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"content": "\u003cp>California is not doing enough to track and evaluate efforts to address homelessness — despite billions of dollars spent to address the crisis, a state auditor found in a report released Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit looked at spending in fiscal years 2020 through 2023 across California, as well as within the cities of San José and San Diego. It found a revolving door of homelessness, with most people who access services placed in interim housing. Of those, just 13% ended up with a permanent place to live, while 44% returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Dave Cortese (D-San José) \u003ca href=\"https://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-cortese-and-supervisor-chavez-initiate-audit-request-state-funding-san-joses-homeless\">requested the audit \u003c/a>in November 2022 after touring a sprawling San José encampment that has since been cleared. The audit request was approved in March 2023.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San José, who requested the audit\"]‘There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness.’[/pullquote]On Tuesday, he said the audit revealed a “data desert” and added that there clearly wasn’t enough capacity — either planned or built — to ensure that people living on the streets could get permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness … on a bed-by-bed, project-by-project level,” Cortese said. “Basically, you have a system where cities are putting money out … but not based on a concrete plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report comes as homelessness in the state reached new heights. California now accounts for a third of the country’s unhoused population and half of its unsheltered homeless citizens. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huduser.gov%2Fportal%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2F2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">Over 181,000 Californians were unhoused (DOC)\u003c/a> in 2023, a nearly 20% uptick since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s despite an unprecedented nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2023/2023-24-Budget-Housing-Homelessness-Proposed-Budget-Changes-032923.pdf\">$24 billion in state spending on homelessness over the same period (PDF)\u003c/a>, in addition to local and federal investments, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is facing a concerning paradox: despite an exorbitant amount of dollars spent, the state’s homeless population is not slowing down,” Sen. Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks), vice chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a statement. “These audit results are a wake-up call for a shift toward solutions that prioritize self-sufficiency and cost-effectiveness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California's Homeless Population, In Thousands\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-gPa5h\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/gPa5h/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"487\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, the auditor’s office focused on the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) and reviewed five state-funded homelessness programs to assess cost-effectiveness. The review found the state lacks information in three of the five programs about how much they cost and whether or not they’re working — and doesn’t even have a consistent system for collecting this information for individual programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor’s office found the Department of Housing and Community Development’s Homekey program and the California Department of Social Services’ CalWORKs Housing Support Program is cost‑effective but couldn’t determine whether the other three programs it studied — the State Rental Assistance Program, the Encampment Resolution Funding Program, and the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Grant Program — were because the state hasn’t collected enough data on outcomes.[aside postID=news_11981737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/vallejo-nav-center-rendering-2-1020x680.jpg']“In the absence of this information, the State cannot determine whether these programs represent the best use of its funds,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, neither city studied could account for all of its homelessness-related funding and spending despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report. The auditor blames a failure to establish a system for tracking and reporting spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The absence of such a mechanism limits the transparency and accountability of the cities’ uses of funding to address homelessness,” State Auditor Grant Parks wrote in a letter to the governor and legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities weren’t tracking how effective their contracts with service providers were or holding them to clear performance measures, the audit found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, despite clear evidence that placing people in permanent housing leads to better outcomes, both cities have invested heavily in developing temporary shelters and still lack the capacity to house their homeless residents at those sites. While both cities are developing permanent housing, neither “has a clear, long‑term plan to ensure that they have the housing necessary,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susannah Parsons, director of policy and legislation for All Home, a Bay Area-based nonprofit, said that without ongoing funding to build housing at scale for people exiting homelessness, cities will continue to fall short. She was heartened, she said, by a proposed $10-$20 billion regional affordable housing bond for the Bay Area that \u003ca href=\"https://bayareahousingforall.org/frequently-asked-questions/\">could appear on the November ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the ability to really fund more permanent housing solutions, folks will be stuck waiting outside for that permanent housing solution, or they will be moving inside to interim solutions, but without anywhere to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some other report findings included:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state agency in charge of coordinating and tracking the effectiveness of its programs — the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) — has not tracked or reported on the state’s funding for homelessness programs since 2023, when it issued a report covering fiscal years 2018 through 2021. Currently, it has no plans to perform a similar assessment in the future, according to the report.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH’s actions are not aligned with goals mandated by the Legislature. The report notes that without this alignment, the agency “lacks assurance that the actions it takes will effectively enable it to reach those goals.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH has no consistent method for gathering information on homelessness programs’ costs and outcomes. “As a result,” the report noted, “the state lacks information that would allow it to make data‑driven policy decisions and identify gaps in services.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH doesn’t know whether the data it gathers is accurate, nor has it used that data to evaluate whether programs to address homelessness are working.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The report found that 86% of people placed in housing statewide moved into interim housing rather than permanent housing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people left interim housing, only 13% moved into permanent housing. By contrast, 44% of the people who left interim housing returned to homelessness.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people were placed in permanent housing, they returned to homelessness 4% of the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As street homelessness becomes increasingly visible, public skepticism of the state’s response has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A demonstration of that skepticism came during the March election, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">voters approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to tackle the homelessness crisis by the thinnest margins\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom raised more than $13 million promoting Proposition 1, which will compel county behavioral health departments to spend some of their funding on housing and drug treatment programs.[aside postID=news_11981595 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-1020x681.jpg']Californians continue to name homelessness as one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-february-2024/\">top concerns in polls\u003c/a>, and officials are increasingly responding to the pressure with calls for greater accountability over spending. Newsom has paired new funding with demands for greater oversight, while a federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-08/federal-judge-seeks-audit-of-mayors-signature-program-inside-safe\">seeking an audit\u003c/a> of homelessness programs in the city, and auditors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981767/audit-finds-sf-homeless-housing-provider-misspent-taxpayer-money\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/report-finds-homeless-service-provider-dema-unable-to-account-for-about-40/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> recently investigated homeless services providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-dac338003e3f78986bc9369430cddd0b\">scathing 2021 audit\u003c/a> found California’s management of homelessness was disjointed and lacked a centralized way to track spending or determine where efforts are duplicative. The report recommended California follow the example of other states in assigning oversight to a single entity tasked with developing a statewide strategic plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, where more than 6,000 people are unhoused, Mayor Matt Mahan and his predecessor Sam Liccardo have pushed for the city to invest in interim housing as a way to quickly move unhoused residents off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheltered and Unsheltered Homelessness in San Jose\" aria-label=\"Stacked Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Dw8zM\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Dw8zM/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"385\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness increased in San José between 2015 to 2022, from just over 4,000 to 6,650. The population dipped slightly in 2023 to 6,340 — an accomplishment Mahan attributes to the city’s investment in interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget proposal last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">Mahan proposed an increase in funding for temporary housing\u003c/a> and shelter, a shift that could result in fewer investments in building affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">similar effort from the mayor was met with some resistance \u003c/a>from the council last year, but Mahan argued that a new mandate from regional water officials to clear encampments from the city’s river beds added urgency to his focus on short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"housing,homeless\" label=\"More Housing Stories\"]“More than anything, it seems like the audit calls for us to do more,” said Ray Bramson, chief operating officer for Destination Home, a research and advocacy organization that helps implement Santa Clara County’s plan to end homelessness. “That costs money, and at a time where we’re seeing the funds that we’re getting be reduced or cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local taxes and bonds have raised money in recent years, Bramson pointed out that federal housing and homelessness funding has been stagnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been decades and decades of disinvestment in our poorest residents at both the state and the federal levels,” he said, reiterating a common refrain calling for ongoing — as opposed to one-time — state funding. “While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report recommended the Legislature amend state law to require Cal ICH, by March 2025, to mandate reporting by state agencies on the costs and outcomes of its programs related to homelessness. To do that, Cal ICH has to establish guidelines for the agency to follow when it collects that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ray Bramson, chief operating officer, Destination Home\"]‘While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.’[/pullquote]The audit also recommends Cal ICH determine how much it would cost to collect and publish this information annually and request the necessary funding. By September 2025, the agency should begin publishing this data on costs and outcomes annually and create a scorecard showing how well each program is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is facing an estimated $73 billion budget, according to the Legislative Analysts’ Office. But despite this shortfall, Cortese said now was not the time to hold back on funding for homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said, it’s really really important that this [data] system that the state stood up last year starts delivering to us immediately the state’s analysis of the effectiveness of those dollars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Cal ICH Executive Officer Meghan Marshall said the agency “generally agrees” with the auditor’s recommendations and “will take appropriate measures to implement where possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmarzorati\">Guy Marzorati\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And welcome to our March News roundup, where me and the Bay team sit down to talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. I’m here with producer Maria Esquinca. Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello. Hello, hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And senior editor Alan Montecillo. What’s up? Allan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And, it’s officially spring in the Bay area, which is my favorite. How are y’all feeling?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>I’m feeling really excited for the flowers, the sunlight. I can’t wait to go to Lake Merritt and hang out with my friends and feel the sun. So I’m pretty. I’m pretty excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I’m cautiously optimistic about spring. Obviously, it is very, very pretty. There’s, you know, the super blooms. You can see the wildflowers. I can definitely feel spring on my face, if you know what I mean. Like I’m sneezing all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Y’all, as listeners probably heard Allan a bunch in the hot seat. Sort of. On a personal note from me, you probably didn’t hear as much from me as usual this month because I was dealing with some family stuff, helping my mom recover from breast cancer, which I do feel comfortable talking about because it is such a common thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So many people deal with breast cancer. She’s doing really well. She’s recovering, she’s feeling good. So I feel like that was also sort of a turn of the winter to spring, the shift and the transition on that end for me. So shout out to the Bay team for holding it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Of course. And you know, we’re all very, very happy and relief that your mom’s doing well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Shout out to mom. All right, well, let’s hop into some of the other stories we’ve been following this month, starting with Maria, who has some pretty good news out of the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So something that happened earlier this month is that the Street Spirit newspaper is back in print after being out of print for eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, I think I’ve seen news, like are usually very concerned to hear whenever, like a newspaper goes out of business or stops printing. But can you remind us of, like what street spirit was known for? Like what kind of reporting were they doing in the East Bay, and what role did it serve in the community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>It was created in the 90s when the Oakland Tribune was sold by homeless people, and the founders noticed that the irony of it was, you know, unhoused people were selling this newspaper. But the coverage that they saw out of the Oakland Tribune was not reflecting their stories and was actually disparaging of of unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And so that was the seed of this newspaper. And so it’s a it’s a monthly newspaper that is sold by homeless people. They get some of the funds back from, selling them. And I think the intention is really to have a publication that is written by and for unhoused people, for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alastair Boone \u003c/strong>The purpose of st reet spirit is to shed light on the experience of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Alastair Boone, the current director of Street Spirit, spoke in July about some of this, the intention behind it and I think really responding to. How sometimes news coverage of unhoused people does not even include them. It does not quote them. And so really responding to what they see as an absence of homeless people and stories that report about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alastair Boone \u003c/strong>So that means that every story we publish is either written by somebody who has experience of homelessness, or if it’s like a new style article. We go to great lengths to make sure that it has people, their voices and their experiences are represented in this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And I think it’s also important to highlight that it’s not just reporting on the problem and the trauma and and the violence and the sort of heaviness that is associated with, homeless people. Like, it’s kind of a magazine style publication that also includes more joyous stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alastair Boone \u003c/strong>But we try to we try to make each issue joyful and, you know, not just kind of focus on the bad stuff that happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And I know it was out of print for a while because it was facing financial challenges. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So what happened was that back in May, the nonprofit that funded them pulled out and was unable to continue. The current director and the current editor in chief, Bradley Penner, basically, raised $250,000 from individual donations, and that’s enough to cover them until the end of the year. The newspaper will be continued to be printed and sold, around 40 vendors in Berkeley, Oakland and Fairfax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>All these newspapers and and some of the funds directly go back to them. So it’s a way to support them. And Alistair Boon also mentioned that this event, ways to support them. So that includes anything from volunteering to raising funds on your own and donating them to the publication. And so if people you know are interested in supporting their work, there’s like a number of ways to to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, thank you so much, Maria. For that piece of good news. When we come back, we’ll talk about a new phone number for non-emergency situations in Oakland and Aaron Peskin running for mayor. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Support for KQED podcasts comes from Star One Credit Union, now offering real time money movement with instant pay, make transfers and payments instantly between financial institutions online or through Star One’s mobile app. Star one credit union in your best interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to The Bay’s monthly news roundup, where we discuss the stories that we’ve been following this month. And up next is my story, which is about a new phone line that residents in Oakland can call for nonviolent, non-emergency situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So when you’re talking about, nonviolent and non-emergency situations, what are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This phone line, which is called the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, line or macro for short, is really about giving community members in Oakland a number to call for nonviolent, non-emergency situations where maybe someone could use some help or some connections with social services. Maybe they could use some water or some blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Some examples of the kinds of things that Oakland residents can pick up the phone for would be a wellness check for someone on the streets, a noise complaint, someone maybe being drunk in public, or even panhandling. When you call macro, you’re really reaching out to civilian responders. So in other words, not police. And the whole idea behind macro was really to be an alternative to police…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>…Who so often in all parts of the state and the country are kind of the only people that you can call when you see someone having a mental health crisis on the streets, or you see a homeless person suffering on the streets. And so the idea behind macro is to create an alternative to police that can actually connect people with services, and perhaps be more helpful when people are in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Is this, a new thing for the Bay area, for California? How common is something like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>There are definitely other versions of this across the Bay area. But I think what’s really different about this in Oakland are what’s really changed in Oakland is that this is a separate line from 901 that civilians can call. That basically makes it easier on 911 dispatchers who are, as the Oakland side has reported, really overwhelmed by the number of calls that they get every year, majority of which are actually non-emergency related calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And that’s really meant that the 901 system in the city has really struggled to respond quickly to actual emergencies in a timely manner. Macro actually first launched in April of 2022, and until now, in order to reach macro civilian responders, you had to call 911, and then have your your non-emergency call diverted through these sort of other channels before you could actually reach a macro responder. But this new number makes it so that you can reach a, a macro responder directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>We should probably tell people what the phone number is, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yes. So, if you have a pen and paper, write this down. The phone number is (510) 446-2276. And they also have an email address which is Macro@Oakland ca.gov. All right. Well, that was my story. And last but not least, Alan, what’s your story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There’s a mayoral election in San Francisco this November. Mayor London Breed is running for another term. It is already very competitive. There are, you know, several major candidates at this point, but there’s one very prominent politician in the city who many people have speculated or even have confirmed with other sources, although he won’t say it yet. And that’s Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>I think this is really interesting, and I think it’s putting a little wrench on local San Francisco politics, especially coming off of the primaries. How is this expected to kind of shift things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, I think it might be helpful to start with who Aaron Peskin is. I think he’s very well known to people who have been in San Francisco a long time, probably less so for people outside of the city. He’s been in office for a while. He was elected in the early 2000. He’s been on the board for more than 20 years. He’s historically represented North Beach Chinatown in the Financial district. He’s someone who really, you know, knows how the city works, has been in politics a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>He is someone who I think most would say is in the progressive camp, at least in terms of, you know, who his main political alliances have been with. You know, I wouldn’t call him like a, you know, very progressive or a very left candidate. But I think what what makes his possible candidacy interesting now is because right now, all of the major candidates currently running for mayor are moderates. Mayor London breed. You have former supervisor and one time, you know briefly mayor Mark Farrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There’s also Daniel Lurie, the nonprofit executive, and Levi Strauss er and you have supervisor Asher Safai, but there isn’t really a candidate who the more left leaning and progressive interest groups and voters are really energized by right now. And that’s why many people are wondering that if Peskin decides to run, if if he could be that candidate, and if in a ranked choice voting system, he might actually have a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Alan, you mentioned Aaron Peskin hasn’t officially declared his candidacy for mayor. So how do we know this? How likely is it? And is it basically a sure thing at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Basically, several publications say, including the Chronicle, including San Francisco Standard, that sources close to Peskin have told them that he plans to run. But when asked directly currently, he will not say that he’s running. There’s been some speculation that one reason he’s held off is because right now, you can really see the moderate candidates going at each other already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, Mayor London Breed is vulnerable. Her unfavorable favorables are very high. So, you know, I don’t know if it’s for sure a sure thing. I think people would be surprised that after all this kind of hubbub, he decides not to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Well, another interesting part of this is there’s been a lot of reporting, including a story by Mission Local in The Guardian, about the political contributions in S.F. that can be traced back to the tech industry and and these billionaires. How do you think that will play a role in this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>They’re already coming out and saying, we do not want this guy as the mayor after the primary. The founder of grow SF told KQED and other reporters that they’re basically saying anybody but Peskin grow S.F.. Moderate politicians and groups see Peskin as a as someone who’s basically presided over San Francisco’s decline. 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Like, it’s kind of a magazine style publication that also includes more joyous stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alastair Boone \u003c/strong>But we try to we try to make each issue joyful and, you know, not just kind of focus on the bad stuff that happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And I know it was out of print for a while because it was facing financial challenges. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So what happened was that back in May, the nonprofit that funded them pulled out and was unable to continue. The current director and the current editor in chief, Bradley Penner, basically, raised $250,000 from individual donations, and that’s enough to cover them until the end of the year. The newspaper will be continued to be printed and sold, around 40 vendors in Berkeley, Oakland and Fairfax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>All these newspapers and and some of the funds directly go back to them. So it’s a way to support them. And Alistair Boon also mentioned that this event, ways to support them. So that includes anything from volunteering to raising funds on your own and donating them to the publication. And so if people you know are interested in supporting their work, there’s like a number of ways to to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, thank you so much, Maria. For that piece of good news. When we come back, we’ll talk about a new phone number for non-emergency situations in Oakland and Aaron Peskin running for mayor. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Support for KQED podcasts comes from Star One Credit Union, now offering real time money movement with instant pay, make transfers and payments instantly between financial institutions online or through Star One’s mobile app. Star one credit union in your best interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to The Bay’s monthly news roundup, where we discuss the stories that we’ve been following this month. And up next is my story, which is about a new phone line that residents in Oakland can call for nonviolent, non-emergency situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So when you’re talking about, nonviolent and non-emergency situations, what are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This phone line, which is called the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, line or macro for short, is really about giving community members in Oakland a number to call for nonviolent, non-emergency situations where maybe someone could use some help or some connections with social services. Maybe they could use some water or some blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Some examples of the kinds of things that Oakland residents can pick up the phone for would be a wellness check for someone on the streets, a noise complaint, someone maybe being drunk in public, or even panhandling. When you call macro, you’re really reaching out to civilian responders. So in other words, not police. And the whole idea behind macro was really to be an alternative to police…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>…Who so often in all parts of the state and the country are kind of the only people that you can call when you see someone having a mental health crisis on the streets, or you see a homeless person suffering on the streets. And so the idea behind macro is to create an alternative to police that can actually connect people with services, and perhaps be more helpful when people are in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Is this, a new thing for the Bay area, for California? How common is something like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>There are definitely other versions of this across the Bay area. But I think what’s really different about this in Oakland are what’s really changed in Oakland is that this is a separate line from 901 that civilians can call. That basically makes it easier on 911 dispatchers who are, as the Oakland side has reported, really overwhelmed by the number of calls that they get every year, majority of which are actually non-emergency related calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And that’s really meant that the 901 system in the city has really struggled to respond quickly to actual emergencies in a timely manner. Macro actually first launched in April of 2022, and until now, in order to reach macro civilian responders, you had to call 911, and then have your your non-emergency call diverted through these sort of other channels before you could actually reach a macro responder. But this new number makes it so that you can reach a, a macro responder directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>We should probably tell people what the phone number is, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yes. So, if you have a pen and paper, write this down. The phone number is (510) 446-2276. And they also have an email address which is Macro@Oakland ca.gov. All right. Well, that was my story. And last but not least, Alan, what’s your story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There’s a mayoral election in San Francisco this November. Mayor London Breed is running for another term. It is already very competitive. There are, you know, several major candidates at this point, but there’s one very prominent politician in the city who many people have speculated or even have confirmed with other sources, although he won’t say it yet. And that’s Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>I think this is really interesting, and I think it’s putting a little wrench on local San Francisco politics, especially coming off of the primaries. How is this expected to kind of shift things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, I think it might be helpful to start with who Aaron Peskin is. I think he’s very well known to people who have been in San Francisco a long time, probably less so for people outside of the city. He’s been in office for a while. He was elected in the early 2000. He’s been on the board for more than 20 years. He’s historically represented North Beach Chinatown in the Financial district. He’s someone who really, you know, knows how the city works, has been in politics a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>He is someone who I think most would say is in the progressive camp, at least in terms of, you know, who his main political alliances have been with. You know, I wouldn’t call him like a, you know, very progressive or a very left candidate. But I think what what makes his possible candidacy interesting now is because right now, all of the major candidates currently running for mayor are moderates. Mayor London breed. You have former supervisor and one time, you know briefly mayor Mark Farrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There’s also Daniel Lurie, the nonprofit executive, and Levi Strauss er and you have supervisor Asher Safai, but there isn’t really a candidate who the more left leaning and progressive interest groups and voters are really energized by right now. And that’s why many people are wondering that if Peskin decides to run, if if he could be that candidate, and if in a ranked choice voting system, he might actually have a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Alan, you mentioned Aaron Peskin hasn’t officially declared his candidacy for mayor. So how do we know this? How likely is it? And is it basically a sure thing at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Basically, several publications say, including the Chronicle, including San Francisco Standard, that sources close to Peskin have told them that he plans to run. But when asked directly currently, he will not say that he’s running. There’s been some speculation that one reason he’s held off is because right now, you can really see the moderate candidates going at each other already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, Mayor London Breed is vulnerable. Her unfavorable favorables are very high. So, you know, I don’t know if it’s for sure a sure thing. I think people would be surprised that after all this kind of hubbub, he decides not to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Well, another interesting part of this is there’s been a lot of reporting, including a story by Mission Local in The Guardian, about the political contributions in S.F. that can be traced back to the tech industry and and these billionaires. How do you think that will play a role in this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>They’re already coming out and saying, we do not want this guy as the mayor after the primary. The founder of grow SF told KQED and other reporters that they’re basically saying anybody but Peskin grow S.F.. Moderate politicians and groups see Peskin as a as someone who’s basically presided over San Francisco’s decline. One main objection to Aaron Peskin is when it comes to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, there’s been a much stronger push in California for, you know, I guess the term Nimby. Yes. In my backyard, basically people who say we need to build housing much, much more aggressively all over the city, including market rate housing if we’re going to solve the housing crisis. Peskin has generally prioritized affordable housing while also wanting to limit construction. In some cases when he feels like it might negatively affect the surrounding neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>He once said, in a separate fight over density, which we only get into, essentially, we can save San Francisco without destroying San Francisco. So to a lot of the moderate aligned politicians who want to build much more housing, they say, this guy, he’s just said, no in my backyard Nimby, someone who’s going to stop change. But yeah, we’ll see what happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, thank you so much, Alan, for that story. Usually we end it off right here, but we do want to try something a little bit different after a meal. I usually like something a little sweet, a soda, some dessert for y’all. We want to end off with just some good news. Something that we as a team, are excited about. And one big thing is KEXP, a new radio station in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think this is going to be really cool for the Bay area’s independent music scene, as many of us from the Bay know. You know, we are a place where independent artists are working on and making really cool stuff, and that’s kind of KEXP’s bread and butter. So I think that’s going to be really exciting. I already saved the station and my favorites and my car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>92.7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Exciting stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Maria, what are you excited about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Well, it’s no surprise because I’ve talked about this a lot to Allan and ECG. April is National Poetry Month. I’m a poet, I love poetry, I think everyone is a poet. And so I’m very excited that there’s a whole month to celebrate poetry and a little tradition that we kind of have going on since I came on the show is that every April we feature a Bay poet, so listeners can expect that dropping in our feed sometime in April. And I do want, Plug Medicine for nightmares, which is a local bookstore in the mission, and they have tons of poetry events all year round. And so there could be someone to, to look for and. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about you, Allan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Oh, I mean, it’s March Madness. There are brackets going on at KQED. I think third and fourth right now in both the men’s and women’s side. There’s a batch of games this weekend. Stanford is still in. I have them going to the Final Four, but losing to Iowa in the finals. Sorry, but I can’t bet against Caitlin Clark. But that that’s a lot of what I’m looking forward to in the in the next week or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Maria, look forward to celebrating National Poetry Month with you and Allan. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]N[/dropcap]early a decade ago, David Modersbach had what he thought was a straightforward question: How many unhoused people had died that year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grants manager and his team at \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/\">Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\u003c/a> knew people were dying on the streets, but they wanted more than anecdotal evidence; they wanted data that could show them the big picture and help them hone their strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They queried the coroner’s bureau and were stunned by the response: only a single death had been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized there’s a lot of work to do,” Modersbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a bootstrap campaign to fill the data gap. It took years, and the work was sometimes lonely, often tedious and consistently heartbreaking. When the team finally released its first report in 2022, detailing deaths from 2018–20, they counted 195 people in Alameda County who died while homeless in 2018, plus another 189 people with recent histories of homelessness whose housing status couldn’t be verified at their time of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/david-modersbach-works-in-his-office-in-oakland-on-march-15-2024/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a man with glasses and long hair, wearing a flannel shirt, sits behind a computer\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Modersbach works in his office in Oakland. Modersbach has spearheaded Alameda County’s efforts to count the deaths of unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As more Californians have fallen into homelessness — a number greater than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">181,000 at last count (PDF)\u003c/a> — more have died while unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t kept pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred in part by Alameda County’s efforts, which are considered a national model for the field, the state recently began taking steps toward collecting this data. In 2022, California added a field to death records for homelessness status, and this year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271\">a law went into effect that empowers counties to set up homeless death review committees to determine the root causes of homeless mortality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among several jurisdictions across the country seeking this data. The pandemic put a spotlight on the health vulnerabilities accompanying homelessness, and that has led to growing national interest in the topic, said Barbara DiPietro, senior director of policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">A recent study\u003c/a> from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and NYU found the death rate of people experiencing homelessness increased 238% between 2011 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Barbara DiPietro, National Health Care for the Homeless Council\"]‘Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.’[/pullquote]“One of the things that hopefully we took away from COVID is that homelessness is a public health issue,” she said. “Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the data is critical in assessing whether the state’s public health interventions for people on the streets work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is how we work to change things,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative. “One of the problems with not reporting it is that it makes it harder to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting statewide — let alone national — data detailing the number of unhoused deaths requires meticulous reporting on the part of local agencies. In the case of Alameda County, it was a system Modersbach had to build from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How they count\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For each homeless mortality report, Modersbach and his colleagues first scour thousands of county death records, searching for clues that suggest homelessness: words like “encampment,” “tent” and “shelter.” They then cross reference that list with a database of everyone in the county who has experienced homelessness in the past five years — itself a bespoke repository that draws on the agency’s healthcare data and records from the county’s shelter and homeless assistance programs. To capture anyone they might miss, they cull information from service providers, media accounts and a public online portal for submitting tips about deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11973859,news_11974385]Since they began tracking homeless mortality, the team has traced an 80% increase in the number of deaths, which rose from 195 in 2018 to 351 in 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/alameda-county-homeless-mortality.html\">the most recent year for which data was reported\u003c/a>. Over the same period, homelessness in the county jumped by nearly the same amount — or 77% — from 5,496 people to 9,747.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the numbers are snapshots of how and where people are dying. A body found in a car. An overdose at an encampment. People mangled by cars or trains; others charred. Modersbach finds the tableau at once unsurprising and shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the same inequities in our mortality data that are reflected in homelessness,” he said. Black people are overrepresented, comprising \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/asr1451/viz/TableauAlamedaCounty-HDXandSurveyData/SurveyTOC\">48% of the unhoused population\u003c/a> and accounting for 44% of the deaths — though they represent only 19% of deaths in the county’s general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are unhoused die at five times the rate of those with housing and do so more than two decades sooner — at an average age of 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The data shapes decisions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the deaths could be prevented, said Amy Garlin, Medical Director for Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream,” Garlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest share, 44% of the deaths among the homeless population, were caused by acute or chronic medical conditions, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and infections. Some of those appear to have been more immediately avoidable, Garlin said. “If these people had had medical care, they may not have died this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an encampment along East 12th Street in Oakland, Angel Gonzalez, 40, remembered the friends he’d known there who had died. An asthma attack claimed one, exposure another and a third succumbed to a fever. Though Gonzalez said he didn’t know what had caused the fever, he said people are often sick, and rat bites are common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health-wise here, it’s bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s frequent violence, too. Gonzalez described a drive-by shooting that killed one friend and wounded others. But what claims most people in the camp, he and others said, is overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fentanyl is killing mostly everybody,” Gonzalez said, explaining that people unwittingly use fentanyl-laced meth or other drugs. “It’s kind of scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/25/why-california-doesnt-know-how-many-people-are-dying-while-homeless/angel-gonzalez_qut/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11980551\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg\" alt=\"a man stands in front of some cars and tents and belongings in an encampment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Gonzalez, 40, at an encampment on East 12th Street in Oakland, has seen many deaths at the camp, including from fevers, exposure, asthma attacks and gunshot wounds. But the most common cause by far is drug overdoses. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mortality data compiled by Modersbach’s team reflects this, with an alarming rate of overdose deaths among unhoused residents that is 44 times the general population’s. In response, they’ve expanded their harm reduction services, focusing on naloxone distribution and installing dispensers in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the East 12th Street camp, Gonzalez pointed out a purple dispenser on the street corner. Though Modersbach’s team had not installed it, it still proved lifesaving, Gonzalez said, when a friend recently used one of the naloxone sprays to reverse an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless received \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/od2a/local.html\">a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> in 2023 to fund overdose response, a key part of their strategy to reduce mortality, and Modersbach credits their data for helping them get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amy Garlin, Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\"]‘You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream.’[/pullquote]In Minnesota, the only state with a statewide robust system for tracking homeless mortality, public health officials took a similar approach. A report on deaths between 2017 and 2021 showed unhoused people in the state were 10 times more likely than the general population to die of an overdose. Shortly after that data was released in 2023, state lawmakers passed drug overdose prevention legislation that expanded harm reduction and housing programs for people experiencing homelessness, decriminalized drug paraphernalia — a first for the U.S. — and funded “\u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/alcohol-drugs-addictions/programs-and-services/safe-recovery-sites.jsp\">safe recovery sites\u003c/a>” that offer clean needles, fentanyl testing and will eventually offer supervised drug consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the data was really useful in making the case for some of those things, both with legislators and with the public and advocates,” said Josh Leopold, senior advisor on health, homelessness and housing at the Minnesota Department of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s latest homeless mortality report is now prompting the team to focus on how to extend palliative care services to unhoused people with terminal illnesses. Garlin estimates almost one-fifth of those who died in 2022 would likely have been eligible for hospice care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in the ‘labor of love’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Modersbach’s team is also working to automate the most tedious aspects of compiling the county’s homeless mortality report and aims to launch a public dashboard later this year that will make information available quarterly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge is that we do not have timely data that we can act upon more quickly because of the workarounds that we have to do to get an accurate count,” Modersbach said. “We’re almost always looking backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11977614 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/021422-FRESNO-HOMELESS-LV-08-CM-1020x680.jpg']The county’s latest tally, for 2022, was released at the beginning of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz, San Diego, San Mateo, Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/chie/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820967/deaths-of-homeless-people-spike-in-san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> are among the counties with varying degrees of reporting on homeless deaths. In Santa Clara County, an early champion of this work, \u003ca href=\"https://data.sccgov.org/Health/Medical-Examiner-Coroner-Unhoused-Homeless-Deaths-/kemd-3zbq/data\">a public dashboard tracking homeless mortality is updated nightly\u003c/a>. A spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s Office credited its partnership with a third-party vendor with allowing it to return results so quickly. So far this year, the dashboard listed 51 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, about two dozen jurisdictions have homeless mortality reports that are issued with some regularity, according to DiPietro of the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council, which tracks these efforts. But because the reporting isn’t standardized, it’s difficult to draw comparisons between them, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/240315-david-modersbach-md-03-kqed-02/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02.jpg\" alt=\"a computer screen shows a tally of numbers\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statistics on homeless mortality in Alameda County on David Modersbach’s computer in his office in Oakland on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, despite the recent efforts to improve this tracking, limited resources will likely continue to hamper the reporting of homeless deaths. Since 2022, when the state added a field on death reports to indicate a person’s housing status, Modersbach has seen some evidence people are filling it out, but he worries many unhoused deaths will continue to go uncounted around the state because the funeral directors, coroners and physicians filling out the reports don’t often have the resources to determine whether someone was housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a lonely, costly battle to just put all this information together, not a funded mandate,” he said. “It’s kind of a labor of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In counties with well-established systems for tracking these deaths, Modersbach hopes AB 271, by Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma), will make a difference. The new law allows counties to create homeless death review committees and access sensitive information about people who died. The data, which includes medical, mental health and criminal records, goes beyond what Modersbach and his team have so far been able to collect, giving them greater insight into the circumstances surrounding a person’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County assembled its death review committee last year, bringing together officials from several county agencies, homeless service providers and formerly unhoused people with the aim of finding ways to keep more people experiencing homelessness alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just getting started,” Modersbach said, “but this is the future for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">N\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>early a decade ago, David Modersbach had what he thought was a straightforward question: How many unhoused people had died that year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grants manager and his team at \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/\">Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\u003c/a> knew people were dying on the streets, but they wanted more than anecdotal evidence; they wanted data that could show them the big picture and help them hone their strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They queried the coroner’s bureau and were stunned by the response: only a single death had been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized there’s a lot of work to do,” Modersbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a bootstrap campaign to fill the data gap. It took years, and the work was sometimes lonely, often tedious and consistently heartbreaking. When the team finally released its first report in 2022, detailing deaths from 2018–20, they counted 195 people in Alameda County who died while homeless in 2018, plus another 189 people with recent histories of homelessness whose housing status couldn’t be verified at their time of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/david-modersbach-works-in-his-office-in-oakland-on-march-15-2024/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a man with glasses and long hair, wearing a flannel shirt, sits behind a computer\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Modersbach works in his office in Oakland. Modersbach has spearheaded Alameda County’s efforts to count the deaths of unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As more Californians have fallen into homelessness — a number greater than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">181,000 at last count (PDF)\u003c/a> — more have died while unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t kept pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred in part by Alameda County’s efforts, which are considered a national model for the field, the state recently began taking steps toward collecting this data. In 2022, California added a field to death records for homelessness status, and this year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271\">a law went into effect that empowers counties to set up homeless death review committees to determine the root causes of homeless mortality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among several jurisdictions across the country seeking this data. The pandemic put a spotlight on the health vulnerabilities accompanying homelessness, and that has led to growing national interest in the topic, said Barbara DiPietro, senior director of policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">A recent study\u003c/a> from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and NYU found the death rate of people experiencing homelessness increased 238% between 2011 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of the things that hopefully we took away from COVID is that homelessness is a public health issue,” she said. “Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the data is critical in assessing whether the state’s public health interventions for people on the streets work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is how we work to change things,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative. “One of the problems with not reporting it is that it makes it harder to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting statewide — let alone national — data detailing the number of unhoused deaths requires meticulous reporting on the part of local agencies. In the case of Alameda County, it was a system Modersbach had to build from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How they count\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For each homeless mortality report, Modersbach and his colleagues first scour thousands of county death records, searching for clues that suggest homelessness: words like “encampment,” “tent” and “shelter.” They then cross reference that list with a database of everyone in the county who has experienced homelessness in the past five years — itself a bespoke repository that draws on the agency’s healthcare data and records from the county’s shelter and homeless assistance programs. To capture anyone they might miss, they cull information from service providers, media accounts and a public online portal for submitting tips about deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Minnesota, the only state with a statewide robust system for tracking homeless mortality, public health officials took a similar approach. A report on deaths between 2017 and 2021 showed unhoused people in the state were 10 times more likely than the general population to die of an overdose. Shortly after that data was released in 2023, state lawmakers passed drug overdose prevention legislation that expanded harm reduction and housing programs for people experiencing homelessness, decriminalized drug paraphernalia — a first for the U.S. — and funded “\u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/alcohol-drugs-addictions/programs-and-services/safe-recovery-sites.jsp\">safe recovery sites\u003c/a>” that offer clean needles, fentanyl testing and will eventually offer supervised drug consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the data was really useful in making the case for some of those things, both with legislators and with the public and advocates,” said Josh Leopold, senior advisor on health, homelessness and housing at the Minnesota Department of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s latest homeless mortality report is now prompting the team to focus on how to extend palliative care services to unhoused people with terminal illnesses. Garlin estimates almost one-fifth of those who died in 2022 would likely have been eligible for hospice care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in the ‘labor of love’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Modersbach’s team is also working to automate the most tedious aspects of compiling the county’s homeless mortality report and aims to launch a public dashboard later this year that will make information available quarterly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge is that we do not have timely data that we can act upon more quickly because of the workarounds that we have to do to get an accurate count,” Modersbach said. “We’re almost always looking backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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These have been a few long weeks, sleepless weeks.’[/pullquote]After breathing a sigh of relief that Proposition 1 was able to survive an unfriendly primary electorate, Newsom aimed much of his remarks at the county governments who will be tasked with implementing many of the measure’s provisions. The governor acknowledged his legacy would hinge in part on the rollout of the measure and related programs at the intersection of behavioral health and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got three more years here, roughly, to prove that we can make a dent in this,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> called Proposition 1’s victory late Wednesday. The measure currently leads by just under 30,000 votes — out of more than 7 million ballots cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broad bipartisan coalition backed Proposition 1, and supporters vastly outspent a mostly volunteer group of opponents. 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However, no dramatic change has been seen in Los Angeles and other large cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States; roughly 181,000 Californians are in need of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who made the measure a signature proposal, spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf. He raised more than $13 million to promote it with the support of law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and mayors of major cities. Opponents raised just $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness and a victory for doing things radically different,” Newsom said in a statement after the measure’s razor-thin victory was announced. “Now, counties and local officials must match the ambition of California voters. 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"content": "\u003cp>After winding down a trailer site at Pier 94 used for emergency housing during the pandemic, San Francisco is now looking to offload a portion of its RVs to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council will consider accepting up to \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6565671&GUID=4B00A68B-8528-428A-AC7C-94BFD14FFD92\">60 of the 120 trailers\u003c/a>, which could be donated to nonprofits that provide shelter to people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential handoff comes nearly four years after Gov. 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But in San Francisco, the trailer site at Pier 94 ultimately became the city’s longest-running COVID-response emergency housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A line of trailers sits inside a park with wire fencing in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Located at an industrial site in the city’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, the trailers were always intended to be a temporary measure. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness pushed to keep it open so residents could find housing placements before exiting. Altogether, the program ran from April 2020 until January 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), said city leaders had hoped to keep the program running at another location but, after months of searching, couldn’t find a suitable replacement site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Thomas Taylor, supervisor, Felton Institute\"]‘This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets. It showed them that there are people actually there for them.’[/pullquote]The Port of San Francisco owns Pier 94 and has plans to eventually use the site for offshore wind production. In the near future, it will be available for lease, according to Eric Young, director of communications for the Port of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that all RV residents have moved out, the city must figure out what to do with the trailers Oakland doesn’t claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets,” said Thomas Taylor, who left his job as a banker early in the pandemic to become a supervisor at the Felton Institute, which oversaw the trailer program. “It showed them that there are people actually there for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Life at Pier 94\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-born Christina Zeigler said the space gave her a chance to figuratively — and quite literally — get back on her feet. In 2018, her landlord sold the duplex in the city of Richmond, where she had lived for eight years. After losing the home she loved, Zeigler struggled to find a new spot she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She crashed with friends and family, but then another setback further entrenched her struggle to find housing. In October 2021, she tore her meniscus while working as a janitor in San Francisco’s Federal Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman is seen from the neck down holding a photo with four African Americans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Zeigler holds a photo of herself (top right) and her Felton Institute caseworker (top center) in her apartment in San Francisco on March 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was just devastating to me, that was really tough,” Zeigler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved into a trailer at Pier 94 in December 2022 and said she used her time there to rest, collect herself and move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed to be somewhere to focus on my healing and nursing my injury,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Zeigler had access to three meals a day, got help with financial planning and put in applications for permanent housing. Residents could also participate in communal activities, like talent shows and holiday parties. Zeigler regularly spent time in the program’s women’s group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met some really great people there,” Zeigler said. “I interacted with the program so much that sometimes even other clients thought I was staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christina Zeigler\"]‘I was putting in (applications) for housing left and right once I was there. This place came available, and I loved it. As soon as I signed my lease, I was packing up that little bitty trailer, and I took off running.’[/pullquote]Zeigler was one of 301 people who lived in the trailers throughout the life of the program. After stopping new intakes in April 2023, the last remaining resident moved out and into permanent housing in January 2024. Zeigler moved out in June 2023 and now lives in an apartment in the Tenderloin. She keeps the place meticulously organized — with shoes lined up at the entrance and pieces of art and 49ers memorabilia intentionally placed throughout the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was putting in (applications) for housing left and right once I was there,” Zeigler said. “This place came available, and I loved it. As soon as I signed my lease, I was packing up that little bitty trailer, and I took off running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of the Pier 94 residents identify as Black or African American, including Zeigler, and the program prioritized spaces for people living within the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Most were between 45 and 64 years of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three-quarters — or 72% — of the 114 residents who were living at the site by the time it started winding down moved on to permanent housing, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Of those, about half moved into San Francisco’s permanent supportive housing, and the other half received subsidies for private-market rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979689\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979689\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A row of trailers seen from the ground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the remaining 28% moved on for various reasons. Some moved back in with family, others moved into homeless shelters, and the rest are completely unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An imperfect solution or missed opportunity?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city spent $6.4 million annually to run the shelter site at Pier 94. Of that, the bulk — $6.1 million — went to the Felton Institute and on-site services. About $300,000 was dedicated to trailer maintenance, according to HSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11970299,news_11965352,news_11947567\"]But concerns over the 3-acre site’s location — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-cement-plant-pier-94-18411201.php\">adjacent to a toxic debris-crushing site\u003c/a> — led even supporters to agree the site was not ideal for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The site was always intended to be a temporary emergency COVID intervention measure,” Bouck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with issues at the site itself, Bouck said that the trailers were expensive to maintain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more cost-effective and space-efficient ways to build low-barrier non-congregate shelter programs — such as tiny cabins,” Bouck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities had less success with the trailers. San José, for example, returned them after only a few months, citing costly repairs and a lack of necessary water and electricity hookups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city,” Jeff Scott, a spokesperson for San José’s housing department, previously told KQED. “We transitioned our residents into other accommodations and returned the trailers to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man with a gray blazer and white shirt and a blue beanie stands in front of a house looking away from camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Taylor at a Felton Institute office in San Francisco on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the RVs provided a significant opportunity for San Francisco, which faces a dramatic shortage of housing and shelter beds for people who need them. The city estimated in 2022 that more than 7,000 people are experiencing homelessness, but it has just over 3,000 shelter beds. On March 14, there were 107 people on the city’s online shelter reservation waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing the 120 trailers at Pier 94 will further that crunch. Taylor hopes that the program can eventually come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a difference in clients when you are actively there for them, having conversations and supporting their well-being,” he said. “We’ll hopefully rebuild this program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After winding down a trailer site at Pier 94 used for emergency housing during the pandemic, San Francisco is now looking to offload a portion of its RVs to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council will consider accepting up to \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6565671&GUID=4B00A68B-8528-428A-AC7C-94BFD14FFD92\">60 of the 120 trailers\u003c/a>, which could be donated to nonprofits that provide shelter to people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential handoff comes nearly four years after Gov. Gavin Newsom sent nearly 1,300 trailers across the state to help California counties house people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947567/what-happened-to-the-1300-rvs-gov-newsom-sent-to-address-homelessness-back-in-2020\">saw mixed outcomes across the state\u003c/a> — with some cities embracing the solution and others letting the trailers gather dust. But in San Francisco, the trailer site at Pier 94 ultimately became the city’s longest-running COVID-response emergency housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A line of trailers sits inside a park with wire fencing in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Located at an industrial site in the city’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, the trailers were always intended to be a temporary measure. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness pushed to keep it open so residents could find housing placements before exiting. Altogether, the program ran from April 2020 until January 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), said city leaders had hoped to keep the program running at another location but, after months of searching, couldn’t find a suitable replacement site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Port of San Francisco owns Pier 94 and has plans to eventually use the site for offshore wind production. In the near future, it will be available for lease, according to Eric Young, director of communications for the Port of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that all RV residents have moved out, the city must figure out what to do with the trailers Oakland doesn’t claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets,” said Thomas Taylor, who left his job as a banker early in the pandemic to become a supervisor at the Felton Institute, which oversaw the trailer program. “It showed them that there are people actually there for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Life at Pier 94\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-born Christina Zeigler said the space gave her a chance to figuratively — and quite literally — get back on her feet. In 2018, her landlord sold the duplex in the city of Richmond, where she had lived for eight years. After losing the home she loved, Zeigler struggled to find a new spot she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She crashed with friends and family, but then another setback further entrenched her struggle to find housing. In October 2021, she tore her meniscus while working as a janitor in San Francisco’s Federal Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman is seen from the neck down holding a photo with four African Americans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Zeigler holds a photo of herself (top right) and her Felton Institute caseworker (top center) in her apartment in San Francisco on March 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was just devastating to me, that was really tough,” Zeigler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved into a trailer at Pier 94 in December 2022 and said she used her time there to rest, collect herself and move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed to be somewhere to focus on my healing and nursing my injury,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Zeigler had access to three meals a day, got help with financial planning and put in applications for permanent housing. Residents could also participate in communal activities, like talent shows and holiday parties. Zeigler regularly spent time in the program’s women’s group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met some really great people there,” Zeigler said. “I interacted with the program so much that sometimes even other clients thought I was staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#matt-mahan-sails-to-second-term-as-mayor-of-san-jose\">winning reelection to a four-year term beginning next year\u003c/a>, San José Mayor Matt Mahan doubled down on his push to spend more city dollars to move residents experiencing homelessness into temporary housing and shelter — potentially at the cost of funding permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan unveiled by Mahan on Wednesday is likely to breathe new life into the debate over the best approach to reducing homelessness in San José. That fight was central to budget discussions last year when the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">agreed to shift some funds from building apartments to standing up\u003c/a> interim housing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under San José’s governance structure, the mayor has one vote on ordinances before the council but has broader powers in the budget process to shape city spending. Mahan’s budget proposal, which lays out his spending vision, will go before the council for a vote next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to other large cities around the Bay Area, San José is in good fiscal shape. City analysts projected a small $3.4 million deficit in the budget year beginning on July 1. But Mahan and the council could face some complications: the city manager said an urgent $25 million cleanup of homeless encampments is needed to avoid fines from water regulators, and many city programs that were funded on a one-time basis last year, to the tune of $23.5 million, are not included in this year’s base budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan sat down with KQED’s Politics & Government Correspondent Guy Marzorati to discuss his spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: It seemed like the budget was more or less balanced, and then the city manager said there has to be immediate action taken at a cost of potentially up to $25 million to reduce pollutants coming from encampments into waterways. 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But, I frankly welcome the accountability because we have got to do a better job of providing safe, managed alternatives to encampments for the homeless residents in our community. And this, I hope, is the push that we needed, that our county, water district and other partners needed to scale up basic, dignified shelter and require that people come indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In this budget proposal, you are putting forward a potential shift within a pot of money dedicated to reducing homelessness — the Measure E transfer tax — from paying for permanent housing to interim housing and shelter. This \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953006/sf-san-jose-mayors-push-to-fund-shelters-as-pressure-builds-on-encampments\">\u003cstrong>was a huge debate in the budget process last year\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. 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And don’t get me wrong, these trade-offs aren’t easy. We need more affordable housing. We need more money for prevention. There are a lot of other things we need to put money into, but I think that we have to treat the homelessness crisis truly as a crisis and take emergency action. We have to scale up basic, dignified shelter and get people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suppose the third option would be raising revenue, but frankly, for most forms of new revenue, you have to go to the voters, and the community already feels that they’re overtaxed and maybe not getting as much impact and the outcomes they want for the dollars that they’re already sending government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re also proposing a safe sleeping site in this budget, known in some forms as a managed encampment. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Sacramento changed its plan to demolish a homeless encampment on a vacant lot on Colfax Street, instead offering the unhoused occupants a lease, activists and camp residents celebrated it as a win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-of-its-kind deal, which allows the camp to remain in place and govern itself without city interference, was held up as a model Sacramento could replicate at future sites. Other cities, including San Jose, have said they’re considering similar models, putting the success or failure of this encampment under the microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, Sacramento has not managed to reproduce the concept and has no plans to. Residents of the camp, who lack electricity or running water, complain they feel forgotten. And the county district attorney, claiming the site threatens public safety, has demanded the city clear the camp or risk prosecution.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eric Tars, senior policy director, National Homelessness Law Center\"]‘When individuals in these encampments have a sense of ownership, then it can really lead to the camp being a place that they take pride in and that they are trying to keep in as good condition as possible.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those troubles highlight the logistical and ethical dilemmas that come with setting aside outdoor spaces for unhoused residents to go when there \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/09/california-homeless-camps/\">aren’t enough beds indoors\u003c/a>. And it comes at a time when officials across the state increasingly are turning to this last-ditch solution as they face \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/04/california-homeless-city-laws/\">mounting pressure to clear encampments\u003c/a> away from sidewalks, parks, schools and other high-traffic public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that people have a place where they can legally exist and not be threatened with arrest, not be run off and have to lose their belongings, where they can go to the bathroom with dignity, where there’s trash pickup so they don’t have to live in a place where there’s trash all over, where service providers can find them regularly and they aren’t going to lose contact with people as they work their way to housing — those are all good things,” said Eric Tars, senior policy director of the National Homelessness Law Center. “But it would be even better if they were doing them indoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>They got a lease, and they make their own rules\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution, as the Sacramento camp is known, was started in 2022 by Sharon and Joyce Jones — a married couple in their 50s who found themselves unhoused for the first time late in life. More than four-dozen people now live there, some in new-looking Bullet trailers provided by the city, and others in cars, tents and more dilapidated trailers and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing hats and jeans uses a water bottle to water plants in a garden outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce (l) and Sharon Jones poke holes in a water bottle to water their garden next to their trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, February 28, 2024. The camp has no running water so residents have to rely on bottled water for all of their needs. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents have taken pains to make it more homey: Two potted plants hang from the hitch of one trailer, chickens roam the lot, and Sharon and Joyce are putting in a garden, using pallets to make raised planter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to make it as comfortable as possible, but sometimes it’s impossible,” Joyce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11972519,news_11977464,news_11947567\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Shortly after Joyce and her community occupied the city-owned, formerly vacant lot in 2022, city workers determined the camp was unsafe and needed to be demolished — as often happens in Sacramento and throughout California. But that’s where the story takes an unusual turn. Residents of the camp and their supporters showed up in force to a city council meeting and persuaded council members to delay the sweep. About six months later, the city signed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/camp_resolution_lease.pdf\">lease allowing the camp to remain\u003c/a> in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lease, which advocacy group Safe Ground Sacramento signed on behalf of the Camp Resolution residents, was an experiment. Generally, similar programs are run by nonprofits contracted by a city. They often impose curfews, no-guest policies, sobriety requirements and other rules on residents. In exchange, they offer social services such as counseling or help finding permanent housing, and amenities such as showers and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t think people experiencing homelessness are capable of governing themselves,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution is different. Safe Ground Sacramento, which leases the property from the city for free, takes a hands-off approach that lets residents run the camp and write their own rules. The city gave the residents a handful of residential trailers, set up portable toilets and a hand-washing station, and provided dumpsters and ongoing trash pickup. But that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activist groups laud that model as a best practice, saying it’s important to let the residents run or at least help run their own camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When individuals in these encampments have a sense of ownership, then it can really lead to the camp being a place that they take pride in and that they are trying to keep in as good condition as possible,” Tars said. “It gives a sense of responsibility to others in that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also means minimal overhead for the city: The trailers provided to Camp Resolution residents came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency at no cost to the city of Sacramento, and adding the camp to the city’s existing contract for trash pickup didn’t add any additional expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the case of Camp Resolution, it also means residents are left to fend for themselves. The city doesn’t provide electricity or running water. Community members donate food, some residents have generators, and a nonprofit used to bring a trailer with showers every other Sunday — but they recently stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going very well,” Joyce said. “I think that (the city) should do a little bit more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a visor, a light sleeveless top, and jean shorts crouches down to wash dishes outside by a row of RVs and debris.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Gillis uses tubs to wash dishes next to her trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Camp Resolution lease says the city would provide up to 33 trailers. Residents ended up receiving just 16. But 51 people live at the camp, meaning some people sleep in tents, in their cars, or in dilapidated trailers and RVs that leak in the rain and have sprouted mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city wouldn’t comment on the trailers — or anything else — citing a pending threat of prosecution from the county District Attorney’s Office. City officials recently sent 40 trailers to a \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/01/05/city-to-open-new-shelter-and-service-campus-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">new safe sleeping site they opened on Roseville Road\u003c/a>, which also has plumbed toilets and showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the Camp Resolution residents are elderly, and some have serious medical issues that make living without reliable power and water difficult. One woman, who recently turned 60, is on dialysis and gets around on an electric mobility scooter that she leaves parked outside her trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the residents are women, some of whom wouldn’t feel safe on the streets by themselves. Jeanne Gillis, 53, was cooking ground turkey over an open flame outside her trailer on a recent Wednesday. Gillis, who used to work as a medical patients’ advocate, lost her housing two years ago when she got sick with lupus and could no longer work. She’d never been unhoused before and didn’t know what to do — so Sharon and Joyce took her under their wing. Now she’s part of their tight-knit community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a visor, a light sleeveless top, and jean shorts holds a utensil to cook food on a grill outside with an RV and water bottles around.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Gillis cooks ground turkey over a wood fire next to her trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. Residents have to rely on bottled water, generators and wood fires because no utilities are provided at the camp. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Thank God for everybody. Because it’s hard,” she said, tearing up. “I don’t think I’d be here if it wasn’t for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Camp Resolution faces legal threat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution also faces an outside threat — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-county-da-letter-threatens-criminal-charges-over-camp-resolution-site/45853185\">Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho has demanded\u003c/a> that the city close the camp. His office \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sacramento_county_district_attorney_s_office_letter.pdf\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the city and Safe Ground Sacramento in November, labeling the site a public health hazard. The site is contaminated by toxic chemicals left over from when it was used as a vehicle maintenance yard and held underground storage tanks for diesel and gasoline, he said. It’s not safe to camp on the contaminated soil, according to his letter. But only half of the site is paved, while the other half is bare dirt — and people live on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho’s office did not set a specific deadline for the city to clear the encampment, leaving it unclear exactly what, if anything, would come of his threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Ho’s next steps, Sonia Martinez Satchell, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office, indicated prosecution is still on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To date, the City has failed to move the unhoused off this toxic waste site,” she said in an emailed statement. “We will not waiver from our commitment to protect public safety for all. As outlined in our letter, all available actions and recourse remain available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But camp residents and the advocates working with them say they’ve heard nothing but silence from the District Attorney’s Office since the November letter. That means the fate of those living at Camp Resolution is still up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Swanson, spokesman for the City Manager’s Office, said the city can’t comment on any aspect of Camp Resolution because of the pending threat of prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon and Joyce aren’t concerned — they claim the camp isn’t on the portion of the site that’s contaminated. Ho’s letter is just an excuse to try to kick them off the property, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sanctioned homeless encampments in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Faced with a massive shortage of affordable homes, desperate city officials across California are considering opening places where unhoused people can legally set up tents. The move could give them more power to clear encampments from around parks, schools, downtown zones and other high-profile areas. That’s because unless cities have somewhere for displaced unhoused residents to go, the 2018 appellate case \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/15-35845/15-35845-2018-09-04.html\">Martin v. Boise\u003c/a> limits the extent to which they can clear encampments. That could change soon, as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/homeless-camp-scotus/\">Supreme Court has agreed\u003c/a> to take up the case and will hear arguments next month. But for now, cities’ hands remain largely tied if they lack enough shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/07/31/san-diegos-unsafe-camping-ordinance-enforcement-begins\">San Diego recently passed an ordinance\u003c/a> banning encampments in much of the city. As the city ramped up enforcement, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/services/safe-sleeping-program\">opened two sanctioned campsites\u003c/a> that together can hold more than 500 tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/19/why-san-jose-leaders-say-sanctioned-tent-sites-for-unhoused-residents-wont-work-here/\">rejected the idea\u003c/a> three years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/12/san-jose-considering-sanctioned-encampments-as-interim-options-face-long-wait-lines-timelines/\">San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan recently said \u003c/a>he’s considering opening similar sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe sleeping sites take many different forms — and have a range of price tags. In August, after the city stalled in its attempts to open safe sleeping sites, Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan single-handedly tried to identify locations for the projects. He initially said Camp Resolution could be a model for future sites — because it cost the city so little to run, it would allow the city to open more sites than if they used more expensive models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the city in January launched \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/01/05/city-to-open-new-shelter-and-service-campus-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">its next safe sleeping site, on Roseville Road\u003c/a>, with more services, more oversight and a greater cost — $3.2 million per year. The site has 60 rudimentary tiny homes and 40 trailers and is governed by a nonprofit contracted through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, due to an anticipated budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year, the city has no plans to launch additional safe sleeping sites, Swanson said. At a committee meeting last month, city staff predicted that by next year, \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=38&clip_id=5832&meta_id=767774\">the city’s budget for homeless services would be short $11 million\u003c/a>. By the 2025-26 fiscal year, they expected to be short nearly $39 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-life-at-camp-resolution\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life at Camp Resolution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are about 800 people on the waitlist to get into Camp Resolution, according to Sharon and Joyce. Only six people from the camp have moved out and into permanent housing, they said. Just on the other side of the gate that separates Camp Resolution from the rest of the world, a group of people live in a cluster of cars parked haphazardly on the side of the road. Across the street, someone has erected a makeshift shack. RVs that serve as stand-in homes line the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the gate, Sharon and Joyce tend to have the ultimate say in what goes, though there’s also a council that meets on Thursday evenings to discuss camp issues. Things don’t always go smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of several RVs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view looking west of Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. To the left of the camp is Arden Way and at the bottom of the frame is Colfax St. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year a neighbor’s dogs attacked Sharon and sent her to the hospital with multiple bite injuries. That led to new rules at the camp about pets. But Sharon and Joyce say it’s hard to actually enforce the rules they impose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more structure,” Sharon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they showed off the different parts of their community, Sharon and Joyce expressed disapproval of a trash pile in the middle of the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can go in the trash can,” Joyce said. It didn’t take long. A few minutes later, residents could be seen picking up the garbage and carrying it to a nearby dumpster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters Capitol reporter \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jeanne-kuang/\">Jeanne Kuang\u003c/a> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Shortly after Joyce and her community occupied the city-owned, formerly vacant lot in 2022, city workers determined the camp was unsafe and needed to be demolished — as often happens in Sacramento and throughout California. But that’s where the story takes an unusual turn. Residents of the camp and their supporters showed up in force to a city council meeting and persuaded council members to delay the sweep. About six months later, the city signed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/camp_resolution_lease.pdf\">lease allowing the camp to remain\u003c/a> in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lease, which advocacy group Safe Ground Sacramento signed on behalf of the Camp Resolution residents, was an experiment. Generally, similar programs are run by nonprofits contracted by a city. They often impose curfews, no-guest policies, sobriety requirements and other rules on residents. In exchange, they offer social services such as counseling or help finding permanent housing, and amenities such as showers and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t think people experiencing homelessness are capable of governing themselves,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution is different. Safe Ground Sacramento, which leases the property from the city for free, takes a hands-off approach that lets residents run the camp and write their own rules. The city gave the residents a handful of residential trailers, set up portable toilets and a hand-washing station, and provided dumpsters and ongoing trash pickup. But that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activist groups laud that model as a best practice, saying it’s important to let the residents run or at least help run their own camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When individuals in these encampments have a sense of ownership, then it can really lead to the camp being a place that they take pride in and that they are trying to keep in as good condition as possible,” Tars said. “It gives a sense of responsibility to others in that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also means minimal overhead for the city: The trailers provided to Camp Resolution residents came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency at no cost to the city of Sacramento, and adding the camp to the city’s existing contract for trash pickup didn’t add any additional expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the case of Camp Resolution, it also means residents are left to fend for themselves. The city doesn’t provide electricity or running water. Community members donate food, some residents have generators, and a nonprofit used to bring a trailer with showers every other Sunday — but they recently stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going very well,” Joyce said. “I think that (the city) should do a little bit more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a visor, a light sleeveless top, and jean shorts crouches down to wash dishes outside by a row of RVs and debris.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Gillis uses tubs to wash dishes next to her trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Camp Resolution lease says the city would provide up to 33 trailers. Residents ended up receiving just 16. But 51 people live at the camp, meaning some people sleep in tents, in their cars, or in dilapidated trailers and RVs that leak in the rain and have sprouted mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city wouldn’t comment on the trailers — or anything else — citing a pending threat of prosecution from the county District Attorney’s Office. City officials recently sent 40 trailers to a \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/01/05/city-to-open-new-shelter-and-service-campus-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">new safe sleeping site they opened on Roseville Road\u003c/a>, which also has plumbed toilets and showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the Camp Resolution residents are elderly, and some have serious medical issues that make living without reliable power and water difficult. One woman, who recently turned 60, is on dialysis and gets around on an electric mobility scooter that she leaves parked outside her trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the residents are women, some of whom wouldn’t feel safe on the streets by themselves. Jeanne Gillis, 53, was cooking ground turkey over an open flame outside her trailer on a recent Wednesday. Gillis, who used to work as a medical patients’ advocate, lost her housing two years ago when she got sick with lupus and could no longer work. She’d never been unhoused before and didn’t know what to do — so Sharon and Joyce took her under their wing. Now she’s part of their tight-knit community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a visor, a light sleeveless top, and jean shorts holds a utensil to cook food on a grill outside with an RV and water bottles around.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Gillis cooks ground turkey over a wood fire next to her trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. Residents have to rely on bottled water, generators and wood fires because no utilities are provided at the camp. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Thank God for everybody. Because it’s hard,” she said, tearing up. “I don’t think I’d be here if it wasn’t for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Camp Resolution faces legal threat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution also faces an outside threat — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-county-da-letter-threatens-criminal-charges-over-camp-resolution-site/45853185\">Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho has demanded\u003c/a> that the city close the camp. His office \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sacramento_county_district_attorney_s_office_letter.pdf\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the city and Safe Ground Sacramento in November, labeling the site a public health hazard. The site is contaminated by toxic chemicals left over from when it was used as a vehicle maintenance yard and held underground storage tanks for diesel and gasoline, he said. It’s not safe to camp on the contaminated soil, according to his letter. But only half of the site is paved, while the other half is bare dirt — and people live on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho’s office did not set a specific deadline for the city to clear the encampment, leaving it unclear exactly what, if anything, would come of his threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Ho’s next steps, Sonia Martinez Satchell, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office, indicated prosecution is still on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To date, the City has failed to move the unhoused off this toxic waste site,” she said in an emailed statement. “We will not waiver from our commitment to protect public safety for all. As outlined in our letter, all available actions and recourse remain available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But camp residents and the advocates working with them say they’ve heard nothing but silence from the District Attorney’s Office since the November letter. That means the fate of those living at Camp Resolution is still up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Swanson, spokesman for the City Manager’s Office, said the city can’t comment on any aspect of Camp Resolution because of the pending threat of prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon and Joyce aren’t concerned — they claim the camp isn’t on the portion of the site that’s contaminated. Ho’s letter is just an excuse to try to kick them off the property, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sanctioned homeless encampments in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Faced with a massive shortage of affordable homes, desperate city officials across California are considering opening places where unhoused people can legally set up tents. The move could give them more power to clear encampments from around parks, schools, downtown zones and other high-profile areas. That’s because unless cities have somewhere for displaced unhoused residents to go, the 2018 appellate case \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/15-35845/15-35845-2018-09-04.html\">Martin v. Boise\u003c/a> limits the extent to which they can clear encampments. That could change soon, as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/homeless-camp-scotus/\">Supreme Court has agreed\u003c/a> to take up the case and will hear arguments next month. But for now, cities’ hands remain largely tied if they lack enough shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/07/31/san-diegos-unsafe-camping-ordinance-enforcement-begins\">San Diego recently passed an ordinance\u003c/a> banning encampments in much of the city. As the city ramped up enforcement, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/services/safe-sleeping-program\">opened two sanctioned campsites\u003c/a> that together can hold more than 500 tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/19/why-san-jose-leaders-say-sanctioned-tent-sites-for-unhoused-residents-wont-work-here/\">rejected the idea\u003c/a> three years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/12/san-jose-considering-sanctioned-encampments-as-interim-options-face-long-wait-lines-timelines/\">San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan recently said \u003c/a>he’s considering opening similar sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe sleeping sites take many different forms — and have a range of price tags. In August, after the city stalled in its attempts to open safe sleeping sites, Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan single-handedly tried to identify locations for the projects. He initially said Camp Resolution could be a model for future sites — because it cost the city so little to run, it would allow the city to open more sites than if they used more expensive models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the city in January launched \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/01/05/city-to-open-new-shelter-and-service-campus-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">its next safe sleeping site, on Roseville Road\u003c/a>, with more services, more oversight and a greater cost — $3.2 million per year. The site has 60 rudimentary tiny homes and 40 trailers and is governed by a nonprofit contracted through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, due to an anticipated budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year, the city has no plans to launch additional safe sleeping sites, Swanson said. At a committee meeting last month, city staff predicted that by next year, \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=38&clip_id=5832&meta_id=767774\">the city’s budget for homeless services would be short $11 million\u003c/a>. By the 2025-26 fiscal year, they expected to be short nearly $39 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-life-at-camp-resolution\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life at Camp Resolution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are about 800 people on the waitlist to get into Camp Resolution, according to Sharon and Joyce. Only six people from the camp have moved out and into permanent housing, they said. Just on the other side of the gate that separates Camp Resolution from the rest of the world, a group of people live in a cluster of cars parked haphazardly on the side of the road. Across the street, someone has erected a makeshift shack. RVs that serve as stand-in homes line the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the gate, Sharon and Joyce tend to have the ultimate say in what goes, though there’s also a council that meets on Thursday evenings to discuss camp issues. Things don’t always go smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of several RVs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view looking west of Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. To the left of the camp is Arden Way and at the bottom of the frame is Colfax St. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year a neighbor’s dogs attacked Sharon and sent her to the hospital with multiple bite injuries. That led to new rules at the camp about pets. But Sharon and Joyce say it’s hard to actually enforce the rules they impose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more structure,” Sharon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they showed off the different parts of their community, Sharon and Joyce expressed disapproval of a trash pile in the middle of the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can go in the trash can,” Joyce said. It didn’t take long. A few minutes later, residents could be seen picking up the garbage and carrying it to a nearby dumpster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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