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This bill is great, but we need resources for the programs, for the services, for the workforce that doesn’t currently exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state faces a shortage of not only \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1824-1-v2.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychiatric facilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but also the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/sites/healthforce.ucsf.edu/files/publication-pdf/California%E2%80%99s%20Current%20and%20Future%20Behavioral%20Health%20Workforce.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">health care staff\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> needed to operate those facilities. 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To help pay for start-up and training costs, the first seven counties to implement CARE Court will receive $26 million, with another $31 million going to counties across the state, Doty Cabrera said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those first seven counties are Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and San Francisco, which will implement CARE Courts by Oct. 1, 2023. The remaining counties would have until Dec. 1, 2024.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And, there’s an ongoing conversation around long-term funding,” Doty Cabrera said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial bill Wednesday overhauling the state’s approach to mental health care for people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state Senate last month approved the\u003c/span> Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act, which will allow family members and first responders to ask a judge to draw up a treatment plan for people deemed to be suffering from those disorders. Those who refuse could be placed under a conservatorship and ordered to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, unhoused people with severe mental health disorders can be held against their will at psychiatric hospitals, but must be released after three days if they promise to follow up with other services and take prescribed medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law will let a court order a treatment plan for up to two years, which may include medication, housing and therapy.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Participants will have access to a public defender and an advocate to help make decisions about treatment programs and housing. In turn, the behavioral health department in that county would be compelled to provide treatment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it shares some elements of mental health programs in some other states, California’s new system will be the first of its kind in the country, according to state Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, who co-authored the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing outside Momentum for Health, a nonprofit mental health care provider in San José, Newsom on Wednesday said the bill was about redesigning a broken system \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that often leaves people cycling among homelessness, jail and emergency rooms. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in the status quo,” he said. “I’m not interested in the compassionless-ness of the approach we have today of people moralizing and normalizing that suffering on the streets and sidewalks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But critics of the bill say it coerces people into care, which is less effective than voluntary treatment, and doesn’t provide the necessary health and housing resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Burch, deputy director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, which is part of a statewide coalition opposing CARE Court, called the bill’s signing “devastating.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It ignores the very stark reality that we’re living in in this moment,” he said. “We are tens of thousands of beds short in the Bay Area of the permanent housing that we need. … And we are woefully short on voluntary treatment programs.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced the proposal in March. \u003c/span>It passed the Legislature with overwhelming support, despite vehement opposition from disability rights and homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a matter of months ago that we stood right here and we laid out a vision,” Newsom said Wednesday. “And here we are. We’ve made it a reality, and that is rare in politics, particularly on issues as vexing and challenging as this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Stephen Manley said every day he sees people caught in a cycle of homelessness, jail and emergency rooms, without ever getting the adequate care or housing they need. Manley oversees a \u003ca href=\"https://steinberginstitute.org/champion/stephen-v-manley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental health care diversion court\u003c/a> for people awaiting trial for suspected crimes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is a major step towards building a system that is going to be effective, as opposed to the present system,” Manley said, “where these individuals simply cycle through our jails over to the emergency room of a hospital, back to the streets, back to the jail, back to the hospital. And it doesn’t stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, said CARE Court was coming 10 years too late. She shared the story of her cousin, a Vietnam veteran, who was homeless and living in an encampment for five years before he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that my family had the tools that this bill is going to bring forward so that he might still be alive and with us,” she said, adding, “But there’s more work to be done. This bill is great, but we need resources for the programs, for the services, for the workforce that doesn’t currently exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state faces a shortage of not only \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1824-1-v2.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychiatric facilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but also the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/sites/healthforce.ucsf.edu/files/publication-pdf/California%E2%80%99s%20Current%20and%20Future%20Behavioral%20Health%20Workforce.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">health care staff\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> needed to operate those facilities. And Newsom’s administration estimates that between 7,000 and 12,000 people across the state will be eligible for CARE Court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re guessing there will be demand for this,” said Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California. “There’s not a lot of give in terms of our workforce currently.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state is allocating $65 million to implement CARE Court within the judicial system, as well as additional money for county behavioral health care agencies, which would manage cases. To help pay for start-up and training costs, the first seven counties to implement CARE Court will receive $26 million, with another $31 million going to counties across the state, Doty Cabrera said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those first seven counties are Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and San Francisco, which will implement CARE Courts by Oct. 1, 2023. The remaining counties would have until Dec. 1, 2024.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And, there’s an ongoing conversation around long-term funding,” Doty Cabrera said. The bill now requires the state to provide funding to county behavioral health care agencies for programs and services before counties are required to implement CARE Court. “What that is, what it looks like, how much — all of that is still to be worked out between counties and the state,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The other looming question is housing. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The current version of the bill allows judges to order other government agencies, such as housing authorities, to prioritize CARE Court participants for housing. But in more rural parts of the state, housing with the appropriate services just doesn’t exist, Doty Cabrera added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who exactly are we going to pull into the order?” she said. “No one. There is nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, nearly 14,000 people experiencing homelessness voluntarily sought mental health services, but only half were placed into housing, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the logistics, members of the Assembly grappled with CARE Court’s reliance on the judicial system. Although voluntary, the legislation also comes with a threat: Continued refusal could be used as a justification for conservatorship, where people could be forced into care against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“At what point does compassion end and our desire to just get people off the streets and out of public sight begin?” said Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance. “\u003c/span>I don’t think this is a great bill, but it seems to be the best idea that we have at this point to try to improve a god-awful situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worry whether it will do more harm than good, by disproportionately affecting \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black residents in the state, who are diagnosed with schizophrenia, on average, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">three to four times more often\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> than white residents. Black residents also represent\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 30% of those experiencing homelessness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the state, but only 6.5% of the general population. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s Black men, Black trans folks, Black folks in general who will be the ones who are disproportionately forced into CARE Court and disproportionately affected by this horribly myopic legislation,” said Burch, of the Anti Police-Terror Project. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill requires an annual report on CARE Court, along with an independent, research-based entity to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, including “through the lens of health equity” to identify racial bias. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that CARE Court has been signed into law, Doty Cabrera said it will be critical to keep those concerns in mind as counties try to imagine all of the program’s “unknown variables.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is sort of like Chapter One of a novel,” she said. “We’ll be working on this for a long time to come.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Emotions ran hot Thursday as Caltrans began evicting residents from Oakland’s largest encampment of unhoused people. Some residents of the Wood Street encampment, with help from volunteers and activists, erected a makeshift barricade to block the only access road to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ben Murawski, 47, Wood Street resident\"]‘You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings … how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody Guthrie’s folk anthem “This Land Is Your Land” blared from a windup amplifier as Oakland police and California Highway Patrol officers faced off with residents and supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings,” said Ben Murawski, 47, his voice quivering. “And how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people — Ron McGowan, who lived in the northern area of the encampment and was set to be evicted Thursday, and Jaz Colibri, a resident and organizer — both were arrested after refusing to leave a pickup truck that was blocking the access road. Colibri lay down, motionless, in the bed of the truck, prompting officers to pick her up and physically carry her away, as supporters chanted, “We love you, Jaz!” and “Housing is a human right!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three officers hold a person as they are arrested with a dumpster in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Jaz Colibri is arrested and carried by police officers after she attempted to block Caltrans from removing a barricade from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The evictions came after a more-than-month-long delay, resulting from a lawsuit residents filed in July to block Caltrans from clearing the site. Federal District Judge William Orrick ruled last month they could continue, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the delay, for many residents, the evictions came too quickly. Caltrans posted notices on Tuesday that the first of the three-phased evictions would start in two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could you complain if you’re on somebody else’s land, and they want you to leave in 30 days? Seems reasonable,” said Matthew Schatzinger, 45, who’s lived at Wood Street for nearly four years. “But to get out of here in two days or then destroy your stuff, or take your stuff, it just doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People standing on a car that is spray-painted saying: 'where do we go?'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents and supporters stand on a truck to barricade Caltrans workers from entering the encampment In Oakland to begin clearing garbage on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his order, Judge Orrick directed Caltrans to work with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to offer shelter to the estimated 200 residents who live at Wood Street. As of Thursday, the county had made contact with 75 residents and around half had accepted offers of shelter, said Jerri Applegate Randrup, a spokesperson for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randrup said the county offered residents spaces in congregate shelters, Oakland’s “cabin community” or “tuff shed” shelters, and safe RV parking, among other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy Oliveira, 42, said he got a spot at a hotel that’s been converted into housing for people who were formerly homeless. Even though he’ll have to share a room, he said it was a much better situation than some of the other shelters. [aside tag=\"housing, homeless\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“I’m really happy. It’s gonna help me out a whole lot,” Oliveira said. “It’s going to be good. I’m going to actually be able to get restful sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schatzinger said he was offered only a spot at a tuff shed site, which he declined because there is no parking within three blocks, residents aren’t allowed to bring in mattresses or bedding and can only use city-provided cots, and there is little space to store his belongings. Instead, he and his neighbor, Jessica Huffman, 42, will likely be looking for some other place to park their RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to Wood Street after being forced to leave other encampments, Huffman said, and she didn’t want to return to a situation where she’s required to move her RV every few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a big problem when we’re forced into residential neighborhoods,” Huffman said. “That’s why the cops all pushed us out here in the first place. But it looks like we’re probably going to have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the encampment at Wood Street has grown from a few RVs parked on the street to a sprawling tangle of structures, vehicles and trailers. It stretches for more than 15 city blocks underneath the I-880 overpass between Wood Street and the BNSF and Union Pacific railroad tracks on land owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF and private entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts some items onto a truck\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But attorneys for Caltrans say the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires over the past two years, including one on July 11 that sent plumes of smoke onto the freeway and prompted the transportation agency to begin clearing the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The frequency with fires, especially in that area,” Mark Guenzi, an attorney for Caltrans, said at an August 26 hearing, “is just very concerning given the potential for catastrophic risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evictions are expected to continue over the next six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925268 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in hard hats and construction bests stand in a line under a freeway overpass\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody Guthrie’s folk anthem “This Land Is Your Land” blared from a windup amplifier as Oakland police and California Highway Patrol officers faced off with residents and supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings,” said Ben Murawski, 47, his voice quivering. “And how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people — Ron McGowan, who lived in the northern area of the encampment and was set to be evicted Thursday, and Jaz Colibri, a resident and organizer — both were arrested after refusing to leave a pickup truck that was blocking the access road. Colibri lay down, motionless, in the bed of the truck, prompting officers to pick her up and physically carry her away, as supporters chanted, “We love you, Jaz!” and “Housing is a human right!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three officers hold a person as they are arrested with a dumpster in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Jaz Colibri is arrested and carried by police officers after she attempted to block Caltrans from removing a barricade from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The evictions came after a more-than-month-long delay, resulting from a lawsuit residents filed in July to block Caltrans from clearing the site. Federal District Judge William Orrick ruled last month they could continue, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the delay, for many residents, the evictions came too quickly. Caltrans posted notices on Tuesday that the first of the three-phased evictions would start in two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could you complain if you’re on somebody else’s land, and they want you to leave in 30 days? Seems reasonable,” said Matthew Schatzinger, 45, who’s lived at Wood Street for nearly four years. “But to get out of here in two days or then destroy your stuff, or take your stuff, it just doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People standing on a car that is spray-painted saying: 'where do we go?'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents and supporters stand on a truck to barricade Caltrans workers from entering the encampment In Oakland to begin clearing garbage on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his order, Judge Orrick directed Caltrans to work with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to offer shelter to the estimated 200 residents who live at Wood Street. As of Thursday, the county had made contact with 75 residents and around half had accepted offers of shelter, said Jerri Applegate Randrup, a spokesperson for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randrup said the county offered residents spaces in congregate shelters, Oakland’s “cabin community” or “tuff shed” shelters, and safe RV parking, among other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy Oliveira, 42, said he got a spot at a hotel that’s been converted into housing for people who were formerly homeless. Even though he’ll have to share a room, he said it was a much better situation than some of the other shelters. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m really happy. It’s gonna help me out a whole lot,” Oliveira said. “It’s going to be good. I’m going to actually be able to get restful sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schatzinger said he was offered only a spot at a tuff shed site, which he declined because there is no parking within three blocks, residents aren’t allowed to bring in mattresses or bedding and can only use city-provided cots, and there is little space to store his belongings. Instead, he and his neighbor, Jessica Huffman, 42, will likely be looking for some other place to park their RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to Wood Street after being forced to leave other encampments, Huffman said, and she didn’t want to return to a situation where she’s required to move her RV every few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a big problem when we’re forced into residential neighborhoods,” Huffman said. “That’s why the cops all pushed us out here in the first place. But it looks like we’re probably going to have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the encampment at Wood Street has grown from a few RVs parked on the street to a sprawling tangle of structures, vehicles and trailers. It stretches for more than 15 city blocks underneath the I-880 overpass between Wood Street and the BNSF and Union Pacific railroad tracks on land owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF and private entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts some items onto a truck\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But attorneys for Caltrans say the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires over the past two years, including one on July 11 that sent plumes of smoke onto the freeway and prompted the transportation agency to begin clearing the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The frequency with fires, especially in that area,” Mark Guenzi, an attorney for Caltrans, said at an August 26 hearing, “is just very concerning given the potential for catastrophic risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925270 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in hard hats, bright vests and masks clear away debris from the encampment with rakes\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers clear garbage from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925272\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925272 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people pack items on one side, while another person speaks to a police officer in the foreground with a trailer in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925274\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hat looks on in anguish next to four others \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident 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"content": "\u003cp>Caltrans can begin evicting the estimated 200 people who live under an 880 overpass in West Oakland after Labor Day, a federal district judge ruled Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision from Judge William Orrick comes after a month-long legal battle between residents and the transit agency, the city, and the county. It dissolves a restraining order that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919941/closure-of-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment-put-on-hold-for-now\">previously halted Caltrans’ plans to clear the camp \u003c/a>and allows the city to begin a phased closure of the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a \"constitutional right to housing,\" Orrick said he had no authority to allow the encampment to remain on the property. Thursday evening, representatives from the city of Oakland submitted a plan for a phased closure of the site, beginning at its northernmost edge, where a fire on July 11 sent plumes of black smoke onto the 880 overpass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11919941,news_11914346,news_11921155\"]\"What I have tried to do is create a possibility of relocation in a way that is the least harmful to the people who live on Wood Street,\" he said at the hearing. \"I realize that there are alternatives that public policy could be generating that would work better for homelessness than what has happened in the past. But those are things that are beyond what can be ordered in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to offer approximately 40 emergency shelter beds to residents in the first phase of the closure, though it’s unclear how many people actually live in the affected area. Resident Ron McGowan, who lives at the site in question, said there are about 80 people there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absurd to think that we've gotten this far through this process and we have not had anybody take a survey of who is actually affected by this,” McGowan said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the first phase includes offers of temporary shelter, Orrick said subsequent phases could continue whether or not shelter was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Blumberg, who’s lived at Wood Street for at least five years, called the decision “beyond disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants to wash their hands of us,” she said after the hearing. “We're not homeless. They're looking to make us homeless. This is our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Caltrans alerted the residents they would have five days to pack their belongings and leave. Tucked away from the street, the encampment, commonly known as “Wood Street,” stretches along property owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF Railway and private owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Caltrans said the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires at the Wood Street encampment over the past two years. Since the restraining order was issued, another 12 fires have broken out on the site, Orrick said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/22267337-show_temp-1/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"U.S. District Court: Jackson Blain v. 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And, he ordered the state transportation agency to work with staff from the city of Oakland and from Alameda County to come up with a plan to relocate residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11923716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg\" alt='a sign that reads \"housing is a human right\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says 'Housing Is a Human Right' at the Cob on Wood Project at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But those plans were slow in coming. Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office publicly excoriated Oakland officials for failing to cooperate and threatened to withhold state funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City’s suggestion that it has no responsibility for homeless individuals on state property unless there is a specific earmark is simply unacceptable,” Patterson wrote. “Under state law, working with homeless individuals to identify housing or shelter alternatives is a local, not a state, responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was clear at the hearing that the city, county and Caltrans still had not worked out a plan for a number of different issues related to the encampment's closure, including who would do the outreach to residents and where residents' belongings would be kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people at Wood Street live in RVs, cars and other vehicles. An attorney for the city said it doesn't have enough safe parking sites for everyone to bring their vehicles there. And Caltrans officials said the vehicles would be too difficult to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Orrick told the agencies to work it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hese are vehicles of human beings,\" he said at the hearing, \"and they are not to be lost.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, residents at Wood Street say few officials have come to consult with them on relocation plans. Earlier this week, a coalition of residents wrote a public letter to state, city and county officials urging them to work with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They asked for resources to make the encampment safer, including access to dumpsters for trash removal, fire extinguishers, sand buckets, water hoses and assistance creating markers throughout the encampment so that emergency service providers could more easily navigate the area. Brigitte Nicoletti, an attorney assisting residents in their pro se lawsuit, reiterated that request at the hearing on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would allow the city and county to figure out their outreach programs so that there could be actual adequate outreach,” she said, “instead of a rushed approach that will lead to immense danger and harm to the residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Orrick said requiring Caltrans to provide those resources was beyond the scope of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are things that are beyond what can be ordered in this case,” he said. “I stretched the point up until now in order to try to get to some sort of a place that recognizes the humanity of the people who've been talking to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate request earlier this month to halt Oakland workers from clearing parts of the encampment on land it owns was denied. In July the city began clearing an area between West Grand and 26th Street in Oakland in preparation for a shelter at the site, which would house approximately 50 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, another federal judge allowed that work to continue.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absurd to think that we've gotten this far through this process and we have not had anybody take a survey of who is actually affected by this,” McGowan said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the first phase includes offers of temporary shelter, Orrick said subsequent phases could continue whether or not shelter was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Blumberg, who’s lived at Wood Street for at least five years, called the decision “beyond disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants to wash their hands of us,” she said after the hearing. “We're not homeless. They're looking to make us homeless. This is our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Caltrans alerted the residents they would have five days to pack their belongings and leave. Tucked away from the street, the encampment, commonly known as “Wood Street,” stretches along property owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF Railway and private owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Caltrans said the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires at the Wood Street encampment over the past two years. Since the restraining order was issued, another 12 fires have broken out on the site, Orrick said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/22267337-show_temp-1/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"U.S. District Court: Jackson Blain v. 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And, he ordered the state transportation agency to work with staff from the city of Oakland and from Alameda County to come up with a plan to relocate residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11923716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg\" alt='a sign that reads \"housing is a human right\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says 'Housing Is a Human Right' at the Cob on Wood Project at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But those plans were slow in coming. Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office publicly excoriated Oakland officials for failing to cooperate and threatened to withhold state funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City’s suggestion that it has no responsibility for homeless individuals on state property unless there is a specific earmark is simply unacceptable,” Patterson wrote. “Under state law, working with homeless individuals to identify housing or shelter alternatives is a local, not a state, responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was clear at the hearing that the city, county and Caltrans still had not worked out a plan for a number of different issues related to the encampment's closure, including who would do the outreach to residents and where residents' belongings would be kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people at Wood Street live in RVs, cars and other vehicles. An attorney for the city said it doesn't have enough safe parking sites for everyone to bring their vehicles there. And Caltrans officials said the vehicles would be too difficult to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Orrick told the agencies to work it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hese are vehicles of human beings,\" he said at the hearing, \"and they are not to be lost.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, residents at Wood Street say few officials have come to consult with them on relocation plans. Earlier this week, a coalition of residents wrote a public letter to state, city and county officials urging them to work with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They asked for resources to make the encampment safer, including access to dumpsters for trash removal, fire extinguishers, sand buckets, water hoses and assistance creating markers throughout the encampment so that emergency service providers could more easily navigate the area. Brigitte Nicoletti, an attorney assisting residents in their pro se lawsuit, reiterated that request at the hearing on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would allow the city and county to figure out their outreach programs so that there could be actual adequate outreach,” she said, “instead of a rushed approach that will lead to immense danger and harm to the residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Orrick said requiring Caltrans to provide those resources was beyond the scope of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are things that are beyond what can be ordered in this case,” he said. “I stretched the point up until now in order to try to get to some sort of a place that recognizes the humanity of the people who've been talking to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate request earlier this month to halt Oakland workers from clearing parts of the encampment on land it owns was denied. In July the city began clearing an area between West Grand and 26th Street in Oakland in preparation for a shelter at the site, which would house approximately 50 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>People’s Park is one of the most famous sites of the student movement of the 1960s — battled into existence, it has been held together by activists. The current debate is whether the university should be allowed to build student housing, or whether the park should remain completely open space, a sanctuary of sorts, for people in need of help. Issues of housing, homelessness, open space and more combine for a story with many elements of quintessential Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, the university hadn’t done much with it. Volunteers had guarded the space and run programs for various groups. During the pandemic, the eastern edge of the park became a large encampment for unhoused people. In recent years, the university has tried to develop the parcel of land, after its first attempt was blocked in 1969 by protesters. Under the new plans, about 60% of the land would remain a park that the university says will honor the legacy of its creation.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Harvey Smith, member of People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group\"]‘The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest would be turned into a new development, with 1,100 housing units for students and another hundred units of supportive housing run through a local nonprofit. In the meantime, the unhoused residents of the park have been offered a roof over their heads at a converted motel. Earlier this month, the university tried to begin construction, but activists clashed with police as demolition of the trees began. Soon, construction was halted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, a judge issued an injunction and the project has been paused, pending a new review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890205/the-battle-for-peoples-park\">KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal spoke with\u003c/a>: Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor of public affairs at UC Berkeley; Harvey Smith, member of People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group; and Supriya Yelimeli, housing and homelessness reporter for Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The origin and state of People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supriya Yelimeli, Berkeleyside:\u003c/strong> I was there Tuesday evening around 5 p.m., and some activists who run the People’s Park Garden were watering. There were about 10 tents there — people who are occupying the park. The People’s Park Kitchen, also run by activists, has used some of the fencing that was put around the park. There are some folks who are just hanging out there, but it still looks very different than before. There used to be groups of people who kind of just hung out in the area. Now, most of the folks who are at the park now are actively protesting for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand in the sun one has a sign that says: 'We Love People's Park'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally at People’s Park to protest the construction by UC Berkeley of student housing at the park on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An abridged story of the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli: \u003c/strong>In the ’60s, alongside many other big rebellions and civil rights movements, people who lived in the city decided to take the park land and turn it into a public park. At the time, there were plans to turn it into a parking lot. But people walked into the park, they started digging and shoveling. And there was one very famous protest where around 6,000 people marched to the park when the UC tried to reclaim the land. And on that day, one person was shot and killed. That set in motion a lot of the activism and the real vigor for defending the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The UC’s vision for People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley:\u003c/strong> The vision really started five years ago. UC Berkeley is facing an urgent student housing crisis and an initiative was launched with relatively modest goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals were to provide every incoming freshman with two years of university housing. But to do that, we need 8,000 new beds. Twenty percent of our students don’t even live in the city of Berkeley. Ten percent of our students report being unhoused at any given time. We need to build on every single piece of university-owned property in close proximity to the campus — People’s Park is one of those sites.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101890205\" label=\"Related Post\"]We also understood how important the park site is to members of the Berkeley community — its past, its legacy. We understood there were unhoused people who had been sleeping and gathering there in the pandemic. Instead of blithely rushing ahead, we developed a plan that acknowledges and addresses all of those various interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/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>We’re ready to and want to commemorate the park’s past and legacy. And also make sure that we’re meeting the needs and interests of unhoused people who have been using the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was nearly $5 million spent to help them relocate to the Rodeway Inn, another million dollars is being spent by the city and the campus to open a new daytime gathering center at the First Presbyterian Church, where unhoused people can receive services and food and showers, medical care, counseling and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A continuing struggle for student housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal, KQED: Why doesn’t the UC Berkeley just accept fewer students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof\u003c/strong>: There are a number of fallacies and myths around that question. First of all, the UC campuses don’t decide their own enrollment levels. Enrollment is decided by the regents in concert with the office of the president. They’re facing pressure from throughout the state … to enroll more students. The size of the system hasn’t tracked with the growing population of the state of California. In recent years, we’ve been required to take more students than we had housing for, exacerbating a preexisting crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harvey Smith, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group:\u003c/strong> I’m highly disappointed with the devolution of the UC. When I was a student, there was zero tuition. Now I think students pay about $14,000 a year for tuition plus housing costs. [\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=110635#expenses\">Editor’s note: The average in-state tuition is $14,000, and out-of-state tuition is $44,000.\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our organization is totally in favor of more student housing. I applaud the plan to provide more student housing. We’re critical of the delivery of the plan. It’s been reported that up to 10% of Berkeley students at Cal have been homeless — and it’s an urgent problem, but our feeling is that it should be addressed in an appropriate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wouldn’t it be easier to build in another part of the UC land holdings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cut trees on top of one another\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree branches lay cut on the ground after UC Berkeley student housing construction began at People’s Park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What do the people of People’s Park want?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli:\u003c/strong> I wanted to make clear that there are different groups asking for different things at the park. Defend People’s Park, which is mostly a student-run organization, wants People’s Park returned to Indigenous stewardship. They want no development at People’s Park, and they want folks who previously lived there or who got resources at the park to get permanent housing. They also want UC police defunded and for those funds to be redirected to students and staff who need services, as well as people who lived at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been talking about opposition and support … At the protests, we’ve heard from Moms for Housing, who famously reclaimed a home in Oakland and were able to live there. We have heard alignment from folks at the Wood Street encampment, Oakland. We’ve heard alignment from, you know, groups in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, other people who have been fighting for homeless rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing masks and jacket hold a plastic bag and vegetables outside near tents in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/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>We do have to be respectful of homeless voices who are not represented saying that [People’s Park] is where [they get their] resources — “if I don’t have a phone or my friend doesn’t have a phone, I can go here and hear from someone who will know their whereabouts.” And these are very distinct issues from the student housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lack of hearing the voices of these folks at all because they’re hard to reach. You can’t always get them on the radio or in the newspaper or in a university press release. There are people who certainly acknowledge that living outside in the cold is not what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people who are grateful for this opportunity. And then there are folks who are more comfortable living on the streets as well because of past traumas and past terrible experiences with the institutions that surround them. I don’t want to speak for them, those voices should be heard. But it’s not binary. It never is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof:\u003c/strong> I just want to note that all of the plans that were developed in concert with the city were based on what unhoused people told us. We went out of our way to ensure their voices were heard. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest would be turned into a new development, with 1,100 housing units for students and another hundred units of supportive housing run through a local nonprofit. In the meantime, the unhoused residents of the park have been offered a roof over their heads at a converted motel. Earlier this month, the university tried to begin construction, but activists clashed with police as demolition of the trees began. Soon, construction was halted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, a judge issued an injunction and the project has been paused, pending a new review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890205/the-battle-for-peoples-park\">KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal spoke with\u003c/a>: Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor of public affairs at UC Berkeley; Harvey Smith, member of People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group; and Supriya Yelimeli, housing and homelessness reporter for Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The origin and state of People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supriya Yelimeli, Berkeleyside:\u003c/strong> I was there Tuesday evening around 5 p.m., and some activists who run the People’s Park Garden were watering. There were about 10 tents there — people who are occupying the park. The People’s Park Kitchen, also run by activists, has used some of the fencing that was put around the park. There are some folks who are just hanging out there, but it still looks very different than before. There used to be groups of people who kind of just hung out in the area. Now, most of the folks who are at the park now are actively protesting for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand in the sun one has a sign that says: 'We Love People's Park'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally at People’s Park to protest the construction by UC Berkeley of student housing at the park on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An abridged story of the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli: \u003c/strong>In the ’60s, alongside many other big rebellions and civil rights movements, people who lived in the city decided to take the park land and turn it into a public park. At the time, there were plans to turn it into a parking lot. But people walked into the park, they started digging and shoveling. And there was one very famous protest where around 6,000 people marched to the park when the UC tried to reclaim the land. And on that day, one person was shot and killed. That set in motion a lot of the activism and the real vigor for defending the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The UC’s vision for People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley:\u003c/strong> The vision really started five years ago. UC Berkeley is facing an urgent student housing crisis and an initiative was launched with relatively modest goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals were to provide every incoming freshman with two years of university housing. But to do that, we need 8,000 new beds. Twenty percent of our students don’t even live in the city of Berkeley. Ten percent of our students report being unhoused at any given time. We need to build on every single piece of university-owned property in close proximity to the campus — People’s Park is one of those sites.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We also understood how important the park site is to members of the Berkeley community — its past, its legacy. We understood there were unhoused people who had been sleeping and gathering there in the pandemic. Instead of blithely rushing ahead, we developed a plan that acknowledges and addresses all of those various interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/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>We’re ready to and want to commemorate the park’s past and legacy. And also make sure that we’re meeting the needs and interests of unhoused people who have been using the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was nearly $5 million spent to help them relocate to the Rodeway Inn, another million dollars is being spent by the city and the campus to open a new daytime gathering center at the First Presbyterian Church, where unhoused people can receive services and food and showers, medical care, counseling and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A continuing struggle for student housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal, KQED: Why doesn’t the UC Berkeley just accept fewer students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof\u003c/strong>: There are a number of fallacies and myths around that question. First of all, the UC campuses don’t decide their own enrollment levels. Enrollment is decided by the regents in concert with the office of the president. They’re facing pressure from throughout the state … to enroll more students. The size of the system hasn’t tracked with the growing population of the state of California. In recent years, we’ve been required to take more students than we had housing for, exacerbating a preexisting crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harvey Smith, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group:\u003c/strong> I’m highly disappointed with the devolution of the UC. When I was a student, there was zero tuition. Now I think students pay about $14,000 a year for tuition plus housing costs. [\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=110635#expenses\">Editor’s note: The average in-state tuition is $14,000, and out-of-state tuition is $44,000.\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our organization is totally in favor of more student housing. I applaud the plan to provide more student housing. We’re critical of the delivery of the plan. It’s been reported that up to 10% of Berkeley students at Cal have been homeless — and it’s an urgent problem, but our feeling is that it should be addressed in an appropriate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wouldn’t it be easier to build in another part of the UC land holdings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cut trees on top of one another\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree branches lay cut on the ground after UC Berkeley student housing construction began at People’s Park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What do the people of People’s Park want?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli:\u003c/strong> I wanted to make clear that there are different groups asking for different things at the park. Defend People’s Park, which is mostly a student-run organization, wants People’s Park returned to Indigenous stewardship. They want no development at People’s Park, and they want folks who previously lived there or who got resources at the park to get permanent housing. They also want UC police defunded and for those funds to be redirected to students and staff who need services, as well as people who lived at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been talking about opposition and support … At the protests, we’ve heard from Moms for Housing, who famously reclaimed a home in Oakland and were able to live there. We have heard alignment from folks at the Wood Street encampment, Oakland. We’ve heard alignment from, you know, groups in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, other people who have been fighting for homeless rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing masks and jacket hold a plastic bag and vegetables outside near tents in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/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>We do have to be respectful of homeless voices who are not represented saying that [People’s Park] is where [they get their] resources — “if I don’t have a phone or my friend doesn’t have a phone, I can go here and hear from someone who will know their whereabouts.” And these are very distinct issues from the student housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lack of hearing the voices of these folks at all because they’re hard to reach. You can’t always get them on the radio or in the newspaper or in a university press release. There are people who certainly acknowledge that living outside in the cold is not what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people who are grateful for this opportunity. And then there are folks who are more comfortable living on the streets as well because of past traumas and past terrible experiences with the institutions that surround them. I don’t want to speak for them, those voices should be heard. But it’s not binary. It never is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof:\u003c/strong> I just want to note that all of the plans that were developed in concert with the city were based on what unhoused people told us. We went out of our way to ensure their voices were heard. 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While the order prevents any further clearing of the park, it does allow the university to re-erect a security fence around the site while the case is being reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are gratified that the Court of Appeal recognized that UC should not go forward until the court has the opportunity to review our case more fully,” Harvey Smith, president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group, said in a statement. “UC took advantage of the legal system in order to destroy as much of the park as it could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement, UC Berkeley noted that the new injunction would further delay and significantly increase the cost of the project, but said it was pleased the court had agreed to an expedited review process and was allowing the school to “close and secure the construction site pending the expedited ruling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The campus is now assessing options to get that done in a safe, effective way,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>: Just hours after the agenda had been posted, Berkeley’s mayor on Thursday morning canceled \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022-08-04%20Special%20Agenda%20-%20Council.pdf\">a special city council meeting\u003c/a> that officials had scheduled for that evening to consider temporarily suspending the city’s ban on police use of tear gas, smoke and pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m canceling the meeting. Our policy stands,” Mayor Jesse Arreguin \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JesseArreguin/status/1555243449040793605\">wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the meeting — and its abrupt cancellation — came after protesters on Wednesday clashed with police at People’s Park, destroying thousands of dollars of construction equipment and reoccupying the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before retreating from the park on Wednesday afternoon, UC police arrested seven demonstrators for charges including battery on a peace officer, trespassing and resisting and obstructing or delaying an officer. Two officers involved were injured, and one of the people arrested was released from custody and taken to a local hospital for minor injuries, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1524px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921793 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1.jpeg\" alt=\"People on the street watch as a large group of police in riot gear stand in a group.\" width=\"1524\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1.jpeg 1524w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1-800x562.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1-1020x717.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1-160x112.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1524px) 100vw, 1524px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a tense standoff with protesters, police in riot gear — from multiple agencies, including UC Berkeley PD and the California Highway Patrol — prepare to leave People’s Park on Aug. 3, 2022. Their departure was an ‘effort to avoid further confrontation,’ UC Berkeley officials later said. \u003ccite>(Christopher Alam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his tweet, Arreguin also criticized the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, writing, “shame on the Sheriff for threatening to not provide emergency support to Berkeley.” He later clarified that in 2020, after \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/paFiles/cqFiles/index.html\">Berkeley instituted its tear-gas ban\u003c/a> — which applies to any outside agency called to respond to mutual aid in the city — the sheriff’s office said it would no longer respond to the city’s requests for such support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In 2020], we were informed by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department that they will not send their personnel to Berkeley to respond in a crowd-control situation if we prohibit the use of tear gas,” Arreguin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the sheriff’s office coordinates the county’s mutual aid response, he explained, the city was concerned about not having adequate law enforcement support if the situation at the park were to grow further out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so the staff suggested that the council should reconsider the prohibition, at least temporarily,” Arreguin said. “Having thought a great deal about it over the course of the evening, I came to the conclusion that we need to continue our existing policy. That the reasons why I supported the ban in 2020 are still the same — I don’t think chemical agents should be used in modern policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesperson for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed that deputies were in fact at People’s Park on Wednesday, and that his office, while opposed to the city’s tear gas ban, would never refuse to respond to a major public safety emergency. “We will come to help. I think the city’s understanding of what mutual aid is needed some clarification,” he said and an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if sheriff’s deputies would abide by Berkeley’s tear gas ban if they came to the city’s aid, Kelly said, “We would not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanting “Whose Park? People’s Park,” several dozen protesters halted the start of student housing construction at the historic Berkeley park on Wednesday afternoon, tearing down fencing and destroying equipment after a brief, but tense faceoff with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley, which owns the park, had cleared the site shortly after midnight and erected a fence around it. But by mid-afternoon, the school, in a statement, announced it was pausing \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/\">the controversial project\u003c/a> “due to the destruction of construction materials, unlawful protest activity, and violence on the part of some protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921498\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet.jpg\" alt=\"two people sit in the middle of the street as uniformed police in riot gear stand in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters sit on a street bordering People’s Park on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Christopher Alam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school said it had instructed all workers to leave the site “out of concern for their safety,” following reports that protesters were throwing rocks and bottles at them. It also said it had withdrawn its police force in an “effort to avoid further confrontation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re doing right now is assessing options for how we can move forward in a safe fashion, given the fact that we have certain individuals in our community who’ve shown themselves ready, willing and able to engage in violent, unlawful behavior and vandalism,” UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said. “And we need to find a way to proceed while taking that into account.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/eli_kamisher/status/1554906790260723712\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has plans to build a complex that would accommodate about 1,100 students as well as supportive housing for about 125 unhoused people. Part of the property will also be set aside to commemorate the site’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2019/04/20/a-brief-history-of-berkeleys-peoples-park/\">significance in the Civil Rights Movement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing project is “incredibly important to the university. It’s an important piece of how we plan to address what is an urgent student housing crisis,” Mogulof said. “We very much want this building to be available when students come to campus in the fall of 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Wednesday morning, about 100 officers representing multiple agencies, including UC Berkeley PD and the California Highway Patrol, stood guard at the fenced-off park as crews began felling trees to the derision of onlookers who were mostly kept outside barricades. At one point, shouting protesters and police, some in riot gear, came face to face before officers were told to stand down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921497 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway.jpg\" alt=\"person in leopard print shirt with hands cuffed is led away by a police officer in riot gear\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unidentified protester is led away by police after being arrested at People’s Park on Wednesday. But by the afternoon, with little trace of law enforcement remaining at the scene, the mainly young group of demonstrators tore down the rest of the fencing and proceeded to smash the windows and mechanical components of the bulldozers and earthmovers that workers had abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susanna, a demonstrator who declined to give her last name, said she was here to protect the more-than-50-year-old park and its green space, as well as the large unhoused community of people that have been living here for years in a sprawling encampment.[aside postID=news_11861666 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47366_032_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg']“I care for the unhoused community. Like they don’t have the privilege that I have to go home and sleep in a bed,” she said, noting she didn’t trust the university to follow through on its promise to build supportive housing for people in need. “You know, most of these people have mental issues and they don’t have medical care or support from friends or family, and we are kicking them out from the park. This is their last resort, their last hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Buchwald, another demonstrator, said preserving open space and trees was critical in the fight against climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody knows that, UC knows that, they teach it in their environmental science classes,” he said. “And yet when it comes to taking control of land that it wants to do something with, they throw all ethics out the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And not to mention, you know, the Grateful Dead played on that stage, right over there,” added protester Alyssa Moore, pointing to a now-empty field. “Any other place and space and time anywhere in America, this would be a protected area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 opponents of the project rallied at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Wednesday evening, before marching several blocks back to the park, where some activists encouraged demonstrators to stay there around the clock to ward off any additional attempts at resuming construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921577 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"tree trunks on the ground of a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree trunks that construction crews had cut down early that morning, before being stopped by protesters, lay scattered around People’s Park on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s unannounced move to begin construction Wednesday followed a ruling from an Alameda County Superior Court judge on Friday allowing the school to move forward with its housing plan, despite community groups suing to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplesparkhxdist.org/\">People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group\u003c/a>, said he was disappointed by the university’s early-morning construction attempt, but hardly surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC was obviously very primed to do this and the judge opened the door and they walked right in,” he said. “We are fully prepared to appeal this and ask for another stay at demolition. And our lawyers are working on that as we speak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march down Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, from Sproul Hall to People’s Park on Aug. 3, 2022, to protest UC Berkeley’s attempt to start building student housing at the park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Doris Moskowitz, who owns the nearby legendary Moe’s Books, said that while she respects the park’s history, she ultimately supports the university’s plans. Many people have avoided the area in recent years, she said, because of real safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve come up with what sounds like a good plan for making a space for both green space, low-income housing and student housing,” she said. “So they’re trying to meet the needs of the community – but you know everyone’s sad when there’s green space going away. So we’re having conflicted feelings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619.jpg\" alt=\"Windows smashed in a construction vehicle\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damaged construction loader sits at People’s Park in Berkeley after protesters smashed out the windows on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.jonnyshotit.com/About-me\">Jonathan Hale\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protests harked back to the spring of 1969, when community organizers banded together to turn a site that the state and university seized under eminent domain and turned into a gathering space they named People’s Park. After the university at the time erected a fence around the park, protesters sought to reclaim it, triggering bloody battles that resulted in police shooting and killing one man and wounding dozens of others. That May 15, 1969 uprising, known as “Bloody Thursday,” triggered even more protests and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan summoned the National Guard to occupy Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It certainly does bring memories about the arrogance of the university and its unwillingness to consider the concerns of the community,” said Dan Siegel, now a labor lawyer, who was a student at the law school in 1969. Siegel was arrested on Bloody Thursday after giving a speech at a campus rally in which he implored the crowd to “go down there and take the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older woman speaks into a microphone at a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime activist Jane Stillwater, who has fought to preserve People’s Park for decades, speaks to protesters gathered at the park on Wednesday evening. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Christopher Alam and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>: Just hours after the agenda had been posted, Berkeley’s mayor on Thursday morning canceled \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022-08-04%20Special%20Agenda%20-%20Council.pdf\">a special city council meeting\u003c/a> that officials had scheduled for that evening to consider temporarily suspending the city’s ban on police use of tear gas, smoke and pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m canceling the meeting. Our policy stands,” Mayor Jesse Arreguin \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JesseArreguin/status/1555243449040793605\">wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the meeting — and its abrupt cancellation — came after protesters on Wednesday clashed with police at People’s Park, destroying thousands of dollars of construction equipment and reoccupying the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before retreating from the park on Wednesday afternoon, UC police arrested seven demonstrators for charges including battery on a peace officer, trespassing and resisting and obstructing or delaying an officer. Two officers involved were injured, and one of the people arrested was released from custody and taken to a local hospital for minor injuries, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1524px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921793 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1.jpeg\" alt=\"People on the street watch as a large group of police in riot gear stand in a group.\" width=\"1524\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1.jpeg 1524w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1-800x562.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1-1020x717.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FZRw281VQAAaT1R-1-160x112.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1524px) 100vw, 1524px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a tense standoff with protesters, police in riot gear — from multiple agencies, including UC Berkeley PD and the California Highway Patrol — prepare to leave People’s Park on Aug. 3, 2022. Their departure was an ‘effort to avoid further confrontation,’ UC Berkeley officials later said. \u003ccite>(Christopher Alam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his tweet, Arreguin also criticized the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, writing, “shame on the Sheriff for threatening to not provide emergency support to Berkeley.” He later clarified that in 2020, after \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/paFiles/cqFiles/index.html\">Berkeley instituted its tear-gas ban\u003c/a> — which applies to any outside agency called to respond to mutual aid in the city — the sheriff’s office said it would no longer respond to the city’s requests for such support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In 2020], we were informed by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department that they will not send their personnel to Berkeley to respond in a crowd-control situation if we prohibit the use of tear gas,” Arreguin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the sheriff’s office coordinates the county’s mutual aid response, he explained, the city was concerned about not having adequate law enforcement support if the situation at the park were to grow further out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so the staff suggested that the council should reconsider the prohibition, at least temporarily,” Arreguin said. “Having thought a great deal about it over the course of the evening, I came to the conclusion that we need to continue our existing policy. That the reasons why I supported the ban in 2020 are still the same — I don’t think chemical agents should be used in modern policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesperson for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed that deputies were in fact at People’s Park on Wednesday, and that his office, while opposed to the city’s tear gas ban, would never refuse to respond to a major public safety emergency. “We will come to help. I think the city’s understanding of what mutual aid is needed some clarification,” he said and an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if sheriff’s deputies would abide by Berkeley’s tear gas ban if they came to the city’s aid, Kelly said, “We would not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanting “Whose Park? People’s Park,” several dozen protesters halted the start of student housing construction at the historic Berkeley park on Wednesday afternoon, tearing down fencing and destroying equipment after a brief, but tense faceoff with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley, which owns the park, had cleared the site shortly after midnight and erected a fence around it. But by mid-afternoon, the school, in a statement, announced it was pausing \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/\">the controversial project\u003c/a> “due to the destruction of construction materials, unlawful protest activity, and violence on the part of some protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921498\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet.jpg\" alt=\"two people sit in the middle of the street as uniformed police in riot gear stand in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtestersOnStreet-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters sit on a street bordering People’s Park on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Christopher Alam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school said it had instructed all workers to leave the site “out of concern for their safety,” following reports that protesters were throwing rocks and bottles at them. It also said it had withdrawn its police force in an “effort to avoid further confrontation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re doing right now is assessing options for how we can move forward in a safe fashion, given the fact that we have certain individuals in our community who’ve shown themselves ready, willing and able to engage in violent, unlawful behavior and vandalism,” UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said. “And we need to find a way to proceed while taking that into account.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The university has plans to build a complex that would accommodate about 1,100 students as well as supportive housing for about 125 unhoused people. Part of the property will also be set aside to commemorate the site’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2019/04/20/a-brief-history-of-berkeleys-peoples-park/\">significance in the Civil Rights Movement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing project is “incredibly important to the university. It’s an important piece of how we plan to address what is an urgent student housing crisis,” Mogulof said. “We very much want this building to be available when students come to campus in the fall of 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Wednesday morning, about 100 officers representing multiple agencies, including UC Berkeley PD and the California Highway Patrol, stood guard at the fenced-off park as crews began felling trees to the derision of onlookers who were mostly kept outside barricades. At one point, shouting protesters and police, some in riot gear, came face to face before officers were told to stand down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921497 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway.jpg\" alt=\"person in leopard print shirt with hands cuffed is led away by a police officer in riot gear\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ProtesterLedAway-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unidentified protester is led away by police after being arrested at People’s Park on Wednesday. But by the afternoon, with little trace of law enforcement remaining at the scene, the mainly young group of demonstrators tore down the rest of the fencing and proceeded to smash the windows and mechanical components of the bulldozers and earthmovers that workers had abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susanna, a demonstrator who declined to give her last name, said she was here to protect the more-than-50-year-old park and its green space, as well as the large unhoused community of people that have been living here for years in a sprawling encampment.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I care for the unhoused community. Like they don’t have the privilege that I have to go home and sleep in a bed,” she said, noting she didn’t trust the university to follow through on its promise to build supportive housing for people in need. “You know, most of these people have mental issues and they don’t have medical care or support from friends or family, and we are kicking them out from the park. This is their last resort, their last hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Buchwald, another demonstrator, said preserving open space and trees was critical in the fight against climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody knows that, UC knows that, they teach it in their environmental science classes,” he said. “And yet when it comes to taking control of land that it wants to do something with, they throw all ethics out the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And not to mention, you know, the Grateful Dead played on that stage, right over there,” added protester Alyssa Moore, pointing to a now-empty field. “Any other place and space and time anywhere in America, this would be a protected area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 opponents of the project rallied at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Wednesday evening, before marching several blocks back to the park, where some activists encouraged demonstrators to stay there around the clock to ward off any additional attempts at resuming construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921577 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"tree trunks on the ground of a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree trunks that construction crews had cut down early that morning, before being stopped by protesters, lay scattered around People’s Park on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s unannounced move to begin construction Wednesday followed a ruling from an Alameda County Superior Court judge on Friday allowing the school to move forward with its housing plan, despite community groups suing to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplesparkhxdist.org/\">People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group\u003c/a>, said he was disappointed by the university’s early-morning construction attempt, but hardly surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC was obviously very primed to do this and the judge opened the door and they walked right in,” he said. “We are fully prepared to appeal this and ask for another stay at demolition. And our lawyers are working on that as we speak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57538_012_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march down Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, from Sproul Hall to People’s Park on Aug. 3, 2022, to protest UC Berkeley’s attempt to start building student housing at the park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Doris Moskowitz, who owns the nearby legendary Moe’s Books, said that while she respects the park’s history, she ultimately supports the university’s plans. Many people have avoided the area in recent years, she said, because of real safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve come up with what sounds like a good plan for making a space for both green space, low-income housing and student housing,” she said. “So they’re trying to meet the needs of the community – but you know everyone’s sad when there’s green space going away. So we’re having conflicted feelings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619.jpg\" alt=\"Windows smashed in a construction vehicle\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/DSC_6619-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damaged construction loader sits at People’s Park in Berkeley after protesters smashed out the windows on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.jonnyshotit.com/About-me\">Jonathan Hale\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protests harked back to the spring of 1969, when community organizers banded together to turn a site that the state and university seized under eminent domain and turned into a gathering space they named People’s Park. After the university at the time erected a fence around the park, protesters sought to reclaim it, triggering bloody battles that resulted in police shooting and killing one man and wounding dozens of others. That May 15, 1969 uprising, known as “Bloody Thursday,” triggered even more protests and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan summoned the National Guard to occupy Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It certainly does bring memories about the arrogance of the university and its unwillingness to consider the concerns of the community,” said Dan Siegel, now a labor lawyer, who was a student at the law school in 1969. Siegel was arrested on Bloody Thursday after giving a speech at a campus rally in which he implored the crowd to “go down there and take the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older woman speaks into a microphone at a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57549_024_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime activist Jane Stillwater, who has fought to preserve People’s Park for decades, speaks to protesters gathered at the park on Wednesday evening. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As Horace Cage tells it, the formula that got him off the streets is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I changed all my nouns,” he says, referring to his social circle. “The people I hang around, the places I go, the things I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it took him a long time. The 55-year-old Oakland native spent a little over two decades homeless or behind bars. He couch surfed and lived in his car. He settled into a tiny home encampment, then a safe RV parking site. That’s where he heard about Project Roomkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was skeptical. The offer sounded a little too good to be true — his own motel room, free meals and permanent housing placement within three months — but he was trying to clean up. He says he’d stopped using meth after an accidental fentanyl overdose almost killed him late last year, so he took a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921176 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black man in a white shirt makes pancakes, standing at the stove in his apartment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horace Cage makes pancakes at his home in Oakland. Cage was formerly unhoused and through Project Roomkey lived in a Radisson hotel before being placed in an apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He got his room at the Radisson, near the Oakland airport, in mid-February. The first thing he did was get in the shower. After relying on porta-potties and a twice weekly visit from a mobile shower truck at the RV site, having a private bathroom was a small miracle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t missed a day of showering since I started,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cage joined the more than 50,000 people Project Roomkey has served across the state since April 2020, when California leaders took the unprecedented step of making motels available for use as homeless shelters early in the pandemic. Now, with funding drying up, the last remaining sites are preparing to close. That means finding a new place to live for some 6,000 people statewide who still call the motels home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Radisson was Alameda County’s last Roomkey site, closing just last week, and Cage was among the last wave of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his time there, Cage worked with Roomkey staff to line up all the necessary documents and applications needed to get a Section 8 voucher. By late June, he had an apartment in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sunny one-bedroom. His dog, Little Girl, happily gnaws a bone on one of Cage’s new rugs while he works on assembling his bed — “the meat and potatoes of the apartment,” as he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921214 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white shirt and blue shorts stands in the kitchen, petting a big black dog\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horace Cage pets his dog at his home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his first night in the apartment he couldn’t sleep, overwhelmed by the change. In the unfamiliar quiet, his mind reeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You reflect on things you really didn’t want to deal with, like pains that come from things you’ve done, things you want to do, things you should have done,” says Cage, who has been too ashamed to see his three children for years. “It all takes a toll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the place has him hopeful, too. One of the first things he tacked on the wall is a Christmas stocking that had been rolling around his RV for years, waiting for a grandkid to claim its contents. Cage, who was once married, had a job as a machine operator and owned a house, is thinking about having family over for the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transforming the system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Living on his own, with help paying rent and bills, Cage is considered a Project Roomkey success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcomes have just been phenomenally high in terms of getting people placed into permanent housing and not seeing people exit back to the street,” says Kerry Abbott, director of the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/\">Office of Homeless Care and Coordination\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11909202,news_11847782\"]Almost two-thirds of the 2,100 people who’ve left Project Roomkey in Alameda County have gone on to permanent housing, compared to less than 30% of those coming out of emergency shelters. Abbott credits the privacy of the hotels and housing resources available at the sites for enticing more people to leave the streets in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes with a hefty price tag. According to a county report, Roomkey costs about $260 a night per person, while congregate shelters cost around $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, the program hasn’t seen the same level of success. As of February, 22% of Roomkey participants left for permanent housing, while 15% returned to the streets and 18% to unknown destinations. Another 35% exited to temporary housing or congregate shelter, while 10% have moved to institutions or other destinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Roomkey sunsets, Abbott says her office is carrying the program’s lessons forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has permanently changed our outlook on shelter,” she says, explaining the county is looking to boost its non-congregate shelter capacity. “We’re transforming our system rather than letting this really important intervention go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The devil is in the details’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Tajanik Thompson, the prospect of a private room and bathroom sold her on Project Roomkey. Now 31, Thompson had preferred the streets to shelters since she was a teenager, choosing tents or cars over sleeping in a dorm with strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Cage, Thompson says she was working to improve her situation when the Project Roomkey offer came up. She’d stopped doing sex work, but getting clean and addressing her mental health concerns on the streets wasn’t easy “because of my environment,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in West Oakland,” she says, “and there’s nothing but drugs around there everywhere, just surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921167 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling Black woman with bright red braids stands against a window and the yellow wall of a hotel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tajanik Thompson stands outside of a former Comfort Inn that has been converted to supportive housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thompson, who grew up in Oakland, was kidnapped as an adolescent and forced into sex work, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-police-seek-missing-girl-2633097.php\">news reports\u003c/a>. She’d lived on the streets since then, and says she’s been assaulted numerous times. Between worrying about her safety and staying warm and fed, there wasn’t a lot of energy for meeting with counselors, tracking down documents and all the other steps required to line up housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the hotels did is it gave stability to a population that otherwise doesn’t have it,” says Andrea Henson, an attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a> and longtime advocate for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says she got to be alone at the Radisson. She made a schedule for the first time in her life. She enrolled in a GED program, and started working with a therapist and a housing navigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to think, period,” she says. “I had peace of mind. I was able to get away from everything and everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921186 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black woman with bright red braids eats takeout lunch at a table in a motel lobby in front of an orange wall and a display case full of pamphlets\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tajanik Thompson sits in the lobby of Project Homekey housing, a former Comfort Inn, after receiving lunch. She is living at the hotel while waiting for permanent housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Project Roomkey is successful because so many people are supporting the residents,” Henson says, emphasizing that the support network that made the program successful extended far beyond Roomkey staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson, for example, found herself shuffled from one Roomkey case manager to another, feeling left in the dark about her housing prospects. Then Kai Gault, an outreach specialist for \u003ca href=\"http://homelessactioncenter.org/\">Homeless Action Center\u003c/a>, stepped in to shepherd her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Kai who’s actually been there for me, let me know things, given me updates,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Thompson couldn’t get answers from her Roomkey case manager, her anxiety would spike. It often fell to Gault to sort things out and assuage Thompson’s fears, though Gault also found it difficult to contact staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921187 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg\" alt='A Black woman wearing a black suit and glasses sits in front of a blue and red mural that reads \"Home\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai Gault, a housing navigator, sits outside of the Homeless Action Center in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My experience with Roomkey, specifically, is that some of these sites are staffed by people who aren’t proficient in helping people with disabilities — mental or physical disabilities,” Gault says. “Sometimes they don’t understand how the system truly works. I’ve had to explain how the document gathering process works, which is a pretty fundamental part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Thompson is working with Gault to get ready to move into permanent supportive housing. There’s an apartment designated for her, but it’s in a new building that’s not quite ready for her to move in yet, and Thompson is getting antsy. In the meantime, she’s moved from the Radisson to the Comfort Inn next door, a former Roomkey site now owned by the county through Project Homekey, a separate state-sponsored program that buys motels, hotels and office buildings to convert into long-term housing. But Thompson won’t be sticking around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m ready to get the hell out of here,” says Thompson, who, like other Roomkey residents, has complained about moldy walls and room doors with crowbar marks from forced entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gault expects Thompson will be moving into her apartment this month.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101883846,news_11910405\"]“There are people getting housed. They are getting off the streets and that’s amazing, that’s very needed,” Gault says. “The devil’s in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think overall, we did a really phenomenal job in housing as many people as we did,” says Vince Russo, who manages the Radisson for \u003ca href=\"https://www.abodeservices.org/\">Abode Services\u003c/a>, a housing nonprofit that’s run Roomkey sites around the Bay Area. “Could some of us use more empathy in working with others? Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo says staff turnover has been a challenge. People who weren’t performing were fired; others quit. A single case manager could be working with as many as 50 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of mid-July, there were still about 60 people living at the Radisson, and it’s up to Russo and his team to place them in a new home. Some residents will likely end up back on the street if they refuse what is offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really going to be their choice,” Russo says. “If we say, ‘Look, these are the only two choices we have … where do you want to be? Do you want to go back to the street?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impossible choices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Currently, one in five people who’ve participated in Project Roomkey in Alameda County are either back on the streets or in a shelter, according to county data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Michael Dailey and his family, who ended up at the Radisson this spring after getting bumped from one Roomkey hotel to another. They were given choices, but it wasn’t that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They offered us three different places to live, all in East Oakland, really far away from our kids’ school,” Dailey says.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brigitte Nicoletti, attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center\"]‘It shouldn’t be on this mother-of-three to badger her case manager to find her housing.’[/pullquote]Dailey and his wife, Danielle Desjardins, have two of their three kids enrolled in elementary school in Berkeley. Commuting from the Radisson in East Oakland, especially with high gas prices, made getting the kids to school a daily struggle. They knew living out there wouldn’t be sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t get them there,” Desjardins says. “We couldn’t get them to school and it made me feel like a really shitty mother that I couldn’t do a better job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told the Radisson staff they were desperate to live closer to the school. But they felt trapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kept saying, ‘Can we just leave? Can we still get housing assistance if we go somewhere else?’” Desjardins says. “And they would tell us that we would be on our own and we wouldn’t get housing help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921213 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a makeshift sign that says 'community' above a homeless encampment\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community garden grows outside a homeless encampment in Oakland. According to county data, one in five people who have participated in Project Roomkey in Alameda County are either in a shelter or back on the streets. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After almost two years bouncing between Roomkey sites in the East Bay, the family finally managed to get a Section 8 voucher for Berkeley with the help of a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that it’s taken them this long is really shocking,” says Brigitte Nicoletti, a lawyer with the East Bay Community Law Center who’s representing the family. “It shouldn’t be on this mother-of-three to badger her case manager to find her housing. It should be the other way around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the family could find an apartment, they say they got kicked out of the Radisson. They’d been trying to build a tiny home in Berkeley and hadn’t been spending enough time at the hotel to keep their spot. The family stayed in their car, in their storage unit, and with Dailey’s mom in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also don’t mind camping,” their seven-year-old daughter, Esme, pipes up. “Set up in a nice park, park our car outside and just camp. It doesn’t matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least you get to school on time every day, right?” Desjardins responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Section 8 voucher doesn’t guarantee that they’ll find a place with a landlord who’ll embrace their family of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a scary time of changes and uncertainty,” Desjardins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated to reflect that the Radisson closed at the end of July.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As Horace Cage tells it, the formula that got him off the streets is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I changed all my nouns,” he says, referring to his social circle. “The people I hang around, the places I go, the things I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it took him a long time. The 55-year-old Oakland native spent a little over two decades homeless or behind bars. He couch surfed and lived in his car. He settled into a tiny home encampment, then a safe RV parking site. That’s where he heard about Project Roomkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was skeptical. The offer sounded a little too good to be true — his own motel room, free meals and permanent housing placement within three months — but he was trying to clean up. He says he’d stopped using meth after an accidental fentanyl overdose almost killed him late last year, so he took a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921176 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black man in a white shirt makes pancakes, standing at the stove in his apartment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57377_002_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horace Cage makes pancakes at his home in Oakland. Cage was formerly unhoused and through Project Roomkey lived in a Radisson hotel before being placed in an apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He got his room at the Radisson, near the Oakland airport, in mid-February. The first thing he did was get in the shower. After relying on porta-potties and a twice weekly visit from a mobile shower truck at the RV site, having a private bathroom was a small miracle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t missed a day of showering since I started,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cage joined the more than 50,000 people Project Roomkey has served across the state since April 2020, when California leaders took the unprecedented step of making motels available for use as homeless shelters early in the pandemic. Now, with funding drying up, the last remaining sites are preparing to close. That means finding a new place to live for some 6,000 people statewide who still call the motels home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Radisson was Alameda County’s last Roomkey site, closing just last week, and Cage was among the last wave of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his time there, Cage worked with Roomkey staff to line up all the necessary documents and applications needed to get a Section 8 voucher. By late June, he had an apartment in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sunny one-bedroom. His dog, Little Girl, happily gnaws a bone on one of Cage’s new rugs while he works on assembling his bed — “the meat and potatoes of the apartment,” as he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921214 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white shirt and blue shorts stands in the kitchen, petting a big black dog\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57381_008_KQED_ProjectRoomkeyHoraceCage_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horace Cage pets his dog at his home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his first night in the apartment he couldn’t sleep, overwhelmed by the change. In the unfamiliar quiet, his mind reeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You reflect on things you really didn’t want to deal with, like pains that come from things you’ve done, things you want to do, things you should have done,” says Cage, who has been too ashamed to see his three children for years. “It all takes a toll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the place has him hopeful, too. One of the first things he tacked on the wall is a Christmas stocking that had been rolling around his RV for years, waiting for a grandkid to claim its contents. Cage, who was once married, had a job as a machine operator and owned a house, is thinking about having family over for the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transforming the system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Living on his own, with help paying rent and bills, Cage is considered a Project Roomkey success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcomes have just been phenomenally high in terms of getting people placed into permanent housing and not seeing people exit back to the street,” says Kerry Abbott, director of the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/\">Office of Homeless Care and Coordination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Almost two-thirds of the 2,100 people who’ve left Project Roomkey in Alameda County have gone on to permanent housing, compared to less than 30% of those coming out of emergency shelters. Abbott credits the privacy of the hotels and housing resources available at the sites for enticing more people to leave the streets in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes with a hefty price tag. According to a county report, Roomkey costs about $260 a night per person, while congregate shelters cost around $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, the program hasn’t seen the same level of success. As of February, 22% of Roomkey participants left for permanent housing, while 15% returned to the streets and 18% to unknown destinations. Another 35% exited to temporary housing or congregate shelter, while 10% have moved to institutions or other destinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Roomkey sunsets, Abbott says her office is carrying the program’s lessons forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has permanently changed our outlook on shelter,” she says, explaining the county is looking to boost its non-congregate shelter capacity. “We’re transforming our system rather than letting this really important intervention go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The devil is in the details’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Tajanik Thompson, the prospect of a private room and bathroom sold her on Project Roomkey. Now 31, Thompson had preferred the streets to shelters since she was a teenager, choosing tents or cars over sleeping in a dorm with strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Cage, Thompson says she was working to improve her situation when the Project Roomkey offer came up. She’d stopped doing sex work, but getting clean and addressing her mental health concerns on the streets wasn’t easy “because of my environment,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in West Oakland,” she says, “and there’s nothing but drugs around there everywhere, just surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921167 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling Black woman with bright red braids stands against a window and the yellow wall of a hotel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57481_005_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tajanik Thompson stands outside of a former Comfort Inn that has been converted to supportive housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thompson, who grew up in Oakland, was kidnapped as an adolescent and forced into sex work, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-police-seek-missing-girl-2633097.php\">news reports\u003c/a>. She’d lived on the streets since then, and says she’s been assaulted numerous times. Between worrying about her safety and staying warm and fed, there wasn’t a lot of energy for meeting with counselors, tracking down documents and all the other steps required to line up housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the hotels did is it gave stability to a population that otherwise doesn’t have it,” says Andrea Henson, an attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a> and longtime advocate for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says she got to be alone at the Radisson. She made a schedule for the first time in her life. She enrolled in a GED program, and started working with a therapist and a housing navigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to think, period,” she says. “I had peace of mind. I was able to get away from everything and everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921186 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black woman with bright red braids eats takeout lunch at a table in a motel lobby in front of an orange wall and a display case full of pamphlets\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57489_009_KQED_TajanikThompsonProjectRoomkey_07292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tajanik Thompson sits in the lobby of Project Homekey housing, a former Comfort Inn, after receiving lunch. She is living at the hotel while waiting for permanent housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Project Roomkey is successful because so many people are supporting the residents,” Henson says, emphasizing that the support network that made the program successful extended far beyond Roomkey staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson, for example, found herself shuffled from one Roomkey case manager to another, feeling left in the dark about her housing prospects. Then Kai Gault, an outreach specialist for \u003ca href=\"http://homelessactioncenter.org/\">Homeless Action Center\u003c/a>, stepped in to shepherd her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Kai who’s actually been there for me, let me know things, given me updates,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Thompson couldn’t get answers from her Roomkey case manager, her anxiety would spike. It often fell to Gault to sort things out and assuage Thompson’s fears, though Gault also found it difficult to contact staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921187 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg\" alt='A Black woman wearing a black suit and glasses sits in front of a blue and red mural that reads \"Home\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57398_004_KQED_KaiGaultHousingNavigator_07262022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai Gault, a housing navigator, sits outside of the Homeless Action Center in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My experience with Roomkey, specifically, is that some of these sites are staffed by people who aren’t proficient in helping people with disabilities — mental or physical disabilities,” Gault says. “Sometimes they don’t understand how the system truly works. I’ve had to explain how the document gathering process works, which is a pretty fundamental part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Thompson is working with Gault to get ready to move into permanent supportive housing. There’s an apartment designated for her, but it’s in a new building that’s not quite ready for her to move in yet, and Thompson is getting antsy. In the meantime, she’s moved from the Radisson to the Comfort Inn next door, a former Roomkey site now owned by the county through Project Homekey, a separate state-sponsored program that buys motels, hotels and office buildings to convert into long-term housing. But Thompson won’t be sticking around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m ready to get the hell out of here,” says Thompson, who, like other Roomkey residents, has complained about moldy walls and room doors with crowbar marks from forced entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gault expects Thompson will be moving into her apartment this month.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There are people getting housed. They are getting off the streets and that’s amazing, that’s very needed,” Gault says. “The devil’s in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think overall, we did a really phenomenal job in housing as many people as we did,” says Vince Russo, who manages the Radisson for \u003ca href=\"https://www.abodeservices.org/\">Abode Services\u003c/a>, a housing nonprofit that’s run Roomkey sites around the Bay Area. “Could some of us use more empathy in working with others? Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo says staff turnover has been a challenge. People who weren’t performing were fired; others quit. A single case manager could be working with as many as 50 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of mid-July, there were still about 60 people living at the Radisson, and it’s up to Russo and his team to place them in a new home. Some residents will likely end up back on the street if they refuse what is offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really going to be their choice,” Russo says. “If we say, ‘Look, these are the only two choices we have … where do you want to be? Do you want to go back to the street?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impossible choices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Currently, one in five people who’ve participated in Project Roomkey in Alameda County are either back on the streets or in a shelter, according to county data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Michael Dailey and his family, who ended up at the Radisson this spring after getting bumped from one Roomkey hotel to another. They were given choices, but it wasn’t that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They offered us three different places to live, all in East Oakland, really far away from our kids’ school,” Dailey says.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dailey and his wife, Danielle Desjardins, have two of their three kids enrolled in elementary school in Berkeley. Commuting from the Radisson in East Oakland, especially with high gas prices, made getting the kids to school a daily struggle. They knew living out there wouldn’t be sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t get them there,” Desjardins says. “We couldn’t get them to school and it made me feel like a really shitty mother that I couldn’t do a better job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told the Radisson staff they were desperate to live closer to the school. But they felt trapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kept saying, ‘Can we just leave? Can we still get housing assistance if we go somewhere else?’” Desjardins says. “And they would tell us that we would be on our own and we wouldn’t get housing help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921213 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a makeshift sign that says 'community' above a homeless encampment\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1199285776-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community garden grows outside a homeless encampment in Oakland. According to county data, one in five people who have participated in Project Roomkey in Alameda County are either in a shelter or back on the streets. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After almost two years bouncing between Roomkey sites in the East Bay, the family finally managed to get a Section 8 voucher for Berkeley with the help of a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that it’s taken them this long is really shocking,” says Brigitte Nicoletti, a lawyer with the East Bay Community Law Center who’s representing the family. “It shouldn’t be on this mother-of-three to badger her case manager to find her housing. It should be the other way around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the family could find an apartment, they say they got kicked out of the Radisson. They’d been trying to build a tiny home in Berkeley and hadn’t been spending enough time at the hotel to keep their spot. The family stayed in their car, in their storage unit, and with Dailey’s mom in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also don’t mind camping,” their seven-year-old daughter, Esme, pipes up. “Set up in a nice park, park our car outside and just camp. It doesn’t matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least you get to school on time every day, right?” Desjardins responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Section 8 voucher doesn’t guarantee that they’ll find a place with a landlord who’ll embrace their family of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a scary time of changes and uncertainty,” Desjardins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Residents at Oakland’s largest encampment of unhoused people got a reprieve Tuesday after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order, blocking a state agency from evicting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans had planned on Wednesday to remove many of the estimated 200 people who live at the sprawling Wood Street encampment, which stretches from north of 34th Street to 18th Street underneath the I-880 freeway, between Wood Street and the BNSF and Union Pacific railroad tracks in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land is partially owned by Caltrans while the city of Oakland, BNSF and private owners control other parcels that residents currently occupy.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sasha Huckaby, Wood Street encampment resident\"]‘Here, I help out with legal stuff, or with food stamps or help someone get Narcan. So many different things. It’s like I have a reason to continue.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his order, District Judge William Orrick cited the tight timeline that Wood Street residents were given as grounds to issue the order without delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the abrupt timeline on which notice appears to have been given to the plaintiffs and the imminence of the closure, this temporary restraining order (TRO) will issue without notice,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans crews have been working since May 2021 to clean up parts of its land, according to Caltrans spokesperson Janis Mara. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/caltrans-to-shut-down-sprawling-oakland-encampment-where-fire-started-monday/\">the agency announced July 15\u003c/a> that it would begin closing the rest of the encampment on July 20, with work expected to last until the first week of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people living at Wood Street said on Tuesday that there wasn’t adequate time to remove their belongings from the area, and that they planned to fight the eviction, restraining order or no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11919957\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman works in a garden in an encampment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Huckaby, 28, pulls weeds from a garden at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re planning on staying here,” said Sasha Huckaby, 28, who lives within the Wood Street encampment at one of the structures built by residents and a local nonprofit, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/30/homeless-oaklanders-bring-hot-showers-medical-care-and-a-pizza-oven-to-their-encampment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/30/homeless-oaklanders-bring-hot-showers-medical-care-and-a-pizza-oven-to-their-encampment/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Cob on Wood\u003c/a>. The small cabins were built in late 2020 and early 2021 out of a mixture of earth, sand, straw and recycled materials. “We’re planning on refusing to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huckaby moved into Wood Street in 2016, when life at the encampment was a lot more chaotic, she said. But, as she began to build friendships with her neighbors, she found a larger purpose for her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me get some sort of responsibility, compared to just being out there, just randomly doing what I want to do,” she said. “Here, I help out with legal stuff, or with food stamps or help someone get Narcan. So many different things. It’s like I have a reason to continue.”[aside postID=\"news_11906661,news_11894774\" label=\"Related Posts\"]She has no idea where she will go if Caltrans is successful in evicting her. It was a sentiment shared by many of the residents living at Wood Street. Caltrans officials said the agency has been coordinating with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to provide residents access to shelter beds, but many residents said they have never received offers for alternative shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t offer us anything at all,” said Jessica Huffman, 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman lives on BNSF land near an unused railroad trestle. She lost the vehicle where she had been living for the past three years in a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/07/11/west-oakland-fire-spews-smoke-over-the-east-bay-wood-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fire that broke out on July 11\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans officials cited the fire as a reason to accelerate its plans to remove the residents and their belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The department is taking this action to address the increasingly serious safety risks to life, property and infrastructure at the encampment,” Caltrans officials said in the July 15 statement, “including from the fire [on July 11] that prompted the closure of the MacArthur Maze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11919960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign says, 'Housing is a Human Right' at an encampment under a highway overpass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cob on Wood garden at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Caltrans crews were out, removing cars and other debris and placing notices on RVs, trailers, shipping containers and other structures, warning of imminent removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant organizer Delphine Brody, who has been working with Wood Street residents for the past 18 months, said the timing was difficult for many residents — not only because of the abrupt notice given, but also because of surging COVID infections among camp residents and organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Caltrans and the [California Highway Patrol] to choose this time is unthinkable,” Brody said. “We’re seeing what looks like the beginning of a surge now with the BA.5 subvariant, which seems to be affecting residents here as well. … We have residents who are falling ill with symptoms of COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the residents said they had no idea where to go, but that it would likely be to disperse to other encampments on public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to play whack-a-mole,” said Wood Street resident Theo Cedar Jones, 59. “They squeeze us out of one area, we squeeze into another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57337_023_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11919959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57337_023_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands in a container looking at pieces of metal.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57337_023_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57337_023_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57337_023_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57337_023_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57337_023_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Choyce, 44, sorts metal to sell at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/02/24/governor-newsom-awards-50-million-to-local-communities-to-tackle-encampments/\">Oakland received $4.7 million\u003c/a> from the state’s Encampment Resolution Funding Program, specifically to clear its portion of the Wood Street encampment, said Karen Boyd, a spokesperson for the city. It’s already begun its cleanup of the land it owns at West Grand and 26th Street in preparation for a housing development for up to 100 formerly unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To move that project, the city must clear this street while continuing conversations with this community on the design of the program,” Boyd said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wood Street resident Matthew Schatzinger, 45, isn’t optimistic he’ll be able to live in whatever new housing is being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The consideration is not for the people that are here now,” Schatzinger said. “It’s for people in the future who might want housing. … And we are not those people. We’re being displaced for a solution that’s not for us.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"left\" citation=\"Matthew Schatzinger, Wood Street encampment resident\"]‘We’re being displaced for a solution that’s not for us.’[/pullquote]Outreach teams had reached out to at least a dozen people on Oakland’s portion of the site. Six accepted offers of shelter, Boyd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hearing on the temporary restraining order is scheduled for Friday, July 22, at 10 a.m. The judge will decide whether to keep the order in place or allow Caltrans to move forward with its plans to remove residents from the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order allows Caltrans to remove debris, as long as it’s not related to the planned closure of the encampment. Caltrans spokesperson Mara said crews will continue work there but the encampment closure will not move forward, for now.\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>In his order, District Judge William Orrick cited the tight timeline that Wood Street residents were given as grounds to issue the order without delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the abrupt timeline on which notice appears to have been given to the plaintiffs and the imminence of the closure, this temporary restraining order (TRO) will issue without notice,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans crews have been working since May 2021 to clean up parts of its land, according to Caltrans spokesperson Janis Mara. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/caltrans-to-shut-down-sprawling-oakland-encampment-where-fire-started-monday/\">the agency announced July 15\u003c/a> that it would begin closing the rest of the encampment on July 20, with work expected to last until the first week of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people living at Wood Street said on Tuesday that there wasn’t adequate time to remove their belongings from the area, and that they planned to fight the eviction, restraining order or no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11919957\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman works in a garden in an encampment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57334_015_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Huckaby, 28, pulls weeds from a garden at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re planning on staying here,” said Sasha Huckaby, 28, who lives within the Wood Street encampment at one of the structures built by residents and a local nonprofit, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/30/homeless-oaklanders-bring-hot-showers-medical-care-and-a-pizza-oven-to-their-encampment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/30/homeless-oaklanders-bring-hot-showers-medical-care-and-a-pizza-oven-to-their-encampment/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Cob on Wood\u003c/a>. The small cabins were built in late 2020 and early 2021 out of a mixture of earth, sand, straw and recycled materials. “We’re planning on refusing to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huckaby moved into Wood Street in 2016, when life at the encampment was a lot more chaotic, she said. But, as she began to build friendships with her neighbors, she found a larger purpose for her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me get some sort of responsibility, compared to just being out there, just randomly doing what I want to do,” she said. “Here, I help out with legal stuff, or with food stamps or help someone get Narcan. So many different things. It’s like I have a reason to continue.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She has no idea where she will go if Caltrans is successful in evicting her. It was a sentiment shared by many of the residents living at Wood Street. Caltrans officials said the agency has been coordinating with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to provide residents access to shelter beds, but many residents said they have never received offers for alternative shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t offer us anything at all,” said Jessica Huffman, 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman lives on BNSF land near an unused railroad trestle. She lost the vehicle where she had been living for the past three years in a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/07/11/west-oakland-fire-spews-smoke-over-the-east-bay-wood-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fire that broke out on July 11\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans officials cited the fire as a reason to accelerate its plans to remove the residents and their belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The department is taking this action to address the increasingly serious safety risks to life, property and infrastructure at the encampment,” Caltrans officials said in the July 15 statement, “including from the fire [on July 11] that prompted the closure of the MacArthur Maze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11919960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign says, 'Housing is a Human Right' at an encampment under a highway overpass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cob on Wood garden at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Caltrans crews were out, removing cars and other debris and placing notices on RVs, trailers, shipping containers and other structures, warning of imminent removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant organizer Delphine Brody, who has been working with Wood Street residents for the past 18 months, said the timing was difficult for many residents — not only because of the abrupt notice given, but also because of surging COVID infections among camp residents and organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Caltrans and the [California Highway Patrol] to choose this time is unthinkable,” Brody said. “We’re seeing what looks like the beginning of a surge now with the BA.5 subvariant, which seems to be affecting residents here as well. … We have residents who are falling ill with symptoms of 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliana McNeil greeted reporters in what’s known as the living room, a tranquil space with yellow walls where people use computers, read books and unwind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was there as a kind of ambassador for the visitors who come in regularly, and had glowing reviews of her experience at the Tenderloin Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNeil said she had been sleeping on the streets in Oakland before she arrived at the site. She said staff helped her find housing, mental health support and mentors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Places like this need to exist in other counties because when you’re homeless, you feel like you have nothing,” she said. “They got me not only a hot meal, they gave me a hygiene kit, clothes. They basically linked me back up to where I’m building myself again, my trust with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 978px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_1160-1020x765-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"978\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_1160-1020x765-1.jpg 978w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_1160-1020x765-1-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_1160-1020x765-1-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juliana McNeil told members of the media she lived on the streets of Oakland before finding support at the Tenderloin Center. \u003ccite>(Holly McDede/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Donna Hilliard, executive director of Code Tenderloin, took reporters to the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we tell people is, ‘Welcome to grandmother’s backyard,'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed toward a mobile shower and laundry station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can come in smelling like pee, but guess what, we have a shower, and we’re going to give it with care,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilliard nodded toward the game area and where guests can get coffee, and gray-and-blue reclining chairs arranged in a circle where people wait for services or nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then reporters were escorted to what staff called “the overdose prevention area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area is pretty basic. Plastic tables and chairs are set up for people to use drugs with relative privacy, while staff are nearby to reverse overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people we don’t see in treatment, people who leave treatment and have reoccurrence of drug use. And for those people, we believe we have an obligation to care for them so they don’t die of a drug overdose,” said Vitka Eisen, president and CEO of HealthRIGHT 360, a nonprofit health provider that offers harm-reduction services at the Tenderloin Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 907px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_1178-1020x765-1.jpg\" alt=\"plastic chairs sit empty outside under a large tent awning\" width=\"907\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_1178-1020x765-1.jpg 907w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_1178-1020x765-1-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_1178-1020x765-1-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 907px) 100vw, 907px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a typical day, in this outdoor lounge area at the Tenderloin Center, guests wait for services. Vitka Eisen with HealthRIGHT 360 said staff have reversed overdoses at this spot and that naloxone is readily available when needed. \u003ccite>(Holly McDede/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Naloxone, the drug used to reverse overdoses, and clean needles are at the ready. No one has fatally overdosed at the Tenderloin Center, and staff have reversed over 90 overdoses since the site opened in January, according to data from the San Francisco Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisen disagreed that the site is a safe consumption site, however, and preferred to call it an overdose prevention site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safe consumption sites are typically indoors. They have nursing staff, a medical model, and this is outdoors in a tent,” she said. “It’s rugged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a cold day in March, Shahada Hull admitted herself to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had been sleeping outside in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood for months, ever since she was evicted in December from the affordable studio apartment she’d rented near the Presidio. Her feet felt numb, her back sore from the concrete sidewalk.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shahada Hull, San Francisco resident\"]‘Wanting to force people that are homeless and on drugs into treatment and to housing, that’s just forcing. That’s still not giving them a chance to talk.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a while, I was like, look, I’m going to 5150 myself,” Hull said, referring to the civic code to place someone on an emergency, 72-hour psychiatric hold. Hull has been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, PTSD and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on that particular day, it wasn’t the intrusive thoughts that sometimes cloud her mind that brought her to Sutter Health’s Street Care Center. She was just looking to get off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was praying, like, please just let them help me today,” Hull said. “Please let there be resources open today, just anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she spent a week in the psychiatric ward, the on-site social worker produced a sheet of paper. On it was a list of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were going to take me back out into the streets because they felt that I didn’t need any further help,” Hull said. She was upset. “Like, really? You can clearly see that I’m not really in the right state of mind right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914876\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Shahada-Hull_selfie-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914876 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Shahada-Hull_selfie-1-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black woman with long Black hair, tossed over her right shoulder, smiles at the camera. She has sculpted eyebrows and wears a red or pink sleeveless top. The image has a filter on it so that her skin and the wall behind her appear yellow.\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Shahada-Hull_selfie-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Shahada-Hull_selfie-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shahada Hull, 30, poses for a portrait in this undated photo. She has a dual diagnosis of substance use disorder and mental illness and might qualify for court-ordered treatment under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court proposal, which is currently making its way through the Legislature. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shahada Hull)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout her life, Hull, 30, has had around 160 mental health episodes, documented in a thick case file. At 13 months old, the San Francisco resident was placed in foster care. And she’s been in “the system” ever since — cycling in and out of affordable housing placements, the courts and county behavioral health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, she’s the archetypal candidate for CARE Court, part of a sweeping new proposal to address mental health care in California. The state Senate voted Wednesday to approve the legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 1338\u003c/a>. It now heads to the Assembly for a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled CARE Court in March, he said it’s designed to help people like Hull, who move between emergency psychiatric treatment and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This approach with the courts allows … a pathway to actually develop a strategy and a plan with oversight and accountability, with housing supports, that are a component of this, to achieve some more permanency and success as opposed to episodic experiences through the 5150,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the governor’s Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment Court, Hull would be able to enter into a civil process with a judge to oversee her mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d have a public defender and a supporter to help her make decisions about what sorts of treatment programs she would like, with a care plan lasting up to two years. In turn, the county behavioral health department would be compelled to provide her with treatment or face fines if they do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, the program would enable Hull to reach her goals, all the things she had wanted to achieve by the time she turned 30: her GED, a job, stable housing, a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hull is skeptical the program really would help. She sat at a café in San Francisco’s Civic Center on a recent afternoon and looked toward City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wanting to force people that are homeless and on drugs into treatment and to housing, that’s just forcing,” she said. “That’s still not giving them a chance to talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and officials in his administration say the treatment is voluntary. But the legislation also comes with a threat: Continued refusal to participate in CARE Court could be used as justification for conservatorship, where people could be forced into care against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has provoked harsh criticism from civil rights advocates who say compelling people into care is not only less effective, it undermines the kind of trust-building needed to actually bring people into treatment successfully.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Le Ondra Clark Harvey, CEO, California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies\"]‘We need to be able to have dependable, well-trained workers within this CARE Court system to make it successful.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to just undercut a lot of the principles of disability rights, the right to self-determination, the need for services to accommodate people with disabilities,” said Lili Graham, a lawyer with Disability Rights California. “And there is this coercive component to it because it’s under the court’s mandate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hull is also optimistic. If there’s a chance that CARE Court could help, she’d welcome the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes there’s a lot of things that you don’t like and you have to do it,” Hull said. “So, yeah, if it’s a chance for somebody to be housed and get their word out, I’m all for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration poured $12 billion into homelessness and mental health programs last year — with another $2 billion proposed this year. But the state still faces serious shortages in behavioral health care workers, treatment programs and housing. And Hull’s most recent experience seeking help illustrates the hurdles CARE Court will have to clear to ensure that Hull, and others with a similar experience, can break the cycle of homelessness and succeed in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A slow process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Hull realized the hospital staff were going to discharge her to the streets, she called her godfather in a panic. He called the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how Hull first met Christin Evans, who owns the Booksmith, an independent bookstore in San Francisco, and also volunteers with the coalition. Evans stepped in as an advocate to help Hull find someplace to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hull has a paid social worker, appointed by the city. But with a heavy caseload, Evans said, the city social worker isn’t always able to give Hull as much time as she needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, the behavioral health care industry faces a worker shortage, and it’s expected to grow. A 2018 University of California San Francisco study found that \u003ca href=\"https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/sites/healthforce.ucsf.edu/files/publication-pdf/California%E2%80%99s%20Current%20and%20Future%20Behavioral%20Health%20Workforce.pdf\">by 2028, California will have 50% fewer psychiatrists and 28% fewer psychologists, licensed therapists and social workers than needed\u003c/a>, due to retirement and attrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic only exacerbated that shortage, said Dr. Le Ondra Clark Harvey, CEO of the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies. And Newsom’s administration estimates that 7,000 to 12,000 people will qualify for CARE Court each year, adding to that caseload. All of these people will be, by definition, high-needs cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the system currently stands, we’re already struggling,” Harvey said. “We need to be able to have dependable, well-trained workers within this CARE Court system to make it successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Evans volunteering support, Hull said she would have been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be downtown, going to see case manager after case manager, praying that there’s an opening somewhere, praying that I’ll be safe, sleeping in doorways,” Hull said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans was able to spring into action. She started by convincing the hospital to keep Hull for a few more days — days that Evans spent trying to find housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She couldn’t place Hull at an emergency shelter in the Tenderloin, where Hull knew the heroin dealers. Sober for a week, Hull didn’t want to be tempted to use again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The options for her for emergency shelter were really limited,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found a substance use treatment program that agreed to do an intake assessment, but not right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the hospital did discharge Hull, who was able to stay with her godparents over the weekend. That wasn’t a long-term option, though, because they only let Hull stay with them when she’s sober and getting into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time for the program to do the intake assessment, however, the staff determined Hull needed more care than they could provide. She wouldn’t be getting a bed there. So, Evans started over, searching for a place that could provide both substance use and mental health treatment for Hull’s dual diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started cold-calling, basically,” Evans said. “We were informed that there really weren’t dual-diagnosis beds readily available that she could go into that night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get into dual-diagnosis programs, Hull needed to fill out a five-page application, get a TB test and get a referral from a primary care physician, all of which took several days. Hull spent those nights with her godparents and at an overnight urgent care facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, she got into The Avenues Transitional Care Center. But it was only temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had to wait another couple weeks until a bed opened at Baker Places Inc., which operates a 90-day treatment program in San Francisco. The whole process took about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really do believe that in her case, she’s not service-resistant,” Evans said. “The system is resistant to serving her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914879 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of six people, all presenting as white or Asian, hold a long, white, lit candle in one hand and what seems to be a paper program in the other. Some look down at the program, and others look up at a focal point beyond and to the left of the camera. Behind them is the south half of the facade of San Francisco City Hall (facing what would be the plaza), the rotunda lit up in red, and the wall beneath it lighted in alternating columns of red and green. The sky, which takes up most of the top half of the photo, is a deep blue, as after sunset.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners gather in Civic Center Plaza to commemorate unhoused people who died in San Francisco, on Dec. 18, 2014. Supporters of CARE Court say it’s about preventing deaths for people who are living on the street with untreated mental illness. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1824-1-v2.html\">a shortfall of nearly 5,000 psychiatric beds\u003c/a> for short- and medium-term care, according to the RAND Institute, as well as nearly 3,000 long-term care beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Public-Community-Behavioral-Health-Funding-4.20.22.pdf\">state budget included $2.2 billion to create or acquire residential treatment facilities\u003c/a>, including board and care homes for people with mental health issues. This year’s proposed budget includes another $1.5 billion for short-term housing for people exiting homelessness and entering behavioral health treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, said all those facilities will need ongoing funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are buildings. They’re not the people to work in the buildings,” Cabrera said. “We still have not expanded funding at the state level to support the expanded services that would be needed to go along with those buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2022-23MR/#/Home\">The governor’s proposed budget includes $65 million to implement CARE Court\u003c/a>, including $39 million to facilitate proceedings in county courts, $10 million to finance a supporter program through the state’s Department of Aging and $15 million to provide county governments with training and technical assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t specify any additional funds to increase services for new CARE Court enrollees. But it does include \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Public-Community-Behavioral-Health-Funding-4.20.22.pdf\">a projected $11.6 billion for county behavioral health departments\u003c/a>, which are charged with providing services to people on Medi-Cal. That would be a nearly 50% increase from the prior year’s budget, if actual revenues match the projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said in an interview it’s about prioritization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our focus [is] on prioritizing this population,” Ghaly said, “not just making sure that they are no longer out of the line, but that they are towards the front of the line and getting these services in a prioritized way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing shortage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hull isn’t sure where she will go when her treatment program ends in early July. Evans is worried that all the work done to get Hull sober and stabilized will be undone if she goes back to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shortage of affordable housing remains a huge problem in California, particularly for people who often need on-site services to help them remain stably housed. Nearly 14,000 people experiencing homelessness voluntarily sought mental health services last year, but only half were placed into housing, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the other half, there simply weren’t enough affordable options that could accommodate people with complex behavioral health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve sort of been casualties of the hot housing market in California,” Cabrera said, noting the state has lost many residential treatment facilities in recent years. “We have very limited resources ourselves to support our clients’ housing needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An early draft of the CARE Court legislation didn’t guarantee housing as part of the plan. But recent amendments to the bill now require county staff to identify an available housing placement for CARE Court enrollees. And courts could order other government agencies to provide that housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hull tries not to think about what will happen to her in July, “because I don’t want to get into a depression,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’ll be 31 in September, and she’s still a long way from her goals. Sitting at the café in San Francisco’s Civic Center, she said she knows that, ultimately, getting there is up to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the government has this and they have that,” she said. “It’s really up to you to fight for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She turned her face toward the gilded dome on top of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the fight shouldn’t be this hard,” she said.\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>“After a while, I was like, look, I’m going to 5150 myself,” Hull said, referring to the civic code to place someone on an emergency, 72-hour psychiatric hold. Hull has been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, PTSD and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on that particular day, it wasn’t the intrusive thoughts that sometimes cloud her mind that brought her to Sutter Health’s Street Care Center. She was just looking to get off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was praying, like, please just let them help me today,” Hull said. “Please let there be resources open today, just anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she spent a week in the psychiatric ward, the on-site social worker produced a sheet of paper. On it was a list of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were going to take me back out into the streets because they felt that I didn’t need any further help,” Hull said. She was upset. “Like, really? 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The image has a filter on it so that her skin and the wall behind her appear yellow.\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Shahada-Hull_selfie-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Shahada-Hull_selfie-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shahada Hull, 30, poses for a portrait in this undated photo. She has a dual diagnosis of substance use disorder and mental illness and might qualify for court-ordered treatment under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court proposal, which is currently making its way through the Legislature. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shahada Hull)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout her life, Hull, 30, has had around 160 mental health episodes, documented in a thick case file. At 13 months old, the San Francisco resident was placed in foster care. And she’s been in “the system” ever since — cycling in and out of affordable housing placements, the courts and county behavioral health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, she’s the archetypal candidate for CARE Court, part of a sweeping new proposal to address mental health care in California. The state Senate voted Wednesday to approve the legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 1338\u003c/a>. It now heads to the Assembly for a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to just undercut a lot of the principles of disability rights, the right to self-determination, the need for services to accommodate people with disabilities,” said Lili Graham, a lawyer with Disability Rights California. “And there is this coercive component to it because it’s under the court’s mandate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hull is also optimistic. If there’s a chance that CARE Court could help, she’d welcome the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes there’s a lot of things that you don’t like and you have to do it,” Hull said. “So, yeah, if it’s a chance for somebody to be housed and get their word out, I’m all for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration poured $12 billion into homelessness and mental health programs last year — with another $2 billion proposed this year. But the state still faces serious shortages in behavioral health care workers, treatment programs and housing. And Hull’s most recent experience seeking help illustrates the hurdles CARE Court will have to clear to ensure that Hull, and others with a similar experience, can break the cycle of homelessness and succeed in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A slow process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Hull realized the hospital staff were going to discharge her to the streets, she called her godfather in a panic. He called the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how Hull first met Christin Evans, who owns the Booksmith, an independent bookstore in San Francisco, and also volunteers with the coalition. Evans stepped in as an advocate to help Hull find someplace to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hull has a paid social worker, appointed by the city. But with a heavy caseload, Evans said, the city social worker isn’t always able to give Hull as much time as she needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, the behavioral health care industry faces a worker shortage, and it’s expected to grow. A 2018 University of California San Francisco study found that \u003ca href=\"https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/sites/healthforce.ucsf.edu/files/publication-pdf/California%E2%80%99s%20Current%20and%20Future%20Behavioral%20Health%20Workforce.pdf\">by 2028, California will have 50% fewer psychiatrists and 28% fewer psychologists, licensed therapists and social workers than needed\u003c/a>, due to retirement and attrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic only exacerbated that shortage, said Dr. Le Ondra Clark Harvey, CEO of the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies. And Newsom’s administration estimates that 7,000 to 12,000 people will qualify for CARE Court each year, adding to that caseload. All of these people will be, by definition, high-needs cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the system currently stands, we’re already struggling,” Harvey said. “We need to be able to have dependable, well-trained workers within this CARE Court system to make it successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Evans volunteering support, Hull said she would have been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be downtown, going to see case manager after case manager, praying that there’s an opening somewhere, praying that I’ll be safe, sleeping in doorways,” Hull said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans was able to spring into action. She started by convincing the hospital to keep Hull for a few more days — days that Evans spent trying to find housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She couldn’t place Hull at an emergency shelter in the Tenderloin, where Hull knew the heroin dealers. Sober for a week, Hull didn’t want to be tempted to use again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The options for her for emergency shelter were really limited,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found a substance use treatment program that agreed to do an intake assessment, but not right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the hospital did discharge Hull, who was able to stay with her godparents over the weekend. That wasn’t a long-term option, though, because they only let Hull stay with them when she’s sober and getting into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time for the program to do the intake assessment, however, the staff determined Hull needed more care than they could provide. She wouldn’t be getting a bed there. So, Evans started over, searching for a place that could provide both substance use and mental health treatment for Hull’s dual diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started cold-calling, basically,” Evans said. “We were informed that there really weren’t dual-diagnosis beds readily available that she could go into that night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get into dual-diagnosis programs, Hull needed to fill out a five-page application, get a TB test and get a referral from a primary care physician, all of which took several days. Hull spent those nights with her godparents and at an overnight urgent care facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, she got into The Avenues Transitional Care Center. But it was only temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had to wait another couple weeks until a bed opened at Baker Places Inc., which operates a 90-day treatment program in San Francisco. 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Behind them is the south half of the facade of San Francisco City Hall (facing what would be the plaza), the rotunda lit up in red, and the wall beneath it lighted in alternating columns of red and green. The sky, which takes up most of the top half of the photo, is a deep blue, as after sunset.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS13773_20141218_homeless_jt_001.JPG-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners gather in Civic Center Plaza to commemorate unhoused people who died in San Francisco, on Dec. 18, 2014. Supporters of CARE Court say it’s about preventing deaths for people who are living on the street with untreated mental illness. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1824-1-v2.html\">a shortfall of nearly 5,000 psychiatric beds\u003c/a> for short- and medium-term care, according to the RAND Institute, as well as nearly 3,000 long-term care beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Public-Community-Behavioral-Health-Funding-4.20.22.pdf\">state budget included $2.2 billion to create or acquire residential treatment facilities\u003c/a>, including board and care homes for people with mental health issues. This year’s proposed budget includes another $1.5 billion for short-term housing for people exiting homelessness and entering behavioral health treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, said all those facilities will need ongoing funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are buildings. 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Evans is worried that all the work done to get Hull sober and stabilized will be undone if she goes back to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shortage of affordable housing remains a huge problem in California, particularly for people who often need on-site services to help them remain stably housed. Nearly 14,000 people experiencing homelessness voluntarily sought mental health services last year, but only half were placed into housing, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the other half, there simply weren’t enough affordable options that could accommodate people with complex behavioral health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve sort of been casualties of the hot housing market in California,” Cabrera said, noting the state has lost many residential treatment facilities in recent years. “We have very limited resources ourselves to support our clients’ housing needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An early draft of the CARE Court legislation didn’t guarantee housing as part of the plan. But recent amendments to the bill now require county staff to identify an available housing placement for CARE Court enrollees. And courts could order other government agencies to provide that housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hull tries not to think about what will happen to her in July, “because I don’t want to get into a depression,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’ll be 31 in September, and she’s still a long way from her goals. Sitting at the café in San Francisco’s Civic Center, she said she knows that, ultimately, getting there is up to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the government has this and they have that,” she said. “It’s really up to you to fight for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She turned her face toward the gilded dome on top of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the fight shouldn’t be this hard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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