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It’s a place to sit, eat barbecue and reminisce about what the park used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hadn’t had one in a long time, and one of our community members ended up donating their food stamps — there’s something around like $800 on it,” Alexander said about the barbecue. “Oftentimes, the most resources I get to do my barbecues or do what I’m doing here are coming from those that have the least. And they’re doing that because we’re family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park is four blocks from UC Berkeley’s campus. The university, which warns incoming students to avoid the park, needs 8,000 units to alleviate a housing crisis that has left some students unhoused and many others scraping by to live in Berkeley where, according to Zillow, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/berkeley-ca/\">median rent is $2,950\u003c/a>, roughly $1,000 more than the national median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction on a 1,100-bed project was halted by a state appellate court in August. In December, the court released a “tentative decision” that sided with park advocates. According to the court, the university, which has said the project will also include supportive housing units, failed to consider other sites. 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In the decision, though, the court said the university does not need to abandon it, but “must return to the trial court and fix the errors” in the environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A165451.PDF\">ruling stems from a 2021 lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> filed by neighbors and activists concerned about the influx of student residents adversely affecting the neighborhood and seeking to preserve People’s Park as a historic landmark of student protest and a residence and resource site for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last park residents standing have a reprieve — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, People’s Park has had an active community with its own rules and problems. It is a destination maligned by clashes with police and a reputation for drugs and crime, whether deserved or not. For people like Alexander, the park space is worth preserving — and occupying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942019 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing multicolored scarves and masks stand in the middle of tents. The woman on the right looks down at plastic bag she's holding while the woman on the left holds fruit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romeo Channer (left) and Alecia Harger look through a bag donated at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents care for each other because they share a common bond: being unable to afford a place to live in one of the most expensive regions in the country. They share resources, from a magnifying glass to help with bad eyesight to first-aid supplies, paintbrushes and fresh pillowcases. They look after each other’s pets. They share their food and food stamps. Some have shared tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Morales, a longtime People’s Park resident, said he moved to Berkeley from Guatemala when he was 15. He heard about the peace and love movement in Berkeley, which inspired him in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have the right to speak, to say what our feelings were,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales frequently cooked breakfast for the park’s residents. The kitchen is where Morales explored his Latin roots, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coffee and scrambled eggs — you know, scrambled eggs with tortillas, with some cheese. They love it,” he said. “I’ve made different things, and I always combine some Latino flavor — add a little amount of our cheese or add some of our sausage or something. And then when it’s done I go around yelling, ‘Good morning, mother flower,’ waking everyone up to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A perception of violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the few public green spaces in Berkeley, People’s Park is off Telegraph Avenue, between Haste Street and Dwight Way. It’s near where students gather at Romeo’s Coffee, Mezzo and Moe’s Books. To live in Southside Berkeley is to know People’s Park.[aside postID=\"news_11941907,news_11923876,forum_2010101890205\" label=\"Related Posts\"]A symbol of counterculture, the park became a community gathering spot in the 1960s. Over the decades, it has hosted concerts, stand-up comedy, dance performances and circuses. The university acquired the land through eminent domain in 1967 with the intention of turning it into student housing, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sarahdoggett/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Whose-Peoples-Park-by-Sarah-Doggett.pdf\">\u003cem>Picture This, California Perspectives on American History\u003c/em> (PDF)\u003c/a>, an educational resource from the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was not enough funding to complete the housing project, and the land became a muddy, garbage-filled dumping ground according to \u003cem>Picture This\u003c/em>. Community members cleaned the park and attempted to turn it into a community space, but after a month of work they were stopped by bulldozers and police officers sent by the university and the city. This launched a months-long protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 15, 1969, a date known as Bloody Thursday, California Highway Patrol officers surrounded the park. The officers waited for about 3,000 students to march there after a protest at Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley’s campus. The students were pelted with bird shot and blasts of tear gas. One person died, and 110 people were injured. The National Guard was summoned by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan to end the chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942033 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A spraypainted sign reads \"Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings\" near tents in a park.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decades-long battle for who has rights to the park continues. On Aug. 3, construction was disrupted by dozens of protesters who ignored police orders and tore down the security fencing and attempted to physically block construction vehicles. The California 1st District Court of Appeal placed an injunction on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students’ perceptions of the park tend to be shaped by stories disseminated by the university: Freshmen arrive in Berkeley armed with warnings from their parents’ Facebook groups that share tales about drugs and crime in the park. Orientation leaders for the university supply tips on how to stay safe when passing the park at night. And notifications from UC Berkeley WarnMe, an emergency notification system, flood phones with emails and text messages, often advising students to avoid the area because of “dangerous activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [orientation leaders] told us to use BearWalk or the night shuttle and to always be aware of our surroundings when we’re in this area,” said UC Berkeley freshman Charlotte Palmer, referring to the night safety services offered by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/10/06/2022-berkeley-gunfire-map-berkeleyside\">Berkeleyside compiled shooting reports from the last few years\u003c/a> to document the increase in gun violence. On Oct. 8, there was a fatal shooting on Telegraph Avenue, the third person slain in Berkeley in 2022 compared to zero in 2021. Park residents said the violence isn’t coming from within their community. Rather, violence in the city bleeds into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is a lot of violence, but ultimately there is a lot more violence that happens around Berkeley and South Berkeley,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He equated the conflicts that erupt inside the park to the types of fights any family has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re unhoused, when you don’t have that much stuff, when you’re dealing with not getting enough sleep, when you might be using and then someone happens to steal the little that you have left, I would probably snap, too,” Alexander said. “I think that’s what a lot of people miss. They just see the violence and they think of people here as horrible, not worthy of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this violence can be blamed on the society we find ourselves in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Understanding the needs of unhoused people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/everyone-counts/\">2022 point-in-time count of unhoused people in Alameda County\u003c/a> by EveryOne Home, an organization that works to end homelessness, reported 9,747 unhoused people in the county. Just over 1,000 live in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, People’s Park residents were offered rooms at Rodeway Inn, the rectangular, off-white building on University Avenue. The inn \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921155/last-days-at-the-radisson-as-state-shelter-program-shutters-formerly-unhoused-residents-in-oakland-brace-for-next-steps\">operated under Project Roomkey, a state-funded program that created transitional facilities\u003c/a>. Around 40 of the 64 park residents chose to move there. Other residents had housing alternatives or were in the process of transitioning to another housing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, an assistant to Berkeley’s city manager and the city’s homeless services coordinator, said the city is funding housing navigators and landlord liaison services, and helping residents with “getting their documents in order, getting their applications together, getting their proof of income together — all the things that you need to be ready to sign a lease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued, “And then on the landlord side, searching for landlords who are wanting to partner with us, advocating on behalf of the clients to those landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ari Neulight, UC Berkeley’s homeless outreach coordinator who works closely with the unhoused community around the university, including People’s Park, said most of the original Rodeway Inn residents moved to other permanent housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodeway Inn provided temporary housing and food, but it did not offer mental health services. Neulight said the two goals for the project were based on park resident feedback: They wanted a place to sleep that wouldn’t be interrupted by the police and somewhere to congregate during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just a few months of living there, some inn residents felt like their needs were not being met. Morales, the longtime resident of People’s Park, said the staff treated residents like they were still unhoused. They weren’t given keys to their rooms, and staff members locked and unlocked the doors. Many of the residents left their doors open during the day to maintain independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942054\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a sleeveless red t-shirt looks out from on top of a makeshift structure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Alexander looks out from the top of a structure made in the park. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re looking at us like we’re just homeless people, and they don’t have to care about us,” said Morales, who lived at the inn. “We are people, too. We aren’t here to fight with anyone. We’re here to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch, professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning who has researched urban homelessness, said it is important that unhoused people not feel like they are at the whim of the city.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jennifer Wolch, professor, UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning\"]‘It’s important to understand that when people are living essentially unsheltered — in either communities on the sidewalk or in tent communities or under a freeway or [in a] vehicle community — they survive in no small part because they have relationships with other people.’[/pullquote]“One of the things that I found when talking to folks that may be living in their cars or living in an encampment is they will often say, ‘This is my choice,’ or, ‘This is what I want,’ as a way of asserting individual autonomy,” Wolch said. “Most people understand that it’s not because they literally would rather be on the street than in a nice apartment, but it says to whoever is talking to them, ‘I’m a person, and I have respect for myself, and I have autonomy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said he graduated from City College of San Francisco in 2021, where he studied psychology and social work. He has volunteered in community outreach for years, but after interacting with the staff at Rodeway Inn, which is managed by Abode Services, a Fremont-based nonprofit, he sees a potential career path where he could combine his passion for community and his life experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A professional guy with a diploma from a university or whatever can implement whatever he learned from the stupid books, but he can’t understand us, the people,” Morales said. “If he’s not capable of doing his job, then he can go find another job because I can do (the job). I graduated from the same field. I can do paperwork, I can do outreach and I can be a housing coordinator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each resident at Rodeway Inn was offered a single or shared room with a bed, table and small bathroom. The beige walls provided less of a creative outlet and self-expression than the residents had in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a mask, camouflage jacket and dark pants holds a microphone while people in the background and to the side watch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aidan Hill speaks during a Friday meeting at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To give it a real analysis, what they call transitional housing means transition people from the street back to the street,” said former park resident Lisa Teague, who now lives next to the park in a Satellite Affordable Housing Associates housing complex. “Providing housing doesn’t solve the problem. They seem to think that the sort of jail-like atmosphere is important to somehow cause people to adjust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People’s Park community felt like they were being divided by the city and the university. According to Wolch, this loss of community could impact mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to understand that when people are living essentially unsheltered — in either communities on the sidewalk or in tent communities or under a freeway or [in a] vehicle community — they survive in no small part because they have relationships with other people,” she said. “But people, if they’ve been in that kind of community and understand the way it has been central to their ability to navigate this kind of extreme situation, then being completely torn away from that community may make people say, ‘No, I’m not going to a housing situation.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A vision for the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alexander recognizes that community support matters whether you’re living outside or under a roof. He developed a connection to the park long before he was a resident: When he was 17, Alexander took a bus from a commune in Oregon to Berkeley, where he soon found the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never lived in this park perpetually, but for months on end I used to be the hammock person,” Alexander, now 35, said. “I would put hammocks up in trees and the cops would literally kick people out from under me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, his “family” was a group of wandering souls. Some were members of the foster youth community; others had run away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all along Telegraph, all along Shattuck,” Alexander fondly recalled. “It was really those folks that introduced me to street life in Berkeley and kind of welcomed me as family. And we are family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942024 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a red sleeveless shirt that says \"The Amazing Spider-Pig\" with an illustration puts his arm around a person wearing glasses and dark clothes with a light-colored blanket over their shoulder.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teague and Alexander share a laugh on Sept. 21, 2022. Alexander describes the People’s Park community as family. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Oakland, which he calls his vacation home. He wants to transfer his Section 8 housing voucher to Berkeley. He maintains a built, domed structure in the park. He said he will move out of the park once the university abandons construction plans or if he is physically removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of tears, a lot of community members crying everywhere, and going through their own personal grief,” said Alexander, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/08/22/peoples-park-activist-arrested-by-berkeley-police-released-charges-dropped\">arrested for his role in the protest that blocked construction in August\u003c/a>. “Seeing so many trees cut down, so many memories, so many stories that will now only be in memory, that’s a true tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a fenced-in circle with only one entrance and exit, residents store first-aid supplies and food donations. They sit on stray couches and logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen is at the center of Alexander’s dome, which is camouflaged by planks of plywood that have been painted by residents. There are rebellious messages to the university and supportive words for the people occupying the park. At the very top of this dome, a hammock swayed in the breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On either side of the hammock, Alexander stores old riot gear: gas masks, black bandanas and a shield with the transgender rights flag and the words “We are People’s Park” on the front. There is a trapdoor in the structure, perfect for a quick escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander maintains he has a vision for the park’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My ultimate goal, maybe even where the kitchen is, would be a little community center here with social workers and resource workers that would essentially change some of the dynamics of the park that have more problematic behavior,” he said. “Really honoring the legacy of People’s Park, not trying to sanitize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tongs he used to flip the ribs were in his hand as he spoke wistfully of his plans for renovating the dome. He wants to add a second floor, an even higher platform to fly his Rebel Alliance flag from Star Wars, a symbol of resistance as the remaining residents of People’s Park persist in making a stand.\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slice of land in South Berkeley that has been a refuge for those with nowhere else to go is marked for development. Most of the trees that provided daytime shade were cut down in August when UC Berkeley attempted to start construction on student housing. Protesters cut holes in the chain-link fence, stopping the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about a dozen tents — dots of blue and red scattered across the 3-acre lot — remain. Many longtime residents have relocated, but a dozen or so people spend most of their time at home in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942029 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Different colored tents and camping equipment by trees in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trunks of fruit, redwood and oak trees, some massive, were dragged by People’s Park residents into a semicircle around the base of one of the last trees standing. It’s a place to sit, eat barbecue and reminisce about what the park used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hadn’t had one in a long time, and one of our community members ended up donating their food stamps — there’s something around like $800 on it,” Alexander said about the barbecue. “Oftentimes, the most resources I get to do my barbecues or do what I’m doing here are coming from those that have the least. And they’re doing that because we’re family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park is four blocks from UC Berkeley’s campus. The university, which warns incoming students to avoid the park, needs 8,000 units to alleviate a housing crisis that has left some students unhoused and many others scraping by to live in Berkeley where, according to Zillow, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/berkeley-ca/\">median rent is $2,950\u003c/a>, roughly $1,000 more than the national median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction on a 1,100-bed project was halted by a state appellate court in August. In December, the court released a “tentative decision” that sided with park advocates. According to the court, the university, which has said the project will also include supportive housing units, failed to consider other sites. The court also said that the development plan could run afoul of the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men play chess at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941907/appeals-court-sends-uc-berkeley-back-to-the-drawing-board-on-peoples-park-development\">the state appellate court ruled that the project must stop\u003c/a>. In the decision, though, the court said the university does not need to abandon it, but “must return to the trial court and fix the errors” in the environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A165451.PDF\">ruling stems from a 2021 lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> filed by neighbors and activists concerned about the influx of student residents adversely affecting the neighborhood and seeking to preserve People’s Park as a historic landmark of student protest and a residence and resource site for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last park residents standing have a reprieve — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, People’s Park has had an active community with its own rules and problems. It is a destination maligned by clashes with police and a reputation for drugs and crime, whether deserved or not. For people like Alexander, the park space is worth preserving — and occupying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942019 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing multicolored scarves and masks stand in the middle of tents. The woman on the right looks down at plastic bag she's holding while the woman on the left holds fruit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romeo Channer (left) and Alecia Harger look through a bag donated at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents care for each other because they share a common bond: being unable to afford a place to live in one of the most expensive regions in the country. They share resources, from a magnifying glass to help with bad eyesight to first-aid supplies, paintbrushes and fresh pillowcases. They look after each other’s pets. They share their food and food stamps. Some have shared tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Morales, a longtime People’s Park resident, said he moved to Berkeley from Guatemala when he was 15. He heard about the peace and love movement in Berkeley, which inspired him in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have the right to speak, to say what our feelings were,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales frequently cooked breakfast for the park’s residents. The kitchen is where Morales explored his Latin roots, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coffee and scrambled eggs — you know, scrambled eggs with tortillas, with some cheese. They love it,” he said. “I’ve made different things, and I always combine some Latino flavor — add a little amount of our cheese or add some of our sausage or something. And then when it’s done I go around yelling, ‘Good morning, mother flower,’ waking everyone up to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A perception of violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the few public green spaces in Berkeley, People’s Park is off Telegraph Avenue, between Haste Street and Dwight Way. It’s near where students gather at Romeo’s Coffee, Mezzo and Moe’s Books. To live in Southside Berkeley is to know People’s Park.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A symbol of counterculture, the park became a community gathering spot in the 1960s. Over the decades, it has hosted concerts, stand-up comedy, dance performances and circuses. The university acquired the land through eminent domain in 1967 with the intention of turning it into student housing, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sarahdoggett/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Whose-Peoples-Park-by-Sarah-Doggett.pdf\">\u003cem>Picture This, California Perspectives on American History\u003c/em> (PDF)\u003c/a>, an educational resource from the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was not enough funding to complete the housing project, and the land became a muddy, garbage-filled dumping ground according to \u003cem>Picture This\u003c/em>. Community members cleaned the park and attempted to turn it into a community space, but after a month of work they were stopped by bulldozers and police officers sent by the university and the city. This launched a months-long protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 15, 1969, a date known as Bloody Thursday, California Highway Patrol officers surrounded the park. The officers waited for about 3,000 students to march there after a protest at Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley’s campus. The students were pelted with bird shot and blasts of tear gas. One person died, and 110 people were injured. The National Guard was summoned by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan to end the chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942033 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A spraypainted sign reads \"Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings\" near tents in a park.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decades-long battle for who has rights to the park continues. On Aug. 3, construction was disrupted by dozens of protesters who ignored police orders and tore down the security fencing and attempted to physically block construction vehicles. The California 1st District Court of Appeal placed an injunction on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students’ perceptions of the park tend to be shaped by stories disseminated by the university: Freshmen arrive in Berkeley armed with warnings from their parents’ Facebook groups that share tales about drugs and crime in the park. Orientation leaders for the university supply tips on how to stay safe when passing the park at night. And notifications from UC Berkeley WarnMe, an emergency notification system, flood phones with emails and text messages, often advising students to avoid the area because of “dangerous activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [orientation leaders] told us to use BearWalk or the night shuttle and to always be aware of our surroundings when we’re in this area,” said UC Berkeley freshman Charlotte Palmer, referring to the night safety services offered by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/10/06/2022-berkeley-gunfire-map-berkeleyside\">Berkeleyside compiled shooting reports from the last few years\u003c/a> to document the increase in gun violence. On Oct. 8, there was a fatal shooting on Telegraph Avenue, the third person slain in Berkeley in 2022 compared to zero in 2021. Park residents said the violence isn’t coming from within their community. Rather, violence in the city bleeds into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is a lot of violence, but ultimately there is a lot more violence that happens around Berkeley and South Berkeley,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He equated the conflicts that erupt inside the park to the types of fights any family has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re unhoused, when you don’t have that much stuff, when you’re dealing with not getting enough sleep, when you might be using and then someone happens to steal the little that you have left, I would probably snap, too,” Alexander said. “I think that’s what a lot of people miss. They just see the violence and they think of people here as horrible, not worthy of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this violence can be blamed on the society we find ourselves in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Understanding the needs of unhoused people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/everyone-counts/\">2022 point-in-time count of unhoused people in Alameda County\u003c/a> by EveryOne Home, an organization that works to end homelessness, reported 9,747 unhoused people in the county. Just over 1,000 live in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, People’s Park residents were offered rooms at Rodeway Inn, the rectangular, off-white building on University Avenue. The inn \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921155/last-days-at-the-radisson-as-state-shelter-program-shutters-formerly-unhoused-residents-in-oakland-brace-for-next-steps\">operated under Project Roomkey, a state-funded program that created transitional facilities\u003c/a>. Around 40 of the 64 park residents chose to move there. Other residents had housing alternatives or were in the process of transitioning to another housing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, an assistant to Berkeley’s city manager and the city’s homeless services coordinator, said the city is funding housing navigators and landlord liaison services, and helping residents with “getting their documents in order, getting their applications together, getting their proof of income together — all the things that you need to be ready to sign a lease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued, “And then on the landlord side, searching for landlords who are wanting to partner with us, advocating on behalf of the clients to those landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ari Neulight, UC Berkeley’s homeless outreach coordinator who works closely with the unhoused community around the university, including People’s Park, said most of the original Rodeway Inn residents moved to other permanent housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodeway Inn provided temporary housing and food, but it did not offer mental health services. Neulight said the two goals for the project were based on park resident feedback: They wanted a place to sleep that wouldn’t be interrupted by the police and somewhere to congregate during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just a few months of living there, some inn residents felt like their needs were not being met. Morales, the longtime resident of People’s Park, said the staff treated residents like they were still unhoused. They weren’t given keys to their rooms, and staff members locked and unlocked the doors. Many of the residents left their doors open during the day to maintain independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942054\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a sleeveless red t-shirt looks out from on top of a makeshift structure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Alexander looks out from the top of a structure made in the park. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re looking at us like we’re just homeless people, and they don’t have to care about us,” said Morales, who lived at the inn. “We are people, too. We aren’t here to fight with anyone. We’re here to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch, professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning who has researched urban homelessness, said it is important that unhoused people not feel like they are at the whim of the city.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of the things that I found when talking to folks that may be living in their cars or living in an encampment is they will often say, ‘This is my choice,’ or, ‘This is what I want,’ as a way of asserting individual autonomy,” Wolch said. “Most people understand that it’s not because they literally would rather be on the street than in a nice apartment, but it says to whoever is talking to them, ‘I’m a person, and I have respect for myself, and I have autonomy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said he graduated from City College of San Francisco in 2021, where he studied psychology and social work. He has volunteered in community outreach for years, but after interacting with the staff at Rodeway Inn, which is managed by Abode Services, a Fremont-based nonprofit, he sees a potential career path where he could combine his passion for community and his life experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A professional guy with a diploma from a university or whatever can implement whatever he learned from the stupid books, but he can’t understand us, the people,” Morales said. “If he’s not capable of doing his job, then he can go find another job because I can do (the job). I graduated from the same field. I can do paperwork, I can do outreach and I can be a housing coordinator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each resident at Rodeway Inn was offered a single or shared room with a bed, table and small bathroom. The beige walls provided less of a creative outlet and self-expression than the residents had in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a mask, camouflage jacket and dark pants holds a microphone while people in the background and to the side watch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aidan Hill speaks during a Friday meeting at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To give it a real analysis, what they call transitional housing means transition people from the street back to the street,” said former park resident Lisa Teague, who now lives next to the park in a Satellite Affordable Housing Associates housing complex. “Providing housing doesn’t solve the problem. They seem to think that the sort of jail-like atmosphere is important to somehow cause people to adjust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People’s Park community felt like they were being divided by the city and the university. According to Wolch, this loss of community could impact mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to understand that when people are living essentially unsheltered — in either communities on the sidewalk or in tent communities or under a freeway or [in a] vehicle community — they survive in no small part because they have relationships with other people,” she said. “But people, if they’ve been in that kind of community and understand the way it has been central to their ability to navigate this kind of extreme situation, then being completely torn away from that community may make people say, ‘No, I’m not going to a housing situation.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A vision for the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alexander recognizes that community support matters whether you’re living outside or under a roof. He developed a connection to the park long before he was a resident: When he was 17, Alexander took a bus from a commune in Oregon to Berkeley, where he soon found the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never lived in this park perpetually, but for months on end I used to be the hammock person,” Alexander, now 35, said. “I would put hammocks up in trees and the cops would literally kick people out from under me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, his “family” was a group of wandering souls. Some were members of the foster youth community; others had run away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all along Telegraph, all along Shattuck,” Alexander fondly recalled. “It was really those folks that introduced me to street life in Berkeley and kind of welcomed me as family. And we are family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942024 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a red sleeveless shirt that says \"The Amazing Spider-Pig\" with an illustration puts his arm around a person wearing glasses and dark clothes with a light-colored blanket over their shoulder.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teague and Alexander share a laugh on Sept. 21, 2022. Alexander describes the People’s Park community as family. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Oakland, which he calls his vacation home. He wants to transfer his Section 8 housing voucher to Berkeley. He maintains a built, domed structure in the park. He said he will move out of the park once the university abandons construction plans or if he is physically removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of tears, a lot of community members crying everywhere, and going through their own personal grief,” said Alexander, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/08/22/peoples-park-activist-arrested-by-berkeley-police-released-charges-dropped\">arrested for his role in the protest that blocked construction in August\u003c/a>. “Seeing so many trees cut down, so many memories, so many stories that will now only be in memory, that’s a true tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a fenced-in circle with only one entrance and exit, residents store first-aid supplies and food donations. They sit on stray couches and logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen is at the center of Alexander’s dome, which is camouflaged by planks of plywood that have been painted by residents. There are rebellious messages to the university and supportive words for the people occupying the park. At the very top of this dome, a hammock swayed in the breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On either side of the hammock, Alexander stores old riot gear: gas masks, black bandanas and a shield with the transgender rights flag and the words “We are People’s Park” on the front. There is a trapdoor in the structure, perfect for a quick escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander maintains he has a vision for the park’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My ultimate goal, maybe even where the kitchen is, would be a little community center here with social workers and resource workers that would essentially change some of the dynamics of the park that have more problematic behavior,” he said. “Really honoring the legacy of People’s Park, not trying to sanitize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tongs he used to flip the ribs were in his hand as he spoke wistfully of his plans for renovating the dome. He wants to add a second floor, an even higher platform to fly his Rebel Alliance flag from Star Wars, a symbol of resistance as the remaining residents of People’s Park persist in making a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With another round of storms affecting the Bay Area this week, bringing rain, cold temperatures and windy weather, agencies are again encouraging unhoused people to seek warming centers and shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scattered showers and possible thunderstorms are anticipated to persist throughout the Bay Area into Wednesday. Due to those lingering showers, the National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1630624755543052289?s=20\">extended a winter weather advisory\u003c/a> through 4 a.m. Wednesday for much of the East and South Bay, and through Thursday evening for North Bay communities. The region will largely get a short break from soggy weather Wednesday through Friday, with rains expected to return this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cold overnight lows dipping into the mid-30s expected early Wednesday prompted the NWS to issue a frost advisory for most Bay Area shoreline communities. Blustery winds, expected to continue until at least Wednesday evening, will make temperatures feel colder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1630679788812730369?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Bay Area gets colder, many unhoused people are struggling to stay warm. In light of the cold and windy weather, several warming centers are open this week, with year-round shelters continuing their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to shelters available in the Bay Area:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sanfranciscoshelters\">City and County of San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alamedashelters\">Alameda County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#santaclarashelters\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sonomashelters\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#contracostashelters\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#marinshelters\">Marin County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sanfranciscoshelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has rotating shelters available through the \u003ca href=\"https://ecs-sf.org/interfaith-winter-shelter/\">Interfaith Winter Shelter Program\u003c/a>, which runs through March 26. \u003cem>Please note the shelters below have different opening and closing dates:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Unitarian Universalist\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109\u003cbr>\nAvailable Monday, Feb. 13 through Thursday, March 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Doors open at 6 p.m.; dinner at 7 p.m.; shelter closes at 7 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Public libraries around San Francisco are also available as warming centers. \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/#!/filters?sort_by=weight&sort_order=ASC\">Find a branch of the San Francisco Public Library near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"alamedashelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in Alameda County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>St. Vincent de Paul\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n675 23rd Street, West Oakland, CA 94612\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. Day programs five days a week, Tues. through Sat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shelter beds can be secured through referral, reservation and walk-up on a first-come, first-served basis during the hours above.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Capacity for up to 100 people\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Contact St. Vincent de Paul directly by phone: (510) 638-7600.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda Warming Center\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>1700 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda, CA 94501\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Shelter is located at Christ Episcopal Church.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Typically open every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening 5 p.m.–7 a.m. (days and hours expanded during winter storms).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dinner is provided at 6:30 p.m. and breakfast at 6:30 a.m. On Wednesdays and Fridays, showers are provided 6 p.m.–8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Toiletries and clothes are available along with limited overnight storage for belongings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One approved and screened pet is welcome per guest. Space is limited.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Contact Marichelle Alcantara by phone: (510) 832-1382, ext. 123.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livermore Warming Center, Veterans Memorial Building\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n522 S. L Street, Livermore, CA 94550\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open 6 p.m.–8 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis, serving adults from Livermore, Pleasanton and Dublin.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shelter is open through April 30, when there’s an expected forecast of overnight temperatures at or below 45 degrees and/or a 20% or higher chance of rain.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Open to anyone; expected to accommodate 15–20 people each evening.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CityServe does case management; Abode Services helps with street medical team.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>No showers are available at this shelter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call (510) 224-3755 for preregistration.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Presbyterian Church of Hayward in Castro Valley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2490 Grove Ave., Castro Valley, CA 94546\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open year-round. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., dinner is served. Check-in ends at 8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bagged breakfast served; you must be off the property by 7 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Possibility to park and live in your car on-site.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Guests must be able to care for themselves (i.e., transfer, toilet, eat and dress).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pets will be admitted if they are on leash or in a crate.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call first for availability: (510) 634-4750.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>South Hayward Parish\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n27287 Patrick Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open 6:30 p.m.–7 a.m., seven days a week.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.southhaywardparish.org/winter-shelter\">Shelter usually has capacity of 18 people per night\u003c/a>, and preregistration is required by calling (510) 634-2229.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In Hayward, community members living unsheltered or displaced due to flooding and other storm effects — or aware of someone in need of assistance — may contact the City of Hayward Emergency Operations Center by phone at (510) 583-2182.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local service providers also are requesting donations of pocket warmers, ponchos, umbrellas, plastic and rubber shoe covers, and raincoats. Please direct donations to Bay Area Community Services (590 B Street, Hayward, CA 94541), open until 4:30 p.m. Monday–Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"santaclarashelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in Santa Clara County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Christian Church\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n17640 Crest Ave., Morgan Hill, CA 95037\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available from 7 p.m.–7 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overnight warming center.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunnyvale Public Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n665 W. Olive Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28–Thursday, March 2 from 10 a.m.–9 p.m.; Friday, March 3–Saturday, March 4 from 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sunday, March 5 from 1p.m.–6 p.m.; Monday, March 6-Thursday, March 9 from 10 a.m.–9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overnight warming center.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Central Park Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2635 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara, CA 95051\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28 from noon–7 p.m.; Wednesday, March 1 from noon–6 p.m.; Thursday, March 2 from noon–7 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cupertino Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n10800 Torre Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28–Wednesday, March 1 from 10 a.m.–9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gilroy Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n350 W. 6th St., Gilroy, CA 95020\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28–Wednesday, March 1 from 1 p.m.–9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Altos Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n13 S. San Antonio Rd., Los Altos, CA 94022\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28–Wednesday, March 1 from 10 a.m.–9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Milpitas Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n160 N. Main St., Milpitas, CA 95035\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28–Wednesday, March 1 from 10 a.m.–9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mission Branch Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1098 Lexington St., Santa Clara, CA 95050\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28 from noon–7 p.m.; Wednesday, March 1 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; Thursday March 2 from noon–5 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morgan Hill Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n660 W. Main Ave., Morgan Hill, CA 95037\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28–Wednesday, March 1 from noon–9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Northside Branch Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n695 Moreland Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28 from noon–7 p.m.; Wednesday, March 1 from noon–6 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara Senior Center\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1303 Fremont St., Santa Clara, CA 95050\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28–Thursday, March 2 from 7 a.m.–3 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saratoga Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n13650 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga, CA 95070\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available Tuesday, Feb. 28 from 10 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wednesday, March 1 from 10 a.m.–6 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/residents/cold-weather-safety?utm_campaign=preparescc-vanity-redirect&utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=vanity\">Explore a list of warming centers in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> available during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For shelter placements, Santa Clara’s Office of Supportive Housing asks that you contact the county’s Here4You Hotline at (408) 385-2400, staffed 9 a.m.–7 p.m., seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note that the following shelters are unable to accept families with children:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CityTeam (for men)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1174 Old Bayshore Highway, San José, CA 95112\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call (408) 288-2153.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Intake begins 5:30 p.m., first-come, first-served.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HomeFirst – Boccardo Reception Center\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2011 Little Orchard Street, San José, CA 95125\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call (408) 294-2100.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Intake begins 3:30 p.m., first-come, first-served.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LifeMoves – Georgia Travis House (for women)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>260 Commercial Street, San José, CA 95112\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call (408) 271-1630 for more information.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LifeMoves – Montgomery Street Inn (for men)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n358 North Montgomery Street, San José, CA 95110\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call (408) 271-5160.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Program assessments Monday through Friday at 12:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Salvation Army – Emmanuel House (for men)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n405 North Fourth Street, San José, CA 95112\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call (408) 282-1175.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Suggested arrival time is between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HomeFirst – Veterans Services\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2011 Little Orchard Street, San José, CA 95125\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call (408) 510-7522.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Beds for veterans are on a first-come, first-served basis; check in at 3:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sonomashelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in Sonoma County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>West County Community Services, Guerneville Veterans Memorial Building\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n16255 First Street, Guerneville, CA 95446\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Contact this shelter by phone at (707) 823-1640, ext.115.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Social Advocates for Youth, Dream Center at Santa Rosa Junior College\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2447 Summerfield Rd., Santa Rosa, CA 95405\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A nightly shelter reserved for youth ages 18–24 to escape the cold temperatures, open through March 31.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call the crisis line before 5 p.m. at (888) 729-0012 to reserve a spot, or drop in at Coffee House Teen Shelter at 1243 Ripley Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 before 5 p.m. to reserve a spot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After reserving a spot, youth must arrive at Coffee House Teen Shelter from 6 p.m.–7 p.m. for transportation to Dream Center.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeless Action Sonoma (HAS) Navigation Center and Warming Station\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n867 West Napa Street, CA 95476 (site of the former Community Café)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open 2 p.m.–10 a.m., seven days a week.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"contracostashelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in Contra Costa County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>County officials say that anyone needing assistance with getting placed in a shelter should call the Contra Costa Crisis Center directly at 211. People in need of help finding resources in Contra Costa County also can text the word “HOPE” to 20121.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concord Service Center Overnight Warming Center\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2047 Arnold Industrial Way, Suite A, Concord, CA 94520\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Greater Richmond Interfaith Program (GRIP)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n165 22nd Street, Richmond, CA 94801\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trinity Center Winter Evening Program\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1888 Trinity Ave., Walnut Creek, CA 94596\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Delta Landing\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2101 Loveridge Rd., Pittsburg, CA 94565\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Rescue Mission\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n200 Macdonald Ave., Richmond, CA 94801\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County says its outreach teams are in need of sleeping bags, gloves and beanies, tarps and blankets (in order of importance). Donations can be dropped off at 2400 Bisso Lane, Suite D, Concord, CA 94520.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"marinshelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in Marin County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marin County is activating its Severe Weather Emergency Shelter for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marin Health and Wellness Campus\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n3240 Kerner Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The warming center will be open for three nights, from Wednesday evening through Saturday morning, 5 p.m.–6:30 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Individuals are encouraged to sign in by 8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>People in need also may contact these agencies for services:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Family Center (shelter for families)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n430 Mission Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901\u003cbr>\nCall (415) 457-2115 for more information.\u003cbr>\nTTY English: (866) 660-4288\u003cbr>\nTTY Spanish: (866) 288-1311\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan’s Place (shelter for adults)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>190 Mill St., San Rafael, CA 94901\u003cbr>\nCall (415) 457-9651 or (800) 428-1488 for more information.\u003cbr>\nTTY English: (866) 660-4288\u003cbr>\nTTY Spanish: (866) 288-1311\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>St. Vincent de Paul Society Free Dining Room\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n820 B St., San Rafael, CA 94901\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., serving free breakfast and lunch.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call (415) 454-3303 for more information.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ritter Center\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n16 Ritter St., San Rafael, CA 94912\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Showers, information, emergency clothing and food, and laundry are available.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call (415) 457-8182 for more information.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Carly Severn contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story was published on Jan. 30.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With another round of storms affecting the Bay Area this week, bringing rain, cold temperatures and windy weather, agencies are again encouraging unhoused people to seek warming centers and shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scattered showers and possible thunderstorms are anticipated to persist throughout the Bay Area into Wednesday. Due to those lingering showers, the National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1630624755543052289?s=20\">extended a winter weather advisory\u003c/a> through 4 a.m. Wednesday for much of the East and South Bay, and through Thursday evening for North Bay communities. The region will largely get a short break from soggy weather Wednesday through Friday, with rains expected to return this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cold overnight lows dipping into the mid-30s expected early Wednesday prompted the NWS to issue a frost advisory for most Bay Area shoreline communities. Blustery winds, expected to continue until at least Wednesday evening, will make temperatures feel colder.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sanfranciscoshelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has rotating shelters available through the \u003ca href=\"https://ecs-sf.org/interfaith-winter-shelter/\">Interfaith Winter Shelter Program\u003c/a>, which runs through March 26. \u003cem>Please note the shelters below have different opening and closing dates:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Unitarian Universalist\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109\u003cbr>\nAvailable Monday, Feb. 13 through Thursday, March 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Doors open at 6 p.m.; dinner at 7 p.m.; shelter closes at 7 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Public libraries around San Francisco are also available as warming centers. \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/#!/filters?sort_by=weight&sort_order=ASC\">Find a branch of the San Francisco Public Library near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"alamedashelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in Alameda County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>St. Vincent de Paul\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n675 23rd Street, West Oakland, CA 94612\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. Day programs five days a week, Tues. through Sat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shelter beds can be secured through referral, reservation and walk-up on a first-come, first-served basis during the hours above.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Capacity for up to 100 people\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Contact St. Vincent de Paul directly by phone: (510) 638-7600.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda Warming Center\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>1700 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda, CA 94501\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Shelter is located at Christ Episcopal Church.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Typically open every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening 5 p.m.–7 a.m. (days and hours expanded during winter storms).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dinner is provided at 6:30 p.m. and breakfast at 6:30 a.m. On Wednesdays and Fridays, showers are provided 6 p.m.–8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Toiletries and clothes are available along with limited overnight storage for belongings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One approved and screened pet is welcome per guest. Space is limited.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Contact Marichelle Alcantara by phone: (510) 832-1382, ext. 123.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livermore Warming Center, Veterans Memorial Building\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n522 S. L Street, Livermore, CA 94550\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open 6 p.m.–8 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis, serving adults from Livermore, Pleasanton and Dublin.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shelter is open through April 30, when there’s an expected forecast of overnight temperatures at or below 45 degrees and/or a 20% or higher chance of rain.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Open to anyone; expected to accommodate 15–20 people each evening.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CityServe does case management; Abode Services helps with street medical team.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>No showers are available at this shelter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call (510) 224-3755 for preregistration.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Presbyterian Church of Hayward in Castro Valley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2490 Grove Ave., Castro Valley, CA 94546\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open year-round. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., dinner is served. Check-in ends at 8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bagged breakfast served; you must be off the property by 7 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Possibility to park and live in your car on-site.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Guests must be able to care for themselves (i.e., transfer, toilet, eat and dress).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pets will be admitted if they are on leash or in a crate.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call first for availability: (510) 634-4750.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>South Hayward Parish\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n27287 Patrick Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Open 6:30 p.m.–7 a.m., seven days a week.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.southhaywardparish.org/winter-shelter\">Shelter usually has capacity of 18 people per night\u003c/a>, and preregistration is required by calling (510) 634-2229.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In Hayward, community members living unsheltered or displaced due to flooding and other storm effects — or aware of someone in need of assistance — may contact the City of Hayward Emergency Operations Center by phone at (510) 583-2182.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local service providers also are requesting donations of pocket warmers, ponchos, umbrellas, plastic and rubber shoe covers, and raincoats. Please direct donations to Bay Area Community Services (590 B Street, Hayward, CA 94541), open until 4:30 p.m. Monday–Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"santaclarashelters\">\u003c/a>Shelters in Santa Clara County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Christian Church\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n17640 Crest Ave., Morgan Hill, CA 95037\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Available from 7 p.m.–7 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overnight warming center.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunnyvale Public Library\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n665 W. 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However, they must return to the trial court and fix the errors in the EIR,” the decision reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplesparkhxdist.org/\">People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group \u003c/a>— one of the plaintiffs in the case — said even though the court’s decision seemed like a “win” because they “decided in our favor,” he expressed disappointment that UC Berkeley was still going ahead with their decision to build student housing on People’s Park.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101890205,news_11921415,news_11861666\"]“[UC Berkeley] is stubborn, arrogant, and they want to continue fighting this rather than take the more reasonable course of saying … let’s move on” he said. “They have 15 alternative sites that they have enumerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from deciding the future of People’s Park, many are watching the case for the effects it could have on a contentious state environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that builders and local governments analyze the environmental impacts of proposed development projects and work to mitigate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the law have long argued that it has been abused by those opposed to developments near their homes and businesses as a way to block or delay new housing under the pretense of seeking more information to assess environmental concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the appellate court now ruling that the university should consider the noise impact from student parties, some worry CEQA (pronounced see-kwuh) will now be applied in similar fashion elsewhere, blocking or delaying housing development across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision has the potential to prevent colleges and universities across the State of California from providing students with the housing they need and deserve,” the university wrote. “This decision bestows new privileges and power to the privileged and powerful by arming NIMBY neighbors with additional weapons to obstruct the development of all new urban housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California state Senator Scott Wiener vented his frustration with what he called “an absurd and dangerous” ruling on Twitter, vowing legislative action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Court of Appeal just issued an absurd & dangerous ruling that people are pollution & CEQA requires evaluation of the type of people who will live in proposed new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll shortly introduce legislation to put an end to this nonsense. Stay tuned. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/472falo0u1\">https://t.co/472falo0u1\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1629508923404460032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court seemed to anticipate this backlash in their ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are, of course, aware of the public interest in this case … We do not take sides on policy issues,” the judges wrote. “Our task is limited. We must apply the laws that the Legislature has written to the facts in the record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We agree that the Legislature did not intend CEQA to be used as a redlining weapon by neighbors who oppose projects based on prejudice rather than environmental concerns,” the judges added later in the 47-page decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith insists that the university’s concern over the impact to CEQA is a red herring, and that the goal of plaintiffs is not to block student housing, but to preserve the park.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Harvey Smith, president, People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group\"]‘[UC Berkeley] is stubborn, arrogant, and they want to continue fighting this rather than take the more reasonable course of saying … let’s move on.’[/pullquote]“Our group is definitely in favor of student housing. Just put it in a spot that’s appropriate … and People’s Park is totally inappropriate,” Smith said. “It’s a historic site … open space in that part of Berkeley is desperately needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Iglesias, professor emeritus of the University of San Francisco School of Law, said this decision would require any person proposing a development to look into and consider so-called “social noise” and “indirect displacement,” which he said could be “very problematic going forward for other developments.” Ultimately, Iglesias said he believes the ruling will increase political pressure to reform CEQA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, law professor at UC Davis, sees at least three potential routes to CEQA reform: a bill through the Legislature; CEQA guidelines (issued by the governor’s Office of Planning and Research, and the Natural Resources Agency); or a ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elmendorf said the ruling is both interesting and troubling. “They put the People’s Park project on hold until the city goes back and does its environmental study with more analysis of potential alternative sites for the project and more analysis of the potential for the project to generate social noise from boisterous students in residential neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elmendorf describes this as troubling because it extends CEQA to require analysis not only of the effects of noise that might be generated by a project “but also noise and other behaviors that may be attributable to the people brought into a neighborhood or a community by a project.” Elmendorf says the implications could go beyond universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling by three judges is the latest\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917145/a-brief-history-battle-peoples-park-berkeley-protests\"> in a series of delays and obstacles\u003c/a> for UC Berkeley’s $312 million plans for the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the university was given the green light to begin work last summer, groups of students and activists flocked to People’s Park to protest the project and the displacement of unhoused neighbors. 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"content": "\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/crime/sfpd-probe-gallery-owner-spraying-homeless-woman-with-hose/article_c81a30dc-929d-11ed-905e-b72e1d28f976.html\">a video of a gallery owner in San Francisco using a hose\u003c/a> to spray water on an unhoused woman on the sidewalk went viral, Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia was horrified, but not surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up without a permanent home in Los Angeles, Gray-Garcia has seen what violence against people who are unhoused looks like up close. So, she knows how rare it is for such acts of violence to be reported, and how even more unlikely it is for perpetrators to be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#witness\">What can you do if you witness violence against an unhoused person?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“There are some people among us who are filled with hate and imbued with scarcity and violence as their own way to process racism, classism, ableism, you name it. But it’s constant,” Gray-Garcia told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re spit on, harassed. You’re subject to the violence of exposure when you’re outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gallery owner, Shannon Collier Gwin, 71, was charged with misdemeanor battery and apologized for the attack that went viral in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But videos like the one of Gwin are only the tip of an often misunderstood iceberg, according to Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BrokeAssStuart/status/1612853395345510401\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence against people who lack housing “is astronomically higher than we see in other populations,” said Kushel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/216287\">A study Kushel co-authored in 2003 on unhoused adults\u003c/a> found that nearly a third of women, one-quarter of men and roughly 40% of transgender people in the study had experienced sexual assault in the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue extends far beyond San Francisco. Last fall, a man named Juan Miguel Vasquez Serrano was murdered while unhoused and living in East Oakland. His death was part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/what-were-learning-about-stockton-serial-killings-victims/41516619#\">a string of killings that targeted at least four unhoused people\u003c/a>. Also, in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://xtown.la/2022/06/08/murders-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">at least 85 people who were experiencing homelessness were murdered in Los Angeles\u003c/a>. And last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/nyregion/nyc-homeless-stabbing.html\">in New York, three unhoused people were stabbed while sleeping\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A spectrum of violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Physical or sexual violence are only a few ways that violence might occur. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness also say violence can come from government agencies. When public works crews clear settlements of unhoused people from sidewalks and underpasses, it often results in the loss of personal medications, wheelchairs and other important items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the police. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cohsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Harrsment-and-Displacement-Survey-Mission-Report-.pdf\">A 2014 community survey looking at harassment and violence against lower-income and unhoused people in San Francisco’s Mission District (PDF)\u003c/a> found that nearly 58% of respondents said they had experienced harassment, with 35% reporting it came from police, and 18% saying it came from neighborhood residents and local business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also found that 41% of all participants reported they had experienced physical violence specifically near the 16th Street BART station, with 13% reporting they had been physically harmed by police and 15% reporting that physical violence was perpetrated by neighborhood residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the most egregious form of violence comes from government neglect. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/homeless-deaths-los-angeles.html\">More than 4,800 Californians who were unhoused died in 2021\u003c/a>, according to a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> report. And data from California’s 58 counties shows that the 4,800 estimate is likely an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence also includes tragedies like when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906661/woman-who-died-in-homeless-encampment-fire-idd-as-sf-mother-of-3-who-was-evicted-in-2018\">a woman who was experiencing homelessness died in an encampment fire\u003c/a> under a freeway overpass on an extremely cold night in April 2022. Or last December, when four men experiencing homelessness in Santa Clara County died in a single night during a cold snap.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I was afraid for my safety’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Having housing dramatically reduces the likelihood someone might experience violence, according to Kushel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know from those studies that when people obtain housing, no matter what type of housing it is, that over the next six months they are at dramatically less risk of experiencing violence,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escaping violence is not simple, said Delphine Brody, an organizer with the Tenant and Neighborhood Councils. People might choose to stay in dangerous situations to avoid living on the street. Others might want to avoid shelters if they experienced violence there before. Some are on the street to escape violence at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had bouts of relying on couch surfing just to escape violence at home. It’s very precarious,” Brody said. “I definitely faced violence that led me to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that was because she felt police failed to keep her safe when she did call for help. In one instance, her partner nearly choked her to death. Brody called 911, but her partner fled before they arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the police came, I was alone, and they seemed like they shrugged and said they could do nothing,” said Brody, who identifies as a queer trans woman. “I was afraid for my safety for years after that, and I knew I couldn’t rely on the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"witness\">\u003c/a>Tips for responding if you witness violence against unhoused folks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It can be difficult to know how to help someone you know, or don’t, who is experiencing violence and homelessness. Here are some suggestions and resources from our sources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Distract or redirect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One common tactic to intervene in any kind of street harassment is to start a conversation with the person who is being harassed to try to diffuse the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all make these judgments all the time. I would make an effort to somehow intervene, even if it’s distracting someone, calling attention to it, getting the crowd over there,” Kushel said. “Sometimes, just the fact that someone realizes they are being watched can make a difference. I wonder what would have happened to the gallery owner if a passerby had said, ‘That’s unacceptable. What are you doing? Stop that.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Right to Be offers \u003ca href=\"https://righttobe.org/\">free training in how to safely support and intervene\u003c/a> in a variety of harassment situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take a video if you can, but be cautious\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be aware that images of unhoused people experiencing violence can be traumatizing and dehumanizing. Take caution when sharing or reporting such documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Film that violence if you see it. But let’s not be so confused. When you see violent architecture — basically, spikes so poor people can’t sit down, and concrete barricades on sidewalks — call the city and tell them to stop being violent. Take pictures of that, too,” said Gray-Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, don’t be ‘shocked,'” Gray-Garcia added. “Become aware of what’s already around you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the police are involved in an incident you’re recording, it’s important to know you have certain rights when gathering video of police. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Read our guide to safely — and responsibly — recording the police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Check in with people you know — \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>at a safe time — \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>who may be experiencing violence \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Share resources, including options that don’t involve the police if someone does not feel safe involving law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are reasons people don’t feel safe, and very often it’s not that simple,” said Brody. “Empowering them with the broadest options and checking in at an appropriate time is extremely important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some alternative support lines include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://translifeline.org/\">Trans Lifeline\u003c/a>: (877) 565-8860\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Trans Lifeline is a free phone hotline that offers counseling and support to trans individuals who are in crisis. 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When public works crews clear settlements of unhoused people from sidewalks and underpasses, it often results in the loss of personal medications, wheelchairs and other important items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the police. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cohsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Harrsment-and-Displacement-Survey-Mission-Report-.pdf\">A 2014 community survey looking at harassment and violence against lower-income and unhoused people in San Francisco’s Mission District (PDF)\u003c/a> found that nearly 58% of respondents said they had experienced harassment, with 35% reporting it came from police, and 18% saying it came from neighborhood residents and local business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also found that 41% of all participants reported they had experienced physical violence specifically near the 16th Street BART station, with 13% reporting they had been physically harmed by police and 15% reporting that physical violence was perpetrated by neighborhood residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the most egregious form of violence comes from government neglect. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/homeless-deaths-los-angeles.html\">More than 4,800 Californians who were unhoused died in 2021\u003c/a>, according to a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> report. And data from California’s 58 counties shows that the 4,800 estimate is likely an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence also includes tragedies like when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906661/woman-who-died-in-homeless-encampment-fire-idd-as-sf-mother-of-3-who-was-evicted-in-2018\">a woman who was experiencing homelessness died in an encampment fire\u003c/a> under a freeway overpass on an extremely cold night in April 2022. Or last December, when four men experiencing homelessness in Santa Clara County died in a single night during a cold snap.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I was afraid for my safety’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Having housing dramatically reduces the likelihood someone might experience violence, according to Kushel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know from those studies that when people obtain housing, no matter what type of housing it is, that over the next six months they are at dramatically less risk of experiencing violence,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escaping violence is not simple, said Delphine Brody, an organizer with the Tenant and Neighborhood Councils. People might choose to stay in dangerous situations to avoid living on the street. Others might want to avoid shelters if they experienced violence there before. Some are on the street to escape violence at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had bouts of relying on couch surfing just to escape violence at home. It’s very precarious,” Brody said. “I definitely faced violence that led me to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that was because she felt police failed to keep her safe when she did call for help. In one instance, her partner nearly choked her to death. Brody called 911, but her partner fled before they arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the police came, I was alone, and they seemed like they shrugged and said they could do nothing,” said Brody, who identifies as a queer trans woman. “I was afraid for my safety for years after that, and I knew I couldn’t rely on the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"witness\">\u003c/a>Tips for responding if you witness violence against unhoused folks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It can be difficult to know how to help someone you know, or don’t, who is experiencing violence and homelessness. Here are some suggestions and resources from our sources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Distract or redirect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One common tactic to intervene in any kind of street harassment is to start a conversation with the person who is being harassed to try to diffuse the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all make these judgments all the time. I would make an effort to somehow intervene, even if it’s distracting someone, calling attention to it, getting the crowd over there,” Kushel said. “Sometimes, just the fact that someone realizes they are being watched can make a difference. I wonder what would have happened to the gallery owner if a passerby had said, ‘That’s unacceptable. What are you doing? Stop that.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Right to Be offers \u003ca href=\"https://righttobe.org/\">free training in how to safely support and intervene\u003c/a> in a variety of harassment situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take a video if you can, but be cautious\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be aware that images of unhoused people experiencing violence can be traumatizing and dehumanizing. Take caution when sharing or reporting such documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Film that violence if you see it. But let’s not be so confused. When you see violent architecture — basically, spikes so poor people can’t sit down, and concrete barricades on sidewalks — call the city and tell them to stop being violent. Take pictures of that, too,” said Gray-Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, don’t be ‘shocked,'” Gray-Garcia added. “Become aware of what’s already around you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the police are involved in an incident you’re recording, it’s important to know you have certain rights when gathering video of police. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Read our guide to safely — and responsibly — recording the police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Check in with people you know — \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>at a safe time — \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>who may be experiencing violence \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Share resources, including options that don’t involve the police if someone does not feel safe involving law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are reasons people don’t feel safe, and very often it’s not that simple,” said Brody. “Empowering them with the broadest options and checking in at an appropriate time is extremely important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some alternative support lines include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://translifeline.org/\">Trans Lifeline\u003c/a>: (877) 565-8860\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Trans Lifeline is a free phone hotline that offers counseling and support to trans individuals who are in crisis. It’s run by trans people, and the organization says its services are completely anonymous and confidential, meaning they will not call emergency services or law enforcement unless that is requested.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.callblackline.com/\">Call BlackLine\u003c/a>: (800) 604-5841\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call BlackLine is a free crisis hotline focused on supporting Black, Indigenous and other people of color. The organization aims to provide an alternative avenue for people to report inappropriate or violent contact with police and vigilantes. All calls are confidential and anonymous.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfwar.org/\">San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR)\u003c/a>: (415) 647-7273 (RAPE)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>SFWAR offers free, 24-hour crisis counseling to anyone, including male and nonbinary survivors, who are experiencing sexual harassment and assault and domestic violence.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Mental Health First: (510) 999-9641 (9MH1) (\u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>) and (916) 670-4062 (\u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-sac\">Sacramento\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A project of the Anti Police-Terror Project in Oakland, MH First responds to emergencies ranging from domestic violence safety planning, to psychiatric emergencies and substance use support.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Norma Johnson cracks a faint smile as she adjusts her stylish cat’s-eye glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s at the cafeteria of \u003ca href=\"https://stmaryscenter.org/mission-history/\">St. Mary’s Center\u003c/a> in West Oakland, where older adults in interim housing or living on the streets can drop by for a free meal. But Johnson’s mind is elsewhere. Her treasured red leather rocking chair, along with most of her belongings, sits in a storage unit. She’s afraid if she doesn’t pay her $500 balance soon, the storage unit operator will auction everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I gotta pull a rabbit out of my hat,” Johnson, 65, said during a rainy January day. “I don’t want to lose the things I do have. I don’t have a house, and now I won’t have … ” She hangs her head before finishing that sentence.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sharon Cornu, executive director, St. Mary's Center\"]‘[I]t’s remarkable to think about — you’ve kept yourself employed and housed and above water this whole time period, and in what ought to be golden years, here you are out on the street.’[/pullquote]Unexpectedly, Johnson finds herself in the middle of a budding crisis: aging without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/12/california-homeless-count-2/\">about a third of the nation’s unhoused people\u003c/a>, and among this population, older adults are estimated to be the fastest-growing group. One key indicator is the state’s tally of people accessing homelessness services. From 2017 to 2021, California’s overall older adult population grew by 7%, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/hdis.html\">the number of people 55 and over who sought homelessness services increased 84%\u003c/a> — more than any other age group — according to the state’s Homeless Data Integration System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, the number of people accessing homelessness services across all ages increased 43% during this time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older adults who are unhoused include those who have been unhoused for a long time and are getting older. But they also include those who are part of a growing trend, research shows: \u003ca href=\"https://generations.asaging.org/homelessness-older-adults-poverty-health\">people experiencing homelessness for the first time after age 50\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those at increased risk of losing shelter tend to be older adults who live alone and on fixed incomes, with little to no savings. A main contributor, experts say, is that as California rents soar, older adults’ income streams — including Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income — \u003ca href=\"https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2022/04/05/senior-advocate-older-adults-pushed-out-housing/9472635002/\">have not kept up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/10/black-people-disproportionately-homeless-in-california/\">Black Californians have long been overrepresented in the unhoused population\u003c/a> — representing about 6% of the state’s population but close to 30% of those accessing homelessness services, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many of us, there’s a picture in our mind connected to substance abuse or mental health issues. And for maybe a quarter of people who are currently unhoused, that is a cause. But most people becoming homeless today do so for economic reasons,” said Sharon Cornu, executive director at St. Mary’s Center, a nonprofit group that operates several services for older adults, including transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone in this age group, I can tell you, it’s remarkable to think about — you’ve kept yourself employed and housed and above water this whole time period, and in what ought to be golden years, here you are out on the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Respite at St. Mary’s Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just last summer, Johnson was living in a three-bedroom house she shared with a housemate and working at a COVID-19 testing site. But her situation changed suddenly. She had to stop working to undergo surgery for an old back injury. Then her housemate of almost three years moved out, leaving Johnson on the hook for the full $2,500 rent that she could not afford on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she lost her home, Johnson was referred to St. Mary’s Center, where she currently shares a trailer with five other people. Everyone who stays at St. Mary’s transitional housing units is 55 or older and many have moved from the streets to shelters to living in cars or staying with relatives. Here, they have access to a case manager. The goal is to link them to any health and social services they may need and help them find permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940813\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black woman with graying hair and a white shirt and glasses looks at the camera while seated on a white couch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Johnson at the Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories like Johnson’s are common among people who have been through St. Mary’s Center — barely making ends meet, an injury or stint of bad health having forced them to leave jobs sooner than they had hoped. In some cases, the death of a loved one, family conflicts or abusive relationships left people without a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Elbert Lee Jones Jr., spent decades on the streets. Born in Germany to a military family, he and his family moved to Oakland when he was 5 years old. As a young adult, he worked in fast-food restaurants, laundromats and convenience stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had jobs, had a life, until cocaine came knocking on the door. It came knocking on the door and really messed up a whole lot,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong and mostly healthy, he managed on the streets for a long time. Then about three years ago, he woke up in his tent to foot pain so unbearable he could barely stand. An ambulance took him to the closest emergency room, where doctors told him he had gangrene on his toes; they would have to amputate all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘If you hadn’t come in when you did, you’da been dead,’” Jones said. “That was the darkest part of my life right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some time healing at a nursing home, he was back on the streets. In a wheelchair and about to turn 60, he found his situation getting more complicated. So when the clinical director at St. Mary’s Center approached Jones under a freeway overpass last year and offered him a place to stay, he accepted. He was reluctant at first, he said. It had been a long time since he’d trusted anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the streets, 50 is the new 70\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Research has shown that living on the streets — eating and sleeping poorly, being exposed to the elements, not getting proper medical care and losing medication during encampment sweeps — will \u003ca href=\"https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/news/older-homeless-people-are-great-risk-dying\">prematurely age, sicken and kill people\u003c/a>. That is why when speaking about the unhoused population, advocates and experts often refer to “seniors” as anyone 50 and above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time unhoused people are in their 50s and early 60s, they look much more like other people in their 70s and 80s, said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of UC San Francisco’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is shifted back about 20 years,” Kushel said. “The health problems that we normally associate with aging — vision problems, hearing problems, cognitive impairments, difficulty bathing, difficulty walking — all of those things start much younger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940812\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white trailer with blue door and windows, and a little yard and planting garden outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their situation could also trigger anxiety, depression and substance use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the state launched incentives for Medi-Cal providers, who serve patients with lower incomes, to start and grow \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/12/homeless-health-care/\">street medicine programs\u003c/a>. Historically, most of these programs have been funded by philanthropic groups and foundations. And perhaps now more than ever, these programs play a crucial role, but in limited numbers they can only do so much for this medically high-needs population. Routine care and timely diagnosis are more difficult when people are moving from one encampment or shelter to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And simply put, “There is no medicine as powerful as housing,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers for one UCSF study published last summer followed unhoused people 50 and older over eight years in Oakland and found they were \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2795475?guestAccessKey=7ac6269d-6dbd-4288-a405-b1ecca6e082e&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=082922\">3.5 times more likely to die early\u003c/a> compared to other older people in the city. In the study, the median age of death was 64.6 years, compared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm#:~:text=That%20decline%20%E2%80%93%2077.0%20to%2076.1,life%20expectancy%20since%201921%2D1923.\">76.1 years for all Americans\u003c/a>. The main causes of death for the unhoused were heart disease, cancer and drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health needs of older adults can be complex. And most shelters are not equipped to serve a geriatric population. Programs that serve older adults specifically, like the one at St. Mary’s Center, are few and far between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, shelters are being overwhelmed by unhoused people who need more than these facilities can provide. For example, ideally, shelters would have a nurse on-site, but that could cost about $90,000 a year per nurse, which most facilities wouldn’t be able to afford, said Sara Mirhadi, chief programs officer at \u003ca href=\"https://poverellohouse.org/\">Poverello House\u003c/a>, which provides food, shelter and social services to unhoused people in downtown Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past several years, her shelter’s population has gotten older and their disabilities have increased. A number of those who come in regularly are in wheelchairs and need help using the bathroom. When you add conditions such as dementia and mental health issues, caring for this population becomes even more challenging, Mirhadi said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sara Mirhadi, chief programs officer, Poverello House\"]‘I think we need to really take a hard look at what we’re doing for our elderly population, because they should not be in a shelter.’[/pullquote]“At this point, I feel like our shelters are slowly becoming de facto nursing facilities,” she said. “I’ve had to ask staff to do a lot of things that they normally wouldn’t do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno-Madera region has seen one of the biggest jumps in homelessness among the 55-and-older population, increasing 216% from 2017 to 2021, state data shows. Coincidentally or not, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/09/california-housing-podcasat-fresno-market/\">rents and home prices in the Fresno area\u003c/a> have skyrocketed in recent years. Other areas that saw more than a two-fold increase in homelessness among this age group include the Yuba-Sutter area, and Yolo, San Francisco, Merced and Alameda counties. (Homelessness data is tracked by regional agencies whose territories can include a single city or several counties.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to really take a hard look at what we’re doing for our elderly population, because they should not be in a shelter,” Mirhadi added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making a dent in homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom released \u003ca href=\"https://mpa.aging.ca.gov/\">California’s Master Plan for Aging\u003c/a>, a 10-year blueprint on how to better prepare the state for a graying population — a quarter of the state’s residents will be 60 or older by 2030. The rollout of this plan also comes at a time when an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.aging.ca.gov/download.ashx?lE0rcNUV0zZe1bBmXluFyg%3D%3D\">2 million older adults are considered economically insecure\u003c/a>, struggling to afford rising rents and health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The No. 1 priority in that master plan is increasing affordable housing options for older adults, allowing them to age in place. The plan lays out goals and initiatives that legislators and the administration can pursue over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once homeless, older individuals face really unique barriers that make it extremely difficult for them to get housed again, so putting the emphasis on homeless prevention and making that a front-and-center strategy of dealing with older adult homelessness is something that we are seeing more attention paid to,” said Patti Prunhuber, director of housing advocacy at Justice in Aging, a legal advocacy group focused on poverty among older adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940811\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black woman cooks food in a trailer kitchen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Johnson cooks in the communal kitchen at the Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One proposal Prunhuber and other advocates are pushing for this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB37\">Senate Bill 37\u003c/a>, carried by Sen. Anna Caballero, a Merced Democrat, that would create a state-run housing subsidy program for older people and those with disabilities at highest risk of becoming unhoused. \u003ca href=\"https://justiceinaging.org/new-california-bill-would-prevent-homelessness-among-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities/\">A similar bill\u003c/a> died in the Legislature last year after it failed to receive funding in the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state subsidy program would supplement federal assistance programs — such as Section 8 vouchers — that help \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrooksLaSureCMS/status/1623761054059593730?s=20&t=2AzEgXJGjyy7ihHKAZ7q-Q\">about 10.2 million Americans\u003c/a> with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/the-housing-choice-voucher-program\">extremely low incomes\u003c/a>” afford rent. With demand outpacing supply, only about 4 out of every 10 people eligible for a federal rental subsidy receive it, said Sharon Rapport, California policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, a nonprofit organization that advocates for homelessness prevention and a sponsor of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of a state program would be to help people obtain federal rental vouchers, but in the meantime provide state-funded help. This way, more older adults will be able to stay in their current homes, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state should be in this business, too, because the feds alone can’t solve homelessness and the state alone can’t solve homelessness,” Rapport said. “But they can make a big dent in it and eventually solve it if they’re both putting in resources toward programs that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of housing navigators at St. Mary’s Center, Jones has spent the last eight months filling out applications for subsidized housing. If everything goes as planned, he expects to have his own studio apartment in Oakland by the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’ll be a far cry from his 20-plus years on the streets, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has a vision for his place: “I want it to be homey, warm. A place you could be comfortable in,” he said. “I’m going to have pictures up on the walls. I’ve got a green thumb. I’m going to have plants. It’s gonna be nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said she, too, dreams of having a place to call her own again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to have to worry about people leaving me behind with the whole amount of the rent,” she said. “I don’t want to do that anymore.”\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>Unexpectedly, Johnson finds herself in the middle of a budding crisis: aging without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/12/california-homeless-count-2/\">about a third of the nation’s unhoused people\u003c/a>, and among this population, older adults are estimated to be the fastest-growing group. One key indicator is the state’s tally of people accessing homelessness services. From 2017 to 2021, California’s overall older adult population grew by 7%, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/hdis.html\">the number of people 55 and over who sought homelessness services increased 84%\u003c/a> — more than any other age group — according to the state’s Homeless Data Integration System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, the number of people accessing homelessness services across all ages increased 43% during this time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older adults who are unhoused include those who have been unhoused for a long time and are getting older. But they also include those who are part of a growing trend, research shows: \u003ca href=\"https://generations.asaging.org/homelessness-older-adults-poverty-health\">people experiencing homelessness for the first time after age 50\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those at increased risk of losing shelter tend to be older adults who live alone and on fixed incomes, with little to no savings. A main contributor, experts say, is that as California rents soar, older adults’ income streams — including Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income — \u003ca href=\"https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2022/04/05/senior-advocate-older-adults-pushed-out-housing/9472635002/\">have not kept up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/10/black-people-disproportionately-homeless-in-california/\">Black Californians have long been overrepresented in the unhoused population\u003c/a> — representing about 6% of the state’s population but close to 30% of those accessing homelessness services, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many of us, there’s a picture in our mind connected to substance abuse or mental health issues. And for maybe a quarter of people who are currently unhoused, that is a cause. But most people becoming homeless today do so for economic reasons,” said Sharon Cornu, executive director at St. Mary’s Center, a nonprofit group that operates several services for older adults, including transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone in this age group, I can tell you, it’s remarkable to think about — you’ve kept yourself employed and housed and above water this whole time period, and in what ought to be golden years, here you are out on the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Respite at St. Mary’s Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just last summer, Johnson was living in a three-bedroom house she shared with a housemate and working at a COVID-19 testing site. But her situation changed suddenly. She had to stop working to undergo surgery for an old back injury. Then her housemate of almost three years moved out, leaving Johnson on the hook for the full $2,500 rent that she could not afford on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she lost her home, Johnson was referred to St. Mary’s Center, where she currently shares a trailer with five other people. Everyone who stays at St. Mary’s transitional housing units is 55 or older and many have moved from the streets to shelters to living in cars or staying with relatives. Here, they have access to a case manager. The goal is to link them to any health and social services they may need and help them find permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940813\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black woman with graying hair and a white shirt and glasses looks at the camera while seated on a white couch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Johnson at the Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories like Johnson’s are common among people who have been through St. Mary’s Center — barely making ends meet, an injury or stint of bad health having forced them to leave jobs sooner than they had hoped. In some cases, the death of a loved one, family conflicts or abusive relationships left people without a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Elbert Lee Jones Jr., spent decades on the streets. Born in Germany to a military family, he and his family moved to Oakland when he was 5 years old. As a young adult, he worked in fast-food restaurants, laundromats and convenience stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had jobs, had a life, until cocaine came knocking on the door. It came knocking on the door and really messed up a whole lot,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong and mostly healthy, he managed on the streets for a long time. Then about three years ago, he woke up in his tent to foot pain so unbearable he could barely stand. An ambulance took him to the closest emergency room, where doctors told him he had gangrene on his toes; they would have to amputate all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘If you hadn’t come in when you did, you’da been dead,’” Jones said. “That was the darkest part of my life right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some time healing at a nursing home, he was back on the streets. In a wheelchair and about to turn 60, he found his situation getting more complicated. So when the clinical director at St. Mary’s Center approached Jones under a freeway overpass last year and offered him a place to stay, he accepted. He was reluctant at first, he said. It had been a long time since he’d trusted anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the streets, 50 is the new 70\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Research has shown that living on the streets — eating and sleeping poorly, being exposed to the elements, not getting proper medical care and losing medication during encampment sweeps — will \u003ca href=\"https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/news/older-homeless-people-are-great-risk-dying\">prematurely age, sicken and kill people\u003c/a>. That is why when speaking about the unhoused population, advocates and experts often refer to “seniors” as anyone 50 and above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time unhoused people are in their 50s and early 60s, they look much more like other people in their 70s and 80s, said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of UC San Francisco’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is shifted back about 20 years,” Kushel said. “The health problems that we normally associate with aging — vision problems, hearing problems, cognitive impairments, difficulty bathing, difficulty walking — all of those things start much younger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940812\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white trailer with blue door and windows, and a little yard and planting garden outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their situation could also trigger anxiety, depression and substance use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the state launched incentives for Medi-Cal providers, who serve patients with lower incomes, to start and grow \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/12/homeless-health-care/\">street medicine programs\u003c/a>. Historically, most of these programs have been funded by philanthropic groups and foundations. And perhaps now more than ever, these programs play a crucial role, but in limited numbers they can only do so much for this medically high-needs population. Routine care and timely diagnosis are more difficult when people are moving from one encampment or shelter to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And simply put, “There is no medicine as powerful as housing,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers for one UCSF study published last summer followed unhoused people 50 and older over eight years in Oakland and found they were \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2795475?guestAccessKey=7ac6269d-6dbd-4288-a405-b1ecca6e082e&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=082922\">3.5 times more likely to die early\u003c/a> compared to other older people in the city. In the study, the median age of death was 64.6 years, compared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm#:~:text=That%20decline%20%E2%80%93%2077.0%20to%2076.1,life%20expectancy%20since%201921%2D1923.\">76.1 years for all Americans\u003c/a>. The main causes of death for the unhoused were heart disease, cancer and drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health needs of older adults can be complex. And most shelters are not equipped to serve a geriatric population. Programs that serve older adults specifically, like the one at St. Mary’s Center, are few and far between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, shelters are being overwhelmed by unhoused people who need more than these facilities can provide. For example, ideally, shelters would have a nurse on-site, but that could cost about $90,000 a year per nurse, which most facilities wouldn’t be able to afford, said Sara Mirhadi, chief programs officer at \u003ca href=\"https://poverellohouse.org/\">Poverello House\u003c/a>, which provides food, shelter and social services to unhoused people in downtown Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past several years, her shelter’s population has gotten older and their disabilities have increased. A number of those who come in regularly are in wheelchairs and need help using the bathroom. When you add conditions such as dementia and mental health issues, caring for this population becomes even more challenging, Mirhadi said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“At this point, I feel like our shelters are slowly becoming de facto nursing facilities,” she said. “I’ve had to ask staff to do a lot of things that they normally wouldn’t do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno-Madera region has seen one of the biggest jumps in homelessness among the 55-and-older population, increasing 216% from 2017 to 2021, state data shows. Coincidentally or not, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/09/california-housing-podcasat-fresno-market/\">rents and home prices in the Fresno area\u003c/a> have skyrocketed in recent years. Other areas that saw more than a two-fold increase in homelessness among this age group include the Yuba-Sutter area, and Yolo, San Francisco, Merced and Alameda counties. (Homelessness data is tracked by regional agencies whose territories can include a single city or several counties.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to really take a hard look at what we’re doing for our elderly population, because they should not be in a shelter,” Mirhadi added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making a dent in homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom released \u003ca href=\"https://mpa.aging.ca.gov/\">California’s Master Plan for Aging\u003c/a>, a 10-year blueprint on how to better prepare the state for a graying population — a quarter of the state’s residents will be 60 or older by 2030. The rollout of this plan also comes at a time when an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.aging.ca.gov/download.ashx?lE0rcNUV0zZe1bBmXluFyg%3D%3D\">2 million older adults are considered economically insecure\u003c/a>, struggling to afford rising rents and health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The No. 1 priority in that master plan is increasing affordable housing options for older adults, allowing them to age in place. The plan lays out goals and initiatives that legislators and the administration can pursue over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once homeless, older individuals face really unique barriers that make it extremely difficult for them to get housed again, so putting the emphasis on homeless prevention and making that a front-and-center strategy of dealing with older adult homelessness is something that we are seeing more attention paid to,” said Patti Prunhuber, director of housing advocacy at Justice in Aging, a legal advocacy group focused on poverty among older adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940811\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black woman cooks food in a trailer kitchen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Johnson cooks in the communal kitchen at the Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One proposal Prunhuber and other advocates are pushing for this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB37\">Senate Bill 37\u003c/a>, carried by Sen. Anna Caballero, a Merced Democrat, that would create a state-run housing subsidy program for older people and those with disabilities at highest risk of becoming unhoused. \u003ca href=\"https://justiceinaging.org/new-california-bill-would-prevent-homelessness-among-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities/\">A similar bill\u003c/a> died in the Legislature last year after it failed to receive funding in the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state subsidy program would supplement federal assistance programs — such as Section 8 vouchers — that help \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrooksLaSureCMS/status/1623761054059593730?s=20&t=2AzEgXJGjyy7ihHKAZ7q-Q\">about 10.2 million Americans\u003c/a> with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/the-housing-choice-voucher-program\">extremely low incomes\u003c/a>” afford rent. 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The site was once home to an estimated 300 people and stretched for more than 25 city blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925169/residents-activists-decry-evictions-at-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment\">evicted the bulk of the residents from land it owns in September\u003c/a>. But the Commons, which sits on city-owned land directly across from Raimondi Park, was not part of that effort. In a statement earlier this month, Oakland officials said they want to clear the lot to begin developing 170 units of affordable housing at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had planned to begin evicting residents on Jan. 9. But, residents successfully filed for a temporary restraining order, citing the historic storms ravaging the state and the lack of alternative shelter options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s hearing, held via Zoom, residents appealed to District Judge William Orrick to allow them more time to remain, while the city completes constructing a tiny-cabin community a few blocks away. The city received $4.7 million from the state to relocate residents of the Commons to the new tiny-cabin site, which will ultimately have 100 beds. But Oakland attorney Jamilah Jefferson said only 30 spaces will be available by the time evictions are likely to begin and that there would be around 50 by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the cabins aren’t up there yet,” said Commons resident and organizer John Janosko. “Why can’t we wait until it’s fully operational? … It doesn’t make any sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three people with concerned expressions sit together listening: a Black man with dreads wearing a gray hoodie sits next to a Black man wearing a black hoodie, and a white man wearing a multicolored beanie\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko (left), LaMonte Ford (center) and Jaz Colbrini listen to a court hearing, via Zoom, at the Wood Street Commons on Friday. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents also expressed concerns about the design of the tiny-cabin site. Residents — most of whom live in trailers, RVs or other types of vehicles — won’t be able to bring their trailers with them to the new location. Typical stays are 90 days, with options to extend, but there’s no guarantee of permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brigitte Nicoletti, attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center, which is representing residents in the case, told Orrick that presents a difficult choice for residents deciding whether to move in. If they give up their trailers, and ultimately don’t get housing, they could be back on the street without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These (tiny-cabin) programs allow for individuals to be removed at the discretion of the service provider,” Nicoletti said. “It’s very hard to imagine the amount of risk they’d be placed in to make that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A female-presenting white woman with long brown hair and a beanie holds her fist to her mouth with a concerned expression while listening\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica ‘Freeway’ Blalock (right), along with other residents and supporters, listens to a court hearing, via Zoom, at the Wood Street Commons on Friday. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicoletti said residents have also experienced difficult living conditions at other tiny-cabin sites the city operates, including “extended periods of lack of access to basic necessities, like food and electricity and clean drinking water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford testified at the hearing that he, along with other residents with severe anxiety, PTSD and other mental health conditions, would find it difficult to be placed in such a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t be around too many people, especially strangers,” Ford said. “And it doesn’t matter whether you know them or not, they put you together with whoever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='wood-street,wood-street-commons']Orrick asked the Oakland attorney to describe the accommodations made for people with mental health disabilities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925169/residents-activists-decry-evictions-at-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment\">evicted the bulk of the residents from land it owns in September\u003c/a>. But the Commons, which sits on city-owned land directly across from Raimondi Park, was not part of that effort. In a statement earlier this month, Oakland officials said they want to clear the lot to begin developing 170 units of affordable housing at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had planned to begin evicting residents on Jan. 9. But, residents successfully filed for a temporary restraining order, citing the historic storms ravaging the state and the lack of alternative shelter options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s hearing, held via Zoom, residents appealed to District Judge William Orrick to allow them more time to remain, while the city completes constructing a tiny-cabin community a few blocks away. The city received $4.7 million from the state to relocate residents of the Commons to the new tiny-cabin site, which will ultimately have 100 beds. But Oakland attorney Jamilah Jefferson said only 30 spaces will be available by the time evictions are likely to begin and that there would be around 50 by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the cabins aren’t up there yet,” said Commons resident and organizer John Janosko. “Why can’t we wait until it’s fully operational? … It doesn’t make any sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three people with concerned expressions sit together listening: a Black man with dreads wearing a gray hoodie sits next to a Black man wearing a black hoodie, and a white man wearing a multicolored beanie\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62561_IMG_7009A-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko (left), LaMonte Ford (center) and Jaz Colbrini listen to a court hearing, via Zoom, at the Wood Street Commons on Friday. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents also expressed concerns about the design of the tiny-cabin site. Residents — most of whom live in trailers, RVs or other types of vehicles — won’t be able to bring their trailers with them to the new location. Typical stays are 90 days, with options to extend, but there’s no guarantee of permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brigitte Nicoletti, attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center, which is representing residents in the case, told Orrick that presents a difficult choice for residents deciding whether to move in. If they give up their trailers, and ultimately don’t get housing, they could be back on the street without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These (tiny-cabin) programs allow for individuals to be removed at the discretion of the service provider,” Nicoletti said. “It’s very hard to imagine the amount of risk they’d be placed in to make that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A female-presenting white woman with long brown hair and a beanie holds her fist to her mouth with a concerned expression while listening\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica ‘Freeway’ Blalock (right), along with other residents and supporters, listens to a court hearing, via Zoom, at the Wood Street Commons on Friday. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicoletti said residents have also experienced difficult living conditions at other tiny-cabin sites the city operates, including “extended periods of lack of access to basic necessities, like food and electricity and clean drinking water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford testified at the hearing that he, along with other residents with severe anxiety, PTSD and other mental health conditions, would find it difficult to be placed in such a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t be around too many people, especially strangers,” Ford said. “And it doesn’t matter whether you know them or not, they put you together with whoever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Orrick asked the Oakland attorney to describe the accommodations made for people with mental health disabilities. But, she wasn’t able to provide a detailed response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent the mental disabilities impact them physically, all of the sites have accessible cabins and accessible bathrooms and showers,” Jefferson told the judge. “I do not know the extent of what the clinical staff provides, but I do know that there is a clinical staff component.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, though, Orrick said the city had met its obligations and that he would allow evictions to commence. His order Friday lifts the restraining order beginning Feb. 10. At that point, the city can begin posting notices of the pending eviction at the site, but must give them at least seven days before evictions can begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city’s obligation is to provide, in this context, the alternative shelter. That’s the thing that I have required of them,” Orrick told the residents. “They have done that. It’s not preferable for you. But that is what they have now been able to put together.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday, a federal district judge will decide whether evictions at one of Oakland’s longest-running settlements of unhoused people can proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jared DeFigh, resident, Wood Street Commons\"]‘This community loves me for me, not because I’m just some person that’s downtrodden and needs help. I am a human being with thoughts and feelings and a whole future before me.’[/pullquote]The Wood Street Commons, home to upwards of 60 people, is the last remaining segment of a larger settlement that ran parallel to Wood Street in West Oakland, mostly under the Interstate 880 freeway. The expansive site at one time stretched for more than 25 city blocks with an estimated 300 people living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925169/residents-activists-decry-evictions-at-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment\">Caltrans evicted the bulk of the residents\u003c/a> from land it owns this past September. But the Wood Street Commons, which sits on a city-owned plot of land directly across from Raimondi Park, was not part of that earlier effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Oakland officials are ordering everyone to leave. In a statement earlier this month, officials said they want to begin developing 170 units of affordable housing at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man in an orange t-shirt that says \"House keys not sweeps\" holds onto the handlebars of a bike while a woman wearing headphones and a person wearing a beanie hat stand in front of him outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko listens to city employees speak about future plans for Wood Street at the encampment in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m scared now,” said Wood Street resident and organizer John Janosko. “Where do we go from here? What do we do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11928406,news_11937671,news_11925169\" label=\"Related Posts\"]City officials said they need to clear the site to begin soil testing and assess which kinds of environmental remediation are needed before housing can be built there. If all goes smoothly, the site will be ready for occupancy in 2027 or 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city of Oakland is committed to addressing both the needs of the unhoused on the lot and other residents needing shelter and housing,” Assistant City Administrator LaTonda Simmons said in a statement. “The longer we delay, the more this critical project to house vulnerable Oaklanders is put at risk. Ultimately, we know the solution to homelessness is housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, residents of the Commons counter that they have already found a solution to homelessness. And, that solution is the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11939903 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a button down shirt with the collar up, places an ornament on a Christmas tree outdoors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaMonte Ford hangs ornaments on a tree at the Wood Street Commons during a holiday celebration at the settlement in Oakland on Dec. 17, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The site has a communal kitchen, a free store where residents can access donated clothes and other household items, and a receiving area for newcomers in the form of an outdoor living room that also doubles as an event and meeting space. And it has something that’s harder to recreate elsewhere: a strong sense of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody can come here at any time of the day or night if they need a place to sleep,” said Lydia Blumberg, who has lived at the Commons for around five years. “They can come here, and they can be safe, and they can have people around them that are going to protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a hat and rain jacket holds his hands together next to a whiteboard calendar with Christmas tree in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident LaMonte Ford speaks about the flooding at the encampment and the upcoming eviction in Oakland on Jan. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, residents held a press conference to appeal to city officials to stay the evictions. LaMonte Ford, a resident and organizer, said that rather than bulldozing the site, the city should funnel more resources to help improve and strengthen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d like to see dumpsters, electricity and showers, not to mention housing counselors to place people into permanent homes, mental health services, job postings and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It costs more money to open additional sites,” Ford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city received $4.7 million from the state to move people from the Commons to a temporary tiny-cabin community a few blocks away. It had planned to begin evicting residents from the Commons on Jan. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view of several people walking away from an encampment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers clear a barricade made by Wood Street residents meant to keep Caltrans out of the encampment, in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, residents filed for a temporary restraining order, citing the historic storms ravaging the state. And, the tiny-cabin community the city had planned to open wasn’t ready for residents to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal District Judge William Orrick — the same judge who presided over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919941/closure-of-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment-put-on-hold-for-now\">similar restraining order\u003c/a> in Caltrans’ evictions — agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This group has been at the encampment for a considerable period of time,” Orrick told an attorney representing Oakland at the Jan. 6 hearing. “You can wait 10 days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, by the date of the next hearing on Jan. 18, city officials said they actually weren’t ready. In court documents, Oakland attorney Jamilah Jefferson said the cabin community would have more than 30 of the 100 planned spaces available — but not before Feb. 1. Officials had also offered residents safe RV parking spots at a lot in East Oakland, but those, too, weren’t ready in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Wood Street parcel remains slated for a much needed 100% affordable housing development project,” Jefferson wrote in the court filing. “However, the city is also cognizant of the need to have adequate shelter available to comply with federal law as well as its own policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A pale green tiny home is seen attached to a truck outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tiny home is trucked into the Wood Street Cabin Community, a planned 100-bed shelter program on the second portion of the Game Changer lot located at 2601 Wood Street in Oakland, on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many residents, however, are wary of the new tiny-cabin site. Some have even returned to the Commons after having negative experiences at other tiny-cabin locations throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared DeFigh moved to one of Oakland’s tiny-cabin sites after Caltrans evicted him from its land behind Wood Street this past September. He said the thin walls, which have no insulation, left him freezing at night. He couldn’t bring many possessions, which left him without warm blankets. He has since moved back to the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see your breath each morning. All you get is a prison blanket and four socks,” he said. “I had to flee that to sleep by that tree [at the Commons], and then set up a tent somebody gave me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond the physical discomfort, DeFigh said there was a lack of care and attention to his needs at the cabin community that he does receive at the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community loves me for me, not because I’m just some person that’s downtrodden and needs help,” he said. “I am a human being with thoughts and feelings and a whole future before me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Orrick lifts the restraining order Friday, a spokesperson for the city said workers will post notices at the Commons, giving residents a minimum of seven days’ advance notice before the evictions begin.\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>The Wood Street Commons, home to upwards of 60 people, is the last remaining segment of a larger settlement that ran parallel to Wood Street in West Oakland, mostly under the Interstate 880 freeway. The expansive site at one time stretched for more than 25 city blocks with an estimated 300 people living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925169/residents-activists-decry-evictions-at-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment\">Caltrans evicted the bulk of the residents\u003c/a> from land it owns this past September. But the Wood Street Commons, which sits on a city-owned plot of land directly across from Raimondi Park, was not part of that earlier effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Oakland officials are ordering everyone to leave. In a statement earlier this month, officials said they want to begin developing 170 units of affordable housing at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man in an orange t-shirt that says \"House keys not sweeps\" holds onto the handlebars of a bike while a woman wearing headphones and a person wearing a beanie hat stand in front of him outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko listens to city employees speak about future plans for Wood Street at the encampment in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m scared now,” said Wood Street resident and organizer John Janosko. “Where do we go from here? What do we do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>City officials said they need to clear the site to begin soil testing and assess which kinds of environmental remediation are needed before housing can be built there. If all goes smoothly, the site will be ready for occupancy in 2027 or 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city of Oakland is committed to addressing both the needs of the unhoused on the lot and other residents needing shelter and housing,” Assistant City Administrator LaTonda Simmons said in a statement. “The longer we delay, the more this critical project to house vulnerable Oaklanders is put at risk. Ultimately, we know the solution to homelessness is housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, residents of the Commons counter that they have already found a solution to homelessness. And, that solution is the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11939903 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a button down shirt with the collar up, places an ornament on a Christmas tree outdoors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62097_015_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaMonte Ford hangs ornaments on a tree at the Wood Street Commons during a holiday celebration at the settlement in Oakland on Dec. 17, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The site has a communal kitchen, a free store where residents can access donated clothes and other household items, and a receiving area for newcomers in the form of an outdoor living room that also doubles as an event and meeting space. And it has something that’s harder to recreate elsewhere: a strong sense of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody can come here at any time of the day or night if they need a place to sleep,” said Lydia Blumberg, who has lived at the Commons for around five years. “They can come here, and they can be safe, and they can have people around them that are going to protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a hat and rain jacket holds his hands together next to a whiteboard calendar with Christmas tree in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/002_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident LaMonte Ford speaks about the flooding at the encampment and the upcoming eviction in Oakland on Jan. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, residents held a press conference to appeal to city officials to stay the evictions. LaMonte Ford, a resident and organizer, said that rather than bulldozing the site, the city should funnel more resources to help improve and strengthen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d like to see dumpsters, electricity and showers, not to mention housing counselors to place people into permanent homes, mental health services, job postings and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It costs more money to open additional sites,” Ford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city received $4.7 million from the state to move people from the Commons to a temporary tiny-cabin community a few blocks away. It had planned to begin evicting residents from the Commons on Jan. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view of several people walking away from an encampment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/032_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers clear a barricade made by Wood Street residents meant to keep Caltrans out of the encampment, in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, residents filed for a temporary restraining order, citing the historic storms ravaging the state. And, the tiny-cabin community the city had planned to open wasn’t ready for residents to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal District Judge William Orrick — the same judge who presided over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919941/closure-of-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment-put-on-hold-for-now\">similar restraining order\u003c/a> in Caltrans’ evictions — agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This group has been at the encampment for a considerable period of time,” Orrick told an attorney representing Oakland at the Jan. 6 hearing. “You can wait 10 days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, by the date of the next hearing on Jan. 18, city officials said they actually weren’t ready. In court documents, Oakland attorney Jamilah Jefferson said the cabin community would have more than 30 of the 100 planned spaces available — but not before Feb. 1. Officials had also offered residents safe RV parking spots at a lot in East Oakland, but those, too, weren’t ready in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Wood Street parcel remains slated for a much needed 100% affordable housing development project,” Jefferson wrote in the court filing. “However, the city is also cognizant of the need to have adequate shelter available to comply with federal law as well as its own policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A pale green tiny home is seen attached to a truck outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tiny home is trucked into the Wood Street Cabin Community, a planned 100-bed shelter program on the second portion of the Game Changer lot located at 2601 Wood Street in Oakland, on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many residents, however, are wary of the new tiny-cabin site. Some have even returned to the Commons after having negative experiences at other tiny-cabin locations throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared DeFigh moved to one of Oakland’s tiny-cabin sites after Caltrans evicted him from its land behind Wood Street this past September. He said the thin walls, which have no insulation, left him freezing at night. He couldn’t bring many possessions, which left him without warm blankets. He has since moved back to the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see your breath each morning. All you get is a prison blanket and four socks,” he said. “I had to flee that to sleep by that tree [at the Commons], and then set up a tent somebody gave me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond the physical discomfort, DeFigh said there was a lack of care and attention to his needs at the cabin community that he does receive at the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community loves me for me, not because I’m just some person that’s downtrodden and needs help,” he said. “I am a human being with thoughts and feelings and a whole future before me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Orrick lifts the restraining order Friday, a spokesperson for the city said workers will post notices at the Commons, giving residents a minimum of seven days’ advance notice before the evictions begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amid a looming $22.5 billion deficit, California housing advocates expressed relief that Gov. Gavin Newsom is largely keeping funding for housing and homelessness programs intact in his \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2023-24/#/Home\">2023–24 budget plan\u003c/a>. But, they said, it’s insufficient to meaningfully reduce homelessness across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were relieved to see that the programs that are serving Californians who are struggling, the very people who are experiencing homelessness, were protected,” said Chione Flegal, executive director of the statewide advocacy organization Housing California, adding, “The resources we’re investing still don’t come close to meeting the scale of the need that Californians are experiencing.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Schwartz, CEO, California Housing Partnership\"]‘Until we have the state investing at a much bigger scale and a longer-term horizon, we’re not really going to be able to make substantial progress.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan keeps in place $3.4 billion to address homelessness committed in prior budgets, including $400 million for a third round of grants to cities to clear homeless encampments and $1 billion to fund a fifth round of grants for local governments through the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program. That’s a flexible pool of funding cities and counties can use to fund everything from shelter operations to new housing for people exiting homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the deficit, the draft budget also calls for more than $9 billion in cuts overall, including $350 million to housing programs supporting homeownership and construction of in-law units.[aside postID=\"news_11937658,news_11936184,news_11937161\" label=\"Related Posts\"]At a news conference Tuesday, Newsom touted the combined $15.3 billion committed to homelessness programs in last year’s budget and this proposal. But he expressed frustration that unprecedented levels of funding for housing and homelessness in recent years weren’t yielding better results. When he took office, he said the state invested a mere $500 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this new funding, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">homelessness across California increased more than 23% between 2007 and 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, including rising more than 6% between 2020 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More accountability, more transparency,” Newsom said. “There’s never been more resources ever to support these efforts. We want to see things materialize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, Newsom said new homelessness-related grants would only be doled out to local governments that comply with state housing law. The administration also wants to push for new legislation that would force local leaders applying for the money to provide greater detail about how they plan to spend it, with priority given to things like clearing encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People just have had it. They want to see these encampments cleaned up, they’re fed up,” Newsom said. “People want to see results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But increased efforts to close encampments will likely be met with resistance. A group of unhoused San Francisco residents sued the city over its sweeps last year, arguing that forced displacements and destruction of property violate their constitutional rights. 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Abram Diaz, policy director for the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, said that’s an improvement over the past but a long way from enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should buy us another year of production,” Diaz said. “We had hoped we could go above and beyond that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz said he’ll be working to secure more money for the cause as lawmakers hash out the budget over the coming months, before the start of the next fiscal year, on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if we can’t, and we face another recession and another budget gap in the next fiscal year, then we really might start feeling more of a crunch,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that a comprehensive funding solution is a ways off, some advocates are beginning to coalesce around a stopgap solution: a statewide affordable housing bond of at least $10 billion on the 2024 ballot. Voters last approved a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=1&year=2018\">$4 billion state bond (Proposition 1)\u003c/a> for affordable housing in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, an effort is underway to put forward a constitutional amendment for the 2024 ballot that would reduce the voter threshold for local housing bonds from two-thirds to a simple majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and lawmakers are also looking for new legislative solutions to remove obstacles to building affordable housing and make what money there is stretch further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big part of the solution,” Diaz said, “and something a lot of stakeholders look at very heavily in tough budget years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At a news conference Tuesday, Newsom touted the combined $15.3 billion committed to homelessness programs in last year’s budget and this proposal. But he expressed frustration that unprecedented levels of funding for housing and homelessness in recent years weren’t yielding better results. When he took office, he said the state invested a mere $500 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this new funding, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">homelessness across California increased more than 23% between 2007 and 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, including rising more than 6% between 2020 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More accountability, more transparency,” Newsom said. “There’s never been more resources ever to support these efforts. We want to see things materialize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, Newsom said new homelessness-related grants would only be doled out to local governments that comply with state housing law. The administration also wants to push for new legislation that would force local leaders applying for the money to provide greater detail about how they plan to spend it, with priority given to things like clearing encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People just have had it. They want to see these encampments cleaned up, they’re fed up,” Newsom said. “People want to see results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But increased efforts to close encampments will likely be met with resistance. A group of unhoused San Francisco residents sued the city over its sweeps last year, arguing that forced displacements and destruction of property violate their constitutional rights. A judge granted a preliminary injunction barring further sweeps as the case moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to meaningfully reduce homelessness, Matt Schwartz, CEO of the California Housing Partnership, wants to see a dedicated funding source in the vein of the \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/press-release-asm-wick-sintroduces-housing-opportunities-for-everyone-hope-act/\">HOPE Act\u003c/a> (ACA 14) Assemblymember Buffy Wicks introduced last year, which proposed to dedicate 5% of the state’s general fund each year over the next decade to the state’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until we have the state investing at a much bigger scale and a longer-term horizon, we’re not really going to be able to make substantial progress,” Schwartz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the state’s housing shortage — particularly for people with low incomes — the California Housing Partnership estimates California needs to invest \u003ca href=\"https://roadmaphome2030.org/\">$18 billion each year over the next 10 years\u003c/a> to add 1.2 million affordable homes, or roughly 119,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget maintains current affordable housing production levels, or about 20,000 new affordable homes per year. Abram Diaz, policy director for the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, said that’s an improvement over the past but a long way from enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should buy us another year of production,” Diaz said. “We had hoped we could go above and beyond that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz said he’ll be working to secure more money for the cause as lawmakers hash out the budget over the coming months, before the start of the next fiscal year, on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if we can’t, and we face another recession and another budget gap in the next fiscal year, then we really might start feeling more of a crunch,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that a comprehensive funding solution is a ways off, some advocates are beginning to coalesce around a stopgap solution: a statewide affordable housing bond of at least $10 billion on the 2024 ballot. Voters last approved a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=1&year=2018\">$4 billion state bond (Proposition 1)\u003c/a> for affordable housing in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, an effort is underway to put forward a constitutional amendment for the 2024 ballot that would reduce the voter threshold for local housing bonds from two-thirds to a simple majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and lawmakers are also looking for new legislative solutions to remove obstacles to building affordable housing and make what money there is stretch further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big part of the solution,” Diaz said, “and something a lot of stakeholders look at very heavily in tough budget years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That deficit is largely driven by an expected sharp dip in capital gains taxes on the wealthiest Californians, a hallmark of the state’s progressive tax structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the governor said his budget does not propose using those reserves yet. Rather, he wants to close the deficit through a combination of delaying some spending by spreading it over multiple years; pulling back on some planned spending; and laying out some “trigger reductions” if revenues fall short. That includes potential cuts to spending on climate and transportation spending, housing, parks and workforce training.[aside postID=\"news_11936184,news_11937161\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“This budget is resilient, because we have provided a framework over, l would argue, the last nine or 10 years, for this investment in historic reserves,” he said, noting that his administration also began holding the line on spending last year, when it became clear that the state would be facing a fiscal downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in this position today because we were not profligate when it comes to ongoing spending,” Newsom added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration has framed this new term as an opportunity to execute on many of the ambitious plans the governor rolled out during his first four years. 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That’s higher than the national percentage of 76.8% for the same academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This quick guide explains what doubled-up means, plus some of the services these children and families are entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many students in California are doubled-up, and are the numbers rising?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual numbers are hard to pin down for sure.\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.19.06-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11937448 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.19.06-PM-160x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.19.06-PM-160x167.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.19.06-PM.png 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sg/homelessyouth.asp\">Unhoused students are counted by the California Department of Education\u003c/a>, but the state does not provide separate statistics on how many of those are doubled-up. However, relying on somewhat different counts, the \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.nche.seiservices.com/StateProfile.aspx?StateID=6\">National Center for Homeless Education\u003c/a>, which is the technical assistance center for the U.S. Department of Education, does provide percentages for the share of unhoused students who live doubled-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if those two separate measurements are used and combined in an unscientific manner, the estimate would show that about 155,815 California students might have been doubled-up during the 2020–21 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The percentage of students has remained consistent in recent years, even as California school districts have identified fewer students as unhoused.[aside postID=\"news_11932895,news_11927968,news_11926891\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Using the same data sources, 194,709 unhoused students were identified during the 2019–20 school year, and 85.4% were doubled-up. 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For example, despite the Census Day headcounts, the California Department of Education has estimated that the \u003ca href=\"https://oshi-la.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cts-state-of-crisis-report.pdf\">more accurate number of unhoused students is closer to 269,000 (PDF)\u003c/a>, and researchers at the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools have agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody would say that we’re identifying all students who qualify, whether they’re doubled-up or in any other living situation,” said Jan Moore, director of technical assistance at the National Center for Homeless Education. “I don’t think anybody would say that we’re catching them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11937434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM-800x793.png\" alt=\"A graphic showing students how many identified as homeless\" width=\"800\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM-800x793.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM-160x159.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM.png 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does it matter that California officials know that the vast majority of the state’s unhoused students are doubled-up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identifying California’s unhoused students begins with understanding where they live and why they live there. 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It mandates that every school district, county office of education and charter school hire a local liaison who must ensure that unhoused youth are identified and coordinate education services to increase their chances of succeeding academically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This law defines unhoused students, in part, as “children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, doubled-up students can receive McKinney-Vento resources and support to help continue their education as they face housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What resources are students eligible for if they are identified as unhoused under McKinney-Vento?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These students can remain enrolled in their “school of origin” and get state-funded transportation, if it’s decided that’s in their best interest, for the entire time they remain unhoused and through the end of the academic year during which they secure permanent housing. 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McKinney-Vento makes it easier to include doubled-up students as unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said that some of the most common questions she receives from school staff are about whether a student might be doubled-up or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to listen to each individual scenario because it is a case-by-case determination, and there are always little nuances that you have to listen really carefully to determine whether the student is eligible or not,” said Moore, whose team \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/resources/\">regularly hosts webinars\u003c/a> to help school staff better understand student homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, it comes down to whether a student’s loss of housing was the result of a sudden crisis or a planned event. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Public schools across the U.S. have found that \u003ca href=\"https://eddataexpress.ed.gov/dashboard/homeless/2020-2021?sy=2781&s=1035\">around one million children are experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all those students, however, live in homeless shelters or are on the streets — most of them are “doubled-up,” a term used to describe children and youth ages 21 and under living in shared housing, such as with another family or friends, due to various crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, doubled-up numbers are high. Public schools counted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sg/homelessyouth.asp\">183,312 students as unhoused\u003c/a> during the 2020–21 school year by the annual Census Day, which is the first Wednesday in October. Over 85% of those students were doubled-up, according to federal statistics. That’s higher than the national percentage of 76.8% for the same academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This quick guide explains what doubled-up means, plus some of the services these children and families are entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many students in California are doubled-up, and are the numbers rising?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual numbers are hard to pin down for sure.\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.19.06-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11937448 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.19.06-PM-160x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.19.06-PM-160x167.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.19.06-PM.png 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sg/homelessyouth.asp\">Unhoused students are counted by the California Department of Education\u003c/a>, but the state does not provide separate statistics on how many of those are doubled-up. However, relying on somewhat different counts, the \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.nche.seiservices.com/StateProfile.aspx?StateID=6\">National Center for Homeless Education\u003c/a>, which is the technical assistance center for the U.S. Department of Education, does provide percentages for the share of unhoused students who live doubled-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if those two separate measurements are used and combined in an unscientific manner, the estimate would show that about 155,815 California students might have been doubled-up during the 2020–21 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The percentage of students has remained consistent in recent years, even as California school districts have identified fewer students as unhoused.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Using the same data sources, 194,709 unhoused students were identified during the 2019–20 school year, and 85.4% were doubled-up. The year before that, 83.3% of the 207,677 students identified were doubled-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts say these numbers might not be accurate or fully reflect reality. For example, despite the Census Day headcounts, the California Department of Education has estimated that the \u003ca href=\"https://oshi-la.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cts-state-of-crisis-report.pdf\">more accurate number of unhoused students is closer to 269,000 (PDF)\u003c/a>, and researchers at the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools have agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody would say that we’re identifying all students who qualify, whether they’re doubled-up or in any other living situation,” said Jan Moore, director of technical assistance at the National Center for Homeless Education. “I don’t think anybody would say that we’re catching them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11937434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM-800x793.png\" alt=\"A graphic showing students how many identified as homeless\" width=\"800\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM-800x793.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM-160x159.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-10.25.06-AM.png 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does it matter that California officials know that the vast majority of the state’s unhoused students are doubled-up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identifying California’s unhoused students begins with understanding where they live and why they live there. A great challenge for schools is accurately counting all students who are unhoused, and learning that the majority are doubled-up can help guide the conversations they have with students. Plus, this information can help officials and liaisons seek resources specific to doubled-up students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, and why does it matter for doubled-up students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/legislation/mckinney-vento/\">McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act\u003c/a> is a federal law that requires every public school to count the number of students who are living on the street, in shelters, in motels, in cars, doubled-up with other families or moving among friends’ and relatives’ homes. It mandates that every school district, county office of education and charter school hire a local liaison who must ensure that unhoused youth are identified and coordinate education services to increase their chances of succeeding academically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This law defines unhoused students, in part, as “children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, doubled-up students can receive McKinney-Vento resources and support to help continue their education as they face housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What resources are students eligible for if they are identified as unhoused under McKinney-Vento?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These students can remain enrolled in their “school of origin” and get state-funded transportation, if it’s decided that’s in their best interest, for the entire time they remain unhoused and through the end of the academic year during which they secure permanent housing. The “school of origin” includes schools that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The student attended when permanently housed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The student was last enrolled in when they became unhoused.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The student has had some sort of connection to within the last 15 months.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If a student is not already enrolled in school, they must be enrolled immediately even if they do not have the typically required documents or if they missed an application deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional resources can include replacement identification cards or birth certificates, free access to after-school programs and referrals to free immunizations. The goal is to ensure that unhoused students do not face challenges in completing coursework that would make them eligible to apply for college, in remaining enrolled in school, and in accessing extracurricular activities, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some of the challenges in identifying doubled-up students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness is defined differently across various laws. A primary challenge for school staff is understanding the differences between how the McKinney-Vento law and the Department of Housing and Urban Development \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/11302\">define homelessness\u003c/a>. 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