be distributed across all high-needs students, not only those experiencing homelessness. As such, the percentage of funds has long been disproportionate to the number of homeless children enrolled in schools statewide. And crucially, this funding requires first identifying students who are homeless — the very effort school staff said needs to first be funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act’s Education for Homeless Children And Youth grant, but at $129 million nationwide, it is a fraction of the windfall the ARP-HCY provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, there was \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/homeless-youth-advocates-call-for-dedicated-state-funding-local-flexibility/707855\">a statewide push to include $13 million in the state budget\u003c/a> as dedicated funding for students experiencing homelessness. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her county office received just over $3 million in the first round of ARP-HCY distributions and about $253,000 in the second round — but these amounts include the funds for 78 districts and charters that Kottke contracted with as the head of her local consortium, which she and other county offices statewide had to create in order to distribute funds to any districts and charters that received less than $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/amid-pockets-of-rising-student-homelessness-california-districts-tap-covid-funding-to-help-families/691737\">motel vouchers in \u003c/a>Monterey County were paired with case management to guide families through the county’s housing assistance programs. The part-time staffer in charge of that was hired with ARP-HCY funds, which means that Donna Smith, the county’s homeless liaison, has had to eliminate the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Rescue Plan “was designed as a safety net to be able to help students still participate in school, still have access to the curriculum,” said Smith, whose county has \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/pockets-of-districts-across-california-show-increases-in-homeless-students-in-2022-23-school-year/691619\">some of the highest concentrations of student homelessness\u003c/a>. “It was really designed to keep them from failing in school because we know that school is very important no matter what you do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To highlight the importance of education, Smith also hired two people to run after-school programs for children at homeless shelters in the region. Every day, for two and a half years, children at the shelters were taught music and art, played sports, and went on field trips on the weekends. However, with the money drying up, the programs were shut down on June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s county office received about $423,000 in the first round of allocations and just under $29,000 in the second round. As with Kottke, she was also the head of her local consortium and distributed portions of that funding to other districts and charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, Smith had to lay off seven part-time employees, and Kottke is laying off two this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther north, Meagan Meloy, Butte County’s liaison, began offering what she calls “the next tier of support for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her two decades doing this work, Meloy has focused on ensuring that students experiencing homelessness were enrolled and could get a ride to school. “That always felt like a Band-Aid approach versus the more comprehensive case management,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with over $295,000 total in ARP-HCY funds, she was also able to support families with getting into housing, maintaining their housing, addressing their social-emotional needs, offering academic support, and distributing basic aid needs like food and clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just puts more restrictions on prioritizing which students and families we’re going to serve first,” Meloy said, referring to the end of ARP-HCY funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the uses of the federal funds was the increase in identification efforts. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pink hues adorn the horizon as the sun rises on a nondescript parking lot at Long Beach City College. The lot is quiet but not empty, with the same gray asphalt and slightly faded white lines as any other one on campus. But from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., it is much more than a place to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lot is a designated area for Long Beach City College’s Safe Parking Program, an initiative from the college’s Basic Needs Center that offers safe overnight parking for students and connects them to resources like showers and Wi-Fi. The program was created to address a particular student demographic: homeless students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccleague.org/sites/default/files/images/basic_needs_among_california_community_college_students-final-2023.pdf\">report (PDF)\u003c/a> from the Community College League of California found that 2 out of 3 of the state’s community college students struggle to meet their basic needs and almost 3 out of 5 are housing insecure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help these students, multiple legislative measures have tried to create safe parking options similar to Long Beach City College’s. The most recent effort was \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1818?slug=CA_202320240AB1818\">Assembly Bill 1818\u003c/a>. Introduced by Assemblymember Corey Jackson early this year, the bill would have required the California Community College and California State University systems to create pilot programs to provide safe overnight parking for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parking lot homeless programs are a best practice that’s been used throughout the nation; churches have done it, cities have done it, it’s time for colleges to step up and do it too,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was killed in the appropriations committee on Aug. 16 but would have required the California State University to select five campuses to participate in the pilot program; the California Community College chancellor would have had to select 20. The pilot program would have lasted through 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appropriations committee, which assesses the financial viability of a bill, estimated that establishing pilot programs across the Cal State system would cost around $500,000 as well as an additional $2.25 million in annual costs. For the California Community Colleges, the committee estimated between $91,500 and $112,00 in one-time costs and $10 million to $13 million in annual costs for the duration of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Mendez, coordinator of Long Beach City College’s Basic Needs Program, oversees the safe parking program and said those estimates sound high, although he acknowledges that costs will vary from campus to campus. Long Beach City College has been able to fund its program for less than the committee’s estimated costs by working collaboratively with other departments and using existing contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the bill had garnered support from organizations like the California Faculty Association and the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, several community college districts and the California State University system opposed it. Some of their concerns include liability risk and cost. They also argue that providing secure overnight parking is not a permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Safe Parking LA parking permit on a car windshield in a ‘safe parking’ lot in Los Angeles, on Feb. 11, 2019. By 2023, the organization was operating 7 ‘safe parking’ lots monitored by security guards in the Los Angeles area, offering a temporary 12-hour safe haven for people who live in their cars or RVs. \u003ccite>(Kyle Grillot/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Letitia Clark, chief communications officer for the South Orange County Community College District, said the district has been investing in programs that support basic needs, including housing, as well as exploring building housing on campus as part of their facilities master plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want any mandates or anything that would take away from that, and especially with an alternative that we actually don’t think is safe and really provides a good quality of life for our students,” Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendez at Long Beach City College acknowledges that overnight parking is not a housing solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in the understanding that providing our students a safe place to park is providing them housing,” Mendez said, adding that the program is just one of the many resources available for students facing housing insecurity. However, overnight parking provides an immediate safe space while students are connected to longer-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providing holistic support\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Started in 2021, the program has evolved over the years. The lot is now located next to the college’s campus safety building, which has allowed Long Beach City College to cut down on the nearly $500,000 they spent the first two years hiring an outside security company. Students have access to the bathroom in the campus safety building throughout the night and can access the locker room showers from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the nearby school stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being next to the campus safety building means overnight security officers and parking employees periodically check in on the lot as part of their routine rounds. Mendez said that despite there not being 24/7 surveillance, there haven’t been any safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lot has 15 parking spots reserved for safe parking participants from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m., although the program can have around 30 folks enrolled at a time. Mendez said they rarely have issues with capacity because students use the resource to varying degrees — some enroll as a backup because they are at risk of losing their housing, others may only need a night or two while they wait to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the Safe Parking Program need to be enrolled in the primary terms of fall and spring. However, they can continue using the program during summer and winter without being enrolled during those terms. They must also be independent; service animals are allowed but students can’t be living in their vehicle with family or have dependents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These eligibility requirements have evolved as Mendez and his team assess what is realistic and better serves students. Originally, the program required students to have their vehicles registered and an up-to-date license, but now that is something the college assists them with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once enrolled in the program, students receive a welcome packet, sign a liability release form and are connected with a case manager to find long-term housing, whether that be through one of the college’s community partners or elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2022–23 academic year, the program had a total of 24 students. Twelve of them found transitional or permanent housing. For fall 2023, 21 students enrolled in the program, two obtained permanent housing and 19 of them continued into spring 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community has also been supportive of the program. Mendez said that since it started, the program has received donations of blankets, gift cards, hygiene kits and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliot Stern, the president of Saddleback College, spoke against AB 1818 during a Senate committee hearing, arguing that colleges need to get students out of their cars and into their basic needs centers so their needs can be “addressed holistically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Long Beach City College, students access the parking program through the basic needs center and its online request form. What began as a COVID-19 emergency aid application has continued to be a useful one-stop-shop application for students seeking help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all of our basic needs efforts, we always take a wide scope and try to cast the widest net we can,” Mendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey asks whether students are facing housing insecurity, which could mean they are struggling to pay rent or have to move frequently, or if they are homeless, meaning they don’t have a permanent place to live. If they answer yes to either, the survey then asks if they’re sleeping in their vehicle, couch surfing, staying in hotels or borrowing a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this data, the Basic Needs team can directly connect students with specific resources. For students who self-identify as living in their cars, the outreach coordinator then refers them to the Safe Parking Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When students aren’t allowed to park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AB 1818 was inspired by the experiences of students attending campuses without overnight parking. The bill originated as a response to Cal Poly Humboldt evicting students living in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 25, 2023, Cal Poly Humboldt students received a \u003ca href=\"https://mailings.humboldt.edu/general/2023_10_25/index.html\">mass announcement\u003c/a> stating that the university would begin enforcing a parking policy it had previously overlooked and would be evicting students who were found sleeping in their vehicles overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those students was Caleb Chen, a second-year public sociology graduate student. He applied to Humboldt in late June of last year and knew finding housing would be difficult. After doing some research, he learned about the university’s alternative living community and figured it would be feasible to live out of his van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen was in the graduate lounge with a friend when they both got the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, the jig is up,” his friend told him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eviction announcement said allowing students to sleep in their cars was “unsanitary” and “unsafe” — terminology that not only made students feel dehumanized but also something they considered inaccurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Butterfield standing inside his RV. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brad Butterfield, president of the Alternative Living Club, a school club created by Humboldt students living in their cars to form a community and advocate for establishing a mail service, said the administration brought up similar sanitation concerns when they pitched the idea of a safe parking program on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need, nor ever asked for, bathrooms, showers or security,” said Butterfield, a journalism senior. “All we need is a place to park overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield lives in an RV, which has a built-in bathroom. He has a membership at a local gym and showers there. For students without RVs, Chen said there still are bathrooms on campus that are open 24/7 and that most undergraduate students shower in the school gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really difficult to be pretty much told that you can’t exist,” Butterfield said. “We weren’t causing any harm. We all kept a really low profile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield said that at the time of the evictions, 25 to 30 students were living in their cars. Some lived in discrete vehicles like SUVs, while others lived in RVs like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email announcement stated that campus officers had received calls from members of the community “expressing fear and frustration about the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were never any issues between the vehicle dwellers on campus,” Butterfield said. “Not between us as a community and certainly not between us and the campus community at large.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Butterfield checks the top of his RV for leaks in Arcata on Aug. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Butterfield, it was quite the contrary. He said some students had told him they felt safer knowing there were students in the parking lot at night who could call the police if anyone was trying to break into their car — something the group had done in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stigma around homelessness is something that Mendez from Long Beach City College has been fighting since the beginning of the safe parking program. He said the staff have a student-centered approach and are mindful of treating students with dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all of these negative stereotypes about what a homeless person is instead of realizing that these college students are coming here to be successful. They’re coming here to work on their long-term goals and help themselves and their families,” Mendez said. “I think that level of dignity has made the biggest impact beyond the actual connection of housing partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mischaracterization of homeless students is what ended a 2019 bill that was also advocating for safe parking. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB302\">Assembly Bill 302\u003c/a> was introduced by Assemblymember Marc Berman and would have required community college campuses to allow overnight access to parking, bathroom and shower facilities for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill made it to the appropriations committee, where it underwent significant amendments that Berman said “watered down the bill” and “treated homeless community college students like pedophiles” by placing restrictions for campuses within a certain distance from elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12000987,news_11988775,mindshift_64314\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really unfortunate and damaging in terms of stigmatizing homeless students. And so, because of a lot of those reasons, we decided to stop the bill from moving forward and work on other solutions to the issue,” Berman said. He later drafted Assembly Bill 132, which successfully passed and required every California Community College to establish a basic needs center and hire a basic needs coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, another student tried starting a pilot overnight parking program at his campus. Grayson Peters, now a UCLA alumni, was a founder of UCLA Safe Parking and came across similar arguments from his administration at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said UCLA administrators told him allowing students to live in their cars and park overnight was “fundamentally unsafe.” Peters said that while he agrees with the statement, the alternative can be even more dangerous for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are actively sleeping on unsecured city streets a few blocks over, without the benefit of university guards or university facilities or the student gym nearby to go to the restroom in the middle of the night if they need to,” Peters said. “The status quo is more unsafe than the solution we’re proposing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield and his partner have experienced that risk. After being evicted, they tried to find safe places to park around the city. But Arcata has a 72-hour parking limit, which meant they had to relocate every three days. Butterfield said the Arcata police have harassed them multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we’re constantly trying to outrun the police because they keep wanting us to move from here to there to here to there,” Butterfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Humboldt referred students to a safe parking program run by a local nonprofit organization, but that program ended this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Goldman, the associate director of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, said data shows that a student’s proximity to campus can affect their academic outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Safe parking] is not only giving them a safer option, but an option that is conducive to them reaching their goals,” Goldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case for Chen in Humboldt, who, before the eviction, was doing much better academically because the commute time was so short, and he didn’t have to stress about where he would spend the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen spent the remainder of the semester and the following one at a local public parking lot. He now lives in a studio apartment he can afford because of loans and scholarships and is splitting rent with his partner, who moved up to Humboldt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Chen stands in the parking lot where he lived in his van at the California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, in Arcata, on Aug. 24, 2024. Due to the high cost of housing and education, some students at the university lived in their vehicles on campus prior to the university, prohibiting them from doing so in the fall of 2023. Chen, a sociology graduate student, said that finding affordable housing near the university is challenging and only possible for him this year after moving in with his partner and receiving a fellowship that can be applied toward rent. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When that announcement happened in November, it was just a wrench into a lot of people’s livelihoods, let alone academic success,” Chen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said he was disappointed that the bill was “mischaracterized” by the educational systems as encouraging students to live in their cars as opposed to more effective interventions. Moving forward, now that the legislature is on a break until January, Jackson said he will be scheduling a meeting with the Cal State and California Community Colleges chancellors to see if “there’s ways that we can still get this done.” If not, he will be reintroducing the bill next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Student Senate for the Community Colleges said they will continue to advocate for student basics needs including securing funding for dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jetaun Stevens, a senior staff attorney with the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates, said she hopes the bill returns with a greater coalition behind it. She said that while AB 1818 was mostly sponsored by the author, working with advocacy organizations who can co-sponsor the bill would help bring forward student stories and amplify the potential impact of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes it does take [bills] that are somewhat controversial quite a few times before they make it across the finish line,” Stevens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Briana Mendez-Padilla is a fellow with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pink hues adorn the horizon as the sun rises on a nondescript parking lot at Long Beach City College. The lot is quiet but not empty, with the same gray asphalt and slightly faded white lines as any other one on campus. But from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., it is much more than a place to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lot is a designated area for Long Beach City College’s Safe Parking Program, an initiative from the college’s Basic Needs Center that offers safe overnight parking for students and connects them to resources like showers and Wi-Fi. The program was created to address a particular student demographic: homeless students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccleague.org/sites/default/files/images/basic_needs_among_california_community_college_students-final-2023.pdf\">report (PDF)\u003c/a> from the Community College League of California found that 2 out of 3 of the state’s community college students struggle to meet their basic needs and almost 3 out of 5 are housing insecure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help these students, multiple legislative measures have tried to create safe parking options similar to Long Beach City College’s. The most recent effort was \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1818?slug=CA_202320240AB1818\">Assembly Bill 1818\u003c/a>. Introduced by Assemblymember Corey Jackson early this year, the bill would have required the California Community College and California State University systems to create pilot programs to provide safe overnight parking for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parking lot homeless programs are a best practice that’s been used throughout the nation; churches have done it, cities have done it, it’s time for colleges to step up and do it too,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was killed in the appropriations committee on Aug. 16 but would have required the California State University to select five campuses to participate in the pilot program; the California Community College chancellor would have had to select 20. The pilot program would have lasted through 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appropriations committee, which assesses the financial viability of a bill, estimated that establishing pilot programs across the Cal State system would cost around $500,000 as well as an additional $2.25 million in annual costs. For the California Community Colleges, the committee estimated between $91,500 and $112,00 in one-time costs and $10 million to $13 million in annual costs for the duration of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Mendez, coordinator of Long Beach City College’s Basic Needs Program, oversees the safe parking program and said those estimates sound high, although he acknowledges that costs will vary from campus to campus. Long Beach City College has been able to fund its program for less than the committee’s estimated costs by working collaboratively with other departments and using existing contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the bill had garnered support from organizations like the California Faculty Association and the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, several community college districts and the California State University system opposed it. Some of their concerns include liability risk and cost. They also argue that providing secure overnight parking is not a permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Safe Parking LA parking permit on a car windshield in a ‘safe parking’ lot in Los Angeles, on Feb. 11, 2019. By 2023, the organization was operating 7 ‘safe parking’ lots monitored by security guards in the Los Angeles area, offering a temporary 12-hour safe haven for people who live in their cars or RVs. \u003ccite>(Kyle Grillot/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Letitia Clark, chief communications officer for the South Orange County Community College District, said the district has been investing in programs that support basic needs, including housing, as well as exploring building housing on campus as part of their facilities master plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want any mandates or anything that would take away from that, and especially with an alternative that we actually don’t think is safe and really provides a good quality of life for our students,” Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendez at Long Beach City College acknowledges that overnight parking is not a housing solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in the understanding that providing our students a safe place to park is providing them housing,” Mendez said, adding that the program is just one of the many resources available for students facing housing insecurity. However, overnight parking provides an immediate safe space while students are connected to longer-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providing holistic support\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Started in 2021, the program has evolved over the years. The lot is now located next to the college’s campus safety building, which has allowed Long Beach City College to cut down on the nearly $500,000 they spent the first two years hiring an outside security company. Students have access to the bathroom in the campus safety building throughout the night and can access the locker room showers from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the nearby school stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being next to the campus safety building means overnight security officers and parking employees periodically check in on the lot as part of their routine rounds. Mendez said that despite there not being 24/7 surveillance, there haven’t been any safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lot has 15 parking spots reserved for safe parking participants from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m., although the program can have around 30 folks enrolled at a time. Mendez said they rarely have issues with capacity because students use the resource to varying degrees — some enroll as a backup because they are at risk of losing their housing, others may only need a night or two while they wait to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the Safe Parking Program need to be enrolled in the primary terms of fall and spring. However, they can continue using the program during summer and winter without being enrolled during those terms. They must also be independent; service animals are allowed but students can’t be living in their vehicle with family or have dependents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These eligibility requirements have evolved as Mendez and his team assess what is realistic and better serves students. Originally, the program required students to have their vehicles registered and an up-to-date license, but now that is something the college assists them with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once enrolled in the program, students receive a welcome packet, sign a liability release form and are connected with a case manager to find long-term housing, whether that be through one of the college’s community partners or elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2022–23 academic year, the program had a total of 24 students. Twelve of them found transitional or permanent housing. For fall 2023, 21 students enrolled in the program, two obtained permanent housing and 19 of them continued into spring 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community has also been supportive of the program. Mendez said that since it started, the program has received donations of blankets, gift cards, hygiene kits and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliot Stern, the president of Saddleback College, spoke against AB 1818 during a Senate committee hearing, arguing that colleges need to get students out of their cars and into their basic needs centers so their needs can be “addressed holistically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Long Beach City College, students access the parking program through the basic needs center and its online request form. What began as a COVID-19 emergency aid application has continued to be a useful one-stop-shop application for students seeking help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all of our basic needs efforts, we always take a wide scope and try to cast the widest net we can,” Mendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey asks whether students are facing housing insecurity, which could mean they are struggling to pay rent or have to move frequently, or if they are homeless, meaning they don’t have a permanent place to live. If they answer yes to either, the survey then asks if they’re sleeping in their vehicle, couch surfing, staying in hotels or borrowing a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this data, the Basic Needs team can directly connect students with specific resources. For students who self-identify as living in their cars, the outreach coordinator then refers them to the Safe Parking Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When students aren’t allowed to park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AB 1818 was inspired by the experiences of students attending campuses without overnight parking. The bill originated as a response to Cal Poly Humboldt evicting students living in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 25, 2023, Cal Poly Humboldt students received a \u003ca href=\"https://mailings.humboldt.edu/general/2023_10_25/index.html\">mass announcement\u003c/a> stating that the university would begin enforcing a parking policy it had previously overlooked and would be evicting students who were found sleeping in their vehicles overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those students was Caleb Chen, a second-year public sociology graduate student. He applied to Humboldt in late June of last year and knew finding housing would be difficult. After doing some research, he learned about the university’s alternative living community and figured it would be feasible to live out of his van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen was in the graduate lounge with a friend when they both got the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, the jig is up,” his friend told him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eviction announcement said allowing students to sleep in their cars was “unsanitary” and “unsafe” — terminology that not only made students feel dehumanized but also something they considered inaccurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Butterfield standing inside his RV. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brad Butterfield, president of the Alternative Living Club, a school club created by Humboldt students living in their cars to form a community and advocate for establishing a mail service, said the administration brought up similar sanitation concerns when they pitched the idea of a safe parking program on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need, nor ever asked for, bathrooms, showers or security,” said Butterfield, a journalism senior. “All we need is a place to park overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield lives in an RV, which has a built-in bathroom. He has a membership at a local gym and showers there. For students without RVs, Chen said there still are bathrooms on campus that are open 24/7 and that most undergraduate students shower in the school gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really difficult to be pretty much told that you can’t exist,” Butterfield said. “We weren’t causing any harm. We all kept a really low profile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield said that at the time of the evictions, 25 to 30 students were living in their cars. Some lived in discrete vehicles like SUVs, while others lived in RVs like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email announcement stated that campus officers had received calls from members of the community “expressing fear and frustration about the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were never any issues between the vehicle dwellers on campus,” Butterfield said. “Not between us as a community and certainly not between us and the campus community at large.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Butterfield checks the top of his RV for leaks in Arcata on Aug. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Butterfield, it was quite the contrary. He said some students had told him they felt safer knowing there were students in the parking lot at night who could call the police if anyone was trying to break into their car — something the group had done in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stigma around homelessness is something that Mendez from Long Beach City College has been fighting since the beginning of the safe parking program. He said the staff have a student-centered approach and are mindful of treating students with dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all of these negative stereotypes about what a homeless person is instead of realizing that these college students are coming here to be successful. They’re coming here to work on their long-term goals and help themselves and their families,” Mendez said. “I think that level of dignity has made the biggest impact beyond the actual connection of housing partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mischaracterization of homeless students is what ended a 2019 bill that was also advocating for safe parking. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB302\">Assembly Bill 302\u003c/a> was introduced by Assemblymember Marc Berman and would have required community college campuses to allow overnight access to parking, bathroom and shower facilities for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill made it to the appropriations committee, where it underwent significant amendments that Berman said “watered down the bill” and “treated homeless community college students like pedophiles” by placing restrictions for campuses within a certain distance from elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Grayson Peters, now a UCLA alumni, was a founder of UCLA Safe Parking and came across similar arguments from his administration at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said UCLA administrators told him allowing students to live in their cars and park overnight was “fundamentally unsafe.” Peters said that while he agrees with the statement, the alternative can be even more dangerous for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are actively sleeping on unsecured city streets a few blocks over, without the benefit of university guards or university facilities or the student gym nearby to go to the restroom in the middle of the night if they need to,” Peters said. “The status quo is more unsafe than the solution we’re proposing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield and his partner have experienced that risk. After being evicted, they tried to find safe places to park around the city. But Arcata has a 72-hour parking limit, which meant they had to relocate every three days. Butterfield said the Arcata police have harassed them multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we’re constantly trying to outrun the police because they keep wanting us to move from here to there to here to there,” Butterfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Humboldt referred students to a safe parking program run by a local nonprofit organization, but that program ended this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Goldman, the associate director of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, said data shows that a student’s proximity to campus can affect their academic outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Safe parking] is not only giving them a safer option, but an option that is conducive to them reaching their goals,” Goldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case for Chen in Humboldt, who, before the eviction, was doing much better academically because the commute time was so short, and he didn’t have to stress about where he would spend the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen spent the remainder of the semester and the following one at a local public parking lot. He now lives in a studio apartment he can afford because of loans and scholarships and is splitting rent with his partner, who moved up to Humboldt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Chen stands in the parking lot where he lived in his van at the California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, in Arcata, on Aug. 24, 2024. Due to the high cost of housing and education, some students at the university lived in their vehicles on campus prior to the university, prohibiting them from doing so in the fall of 2023. Chen, a sociology graduate student, said that finding affordable housing near the university is challenging and only possible for him this year after moving in with his partner and receiving a fellowship that can be applied toward rent. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When that announcement happened in November, it was just a wrench into a lot of people’s livelihoods, let alone academic success,” Chen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said he was disappointed that the bill was “mischaracterized” by the educational systems as encouraging students to live in their cars as opposed to more effective interventions. Moving forward, now that the legislature is on a break until January, Jackson said he will be scheduling a meeting with the Cal State and California Community Colleges chancellors to see if “there’s ways that we can still get this done.” If not, he will be reintroducing the bill next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Student Senate for the Community Colleges said they will continue to advocate for student basics needs including securing funding for dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jetaun Stevens, a senior staff attorney with the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates, said she hopes the bill returns with a greater coalition behind it. She said that while AB 1818 was mostly sponsored by the author, working with advocacy organizations who can co-sponsor the bill would help bring forward student stories and amplify the potential impact of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes it does take [bills] that are somewhat controversial quite a few times before they make it across the finish line,” Stevens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a package of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/housing\">housing\u003c/a> bills aimed at fast-tracking construction, addressing homelessness and holding cities accountable to the state’s housing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation strengthens reporting requirements on cities’ progress in permitting housing, toughens penalties for localities that resist new development and requires cities and counties to take into account the needs of their lowest-income and homeless residents when they develop long-range housing plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The original sin in this state is affordability,” Newsom said at a press conference in San Francisco with state and local leaders. “That’s the challenge we are trying to address here today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also announced $2.2 billion in new funding from Proposition 1, which voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980254/proposition-1-narrowly-approved-by-voters\">narrowly approved in March\u003c/a>, that will be available this summer to build permanent supportive housing for veterans and people with mental health or substance use issues, who also are at risk of becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program, dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/homekey-plus\">Homekey+\u003c/a>, builds on the existing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877000/californias-homekey-is-revolutionizing-homeless-housing-but-can-it-last\">Homekey motel-conversion\u003c/a> model developed during the pandemic. Like its namesake, the new program will channel funding to cities and counties to buy or rehabilitate buildings, such as motels, that can be swiftly transformed into permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Do you have questions about housing? Or a tip or story you’d like to share with housing reporters at KQED? \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?usp=sf_link\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Submit those questions, tips and more here. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the governor’s office, HomeKey+ will create more than 4,000 new permanent housing units, plus supportive services. Half of these homes will be reserved for veterans with behavioral health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002010 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/014_Richmond_JeanStanley_07152021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom singled out the city of Huntington Beach for its ongoing efforts to stymie new housing production, saying he’d use a newly signed law, SB 1037, to enforce steep fines of up to $50,000 a month against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who turn their backs on this crisis, we’re turning up the heat,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill gives the attorney general more power to seek penalties against local governments that refuse to adopt a compliant housing element or break housing law, money that would go toward developing affordable housing within the community where the violation occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of two bills Attorney General Rob Bonta sponsored. Together, the legislation provides greater incentives, encouragement and clarity to help locals meet their housing obligations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that all of our incredible, good faith-acting cities … will help us get to where we need to go when it comes to creating what we all know we need — an affordable California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Assemblymember Buffy Wicks authored a bill that updates the state’s “builder’s remedy” provision, in place since 1990, that gets triggered when a local government fails to pass a housing plan that meets state requirements and limits local government’s ability to reject certain affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks’ legislation, AB 1893, makes more projects eligible for that streamlined approval and gives city planners clarity about the application requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inertia and the status quo are no longer acceptable in California,” Wicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said over 70 housing-related bills made it to his desk this year. He signed 32 today. Here are some of them:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preventing and ending homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 799 by Assemblymember Luz Rivas: Aims to enhance the coordination and transparency of efforts to address homelessness in California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 1395 by Sen. Josh Becker: Encourages the construction of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988728/should-california-double-down-on-building-tiny-homes-for-people-experiencing-homelessness\">tiny homes and other interim housing\u003c/a> by streamlining zoning and CEQA requirements.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Accountability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 1893 by Assemblymember Wicks: Updates the original \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945744/california-building-boom-a-new-law-promised-big-but-has-yet-to-deliver-in-the-bay-area\">Builder’s Remedy law\u003c/a> to reduce the amount of affordable housing required, among other changes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 1037 by Sen. 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Toni Atkins: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house\">Updates SB 9\u003c/a>, which allows property owners to subdivide parcels zoned for single-family homes in most urban neighborhoods and build up to two duplexes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Housing streamlining and production\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 2243 by Assemblymember Wicks: Simplifies and adjusts the approval process for affordable and mixed-income housing developments in California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AB 2488 by Assemblymember Phil Ting: Allows for the conversion of commercial buildings into residential units through a special financing district in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 312 by Sen. Wiener: This is clean-up legislation from an earlier law, SB 886. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom singled out the city of Huntington Beach for its ongoing efforts to stymie new housing production, saying he’d use a newly signed law, SB 1037, to enforce steep fines of up to $50,000 a month against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who turn their backs on this crisis, we’re turning up the heat,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill gives the attorney general more power to seek penalties against local governments that refuse to adopt a compliant housing element or break housing law, money that would go toward developing affordable housing within the community where the violation occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of two bills Attorney General Rob Bonta sponsored. 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He signed 32 today. Here are some of them:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preventing and ending homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 799 by Assemblymember Luz Rivas: Aims to enhance the coordination and transparency of efforts to address homelessness in California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 1395 by Sen. Josh Becker: Encourages the construction of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988728/should-california-double-down-on-building-tiny-homes-for-people-experiencing-homelessness\">tiny homes and other interim housing\u003c/a> by streamlining zoning and CEQA requirements.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Accountability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 1893 by Assemblymember Wicks: Updates the original \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945744/california-building-boom-a-new-law-promised-big-but-has-yet-to-deliver-in-the-bay-area\">Builder’s Remedy law\u003c/a> to reduce the amount of affordable housing required, among other changes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 1037 by Sen. 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Investigators shared last week that two of the attempts were put out by fire crews and nearby residents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prosecutors say the third attempt led to the start of the Line Fire, which is 50% contained and caused Governor Gavin Newsom to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/09/07/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-in-san-bernardino-county-secures-federal-assistance-to-support-response-to-line-fire/\">declare a state of emergency\u003c/a> for San Bernardino County. Halstenberg is facing 11 felony counts, including aggravated arson, arson causing great bodily injury and arson of forest land.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005009/california-promises-to-cut-maternal-mortality-in-half-by-2026\">\u003cb>California Promises To Cut Maternal Mortality In Half By 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California’s surgeon general, Dr. Diana Ramos, introduced a new initiative on Tuesday that promises to cut the state’s maternal mortality rate by 50% by December 2026.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently, a mother in California loses her life to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pregnancy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pregnancy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">-related complications every five days. 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"content": "\u003cp>Overlooking the Pacific Ocean from his \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-13/trump-golf-course-rancho-palos-verdes-landslides\">own golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes\u003c/a>, former president Donald Trump praised his California property as one of the most beautiful in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the state, however, is being destroyed by rampant crime, sweeping homelessness and unauthorized immigrants — and it’s spurring a mass exodus, Trump said at a press conference today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state of California is a mess,” said Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow Comrade Kamala Harris and the communist left to do to America what they did to California,” said the former president, who had held a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Thursday night and plans one later today in the Bay Area community of Woodside to cash in on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/07/kamala-harris-donald-trump-campaign-money-california/\">California’s lucrative trove of donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attacking California is something Trump didn’t even do once in his first — and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1834311545729225026\">he says only\u003c/a> — presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Political experts perceived it as a missed opportunity: After all, his allies have for decades decried California as too liberal for the rest of the nation — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-california-record-democrats/\">partly why there has never been a California Democrat elected president\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury is still out on how much Harris’ California ties could hurt her chance among undecided voters. For most Michigan and Arizona voters who spoke to CalMatters last month, Harris’ record in the White House \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-california-record-democrats/\">mattered more\u003c/a> than her California brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who repeatedly mispronounced Harris’s first name, also blamed Harris for federal economic and border policies and insisted he outperformed her \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/presidential-debate-kamala-harris-donald-trump/\">during the debate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harris campaign’s rapid response team \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KamalaHQ\">posted about some of Trump’s statements\u003c/a>, but has not directly responded to what he said about her record or her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much of the many, many things Trump said about California and Harris’ record is accurate? Here’s our fact check on some notable claims:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State of the state\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“California has the highest inflation, highest taxes, the highest gas prices, the most illegal aliens, the most regulations, the most expensive utilities, and it ranks as the third worst state to start a business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Inflation\u003c/strong>: Inflation rates fluctuate month to month. Florida had the highest inflation at 4% as of March, while California had the seventh highest, at 3.6%, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/04/09/states-highest-lowest-inflation/73184932007/\">analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics data\u003c/a> by Moody’s Analytics. Even according to U.S. Senate Republicans’ own inflation tracker, as of August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/california-inflation-report/\">California\u003c/a> ranked 5th for increased monthly inflation costs since January 2021 and had a cumulative inflation rate lower than Florida and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/state-inflation-tracker\">other states in the West region\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Taxes:\u003c/strong> California does have the highest state sales tax at 7.25%, but \u003ca href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/2024-sales-taxes/\">ranks 8th\u003c/a> in total state and local sales tax rates this year, according to the Tax Foundation. California’s property tax rate is at 0.75%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/mortgages/property-tax-by-state\">the 34th highest\u003c/a> of all 50 states. The state also has a progressive income tax rate while other states have a flat rate for all.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Gas prices\u003c/strong>: It is true. California does have the highest gas price of all states, at $4.76 a gallon as of today, \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA\">according to the AAA\u003c/a>. The national average is $3.23.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unauthorized immigrants\u003c/strong>: California is estimated to have the largest population of undocumented immigrants, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">1.8 million\u003c/a>, based on a Pew Research Center estimate of 2022 Census figures. But California is also the only state where that population decreased from 2019 to 2022, while the populations in Republican-led Florida and Texas grew the most.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Utility rates\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a\">As of June\u003c/a>, Hawaii — not California — had the highest electricity rates, averaging 42.4 cents per kilowatt hour for residential customers, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In California, residential customers paid an average of 33.0 cents per kilowatt hour. \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/living/monthly-utility-costs-by-state/#states_with_the_most_expensive_utilities_section\">A Forbes analysis\u003c/a> of monthly utility bills by state ranked Alaska the most expensive, followed by Hawaii, Connecticut, West Virginia and Georgia.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Worst state to start a business\u003c/strong>: It depends which ranking you look at, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/best-states-to-start-a-business/#state_by_state_ranking_the_best_states_to_start_a_business_section\">according to Forbes\u003c/a>, California is the 37th best state to start a business this year.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Crime in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> Trump blamed the “destruction” of San Francisco on Gov. Gavin Newsom and Harris. He said murders rose “significantly” and car thefts “went through the roof” while Harris was state attorney general. He argued that Harris was lenient in prosecuting several cases, that she had endorsed defunding the police and that “the police don’t endorse her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Crime stats\u003c/strong>: When Harris was California attorney general between 2011 and 2017, homicide rates fluctuated, with an average of 1,819 homicides — or 4.7 per 100,000 people — each year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/Crime%20In%20CA%202022f.pdf\">the state Department of Justice\u003c/a>. Vehicle thefts ebbed and flowed, averaging 164,000 or 424.9 per 100,000 people. Both rates were far lower than during the 1990s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Leniency\u003c/strong>: Despite claims she’s soft on crime, Harris has a mixed record. As a local prosecutor, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-prosecutor-california-san-francisco/\">did not pursue the death penalty against a cop killer\u003c/a> — a case Trump used during the press conference to justify his claim. But years later, Harris prosecuted a woman with mental illness for assaulting police officers. As California’s attorney general, Harris defended \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-prosecutor-california-san-francisco/\">the state’s death penalty\u003c/a> even though she personally opposed it. Harris remained neutral on various ballot measures about reducing penalties for low-level offenses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/29/kamala-harris-california-criminal-justice-00171490\">allowing earlier release for more offenders\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Defund the police\u003c/strong>: It is true that Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/30/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-false-statement-that-kamala-h/\">expressed support for redirecting some money\u003c/a> and “reimagining” public safety during her 2020 presidential campaign, weeks after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, sparking waves of protests against law enforcement. “This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” she said at the time. After President Joe Biden tapped her as his running mate, however, she denounced the “defund” movement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Police endorsements\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4865127-law-enforcement-endorse-kamala-harris/\">More than 100 law enforcement officials\u003c/a> — including sheriffs, former and current police chiefs and FBI agents — endorsed Harris last week.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Several people are seating facing a split screen showing a man and woman.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at KQED headquarters in San Francisco on Sept. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Immigration and the border\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> He lambasted Harris for supporting “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants while she was San Francisco’s district attorney, claiming she shielded “illegal aliens” who committed murders and refused to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary city policy\u003c/strong>: The San Francisco city ordinance — which prevented officials from handing over unauthorized migrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement even if they committed a felony — \u003ca href=\"https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trumps-false-and-misleading-claims-about-harris-record-on-crime/\">dates to 1985\u003c/a>. It was originally aimed at protecting asylum seekers from El Salvador and Guatemala, but was extended in 1989 to cover all immigrants. Harris — who was district attorney from 2004 to 2011 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html\">supported changing the policy\u003c/a> to report undocumented immigrants arrested on suspicion of a felony in 2008.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Prosecuting unauthorized immigrants\u003c/strong>: Trump said Harris offered sanctuary in 2008 to Edwin Ramos, a Salvadoran migrant who was charged with three counts of murder and who had prior convictions for assault and attempted robbery. Similarly, Trump mentioned the case of Rony Aguilera, a Honduran immigrant who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 2008. It is true city officials did not turn him over to federal agents at the time — under the sanctuary city policy that Harris helped change that year. Ramos was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-killer-Edwin-Ramos-sentenced-in-triple-slaying-3625545.php\">sentenced to life in prison in 2014\u003c/a>, and Aguilera was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/s-f-gang-member-sentenced-in-teen-s-slaying-4847595.php\">in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> “After Kamala Harris and Gavin Newscum took charge of San Francisco, homelessness increased by over 200%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong> Homelessness has grown in California, but not by that much. From 2007 to 2023, the number of people experiencing homelessness grew \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">by 30.5%\u003c/a>, according to a report to Congress. In San Francisco, the point-in-time count of homeless people this year reached the lowest level since 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">according to the city\u003c/a>. Nearly 186,000 Californians live on the streets or homeless shelters, up 8% from 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">according to a new CalMatters analysis\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://shou.senate.ca.gov/sites/shou.senate.ca.gov/files/Homelessness%20in%20CA%202023%20Numbers%20-%201.2024.pdf\">As of last year\u003c/a>, California accounted for nearly 30% of the nation’s homeless population and roughly half of the unsheltered population. [aside postID=\"forum_2010101907043,news_12000992,news_12004347\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California exodus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said\u003c/strong>: He claimed the state has the most number of people leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts: \u003c/strong>It is true that California \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/population-trends-return-to-pre-pandemic-norms.html\">shed the most people\u003c/a> last year — 75,423, according to the Census Bureau. But it’s not just a California problem: \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/population-map-reveals-states-growing-shrinking-1893641#:~:text=The%20states%20that%20lost%20the,same%20reasons%2C%22%20Poston%20said.\">New York\u003c/a> lost the most population between 2020 and 2022, losing 2.6% of its population, according to Census data. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-population-exodus-housing/\">reasons for California’s shrinking population\u003c/a> are complicated: Some died, some moved to other states due to the high cost of living, and some left the country altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify California’s crime rates.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury is still out on how much Harris’ California ties could hurt her chance among undecided voters. For most Michigan and Arizona voters who spoke to CalMatters last month, Harris’ record in the White House \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-california-record-democrats/\">mattered more\u003c/a> than her California brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who repeatedly mispronounced Harris’s first name, also blamed Harris for federal economic and border policies and insisted he outperformed her \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/presidential-debate-kamala-harris-donald-trump/\">during the debate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harris campaign’s rapid response team \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KamalaHQ\">posted about some of Trump’s statements\u003c/a>, but has not directly responded to what he said about her record or her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much of the many, many things Trump said about California and Harris’ record is accurate? Here’s our fact check on some notable claims:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State of the state\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“California has the highest inflation, highest taxes, the highest gas prices, the most illegal aliens, the most regulations, the most expensive utilities, and it ranks as the third worst state to start a business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Inflation\u003c/strong>: Inflation rates fluctuate month to month. Florida had the highest inflation at 4% as of March, while California had the seventh highest, at 3.6%, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/04/09/states-highest-lowest-inflation/73184932007/\">analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics data\u003c/a> by Moody’s Analytics. Even according to U.S. Senate Republicans’ own inflation tracker, as of August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/california-inflation-report/\">California\u003c/a> ranked 5th for increased monthly inflation costs since January 2021 and had a cumulative inflation rate lower than Florida and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/state-inflation-tracker\">other states in the West region\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Taxes:\u003c/strong> California does have the highest state sales tax at 7.25%, but \u003ca href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/2024-sales-taxes/\">ranks 8th\u003c/a> in total state and local sales tax rates this year, according to the Tax Foundation. California’s property tax rate is at 0.75%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/mortgages/property-tax-by-state\">the 34th highest\u003c/a> of all 50 states. The state also has a progressive income tax rate while other states have a flat rate for all.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Gas prices\u003c/strong>: It is true. California does have the highest gas price of all states, at $4.76 a gallon as of today, \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA\">according to the AAA\u003c/a>. The national average is $3.23.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unauthorized immigrants\u003c/strong>: California is estimated to have the largest population of undocumented immigrants, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">1.8 million\u003c/a>, based on a Pew Research Center estimate of 2022 Census figures. But California is also the only state where that population decreased from 2019 to 2022, while the populations in Republican-led Florida and Texas grew the most.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Utility rates\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a\">As of June\u003c/a>, Hawaii — not California — had the highest electricity rates, averaging 42.4 cents per kilowatt hour for residential customers, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In California, residential customers paid an average of 33.0 cents per kilowatt hour. \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/living/monthly-utility-costs-by-state/#states_with_the_most_expensive_utilities_section\">A Forbes analysis\u003c/a> of monthly utility bills by state ranked Alaska the most expensive, followed by Hawaii, Connecticut, West Virginia and Georgia.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Worst state to start a business\u003c/strong>: It depends which ranking you look at, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/best-states-to-start-a-business/#state_by_state_ranking_the_best_states_to_start_a_business_section\">according to Forbes\u003c/a>, California is the 37th best state to start a business this year.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Crime in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> Trump blamed the “destruction” of San Francisco on Gov. Gavin Newsom and Harris. He said murders rose “significantly” and car thefts “went through the roof” while Harris was state attorney general. He argued that Harris was lenient in prosecuting several cases, that she had endorsed defunding the police and that “the police don’t endorse her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Crime stats\u003c/strong>: When Harris was California attorney general between 2011 and 2017, homicide rates fluctuated, with an average of 1,819 homicides — or 4.7 per 100,000 people — each year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/Crime%20In%20CA%202022f.pdf\">the state Department of Justice\u003c/a>. Vehicle thefts ebbed and flowed, averaging 164,000 or 424.9 per 100,000 people. Both rates were far lower than during the 1990s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Leniency\u003c/strong>: Despite claims she’s soft on crime, Harris has a mixed record. As a local prosecutor, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-prosecutor-california-san-francisco/\">did not pursue the death penalty against a cop killer\u003c/a> — a case Trump used during the press conference to justify his claim. But years later, Harris prosecuted a woman with mental illness for assaulting police officers. As California’s attorney general, Harris defended \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-prosecutor-california-san-francisco/\">the state’s death penalty\u003c/a> even though she personally opposed it. Harris remained neutral on various ballot measures about reducing penalties for low-level offenses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/29/kamala-harris-california-criminal-justice-00171490\">allowing earlier release for more offenders\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Defund the police\u003c/strong>: It is true that Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/30/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-false-statement-that-kamala-h/\">expressed support for redirecting some money\u003c/a> and “reimagining” public safety during her 2020 presidential campaign, weeks after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, sparking waves of protests against law enforcement. “This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” she said at the time. After President Joe Biden tapped her as his running mate, however, she denounced the “defund” movement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Police endorsements\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4865127-law-enforcement-endorse-kamala-harris/\">More than 100 law enforcement officials\u003c/a> — including sheriffs, former and current police chiefs and FBI agents — endorsed Harris last week.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Several people are seating facing a split screen showing a man and woman.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at KQED headquarters in San Francisco on Sept. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Immigration and the border\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> He lambasted Harris for supporting “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants while she was San Francisco’s district attorney, claiming she shielded “illegal aliens” who committed murders and refused to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary city policy\u003c/strong>: The San Francisco city ordinance — which prevented officials from handing over unauthorized migrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement even if they committed a felony — \u003ca href=\"https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trumps-false-and-misleading-claims-about-harris-record-on-crime/\">dates to 1985\u003c/a>. It was originally aimed at protecting asylum seekers from El Salvador and Guatemala, but was extended in 1989 to cover all immigrants. Harris — who was district attorney from 2004 to 2011 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html\">supported changing the policy\u003c/a> to report undocumented immigrants arrested on suspicion of a felony in 2008.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Prosecuting unauthorized immigrants\u003c/strong>: Trump said Harris offered sanctuary in 2008 to Edwin Ramos, a Salvadoran migrant who was charged with three counts of murder and who had prior convictions for assault and attempted robbery. Similarly, Trump mentioned the case of Rony Aguilera, a Honduran immigrant who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 2008. It is true city officials did not turn him over to federal agents at the time — under the sanctuary city policy that Harris helped change that year. Ramos was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-killer-Edwin-Ramos-sentenced-in-triple-slaying-3625545.php\">sentenced to life in prison in 2014\u003c/a>, and Aguilera was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/s-f-gang-member-sentenced-in-teen-s-slaying-4847595.php\">in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> “After Kamala Harris and Gavin Newscum took charge of San Francisco, homelessness increased by over 200%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong> Homelessness has grown in California, but not by that much. From 2007 to 2023, the number of people experiencing homelessness grew \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">by 30.5%\u003c/a>, according to a report to Congress. In San Francisco, the point-in-time count of homeless people this year reached the lowest level since 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">according to the city\u003c/a>. Nearly 186,000 Californians live on the streets or homeless shelters, up 8% from 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">according to a new CalMatters analysis\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://shou.senate.ca.gov/sites/shou.senate.ca.gov/files/Homelessness%20in%20CA%202023%20Numbers%20-%201.2024.pdf\">As of last year\u003c/a>, California accounted for nearly 30% of the nation’s homeless population and roughly half of the unsheltered population. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/buena-vista-horace-mann-k-8-community-school\">Buena Vista Horace Mann\u003c/a> is a Spanish immersion school for students from kindergarten to 8th grade in San Francisco’s bustling Mission District. But by night, it transforms into something completely unique in the city: a homeless shelter for families with children enrolled in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter provides a hot meal, a shower and a place to sleep in the gym or auditorium. It was formed six years ago by some of the parents of the school who, during a particularly rainy winter, asked if they could sleep in the hallway or an empty classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were staying in cars. They were staying in laundromats. They were riding the bus or BART back and forth every night just to pass the time in a place that felt relatively safe,” Principal Claudia DeLarios Moran said. “And here we had a building that wasn’t in use out of school time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school partnered with the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to care for these families. The city pays for their housing, and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/our-work/housing-shelter/\">Mission Action runs the shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Beds, blankets and personal belongings in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter beds are set up in a gym at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of families experiencing homelessness or on the verge of homelessness has grown in San Francisco since then, and in recent months, the shelter has had to turn away families at the door when it fills up. Advocates and educators like Moran worry this is traumatizing for kids in desperate need of stability. Studies show housing insecurity early in life affects\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/2/e2023064551/197596/Trajectories-of-Housing-Insecurity-From-Infancy-to?searchresult=1\"> children’s health down the line\u003c/a> and their\u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Students_Experiencing_Homelessness_BRIEF.pdf\"> chances of finishing high school\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That level of insecurity in their home lives makes it really difficult for them to concentrate on whatever amazing instruction the teachers have in store for them once they get here every day,” Moran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As principal of a community school, Moran said her job is to make sure that students’ basic needs are met so they can learn better. That means partnering with local food, health care and housing organizations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59903/when-students-basic-needs-are-met-by-community-schools-learning-can-flourish\">turning the campus into a hub for easy access to services\u003c/a> its immigrant and low-income student population needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving kids a safe place to sleep and a predictable routine can help lessen their anxiety. The shelter also focuses on the parents’ mental health by connecting them to social services and job training programs to help them get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To boost their morale, parents at the shelter are able to cook a meal together twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking gives the parents agency and helps lift their self-esteem, said the shelter’s manager, Jacqui Portillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feel relaxed, they feel connected, they’re accomplished, they did something,” Portillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing headphones and holding audio equipment speaks with a woman wearing a blue vest and jeans in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqui Portillo, community services director for Mission Action (right), speaks with KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The parent has to be okay in order to support their kids,” she said. “And this little moment is helping them to really be more engaged with the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, several shelter residents volunteered to make red pozole – a spicy and hearty Mexican soup. Reporters Daisy Nguyen and Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli spoke with two moms at the shelter, who explained what cooking does for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maria Figueroa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Figueroa migrated from Tijuana, Mexico, in July 2023 with her 18-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. She said it was too dangerous to raise her children in Mexico and is seeking political asylum in the U.S. When she arrived in San Francisco, she enrolled her kids in school and went back to school herself to train to be an in-home caregiver for sick and elderly people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said her kids often ask when they will get to taste her cooking again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them, ‘God willing, when we have our own little place’ because, to be honest, we just can’t cook like that here [all the time] … only when an opportunity like this comes up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black hooded sweatshirt pours soup into a large pot in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She decided to make her signature dish – pozole – because it reminds her of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we met, Figueroa had been staying at the shelter for nine months and said she saw the place as home and the shelter residents, her neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A hand touches chiles in a pan on a stovetop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in the kitchen of a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of how you see the situation, we’re all here for the same thing. We all need a home, we need a place to sleep, a place to eat while we figure out our situation and here, we all see each other and what we’re going through,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Analy Padilla\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Analy Padilla is from Honduras and has been living in this country for 21 years. She also came to this shelter nine months ago after her husband lost his job, and they couldn’t afford the rising cost of rent in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she, her husband and their two sons spent several nights sleeping in their car. They called everywhere for an open shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when they told me there was a spot for my family to stay here, I cried,” Padilla said. “I was so happy. I was finally going to have a home to be with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink t-shirt cuts food on a cutting board in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Analy Padilla helps prepare pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Padilla said it’s not easy sharing the bathroom, eating and sleeping spaces with strangers or packing up her stuff each morning. The experience hit her 15-year-old son Kevin hard, she said. At school, his grades dropped, he skipped classes, and he became withdrawn. [aside postID=\"news_11996078,news_12003407\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said she urged him to see the bright side of their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him: ‘This is only temporary. We will soon get out of here. Then you will have your own space and your life will go back to normal. But give thanks to God that we have a mattress, a blanket and that you’re not outside in the cold. Many people have to spend their nights outside.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said as the last school year progressed, he became more comfortable at the shelter and played with other kids there. She said he also joined a support group at his high school to talk through his experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He ended up liking it because, on the last day of the group, he told me, ‘Mom, the group is going to end, and we need to bring something to share.’ And I saw him so excited,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she also tries to make the best of the situation, and getting to cook together helps her feel like she’s part of a big family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that every two weeks, the cooks rotate duties: some decide what to make while others help with the prepping and cleaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We make a good team,” she said. “If someone doesn’t know how to do something, someone else will know how to do it. But we all add our own seasoning there in the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/buena-vista-horace-mann-k-8-community-school\">Buena Vista Horace Mann\u003c/a> is a Spanish immersion school for students from kindergarten to 8th grade in San Francisco’s bustling Mission District. But by night, it transforms into something completely unique in the city: a homeless shelter for families with children enrolled in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter provides a hot meal, a shower and a place to sleep in the gym or auditorium. It was formed six years ago by some of the parents of the school who, during a particularly rainy winter, asked if they could sleep in the hallway or an empty classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were staying in cars. They were staying in laundromats. They were riding the bus or BART back and forth every night just to pass the time in a place that felt relatively safe,” Principal Claudia DeLarios Moran said. “And here we had a building that wasn’t in use out of school time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school partnered with the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to care for these families. The city pays for their housing, and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/our-work/housing-shelter/\">Mission Action runs the shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Beds, blankets and personal belongings in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter beds are set up in a gym at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of families experiencing homelessness or on the verge of homelessness has grown in San Francisco since then, and in recent months, the shelter has had to turn away families at the door when it fills up. Advocates and educators like Moran worry this is traumatizing for kids in desperate need of stability. Studies show housing insecurity early in life affects\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/2/e2023064551/197596/Trajectories-of-Housing-Insecurity-From-Infancy-to?searchresult=1\"> children’s health down the line\u003c/a> and their\u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Students_Experiencing_Homelessness_BRIEF.pdf\"> chances of finishing high school\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That level of insecurity in their home lives makes it really difficult for them to concentrate on whatever amazing instruction the teachers have in store for them once they get here every day,” Moran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As principal of a community school, Moran said her job is to make sure that students’ basic needs are met so they can learn better. That means partnering with local food, health care and housing organizations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59903/when-students-basic-needs-are-met-by-community-schools-learning-can-flourish\">turning the campus into a hub for easy access to services\u003c/a> its immigrant and low-income student population needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving kids a safe place to sleep and a predictable routine can help lessen their anxiety. The shelter also focuses on the parents’ mental health by connecting them to social services and job training programs to help them get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To boost their morale, parents at the shelter are able to cook a meal together twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking gives the parents agency and helps lift their self-esteem, said the shelter’s manager, Jacqui Portillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feel relaxed, they feel connected, they’re accomplished, they did something,” Portillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing headphones and holding audio equipment speaks with a woman wearing a blue vest and jeans in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqui Portillo, community services director for Mission Action (right), speaks with KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The parent has to be okay in order to support their kids,” she said. “And this little moment is helping them to really be more engaged with the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, several shelter residents volunteered to make red pozole – a spicy and hearty Mexican soup. Reporters Daisy Nguyen and Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli spoke with two moms at the shelter, who explained what cooking does for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maria Figueroa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Figueroa migrated from Tijuana, Mexico, in July 2023 with her 18-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. She said it was too dangerous to raise her children in Mexico and is seeking political asylum in the U.S. When she arrived in San Francisco, she enrolled her kids in school and went back to school herself to train to be an in-home caregiver for sick and elderly people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said her kids often ask when they will get to taste her cooking again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them, ‘God willing, when we have our own little place’ because, to be honest, we just can’t cook like that here [all the time] … only when an opportunity like this comes up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black hooded sweatshirt pours soup into a large pot in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She decided to make her signature dish – pozole – because it reminds her of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we met, Figueroa had been staying at the shelter for nine months and said she saw the place as home and the shelter residents, her neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A hand touches chiles in a pan on a stovetop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in the kitchen of a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of how you see the situation, we’re all here for the same thing. We all need a home, we need a place to sleep, a place to eat while we figure out our situation and here, we all see each other and what we’re going through,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Analy Padilla\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Analy Padilla is from Honduras and has been living in this country for 21 years. She also came to this shelter nine months ago after her husband lost his job, and they couldn’t afford the rising cost of rent in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she, her husband and their two sons spent several nights sleeping in their car. They called everywhere for an open shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when they told me there was a spot for my family to stay here, I cried,” Padilla said. “I was so happy. 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The experience hit her 15-year-old son Kevin hard, she said. At school, his grades dropped, he skipped classes, and he became withdrawn. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, September 11, 2024…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/8/bridge-fire\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bridge Fire\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> burning in the Angeles National Forest outside of L.A. has exploded in size growing to more than 47,000 acres with no containment. Evacuation orders are in place for small mountain communities and flames have consumed homes in Wrightwood and swept through the Mountain High Ski resort.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/airport-fire-trabuco-evacuation-orange-county\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Airport Fire\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> continues to burn across dry chaparral covered hills in Orange County. The wind-driven blaze had charred more than 22,000 acres, and jumped into Riverside County on Tuesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Line Fire has burned more than 34,000 acres in and around the San Bernardino National Forest. Smoke from the blaze– and others around the state— is making air quality unhealthy for more than 10 million people in Southern California, especially in inland areas. Some people \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2024-09-10/locals-get-creative-to-keep-smoke-out-of-homes\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are getting creative\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to protect themselves. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California’s unhoused population has grown by 8% to 186,000 people. That’s according to a new analysis of state homelessness data from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">our California Newsroom partner, CalMatters.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>With the presidential race entering its final weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://latinocf.org/lcf-announces-results-of-statewide-poll-of-latino-voters-in-california/\">a new survey\u003c/a> finds that economic issues are top of mind for California’s 9 million Latino voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Bridge Fire Explodes In Size, Impacts Mountain Communities \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/8/bridge-fire\">The Bridge Fire\u003c/a>, which ignited on Sunday afternoon in the Angeles National Forest, exploded in size Tuesday from about 3,000 acres to more than 47,000 acres by Wednesday morning. The fire is burning through chaparral desiccated by months of extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those dry conditions, paired with a red flag warning, are expected to continue through Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/bridge-fire-angeles-national-forest-evacuations\">Evacuations\u003c/a>, initially ordered for Camp Williams Resort and River Community, have now expanded to include Wrightwood, as the fire has been charging up steep inclines to the east. Scenes from the mountain town showed authorities working Tuesday to get people out as flames blew through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/airport-fire-trabuco-evacuation-orange-county\">\u003cb>Airport Fire Grows To 22,000 Acres \u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/9/airport-fire\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Airport Fire\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> continues to burn across dry chaparral covered hills in Orange County. The wind-driven blaze had charred more than 22,000 acres, and jumped into Riverside County on Tuesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Orange County supervisors declared a local state of emergency to deal with the fire, which quickly grew to more than 22,000 acres by Wednesday morning. The board’s declaration opens up the possibility of both state and federal help.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The scale of this fire and its impact on our region call for a unified and immediate response,” said Chair Don Wagner at Tuesday’s board meeting. Like other fires in the region, it has sent massive plumes of smoke into the air, visible for many miles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2024-09-10/locals-get-creative-to-keep-smoke-out-of-homes\">\u003cb>Locals Get Creative To Keep Smoke Out Of Homes\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with the Line Fire that’s burning in San Bernardino County. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nixle.us/FTYL9?_ga=2.150327600.709475961.1726078642-223129050.1726078642\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Justin Halstenberg of Norco was taken into custody on Tuesday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/5/line-fire\">The Line Fire\u003c/a> has burned more than 34,000 acres in and around the San Bernardino National Forest. Smoke from the blaze– and others around the state— is making air quality unhealthy for more than 10 million people in Southern California, especially in inland areas. Some local residents \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2024-09-10/locals-get-creative-to-keep-smoke-out-of-homes\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are getting creative\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to protect themselves from the bad air quality.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">\u003cb>California’s Homeless Population Grew Again This Year, Especially In These Counties\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>New data shows nearly 186,000 people now live on the streets and in homeless shelters in California, proving the crisis continues to grow despite increasing state and local efforts to stem the tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to an exclusive CalMatters analysis of the latest results of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-point-in-time-count-2024/\">point-in-time count\u003c/a>, a federally mandated census that requires counties to tally their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/housing/homelessness/\">unhoused residents\u003c/a> over the course of one night or early morning in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The count is up slightly from last year’s tally of about 181,000, and up 8% from 2022 (the last year most California counties counted people living in encampments). 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"content": "\u003cp>A couple of years ago, Larry Williams was living out of his Nissan Sentra and recovering from gunshot wounds that left him alternating between a wheelchair, crutches and a cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, now 30, had gotten caught in the crossfire at Oakland’s Juneteenth festival at Lake Merritt in 2021, not long after the pandemic put an end to his job as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a break in the spring of 2022 when an outreach worker signed him up for housing. Resources and support aligned to get him off the streets and into his own East Oakland apartment. He even got some help paying for furniture and other necessities. But there was a catch: That rental assistance came with an expiration date, and time was up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last of his subsidized rent payments was issued in May. Now he’s on the hook for the full $1,875 per month rent, while his only income is $1,300 a month in disability benefits, and Williams is on the verge of moving back into his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when Gov. Gavin Newsom is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">demanding cities\u003c/a> get more people off the streets, Williams’ experience shows why that can be so difficult. He and his mother describe navigating a maze of assessments, nonprofits and public agencies that left them frustrated and discouraged. Meanwhile, providers describe working within a system crippled by scarcity and Byzantine regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their experience mirrors a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">scathing critique\u003c/a> from the state auditor in April, which blasted Newsom’s administration for failing to track and evaluate its efforts to address homelessness despite allocating some $24 billion between 2019 and 2023. The report found that an alarming rate of people who entered some form of housing cycled back to the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re creating a revolving door,” Williams’ mother, Francine Edwards, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was able to take advantage of a “rapid rehousing” program, temporary rental assistance meant to serve as a bridge to permanent housing. But advocates say the short-term help can also set up people like Williams, who lives on a fixed income, to fail. According to Alameda County officials, nearly 10% of program participants returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rapid rehousing programs were originally created to help people get back on their feet after temporary setbacks, like a job loss. Today, in the absence of enough permanent housing, they’re often applied to people with much higher needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re putting very vulnerable homeless families on rapid rehousing and then expecting them to stabilize in 18 months, and in many cases, it’s not a sustainable situation,” said Mary Kate Johnson, director of regional homelessness prevention for the policy nonprofit, All Home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003126\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-RAPIDREHOUSING-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-RAPIDREHOUSING-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-RAPIDREHOUSING-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-RAPIDREHOUSING-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-RAPIDREHOUSING-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-RAPIDREHOUSING-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-RAPIDREHOUSING-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francine Edwards holds a photo on her phone of her son’s x-ray at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Sept. 3, 2024, after he was caught in gun crossfire during a Juneteenth celebration in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rapid rehousing programs provide rental assistance for up to two years while people try to increase their household income through work, benefits, or by getting roommates. Financial help usually tapers off as beneficiaries are expected to pick up a greater share of the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts caution that supportive services, such as job training or substance use counseling, are essential to setting people up for success. Without that extra support, it’s unlikely the subsidy alone will keep someone exiting homelessness in stable housing, said Jovan Yglecias, chief program officer for Bay Area Community Services, a nonprofit that runs housing programs and homeless services throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because you’re not addressing any of the antecedents, you’re not addressing any of the issues, whether they’re social, economic or otherwise, that prevent that person from obtaining long-term stability,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams and his mom say this support is what was missing for him. It was just a few months ago that he fully understood he’d need to find a way to transition off of the rent subsidy, he said. “I was like, ‘An exit plan? What are you talking about?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of his two years at an apartment near Lake Merritt, Williams said workers coordinating his services came and went, leaving him without a point of contact for a few weeks. When he did connect with staff, they seemed overwhelmed by their caseloads, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t even get a hold of these people,” he said. “They dropped the ball on me all the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time he fully understood he was facing the possibility of eviction, he said he’d completely lost faith in his latest coordinator and stopped responding to her texts and calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian Wan, chief executive officer for Abode Services, the provider that managed Williams’ case, declined to comment on his specific situation but said typical caseloads range from 20 to 30 clients per coordinator. She acknowledged that high turnover at Abode — and across the entire homeless services industry — is a challenge. At Abode, entry-level salaries hover around $60,000 a year, a competitive figure, Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to live at $60,000 a year,” she said. “It’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the issue starts at the federal level, where wages set by government contracts are artificially low, especially in high-cost regions like the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 15 years she’s been working with rapid rehousing, Wan has seen success rates decline as the program has begun tilting toward people who are increasingly worse off, including those who are chronically homeless, on fixed incomes and face bigger barriers to staying housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a steeper hill to climb,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providers like Abode don’t get to choose which housing programs are offered to clients; it’s the city or county that’s contracted them that decides eligibility. She wants to see them to rethink who they offer the program to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the limitations, Wan said the temporary help is the best of bad options for many people, including people on fixed incomes, as long as they can find roommates to share the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not trying rapid rehousing often means a choice of staying unsheltered for a really long time,” she said. “It’s the imperfect tool that we have available to us that works for a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101906733,news_11999880,news_12002010\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abode’s data from fiscal years 2022 through 2024 show about 70% of people in rapid rehousing were still housed when they left the program, a figure that mirrors data from rapid rehousing programs across Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say those who end up back on the streets are, in some cases, worse off than before they received assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people have been on the streets for 15 years and then they go into housing and that ends with the sheriff yanking them out of the housing, it makes it harder to house them later because their experience was so bad,” said Ian Cordova Morales, head of the Berkeley nonprofit Where Do We Go and a housing navigator with the Homeless Action Center. “There’s so many reasons we want to do it right the first time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s currently assisting Williams and said he’s recently heard from a number of other people who may be facing eviction from rapid rehousing placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alameda County’s eviction moratorium was lifted last year, the East Bay Community Law Center saw a wave of eviction filings against formerly unhoused people who’d been put in rapid rehousing programs during the pandemic, said Meghan Gordon, who helps lead the center’s housing practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these cases, not only can people end up with an eviction on their record, they can be left with substantial debt. “It’s a really, really challenging and demoralizing experience for clients,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing services specialist who is not involved in Williams’ case but reviewed his case files said it may have been the best option available for him at the time. Permanent housing spots are reserved for the most vulnerable, and despite his disability, he may not have made the bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving, CEO of the nonprofit Destination Home, said some people, especially seniors, families making minimum wage and those with disabilities or chronic health conditions, may never make enough money to afford the Bay Area’s costly market rents. But, she said, there simply isn’t enough affordable housing to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That idea of getting back up on your feet is becoming less and less of a reality,” she said\u003cem>.\u003c/em> “So we try to patch all these things and expect that if we provide enough case management or enough hopes and dreams, that’s going to magically change their situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only solution, she said, is to create affordable homes — by building them and by expanding federal rental assistance, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/other/51473\">only reaches a quarter of eligible families\u003c/a> today because of limited funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams is still looking for a solution. 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Meanwhile, providers describe working within a system crippled by scarcity and Byzantine regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their experience mirrors a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">scathing critique\u003c/a> from the state auditor in April, which blasted Newsom’s administration for failing to track and evaluate its efforts to address homelessness despite allocating some $24 billion between 2019 and 2023. The report found that an alarming rate of people who entered some form of housing cycled back to the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re creating a revolving door,” Williams’ mother, Francine Edwards, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was able to take advantage of a “rapid rehousing” program, temporary rental assistance meant to serve as a bridge to permanent housing. But advocates say the short-term help can also set up people like Williams, who lives on a fixed income, to fail. According to Alameda County officials, nearly 10% of program participants returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rapid rehousing programs were originally created to help people get back on their feet after temporary setbacks, like a job loss. 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Financial help usually tapers off as beneficiaries are expected to pick up a greater share of the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts caution that supportive services, such as job training or substance use counseling, are essential to setting people up for success. Without that extra support, it’s unlikely the subsidy alone will keep someone exiting homelessness in stable housing, said Jovan Yglecias, chief program officer for Bay Area Community Services, a nonprofit that runs housing programs and homeless services throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because you’re not addressing any of the antecedents, you’re not addressing any of the issues, whether they’re social, economic or otherwise, that prevent that person from obtaining long-term stability,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams and his mom say this support is what was missing for him. It was just a few months ago that he fully understood he’d need to find a way to transition off of the rent subsidy, he said. “I was like, ‘An exit plan? What are you talking about?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of his two years at an apartment near Lake Merritt, Williams said workers coordinating his services came and went, leaving him without a point of contact for a few weeks. When he did connect with staff, they seemed overwhelmed by their caseloads, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t even get a hold of these people,” he said. “They dropped the ball on me all the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time he fully understood he was facing the possibility of eviction, he said he’d completely lost faith in his latest coordinator and stopped responding to her texts and calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian Wan, chief executive officer for Abode Services, the provider that managed Williams’ case, declined to comment on his specific situation but said typical caseloads range from 20 to 30 clients per coordinator. She acknowledged that high turnover at Abode — and across the entire homeless services industry — is a challenge. At Abode, entry-level salaries hover around $60,000 a year, a competitive figure, Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to live at $60,000 a year,” she said. “It’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the issue starts at the federal level, where wages set by government contracts are artificially low, especially in high-cost regions like the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 15 years she’s been working with rapid rehousing, Wan has seen success rates decline as the program has begun tilting toward people who are increasingly worse off, including those who are chronically homeless, on fixed incomes and face bigger barriers to staying housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a steeper hill to climb,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providers like Abode don’t get to choose which housing programs are offered to clients; it’s the city or county that’s contracted them that decides eligibility. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> may soon become the latest Bay Area city to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000987/what-rights-do-unhoused-people-have-amid-heightened-sweeps\">crack down on homeless encampments\u003c/a> under expanded authority granted to local governments by a recent Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation proposed by Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who represents northwest Berkeley, would allow the city, under certain conditions, to clear encampments without providing alternative shelter. Unhoused residents could also face citation or arrest if the resolution passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our staff to continue to make a shelter offer when practicable,” Kesarwani said. “But sometimes, we have encampments that have created a fire or health risk for neighboring businesses or residents, and we need to be able to address those health and safety issues by enforcing our state and local laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Kesarwani’s proposal, encampments could be cleared if they pose a fire or health hazard, constitute a “public nuisance,” or sit in the way of traffic, construction or maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those exceptions are broad enough to apply to every encampment in the city, according to Andrea Henson, who provides legal counsel to the homeless advocacy group Where Do We Go Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to sweep all these camps, where’s everyone going to go? Because they’re not going to leave Berkeley — a lot of them are from Berkeley. They don’t want to leave home,” Henson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesarwani argued that the exceptions are specific and nuanced. The legislation mentions two of the city’s largest encampments as priorities for removal — both of which are within her district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them on Harrison Street prompts around one police call per day and has rampant health and safety violations that concern neighboring businesses and residents, Kesarwani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not progressive to enable people who are in the throes of serious drug addiction to continue in their addiction without serious consequence and continue to create fire and health hazards for the surrounding neighborhood,” Kesarwani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/009_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020__qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/009_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020__qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/009_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020__qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/009_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020__qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/009_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020__qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/009_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020__qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/009_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020__qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portable restroom at a tent encampment under a freeway overpass in Berkeley on March 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Kesarwani, Berkeley cut its unsheltered homeless population in half over the past two years, coinciding with the opening of several permanent and transitional housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there still aren’t enough beds to house the city’s remaining 445 unsheltered homeless residents. Henson said it could take years to get people into housing, adding that an independent audit of Berkeley’s shelters could identify the roadblocks to helping people off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Henson said the city should prioritize options like safe parking sites instead of sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11996949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/005_KQED_Housing_Berkeley_ShadowStandards_02272020__qed-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a federal court ruling in 2022, sweeps were restricted and cities could not fine or jail people for camping in public if insufficient shelter was available. In June, the Supreme Court’s ruling in the City of Grants Pass, Ore. v. Gloria Johnson overturned that precedent, leading Gov. Gavin Newsom to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">direct state agencies to dismantle encampments on their property\u003c/a> and urge local officials to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Mayor London Breed promised the city would launch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000606/scenes-from-san-franciscos-unhoused-encampment-sweeps\">“very aggressive” sweeps\u003c/a>. Advocates and some neighbors have argued the crackdown is only \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000781/sf-encampment-crackdown-gets-tents-but-not-people-off-the-streets-neighbors-say\">moving people from place to place\u003c/a>, and a federal judge has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999041/san-francisco-workers-clearing-homeless-encampments-need-better-training-judge-rules\">ruled the city must better train its workers\u003c/a> on how to handle unhoused people’s belongings during the sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials in Berkeley tried to pass additional protections for unhoused residents in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling. That resolution, co-authored by Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra, ultimately failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find it unconscionable to burden the most vulnerable residents of our City as a result of our regional failure in our housing shortage, insufficient anti-displacement mechanisms, and lack of shelters,” Lunaparra said in a statement. “Under no circumstance should the City effectively criminalize the status of being unhoused without providing a reasonable alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesarwani’s resolution is up for a vote before the council on Sept. 10. Homeless advocates also plan to hold a rally outside the council chambers ahead of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all trying to make Berkeley a model for the state. We haven’t swept yet — let’s continue that,” Henson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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To avoid that, building owners then shuffle people staying there every four weeks, which can be disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2835/id/2957405\">AB 2835\u003c/a>, introduced by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), would allow these shelters to continue providing services for longer than 30 days without the landlord-tenant laws kicking in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11991885 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The homelessness crisis demands immediate and innovative action, not the status quo,” Gov. 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