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The news brought some relief after years of increases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lost amid the cheers were the much more dire numbers coming out of the Antelope Valley, where homelessness rose 42% in the last year alone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homelessness in L.A. County’s northern desert region has more than doubled since 2018, far outpacing other parts of the county.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What’s causing the increase? Service providers and housing advocates say this once-affordable oasis has itself become too expensive. Antelope Valley residents hanging onto cheap housing are now competing with an influx of people fleeing high rents in central L.A. 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On Monday, there were 170 people on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online reservation system\u003c/a> for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Breed’s Opponents Are Saying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all Democrats are falling in line with the gloves-off approach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, criticized the governor’s encampment order, and the county’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a motion to prevent jail time for simply living in an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, mayoral candidates to Breed’s left and right jumped at the opportunity to critique the recent blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: Nothing prohibited the city from clearing encampments pre-Grants Pass,” Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor who is running to unseat Breed, posted to social media last week, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling. “Mayor Breed used ongoing litigation as an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is campaigning on promises to sweep all of the city’s major encampments if elected and has positioned himself as the most conservative among a largely moderate slate of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie echoed the criticism, calling it a “lack of action” and pointing out that the city does not have enough shelter beds or supportive housing to move people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pushing encampments from one block to another didn’t work when Mark Farrell tried it, and it’s not going to work under this mayor,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s progressive opponent, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, said Breed is promoting harsh policies that often fail to efficiently and compassionately move people into long-term housing after an encampment is removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies to address homelessness must be humane, lawful and effective — not implemented just because someone’s job is on the line…What is happening now is a quick and performative election-year gimmick,” Peskin said in a statement. “Mayor Breed and former Mayor Farrell are advocating for failed policies from the past that simply sweep our homeless problem from one neighborhood to another without any long-term solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tough Love\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that although Breed’s rhetoric has ramped up, her actual policies have not changed as dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her narratives have shifted as she has seen political opportunity,” said Christin Evans, a small business owner in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood and vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission. “I think in this particular political moment, the rhetoric is amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to the mayor’s recent order \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">that city workers conducting sweeps first offer homeless people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bus ticket out of the city\u003c/a> — \u003c/span>a tool the city has had available and used since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is amplifying these things to make it sound like she is doing something when it’s really theater,” Evans said. “She has been capable and able to address these issues all along, and she hasn’t done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2018, when running for mayor, Breed promoted a tough-love approach in her plans to address homelessness. “There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets,” she said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was also careful to contextualize homelessness as the result of larger structural inequalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness often seems like a uniquely, or at least, acutely San Francisco problem. But it isn’t,” she \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-bold-approach-to-homelessness-a42121dc586c\">wrote in a Medium post\u003c/a> during her campaign. “The federal government has been cutting supportive housing and homelessness funding for decades and leaving cities holding the bag. West Coast cities, with high costs of living and scarce housing, are particularly susceptible to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed talks to members of the press after a dramatic meeting in April 2019 about the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, a U.S. judge barred San Francisco from enforcing sit-lie laws without first offering an alternative shelter as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">ongoing lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> for not following its own homelessness response policies. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">overturned that ruling\u003c/a>, giving the city more freedom to clear encampments even if shelters are full. The lower court, however, kept the city bound to its own requirement to “bag and tag” personal items during sweeps so people could later recover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been some level of (homeless) criminalization that’s taken place in San Francisco, but it’s been more behind the scenes,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “Fast-forward to today, and this administration is calling for arrests of unhoused people as if that is a potential solution to homelessness. That’s what’s changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s six years as mayor, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/\">temporary shelter supply\u003c/a> has increased by more than 60%, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, thousands of new permanent supportive housing units \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/ocoh-fund-annual-report-fy22-23-executive-summary?_gl=1*edbb9g*_ga*MTk2Mzg5NzE0NS4xNzE0Njc0NTIx*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.#ocoh-capacity-added\">have come online\u003c/a>, and the city has invested millions of dollars into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s administration helped 2,400 people move into San Francisco’s temporary shelter last year and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">more than 15,000 people off the street\u003c/a> during her overall tenure, according to the mayor’s office. And, while the city’s overall homeless population has increased in recent years, the number of people in San Francisco sleeping in tents, cars and RVs has \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">decreased by 16%\u003c/a> since 2019, according to data from the federal Point-in-Time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with those efforts, a drop-off of pandemic-era rent and eviction relief, persistent economic inequality, and the ongoing shortage of both emergency and permanent affordable housing have all enabled a steady flow of people falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers don’t show that kind of impact because, sadly, we’re dealing with the influx of people from everywhere,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Dangerous Precedent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caught in the middle of the political winds are people actually living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really fueling some very mean-spirited policies and acts of vigilantism and attacks on homeless people,” Supervisor Dean Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston joined other government officials and unhoused San Francisco residents at a recent rally outside Hotel Whitcomb, where attendees decried Breed’s recent actions. Advocates are calling on the city to acquire the hotel and use it to house people who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers highlighted the fact that people living on the street are \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803839\">more likely to die of overdose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/study-shows-involuntary-displacement-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-may-cause-significant-spikes-in-mortality-overdoses-and-hospitalizations/\">end up in the hospital\u003c/a>, and experience other traumatic setbacks when they are forcefully displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we have seen in an election year over and over again, going back decades in this city, that ramped-up rhetoric and talk of criminalizing homeless people is viewed by some as a ticket to electoral success in this city,” Preston said. “And it’s disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Dept. of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed did not confirm when reporters asked last week whether jail time is on the table for people who defy sit-lie laws. Legal advocates, however, say that is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unhoused folks are being criminalized purely for being poor. And we have lots of clients coming to us who have been arrested and have faced harassment from police,” said Angela Chan, attorney and advocate at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the rally said they would like to see the city further expand rental and eviction relief, housing subsidies like Section 8 vouchers, and continue to invest in both shelter and permanent housing for extremely low-income people. Chan and others also urged the city to rapidly fill the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-tents-vacancy-sros-street-18348739.php\">hundreds of empty permanent supportive housing units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The irony of people who are denied housing but are offered jail on a daily basis is really concerning,” Chan said. “I think every San Franciscan should really take stock of this moment and push our city to use our resources much more wisely and much more humanely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Breed appeared to deliver on her promises: A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-california-homeless-encampments-3f8b79c8446bb60b5168711f8b06695c\">flurry\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/san-francisco-aggressive-homeless-camp-sweeps-begin/\">media\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-encampments-sweeps-breed-19607448.php\">reports\u003c/a> detailed encampment sweeps taking place throughout the city despite a shortage of available shelter. At last count, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986620/san-francisco-homelessness-up-7-despite-decline-in-street-camping\">more than 4,300 people sleeping in tents or cars on San Francisco’s streets\u003c/a> on any given night, and only around 3,600 shelter beds, of which more than 90% were \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/#:~:text=Capacity%20Card%20showing%20the%20total,Use%20Escape%20to%20exit.\">already occupied\u003c/a>. On Monday, there were 170 people on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online reservation system\u003c/a> for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Breed’s Opponents Are Saying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all Democrats are falling in line with the gloves-off approach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, criticized the governor’s encampment order, and the county’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a motion to prevent jail time for simply living in an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, mayoral candidates to Breed’s left and right jumped at the opportunity to critique the recent blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: Nothing prohibited the city from clearing encampments pre-Grants Pass,” Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor who is running to unseat Breed, posted to social media last week, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling. “Mayor Breed used ongoing litigation as an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is campaigning on promises to sweep all of the city’s major encampments if elected and has positioned himself as the most conservative among a largely moderate slate of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie echoed the criticism, calling it a “lack of action” and pointing out that the city does not have enough shelter beds or supportive housing to move people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pushing encampments from one block to another didn’t work when Mark Farrell tried it, and it’s not going to work under this mayor,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s progressive opponent, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, said Breed is promoting harsh policies that often fail to efficiently and compassionately move people into long-term housing after an encampment is removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies to address homelessness must be humane, lawful and effective — not implemented just because someone’s job is on the line…What is happening now is a quick and performative election-year gimmick,” Peskin said in a statement. “Mayor Breed and former Mayor Farrell are advocating for failed policies from the past that simply sweep our homeless problem from one neighborhood to another without any long-term solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tough Love\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that although Breed’s rhetoric has ramped up, her actual policies have not changed as dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her narratives have shifted as she has seen political opportunity,” said Christin Evans, a small business owner in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood and vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission. “I think in this particular political moment, the rhetoric is amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to the mayor’s recent order \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">that city workers conducting sweeps first offer homeless people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bus ticket out of the city\u003c/a> — \u003c/span>a tool the city has had available and used since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is amplifying these things to make it sound like she is doing something when it’s really theater,” Evans said. “She has been capable and able to address these issues all along, and she hasn’t done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2018, when running for mayor, Breed promoted a tough-love approach in her plans to address homelessness. “There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets,” she said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was also careful to contextualize homelessness as the result of larger structural inequalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness often seems like a uniquely, or at least, acutely San Francisco problem. But it isn’t,” she \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-bold-approach-to-homelessness-a42121dc586c\">wrote in a Medium post\u003c/a> during her campaign. “The federal government has been cutting supportive housing and homelessness funding for decades and leaving cities holding the bag. West Coast cities, with high costs of living and scarce housing, are particularly susceptible to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed talks to members of the press after a dramatic meeting in April 2019 about the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, a U.S. judge barred San Francisco from enforcing sit-lie laws without first offering an alternative shelter as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">ongoing lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> for not following its own homelessness response policies. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">overturned that ruling\u003c/a>, giving the city more freedom to clear encampments even if shelters are full. The lower court, however, kept the city bound to its own requirement to “bag and tag” personal items during sweeps so people could later recover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been some level of (homeless) criminalization that’s taken place in San Francisco, but it’s been more behind the scenes,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “Fast-forward to today, and this administration is calling for arrests of unhoused people as if that is a potential solution to homelessness. That’s what’s changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s six years as mayor, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/\">temporary shelter supply\u003c/a> has increased by more than 60%, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, thousands of new permanent supportive housing units \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/ocoh-fund-annual-report-fy22-23-executive-summary?_gl=1*edbb9g*_ga*MTk2Mzg5NzE0NS4xNzE0Njc0NTIx*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.#ocoh-capacity-added\">have come online\u003c/a>, and the city has invested millions of dollars into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s administration helped 2,400 people move into San Francisco’s temporary shelter last year and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">more than 15,000 people off the street\u003c/a> during her overall tenure, according to the mayor’s office. And, while the city’s overall homeless population has increased in recent years, the number of people in San Francisco sleeping in tents, cars and RVs has \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">decreased by 16%\u003c/a> since 2019, according to data from the federal Point-in-Time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with those efforts, a drop-off of pandemic-era rent and eviction relief, persistent economic inequality, and the ongoing shortage of both emergency and permanent affordable housing have all enabled a steady flow of people falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers don’t show that kind of impact because, sadly, we’re dealing with the influx of people from everywhere,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Dangerous Precedent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caught in the middle of the political winds are people actually living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really fueling some very mean-spirited policies and acts of vigilantism and attacks on homeless people,” Supervisor Dean Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston joined other government officials and unhoused San Francisco residents at a recent rally outside Hotel Whitcomb, where attendees decried Breed’s recent actions. Advocates are calling on the city to acquire the hotel and use it to house people who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers highlighted the fact that people living on the street are \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803839\">more likely to die of overdose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/study-shows-involuntary-displacement-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-may-cause-significant-spikes-in-mortality-overdoses-and-hospitalizations/\">end up in the hospital\u003c/a>, and experience other traumatic setbacks when they are forcefully displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we have seen in an election year over and over again, going back decades in this city, that ramped-up rhetoric and talk of criminalizing homeless people is viewed by some as a ticket to electoral success in this city,” Preston said. “And it’s disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Dept. of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed did not confirm when reporters asked last week whether jail time is on the table for people who defy sit-lie laws. Legal advocates, however, say that is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unhoused folks are being criminalized purely for being poor. And we have lots of clients coming to us who have been arrested and have faced harassment from police,” said Angela Chan, attorney and advocate at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the rally said they would like to see the city further expand rental and eviction relief, housing subsidies like Section 8 vouchers, and continue to invest in both shelter and permanent housing for extremely low-income people. Chan and others also urged the city to rapidly fill the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-tents-vacancy-sros-street-18348739.php\">hundreds of empty permanent supportive housing units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The irony of people who are denied housing but are offered jail on a daily basis is really concerning,” Chan said. “I think every San Franciscan should really take stock of this moment and push our city to use our resources much more wisely and much more humanely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Today’s order will ensure that all our city departments are leveraging our relocation programs to address this growing trend,” Breed said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the city’s January point-in-time count of the unhoused population showed that 37% of those surveyed who had been previously housed had been living in San Francisco for less than a year, and 40% said they came to California from out of the country or state — both double-digit percentage increases since prior to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Journey Home program offers travel assistance and temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness and people with substance use disorders, according to the release. It is a part of the city’s efforts under the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, a centralized hub for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">disrupt drug dealing and public drug use\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, started by Breed in May 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another relocation program known as Problem Solving Relocation Assistance is the successor to Homeward Bound, which started in 2005 to offer bus tickets out of the city. The newer program tries to connect people with “stabilizing networks of family and friends” back home, Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing executive director Shireen McSpadden said in the release.[aside postID=news_11997352 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GavinNewsomGetty-1020x708.jpg']The shift comes as city officials on Monday began clearing encampments in the Mission, Potrero Hill and Lake Merced neighborhoods following an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">announcement from Breed\u003c/a> last month that “very aggressive” sweeps would begin in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, criticized the city’s approach of more aggressive sweeps and said the solution to homelessness is preventing it in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have over 700 vacant units in San Francisco that are permanent supportive housing that we’re paying a lot of money for. We need to fix our broken housing placement system,” she said. “So there’s a number of steps that the city should be working on that would vastly improve the humanitarian crises that folks are facing on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Monday and Wednesday, the city’s Healthy Streets Operations Center reported removing 75 tents and four structures from public spaces. Nine people accepted housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">executive order\u003c/a> directing state agencies to dismantle encampments and encouraging cities to follow suit, citing a June decision by the Supreme Court granting local jurisdictions more power to crack down on unhoused encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the ruling, a federal magistrate judge lifted a temporary order blocking the city from arresting unhoused people who refused to move when no shelter was available, which was put in place in 2022 as a lawsuit by the Coalition on Homelessness worked its way through the courts. Though the city could and did continue to clear encampments despite the order, its lifting seems to have renewed Breed’s efforts to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach said that during the sweeps, the city was violating its own “bag and tag” policies by throwing away the belongings of unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Supreme Court removed that requirement so cities could just cite and arrest — they don’t have to offer shelter first — but that did not change anything with regards to illegal property confiscation,” Friedenbach said. “It is still illegal to take property out of someone else’s hands against their will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a meeting of the Homelessness Oversight Commission on Thursday, Commissioner Christin Evans said that when people have their property taken, they often lose important belongings like identification documents, medications and safety gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes it harder for us to do our job and get them to a safe and stable exit from homelessness. The mayor’s policy is making our job harder,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/calam\">KQED’s Christopher Alam\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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That really is the goal of what we’re trying to accomplish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harold Duffey, Oakland’s acting homeless administrator, said Thursday on KQED’s Forum that cities should have more authority to protect public property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing the destruction of modern-day infrastructure — you can look and see an encampment right next to a power line with propane tanks,” Duffey said. “We don’t criminalize homelessness, but being unhoused does not give you an excuse to break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Oakland officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996898/oakland-sweeps-beach-encampment-where-unhoused-residents-sued-to-stay-put\">cleared a small encampment\u003c/a> from a beach near the Bay Bridge whose residents had sued to prevent their eviction in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993380/unhoused-oakland-residents-eviction-battle-is-early-test-of-supreme-court-ruling\">an early test\u003c/a> of the Supreme Court’s decision in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. 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That decision gave cities more power to regulate encampments on sidewalks and public property, overturning a lower court’s ruling that found local laws fining or jailing people for sleeping outside in the absence of any viable alternative shelter amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the high court’s majority opinion, said a “handful of federal judges” could not instruct cities on “how best to handle a pressing social question like homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of California Cities and the Bay Area Council, a business organization, both lauded Newsom’s executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cities throughout the state are already enforcing their laws against unsafe encampments consistent with the clarity in the Grants Pass ruling created, and we are pleased to see the governor joining cities in these efforts,” said Jason Rhine, director of legislative affairs for the League of California Cities. “However, safely clearing encampments with dignity is only one part of the solution to address our state’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July 2021, cities and state agencies have cleared more than 11,000 encampments and removed almost 250,000 cubic yards of debris from public areas and streets, according to the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, housing advocates point to research showing that encampment sweeps are often costly to local governments and don’t often result in unhoused people finding permanent housing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Poverty is violent, and constantly sweeping folks does nothing to solve homelessness,” said Lukas Illa, an organizer with San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness. “There is no recognition of people’s humanity in the scope of this authorization — on these mass sweeps across California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local government leaders have justified the sweeps by pointing to risks to public safety posed by encampments. Last week, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the city would begin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">issuing citations and other penalties\u003c/a> to people who refuse offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those citations can get progressive, and they could lead to a misdemeanor if people refuse services,” she said. “We are going to make them so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer. That really is the goal of what we’re trying to accomplish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harold Duffey, Oakland’s acting homeless administrator, said Thursday on KQED’s Forum that cities should have more authority to protect public property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing the destruction of modern-day infrastructure — you can look and see an encampment right next to a power line with propane tanks,” Duffey said. “We don’t criminalize homelessness, but being unhoused does not give you an excuse to break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Oakland officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996898/oakland-sweeps-beach-encampment-where-unhoused-residents-sued-to-stay-put\">cleared a small encampment\u003c/a> from a beach near the Bay Bridge whose residents had sued to prevent their eviction in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993380/unhoused-oakland-residents-eviction-battle-is-early-test-of-supreme-court-ruling\">an early test\u003c/a> of the Supreme Court’s decision in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson\u003c/a>. That decision gave cities more power to regulate encampments on sidewalks and public property, overturning a lower court’s ruling that found local laws fining or jailing people for sleeping outside in the absence of any viable alternative shelter amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the high court’s majority opinion, said a “handful of federal judges” could not instruct cities on “how best to handle a pressing social question like homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of California Cities and the Bay Area Council, a business organization, both lauded Newsom’s executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cities throughout the state are already enforcing their laws against unsafe encampments consistent with the clarity in the Grants Pass ruling created, and we are pleased to see the governor joining cities in these efforts,” said Jason Rhine, director of legislative affairs for the League of California Cities. “However, safely clearing encampments with dignity is only one part of the solution to address our state’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July 2021, cities and state agencies have cleared more than 11,000 encampments and removed almost 250,000 cubic yards of debris from public areas and streets, according to the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, housing advocates point to research showing that encampment sweeps are often costly to local governments and don’t often result in unhoused people finding permanent housing. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/resource/an-overview-of-homeless-encampments/\">2022 National League of Cities study\u003c/a>, California can only offer year-round beds to about 21% of its unhoused residents.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state and local governments are giving a nurse a band-aid and expecting her to fix a broken leg, and then getting upset when the leg is still broken,” said Edie Irons, a spokesperson for the homelessness policy organization All Home. “The only solutions that work are the ones that experts are repeatedly saying are necessary: real affordable housing [and] preventing homelessness before it starts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">Sydney Johnson\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Now that the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">Supreme Court\u003c/a> has granted cities more power to ban sleeping outside, homeless Californians face a crucial decision: Try to get into a shelter, or risk going to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those able to find a shelter bed will step into a world rife with reports of violence, theft, health hazards — and a lack of accountability. Public records obtained by CalMatters show that most cities and counties have seemingly ignored a recent state law that aimed to reform dangerous conditions in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, following earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/publications/thisplaceiskillingme#:~:text=A%20year%2Dlong%20investigation%20by,porta%20potties%3B%20showers%20with%20no\">reports\u003c/a> of maggots, flooding and sexual harassment in shelters, the state Legislature created \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362\">a new system\u003c/a> requiring local governments to inspect the facilities after complaints and file annual reports on shelter conditions, including plans to fix safety and building code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters found that just five of California’s 58 counties — Lake, Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange and Yuba — have filed shelter reports. Only 4 of the state’s 478 cities filed reports: Fairfield, Petaluma, Santa Rosa and Woodland, according to records from the agency in charge of implementing the law, the California Department of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is shocking, number one, that there is so little reporting, considering that is part of the legislation,” said the law’s author, Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, a Democrat representing parts of Orange and L.A. counties. “We are asking for the basics here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of CalMatters’ findings, she said she has requested a meeting with officials at the state housing agency. Quirk-Silva said she will consider audits or other measures as needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we need to add more teeth,” she said. “There certainly could be a possibility that we will follow up with another piece of legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police call logs, shelter incident reports and other records obtained by CalMatters provide a hint of what’s missing as a result of the failure to report: a child falling out of an unreinforced window in San Mateo County and being hospitalized; multiple allegations of sexual harassment in Contra Costa County; food shortages in Placer County; and deaths, mold and vermin in many places across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has spent \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362\">at least $1.5 billion\u003c/a> on shelters and related solutions since 2018, legislative reports show, on top of millions invested by cities, counties and the federal government. The facilities are designed to be a temporary stop on the road to regaining housing but increasingly function as a bridge to nowhere; the state added new emergency shelter beds at roughly five times the rate of permanent housing with supportive services from 2018 to 2023, gaining 27,544 shelter beds, \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2023.pdf\">federal\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2018.PDF\">data\u003c/a> shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens in those shelters is largely a black box. No state agency keeps an updated list of how many shelters are operating or where, officials told CalMatters. There is no state licensing process for shelters. The U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2023.pdf\">Department of Housing and Urban Development\u003c/a> tracks numbers of emergency shelter beds and how long people live in them, but no information about resident deaths, health or safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32.jpg\" alt=\"The outside of a door.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only 24-hour outdoor access residents had at this former homeless shelter in Anaheim was a small outdoor patio used for smoking. The shelter has since been permanently shut down and partially boarded up. May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While not every city or county in California has a homeless shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362\">state housing officials estimated\u003c/a> a total of around 1,300 shelters in 2021. Municipalities continue to invest in them as a more immediate alternative to street homelessness, even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-2.pdf\">experts stress\u003c/a> that other options — such as direct rent subsidies or housing with on-site services — are often more effective at combating the root issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bad idea. At the same time, so many unhoused people are living in these congregate shelters,” said Eve Garrow, a senior policy analyst and advocate for the ACLU of Southern California. “We want to make sure those spaces are safe and clean for as long as people need them, but we also want to move away from that model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30.jpg\" alt=\"Shopping carts next to chairs, safety cones and other materials outside of a fenced in storage unit.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An area where folks experiencing homelessness were given space to store their belongings while staying at the shelter that has since been permanently shut down in Anaheim on May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo by )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2021 state law was supposed to help enforce minimum building and safety standards for shelters by creating a new state oversight system. When people staying at shelters or their advocates \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2020/03/Discrimination-and-Harassment-in-Shelters_ENG.pdf\">file complaints\u003c/a>, the law requires cities or counties to inspect the facilities and report any violations to the state to reconsider future funding. The catch: cities and counties only have to report to the state if they determine that \u003ca href=\"https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/health-and-safety-code/hsc-sect-17920-3/?DCMP=google:ppc:TRLNA:21219027752:697523562873:161386574133&HBX_PK=&sid=9061109&source=google~ppc&tsid=latlppc&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwtNi0BhA1EiwAWZaANIzl4kC28Sc9Kndy8F98puHpp4hD7dhJfgeGKqQGTcsejt7nrnMrGhoCSugQAvD_BwE\">a violation\u003c/a> is severe enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each city and county has a very unique way of processing complaints\u003cem>,\u003c/em>” said Mitchel Baker, assistant deputy director of the Department of Housing and Community Development’s codes and standards division. “What may be perceived as complaints or violations may not ultimately result in the issuance of a notice of violation or corrective order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California and the rest of the country barrel into a new legal era for mass homelessness, promises of safe shelter will be key to determining how many people can avoid more frequent tickets or jail. Many public officials, meanwhile, cast the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf\">Supreme Court’s Grants Pass ruling\u003c/a> as a necessary clarification after years of conflict over when cities should be allowed to dismantle tents, insisting that they will continue to offer alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision removes the legal ambiguities that have tied the hands of local officials for years,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement after the ruling. “The state will continue to work with compassion to provide individuals experiencing homelessness with the resources they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What those resources are is often hard to know, since many shelters are closed to visitors and so few places have filed state reports on conditions. However, people who have lived in shelters paint a more dire picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of one Huntington Beach shelter recently complained to health officials about mold, never-ending cases of pneumonia and neighbors walking around with infected, open sores. Homeless people and their families have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/homeless-shelter-private-security/\">filed lawsuits\u003c/a> in several cities over shelter sexual assaults and wrongful deaths. In San Diego, Sharon Descans has been bouncing between shelters and a borrowed van after being evicted from a newer kind of publicly-funded tent city, where she said she weathered unpaid labor, multiple neighbors’ deaths and flashes of chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are pulling swords on each other and hitting each other with two-by-fours,” Descans said. “All I wanted from the day I got there is to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a dark dress rests her arm on a table outside while sitting down.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Descans at the Chula Vista Bayfront Park on June 23, 2024. Descans has been staying in a van after getting evicted from the O Lot Safe Sleeping site in San Diego’s Balboa Park. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Old problems, new failures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Up until the 1980s, many of the poorest people in California and other states could still afford rented rooms or cheap hotels. Then came a tidal wave of gentrification, wage stagnation, federal cuts to housing and cash aid, plus shocks like the AIDS and drug epidemics. In less than three decades, the state went from 37,000 dedicated beds for mental health patients to just 2,500 by 1983, according to historians at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/\">National Academies of Sciences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast numbers of people “drifted onto the streets,” the historians wrote, as promised investments in community resources proved inadequate. The “modern era of homelessness” had begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large emergency shelters with bunk beds and communal showers emerged as a stop-gap despite comparisons to jail cells or military barracks. The shelter triage approach spread as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-housing-law-charter-city/\">California housing construction\u003c/a> slowed and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-point-in-time-count-2024/\">homelessness exploded\u003c/a>, up 40% in the past five years alone, to more than 181,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters boomed thanks in large part to court rulings that forbid authorities from cracking down on homeless people solely for being homeless. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-homeless-shelters-17423387.php\">Martin v Boise\u003c/a>, courts decided that the city violated the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment by ticketing people for sleeping outside when there wasn’t “adequate” shelter available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has happened is cities and counties have quite explicitly raced to build more shelters in order to criminalize more people,” Garrow said. “Shelters become kind of an arm of this criminal legal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quirk-Silva proposed the 2021 shelter law after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/publications/thisplaceiskillingme\">2019 ACLU report\u003c/a> by Garrow documented bedbug infestations, overflowing sewage and sexual harassment by shelter workers. The findings collided with Quirk-Silva’s experience talking with people on the street near her Fullerton neighborhood about why they weren’t in shelters. Her own brother died at age 50 after struggling with housing instability, mental health and alcohol abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters were growing fast, Quirk-Silva realized, and people were staying longer. California shelter residents now stay a median of about five months, or 155 days, the most recent federal \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/system.performance.measures.hud.public.data/viz/HUDCoCSystemPerformanceMeasures/M2Returns\">data from 2023 shows\u003c/a> — a 30% increase since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrow supported the 2021 law’s effort to create minimum standards for shelters. She has seen a few problematic shelters closed down in Orange County, she said, including an old transit station in Santa Ana not meant for human habitation, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2019/03/14/aclu-report-alleges-abuse-unsanitary-conditions-common-at-orange-county-homeless-shelters/\">previously flooded\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Garrow wasn’t surprised to hear about the small number of cities and counties following through on the law, which she said several \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362\">amendments\u003c/a> weakened. One removed a requirement for local officials to regularly conduct unannounced shelter inspections. Another struck a rule to add signs with information about how to file complaints at shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would attribute the low number of complaints not to the fact that shelters are now clean and sanitary and abiding by a new law,” Garrow said. “But to the fact that people aren’t aware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, cities and counties that find violations in their shelters are supposed to report any conditions that are “dangerous, hazardous, imminently detrimental to life or health, or otherwise render the homeless shelter unfit for human habitation.” However, even places filing state shelter reports omit serious potential safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County, for example, has filed lists of its several dozen shelters and one-page inventories of violations related to rats, roaches, hot water outages and garbage. Not mentioned were issues like a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/homeless-shelter-private-security/\">2021 conviction\u003c/a> of a former shelter security guard on multiple sexual assault charges. Or reports of shelter deaths, physical attacks and other incidents that appear in police call logs requested by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shelters after SCOTUS\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday in San Diego’s crown jewel of a central park, Balboa Park, Sharon Descans laid down on a concrete bench under a palm tree to ease the pain in her joints after a year of constant motion. The former college swimmer said she became homeless for the first time last year, after she got sick with COVID-19, lost two property management jobs, fell behind on rent and got evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a tour she never wanted of last-ditch housing in a city \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/homeless-encampment-ban/\">at the forefront\u003c/a> of statewide efforts to vanquish street encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the Supreme Court decision, San Diego officials were moving people off the street to large publicly funded tent cities, called “safe sleeping” sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a site called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/insidesd/mayor-gloria-opens-second-safe-sleeping-site-unsheltered-san-diegans\">O Lot\u003c/a>, Descans and many neighbors lived in Eskimo-brand ice fishing huts that multiple residents said were prone to leaking during rain. Her anxiety spiked at the makeshift shelter, she said, since she didn’t have a door to lock and witnessed widespread drug use and unpredictable outbursts. One neighbor died of cancer alone in his tent, Descans said, after what seemed like days without anyone checking on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02.jpg\" alt=\"A view of tents on a street sidewalk from the a car window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Gary Gonzales’ drives past an encampment in downtown San Diego on March 22, 2024. Gonzales is a part of the neighborhood policing division of the San Diego Police Department. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>None of that has been captured in state reports. San Diego is one of the many California locales that has not submitted any reports after the 2021 shelter law, according to state records, despite housing \u003ca href=\"https://sdhc.org/homelessness-solutions/city-homeless-shelters-services/#shelters\">more than a dozen shelters\u003c/a> and some 10,600 homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Even if San Diego had filed the reports, state and local spokespeople said it’s not certain they would’ve captured operations at O Lot. Though many homeless people have temporarily lived at the tent site, nonprofit operator Dreams For Change stressed that it is not technically a shelter under federal definitions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tents with tarps over them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents are shown at the city’s O Lot Safe Sleeping site at Balboa Park in San Diego on March 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked whether there was any process in place for complaints about homeless shelters in San Diego County, a spokesperson said only that the county does not directly operate any shelters. Under the state law, cities and counties are still responsible for monitoring complaints and reporting violations at shelters in their area with other owners or operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the city of San Diego said it has received five complaints since the shelter law was passed and that “city staff are working on” evaluating why a state report had not been filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At all city-funded shelters, including the Safe Sleeping and Safe Parking programs, there is a comprehensive complaint process where potential issues are quickly and thoroughly resolved,” spokesperson Matt Hoffman said in a statement. “Every complaint is followed up on and, if needed, action is promptly taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At O Lot, Descans tried to keep her head down. She made friends with another mom whose son had also wrestled at a nearby high school. The pair heard they could earn money to work their way out of the tents by cleaning bathrooms and doing laundry for the nonprofit Dreams for Change. Descans said she was never paid around $1,000 for 55 hours of cleaning work, which she documented in photos and text message complaints to a site supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of a tent with a cot, blankets and bag.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of one of the tents provided at the O Lot Safe Sleeping site at Balboa Park in San Diego on March 22, 2024. People are given a cot, blanket, sleeping bag, and hygiene kit. 24/7 staffing, showers, laundry, and shuttles are also provided for clients. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In June, Descans was “exited” from the shelter — nonprofit-speak for evicted — after forms said she had a verbal altercation with staff and allowed an unpermitted visit from her 17-year-old son, who lives with other family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like nobody cares,” Descans said. “It’s like cover your ass at any expense — who even cares about these homeless people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dreams for Change spokesperson said the nonprofit cannot comment on individual cases but has a process for formally hiring and paying residents who wish to work. The nonprofit added that it is one of several contractors that operate safe sleeping sites near Balboa Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 households have secured permanent housing after living at Dreams for Change’s portion of O Lot, spokesperson Kelly Spoon said in a statement. She confirmed three deaths at the site and added, “Dealing with a diverse population, occasional altercations may arise, but physical altercations are extremely rare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another current resident of the safe sleeping site, who asked not to be identified due to fear of retaliation, said he was also concerned about a lack of sufficient meals, deaths, sexual assaults reported by female neighbors, and a nagging lack of information from caseworkers about housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The animals almost get better treatment than the people,” he said. “You keep shitting on people, you’re going to get shit results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Swearigen also lived in a tent at O Lot before moving to a subsidized apartment last month. The grandson of a cattle rancher from Imperial County worked in construction for years until family deaths and the 2008 housing crash landed him on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a cowboy hat, a reddish orange shirt and black track pants with orange stripes sits on a blanket in the grass outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Swearingen, 55, at the O Lot Safe Sleeping site at Balboa Park in San Diego on March 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tent in Balboa Park “wasn’t bad,” he said, though it wasn’t immune from theft and mental health crises that he has found are two constants of homelessness. Swearigen valued having his own space, as opposed to being “dormed up” in a bunk bed like when he first became homeless and stayed at a large shelter. It was so claustrophobic and counter-productive, he said that he spent the next decade trying to stay out of sight, often camping in the woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of like a lack of options,” Swearigen said. “I really didn’t want to be a burden on people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you stayed at a California homeless shelter? Tell us about your experience \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://forms.gle/nFga3B3XvLRfd3dv6\">\u003cem>here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Now that the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">Supreme Court\u003c/a> has granted cities more power to ban sleeping outside, homeless Californians face a crucial decision: Try to get into a shelter, or risk going to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those able to find a shelter bed will step into a world rife with reports of violence, theft, health hazards — and a lack of accountability. Public records obtained by CalMatters show that most cities and counties have seemingly ignored a recent state law that aimed to reform dangerous conditions in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, following earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/publications/thisplaceiskillingme#:~:text=A%20year%2Dlong%20investigation%20by,porta%20potties%3B%20showers%20with%20no\">reports\u003c/a> of maggots, flooding and sexual harassment in shelters, the state Legislature created \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362\">a new system\u003c/a> requiring local governments to inspect the facilities after complaints and file annual reports on shelter conditions, including plans to fix safety and building code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters found that just five of California’s 58 counties — Lake, Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange and Yuba — have filed shelter reports. Only 4 of the state’s 478 cities filed reports: Fairfield, Petaluma, Santa Rosa and Woodland, according to records from the agency in charge of implementing the law, the California Department of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is shocking, number one, that there is so little reporting, considering that is part of the legislation,” said the law’s author, Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, a Democrat representing parts of Orange and L.A. counties. “We are asking for the basics here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of CalMatters’ findings, she said she has requested a meeting with officials at the state housing agency. Quirk-Silva said she will consider audits or other measures as needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we need to add more teeth,” she said. “There certainly could be a possibility that we will follow up with another piece of legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police call logs, shelter incident reports and other records obtained by CalMatters provide a hint of what’s missing as a result of the failure to report: a child falling out of an unreinforced window in San Mateo County and being hospitalized; multiple allegations of sexual harassment in Contra Costa County; food shortages in Placer County; and deaths, mold and vermin in many places across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has spent \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362\">at least $1.5 billion\u003c/a> on shelters and related solutions since 2018, legislative reports show, on top of millions invested by cities, counties and the federal government. The facilities are designed to be a temporary stop on the road to regaining housing but increasingly function as a bridge to nowhere; the state added new emergency shelter beds at roughly five times the rate of permanent housing with supportive services from 2018 to 2023, gaining 27,544 shelter beds, \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2023.pdf\">federal\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2018.PDF\">data\u003c/a> shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens in those shelters is largely a black box. No state agency keeps an updated list of how many shelters are operating or where, officials told CalMatters. There is no state licensing process for shelters. The U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2023.pdf\">Department of Housing and Urban Development\u003c/a> tracks numbers of emergency shelter beds and how long people live in them, but no information about resident deaths, health or safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32.jpg\" alt=\"The outside of a door.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-32-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only 24-hour outdoor access residents had at this former homeless shelter in Anaheim was a small outdoor patio used for smoking. The shelter has since been permanently shut down and partially boarded up. May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While not every city or county in California has a homeless shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362\">state housing officials estimated\u003c/a> a total of around 1,300 shelters in 2021. Municipalities continue to invest in them as a more immediate alternative to street homelessness, even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-2.pdf\">experts stress\u003c/a> that other options — such as direct rent subsidies or housing with on-site services — are often more effective at combating the root issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bad idea. At the same time, so many unhoused people are living in these congregate shelters,” said Eve Garrow, a senior policy analyst and advocate for the ACLU of Southern California. “We want to make sure those spaces are safe and clean for as long as people need them, but we also want to move away from that model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30.jpg\" alt=\"Shopping carts next to chairs, safety cones and other materials outside of a fenced in storage unit.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/051424-OC-Shelter-JAH-CM-30-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An area where folks experiencing homelessness were given space to store their belongings while staying at the shelter that has since been permanently shut down in Anaheim on May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo by )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2021 state law was supposed to help enforce minimum building and safety standards for shelters by creating a new state oversight system. When people staying at shelters or their advocates \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2020/03/Discrimination-and-Harassment-in-Shelters_ENG.pdf\">file complaints\u003c/a>, the law requires cities or counties to inspect the facilities and report any violations to the state to reconsider future funding. The catch: cities and counties only have to report to the state if they determine that \u003ca href=\"https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/health-and-safety-code/hsc-sect-17920-3/?DCMP=google:ppc:TRLNA:21219027752:697523562873:161386574133&HBX_PK=&sid=9061109&source=google~ppc&tsid=latlppc&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwtNi0BhA1EiwAWZaANIzl4kC28Sc9Kndy8F98puHpp4hD7dhJfgeGKqQGTcsejt7nrnMrGhoCSugQAvD_BwE\">a violation\u003c/a> is severe enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each city and county has a very unique way of processing complaints\u003cem>,\u003c/em>” said Mitchel Baker, assistant deputy director of the Department of Housing and Community Development’s codes and standards division. “What may be perceived as complaints or violations may not ultimately result in the issuance of a notice of violation or corrective order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California and the rest of the country barrel into a new legal era for mass homelessness, promises of safe shelter will be key to determining how many people can avoid more frequent tickets or jail. Many public officials, meanwhile, cast the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf\">Supreme Court’s Grants Pass ruling\u003c/a> as a necessary clarification after years of conflict over when cities should be allowed to dismantle tents, insisting that they will continue to offer alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision removes the legal ambiguities that have tied the hands of local officials for years,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement after the ruling. “The state will continue to work with compassion to provide individuals experiencing homelessness with the resources they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What those resources are is often hard to know, since many shelters are closed to visitors and so few places have filed state reports on conditions. However, people who have lived in shelters paint a more dire picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of one Huntington Beach shelter recently complained to health officials about mold, never-ending cases of pneumonia and neighbors walking around with infected, open sores. Homeless people and their families have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/homeless-shelter-private-security/\">filed lawsuits\u003c/a> in several cities over shelter sexual assaults and wrongful deaths. In San Diego, Sharon Descans has been bouncing between shelters and a borrowed van after being evicted from a newer kind of publicly-funded tent city, where she said she weathered unpaid labor, multiple neighbors’ deaths and flashes of chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are pulling swords on each other and hitting each other with two-by-fours,” Descans said. “All I wanted from the day I got there is to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a dark dress rests her arm on a table outside while sitting down.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/062324_HomelessShelterConditions_KC_CM_005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Descans at the Chula Vista Bayfront Park on June 23, 2024. Descans has been staying in a van after getting evicted from the O Lot Safe Sleeping site in San Diego’s Balboa Park. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Old problems, new failures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Up until the 1980s, many of the poorest people in California and other states could still afford rented rooms or cheap hotels. Then came a tidal wave of gentrification, wage stagnation, federal cuts to housing and cash aid, plus shocks like the AIDS and drug epidemics. In less than three decades, the state went from 37,000 dedicated beds for mental health patients to just 2,500 by 1983, according to historians at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/\">National Academies of Sciences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast numbers of people “drifted onto the streets,” the historians wrote, as promised investments in community resources proved inadequate. The “modern era of homelessness” had begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large emergency shelters with bunk beds and communal showers emerged as a stop-gap despite comparisons to jail cells or military barracks. The shelter triage approach spread as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-housing-law-charter-city/\">California housing construction\u003c/a> slowed and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-point-in-time-count-2024/\">homelessness exploded\u003c/a>, up 40% in the past five years alone, to more than 181,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters boomed thanks in large part to court rulings that forbid authorities from cracking down on homeless people solely for being homeless. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-homeless-shelters-17423387.php\">Martin v Boise\u003c/a>, courts decided that the city violated the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment by ticketing people for sleeping outside when there wasn’t “adequate” shelter available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has happened is cities and counties have quite explicitly raced to build more shelters in order to criminalize more people,” Garrow said. “Shelters become kind of an arm of this criminal legal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quirk-Silva proposed the 2021 shelter law after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/publications/thisplaceiskillingme\">2019 ACLU report\u003c/a> by Garrow documented bedbug infestations, overflowing sewage and sexual harassment by shelter workers. The findings collided with Quirk-Silva’s experience talking with people on the street near her Fullerton neighborhood about why they weren’t in shelters. Her own brother died at age 50 after struggling with housing instability, mental health and alcohol abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters were growing fast, Quirk-Silva realized, and people were staying longer. California shelter residents now stay a median of about five months, or 155 days, the most recent federal \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/system.performance.measures.hud.public.data/viz/HUDCoCSystemPerformanceMeasures/M2Returns\">data from 2023 shows\u003c/a> — a 30% increase since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrow supported the 2021 law’s effort to create minimum standards for shelters. She has seen a few problematic shelters closed down in Orange County, she said, including an old transit station in Santa Ana not meant for human habitation, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2019/03/14/aclu-report-alleges-abuse-unsanitary-conditions-common-at-orange-county-homeless-shelters/\">previously flooded\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Garrow wasn’t surprised to hear about the small number of cities and counties following through on the law, which she said several \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362\">amendments\u003c/a> weakened. One removed a requirement for local officials to regularly conduct unannounced shelter inspections. Another struck a rule to add signs with information about how to file complaints at shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would attribute the low number of complaints not to the fact that shelters are now clean and sanitary and abiding by a new law,” Garrow said. “But to the fact that people aren’t aware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, cities and counties that find violations in their shelters are supposed to report any conditions that are “dangerous, hazardous, imminently detrimental to life or health, or otherwise render the homeless shelter unfit for human habitation.” However, even places filing state shelter reports omit serious potential safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County, for example, has filed lists of its several dozen shelters and one-page inventories of violations related to rats, roaches, hot water outages and garbage. Not mentioned were issues like a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/homeless-shelter-private-security/\">2021 conviction\u003c/a> of a former shelter security guard on multiple sexual assault charges. Or reports of shelter deaths, physical attacks and other incidents that appear in police call logs requested by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shelters after SCOTUS\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday in San Diego’s crown jewel of a central park, Balboa Park, Sharon Descans laid down on a concrete bench under a palm tree to ease the pain in her joints after a year of constant motion. The former college swimmer said she became homeless for the first time last year, after she got sick with COVID-19, lost two property management jobs, fell behind on rent and got evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a tour she never wanted of last-ditch housing in a city \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/homeless-encampment-ban/\">at the forefront\u003c/a> of statewide efforts to vanquish street encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the Supreme Court decision, San Diego officials were moving people off the street to large publicly funded tent cities, called “safe sleeping” sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a site called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/insidesd/mayor-gloria-opens-second-safe-sleeping-site-unsheltered-san-diegans\">O Lot\u003c/a>, Descans and many neighbors lived in Eskimo-brand ice fishing huts that multiple residents said were prone to leaking during rain. Her anxiety spiked at the makeshift shelter, she said, since she didn’t have a door to lock and witnessed widespread drug use and unpredictable outbursts. One neighbor died of cancer alone in his tent, Descans said, after what seemed like days without anyone checking on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02.jpg\" alt=\"A view of tents on a street sidewalk from the a car window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Gary Gonzales’ drives past an encampment in downtown San Diego on March 22, 2024. Gonzales is a part of the neighborhood policing division of the San Diego Police Department. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>None of that has been captured in state reports. San Diego is one of the many California locales that has not submitted any reports after the 2021 shelter law, according to state records, despite housing \u003ca href=\"https://sdhc.org/homelessness-solutions/city-homeless-shelters-services/#shelters\">more than a dozen shelters\u003c/a> and some 10,600 homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Even if San Diego had filed the reports, state and local spokespeople said it’s not certain they would’ve captured operations at O Lot. Though many homeless people have temporarily lived at the tent site, nonprofit operator Dreams For Change stressed that it is not technically a shelter under federal definitions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tents with tarps over them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents are shown at the city’s O Lot Safe Sleeping site at Balboa Park in San Diego on March 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked whether there was any process in place for complaints about homeless shelters in San Diego County, a spokesperson said only that the county does not directly operate any shelters. Under the state law, cities and counties are still responsible for monitoring complaints and reporting violations at shelters in their area with other owners or operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the city of San Diego said it has received five complaints since the shelter law was passed and that “city staff are working on” evaluating why a state report had not been filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At all city-funded shelters, including the Safe Sleeping and Safe Parking programs, there is a comprehensive complaint process where potential issues are quickly and thoroughly resolved,” spokesperson Matt Hoffman said in a statement. “Every complaint is followed up on and, if needed, action is promptly taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At O Lot, Descans tried to keep her head down. She made friends with another mom whose son had also wrestled at a nearby high school. The pair heard they could earn money to work their way out of the tents by cleaning bathrooms and doing laundry for the nonprofit Dreams for Change. Descans said she was never paid around $1,000 for 55 hours of cleaning work, which she documented in photos and text message complaints to a site supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of a tent with a cot, blankets and bag.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_17-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of one of the tents provided at the O Lot Safe Sleeping site at Balboa Park in San Diego on March 22, 2024. People are given a cot, blanket, sleeping bag, and hygiene kit. 24/7 staffing, showers, laundry, and shuttles are also provided for clients. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In June, Descans was “exited” from the shelter — nonprofit-speak for evicted — after forms said she had a verbal altercation with staff and allowed an unpermitted visit from her 17-year-old son, who lives with other family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like nobody cares,” Descans said. “It’s like cover your ass at any expense — who even cares about these homeless people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dreams for Change spokesperson said the nonprofit cannot comment on individual cases but has a process for formally hiring and paying residents who wish to work. The nonprofit added that it is one of several contractors that operate safe sleeping sites near Balboa Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 households have secured permanent housing after living at Dreams for Change’s portion of O Lot, spokesperson Kelly Spoon said in a statement. She confirmed three deaths at the site and added, “Dealing with a diverse population, occasional altercations may arise, but physical altercations are extremely rare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another current resident of the safe sleeping site, who asked not to be identified due to fear of retaliation, said he was also concerned about a lack of sufficient meals, deaths, sexual assaults reported by female neighbors, and a nagging lack of information from caseworkers about housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The animals almost get better treatment than the people,” he said. “You keep shitting on people, you’re going to get shit results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Swearigen also lived in a tent at O Lot before moving to a subsidized apartment last month. The grandson of a cattle rancher from Imperial County worked in construction for years until family deaths and the 2008 housing crash landed him on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a cowboy hat, a reddish orange shirt and black track pants with orange stripes sits on a blanket in the grass outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/032223_SD_Encampment-Ban_KC_CM_20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Swearingen, 55, at the O Lot Safe Sleeping site at Balboa Park in San Diego on March 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tent in Balboa Park “wasn’t bad,” he said, though it wasn’t immune from theft and mental health crises that he has found are two constants of homelessness. Swearigen valued having his own space, as opposed to being “dormed up” in a bunk bed like when he first became homeless and stayed at a large shelter. It was so claustrophobic and counter-productive, he said that he spent the next decade trying to stay out of sight, often camping in the woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of like a lack of options,” Swearigen said. “I really didn’t want to be a burden on people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:24 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of an Oakland encampment won a temporary restraining order staving off their eviction in a federal court case that represents one of the first local tests of cities’ ability to police homelessness since a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior District Judge Susan Illston granted the order Wednesday night, barring the city from removing the residents’ dwellings and other property until 5 p.m. on July 18. The order allows officials to keep clearing trash and abandoned cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had given roughly a dozen residents living on a beach alongside Interstate 80 at the foot of the Bay Bridge until Tuesday to leave, citing a notice from the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) that threatened daily fines over environmental and public access concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents argued at a hearing Tuesday that the city hadn’t offered them a feasible alternative to the camp before moving ahead with the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the most vulnerable that you’re evicting,” said attorney Andrea Henson, a longtime homeless advocate who appeared in court on behalf of the plaintiffs. “There’s nowhere for them to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unhoused people and their allies have used similar arguments in recent years to successfully delay encampment sweeps around the Bay Area and beyond. But those claims relied on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">a key legal precedent\u003c/a> that fining or jailing people for public camping when there isn’t enough shelter available amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is prohibited under the Eighth Amendment. With the precedent now overturned by the Supreme Court, giving cities expanded authority to police encampments, the viability of that approach is in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The temporary restraining order in the Oakland case came after Illson found status reports she had requested from the unhoused plaintiffs and city outreach workers on shelter options “difficult to reconcile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the reports, plaintiffs said they hadn’t been offered shelter, but the city described limited offers that were largely declined. In one case, the city said staff tried to connect a resident with a housing program for people living with AIDS, “but he wants to keep his pets (dogs), which present an obstacle (not allowed),” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, the city said residents were willing to consider a spot at a tiny home emergency shelter site, but not at the Mandela Parkway-Beach Street location on offer, or not if their pets couldn’t join. Other residents asked for motel rooms, which aren’t an option, according to the report, and one refused services because he plans to relocate in one of his vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only relatively consistent account describes a tiny home offer made to Ronnie Simpson and his father, who also lives at the camp and has dementia. In that case, the pair declined the offer because the father’s condition makes it untenable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fallout from Supreme Court decision\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Without using the Eighth Amendment argument that encampment sweeps amount to cruel and unusual punishment if shelter isn’t available, homeless advocates must turn to other legal strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost a really important tool in our toolbox,” said Brigitte Nicoletti, a staff attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center, who’s worked on encampment litigation. “You’re also seeing the fact that advocates are not going to stop advocating. You may have lost one tool, but we have a lot more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicoletti isn’t involved in the Oakland case but has followed it closely in light of the Supreme Court decision. Before that ruling, she said, attorneys would likely have relied at least in part on an Eighth Amendment claim in fighting an eviction like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs in this case instead argue the eviction will expose them to state-created danger, a violation of the 14th Amendment, and allege the city is violating their rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiffs also argue the city is violating the terms of a settlement agreement that prohibits sweeps during extreme weather. There is a heat advisory in place for the Bay Area until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of tiny homes line Lakeview Village, a community that can house 71 people, in Oakland near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failing to provide shelter options to unhoused people that meet their disability-related needs … means that shelter is functionally unavailable to them,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eviction follows a two-year campaign by the San Francisco Boardsailing Association to get the camp cleared. On its website, the organization said the camp has “created an epicenter for car break-ins while increased trash and direct sewage runoff have been flowing directly into the waters there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henson believes that effort may have spurred BCDC’s letter threatening fines to the city. The agency did not respond to questions about the role of those complaints in its actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While less tested, the ADA claim may prove to be a powerful tool to block encampment evictions, Nicoletti noted, although it doesn’t provide blanket protection applicable to a whole community the way the Eighth Amendment protections did. Instead, she said courts require detailed analysis of each person’s disabilities and whether or not the city is accommodating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Nicoletti and homeless advocate Robbie Powelson, who’s been involved in several lawsuits over encampment sweeps in the Bay Area, have found success stalling sweeps using state-created harm arguments in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cities are going to perceive that they have a blank check to steamroll people’s rights,” Powelson said. “There’s many rights that still exist and are enforceable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Supreme Court ruling has already affected an ongoing lawsuit filed by unhoused residents over the city’s homelessness policies. The Eighth Amendment claims in the suit no longer hold water, but the suit will move forward based on its other 13 claims. Earlier this week, a temporary injunction barring the city from enforcing laws against public camping without first offering a shelter bed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">was vacated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the city follows its own policies, we should continue to see offers of shelter prior to any kind of enforcement,” said Nisha Kashyap, an attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco, who represents the plaintiffs. “Now, our clients brought this lawsuit because there was a gap between what the city said it was doing and what it actually was doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, including Oakland, have policies requiring officials to make shelter offers before clearing camps, but Nicoletti said the Supreme Court’s ruling makes it challenging to enforce those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s harder and sometimes slower to hold the city accountable for following its own policies when there’s no teeth behind it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, city leaders are considering a resolution reaffirming the city will not take additional steps to criminalize unhoused people in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s hearing in the Oakland case, Illston asked whether the city had offered residents shelter, to which Deputy City Attorney Jamilah Jefferson responded, “Everyone has been offered shelter. Whether or not they have accepted is a different story.” She noted camp residents were first given notice in May that they’d have to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harold Duffey, assistant city administrator and acting homeless administrator, emphasized that the shelter being offered was only a temporary entry point to a service system that would eventually secure residents permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henson said that assessment missed the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue here is not about whether they offered an option, it’s about whether that option is reasonably accessible,” she said, calling the city’s offer of group shelter a “death sentence” for the medically fragile residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is under no obligation to fundamentally alter its programs to address the needs of all individuals,” Jefferson later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ultimately ordered the residents to discuss their needs with outreach workers, and outreach workers to make accommodations where feasible, and to report their progress to the court by Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding little common ground in the reports, Ilson issued the temporary restraining order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unhoused people and their allies have used similar arguments in recent years to successfully delay encampment sweeps around the Bay Area and beyond. But those claims relied on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">a key legal precedent\u003c/a> that fining or jailing people for public camping when there isn’t enough shelter available amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is prohibited under the Eighth Amendment. With the precedent now overturned by the Supreme Court, giving cities expanded authority to police encampments, the viability of that approach is in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The temporary restraining order in the Oakland case came after Illson found status reports she had requested from the unhoused plaintiffs and city outreach workers on shelter options “difficult to reconcile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the reports, plaintiffs said they hadn’t been offered shelter, but the city described limited offers that were largely declined. In one case, the city said staff tried to connect a resident with a housing program for people living with AIDS, “but he wants to keep his pets (dogs), which present an obstacle (not allowed),” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, the city said residents were willing to consider a spot at a tiny home emergency shelter site, but not at the Mandela Parkway-Beach Street location on offer, or not if their pets couldn’t join. Other residents asked for motel rooms, which aren’t an option, according to the report, and one refused services because he plans to relocate in one of his vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only relatively consistent account describes a tiny home offer made to Ronnie Simpson and his father, who also lives at the camp and has dementia. In that case, the pair declined the offer because the father’s condition makes it untenable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fallout from Supreme Court decision\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Without using the Eighth Amendment argument that encampment sweeps amount to cruel and unusual punishment if shelter isn’t available, homeless advocates must turn to other legal strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost a really important tool in our toolbox,” said Brigitte Nicoletti, a staff attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center, who’s worked on encampment litigation. “You’re also seeing the fact that advocates are not going to stop advocating. You may have lost one tool, but we have a lot more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicoletti isn’t involved in the Oakland case but has followed it closely in light of the Supreme Court decision. Before that ruling, she said, attorneys would likely have relied at least in part on an Eighth Amendment claim in fighting an eviction like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs in this case instead argue the eviction will expose them to state-created danger, a violation of the 14th Amendment, and allege the city is violating their rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiffs also argue the city is violating the terms of a settlement agreement that prohibits sweeps during extreme weather. There is a heat advisory in place for the Bay Area until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of tiny homes line Lakeview Village, a community that can house 71 people, in Oakland near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failing to provide shelter options to unhoused people that meet their disability-related needs … means that shelter is functionally unavailable to them,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eviction follows a two-year campaign by the San Francisco Boardsailing Association to get the camp cleared. On its website, the organization said the camp has “created an epicenter for car break-ins while increased trash and direct sewage runoff have been flowing directly into the waters there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henson believes that effort may have spurred BCDC’s letter threatening fines to the city. The agency did not respond to questions about the role of those complaints in its actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While less tested, the ADA claim may prove to be a powerful tool to block encampment evictions, Nicoletti noted, although it doesn’t provide blanket protection applicable to a whole community the way the Eighth Amendment protections did. Instead, she said courts require detailed analysis of each person’s disabilities and whether or not the city is accommodating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Nicoletti and homeless advocate Robbie Powelson, who’s been involved in several lawsuits over encampment sweeps in the Bay Area, have found success stalling sweeps using state-created harm arguments in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cities are going to perceive that they have a blank check to steamroll people’s rights,” Powelson said. “There’s many rights that still exist and are enforceable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Supreme Court ruling has already affected an ongoing lawsuit filed by unhoused residents over the city’s homelessness policies. The Eighth Amendment claims in the suit no longer hold water, but the suit will move forward based on its other 13 claims. Earlier this week, a temporary injunction barring the city from enforcing laws against public camping without first offering a shelter bed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">was vacated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the city follows its own policies, we should continue to see offers of shelter prior to any kind of enforcement,” said Nisha Kashyap, an attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco, who represents the plaintiffs. “Now, our clients brought this lawsuit because there was a gap between what the city said it was doing and what it actually was doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, including Oakland, have policies requiring officials to make shelter offers before clearing camps, but Nicoletti said the Supreme Court’s ruling makes it challenging to enforce those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s harder and sometimes slower to hold the city accountable for following its own policies when there’s no teeth behind it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, city leaders are considering a resolution reaffirming the city will not take additional steps to criminalize unhoused people in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s hearing in the Oakland case, Illston asked whether the city had offered residents shelter, to which Deputy City Attorney Jamilah Jefferson responded, “Everyone has been offered shelter. Whether or not they have accepted is a different story.” She noted camp residents were first given notice in May that they’d have to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harold Duffey, assistant city administrator and acting homeless administrator, emphasized that the shelter being offered was only a temporary entry point to a service system that would eventually secure residents permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henson said that assessment missed the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue here is not about whether they offered an option, it’s about whether that option is reasonably accessible,” she said, calling the city’s offer of group shelter a “death sentence” for the medically fragile residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is under no obligation to fundamentally alter its programs to address the needs of all individuals,” Jefferson later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ultimately ordered the residents to discuss their needs with outreach workers, and outreach workers to make accommodations where feasible, and to report their progress to the court by Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding little common ground in the reports, Ilson issued the temporary restraining order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When a shortfall of several hundred thousand dollars almost derailed new homeless housing in Bakersfield, the savior that swooped in to salvage the project wasn’t an affordable housing nonprofit, state housing grant or other traditional source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, it was a health care company that had never before built a single home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unorthodox move is part of a broader effort to commingle California’s health care and homeless services agencies, as providers in both areas increasingly acknowledge a glaring truth: It’s nearly impossible to be healthy if you’re living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health care company Akido Labs, which runs clinics and street medicine teams in Southern and Central California, covered about 10% of the cost to build that 16-unit project in Bakersfield. Health insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is funding homeless housing projects in Alameda, Kings and Tulare counties. And Los Angeles County’s biggest health plan is paying to lease properties for its homeless clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the unhoused, housing is medicine,” said Karthik Murali, head of public health at Akido Labs. “Providing stable housing can alleviate more health conditions than taking them to the ICU and the hospital and providing street medicine. … Knowing that fact, we wanted to be part of the solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">homeless\u003c/a> have higher rates of illness, and die an average of 12 years younger than the general U.S. population, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/homelessness-and-health.pdf\">National Health Care for the Homeless Council (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom set the marriage between housing and health care in motion in 2022, via his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">massive overhaul\u003c/a> of the state’s Medicaid system. With the launch of CalAIM, the state allows \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a> to fund things not traditionally covered as health care — such as helping \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/housing/homelessness/\">homeless\u003c/a> clients find housing, paying for security deposits and preventing evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an incentive for health care plans to ramp up these new services, the state also provided $1.3 billion in additional funding under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource-center/homelessness-health-care/medi-cal-and-homelessness/housing-and-homelessness-incentive-program/\">Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program\u003c/a>. Managed care plans can earn those funds by investing in solutions to homelessness. It’s that money Akido and other health care providers are using to build and lease new homeless housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a hat sits down next to bags of medicine and equipment in a vineyard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on a homeless man living in a vineyard in Arvin on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s still a relatively rare use of the money — it’s more likely to pay for services for unhoused people, such as case managers or safe RV parking sites. That’s partly because creating housing is so expensive in California, and partly because most health care providers don’t know much about homebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Murali said the new funds made a big difference. Recognizing that it could only do so much to help its homeless patients as long as they were living on the street, Akido had long wanted to get into the business of developing housing. The incentive program gave it the funds to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could not have been possible before, and it’s possible now,” Murali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing as medicine\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles-based Akido Labs got its start as a health tech company out of Y Combinator, the startup incubator that grew big-name companies such as Airbnb and Dropbox. It later launched medical clinics and street medicine teams in Central and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Kern County Housing Authority found itself over budget on the Bakersfield homeless housing project — in part because the housing authority underestimated the cost of an expensive retaining wall — Akido jumped in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993622\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06.jpg\" alt=\"Men wearing bright safety uniforms and hard hats look up near a construction site.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction site for an affordable housing apartment complex in Bakersfield on May 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We would have been stalled, and who knows where it would have been now if we hadn’t had that money come in,” said Stephen Pelz, executive director of the housing authority, who said Akido funded about 10% of the roughly $3 million project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of a building under construction.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction site for an affordable housing apartment complex in Bakersfield on May 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two-story development, where tenants will pay 30% of their income in rent, sits on a formerly vacant lot next to what used to be a large homeless encampment. Each apartment is a small one-bedroom, one-bath — about 500 square feet — and you can see the Sierra Nevada from the upstairs windows on a clear day. It’s a big deal to complete a project in that area, where most of the street doesn’t even have a sidewalk and new construction is rare, Pelz said. You’re more likely to see something here catch fire and then be torn down than you are to see something new get built, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akido also took on a second, 40-unit homeless housing project in Bakersfield. That development, now set to open in 2025, would have fallen apart without the health care company’s funding. The county had applied for a state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/12/california-homeless-developer-investigation/\">Homekey\u003c/a> grant, but that wasn’t enough to buy the property or fund the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akido paid about 20% of the project’s total $10 million cost, and it’s now working with the county housing authority. Akido is advocating for features it knows will help its clients, such as wheelchair accessible outdoor spaces, suicide prevention designs (such as shelves in closets instead of rails) and semigloss paint that makes cleaning easier. The health care company is learning to navigate the complicated world of housing production as it goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s been an interesting process,” Murali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homeless housing from Sacramento to LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Other counties are using the money to secure housing units without putting shovels in the ground. Sacramento County won $3.2 million for its Landlord Engagement and Assistance Program, which gives unhoused clients rental subsidies and places them with private landlords, while also working with landlords to prevent evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money will allow the county to expand that program by about 30%, said human services program manager Neil Kurtz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everything,” Kurtz said. “We’re going to be able to make a significant impact, I think, in reducing homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM.jpg\" alt=\"A tarp and other debris forming a living structure underneath an overpass.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on W Street and Alhambra Boulevard in Sacramento on April 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County’s largest health plan, LA Care, is using the incentive funds to help open 1,700 homes to homeless residents by 2027. Working with the county, the health plan is funding programs to buy and lease those units, or pay for security deposits and other expenses. As of the end of last year, 600 of those homes were available, said Dr. Sameer Amin, chief medical officer for LA Care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield recently put money into a 42-unit homeless housing project in Tulare County, helped fund two more projects in Kings County, and contributed to a fund in Alameda County that’s building additional units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at other opportunities,” said Kris Kuntz, program director for housing and homeless strategy at Anthem. ”We’re looking at: Do we go purchase single family homes that are on the market? Things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can the housing-health care partnership be sustainable?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Blurring the line between housing and health care has been confusing for many involved, said Carolina Reid, faculty research advisor at the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health care providers don’t know what organizations to partner with in order to get housing built, or how to enter their clients’ information into the state’s homelessness data system. Housing providers don’t know how to navigate strict patient privacy laws. The Terner Center is \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CalAIM-Brief-February-2024.pdf\">researching (PDF)\u003c/a> ways to help both sides adjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state paints this health-care-meets-housing experiment as a success so far. Health care providers using the Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program money reported they now are more frequently screening their patients for homelessness, while also offering them more housing-related services. According to the state Department of Health Care Services, 48,172 patients have received housing — and 81% of them have remained housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the problem with this money is that it’s a one-time grant, and Newsom has given no indication that he’ll replenish the coffers when it runs out. After Newsom and legislators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-budget-deal-4/\">scrambled to close\u003c/a> a multibillion-dollar budget deficit this year, there’s little state funding up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One question I have that I can’t answer is: Are these efforts sustained after the HHIP funds run out?” Reid said. “There needs to be a sustained source of funding to help managed care plans do this type of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that reads "Golden Empire Affordable Housing SWPPP's Strictly Enforced" with bullet points and text on a fence in front of a building and vehicle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction site for an affordable housing apartment complex in Bakersfield on May 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Murali hopes Akido can drum up private equity to replace the state funding in future projects, but whether investors can be convinced it’s a good business move remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, when up against the steep cost of building or buying housing in California, the money the state allocated doesn’t amount to that much, Reid said. That’s why, she said, we haven’t seen more health care providers using the money to create new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuntz agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to housing and homelessness,” he said, “you think it’s a large amount of money, but per county, it’s still … not huge, per say, given the need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kern County, the housing authority typically receives anywhere from 500 to 1,000 applications for each new project, Pelz said. The project set to finish next month in Bakersfield has room for just 16 households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, if you get chosen, Pelz said, “It’s kind of like winning the lottery.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When a shortfall of several hundred thousand dollars almost derailed new homeless housing in Bakersfield, the savior that swooped in to salvage the project wasn’t an affordable housing nonprofit, state housing grant or other traditional source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, it was a health care company that had never before built a single home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unorthodox move is part of a broader effort to commingle California’s health care and homeless services agencies, as providers in both areas increasingly acknowledge a glaring truth: It’s nearly impossible to be healthy if you’re living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health care company Akido Labs, which runs clinics and street medicine teams in Southern and Central California, covered about 10% of the cost to build that 16-unit project in Bakersfield. Health insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is funding homeless housing projects in Alameda, Kings and Tulare counties. And Los Angeles County’s biggest health plan is paying to lease properties for its homeless clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the unhoused, housing is medicine,” said Karthik Murali, head of public health at Akido Labs. “Providing stable housing can alleviate more health conditions than taking them to the ICU and the hospital and providing street medicine. … Knowing that fact, we wanted to be part of the solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">homeless\u003c/a> have higher rates of illness, and die an average of 12 years younger than the general U.S. population, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/homelessness-and-health.pdf\">National Health Care for the Homeless Council (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom set the marriage between housing and health care in motion in 2022, via his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">massive overhaul\u003c/a> of the state’s Medicaid system. With the launch of CalAIM, the state allows \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a> to fund things not traditionally covered as health care — such as helping \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/housing/homelessness/\">homeless\u003c/a> clients find housing, paying for security deposits and preventing evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an incentive for health care plans to ramp up these new services, the state also provided $1.3 billion in additional funding under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource-center/homelessness-health-care/medi-cal-and-homelessness/housing-and-homelessness-incentive-program/\">Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program\u003c/a>. Managed care plans can earn those funds by investing in solutions to homelessness. It’s that money Akido and other health care providers are using to build and lease new homeless housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a hat sits down next to bags of medicine and equipment in a vineyard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on a homeless man living in a vineyard in Arvin on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s still a relatively rare use of the money — it’s more likely to pay for services for unhoused people, such as case managers or safe RV parking sites. That’s partly because creating housing is so expensive in California, and partly because most health care providers don’t know much about homebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Murali said the new funds made a big difference. Recognizing that it could only do so much to help its homeless patients as long as they were living on the street, Akido had long wanted to get into the business of developing housing. The incentive program gave it the funds to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could not have been possible before, and it’s possible now,” Murali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing as medicine\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles-based Akido Labs got its start as a health tech company out of Y Combinator, the startup incubator that grew big-name companies such as Airbnb and Dropbox. It later launched medical clinics and street medicine teams in Central and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Kern County Housing Authority found itself over budget on the Bakersfield homeless housing project — in part because the housing authority underestimated the cost of an expensive retaining wall — Akido jumped in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993622\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06.jpg\" alt=\"Men wearing bright safety uniforms and hard hats look up near a construction site.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_06-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction site for an affordable housing apartment complex in Bakersfield on May 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We would have been stalled, and who knows where it would have been now if we hadn’t had that money come in,” said Stephen Pelz, executive director of the housing authority, who said Akido funded about 10% of the roughly $3 million project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of a building under construction.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction site for an affordable housing apartment complex in Bakersfield on May 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two-story development, where tenants will pay 30% of their income in rent, sits on a formerly vacant lot next to what used to be a large homeless encampment. Each apartment is a small one-bedroom, one-bath — about 500 square feet — and you can see the Sierra Nevada from the upstairs windows on a clear day. It’s a big deal to complete a project in that area, where most of the street doesn’t even have a sidewalk and new construction is rare, Pelz said. You’re more likely to see something here catch fire and then be torn down than you are to see something new get built, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akido also took on a second, 40-unit homeless housing project in Bakersfield. That development, now set to open in 2025, would have fallen apart without the health care company’s funding. The county had applied for a state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/12/california-homeless-developer-investigation/\">Homekey\u003c/a> grant, but that wasn’t enough to buy the property or fund the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akido paid about 20% of the project’s total $10 million cost, and it’s now working with the county housing authority. Akido is advocating for features it knows will help its clients, such as wheelchair accessible outdoor spaces, suicide prevention designs (such as shelves in closets instead of rails) and semigloss paint that makes cleaning easier. The health care company is learning to navigate the complicated world of housing production as it goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s been an interesting process,” Murali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homeless housing from Sacramento to LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Other counties are using the money to secure housing units without putting shovels in the ground. Sacramento County won $3.2 million for its Landlord Engagement and Assistance Program, which gives unhoused clients rental subsidies and places them with private landlords, while also working with landlords to prevent evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money will allow the county to expand that program by about 30%, said human services program manager Neil Kurtz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everything,” Kurtz said. “We’re going to be able to make a significant impact, I think, in reducing homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM.jpg\" alt=\"A tarp and other debris forming a living structure underneath an overpass.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/04112023-Homeless-Encampment-Enforcement-RL-05-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on W Street and Alhambra Boulevard in Sacramento on April 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County’s largest health plan, LA Care, is using the incentive funds to help open 1,700 homes to homeless residents by 2027. Working with the county, the health plan is funding programs to buy and lease those units, or pay for security deposits and other expenses. As of the end of last year, 600 of those homes were available, said Dr. Sameer Amin, chief medical officer for LA Care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield recently put money into a 42-unit homeless housing project in Tulare County, helped fund two more projects in Kings County, and contributed to a fund in Alameda County that’s building additional units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at other opportunities,” said Kris Kuntz, program director for housing and homeless strategy at Anthem. ”We’re looking at: Do we go purchase single family homes that are on the market? Things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can the housing-health care partnership be sustainable?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Blurring the line between housing and health care has been confusing for many involved, said Carolina Reid, faculty research advisor at the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health care providers don’t know what organizations to partner with in order to get housing built, or how to enter their clients’ information into the state’s homelessness data system. Housing providers don’t know how to navigate strict patient privacy laws. The Terner Center is \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CalAIM-Brief-February-2024.pdf\">researching (PDF)\u003c/a> ways to help both sides adjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state paints this health-care-meets-housing experiment as a success so far. Health care providers using the Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program money reported they now are more frequently screening their patients for homelessness, while also offering them more housing-related services. According to the state Department of Health Care Services, 48,172 patients have received housing — and 81% of them have remained housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the problem with this money is that it’s a one-time grant, and Newsom has given no indication that he’ll replenish the coffers when it runs out. After Newsom and legislators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-budget-deal-4/\">scrambled to close\u003c/a> a multibillion-dollar budget deficit this year, there’s little state funding up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One question I have that I can’t answer is: Are these efforts sustained after the HHIP funds run out?” Reid said. “There needs to be a sustained source of funding to help managed care plans do this type of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that reads "Golden Empire Affordable Housing SWPPP's Strictly Enforced" with bullet points and text on a fence in front of a building and vehicle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/053124-Bakersfield-Rural-Homelessness-LV_08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction site for an affordable housing apartment complex in Bakersfield on May 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Murali hopes Akido can drum up private equity to replace the state funding in future projects, but whether investors can be convinced it’s a good business move remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, when up against the steep cost of building or buying housing in California, the money the state allocated doesn’t amount to that much, Reid said. That’s why, she said, we haven’t seen more health care providers using the money to create new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuntz agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to housing and homelessness,” he said, “you think it’s a large amount of money, but per county, it’s still … not huge, per say, given the need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kern County, the housing authority typically receives anywhere from 500 to 1,000 applications for each new project, Pelz said. The project set to finish next month in Bakersfield has room for just 16 households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Homelessness is one of the most prominent, hardest to solve — and most polarizing — problems California faces today. It’s an intensely emotional issue, as images of squalid encampments are enough to bring many to tears. But it’s also an intensely political one, with state and local leaders squabbling over how best to address the crisis, all while facing acute pressure from their constituents to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s no wonder that when it comes to the homelessness crisis, there’s a lot of talk out there — and not everything you hear is true. Here are some of the most common myths surrounding homelessness. Let us help you separate fact from fiction using data.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>1. MYTH: Most unhoused people come here from somewhere else\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> It’s often said that people who are down on their luck move here because of the nice weather and abundant social services. But the data doesn’t bear that out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of people who are homeless in California are from California — and most are still living in the same county where they lost their housing, according to a recent large-scale \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CASPEH_Report_62023.pdf\">survey of unhoused Californians (PDF)\u003c/a> conducted by the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. The survey found that 90% of participants were from California (meaning they lived in California when they became homeless) and 75% lived in the same county where they were last housed. And 66% were born in California, while 87% were born in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local data shows the same thing. In Santa Clara County, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/continuum-care/reports-and-publications/santa-clara-county-homeless-census-and-survey-reports-point\">85% of people surveyed \u003c/a>during the 2023 point-in-time count reported they were residents of the county when they became homeless. And 54% had lived in Santa Clara County for 10 or more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>2. MYTH: Everyone living on the street is addicted to drugs or mentally ill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> People living on the street are more likely to experience addiction or a mental illness than the general population — but by no means do those two conditions affect everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if they had ever been hospitalized due to a mental health condition, 27% of homeless Californians \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CASPEH_Report_62023.pdf\">surveyed by UCSF (PDF)\u003c/a> said yes. One in three reported attempting suicide at some point during their life. And 23% reported ever experiencing a significant period of hallucinations, while 25% said they had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to drug use, 56% of people surveyed by UCSF reported ever using amphetamines regularly, 33% reported ever using cocaine regularly, and 22% reported ever using non-prescribed opioids regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=8164-2024-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-results-long-version-.pdf\">Newly released data\u003c/a> from Los Angeles County found similar results — 24% of people surveyed during this year’s point-in-time count reported having a serious mental illness, and 27% reported a substance-use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rates are far higher than among the general population. Less than 4% of adults in California have a serious mental illness, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/2022-edition-mental-health-california/#related-links-and-downloads\">California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>. Rates of mental illness are higher in families with incomes below the federal poverty line and among people who are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 9% of Californians met the criteria for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SubstanceUseDisorderAlmanac2022.pdf\">substance use disorder (PDF)\u003c/a> in 2021, according to the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>3. MYTH: Most people living on the streets are veterans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT: \u003c/strong>Veterans are disproportionately represented in California’s homeless population. But thanks to a major effort by the federal government to end veteran homelessness over the past decade, the number of homeless vets in California has dropped significantly — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/11/homeless-veterans-california-election-2024/\">falling\u003c/a> from nearly 16,800 in 2011 to almost 10,400 in 2022. But in recent years, the number has plateaued. State-funded homes for unhoused vets are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/11/homeless-veterans-california-election-2024/\">underused\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, new efforts to tackle homelessness are setting aside special resources for unhoused vets. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-prop-1/\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, a recently approved $6.4 billion bond, promises to create 4,350 new homes for unhoused people who need mental health and addiction services. About half of those new homes will be reserved for veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How great is the need for those services? Of the homeless Californians surveyed by UCSF, 6% reported serving in the military. Of those who served, just 19% reported receiving benefits from the Veterans Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/continuum-care/reports-and-publications/santa-clara-county-homeless-census-and-survey-reports-point\">2023 point-in-time count\u003c/a> tallied 508 unhoused veterans — 5% of the county’s total homeless population. This year, \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">San Francisco\u003c/a> counted 587 homeless veterans — 7% of the city’s total homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12.jpg\" alt=\"A small dog is seen near an encampment filled with pieces of wood, metal and tents.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line up against a fence at a homeless encampment near Highway 180 in west Fresno on Feb. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>4. MYTH: People who are homeless don’t work and don’t want to work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> Some people who don’t have a home still hold down one or more jobs, while others are trying to find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the homeless Californians \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CASPEH_Report_62023.pdf\">surveyed by UCSF (PDF)\u003c/a>, 18% reported earning income from a job (either formal employment or informal/gig work) in the past month. When the researchers eliminated people who were older than 62 or had mental or physical disabilities from the data, the percentage was higher — 25% reported working in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if people are working, they aren’t making enough to afford rent. Fast food workers, for example, make a median wage of $17.32 an hour in California, but they’d need to make more than twice that to rent a one-bedroom home, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/oor/state/ca\">National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean people aren’t trying. Of everyone surveyed by UCSF, 44% said they were looking for work. Others made ends meet in other ways; 40% reported earning income from recycling or odd jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many participants reported barriers to working or finding work, including: their age, a disability, lack of transportation to and from a job, a criminal record, and the amount of time they spent trying to find food, water and shelter while also safeguarding their belongings on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Count-Report-San-Francisco-Updated-8.19.22.pdf\">San Francisco (PDF)\u003c/a>, 17% of homeless residents surveyed during the 2022 point-in-time count were working, while 32% were unemployed and looking for work, 32% weren’t looking for work, and 20% were unable to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job loss also contributed to many people becoming homeless. In \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Count-Report-San-Francisco-Updated-8.19.22.pdf\">San Francisco (PDF)\u003c/a>, 21% of people surveyed in 2022 reported that losing their jobs was what drove them into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>5. MYTH: People who are homeless don’t want shelter or housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> City leaders will sometimes label homeless residents as “service-resistant” if they refuse to accept shelter or other services. However, outreach workers say the reality is much more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people want to go inside, but they also want to be met halfway,” said Shaunn Cartwright, who has worked with homeless communities in San José for years. “Why would I go into a tiny home if I’m only going to be thrown out later? Or why would I want to go into a tiny home if there’s no housing after?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people living on the streets have severe post-traumatic stress disorder or other mental health conditions and can’t live in a barracks-style shelter where dozens of people sleep side-by-side on cots, she said. Many shelters also prohibit pets, won’t let couples bunk together, or don’t have room for people to store their belongings. All of those restrictions deter many people from accepting a placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11991834,news_11991340,news_11989926\" label=\"Related Stories\"]But data suggests that when people are offered shelter that meets their needs, they are likely to accept it. Cities and counties throughout California opened hotels and motels for homeless residents during the COVID-19 pandemic through the state’s Project Roomkey program. It was a novel idea at the time — offering private rooms as shelter for homeless residents instead of the traditional barracks-style model. And it was widely used, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/05/california-homeless-project-roomkey/\">statewide analysis of the program\u003c/a>. That proves that people are eager to come inside given the right conditions, Nichole Fiore, a principal associate with research firm Abt Global, who co-authored the report, told CalMatters in May. She said people who had refused shelter in the past were willing to try Roomkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will come indoors if they are offered autonomy, safety, privacy if they’re able to keep their partners, their pets, their possessions,” Fiore said. “When their needs are met and their needs are considered, then people will come indoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>6. MYTH: If you want to help, leave food at a homeless encampment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> Leaving food at a homeless camp without first asking what type of food the residents there want — or if they even want food at all — actually can cause more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll just see boxes of food just sitting on a corner,” Cartwright said, “and you can tell that somebody dropped it off, but it’s not necessarily what people are interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uneaten food will sit there and rot, attracting rats and flies and making the entire area smell. And rotting food can add to an encampment’s garbage problem, making it more likely the authorities will come and sweep the camp, forcing the residents to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal dumping is already a major problem at homeless encampments, Cartwright said. Sometimes, people who live in nearby houses will take their trash to the camp and dump it — leaving the camp residents to deal with trash that was never theirs to begin with, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do want to help, Cartwright has some advice: “Ask the people in the area, ‘Hey, what are you guys into?’”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Homelessness is one of the most prominent, hardest to solve — and most polarizing — problems California faces today. It’s an intensely emotional issue, as images of squalid encampments are enough to bring many to tears. But it’s also an intensely political one, with state and local leaders squabbling over how best to address the crisis, all while facing acute pressure from their constituents to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s no wonder that when it comes to the homelessness crisis, there’s a lot of talk out there — and not everything you hear is true. Here are some of the most common myths surrounding homelessness. Let us help you separate fact from fiction using data.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>1. MYTH: Most unhoused people come here from somewhere else\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> It’s often said that people who are down on their luck move here because of the nice weather and abundant social services. But the data doesn’t bear that out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of people who are homeless in California are from California — and most are still living in the same county where they lost their housing, according to a recent large-scale \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CASPEH_Report_62023.pdf\">survey of unhoused Californians (PDF)\u003c/a> conducted by the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. The survey found that 90% of participants were from California (meaning they lived in California when they became homeless) and 75% lived in the same county where they were last housed. And 66% were born in California, while 87% were born in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local data shows the same thing. In Santa Clara County, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/continuum-care/reports-and-publications/santa-clara-county-homeless-census-and-survey-reports-point\">85% of people surveyed \u003c/a>during the 2023 point-in-time count reported they were residents of the county when they became homeless. And 54% had lived in Santa Clara County for 10 or more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>2. MYTH: Everyone living on the street is addicted to drugs or mentally ill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> People living on the street are more likely to experience addiction or a mental illness than the general population — but by no means do those two conditions affect everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if they had ever been hospitalized due to a mental health condition, 27% of homeless Californians \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CASPEH_Report_62023.pdf\">surveyed by UCSF (PDF)\u003c/a> said yes. One in three reported attempting suicide at some point during their life. And 23% reported ever experiencing a significant period of hallucinations, while 25% said they had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to drug use, 56% of people surveyed by UCSF reported ever using amphetamines regularly, 33% reported ever using cocaine regularly, and 22% reported ever using non-prescribed opioids regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=8164-2024-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-results-long-version-.pdf\">Newly released data\u003c/a> from Los Angeles County found similar results — 24% of people surveyed during this year’s point-in-time count reported having a serious mental illness, and 27% reported a substance-use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rates are far higher than among the general population. Less than 4% of adults in California have a serious mental illness, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/2022-edition-mental-health-california/#related-links-and-downloads\">California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>. Rates of mental illness are higher in families with incomes below the federal poverty line and among people who are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 9% of Californians met the criteria for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SubstanceUseDisorderAlmanac2022.pdf\">substance use disorder (PDF)\u003c/a> in 2021, according to the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>3. MYTH: Most people living on the streets are veterans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT: \u003c/strong>Veterans are disproportionately represented in California’s homeless population. But thanks to a major effort by the federal government to end veteran homelessness over the past decade, the number of homeless vets in California has dropped significantly — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/11/homeless-veterans-california-election-2024/\">falling\u003c/a> from nearly 16,800 in 2011 to almost 10,400 in 2022. But in recent years, the number has plateaued. State-funded homes for unhoused vets are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/11/homeless-veterans-california-election-2024/\">underused\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, new efforts to tackle homelessness are setting aside special resources for unhoused vets. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-prop-1/\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, a recently approved $6.4 billion bond, promises to create 4,350 new homes for unhoused people who need mental health and addiction services. About half of those new homes will be reserved for veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How great is the need for those services? Of the homeless Californians surveyed by UCSF, 6% reported serving in the military. Of those who served, just 19% reported receiving benefits from the Veterans Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/continuum-care/reports-and-publications/santa-clara-county-homeless-census-and-survey-reports-point\">2023 point-in-time count\u003c/a> tallied 508 unhoused veterans — 5% of the county’s total homeless population. This year, \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">San Francisco\u003c/a> counted 587 homeless veterans — 7% of the city’s total homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12.jpg\" alt=\"A small dog is seen near an encampment filled with pieces of wood, metal and tents.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021122-Fresno-Homeless-Camps-LV-CM-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line up against a fence at a homeless encampment near Highway 180 in west Fresno on Feb. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>4. MYTH: People who are homeless don’t work and don’t want to work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> Some people who don’t have a home still hold down one or more jobs, while others are trying to find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the homeless Californians \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CASPEH_Report_62023.pdf\">surveyed by UCSF (PDF)\u003c/a>, 18% reported earning income from a job (either formal employment or informal/gig work) in the past month. When the researchers eliminated people who were older than 62 or had mental or physical disabilities from the data, the percentage was higher — 25% reported working in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if people are working, they aren’t making enough to afford rent. Fast food workers, for example, make a median wage of $17.32 an hour in California, but they’d need to make more than twice that to rent a one-bedroom home, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/oor/state/ca\">National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean people aren’t trying. Of everyone surveyed by UCSF, 44% said they were looking for work. Others made ends meet in other ways; 40% reported earning income from recycling or odd jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many participants reported barriers to working or finding work, including: their age, a disability, lack of transportation to and from a job, a criminal record, and the amount of time they spent trying to find food, water and shelter while also safeguarding their belongings on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Count-Report-San-Francisco-Updated-8.19.22.pdf\">San Francisco (PDF)\u003c/a>, 17% of homeless residents surveyed during the 2022 point-in-time count were working, while 32% were unemployed and looking for work, 32% weren’t looking for work, and 20% were unable to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job loss also contributed to many people becoming homeless. In \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Count-Report-San-Francisco-Updated-8.19.22.pdf\">San Francisco (PDF)\u003c/a>, 21% of people surveyed in 2022 reported that losing their jobs was what drove them into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\u003ch2>5. MYTH: People who are homeless don’t want shelter or housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FACT:\u003c/strong> City leaders will sometimes label homeless residents as “service-resistant” if they refuse to accept shelter or other services. However, outreach workers say the reality is much more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people want to go inside, but they also want to be met halfway,” said Shaunn Cartwright, who has worked with homeless communities in San José for years. “Why would I go into a tiny home if I’m only going to be thrown out later? Or why would I want to go into a tiny home if there’s no housing after?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people living on the streets have severe post-traumatic stress disorder or other mental health conditions and can’t live in a barracks-style shelter where dozens of people sleep side-by-side on cots, she said. Many shelters also prohibit pets, won’t let couples bunk together, or don’t have room for people to store their belongings. All of those restrictions deter many people from accepting a placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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