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At the same time, he said, like, this is not my ultimate dream for myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] What’s your dream for your own, like, spot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] Oh man, if I told you…a big house, cars, boat, motorcycle, you don’t know. No – just a regular little house, you know, I got kids so hopefully I can bring them in with me too. That’s pretty much my goal, just to get a stable job, you know, affordable housing and my kids with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:04] What is supposed to happen to folks who stay in these tiny homes? Like how long are they supposed to be living in these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:13] I think initially when this plan was envisioned in San Jose, it would be that maybe a six-month stay or thereabouts before people could move on to permanent housing, whether that’s moving into a supportive housing project, getting a rental voucher, and going and finding their own apartment, whatever the case may be, that in practice has not turned out to be a strict rule, and in many cases people do stay at these interim housing facilities for more than six months. But the goal of the program overall is to get people off of the streets so they’re not sleeping in tents or along river beds and move them towards a more permanent form of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:57] And you mentioned, Guy, that this project was sort of the last phase of this sort of broader effort by Mayor Matt Mahan to address homelessness by really focusing on interim housing. Can you remind us a little bit how different that focus on interim housing is from San approaches to homelessness in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:07:23] Yeah, that’s a great question, because when Mahan took office at the beginning of 2023, San Jose, Santa Clara, the South Bay, writ large, public officials were really focused on ending homelessness largely through spending money to build permanent affordable housing. Every year Mahan has been mayor, he’s put forward these plans where he wants to spend more and more of dedicated city homelessness dollars towards shelter. First time he proposed it was the first year he was mayor, it got rejected. He came back the next year, got more money towards shelter, and then it got to a point where last year, where the city council voted to basically spend all of this dedicated homeless money, 90% of it, towards interim housing and shelter. So. It’s gone from when he took office, 90% of this money was on affordable housing, now 90% on shelter. This is now a really robust system of more than 2,100 beds across the city. It’s been a complete turnaround in the way in which local government, and specifically in San Jose, has tried to reduce homelessness, and it has not been without controversy because we’ve seen, again and again, funding fights over whether to use city dollars towards shelter. Or whether to use it towards more permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:41] And obviously, the goal for someone like Mahan is to very quickly get people off of streets to sort of end that visible form of homelessness. So Guy, it’s been three years since Mahan took office. I mean, how’s it going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Yeah, I mean, I think when you look at the tiny home program mayhem would point to unsheltered homelessness being down 10% in San Jose since he took office and that being the North Star of success for why the shelter build out is working. That being said, it is still early and I think there are some open questions about this initiative going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] While visible forms of homelessness have gone down during Mahan’s time as mayor, experts have argued you can’t solve homelessness for good without permanent, affordable housing. It remains to be seen how many people living in these temporary shelters actually move into something more permanent. And that could all depend on whether the city can even continue paying to keep these tiny homes open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:04] This interim housing system is still not completely funded in the years to come, the operating costs. There was a budget report that came out from the city last week that found this system is about $17 million short in the coming budget year. It’s gonna need $30 million. The following year, it’s gonna need $58 million by 2029. Now, Mahan argues the city can get the cost down at these sites, they can optimize services. Or money will come from the state government or from the county government but if it doesn’t that money to keep these tiny homes operating will come from the city general fund and that’s what pays for all the rest of the basic services of the city like police, like fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:48] Yeah, that is so interesting. And I wonder what the conversations within local government have been around this. That is such a shift in the region’s approach to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] Yeah, it’s certainly not been without controversy. I think at the city level, Mahan and the city council got to a point where they had committed themselves to building out this system. Once that became the case, they were stuck looking for, okay, we need to find a way to pay for it. And this Measure E money, this money that’s raised every year through attacks on real estate transactions, that became pot they were looking for to build out this shelter system. There have been a lot of criticism of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] I think to build tiny homes and then you forget, oh, we needed to also put in some money to operate is not respecting the taxpayers and also not being true to what you’re actually providing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] And I talked to supervisor Sylvia Arenas who said she honestly felt like it was a mistake or perhaps irresponsible to build out a system without a clear way of paying for it in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:11:55] Are operating costs of interim housing, like those costs were going to outrun the revenue that we were receiving. So how on earth were we going to continue to provide the service?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:09] What Mahan has said is, well, I need to see other parts of government come in and help support these costs. I need the state to help me. I need a county government to come and help me, and county leaders have said, well wait a second, we never agreed with building out this system in the first place. I will say that there has been more collaboration between Santa Clara County and San Jose in recent months on providing services to people living in temporary housing. But there’s still no guarantee that the county is going to help pick up the tab, pick up the operating costs for these tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:12:42] It is not meant for a permanent place for folks to live. And so unless we are going to feed the pipeline and the pipeline at the end of this is more affordable housing, we’re just creating more places for people to live, not interim, but for a longer period of time. So the question is, is this really interim or is this more permanent housing for folks who are unhoused?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Yeah, it sounds like Matt Mahan is sort of celebrating the media and stuff, but it does sound like there might be some sort of long-term impacts that we have yet to see in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:27] Yeah, and I think this is, you know, experts that I’ve talked about with this, about building out shelter systems. And I heard this from Benjamin Henwood, who leads the Homelessness Policy Research Institute at USC, is that these shelter systems, once they’re built, can really be costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Benjamin Henwood \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] I think the question becomes, are we designing a shelter system to sort of permanently manage a homelessness problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:55] If you think about an affordable housing project, the people who are living there are contributing some portion of the rent, or maybe if they’re unable to, they’re having a federal voucher that’s gonna pay for some portion the rent. So the operators of those apartments are getting some kind of revenue. When you look at a shelter or a tiny home, no one is paying anything who’s staying there. So there’s really no revenue that’s coming in to support this, yet the city has committed itself. To pay these operating costs year after year after year. And so Henwood said, yeah, look, this is one of the risks of building out a shelter system like this is that you end up with these kind of ongoing escalating costs for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Benjamin Henwood \u003c/strong>[00:14:36] The issue is that we just don’t have enough housing, and so I think people have struggled with how best to address that, because I think that people want something done in the short term, but those short term solutions are not going to lead to kind of a long-term resolution of the problem. So it’s an important dilemma when you have limited resources on how you’re going use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] Well, that’s really interesting, Guy, because now you have Matt Mahan running for governor of the state of California. I mean, how does that change the way that you are looking at this program, really his signature program on homelessness in San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:15:18] Yeah, no, that’s exactly it. Like this is his signature program as mayor. Some mayors have bridges, tunnels, others have downtown arenas. Matt Mahan has tiny homes. This is going to be fascinating to watch in the context of the governor’s race, because I do think Mahan will frame much of his campaign as a story of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:15:36] I want to lead the state in a way that is less focused on partisanship and more focused on results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:15:44] Look to San Jose for a place that actually has achieved results on something that we set out to achieve. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:00:05] Thank you all for being here today in North San Jose. San Jose’s District 4…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:11] Last week, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a 200-bed, tiny home community for the city’s unhoused residents. It’s going to be the city 23rd temporary housing site, way up from the seven that were there when Mahan first took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:00:33] When I ran, I promised that we would change our approach to homelessness, that we would get more people indoors faster, that we would stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good because it was costing us lives, threatening the livelihoods of our small business owners, and worsening quality of life for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:55] Mahan turned San Jose’s approach to homelessness upside down when he shifted the city’s focus on building permanent affordable housing to quick interim shelter instead. Now, Mahan wants to be California’s governor and he’s pointing to his track record on homelessness as a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:20] I do think if you’re looking at him as a politician based on his time in San Jose, this tiny home program really is a good place to look because this has been really his signature initiative during his time at office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:33] Today, I sit down with KQED politics and government correspondent Guy Marzorati to unpack Mayor Matt Mahan’s signature homelessness program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] All right, Guy. So I understand you went to a ribbon cutting ceremony for a tiny home in San Jose yesterday. Can you tell me a little bit about this ceremony you went to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:01] Yeah, so this was the ribbon cutting for a tiny home community that opened in North San Jose at the Cerone VTA Yard. This is a dirt parcel that’s owned by the Valley Transportation Authority that they’re leasing to San Jose to build a 200-bed tiny home community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:02:23] Even though we’ve all been together at grand openings like this many times before, this site is very special. It’s also the first site I fought hard for after becoming mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] This was a notable ribbon cutting because it marked the last tiny home project in the city’s pipeline. This has been a huge initiative under the current mayor, Matt Mahan and the city council, and the opening of this tiny home community at the Cerone VTA yard was a milestone in that effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:02:59] This phase of shelter expansion may be over for now, but our fight to end unsheltered homelessness continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] The city has basically reached the end of the line as far as the new tiny homes and shelters that they can fund. Mahan has said they just don’t have enough money to continue building this system out. And he’s described it now as a time to optimize these beds that they do have in order to meet the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:27] I’m curious what these tiny homes actually looked like. Can you describe them for me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:32] Yeah, so in the case of this new facility in North San Jose, they’re basically just single rooms with a door that locks on top of what looked like large metal risers. So you can almost think of like really large shipping containers on top of these metal riser with individual rooms and then on site different facilities for laundry, communal kitchen, places for staff to work for supportive services to either connect them with medical services they might need. To try to find them housing placements in the future. There’s often also county health workers that will come visit on site as well. Sometimes they’ll also have help with any like pet needs because people are allowed to bring their pets as well, it’s a lot of those kind of like supportive services that are available on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:18] What is it actually like for folks living in one of these interim housing sites?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] You know, I think for the folks that I’ve talked to that are staying in the interim housing communities, I think it’s two things. On one hand, many of the people I talked to and including this man named Miguel Torres who lives at the Rue Ferrari interim housing complex, it’s a lot better than what they had thought of traditionally as shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Here it’s like peaceful, you get your own room. You know, for me, because I get like a little anxiety, it’s perfect for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] These you know images of congregate shelter where people in large facilities and bunk beds and there’s no privacy and there are often cases of abuse or crime. This is something very different. This offers a level of privacy and as Miguel described it just like a way to kind of breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] I don’t have to worry about being in the street or anything. So I’m focusing on a career, on a job, trying to just move forward, you know, be independent and get my own spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:21] He’d only moved in a little while ago, but he already had it decked out with, you know, 49er blankets everywhere and he had his speaker system set up. He was able to make the place his own. At the same time, he said, like, this is not my ultimate dream for myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] What’s your dream for your own, like, spot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] Oh man, if I told you…a big house, cars, boat, motorcycle, you don’t know. No – just a regular little house, you know, I got kids so hopefully I can bring them in with me too. That’s pretty much my goal, just to get a stable job, you know, affordable housing and my kids with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:04] What is supposed to happen to folks who stay in these tiny homes? Like how long are they supposed to be living in these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:13] I think initially when this plan was envisioned in San Jose, it would be that maybe a six-month stay or thereabouts before people could move on to permanent housing, whether that’s moving into a supportive housing project, getting a rental voucher, and going and finding their own apartment, whatever the case may be, that in practice has not turned out to be a strict rule, and in many cases people do stay at these interim housing facilities for more than six months. But the goal of the program overall is to get people off of the streets so they’re not sleeping in tents or along river beds and move them towards a more permanent form of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:57] And you mentioned, Guy, that this project was sort of the last phase of this sort of broader effort by Mayor Matt Mahan to address homelessness by really focusing on interim housing. Can you remind us a little bit how different that focus on interim housing is from San approaches to homelessness in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:07:23] Yeah, that’s a great question, because when Mahan took office at the beginning of 2023, San Jose, Santa Clara, the South Bay, writ large, public officials were really focused on ending homelessness largely through spending money to build permanent affordable housing. Every year Mahan has been mayor, he’s put forward these plans where he wants to spend more and more of dedicated city homelessness dollars towards shelter. First time he proposed it was the first year he was mayor, it got rejected. He came back the next year, got more money towards shelter, and then it got to a point where last year, where the city council voted to basically spend all of this dedicated homeless money, 90% of it, towards interim housing and shelter. So. It’s gone from when he took office, 90% of this money was on affordable housing, now 90% on shelter. This is now a really robust system of more than 2,100 beds across the city. It’s been a complete turnaround in the way in which local government, and specifically in San Jose, has tried to reduce homelessness, and it has not been without controversy because we’ve seen, again and again, funding fights over whether to use city dollars towards shelter. Or whether to use it towards more permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:41] And obviously, the goal for someone like Mahan is to very quickly get people off of streets to sort of end that visible form of homelessness. So Guy, it’s been three years since Mahan took office. I mean, how’s it going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Yeah, I mean, I think when you look at the tiny home program mayhem would point to unsheltered homelessness being down 10% in San Jose since he took office and that being the North Star of success for why the shelter build out is working. That being said, it is still early and I think there are some open questions about this initiative going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] While visible forms of homelessness have gone down during Mahan’s time as mayor, experts have argued you can’t solve homelessness for good without permanent, affordable housing. It remains to be seen how many people living in these temporary shelters actually move into something more permanent. And that could all depend on whether the city can even continue paying to keep these tiny homes open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:04] This interim housing system is still not completely funded in the years to come, the operating costs. There was a budget report that came out from the city last week that found this system is about $17 million short in the coming budget year. It’s gonna need $30 million. The following year, it’s gonna need $58 million by 2029. Now, Mahan argues the city can get the cost down at these sites, they can optimize services. Or money will come from the state government or from the county government but if it doesn’t that money to keep these tiny homes operating will come from the city general fund and that’s what pays for all the rest of the basic services of the city like police, like fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:48] Yeah, that is so interesting. And I wonder what the conversations within local government have been around this. That is such a shift in the region’s approach to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] Yeah, it’s certainly not been without controversy. I think at the city level, Mahan and the city council got to a point where they had committed themselves to building out this system. Once that became the case, they were stuck looking for, okay, we need to find a way to pay for it. And this Measure E money, this money that’s raised every year through attacks on real estate transactions, that became pot they were looking for to build out this shelter system. There have been a lot of criticism of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] I think to build tiny homes and then you forget, oh, we needed to also put in some money to operate is not respecting the taxpayers and also not being true to what you’re actually providing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] And I talked to supervisor Sylvia Arenas who said she honestly felt like it was a mistake or perhaps irresponsible to build out a system without a clear way of paying for it in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:11:55] Are operating costs of interim housing, like those costs were going to outrun the revenue that we were receiving. So how on earth were we going to continue to provide the service?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:09] What Mahan has said is, well, I need to see other parts of government come in and help support these costs. I need the state to help me. I need a county government to come and help me, and county leaders have said, well wait a second, we never agreed with building out this system in the first place. I will say that there has been more collaboration between Santa Clara County and San Jose in recent months on providing services to people living in temporary housing. But there’s still no guarantee that the county is going to help pick up the tab, pick up the operating costs for these tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:12:42] It is not meant for a permanent place for folks to live. And so unless we are going to feed the pipeline and the pipeline at the end of this is more affordable housing, we’re just creating more places for people to live, not interim, but for a longer period of time. So the question is, is this really interim or is this more permanent housing for folks who are unhoused?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Yeah, it sounds like Matt Mahan is sort of celebrating the media and stuff, but it does sound like there might be some sort of long-term impacts that we have yet to see in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:27] Yeah, and I think this is, you know, experts that I’ve talked about with this, about building out shelter systems. And I heard this from Benjamin Henwood, who leads the Homelessness Policy Research Institute at USC, is that these shelter systems, once they’re built, can really be costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Benjamin Henwood \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] I think the question becomes, are we designing a shelter system to sort of permanently manage a homelessness problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:55] If you think about an affordable housing project, the people who are living there are contributing some portion of the rent, or maybe if they’re unable to, they’re having a federal voucher that’s gonna pay for some portion the rent. So the operators of those apartments are getting some kind of revenue. When you look at a shelter or a tiny home, no one is paying anything who’s staying there. So there’s really no revenue that’s coming in to support this, yet the city has committed itself. To pay these operating costs year after year after year. And so Henwood said, yeah, look, this is one of the risks of building out a shelter system like this is that you end up with these kind of ongoing escalating costs for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Benjamin Henwood \u003c/strong>[00:14:36] The issue is that we just don’t have enough housing, and so I think people have struggled with how best to address that, because I think that people want something done in the short term, but those short term solutions are not going to lead to kind of a long-term resolution of the problem. So it’s an important dilemma when you have limited resources on how you’re going use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] Well, that’s really interesting, Guy, because now you have Matt Mahan running for governor of the state of California. 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"content": "\u003cp>As thousands of people descend upon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> this week for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">Super Bowl\u003c/a> LX, the city is looking to put on a sparkly show for tourists and locals alike — and telling unhoused individuals to move along to make way for activities downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to running existing interfaith winter shelters, the city is funding additional shelter beds specifically during the week of the Super Bowl, KQED has confirmed. Many homeless advocates and unhoused people say the efforts are merely pushing the issue out of view of Super Bowl fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to cover up a problem that, you know, exists. It’s dehumanizing. If you don’t have anywhere else to go, they’ll still tell you, ‘We don’t want you here,’ because it makes the city look bad,” said Jered Thomas, a 33-year-old who is homeless and recently was sleeping near the South of Market and Mission neighborhoods. “But I don’t really feel like they’re solving the problem by moving us around or policing us, making it illegal to be homeless. It just makes the problem even worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,300 people are homeless in San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--point-time-count-dashboard\">2024 Point-in-Time count\u003c/a>, a biennial snapshot of the city’s unhoused population. Just over half of the people included in the count were unsheltered. While the city has made a number of changes to its policies for addressing homelessness, affordable housing and access to subsidies remain out of reach for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, Thomas slept at the Gubbio Project. The nonprofit typically only offers respite and services for people who are unhoused during the day. But the week of the Super Bowl, the city is helping the program operate 24 hours a day to prepare meals for guests and oversee 80 beds (60 beds for people who drop in themselves, and 20 reserved for people dropped off by police or the city’s street response teams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jered Thomas sits inside the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program provides guests a place to rest with no sign-in process and no one turned away. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, but it is expected to draw thousands of tourists from all over the globe to San Francisco, about 45 miles north. City leaders see the event, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071211/super-bowl-lx-promises-big-bucks-for-the-bay-area-cities-are-trying-to-cash-in\">projected to bring more than $600 million\u003c/a> to the region, as a catapult for the city’s post-pandemic economic rebound. Mayor Daniel Lurie has seized the opportunity to charm visitors and TV viewers, and change the negative narrative many conservative media pundits have spun about San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next month, we will once again welcome people from across the globe for Super Bowl LX,” Lurie said during his State of the City address in January. “And I have no doubt that our city will once again rise to the occasion as the spotlight of the world shines on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not unexpected that San Francisco will clear sidewalks of encampments ahead of the major event, which also came to the Bay Area in 2016, when major sweeps took place around the Embarcadero and other areas where Super Bowl festivities were happening. The city took a similar approach with other events, like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, when high-security levels prompted the closure of several streets downtown and restricted foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the city is shutting down blocks downtown around the Moscone Center, where the NFL is hosting events for football fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Department of Emergency Management, which oversees the city’s street crews that respond to homeless encampments, said they are continuing with their regular schedule and are not ramping up enforcement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s work to bring people indoors and improve street conditions is ongoing every day — regardless of whether a major event is happening in the Bay Area,” a spokesperson from DEM said. “Neighborhood Street Teams are extending hours and proactively encouraging people to accept services, as they do every day. The message is simple: help is available, and today is a good day to come inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities in the Bay Area looking to lure tourists are also continuing to clear encampments ahead of the event and maintaining that they are not ramping up enforcement around any particular event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These efforts are part of San José’s ongoing, year-round strategy to reduce homelessness with compassion, dignity and long-term solutions — not a one-time response tied to any single event,” said Sarah Fields, deputy director of public affairs for San José’s Housing Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Public Works employees clean up debris after a sweep of an encampment on Merlin Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Jan. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tent clearings and citations for people sleeping outside have increased across San Francisco in the last year, especially after the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Grants Pass case that made it easier for cities to force homeless people to move, even if shelter is unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s certainly been an uptick in operations for months now,” said John Do, an ACLU attorney who worked on a lawsuit against San Francisco over how it conducted homeless sweeps. The $2.8 million settlement for the case was officially finalized in September 2025. “The city wants to hide their homelessness crisis by displacing people … But those are temporary measures, which don’t, of course, address the underlying issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl also comes as nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">400 residents remain on San Francisco’s waitlist\u003c/a> for a bed at one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--shelter-and-crisis-interventions\">53 shelter sites\u003c/a>, while others struggle to obtain permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city opens up additional beds at Gubbio in the Mission District, it’s also winding down more than 100 beds at the Monarch and Adante hotels downtown. At the same time, dozens of displaced residents of a Tenderloin building that burned in December say they are struggling to find shelter even months after the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests sleep on cots arranged throughout the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, where the Gubbio Project is operating an overnight shelter during Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Shelters are full. All of the sudden, the city is providing additional beds when we have been asking for this for months,” said Gardenia Zuniga-Haro, an advocate for the residents who previously lived at the burned building. “It’s convenient for the mayor to make it look like everything is peaches and cream, but that’s not the case. He has done nothing but spend millions on bringing in celebrities and promoting Taco Bell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Bransten, executive director at the Gubbio Project, said the city’s decision to open additional beds at their site during Super Bowl week was a welcome change from past responses to major events, when the city cleared streets of homeless residents but offered them nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as the city is being really hard on our folks who are experiencing homelessness, this is a good move to say we understand that people are going to be displaced and we’re going to respond to it by giving people an option of someplace to be,” Bransten said. “We can’t serve everybody, but we’ll maybe serve 80 people a night. That’s a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, several dozen guests lingered around the quiet courtyard at the Gubbio Project. Gubbio staff, who are working 12-hour shifts this week to take on the new 24-hour model, prepared chicken alfredo pasta with broccoli and buttered biscuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Wagner sits in the courtyard at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake forms or barriers, emphasizing dignity, accessibility and safety. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rows of cot beds lined the inside of the church where the Gubbio Project is based, with soft sounds of snoring from those who had gone to sleep early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quiet shelter offered a place to finally relax for Joshua Wagner, who had been asked to move off the sidewalk on 11th Street in the South of Market neighborhood earlier that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and several people that I’ve been with were told that we were not allowed to be out when the Super Bowl is happening this week, whatever the hell that means. We’re homeless. How can we not be allowed out?” Wagner said. “I can’t even rest for five minutes without somebody telling me to get up and go. I have health problems causing me great distress every time I have to battle gravity just to move along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas arrived at the shelter after city outreach workers told him about the beds that would be available that night.[aside postID=news_12068047 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251211_YOUTHHOMELESSNESS_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED.jpg']“They said that the church is opening the shelter for the week of the Super Bowl, because the city wants the homeless people off the streets for all the fans coming from the East Coast to see the city and celebrate for the Super Bowl,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in San Francisco, Thomas said street crews have asked him to move along before. He’s stayed in shelters, but has experienced harassment and had his items stolen in those spaces before, so he sticks by himself on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, however, he said there’s been even more shuffling around. “There’s increased police, and an obvious police presence today to say the least,” he said Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes to one day do outreach himself for people in his situation. He has an idea of what could get him there: “What would be helpful for me is an opportunity for housing without all the hoops you have to go through for federal assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he’s had negative experiences at some shelters, he was feeling good about his stay at Gubbio on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like it so far. The dinner’s good. The beds are, you know, they’re comfortable. They let you bring in your things. They don’t have so many restrictions. And I feel like the staff is more understanding here than at other shelters,” he said. “It’s like a breath of fresh air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. Share your story of how you get by\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,300 people are homeless in San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--point-time-count-dashboard\">2024 Point-in-Time count\u003c/a>, a biennial snapshot of the city’s unhoused population. Just over half of the people included in the count were unsheltered. While the city has made a number of changes to its policies for addressing homelessness, affordable housing and access to subsidies remain out of reach for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, Thomas slept at the Gubbio Project. The nonprofit typically only offers respite and services for people who are unhoused during the day. But the week of the Super Bowl, the city is helping the program operate 24 hours a day to prepare meals for guests and oversee 80 beds (60 beds for people who drop in themselves, and 20 reserved for people dropped off by police or the city’s street response teams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jered Thomas sits inside the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program provides guests a place to rest with no sign-in process and no one turned away. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, but it is expected to draw thousands of tourists from all over the globe to San Francisco, about 45 miles north. City leaders see the event, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071211/super-bowl-lx-promises-big-bucks-for-the-bay-area-cities-are-trying-to-cash-in\">projected to bring more than $600 million\u003c/a> to the region, as a catapult for the city’s post-pandemic economic rebound. Mayor Daniel Lurie has seized the opportunity to charm visitors and TV viewers, and change the negative narrative many conservative media pundits have spun about San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next month, we will once again welcome people from across the globe for Super Bowl LX,” Lurie said during his State of the City address in January. “And I have no doubt that our city will once again rise to the occasion as the spotlight of the world shines on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not unexpected that San Francisco will clear sidewalks of encampments ahead of the major event, which also came to the Bay Area in 2016, when major sweeps took place around the Embarcadero and other areas where Super Bowl festivities were happening. The city took a similar approach with other events, like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, when high-security levels prompted the closure of several streets downtown and restricted foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the city is shutting down blocks downtown around the Moscone Center, where the NFL is hosting events for football fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Department of Emergency Management, which oversees the city’s street crews that respond to homeless encampments, said they are continuing with their regular schedule and are not ramping up enforcement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s work to bring people indoors and improve street conditions is ongoing every day — regardless of whether a major event is happening in the Bay Area,” a spokesperson from DEM said. “Neighborhood Street Teams are extending hours and proactively encouraging people to accept services, as they do every day. The message is simple: help is available, and today is a good day to come inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities in the Bay Area looking to lure tourists are also continuing to clear encampments ahead of the event and maintaining that they are not ramping up enforcement around any particular event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These efforts are part of San José’s ongoing, year-round strategy to reduce homelessness with compassion, dignity and long-term solutions — not a one-time response tied to any single event,” said Sarah Fields, deputy director of public affairs for San José’s Housing Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Public Works employees clean up debris after a sweep of an encampment on Merlin Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Jan. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tent clearings and citations for people sleeping outside have increased across San Francisco in the last year, especially after the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Grants Pass case that made it easier for cities to force homeless people to move, even if shelter is unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s certainly been an uptick in operations for months now,” said John Do, an ACLU attorney who worked on a lawsuit against San Francisco over how it conducted homeless sweeps. The $2.8 million settlement for the case was officially finalized in September 2025. “The city wants to hide their homelessness crisis by displacing people … But those are temporary measures, which don’t, of course, address the underlying issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl also comes as nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">400 residents remain on San Francisco’s waitlist\u003c/a> for a bed at one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--shelter-and-crisis-interventions\">53 shelter sites\u003c/a>, while others struggle to obtain permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city opens up additional beds at Gubbio in the Mission District, it’s also winding down more than 100 beds at the Monarch and Adante hotels downtown. At the same time, dozens of displaced residents of a Tenderloin building that burned in December say they are struggling to find shelter even months after the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests sleep on cots arranged throughout the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, where the Gubbio Project is operating an overnight shelter during Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Shelters are full. All of the sudden, the city is providing additional beds when we have been asking for this for months,” said Gardenia Zuniga-Haro, an advocate for the residents who previously lived at the burned building. “It’s convenient for the mayor to make it look like everything is peaches and cream, but that’s not the case. He has done nothing but spend millions on bringing in celebrities and promoting Taco Bell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Bransten, executive director at the Gubbio Project, said the city’s decision to open additional beds at their site during Super Bowl week was a welcome change from past responses to major events, when the city cleared streets of homeless residents but offered them nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as the city is being really hard on our folks who are experiencing homelessness, this is a good move to say we understand that people are going to be displaced and we’re going to respond to it by giving people an option of someplace to be,” Bransten said. “We can’t serve everybody, but we’ll maybe serve 80 people a night. That’s a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, several dozen guests lingered around the quiet courtyard at the Gubbio Project. Gubbio staff, who are working 12-hour shifts this week to take on the new 24-hour model, prepared chicken alfredo pasta with broccoli and buttered biscuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Wagner sits in the courtyard at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake forms or barriers, emphasizing dignity, accessibility and safety. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rows of cot beds lined the inside of the church where the Gubbio Project is based, with soft sounds of snoring from those who had gone to sleep early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quiet shelter offered a place to finally relax for Joshua Wagner, who had been asked to move off the sidewalk on 11th Street in the South of Market neighborhood earlier that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and several people that I’ve been with were told that we were not allowed to be out when the Super Bowl is happening this week, whatever the hell that means. We’re homeless. How can we not be allowed out?” Wagner said. “I can’t even rest for five minutes without somebody telling me to get up and go. 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Johnson would go on to play for the Raiders in Oakland. \u003ccite>(George Gojkovich/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The condition is the result of repeated traumatic brain injuries, which can happen repeatedly over the course of a football season. 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On the night of his arrest, his parents had been seeking medical assistance for him. He fled his home and entered a neighbor’s two doors down, where he was taken into police custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daneshvar told KQED at the time that it’s common for people suffering from CTE to experience depression or emotional dysregulation. In addition to mental health challenges, CTE can cause problems with thinking, decision-making and memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The areas of the brain that are affected with CTE are the areas responsible for our thinking and our behavior and our mood,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if Johnson will be evaluated for CTE. No motive for his killing or potential suspect information has been released at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators believe that he had been living at the encampment in the unincorporated Willowbrook area of South Los Angeles. \u003cem>The Associated Press\u003c/em> reported that friends said Johnson had health issues later in life that contributed to his situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some told \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/former-nfl-player-kevin-johnson-found-dead-la-homeless-encampment-apparent-murder/18452626/\">\u003cem>ABC7\u003c/em> in Los Angeles\u003c/a> that they believed those issues could have been the result of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that’s become common among former football players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070930\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1252px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070930 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2172084857-scaled-e1769200104311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1252\" height=\"2000\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensive lineman Kevin Johnson #94 of the Philadelphia Eagles looks on from the sideline during a game against the Washington Redskins at Veterans Stadium on Oct. 8, 1995, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johnson would go on to play for the Raiders in Oakland. \u003ccite>(George Gojkovich/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The condition is the result of repeated traumatic brain injuries, which can happen repeatedly over the course of a football season. According to Dr. Daniel Daneshvar, a Harvard University professor and co-director of sports concussion at Mass General Brigham in Boston, CTE easily flies under the radar because it can only be diagnosed via brain analysis after a person’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another former Raiders player, Doug Martin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060707/reported-death-of-ex-raider-doug-martin-in-oakland-police-custody-raises-questions\">died in Oakland police custody\u003c/a> in October, investigators told \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/21/former-nfl-running-back-doug-martins-brain-to-be-tested-for-cte-authorities-confirm/\">\u003cem>the Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that his brain was being preserved for CTE testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his death, Martin had experienced mental health challenges that affected his personal and professional life, according to his former agent Brian Murphy. On the night of his arrest, his parents had been seeking medical assistance for him. He fled his home and entered a neighbor’s two doors down, where he was taken into police custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daneshvar told KQED at the time that it’s common for people suffering from CTE to experience depression or emotional dysregulation. In addition to mental health challenges, CTE can cause problems with thinking, decision-making and memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The areas of the brain that are affected with CTE are the areas responsible for our thinking and our behavior and our mood,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if Johnson will be evaluated for CTE. No motive for his killing or potential suspect information has been released at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tucked between the homes of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-palo-alto\">East Palo Alto\u003c/a> neighborhood, there’s a small yellow building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, on a weekday in late November, young people — ranging in age from adolescence to early adulthood — were busy at work. They helped each other with homework, met with therapists, and hosted discussions about leadership and political education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) has all the hallmarks of a typical community center, the nonprofit’s mission is more specific: to serve homeless youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out back, youth mentor Lavain Henderson, 22, showed off a vegetable garden and chicken den, where members can harvest produce and gather freshly-laid eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson became homeless when he was around 18 and, over a five-year span, bounced between at least four different homeless organizations throughout California. But he struggled to find community. YUCA was different, he said, because it was run by and for young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There weren’t spaces where I could learn the skills that I need to survive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251211_YOUTHHOMELESSNESS_DECEMBER_GH-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251211_YOUTHHOMELESSNESS_DECEMBER_GH-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251211_YOUTHHOMELESSNESS_DECEMBER_GH-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251211_YOUTHHOMELESSNESS_DECEMBER_GH-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lavain Henderson, a youth mentor with Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), holds a chicken raised and cared for at the organization’s East Palo Alto site on Dec. 11, 2025. YUCA incorporates urban agriculture into its youth programming. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizations like YUCA are credited with contributing to a recent drop in youth homelessness in California — a 24% reduction between 2019 and 2024 — according to a \u003ca href=\"https://jbay.org/resources/investing-in-impact-2025/\">November report by nonprofit John Burton Advocates for Youth\u003c/a>. The data is a silver lining amid rising homelessness nationwide, but advocates warn that recent state and federal funding changes could threaten that progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simone Tureck Lee, one of the authors of the report, said that while the data used in the report is widely considered an undercount, it remains useful for tracking trends over time. She largely attributed the decline in youth homelessness to California’s investments in specifically addressing young people’s needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal year 2018, California began reserving 5% of homelessness funding for youth — what it calls the “youth set aside.” And by fiscal year 2021, the state had increased that set-aside to 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the same time period, it also increased the total amount of funding dedicated to addressing homelessness, with about $5 billion going into its Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program (HHAP) since fiscal year 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082\">according to the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a>. With the funding, youth homelessness organizations can support young adults in a way organizations that cater to adults cannot, Tureck Lee said.[aside postID=news_12066469 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED.jpg']“We’re seeing something different than what’s happening nationally and what’s happening among the general population in California,” Tureck Lee said. “We really attribute those changes to these major state investments that came after years of lack of investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Henderson, the other shelters and community centers he once relied on rarely provided him with the resources he needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed when he found YUCA. Unlike other programs, Henderson said, YUCA was better able to meet his needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I was able to care for myself like how I’m supposed to,” he said. “There was a lot of things falling through the cracks. I’m still working on myself as a person, but I’ve definitely come a long way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Henderson, those needs weren’t just physical, like food and shelter; they were emotional, as well. YUCA gave him a sense of community that he hadn’t experienced with other organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t believe that I deserved to have community,” he said, adding that YUCA “definitely opened my eyes to how important having a community is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in November, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064324/its-devastating-more-than-100m-for-housing-homeless-at-risk-under-new-hud-policy\">new guidelines for homelessness funding\u003c/a>. The changes include tighter restrictions on which organizations qualify for support and how funds can be used, a change that Tureck Lee said could impact youth homelessness organizations in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990403 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in the current state budget, lawmakers set aside \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045673/newsom-slashes-funding-for-homelessness-in-state-budget-leaving-cities-scrambling\">no new funding for HHAP\u003c/a>, though they earmarked $500 million for the program in fiscal year 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tureck Lee said she expects the loss of HHAP funds this year to have a greater impact on youth-specific organizations than the loss of federal funding in California. But she’s still concerned about what the federal changes might mean for counties like Alameda or Los Angeles, which she said will now have to compete for federal funding, rather than being able to take advantage of the youth set-aside in HHAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has said it will penalize organizations that provide benefits to people who are undocumented or that recognize transgender people, for instance, Tureck Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these values that the Trump administration is very attached to are inserted into the criteria for scoring applications from all these communities,” she said.[aside postID=news_12064324 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/240522-ERPressure-09-BL_qed.jpg']Katie Barnett, a community organizer with the policy and advocacy organization, All Home, said the changes pose a serious risk to the progress made in reducing youth homelessness, as well as to the entire homeless population across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to have catastrophic ripple effects for every single community in the country, absolutely here in California, where we have not only the Bay Area, but also the Los Angeles area, which has some of the highest rates of specifically chronic and unsheltered homelessness nationwide,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coco Auerswald, a UC Berkeley professor and homelessness researcher, said she expects the impact of the changes to be disastrous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Auerswald, the real key to addressing overall homelessness is addressing youth homelessness, because homelessness among adults often begins in their youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had been able to change their trajectory,” she said, “the numbers of people experiencing homelessness would be dramatically different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, the federal government hasn’t done enough to prioritize youth, comparing its approach to using a mop to clean a flooded floor, rather than turning off the faucet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t keep up because the inflow of water is greater than our ability to remove water,” she said. “We have to turn off the faucet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late November, Gov. 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The FBI has arrested four people who they say belong to an extremist anti-government group. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a Supreme Court decision that allowed authorities to penalize people for sleeping outdoors, the City of Fresno was one of the first to enact its own anti-camping law. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/local-news/2025-12-12/fresno-attorney-mounts-federal-legal-fight-against-citys-anti-camping-law\">a class action lawsuit\u003c/a> is challenging its legality.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Trump Administration Not Releasing Migrant Children To Families, Sponsors\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For more than a month, children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone have been inexplicably stuck in federal custody at shelters across the country. The Trump administration has all but stopped releasing these kids to their families and loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sources in the government agency that’s in charge of unaccompanied kids — and lawyers who help them — tell The California Newsroom’s Mark Betancourt, they’ve never seen anything like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kids crossed the border without a parent or guardian. And when they’re apprehended by immigration officials, they’re handed over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, ORR, who generally puts them in group shelters across the country. In California, there are about 30 of these shelters, with about 300 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these kids actually came to the U.S. to join their parents or other family members. In immigration speak these adults are called sponsors, and they have to be vetted by the government to make sure they’re safe before the kids are released to them. 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Officials showed reporters surveillance aerial footage of the suspects moving a large black object in the desert to a table. Officials said they were able to make the arrests before the suspects assembled a functional explosive device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the criminal complaint, the four suspects named are Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41. They are all from the Los Angeles area, Essayli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials did not describe a motive but said they are members of an offshoot of a group dubbed the Turtle Island Liberation Front. 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But Spillane can’t afford to live in the neighborhood and the city’s homeless services are primarily concentrated downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’m from the city, it can get really ugly down here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bay Area cities like San Francisco, San José and Oakland look to curb homelessness, many are turning their focus to expanding transitional housing like this tiny home site, in order to move people off the street quicker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs and trailers parked on Lake Merced Boulevard and State Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as community and government leaders push to add shelter space in neighborhoods where it’s traditionally been absent, they are grappling with fresh resistance from residents concerned that placing services for homeless people nearby will upend their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate comes on the heels of a Supreme Court ruling in 2024, the \u003cem>City of Grants Pass v. Johnson\u003c/em>, that now allows cities to force unhoused people to move off sidewalks, regardless of whether shelter is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities can cite or arrest individuals who refuse offers of shelter, and instances of both have ramped up across the Bay Area since the ruling, particularly in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051236/an-unhoused-san-francisco-resident-navigates-a-new-era-of-street-enforcement\">major cities like San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-homeless-housing-wont-be-ready-ahead-of-big-sweep/\">San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco, San José look to put shelters in new neighborhoods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, as elsewhere, political opposition and constraints on land and transportation have long kept shelters out of many neighborhoods, including single-family home communities like the Sunset. But that dynamic has angered many residents who live in areas like the Tenderloin, Bayview and Mission District, which have a higher concentration of shelters than other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue recently spurred some local elected leaders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059519/empty-tiny-homes-headed-to-the-bayview-ruffle-feathers-in-city-hall\">push for greater geographic equity\u003c/a> as more temporary housing is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks at an event celebrating the creation of a union by the workers at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation at Boeddeker Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Neighborhoods like the Tenderloin have more resources than unsheltered residents. Other parts of the city are unable to provide life-saving services to those that need it most,” said San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin and recently sponsored an ordinance that requires the city to build shelter in areas where they are lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Budget and Legislative Office analysis shows which parts of the city have the greatest discrepancy between services and people who need them. The Sunset, for example, accounted for 3.8% of the total unhoused population according to 2024 federal data, but provides 0% of year-round shelter. That’s compared to the Tenderloin, which has 19.4% of the unsheltered population and 33.8% of the city’s shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie signed Mahmood’s legislation this fall. Beginning in January, the city will be prohibited from opening new shelters or transitional housing facilities in neighborhoods where the number of existing beds and services exceeds the number of unhoused residents.[aside postID=news_12059519 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-1020x679.jpg']“Why should someone have to move across the city to access help?” said Edie Irons, director of communications at All Home, a nonprofit that works on regional approaches to solving homelessness. “They might turn down shelter for many reasons. One could be they are far away from where they became homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, proponents of the ordinance hope the legislation will help win over reluctant homeowners, which hasn’t proven easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vera Genkin lives in the Sunset and said she “has a big heart for all these people,” but she worries unhoused people from other places will come to her quiet neighborhood looking for services, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/reports--september-2024--2024-point-time-count\">evidence\u003c/a> showing people often live in the neighborhoods and cities where they became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we being expected to pick up problems of homelessness that did not start here?” she said. “Why is this county supposed to pay with city municipal funds for some other county’s homelessness? I don’t understand that either, so the same equation applies to me between districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to expand shelters to new neighborhoods have been fraught across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting earlier this summer, San José’s housing director Erik Soliván presented a plan to open the first temporary housing site in the city’s sleepy Cambrian neighborhood: a converted motel that would provide shelter for senior women and mothers with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV trailer parked on Lake Merced Boulevard and State Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was met with jeers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put it in your backyard!” one man yelled, in a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@sanjosespotlight/video/7515232924657143082\">recorded by the San Jose Spotlight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in downtown, and I have three of them,” Soliván replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan and the city council have embarked on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">aggressive expansion \u003c/a>of short-term shelter in recent years — building out a system of tiny home villages, RV parking lots and sanctioned encampments that have amounted to nearly 1,900 placements across 22 locations as of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in San Francisco, most of them remain clustered in the city’s downtown core, or in South San José near Monterey Road. Meanwhile, more upscale neighborhoods such as West San José and Evergreen have no shelter sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063652\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-06_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Councilmember Pamela Campos speaks the Day Without Childcare rally in front of the Federal Building in San José on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These emergency interim housing sites are one part of what is needed in the continuum of housing, and so we need to make sure that we are distributing them equitably throughout the city,” said Councilmember Pamela Campos, whose District 2 seat includes much of South San José. “Every district in San José is affected by homelessness; therefore, every district should be playing their part in addressing our homelessness crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Rue Ferrari interim housing site, in Campos’ district, was expanded from 122 to 266 beds, making it the largest tiny home community in the city. Campos celebrated the move but worried that her sprawling district lacks public transit for residents of Rue Ferrari to easily access jobs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a way to ensure that we are not putting more than the fair share of emergency interim housing in one district than others, that’s definitely a policy that is worth exploring,” she said. “It cannot continue to be the same neighborhoods and the same places, especially when we’re going into neighborhoods that are severely lacking in the resources and amenities that are needed to support people who are working hard to stabilize their lives and move forward in an upward trajectory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Resistance isn’t the only barrier\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mahan has said he would like to see shelters expand into every council district in the city. But he pointed to barriers beyond community pushback. In District 1, for example, which borders Sunnyvale and Cupertino, Mahan said available land is simply too scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is one of the most densely built-out and expensive places in the city, where it is very hard to secure land. We just don’t have a good parcel that is city-owned to build a solution there,” he said. “And it can’t be a tiny parcel because we need enough scale to make it worth taxpayers’ investment in providing services. So there are just many factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050503 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250731-DEPORTBILL-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250731-DEPORTBILL-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250731-DEPORTBILL-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250731-DEPORTBILL-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks during a press conference outside City Hall on July 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he said any ordinance governing shelter placement, such as the one passed in San Francisco, could limit opportunities to quickly move people off the street. Mahan pointed to another South San José tiny home site that opened earlier this year, on private land owned by developer John Sobrato, who leased it to the city at virtually no cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had had a restriction on having a second site within half a mile, we would not have been able to move forward [with] that site,” Mahan said. “So if you create a straitjacket through policy, you start missing opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan and the council have instead sought to placate the concerns of residents living near existing shelters by instituting a no-encampment zone around each site, granting first preference for beds to people living in the immediate area, and starting community advisory groups to solicit feedback after a shelter opens.[aside postID=news_12058952 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-37-KQED.jpg']Still, there’s a danger to this approach of trying to convince residents to “share the burden” of homelessness, said Marlene Bennett, an adjunct professor of health law at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That unfortunately just propels these negative stereotypes and misinformation about the housing crisis and folks who are experiencing homelessness or maybe living with mental illness or using substances or all three,” Bennett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the issue of funding. In San Francisco, Lurie shifted some of the city’s funding for permanent housing toward interim housing in the latest budget cycle, a move that was met with pushback from housing advocates and experts, pointing out that homelessness doesn’t end with shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters say the funding is needed to build out temporary options where people can move off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that they both have the same problem, which is there is not enough funding for shelter,” said Elizabeth Funk, CEO of Dignity Moves, which contracts with both San José and San Francisco to build tiny home shelters. “From HUD all the way down, they’ve decided shelter doesn’t work. We’re trying to change that form of shelter, what you think of as a big warehouse of bunk beds, and focus on interim housing. There needs to be funding for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has not expanded shelter as aggressively because of funding challenges, even as Alameda County is increasing resources for homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986458\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-scaled-e1760372488675.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a city street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large tent encampment where people live in West Oakland in February 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun CoÅkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have observed that siting is often the most challenging part of the process of standing up new shelter, due to community pushback,” Irons, with All Home, said, pointing out that many smaller cities are not yet trying to build shelters in neighborhoods where they have historically been absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, millions of dollars from Measure W, a 2020 ballot measure that authorized a 10-year sales tax, will soon go to a variety of homeless resources across the county, including for transitional housing and shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really trying to have a county-wide approach and distribute these resources,” Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas said. As a councilmember in Oakland, Fortunato Bas oversaw a tiny home project in her district, which has since transformed into an affordable housing project. “We know that it’s largely African-American residents and more and more seniors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is facing cuts to shelter services in the short term before those Measure W funds become available, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\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 July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts there say that the increased policing that stems from the Grants Pass ruling has not significantly decreased the unhoused population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing more and more of an attempt to solve homelessness through the enforcement-forward approach, and a belief that [unhoused] people who are in our community are not from here,” said Sasha Hauswald, interim chief homelessness solutions officer for Oakland. “Those two things actually are positively reinforcing of one another, because the more you have enforcement without real housing options for people to move into, the more people have to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, just as in San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, most unhoused residents became homeless in the city where they were living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063655\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251001_BayAreaShelter_-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251001_BayAreaShelter_-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251001_BayAreaShelter_-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251001_BayAreaShelter_-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Spillane, a resident of the DignityMoves tiny home cabins, outside the entrance in SoMa on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Each person is someone’s child, sister, brother — often whole families who have nowhere to go and could use a helping hand,” Mahmood, the San Francisco supervisor, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spillane, the Sunset native, hopes that as San Francisco expands shelter options across the city, she’ll be able to move to the neighborhood she considers home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said having a space like where she’s living now, but closer to her family in the Sunset, “would be an answer to my prayers, big time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She goes back to the neighborhood as often as she can. “That’s where my heart is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But Spillane can’t afford to live in the neighborhood and the city’s homeless services are primarily concentrated downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’m from the city, it can get really ugly down here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bay Area cities like San Francisco, San José and Oakland look to curb homelessness, many are turning their focus to expanding transitional housing like this tiny home site, in order to move people off the street quicker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs and trailers parked on Lake Merced Boulevard and State Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as community and government leaders push to add shelter space in neighborhoods where it’s traditionally been absent, they are grappling with fresh resistance from residents concerned that placing services for homeless people nearby will upend their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate comes on the heels of a Supreme Court ruling in 2024, the \u003cem>City of Grants Pass v. Johnson\u003c/em>, that now allows cities to force unhoused people to move off sidewalks, regardless of whether shelter is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities can cite or arrest individuals who refuse offers of shelter, and instances of both have ramped up across the Bay Area since the ruling, particularly in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051236/an-unhoused-san-francisco-resident-navigates-a-new-era-of-street-enforcement\">major cities like San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-homeless-housing-wont-be-ready-ahead-of-big-sweep/\">San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco, San José look to put shelters in new neighborhoods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, as elsewhere, political opposition and constraints on land and transportation have long kept shelters out of many neighborhoods, including single-family home communities like the Sunset. But that dynamic has angered many residents who live in areas like the Tenderloin, Bayview and Mission District, which have a higher concentration of shelters than other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue recently spurred some local elected leaders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059519/empty-tiny-homes-headed-to-the-bayview-ruffle-feathers-in-city-hall\">push for greater geographic equity\u003c/a> as more temporary housing is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks at an event celebrating the creation of a union by the workers at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation at Boeddeker Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Neighborhoods like the Tenderloin have more resources than unsheltered residents. 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Beginning in January, the city will be prohibited from opening new shelters or transitional housing facilities in neighborhoods where the number of existing beds and services exceeds the number of unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Why should someone have to move across the city to access help?” said Edie Irons, director of communications at All Home, a nonprofit that works on regional approaches to solving homelessness. “They might turn down shelter for many reasons. One could be they are far away from where they became homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, proponents of the ordinance hope the legislation will help win over reluctant homeowners, which hasn’t proven easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vera Genkin lives in the Sunset and said she “has a big heart for all these people,” but she worries unhoused people from other places will come to her quiet neighborhood looking for services, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/reports--september-2024--2024-point-time-count\">evidence\u003c/a> showing people often live in the neighborhoods and cities where they became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we being expected to pick up problems of homelessness that did not start here?” she said. “Why is this county supposed to pay with city municipal funds for some other county’s homelessness? I don’t understand that either, so the same equation applies to me between districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to expand shelters to new neighborhoods have been fraught across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting earlier this summer, San José’s housing director Erik Soliván presented a plan to open the first temporary housing site in the city’s sleepy Cambrian neighborhood: a converted motel that would provide shelter for senior women and mothers with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001_BAYAREASHELTER_-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV trailer parked on Lake Merced Boulevard and State Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was met with jeers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put it in your backyard!” one man yelled, in a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@sanjosespotlight/video/7515232924657143082\">recorded by the San Jose Spotlight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in downtown, and I have three of them,” Soliván replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan and the city council have embarked on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">aggressive expansion \u003c/a>of short-term shelter in recent years — building out a system of tiny home villages, RV parking lots and sanctioned encampments that have amounted to nearly 1,900 placements across 22 locations as of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in San Francisco, most of them remain clustered in the city’s downtown core, or in South San José near Monterey Road. Meanwhile, more upscale neighborhoods such as West San José and Evergreen have no shelter sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063652\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-06_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Councilmember Pamela Campos speaks the Day Without Childcare rally in front of the Federal Building in San José on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These emergency interim housing sites are one part of what is needed in the continuum of housing, and so we need to make sure that we are distributing them equitably throughout the city,” said Councilmember Pamela Campos, whose District 2 seat includes much of South San José. “Every district in San José is affected by homelessness; therefore, every district should be playing their part in addressing our homelessness crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Rue Ferrari interim housing site, in Campos’ district, was expanded from 122 to 266 beds, making it the largest tiny home community in the city. Campos celebrated the move but worried that her sprawling district lacks public transit for residents of Rue Ferrari to easily access jobs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a way to ensure that we are not putting more than the fair share of emergency interim housing in one district than others, that’s definitely a policy that is worth exploring,” she said. “It cannot continue to be the same neighborhoods and the same places, especially when we’re going into neighborhoods that are severely lacking in the resources and amenities that are needed to support people who are working hard to stabilize their lives and move forward in an upward trajectory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Resistance isn’t the only barrier\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mahan has said he would like to see shelters expand into every council district in the city. But he pointed to barriers beyond community pushback. In District 1, for example, which borders Sunnyvale and Cupertino, Mahan said available land is simply too scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is one of the most densely built-out and expensive places in the city, where it is very hard to secure land. We just don’t have a good parcel that is city-owned to build a solution there,” he said. “And it can’t be a tiny parcel because we need enough scale to make it worth taxpayers’ investment in providing services. So there are just many factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050503 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250731-DEPORTBILL-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250731-DEPORTBILL-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250731-DEPORTBILL-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250731-DEPORTBILL-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks during a press conference outside City Hall on July 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he said any ordinance governing shelter placement, such as the one passed in San Francisco, could limit opportunities to quickly move people off the street. Mahan pointed to another South San José tiny home site that opened earlier this year, on private land owned by developer John Sobrato, who leased it to the city at virtually no cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had had a restriction on having a second site within half a mile, we would not have been able to move forward [with] that site,” Mahan said. “So if you create a straitjacket through policy, you start missing opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan and the council have instead sought to placate the concerns of residents living near existing shelters by instituting a no-encampment zone around each site, granting first preference for beds to people living in the immediate area, and starting community advisory groups to solicit feedback after a shelter opens.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, there’s a danger to this approach of trying to convince residents to “share the burden” of homelessness, said Marlene Bennett, an adjunct professor of health law at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That unfortunately just propels these negative stereotypes and misinformation about the housing crisis and folks who are experiencing homelessness or maybe living with mental illness or using substances or all three,” Bennett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the issue of funding. In San Francisco, Lurie shifted some of the city’s funding for permanent housing toward interim housing in the latest budget cycle, a move that was met with pushback from housing advocates and experts, pointing out that homelessness doesn’t end with shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters say the funding is needed to build out temporary options where people can move off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that they both have the same problem, which is there is not enough funding for shelter,” said Elizabeth Funk, CEO of Dignity Moves, which contracts with both San José and San Francisco to build tiny home shelters. “From HUD all the way down, they’ve decided shelter doesn’t work. We’re trying to change that form of shelter, what you think of as a big warehouse of bunk beds, and focus on interim housing. There needs to be funding for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has not expanded shelter as aggressively because of funding challenges, even as Alameda County is increasing resources for homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986458\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-scaled-e1760372488675.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a city street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large tent encampment where people live in West Oakland in February 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun CoÅkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have observed that siting is often the most challenging part of the process of standing up new shelter, due to community pushback,” Irons, with All Home, said, pointing out that many smaller cities are not yet trying to build shelters in neighborhoods where they have historically been absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, millions of dollars from Measure W, a 2020 ballot measure that authorized a 10-year sales tax, will soon go to a variety of homeless resources across the county, including for transitional housing and shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really trying to have a county-wide approach and distribute these resources,” Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas said. As a councilmember in Oakland, Fortunato Bas oversaw a tiny home project in her district, which has since transformed into an affordable housing project. “We know that it’s largely African-American residents and more and more seniors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is facing cuts to shelter services in the short term before those Measure W funds become available, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\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 July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts there say that the increased policing that stems from the Grants Pass ruling has not significantly decreased the unhoused population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing more and more of an attempt to solve homelessness through the enforcement-forward approach, and a belief that [unhoused] people who are in our community are not from here,” said Sasha Hauswald, interim chief homelessness solutions officer for Oakland. “Those two things actually are positively reinforcing of one another, because the more you have enforcement without real housing options for people to move into, the more people have to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, just as in San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, most unhoused residents became homeless in the city where they were living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063655\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251001_BayAreaShelter_-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251001_BayAreaShelter_-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251001_BayAreaShelter_-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251001_BayAreaShelter_-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Spillane, a resident of the DignityMoves tiny home cabins, outside the entrance in SoMa on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Each person is someone’s child, sister, brother — often whole families who have nowhere to go and could use a helping hand,” Mahmood, the San Francisco supervisor, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spillane, the Sunset native, hopes that as San Francisco expands shelter options across the city, she’ll be able to move to the neighborhood she considers home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said having a space like where she’s living now, but closer to her family in the Sunset, “would be an answer to my prayers, big time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She goes back to the neighborhood as often as she can. “That’s where my heart is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-fallout/\">\u003cem>El Tecolote originally published this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along John Muir Drive, a winding road in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s quiet Lake Merced neighborhood, more than a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047562/please-just-let-us-be-san-francisco-rv-crackdown-advances-despite-families-pleas\">dozen RVs line the curb\u003c/a>. Inside one of them, Jessica Cuevas, 32, lives with her 8-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being evicted from her $3,800-a-month rental in late January, she bought an RV on Facebook Marketplace and parked near her son’s school in the Bayview. When parking tickets began piling up, she moved across the city to Lake Merced, joining other RV residents who, once again, may soon have to leave, this time having nowhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco steps up efforts to curb vehicular \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/homelessness\">homelessness\u003c/a>, safe parking options for RV residents have dwindled. The crisis, which disproportionately impacts Latino\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigrants\"> immigrants\u003c/a>, has pushed longtime residents hit hard by pandemic job loss and newcomers seeking sanctuary into two distinct neighborhoods: Lake Merced and the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, more people are turning to oversized vehicles for shelter as San Francisco’s cost of living soars. Driven onto the same few streets, many RV residents have formed small communities of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a new citywide policy could decide the future of hundreds of people and families who call RVs home. Starting Nov. 1, 2025, San Francisco will enforce a two-hour parking limit for large vehicles. Residents must obtain a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/large-vehicle-refuge-permit-program\">Large Vehicle Refuge Permit\u003c/a> or face tickets and towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062252 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV2-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lakewood Apartments serve as a backdrop to a row of RVs parked along the street near Lake Merced in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. Some neighbors have voiced concerns about the RVs in online forums such as Reddit. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials say the program will connect eligible residents to housing assistance, but advocates warn it will uproot families and worsen conditions for working-class immigrants, seniors and people with disabilities already weathering the physical and mental health toll of displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em> has documented the informal support systems forged by RV residents in Lake Merced and the Bayview in the absence of city aid. Firsthand accounts and public records reveal that, despite the promised support, the city’s upcoming crackdown threatens to dismantle the fragile stability these households have found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This isn’t forever: Families find refuge in Lake Merced\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cuevas worked as a DoorDash delivery driver last year, she often drove past dozens of parked RVs around Lake Merced. The Mexican mother worked three jobs and shared a Visitacion Valley home with two roommates to cover $3,800 rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had already been homeless once, when she first moved to the Bay Area in 2018 with a pending asylum application. After time in San Mateo County’s shelter system, a social worker helped her find housing in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062256 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV3-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV3-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Cuevas, 32, stands outside her RV near Lake Merced holding her two guinea pigs in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. “I like staying on this street because it feels safer than the Bayview, where we stayed for a short time,” she said. “It’s been really difficult to get any type of resources.” \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By late January, an eviction over missed rent payments pushed her family back to the streets. Cuevas bought an RV and started parking near her 8-year-old son’s school in the Bayview, moving every 72 hours to avoid tickets. As the citations piled up, Cuevas remembered the motorhomes she’d seen in Lake Merced and headed west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Cuevas found a spot on John Muir Drive, a wide, quiet street facing the lake where dozens of other RVs were parked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still here,” Cuevas said. “We’re trying to look for a better place. But we have to wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062269 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV4-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV4-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan, 8, holds his guinea pig outside the RV he shares with his mother, Jessica Cuevas, near Lake Merced in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her RV is small and poorly insulated, and rain seeps through the roof. Inside, a single mattress fills most of the floor, and a plastic box holds her son’s two guinea pigs, Pepe and Greñas. Without electricity or plumbing, they rely on the park’s public restrooms and a propane stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of unstable housing puts residents at greater risk of poor health outcomes, including respiratory and cardiac diseases, \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10203673/#Sec16\">public health experts warn\u003c/a>. It also makes it harder to manage chronic conditions.[aside postID=news_12062042 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1.jpg']San Francisco’s promise of housing support to RV residents is what Cuevas said she needs, though those options seem far from reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been on the city’s backlogged family-shelter waitlist since January. In June, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Agenda_Item_8_Directors_Report_June_2025.pdf\">reported\u003c/a> that 295 families were waiting for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Lake Merced feels more peaceful than anywhere else she’s parked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area is quiet, aside from chirping birds and the occasional car driving by. Between the line of RVs and the lake, residents take evening strolls along a walking path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parked along the road have formed a sense of community. They look out for one another — Cuevas said she once drove a neighbor to the hospital after noticing she was limping — and work together to keep the area clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062280 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV5-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV5-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The work boots of Rubén, 23, a Mexican immigrant who lives in an RV near Lake Merced, an area that has become a refuge for displaced working families in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This place is nice and we try to take care of it, because they’re letting us stay here,” said Rubén, a 23-year-old Mexican immigrant who lives a few RVs down. Unlike Cuevas, Rubén chose to move out of a shared apartment and invest in an RV, saving the wages he earns from a street-repavement company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents are able to park on John Muir Drive for months largely due to sparse enforcement, moving their vehicles only for biweekly street sweeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even that schedule brings stress, affecting their mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062288\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV6-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV6-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuri S., 40, stands outside her RV near Lake Merced, an area that has become a parking refuge for working families in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yuri S., 40, watches her 1-year-old daughter during the day while her husband works, so she’s often in charge of moving the RV every other Monday, despite not knowing how to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When spaces fill up after street sweeping, she sometimes has to park in other parts of Lake Merced that feel less safe, with heavier traffic and unfamiliar neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I just want to leave as fast as I can,” said Yuri, whose family was pushed out of a shared apartment in Daly City after having a baby last October. “I’m not used to this. Living here in the United States is completely different from anything I was used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Echoes of a displaced community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some residents now parked along John Muir Drive had previously spent years in even more established RV communities nearby, along Winston Drive and Lake Merced Boulevard. There, they had systems in place to discard water waste, organize trash pickups and coordinate child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last summer, the tight-knit community of predominantly Latino families was dispersed to different parts of the city after one of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-six-takeaways/\">most controversial crackdowns\u003c/a>. According to Lukas Illa, an organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness, the displacement placed them in even more precarious situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV8.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV8-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV8-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of RVs, where many working immigrant families live, lines a street near Lake Merced in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sweeps are not only a means to displace people from a sidewalk, it is a means to break down communities and break down political power,” Illa told \u003cem>El Tecolote.\u003c/em> “It breaks down communication channels. It breaks down the community of trust and resource sharing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illa said the mass eviction of a working-class community of families with children on Winston Drive exposed the limits of the city’s goodwill to find compassionate solutions. “We had the most humanizing population,” he said. “And still, nothing was done. It was seen as acceptable to displace them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who represents the neighborhood, has since become a leading voice in regulating and banning RVs citywide. Melgar has framed enforcement as a way to protect RV residents, who she said have faced harassment, vandalism and frequent calls to law enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV9.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV9-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV9-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Sebastián, 25, a newcomer from Colombia, shows his neck tattoo in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2025. “I carried my two daughters in front of me with my suitcase on my back,” Sebastián said, recalling his migration through the Darién Gap from Colombia. He and his wife later saved enough money to apply for political asylum and obtain Social Security numbers. “It’s all been thanks to the RV,” he said. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do not have a system to not just regulate but also support these families in an adequate way,” Melgar said \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/50412?view_id=10&redirect=true\">on July 15\u003c/a>, ahead of the vote to approve the new RV policy. “I think it’s on us to build the system to support people to success, and not pretend that by leaving them on the streets we are doing the progressive thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in Lake Merced, where \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=d25e221763f99bd4&p=1&docid=2b28caa7a019a360_d25e221763f99bd4&page=1&capvm=2&dapvm=2\">complaints from neighbors\u003c/a> are driving an uptick in enforcement on certain streets, RV residents have continued to park and accrue tickets. Vidal Drive, for instance, limits parking to four hours without a permit but remains a refuge for residents like Beriuska Acosta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tickets are piling up, but we have nowhere else to park,” Acosta said. Each one costs $102. “I get stressed out when I see the parking officers coming because you don’t know who you are going to get that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In the Bayview, RV residents are pushed to the brink\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Lake Merced’s RVs sit near water and family housing, those in Bayview–Hunters Point make do in industrial corridors lined with warehouses and empty lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along Jerrold and Barneveld avenues, rows of RVs sit wheel-to-wheel. Children’s bikes and barbecue grills rest outside. On Toland Street, a massive Amazon logo looms over the rows of vehicular homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Laura C., 37, living in an RV is the only option for her family. She rents her vehicle for $1,000 a month from another resident and has been parking along the same Bayview Avenue for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062293\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs are parked in front of an Amazon warehouse in the industrial Bayview neighborhood, where a concentration of families are living inside their RVs, many who are working immigrants, in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On one occasion, the city came to clear us out,” Laura said. “But to tell you the truth, we came back. There is nowhere else to park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10 Supervisor Shaman Walton, who oversees the Bayview, was one of two supervisors to vote against the new RV policy, arguing that an enforcement-first approach won’t solve the housing crisis that made RV living necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that someone living in a vehicle does not have a home is malicious when they have no other form of shelter,” Walton said during the board’s vote. “This legislation is alluding to supporting brick and mortar as the only possible home in the most expensive city on the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 55% of the city’s RVs parked in the Bayview, Walton’s district is the epicenter of San Francisco’s RV crisis. In \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=d25e221763f99bd4&p=1&docid=7763a74df0eb275f_d25e221763f99bd4&page=1&capvm=2&dapvm=2\">emails obtained\u003c/a> by \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, residents described RVs blocking hydrants and generating trash and noise, which they fear deters potential tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV10-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV10-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the RV the Clavejo family rents for $1,000 a month in the industrial Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite numerous 311 reports, many cases are quickly closed as “invalid” or “canceled,” fueling accusations of unequal enforcement compared with wealthier Lake Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, along a number of streets in the Bayview, RV neighbors say they help each other find jobs, resources and care for each other’s pets. Some, like Laura, lend their shower or kitchen to neighbors living in cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the SFMTA began taping notices on the windshields of the RVs, warning that vehicles longer than 22 feet or taller than seven feet will risk being towed. The flyers invited residents to informational events and permit workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV12.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV12-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV12-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofía, 7, plays on a smartphone inside the RV her parents rent for $1,000 a month in the industrial Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, California, on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agency is offering six-month parking permits for people who were found parked in the city on May 31, as well as a limited number of housing subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permits could be revoked if residents decline shelter services. The city will also have an optional buyback program, paying $175 per linear foot — $1,000 upfront, with the remainder after residents secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura and her husband said they feel reassured by the permit but are anxious that they might be required to give up their RV to qualify for housing, a rumor that has circled among RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV14-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV14-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura C., 37, checks her DoorDash app from her car in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the Department of Emergency Management \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v0axnUbwmWfMXKqYU3BFw7fvR6Dq_aaj/view?usp=drive_link\">clarified in an email\u003c/a> that residents can keep their RVs, though they must move them to storage or parking outside the city once the ban begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Laura worries that housing subsidies won’t provide lasting relief. She and her husband have struggled to find steady work to cover a full month’s rent, and their rental assistance is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/strategy-to-address-vehicular-homelessness-and-restore-public-spaces?\">temporary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You adapt to a place,” Laura said. “We’ve already adapted to the calmness here. So going to a different place is difficult because you’re not sure if you can trust it, you can’t leave your children alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The toll of displacement on fragile communities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the ban looms closer, many RV residents feel mounting anxiety about their future. Lupe Velez, communications director at the Coalition on Homelessness, said some elderly immigrants she’s spoken with are so stressed they can’t sleep, unsure if they’ll qualify for permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really just so many barriers that they’re facing just to receive this information: cultural, language, generational,” she said. “It’s just really devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV15-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV15-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura C., 37, pours a spoonful of Gatorade into a cup while her two children eat lunch inside their RV in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For some residents, giving up their vehicle would mean surrendering their only source of stability. And frequent displacement can disrupt access to medication and healthcare visits, as well as take a steep mental toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2021 study on Oakland’s RV population, for instance, found that \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/resources/UCSF%20BHHI%20Oversized%20Vehicle%20Report.pdf\">RV residents were often reluctant\u003c/a> to seek healthcare or social services because they feared their vehicles might be towed while they were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Daniela, 37, who lost most of her belongings during a tent sweep five years ago, those fears are constant. She fears leaving her RV for too long, worried that it might get towed. She can’t fathom giving it up for a shelter bed, leaving her five pet dogs behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV16-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV16-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samir, 8, walks past the RV where he lives with his family in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2025. He attends Buena Vista Horace Mann K–8 Community School, which operates an overnight shelter for students and families experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I have enough to eat, sometimes I don’t,” said Daniela, who parks her RV in the Bayview by an Amazon warehouse. “I’m always worried about the police coming and taking away my home because it’s the only thing I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are cautiously optimistic. Asylum seeker Alexander, 33, and his wife live with their dog in an RV. Increased enforcement pushed them from Vidal Drive to John Muir Drive, and they’re now weighing the city’s permit program — or even its RV buyback offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice that they’re giving us opportunities,” Alexander told \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>. “That they’re not just putting rules but that they’re giving us a way to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062316\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV18.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV18-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV18-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samir, 8, tries to juggle his soccer ball with his feet in the Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few vehicles down, Mario and Nancy Guardin are more skeptical. They plan to apply for the permit but are wary of selling their RV, worried that once housing subsidies expire, they’ll face homelessness again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a safe parking site, they would be able to solve all these problems,” Mario said. “But they don’t want that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an enforcement deadline looming, the city is deciding where to place the new two-hour parking signs. Mayoral staffer Eufern Pan advised the SFMTA in \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=d25e221763f99bd4&p=1&docid=6a366498aa6e6557_d25e221763f99bd4&page=1&capvm=2&dapvm=2\">an email\u003c/a> to base the locations on four factors: where RVs are concentrated, where constituents complain most, 311 data, and input from police and parking officers who work on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062324\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pairs of shoes dangle above the Bayview neighborhood where a concentration of families are living inside their RVs, many who are working immigrants, in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the dense communities of families living in RVs in Lake Merced and the Bayview, it’s unclear whether the new policy will stabilize their lives with more housing opportunities or uproot them entirely through constant tows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have consolidated the RVs to two different spots. It’s the Bayview, it’s Lake Merced,” Illa said. “[It’ll make it easy] for cops to monitor every two hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illa said a ban on large RVs, a “visible sign of poverty,” will only encourage housed residents to report RVs in their neighborhoods and push families to seek refuge in cars and smaller vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV17-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV17-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura C., 37, looks out from the RV she rents for $1,000 a month in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot harder to stay vehicularly housed in an RV versus like a sedan because the image of an RV is so stigmatized, is so hyper policed, that it is reported the second that it is seen,” Illa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the living room of her RV in the Bayview, Laura looks out over an industrial landscape. Her eyes widen when she thinks about a backup plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our home. If they take our homes, we will end up in the street,” she said. “For me, this is my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This project was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and is part of “Healing California,” a yearlong reporting Ethnic Media Collaborative venture with print, online and broadcast outlets across California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, more people are turning to oversized vehicles for shelter as San Francisco’s cost of living soars. Driven onto the same few streets, many RV residents have formed small communities of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a new citywide policy could decide the future of hundreds of people and families who call RVs home. Starting Nov. 1, 2025, San Francisco will enforce a two-hour parking limit for large vehicles. Residents must obtain a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/large-vehicle-refuge-permit-program\">Large Vehicle Refuge Permit\u003c/a> or face tickets and towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062252 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV2-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lakewood Apartments serve as a backdrop to a row of RVs parked along the street near Lake Merced in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. Some neighbors have voiced concerns about the RVs in online forums such as Reddit. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials say the program will connect eligible residents to housing assistance, but advocates warn it will uproot families and worsen conditions for working-class immigrants, seniors and people with disabilities already weathering the physical and mental health toll of displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em> has documented the informal support systems forged by RV residents in Lake Merced and the Bayview in the absence of city aid. Firsthand accounts and public records reveal that, despite the promised support, the city’s upcoming crackdown threatens to dismantle the fragile stability these households have found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This isn’t forever: Families find refuge in Lake Merced\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cuevas worked as a DoorDash delivery driver last year, she often drove past dozens of parked RVs around Lake Merced. The Mexican mother worked three jobs and shared a Visitacion Valley home with two roommates to cover $3,800 rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had already been homeless once, when she first moved to the Bay Area in 2018 with a pending asylum application. After time in San Mateo County’s shelter system, a social worker helped her find housing in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062256 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV3-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV3-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Cuevas, 32, stands outside her RV near Lake Merced holding her two guinea pigs in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. “I like staying on this street because it feels safer than the Bayview, where we stayed for a short time,” she said. “It’s been really difficult to get any type of resources.” \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By late January, an eviction over missed rent payments pushed her family back to the streets. Cuevas bought an RV and started parking near her 8-year-old son’s school in the Bayview, moving every 72 hours to avoid tickets. As the citations piled up, Cuevas remembered the motorhomes she’d seen in Lake Merced and headed west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Cuevas found a spot on John Muir Drive, a wide, quiet street facing the lake where dozens of other RVs were parked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still here,” Cuevas said. “We’re trying to look for a better place. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco’s promise of housing support to RV residents is what Cuevas said she needs, though those options seem far from reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been on the city’s backlogged family-shelter waitlist since January. In June, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Agenda_Item_8_Directors_Report_June_2025.pdf\">reported\u003c/a> that 295 families were waiting for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Lake Merced feels more peaceful than anywhere else she’s parked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area is quiet, aside from chirping birds and the occasional car driving by. Between the line of RVs and the lake, residents take evening strolls along a walking path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parked along the road have formed a sense of community. They look out for one another — Cuevas said she once drove a neighbor to the hospital after noticing she was limping — and work together to keep the area clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062280 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV5-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV5-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The work boots of Rubén, 23, a Mexican immigrant who lives in an RV near Lake Merced, an area that has become a refuge for displaced working families in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This place is nice and we try to take care of it, because they’re letting us stay here,” said Rubén, a 23-year-old Mexican immigrant who lives a few RVs down. Unlike Cuevas, Rubén chose to move out of a shared apartment and invest in an RV, saving the wages he earns from a street-repavement company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents are able to park on John Muir Drive for months largely due to sparse enforcement, moving their vehicles only for biweekly street sweeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even that schedule brings stress, affecting their mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062288\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV6-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV6-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuri S., 40, stands outside her RV near Lake Merced, an area that has become a parking refuge for working families in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yuri S., 40, watches her 1-year-old daughter during the day while her husband works, so she’s often in charge of moving the RV every other Monday, despite not knowing how to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When spaces fill up after street sweeping, she sometimes has to park in other parts of Lake Merced that feel less safe, with heavier traffic and unfamiliar neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I just want to leave as fast as I can,” said Yuri, whose family was pushed out of a shared apartment in Daly City after having a baby last October. “I’m not used to this. Living here in the United States is completely different from anything I was used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Echoes of a displaced community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some residents now parked along John Muir Drive had previously spent years in even more established RV communities nearby, along Winston Drive and Lake Merced Boulevard. There, they had systems in place to discard water waste, organize trash pickups and coordinate child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last summer, the tight-knit community of predominantly Latino families was dispersed to different parts of the city after one of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-six-takeaways/\">most controversial crackdowns\u003c/a>. According to Lukas Illa, an organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness, the displacement placed them in even more precarious situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV8.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV8-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV8-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of RVs, where many working immigrant families live, lines a street near Lake Merced in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sweeps are not only a means to displace people from a sidewalk, it is a means to break down communities and break down political power,” Illa told \u003cem>El Tecolote.\u003c/em> “It breaks down communication channels. It breaks down the community of trust and resource sharing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illa said the mass eviction of a working-class community of families with children on Winston Drive exposed the limits of the city’s goodwill to find compassionate solutions. “We had the most humanizing population,” he said. “And still, nothing was done. It was seen as acceptable to displace them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who represents the neighborhood, has since become a leading voice in regulating and banning RVs citywide. Melgar has framed enforcement as a way to protect RV residents, who she said have faced harassment, vandalism and frequent calls to law enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV9.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV9-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV9-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Sebastián, 25, a newcomer from Colombia, shows his neck tattoo in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2025. “I carried my two daughters in front of me with my suitcase on my back,” Sebastián said, recalling his migration through the Darién Gap from Colombia. He and his wife later saved enough money to apply for political asylum and obtain Social Security numbers. “It’s all been thanks to the RV,” he said. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do not have a system to not just regulate but also support these families in an adequate way,” Melgar said \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/50412?view_id=10&redirect=true\">on July 15\u003c/a>, ahead of the vote to approve the new RV policy. “I think it’s on us to build the system to support people to success, and not pretend that by leaving them on the streets we are doing the progressive thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in Lake Merced, where \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=d25e221763f99bd4&p=1&docid=2b28caa7a019a360_d25e221763f99bd4&page=1&capvm=2&dapvm=2\">complaints from neighbors\u003c/a> are driving an uptick in enforcement on certain streets, RV residents have continued to park and accrue tickets. Vidal Drive, for instance, limits parking to four hours without a permit but remains a refuge for residents like Beriuska Acosta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tickets are piling up, but we have nowhere else to park,” Acosta said. Each one costs $102. “I get stressed out when I see the parking officers coming because you don’t know who you are going to get that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In the Bayview, RV residents are pushed to the brink\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Lake Merced’s RVs sit near water and family housing, those in Bayview–Hunters Point make do in industrial corridors lined with warehouses and empty lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along Jerrold and Barneveld avenues, rows of RVs sit wheel-to-wheel. Children’s bikes and barbecue grills rest outside. On Toland Street, a massive Amazon logo looms over the rows of vehicular homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Laura C., 37, living in an RV is the only option for her family. She rents her vehicle for $1,000 a month from another resident and has been parking along the same Bayview Avenue for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062293\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs are parked in front of an Amazon warehouse in the industrial Bayview neighborhood, where a concentration of families are living inside their RVs, many who are working immigrants, in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On one occasion, the city came to clear us out,” Laura said. “But to tell you the truth, we came back. There is nowhere else to park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10 Supervisor Shaman Walton, who oversees the Bayview, was one of two supervisors to vote against the new RV policy, arguing that an enforcement-first approach won’t solve the housing crisis that made RV living necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that someone living in a vehicle does not have a home is malicious when they have no other form of shelter,” Walton said during the board’s vote. “This legislation is alluding to supporting brick and mortar as the only possible home in the most expensive city on the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 55% of the city’s RVs parked in the Bayview, Walton’s district is the epicenter of San Francisco’s RV crisis. In \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=d25e221763f99bd4&p=1&docid=7763a74df0eb275f_d25e221763f99bd4&page=1&capvm=2&dapvm=2\">emails obtained\u003c/a> by \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, residents described RVs blocking hydrants and generating trash and noise, which they fear deters potential tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV10-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV10-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the RV the Clavejo family rents for $1,000 a month in the industrial Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite numerous 311 reports, many cases are quickly closed as “invalid” or “canceled,” fueling accusations of unequal enforcement compared with wealthier Lake Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, along a number of streets in the Bayview, RV neighbors say they help each other find jobs, resources and care for each other’s pets. Some, like Laura, lend their shower or kitchen to neighbors living in cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the SFMTA began taping notices on the windshields of the RVs, warning that vehicles longer than 22 feet or taller than seven feet will risk being towed. The flyers invited residents to informational events and permit workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV12.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV12-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV12-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofía, 7, plays on a smartphone inside the RV her parents rent for $1,000 a month in the industrial Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, California, on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agency is offering six-month parking permits for people who were found parked in the city on May 31, as well as a limited number of housing subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permits could be revoked if residents decline shelter services. The city will also have an optional buyback program, paying $175 per linear foot — $1,000 upfront, with the remainder after residents secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura and her husband said they feel reassured by the permit but are anxious that they might be required to give up their RV to qualify for housing, a rumor that has circled among RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV14-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV14-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura C., 37, checks her DoorDash app from her car in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the Department of Emergency Management \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v0axnUbwmWfMXKqYU3BFw7fvR6Dq_aaj/view?usp=drive_link\">clarified in an email\u003c/a> that residents can keep their RVs, though they must move them to storage or parking outside the city once the ban begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Laura worries that housing subsidies won’t provide lasting relief. She and her husband have struggled to find steady work to cover a full month’s rent, and their rental assistance is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/strategy-to-address-vehicular-homelessness-and-restore-public-spaces?\">temporary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You adapt to a place,” Laura said. “We’ve already adapted to the calmness here. So going to a different place is difficult because you’re not sure if you can trust it, you can’t leave your children alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The toll of displacement on fragile communities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the ban looms closer, many RV residents feel mounting anxiety about their future. Lupe Velez, communications director at the Coalition on Homelessness, said some elderly immigrants she’s spoken with are so stressed they can’t sleep, unsure if they’ll qualify for permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really just so many barriers that they’re facing just to receive this information: cultural, language, generational,” she said. “It’s just really devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV15-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV15-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura C., 37, pours a spoonful of Gatorade into a cup while her two children eat lunch inside their RV in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For some residents, giving up their vehicle would mean surrendering their only source of stability. And frequent displacement can disrupt access to medication and healthcare visits, as well as take a steep mental toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2021 study on Oakland’s RV population, for instance, found that \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/resources/UCSF%20BHHI%20Oversized%20Vehicle%20Report.pdf\">RV residents were often reluctant\u003c/a> to seek healthcare or social services because they feared their vehicles might be towed while they were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Daniela, 37, who lost most of her belongings during a tent sweep five years ago, those fears are constant. She fears leaving her RV for too long, worried that it might get towed. She can’t fathom giving it up for a shelter bed, leaving her five pet dogs behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV16-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV16-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samir, 8, walks past the RV where he lives with his family in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2025. He attends Buena Vista Horace Mann K–8 Community School, which operates an overnight shelter for students and families experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I have enough to eat, sometimes I don’t,” said Daniela, who parks her RV in the Bayview by an Amazon warehouse. “I’m always worried about the police coming and taking away my home because it’s the only thing I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are cautiously optimistic. Asylum seeker Alexander, 33, and his wife live with their dog in an RV. Increased enforcement pushed them from Vidal Drive to John Muir Drive, and they’re now weighing the city’s permit program — or even its RV buyback offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice that they’re giving us opportunities,” Alexander told \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>. “That they’re not just putting rules but that they’re giving us a way to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062316\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV18.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV18-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV18-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samir, 8, tries to juggle his soccer ball with his feet in the Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few vehicles down, Mario and Nancy Guardin are more skeptical. They plan to apply for the permit but are wary of selling their RV, worried that once housing subsidies expire, they’ll face homelessness again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a safe parking site, they would be able to solve all these problems,” Mario said. “But they don’t want that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an enforcement deadline looming, the city is deciding where to place the new two-hour parking signs. Mayoral staffer Eufern Pan advised the SFMTA in \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=d25e221763f99bd4&p=1&docid=6a366498aa6e6557_d25e221763f99bd4&page=1&capvm=2&dapvm=2\">an email\u003c/a> to base the locations on four factors: where RVs are concentrated, where constituents complain most, 311 data, and input from police and parking officers who work on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062324\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pairs of shoes dangle above the Bayview neighborhood where a concentration of families are living inside their RVs, many who are working immigrants, in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the dense communities of families living in RVs in Lake Merced and the Bayview, it’s unclear whether the new policy will stabilize their lives with more housing opportunities or uproot them entirely through constant tows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have consolidated the RVs to two different spots. It’s the Bayview, it’s Lake Merced,” Illa said. “[It’ll make it easy] for cops to monitor every two hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illa said a ban on large RVs, a “visible sign of poverty,” will only encourage housed residents to report RVs in their neighborhoods and push families to seek refuge in cars and smaller vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV17-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV17-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura C., 37, looks out from the RV she rents for $1,000 a month in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot harder to stay vehicularly housed in an RV versus like a sedan because the image of an RV is so stigmatized, is so hyper policed, that it is reported the second that it is seen,” Illa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the living room of her RV in the Bayview, Laura looks out over an industrial landscape. Her eyes widen when she thinks about a backup plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our home. If they take our homes, we will end up in the street,” she said. “For me, this is my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This project was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and is part of “Healing California,” a yearlong reporting Ethnic Media Collaborative venture with print, online and broadcast outlets across California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Outside his tent, among the dead leaves and saplings, Eric Adams keeps a neat stack of bags stuffed with garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just try to pick it up and try to do the best that I can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams is one of twenty-some people who live on a wooded strip of land tucked between a freeway and a busy street in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/el-sobrante\">El Sobrante\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 48-year-old keeps his patch tidy, but all around him the ground is strewn with plastic bags, food wrappers, even a mattress and a tire. He’s so fed up that he’s started confronting his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, ‘This is nasty,’” he said. “‘I don’t want to pick up this mess for you to throw it all back.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams doesn’t just pick up garbage. He pulls debris from the creek nearby and yanks out invasive ivy, “because I enjoy it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t always like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I would give a damn,” he said. “I’m aware now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program remove English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That changed after Adams joined a pilot program teaching unhoused residents ecological literacy and creek restoration. It’s a novel approach to addressing the environmental harms brought on by the growing number of people setting up camp along creeks and canals as homelessness surges in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-week program was put on this summer by the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/sos-richmond-housing-crisis-california-homelessness/\">Safe Organized Spaces Richmond\u003c/a> and a pair of researchers. It’s part of \u003ca href=\"https://pasternack.ucdavis.edu/research/projects/stream-side-encampments\">a larger study\u003c/a> examining the intersection of homelessness, climate change, and urban streams across the Bay Area’s nine counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers estimate 10% of California’s unhoused population — about 18,700 people — lives along waterways. In the absence of enough affordable housing and shelter, it feels like the best of bad options for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044669 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reading “Pinole Creek don’t trash it” is posted by Pinole Creek in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People like to be along streams because they’re out of sight, out of mind,” said Costanza Rampini, an environmental studies professor at San José State University and one of the study leads. She and her students interviewed more than 300 people living along waterways. “They’re not on our sidewalks where they’re going to be confronted more with local residents, with local law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even more true since cities started cracking down on encampments last year. But people are also seeking out water for drinking, bathing and washing clothes, and for shade and softer ground to sleep on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is it’s polluting the water,” said Eileen White, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. “We want to protect our waterways, for the beauty, for the environment, for the wildlife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stewards of their streams\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pilot program Adams joined was designed to test whether encampment residents could become partners in protecting streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rampini’s hope is that the program can benefit the environment while improving people’s well-being and helping them stabilize their lives. “Can we provide opportunities for them to maybe make some income and feel a sense of usefulness and agency?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Walker, a participant of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program, pulls out English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Friday afternoon this summer, Adams and a group of unhoused and formerly homeless men and women gathered along a stream behind the Pinole Library. They had just finished a class on erosion control and were putting it into practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in the shade of tall trees, they trimmed willow branches into stakes and hammered them into the soil to stabilize the banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ooh! This is the kid in me now,” Adams said, scrambling down to the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knee-deep in the creek, he and classmates Brianni Peters and Ronnie Walker scouted spots to drive the stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, Eric! Look where I put mine,” Peters shouted. “I did it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianni Peters, a participant of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program, right, speaks during a classroom session, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They laughed as water splashed into Walker’s boots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My bad!” Adams said with a mischievous grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m having fun, man,” Walker said. “I’m here for the journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has also learned about steelhead trout and their habitat, studied invasive and native plants, and practiced other restoration techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m halfway a botanist right now,” said Walker, who’s 36 and has been homeless for three years. “I love the environment. I love being outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A dire need for cleanups\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As more encampments spring up along streams and canals, trash, human waste and chemicals are taking a toll on water quality, drawing pressure from regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere in the Bay Area is this challenge more evident than in San José, where \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14775079&GUID=75AEB53E-EE69-472A-AF32-C23354EC09CA\">at least 1,200 people\u003c/a> were living along streams earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program remove English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was just unmanageable,” said Rajani Nair, deputy director of the Watershed Protection Division of the city’s Environmental Services Department. “The best solution was really to ensure these encampments are not living in the waterways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure from regulators, the \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7652910&GUID=D042E67C-69C8-4595-9BD6-00019551F223&Options=&Search=\">city cleared encampments\u003c/a> from 16 miles of waterways last fiscal year. Workers hauled away almost 2,000 tons of trash and set up no-encampment zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cost the city nearly $64 million, including the cost of building new shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say their efforts have led to healthier streams. But despite new shelter investments, there are still \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/county-santa-clara-releases-preliminary-results-2025-point-time-homeless-count\">far more unsheltered people\u003c/a> than \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-has-1-shelter-bed-for-every-3-homeless-people/\">beds in San José\u003c/a> and across the state. And, advocates say, what is available doesn’t work for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the city’s tiny homes, motel shelters and sanctioned campgrounds offer a welcome alternative to creekside life. For others, giving up their belongings for a short-term placement is a losing bet, said Tristia Bauman, directing attorney of housing at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. “There are also many people who are in far worse situations, who will be far less able to be self-sufficient, who lost a lot of money and lost a lot of trust in the system,” Bauman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Gelfand, Habitat Restoration Manager at Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, center, leads a classroom session for Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program participants, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As long as that’s the case, the researchers say people will find their way back to waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are voting with their feet where they want to be,” UC Davis hydrology professor and study co-lead Greg Pasternack said. That’s why he and Rampini are looking for a way to work with encampment residents where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to find a way that the environmental goals of our society and the social goals of our society can coexist,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a scientist who’s spent nearly three decades working in environmental restoration, Pasternack admits he didn’t always see things this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve dedicated my life — made major sacrifices — to try to help support the environment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time he’s spent studying encampments and talking with the people who live in them, shifted his perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t look at the suffering of people and say that we should just ignore that, that the stream in and of itself is more important,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Restoration as recovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s plenty of evidence that spending time in nature improves mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Rampini pointed out, “We haven’t really extended that idea to people experiencing homelessness, who may actually be dealing with … more mental and physical health issues than a majority of housed folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the goal isn’t to turn restoration into a career track out of homelessness, but to test whether it can be beneficial for those living along waterways and at the fringes of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program do a group activity during a classroom session, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walker and Adams say it has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought in a million years I’d be out here doing what I’m doing now. It’s so surreal. And it’s so relaxing,” Adams said. “There are a lot of things that went on in my lifetime, and I just get to sit here and just think about it and realize everything’s not all that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Adams said he was working as a substitute teacher. He has a college degree, a teenage son and he had a partner. Then his life unraveled. He said he got shot, his relationship fell apart, and he lost his closest family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost my crutch, my grandmother, and I lost my dad, who was my best friend,” he said. His father had himself been homeless for much of Adams’ life.[aside postID=news_12054270 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02100_TV-KQED.jpg']After his father’s death, Adams began spending more time on the streets with people who’d known him. He went from couch surfing to sleeping in his car to pitching a tent. He stopped working, and his drug problem got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I literally just gave up. I sat down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years of homelessness and often-debilitating depression, he said the creek restoration program has given him motivation again. He was one of three participants kept on after the initial training and now earns $19 an hour doing part-time restoration work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw something inside of us, regardless of our living situation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the part-time work isn’t enough to get Adams out of his tent. But it’s given him something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I got a purpose now in life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said he wants to keep learning ecology. He knows jobs in the field aren’t easy to come by, but if he could, he’d work full-time for the county conservation district — restoring the same creek he lives beside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want this to be my creek,” he said. “I want to take pride in cleaning up this creek.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, ‘This is nasty,’” he said. “‘I don’t want to pick up this mess for you to throw it all back.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams doesn’t just pick up garbage. He pulls debris from the creek nearby and yanks out invasive ivy, “because I enjoy it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t always like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I would give a damn,” he said. “I’m aware now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-34-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program remove English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That changed after Adams joined a pilot program teaching unhoused residents ecological literacy and creek restoration. It’s a novel approach to addressing the environmental harms brought on by the growing number of people setting up camp along creeks and canals as homelessness surges in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-week program was put on this summer by the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/sos-richmond-housing-crisis-california-homelessness/\">Safe Organized Spaces Richmond\u003c/a> and a pair of researchers. It’s part of \u003ca href=\"https://pasternack.ucdavis.edu/research/projects/stream-side-encampments\">a larger study\u003c/a> examining the intersection of homelessness, climate change, and urban streams across the Bay Area’s nine counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers estimate 10% of California’s unhoused population — about 18,700 people — lives along waterways. In the absence of enough affordable housing and shelter, it feels like the best of bad options for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044669 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reading “Pinole Creek don’t trash it” is posted by Pinole Creek in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People like to be along streams because they’re out of sight, out of mind,” said Costanza Rampini, an environmental studies professor at San José State University and one of the study leads. She and her students interviewed more than 300 people living along waterways. “They’re not on our sidewalks where they’re going to be confronted more with local residents, with local law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even more true since cities started cracking down on encampments last year. But people are also seeking out water for drinking, bathing and washing clothes, and for shade and softer ground to sleep on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is it’s polluting the water,” said Eileen White, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. “We want to protect our waterways, for the beauty, for the environment, for the wildlife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stewards of their streams\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pilot program Adams joined was designed to test whether encampment residents could become partners in protecting streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rampini’s hope is that the program can benefit the environment while improving people’s well-being and helping them stabilize their lives. “Can we provide opportunities for them to maybe make some income and feel a sense of usefulness and agency?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Walker, a participant of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program, pulls out English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Friday afternoon this summer, Adams and a group of unhoused and formerly homeless men and women gathered along a stream behind the Pinole Library. They had just finished a class on erosion control and were putting it into practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in the shade of tall trees, they trimmed willow branches into stakes and hammered them into the soil to stabilize the banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ooh! This is the kid in me now,” Adams said, scrambling down to the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knee-deep in the creek, he and classmates Brianni Peters and Ronnie Walker scouted spots to drive the stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, Eric! Look where I put mine,” Peters shouted. “I did it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianni Peters, a participant of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program, right, speaks during a classroom session, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They laughed as water splashed into Walker’s boots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My bad!” Adams said with a mischievous grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m having fun, man,” Walker said. “I’m here for the journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has also learned about steelhead trout and their habitat, studied invasive and native plants, and practiced other restoration techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m halfway a botanist right now,” said Walker, who’s 36 and has been homeless for three years. “I love the environment. I love being outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A dire need for cleanups\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As more encampments spring up along streams and canals, trash, human waste and chemicals are taking a toll on water quality, drawing pressure from regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere in the Bay Area is this challenge more evident than in San José, where \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14775079&GUID=75AEB53E-EE69-472A-AF32-C23354EC09CA\">at least 1,200 people\u003c/a> were living along streams earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program remove English Ivy, an invasive species, along Pinole Creek, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was just unmanageable,” said Rajani Nair, deputy director of the Watershed Protection Division of the city’s Environmental Services Department. “The best solution was really to ensure these encampments are not living in the waterways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure from regulators, the \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7652910&GUID=D042E67C-69C8-4595-9BD6-00019551F223&Options=&Search=\">city cleared encampments\u003c/a> from 16 miles of waterways last fiscal year. Workers hauled away almost 2,000 tons of trash and set up no-encampment zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cost the city nearly $64 million, including the cost of building new shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say their efforts have led to healthier streams. But despite new shelter investments, there are still \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/county-santa-clara-releases-preliminary-results-2025-point-time-homeless-count\">far more unsheltered people\u003c/a> than \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-has-1-shelter-bed-for-every-3-homeless-people/\">beds in San José\u003c/a> and across the state. And, advocates say, what is available doesn’t work for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the city’s tiny homes, motel shelters and sanctioned campgrounds offer a welcome alternative to creekside life. For others, giving up their belongings for a short-term placement is a losing bet, said Tristia Bauman, directing attorney of housing at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. “There are also many people who are in far worse situations, who will be far less able to be self-sufficient, who lost a lot of money and lost a lot of trust in the system,” Bauman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Gelfand, Habitat Restoration Manager at Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, center, leads a classroom session for Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program participants, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As long as that’s the case, the researchers say people will find their way back to waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are voting with their feet where they want to be,” UC Davis hydrology professor and study co-lead Greg Pasternack said. That’s why he and Rampini are looking for a way to work with encampment residents where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to find a way that the environmental goals of our society and the social goals of our society can coexist,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a scientist who’s spent nearly three decades working in environmental restoration, Pasternack admits he didn’t always see things this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve dedicated my life — made major sacrifices — to try to help support the environment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time he’s spent studying encampments and talking with the people who live in them, shifted his perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t look at the suffering of people and say that we should just ignore that, that the stream in and of itself is more important,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Restoration as recovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s plenty of evidence that spending time in nature improves mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Rampini pointed out, “We haven’t really extended that idea to people experiencing homelessness, who may actually be dealing with … more mental and physical health issues than a majority of housed folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the goal isn’t to turn restoration into a career track out of homelessness, but to test whether it can be beneficial for those living along waterways and at the fringes of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250616_UNHOUSEDCREEKRESTORATION_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the Pinole Creek Unhoused Stewards Pilot Program do a group activity during a classroom session, outside of the Pinole Library, in Pinole on June 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walker and Adams say it has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought in a million years I’d be out here doing what I’m doing now. It’s so surreal. And it’s so relaxing,” Adams said. “There are a lot of things that went on in my lifetime, and I just get to sit here and just think about it and realize everything’s not all that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Adams said he was working as a substitute teacher. He has a college degree, a teenage son and he had a partner. Then his life unraveled. He said he got shot, his relationship fell apart, and he lost his closest family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost my crutch, my grandmother, and I lost my dad, who was my best friend,” he said. His father had himself been homeless for much of Adams’ life.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> officials plan to move 60 now-vacant cabins for homeless people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11637875/new-program-pitches-tiny-homes-as-solution-to-s-f-homelessness\">a former shelter site in the Mission District\u003c/a> to Jerrold Commons, a temporary shelter site in the Bayview neighborhood. While the cabins aren’t slated to be occupied anytime soon, the decision has drawn ire from Bayview leaders who say it takes advantage of their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerrold Commons is part of a broader debate over where to locate services for homeless people as the city seeks to expand transitional housing and shelters across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Shamann Walton, who represents the historically Black neighborhood on the southeast edge of the city, blasted the decision to store the unused cabins at Jerrold Commons, saying he was not notified and that the move goes against agreements the Board of Supervisors made earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First, the mayor tried to turn Jerrold into a 200-bed shelter site with no RV parking and no community input. Now, he’s trying to quietly drop in cabins from the Mission and talk about expansion later,” Walton said. “At no point has this administration come back to the community in good faith for this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 tiny home cabins are currently housing residents at Jerrold Commons, according to Emily Cohen, deputy director for communications and legislative affairs at the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10483076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10483076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/BART-e1428532843522.jpg\" alt=\"The BART station at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The BART station at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is now planning to relocate 60 empty cabins from a former shelter site near the 16th Street BART station because the parcel is slated to be developed into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With thousands of people sleeping on the streets every night, we need these cabins available to offer those people somewhere inside to sleep,” Cohen said. “But until these cabins have a long-term site, we have a simple choice: dispose of them entirely, delay a critical affordable housing project in the Mission, or store them temporarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said they are working to identify a long-term site and use for the now-empty cabins, which Cohen said will remain unused while they are stored at Jerrold Commons. It’s unclear how long they will be stored at the site.[aside postID=news_12050263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-ShelterFamilies-09-BL_qed.jpg']The department said it intends to notify and work with current residents at Jerrold Commons and community members for any future efforts to fill the cabins or make other changes to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city will conduct a robust community engagement process before activating the cabins at any future site or making any changes to the operations at Jerrold,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office declined to provide a comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton’s district has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/lawmaker-blasts-mayor-over-bayview-homeless-plan-20246317.php\">at the center of much debate\u003c/a> over where the city should build out new shelters and transitional housing. The supervisor earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050263/a-new-san-francisco-plan-would-spread-out-homeless-shelters-more-evenly\">supported legislation\u003c/a> that would require the city to build new facilities in neighborhoods where data shows there are more unhoused people than services available, and avoid over-concentrating services in a few communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10 is home to a large portion of the city’s unhoused population as well as residents living in cars and RVs. 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