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D'agne was raised here, and she’s lived here, on Fashion Avenue, for the past 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They call me Miss Fashion,” she said. “Or number one neighbor on the block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents bought two properties on Fashion Avenue in 1974. D'agne said she had been using the second home to offer housing for people in desperate situations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grab these people off the street, love on them, give them a hot meal and, you know, transition them into a better quality of life,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this week, D'agne was sitting in her car, filled with piles of her belongings. Her neighbor’s lawn was scattered with the contents of D'agne’s entire life. She watched her nephew and niece help haul a washing machine into a huge moving van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807534\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11807534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D'agne sitting in her car, where she has been sleeping. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three weeks ago, D'agne received an eviction notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'agne said she took a loan out on her home and wasn’t able to make payments, so the lender went after her house. 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I've never been through anything like this before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's the last of her worries,” said Oluwakemi Deckon, D'agne’s 15-year-old niece. She was there helping the move because her school was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'agne said when coronavirus started popping up in the news, she didn't give it any attention. But now, D'agne is concerned. She has asthma and bronchitis, which makes her more likely to die from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"D'agne Smith Edmonson\"]'This is a state of emergency. You have people out there. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Monday that authorized local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.16.20-Executive-Order.pdf\">stop evictions\u003c/a> and foreclosures — but it’s not mandatory. Many cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and Long Beach already passed similar laws during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some, these local laws came too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minerva D'agne Smith Edmonson is my dad’s neighbor. I’ve known her for 10 years. She greeted me like a grandma would, gushing about how I just graduated from college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were in the Westside neighborhood of Long Beach, right off the freeway, where a Filipino grocery sits across the street from a black-owned barbershop. D'agne was raised here, and she’s lived here, on Fashion Avenue, for the past 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They call me Miss Fashion,” she said. “Or number one neighbor on the block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents bought two properties on Fashion Avenue in 1974. D'agne said she had been using the second home to offer housing for people in desperate situations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grab these people off the street, love on them, give them a hot meal and, you know, transition them into a better quality of life,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this week, D'agne was sitting in her car, filled with piles of her belongings. Her neighbor’s lawn was scattered with the contents of D'agne’s entire life. She watched her nephew and niece help haul a washing machine into a huge moving van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807534\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11807534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42162_IMG_2637-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D'agne sitting in her car, where she has been sleeping. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three weeks ago, D'agne received an eviction notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'agne said she took a loan out on her home and wasn’t able to make payments, so the lender went after her house. She was foreclosed on, and evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She already had two strokes, chronic back problems and has been living on disability since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the coronavirus hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807535\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11807535\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42159_IMG_2638-qut-e1584641828761.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D'agne's eviction notice, dated Feb. 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It's overwhelming,” she said. “It's really overwhelming. I've never been through anything like this before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's the last of her worries,” said Oluwakemi Deckon, D'agne’s 15-year-old niece. She was there helping the move because her school was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'agne said when coronavirus started popping up in the news, she didn't give it any attention. But now, D'agne is concerned. She has asthma and bronchitis, which makes her more likely to die from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the new property owners told her, “I don't know where you're going to quarantine, but it won't be here at this property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I guess I'll do it in my car,\" she told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'agne has to adjust to being newly homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm like, sweetie you're homeless,” she said. “I need to speak those words. You are homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this new era of social distancing, D'agne is struggling to reach out and find help. “I'm always helping others. I'm not used to, you know, reaching out for help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities like San Francisco have initiated emergency quarantine zones in RV’s for homeless people who become infected with the virus. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is setting up \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@lahomeless/what-lahsa-is-doing-regarding-the-coronavirus-ec5153329012\">hand-washing stations by homeless encampments\u003c/a>. They released guidelines on how to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=671-covid-19-guidance-for-los-angeles-county-homeless-services-community\">sanitize shelters\u003c/a>, where people typically live in very close quarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this week, Long Beach \u003ca href=\"http://longbeach.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=769823&GUID=BA701614-68AB-402C-A7D2-DC555FB77B91\">passed a law\u003c/a> that protects tenants from eviction and foreclosure in the midst of the epidemic. But it only protects people who’ve lost their jobs or picked up extra expenses due to the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the measure passed, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonRuiz_LB/status/1240096622253498368\">more needs to be done\u003c/a>. He said state and federal dollars need to go directly into people’s pockets to ensure people can stay housed or find emergency housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real work must come from the state and federal government,” Garcia said. “And I could encourage us to work with the federal administration to ensure as robust a financial package as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'agne’s old house is now empty. If a statewide eviction freeze had been mandated just a few weeks earlier, maybe she wouldn’t be in this situation, scrambling to find a place to stay during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After they finished moving the washing machine, workers came and said goodbye, sharing some warmth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to embrace who I am and wherever this new life takes me, still be who I am and help others,” D'agne said. “And that's, that's just who I am. So I'm not going to cry. I'm just not. I can't, I can't cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818322136/heres-what-is-in-the-families-first-coronavirus-aid-package-trump-approved\">Federal money\u003c/a> could make all the difference for people like D'agne, who are living without a safety net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More local laws to protect people from homelessness could be on the way. State assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11807102/newsom-authorizes-california-cities-to-stop-evictions-tenant-advocates-say-more-is-needed\">working on a new\u003c/a> law that orders eviction freezes across California for up to a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles also is building 6,000 beds for homeless people in recreation centers across the city. There are about 27,000 unsheltered homeless people in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a state of emergency. You have people out there,\" D'agne said. \"Don't just let them die.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 23\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials said Monday they had identified more than 8,000 hotel rooms to possibly use to house people who need a place to self-isolate as the city tries to slow the spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, director of the city’s Human Services Agency, said he expects the city will need to rent hotel rooms for up to 4,500 people. So far, the city has communicated with 31 hoteliers who said they have rooms available for rent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first priority will be given to people who have tested positive for COVID-19 or who are awaiting test results but don’t have a home where they can quarantine alone. This could include people experiencing homelessness, living in residential hotels or other congregate settings, such as shelters. But it could also include firefighters, police officers or health workers who don’t want to expose their families to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of San Francisco County supervisors is also pushing for the city to offer hotel rooms to anyone who is homeless and doesn’t have anywhere to shelter in place – regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms of the virus or are considered at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that just like you and I, they should have an opportunity to keep themselves safe,” said Supervisor Hillary Ronen. “[They should be able] to shelter in place and keep all of us safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 rooms were available as of Monday, Rhorer said. The city has leased rooms for 60 people so far. The city hopes to allow people to move into more rooms as early as Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also intend to use hotel rooms to relieve pressure on hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Grant Colfax, the head of San Francisco’s Department of Health, said “twenty to thirty” patients at Laguna Honda Hospital right now are well enough to get care outside of the hospital and will be offered hotel rooms. He described the patients as people “physically and mentally able to be supported outside a hospital setting,” who are not under investigation for having the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news came as counties across the Bay Area mobilize resources to protect residents who are homeless during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced last week that it would spend up to $150 million in emergency funding to lease hotel rooms and purchase trailers to house people experiencing homelessness and help slow the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is using $50 million to buy about 1,300 travel trailers and to help cities and counties lease hotel rooms, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. More than 950 hotels and motels across the state have been identified as potential lease sites, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sandy Perry, president of the Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County\"]‘If this begins to spread, there will be a lot of casualties. So people are upset and fearful.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also distributing $100 million of the emergency funding to cities and counties to support shelter services and respond to the outbreak among homeless residents in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assuming a potential 56% attack rate, state public health officials anticipate some 60,000 homeless people could contract COVID-19, Newsom said, just one of the many scenarios the state is modeling. If it manifests, California would need upwards of 19,000 new hospital beds, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That creates a deep point of anxiety for the existing population but moreover for our health care delivery system,” Newsom said, “and our capacity to move people in and out of the shelter safely without contacting other people and putting them at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensified search for places where people living in encampments and shelters can self-isolate came just three days after a man in Santa Clara County became the first person in California experiencing homelessness to die of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County’s Public Health Department declined to say where the man was living or if he could have exposed others to the virus. But news of his death had many people in the South Bay’s homeless communities on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials said that the virus can spread more quickly in shelters and encampments because of the close proximity to others and limited access to clean water and soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless people are also more vulnerable to the disease because many have underlying health conditions. Last year, 12% of the county’s homeless population was 61 years old or older, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/ContinuumofCare/ReportsandPublications/Documents/2015%20Santa%20Clara%20County%20Homeless%20Census%20and%20Survey/2019%20SCC%20Homeless%20Census%20and%20Survey%20Report.pdf\"> county’s biennial homeless count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this begins to spread, there will be a lot of casualties,” said Sandy Perry, president of the Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County. “So people are upset and fearful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is what Bay Area counties are doing to protect residents who are homeless and how you can help:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sf\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sj\">San Jose\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sc\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#al\">Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sm\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#so\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#cc\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#help\">How You Can Help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"sf\">\u003c/a>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On March 10, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806002/coronavirus-sf-to-provide-quarantine-spots-for-homeless-residents\">San Francisco city officials announced\u003c/a> they had leased 30 RVs to house people who were confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 and needed to self-isolate. It also identified more than 8,000 to potentially house people who need to be quarantined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also appropriated $5 million to expand cleaning at shelters, resource centers and residential hotels. It will also use that money to increase meal offerings and expand shelter hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"sj\">\u003c/a>San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>City officials in San Jose have distributed hand washing stations, portable toilets and clean water to 14 encampments, as well as arranged for trash pickup. San Jose has also paused sweeps of encampments and halted evictions of renters who have lost income from the COVID-19 health emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/932/4699\">partnering with the nonprofit WeHOPE\u003c/a> to operate a mobile medical trailer with virtual doctor’s visits. The organization will help distribute hygiene kits with hand sanitizer, gloves, masks, fresh fruit and healthy snacks to encampments on a bi-weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"sc\">\u003c/a>Santa Clara\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials say they have offered guidance in multiple languages to people living in shelters and in encampments and given that same guidance to homeless services providers. The county is deploying mobile healthcare teams to first help homeless seniors or people who have underlying health conditions. And officials say they are developing a plan to distribute hand washing stations, portable toilets and clean water to encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring more people inside, Santa Clara County said it is working to expand shelters. This would also allow people to have more space inside the shelters for social distancing. It’s also working to provide shelters with more hygiene kits, medical supplies and washers and dryers. In addition, the county said it is looking at finding properties for people living in shelters who might need to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday, however, it was unclear how soon additional housing and hygiene kits would be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"al\">\u003c/a>Alameda\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland city officials have installed 42 hand washing stations and portable toilets at 19 encampments and increased garbage pickup at camps. Outreach teams are distributing hygiene supplies to encampments, community cabin sites, and RV Safe Parking sites. City officials say, barring any public health concerns, it will refrain from carrying out scheduled encampment sweeps during the COVID-19 health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11806966 label='Look Up Local Food Banks That Need Your Help' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42178_012_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County and Oakland city staff are also providing shelters and transitional housing providers with cleaning supplies and CDC guidance for quarantining or treating any residents who show symptoms for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, March 16, Gov. Newsom announced that about 390 rooms in two hotels near the Oakland airport will be used to provide isolation and quarantine for unsheltered residents who are infected or exposed to the novel coronavirus. Alameda County is leading efforts to assess homeless individuals who meet the guidelines set by the state to be placed in the available rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is prioritizing homeless people who test positive for COVID-19, show symptoms, or are at high risk and have underlying health conditions, said Alameda County Public Health spokesperson Neetu Balram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know community spread is happening in the Bay Area,” said Balram. “We need to be prepared for a positive case of COVID-19 in Alameda County’s homeless population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11807872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Kevin-Berkeley-Encampment.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Coddington, 52, at the tent encampment where he lives under a freeway overpass in Berkeley on Mar. 19, 2020. When asked about outreach to his community in response to the coronavirus crisis, he said, "It's very scary. They haven't given us anything." He said that private donations were all that they had received, which helps them to supply their own portable restrooms, but that they could use running water as well as masks, gloves and sanitizer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Kevin-Berkeley-Encampment.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Kevin-Berkeley-Encampment-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Kevin-Berkeley-Encampment-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Kevin-Berkeley-Encampment-1020x700.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Coddington, 52, at the tent encampment where he lives under a freeway overpass in Berkeley on Mar. 19, 2020. When asked about outreach to his community in response to the coronavirus crisis, he said, “It’s very scary. They haven’t given us anything.” He said that private donations were all that they had received, which helps them to supply their own portable restrooms, but that they could use running water as well as masks, gloves and sanitizer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"sm\">\u003c/a>San Mateo\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>So far, San Mateo County officials say 50 people who were unsheltered have been moved into three local motels. The county is working to expand that model and hopes to utilize motels to temporarily house more homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about social distancing, hand washing and hygiene protections is being shared with shelters and community organizations, the county said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"so\">\u003c/a>Sonoma\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, public health officials are offering guidance to homelessness service providers and shelters on how to practice social distancing and properly disinfect facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are encouraging folks to find available shelter, and that may be through one of the shelters existing shelters in the county,” said Jennifer Larocque, spokesperson for Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"cc\">\u003c/a>Contra Costa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Health officials at Contra Costa County say they have offered preliminary guidance to homelessness services agencies and shelters on how to identify and respond to homeless residents who develop symptoms. The county says it’s working to find isolation and quarantine facilities including hotels or motels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For unsheltered homeless communities, outreach staff are distributing hand sanitizer and educational flyers on COVID-19 at encampments, say county health officials, including to people living in vehicles and RV’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>How You Can Help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Homeless service providers say they need donations to help buy more cleaning supplies and pay staff who are working overtime to get folks indoors and to keep facilities clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re facing extreme scarcity right now,” said Candice Elder, founder of the East Oakland Collective. She said panic buying at grocery stores has made it difficult for her nonprofit to purchase and distribute canned goods, bottled water and hygiene supplies to homeless communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are healthy and don’t have any underlying health conditions, consider volunteering. Many homeless service providers rely on volunteers to make food, for example, or hand out supplies, and many of those volunteers have stopped showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small groups can do amazing things. Over the weekend, six volunteers with the organization People’s Breakfast Oakland served 150 meals to a homeless encampment in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BlakeDontCrack/status/1239268298971205632\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mutual aid is essential at this time,” People’s Breakfast Oakland wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BlakeDontCrack/status/1239268298971205632?s=20\">Twitter post\u003c/a> that showed organizers in N95 masks and gloves passing out prepackaged meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a garage, an accessory dwelling unit or a spare room where you could house a healthy person until the shelter-in-place order has lifted, please consider opening your home. Service providers can help link you to a person in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle compiled \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/how-to-help/\">a list of homeless organizations around the Bay Area.\u003c/a> Find one near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated on Monday, March 23. Check back for more updates. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 23\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials said Monday they had identified more than 8,000 hotel rooms to possibly use to house people who need a place to self-isolate as the city tries to slow the spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, director of the city’s Human Services Agency, said he expects the city will need to rent hotel rooms for up to 4,500 people. So far, the city has communicated with 31 hoteliers who said they have rooms available for rent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first priority will be given to people who have tested positive for COVID-19 or who are awaiting test results but don’t have a home where they can quarantine alone. This could include people experiencing homelessness, living in residential hotels or other congregate settings, such as shelters. But it could also include firefighters, police officers or health workers who don’t want to expose their families to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of San Francisco County supervisors is also pushing for the city to offer hotel rooms to anyone who is homeless and doesn’t have anywhere to shelter in place – regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms of the virus or are considered at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that just like you and I, they should have an opportunity to keep themselves safe,” said Supervisor Hillary Ronen. “[They should be able] to shelter in place and keep all of us safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 rooms were available as of Monday, Rhorer said. The city has leased rooms for 60 people so far. The city hopes to allow people to move into more rooms as early as Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also intend to use hotel rooms to relieve pressure on hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Grant Colfax, the head of San Francisco’s Department of Health, said “twenty to thirty” patients at Laguna Honda Hospital right now are well enough to get care outside of the hospital and will be offered hotel rooms. He described the patients as people “physically and mentally able to be supported outside a hospital setting,” who are not under investigation for having the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news came as counties across the Bay Area mobilize resources to protect residents who are homeless during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced last week that it would spend up to $150 million in emergency funding to lease hotel rooms and purchase trailers to house people experiencing homelessness and help slow the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is using $50 million to buy about 1,300 travel trailers and to help cities and counties lease hotel rooms, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. More than 950 hotels and motels across the state have been identified as potential lease sites, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also distributing $100 million of the emergency funding to cities and counties to support shelter services and respond to the outbreak among homeless residents in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assuming a potential 56% attack rate, state public health officials anticipate some 60,000 homeless people could contract COVID-19, Newsom said, just one of the many scenarios the state is modeling. If it manifests, California would need upwards of 19,000 new hospital beds, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That creates a deep point of anxiety for the existing population but moreover for our health care delivery system,” Newsom said, “and our capacity to move people in and out of the shelter safely without contacting other people and putting them at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensified search for places where people living in encampments and shelters can self-isolate came just three days after a man in Santa Clara County became the first person in California experiencing homelessness to die of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County’s Public Health Department declined to say where the man was living or if he could have exposed others to the virus. But news of his death had many people in the South Bay’s homeless communities on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials said that the virus can spread more quickly in shelters and encampments because of the close proximity to others and limited access to clean water and soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless people are also more vulnerable to the disease because many have underlying health conditions. Last year, 12% of the county’s homeless population was 61 years old or older, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/ContinuumofCare/ReportsandPublications/Documents/2015%20Santa%20Clara%20County%20Homeless%20Census%20and%20Survey/2019%20SCC%20Homeless%20Census%20and%20Survey%20Report.pdf\"> county’s biennial homeless count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this begins to spread, there will be a lot of casualties,” said Sandy Perry, president of the Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County. “So people are upset and fearful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is what Bay Area counties are doing to protect residents who are homeless and how you can help:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sf\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sj\">San Jose\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sc\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#al\">Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sm\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#so\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#cc\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#help\">How You Can Help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"sf\">\u003c/a>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On March 10, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806002/coronavirus-sf-to-provide-quarantine-spots-for-homeless-residents\">San Francisco city officials announced\u003c/a> they had leased 30 RVs to house people who were confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 and needed to self-isolate. It also identified more than 8,000 to potentially house people who need to be quarantined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also appropriated $5 million to expand cleaning at shelters, resource centers and residential hotels. It will also use that money to increase meal offerings and expand shelter hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"sj\">\u003c/a>San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>City officials in San Jose have distributed hand washing stations, portable toilets and clean water to 14 encampments, as well as arranged for trash pickup. San Jose has also paused sweeps of encampments and halted evictions of renters who have lost income from the COVID-19 health emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/932/4699\">partnering with the nonprofit WeHOPE\u003c/a> to operate a mobile medical trailer with virtual doctor’s visits. The organization will help distribute hygiene kits with hand sanitizer, gloves, masks, fresh fruit and healthy snacks to encampments on a bi-weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"sc\">\u003c/a>Santa Clara\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials say they have offered guidance in multiple languages to people living in shelters and in encampments and given that same guidance to homeless services providers. The county is deploying mobile healthcare teams to first help homeless seniors or people who have underlying health conditions. And officials say they are developing a plan to distribute hand washing stations, portable toilets and clean water to encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring more people inside, Santa Clara County said it is working to expand shelters. This would also allow people to have more space inside the shelters for social distancing. It’s also working to provide shelters with more hygiene kits, medical supplies and washers and dryers. In addition, the county said it is looking at finding properties for people living in shelters who might need to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday, however, it was unclear how soon additional housing and hygiene kits would be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"al\">\u003c/a>Alameda\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland city officials have installed 42 hand washing stations and portable toilets at 19 encampments and increased garbage pickup at camps. Outreach teams are distributing hygiene supplies to encampments, community cabin sites, and RV Safe Parking sites. City officials say, barring any public health concerns, it will refrain from carrying out scheduled encampment sweeps during the COVID-19 health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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If they test positive, Beilenson said the county will use local motel rooms for quarantine, though that hasn’t happened yet, he said. Beilenson said his health department has also ordered additional hand sanitizer to be passed out at shelters and encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1958136/first-two-san-francisco-cases-of-the-coronavirus-detected\">two reported coronavirus cases\u003c/a>, city staff has begun outreach to shelters and navigation center staff to share prevention guidelines on coronavirus. 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Gavin Newsom made a single issue the focus of his second state of the state speech Wednesday morning: homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending the first few minutes before the Legislature playing up California’s economic accomplishments, Newsom pivoted to an issue he said represents an “institutional failure,” one that disproportionally impacts black and Latino Californians — and one that he said must be the top priority of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No amount of progress can camouflage the most pernicious crisis in our midst, the ultimate manifestation of poverty, screaming for our attention: homelessness,” he said. “Let’s call it what it is — a disgrace — that the richest state in the richest nation, succeeding across so many sectors, is failing to properly house, heal and humanely treat so many of its own people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s focus underscores both the magnitude of the crisis and the potential political consequences if he doesn’t tackle it. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/interactive-californians-views-on-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recent polling \u003c/a>shows homelessness as one of the top concerns among Californians. 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Gavin Newsom\"]‘Let’s call it what it is — a disgrace — that the richest state in the richest nation, succeeding across so many sectors, is failing to properly house, heal and humanely treat so many of its own people.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In stark words, Newsom laid out the stakes and victims of the homeless crisis, asserting that there is nothing compassionate about allowing fellow Californians to live on the streets, huddled in cars or makeshift encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor used the address to lay out a framework for tackling the crisis, saying the state needs to use emergency actions to reduce homelessness “quickly and humanely.” He said government must be “laser-focused” on getting mentally ill people off the streets and into treatment by providing stable funding to ensure long term results, and aggressively addressing the “underproduction of affordable housing in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom proposed a new $750 million fund that he said will only pay for projects and services proven to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also called for emergency measures to help cities and counties address immediate needs, and more sweeping reforms to mental health treatment and behavioral health laws to make it easier to compel people into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also called out other public officials, noting that “too often, no one wants to take responsibility,” and that he has “even heard local officials proclaim: ‘It’s not my problem.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called that response “shameful,” and laid out proposals that take direct aim at local communities who have fought the construction of shelters and housing of all stripes. Newsom said he wants to expand on laws implemented last year to streamline the permitting and review process for navigation centers statewide, and exempt shelters and homeless housing from environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the governor said, lawmakers should expand those exemptions to include all homeless shelters and supportive housing statewide. He also called for more accountability when it comes to how — or if — counties spend state money aimed at helping the mentally ill and building more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has lost patience, you have all lost patience and so have I,” he said, noting that 40 counties have left $160 million in mental health funds just sitting in the bank, unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message is this: Spend your mental health dollars by June 30th or we’ll make sure they get spent for you,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a theme he returned to throughout the speech: holding cities and counties to account, while calling for partnerships between localities and state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, our imperative must be bringing governments together as working partners, not sparring partners in a court of law. So instead we are proposing strict accountability, comprehensive audits and a ‘do-it-or-lose-it’ policy to hold local governments responsible for results,” he said. “Take action or lose access to this new funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also tried to put the crisis in historical context, particularly around the issue of chronically homeless people who have what he called “complex behavioral health needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]Newsom noted that while federal and state governments shut down mental health institutions en masse five decades ago, there was never adequate investment in community mental health needs, and that changes in law made it more difficult for government to compel mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients and their families were left with inadequate options to get the mental health care they needed,” he said. “In a politically polarized world, liberals and conservatives blame one another for these failures. Historically speaking, both are right. It’s time to stop pointing fingers and join hands in a transformational solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called for a more integrative health care approach — one that links health care to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health care and housing can no longer be divorced. After all, what’s more fundamental to a person’s well-being than a roof over their head?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the specific proposals Newsom laid out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Making 286 state properties available to local governments for free to be used for homeless solutions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sending more trailers to five municipalities — the city of Stockton and counties of Santa Clara, Riverside, Contra Costa and Sonoma — to be used for emergency housing (Oakland and Los Angeles County were already sent trailers earlier this year).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Massively increasing housing production by “cutting red tape”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he understands that cities need to match housing production to their community, but that “doing nothing is no longer an option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I respect local control but not at the cost of creating a two-class California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom made homelessness the focus of his State of the State address Wednesday, reflecting not only \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/press-release/sanders-biden-and-warren-lead-in-californias-primary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians’ top concern\u003c/a> but also nearly 20 years of wrangling on an issue that’s followed him from San Francisco City Hall to the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No amount of progress can camouflage the most pernicious crisis in our midst,” Newsom said, “the ultimate manifestation of poverty: homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://priceschool.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Press-Release-USC-Price-USC-Schwarzenegger-Institute-Homelessness-Poll.pdf\">recent statewide poll\u003c/a> showed homelessness and housing are top of mind for likely California voters ahead of the state’s March 3 primary election. About 42% of those surveyed said they see many tents and encampments in the public places and streets where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his address, Newsom called for new and ongoing revenue sources to pay for homeless services and new housing. He warned that cities and counties would be held accountable to ensure they spend state health care dollars on homeless people suffering from mental illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social services advocate Jennifer Friedenbach with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness said she’s thrilled Newsom is taking the issue seriously, but that the state must focus deeply on investment or else these will only be temporary fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks with severe mental health issues that are out on the streets are victims of a system,” she said. “They feel that the system is resistant to helping them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a San Francisco supervisor in 2002, Newsom drew national attention with his “Care Not Cash” ballot initiative that diverted public assistance from homeless residents to pay landlords for shelter, instead. The program rankled advocates and challenged the city’s status as a progressive stronghold. It also helped get him elected mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen years later, Newsom has again made homelessness one of his top priorities as the number of people experiencing homelessness in California \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grew to more than 151,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some people who followed Newsom’s early career are optimistic about his willingness to attach his name to such a thorny issue — going so far as to say he’ll “own homelessness” in California, a state with more than a quarter of the nation’s unhoused people — others aren’t sure he’ll focus on the kind of solutions needed to right this societal wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Care Not Cash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Care Not Cash went to the ballot in 2002, homelessness had reached peak levels. There were 8,640 residents without homes on a given night in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a biennial survey\u003c/a> for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s about 8 percent more than the 8,011 homeless residents counted during the \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same survey in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the decade, Dot-Com companies were swarming San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, while elsewhere in the city, rents rose and evictions spiked. The average two-bedroom apartment in 2001 was going for about $3,500 in today’s dollars, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/1862-sfhousingdatabook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a 2002 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of progressive politicians, many without prior political experience, had swept the Board of Supervisors in 2000 — a citizen revolt to the pro-development Mayor Willie Brown, said Richard DeLeon, professor emeritus of political science at San Francisco State University. Newsom was seen then as somewhat of a pariah, DeLeon said, a centrist who had been hand-picked by Brown to fill a mid-term vacancy on the board in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Dot Com bubble burst and office spaces in the city’s South of Market neighborhood started becoming vacant. Care Not Cash, Newsom’s signature issue, became a test of the city’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other city officials claimed out-of-towners were coming into San Francisco to get public assistance checks. And those that were here were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-ewEmPwhY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely using that money for drugs and alcohol\u003c/a>. In one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">television ad\u003c/a> for Care Not Cash, a series of disheveled men speak directly into the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take your cash, and I buy drugs,” the commercial begins, “crack, heroin, alcohol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was pretty harmful to public sentiment around supporting real solutions,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters sided with Newsom, and the measure won with \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/sf/meas/N/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60 percent\u003c/a> approval. It was the boost Newsom needed to launch his mayoral campaign a few months later, De Leon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It put him on the map, politically,” DeLeon said. “It certainly put a spotlight on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, who has served as the executive director of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency since 2000 and oversaw the implementation of Care Not Cash, remembers a young supervisor and later mayor who seemed to genuinely care about the plight of homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer received so many requests for information from Supervisor Newsom that he set up weekly meetings. Reports that Rhorer gave him would return dog-eared and highlighted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have these two-hour sessions … and the meetings would just go on and on and on,” Rhorer recalled. “When he left the office, [Newsom] knew more about homelessness than I did, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony's Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony’s Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Care Not Cash officially launched in May 2004, reducing the amount of money homeless residents received from a maximum of $410 per month to $59. In exchange, program enrollees got food and a guaranteed bed at a shelter or in a single-room occupancy hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city updated its homeless survey in 2005, it saw a 2\u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8 percent reduction\u003c/a> in the number of homeless people compared to 2002. Friedenbach believes it’s unlikely Care Not Cash contributed to that reduction since the program didn’t create any new housing. Newsom’s predecessor, Mayor Brown, approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11765010/timeline-the-frustrating-political-history-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of new affordable housing units\u003c/a>, which Friedenbach said had just finished construction around that time and probably made more of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rhorer says ending homelessness was never the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about welfare reform,” Rhorer said. And in that way, it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Care Not Cash began in the spring of 2004, the city immediately saw a reduction in the number of homeless people claiming benefits. In December 2003, there were 2,632 people who received assistance, which dropped to 642 in December 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In Newsom’s Wake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of people experiencing homelessness then remained relatively stable during Newsom’s tenure until it began to increase again in 2011, right around the time he left to become lieutenant governor, growing from nearly 5,700 people to more than 8,000 in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Newsom’s leadership would have helped stem the increase is impossible to know, but Bevan Dufty thinks it would have helped. Dufty, now a BART board director, served on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors with Newsom. He later served as Mayor Ed Lee’s head of homeless policy.[aside label='Related Coverage' postID=news_11801313,news_11796428,news_11795888 ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin was mayor during a lot of years when the cupboard was dry,” when the Great Recession hit, Dufty said. “I think San Francisco’s homeless problem would seem very different because he wouldn’t be afraid, if he had had the resources, to put them to use to house people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much has changed about Care Not Cash since its inception, Rhorer said, except that now, the city uses a more sophisticated screening matrix to prioritize people who are disabled, chronically homeless or have other special needs — and the amount of public assistance has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Newsom had also launched an ambitious 10-year plan in 2004 to end chronic homelessness and pledged to build 3,000 new units of supportive housing. By 2014, San Francisco built 2,669 of the units that Newsom pledged as mayor but homelessness still rose — climbing to 6,775 people by 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade after Newsom left the mayor’s office, homelessness is a bigger issue than ever, with solutions seeming more out of reach than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He kicked off the year with a proposal to direct \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794687084/california-governor-pushes-1-4-billion-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1.4 billion of the state budget\u003c/a> to pay for rent subsidies, board and care homes, health services and affordable housing, and then went on a statewide tour of emergency shelters and mental health care centers. And he started distributing the first two dozen of 100 former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796428/newsom-to-unveil-travel-trailers-for-homeless-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FEMA trailers and tents\u003c/a> to provide immediate housing for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Newsom said the state would make available 286 state-owed properties such as vacant lots, fairgrounds, armories and other state buildings for potential shelter options that local governments can use for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speed up construction of affordable housing and shelters, Newsom said he would like to bypass state environmental reviews, which are sometimes used to block and delay projects. He also urged the Legislature to reform land use laws to eliminate delays on affordable housing projects around transit hubs and downtown areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I respect local control, but not at the cost of creating a two-class California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach, a staunch critic of Newsom’s tenure in San Francisco, is hopeful. She was pleased to see Newsom’s executive order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801313/newsom-offers-vacant-land-for-homeless-shelters-but-local-officials-worry-who-will-pay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use surplus state land for emergency shelters\u003c/a> and his push to provide significant one-time funds to address homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a big believer in redemption,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom made homelessness the focus of his State of the State address Wednesday, reflecting not only \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/press-release/sanders-biden-and-warren-lead-in-californias-primary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians’ top concern\u003c/a> but also nearly 20 years of wrangling on an issue that’s followed him from San Francisco City Hall to the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No amount of progress can camouflage the most pernicious crisis in our midst,” Newsom said, “the ultimate manifestation of poverty: homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://priceschool.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Press-Release-USC-Price-USC-Schwarzenegger-Institute-Homelessness-Poll.pdf\">recent statewide poll\u003c/a> showed homelessness and housing are top of mind for likely California voters ahead of the state’s March 3 primary election. About 42% of those surveyed said they see many tents and encampments in the public places and streets where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his address, Newsom called for new and ongoing revenue sources to pay for homeless services and new housing. He warned that cities and counties would be held accountable to ensure they spend state health care dollars on homeless people suffering from mental illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social services advocate Jennifer Friedenbach with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness said she’s thrilled Newsom is taking the issue seriously, but that the state must focus deeply on investment or else these will only be temporary fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks with severe mental health issues that are out on the streets are victims of a system,” she said. “They feel that the system is resistant to helping them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a San Francisco supervisor in 2002, Newsom drew national attention with his “Care Not Cash” ballot initiative that diverted public assistance from homeless residents to pay landlords for shelter, instead. The program rankled advocates and challenged the city’s status as a progressive stronghold. It also helped get him elected mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen years later, Newsom has again made homelessness one of his top priorities as the number of people experiencing homelessness in California \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grew to more than 151,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some people who followed Newsom’s early career are optimistic about his willingness to attach his name to such a thorny issue — going so far as to say he’ll “own homelessness” in California, a state with more than a quarter of the nation’s unhoused people — others aren’t sure he’ll focus on the kind of solutions needed to right this societal wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Care Not Cash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Care Not Cash went to the ballot in 2002, homelessness had reached peak levels. There were 8,640 residents without homes on a given night in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a biennial survey\u003c/a> for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s about 8 percent more than the 8,011 homeless residents counted during the \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same survey in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the decade, Dot-Com companies were swarming San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, while elsewhere in the city, rents rose and evictions spiked. The average two-bedroom apartment in 2001 was going for about $3,500 in today’s dollars, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/1862-sfhousingdatabook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a 2002 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of progressive politicians, many without prior political experience, had swept the Board of Supervisors in 2000 — a citizen revolt to the pro-development Mayor Willie Brown, said Richard DeLeon, professor emeritus of political science at San Francisco State University. Newsom was seen then as somewhat of a pariah, DeLeon said, a centrist who had been hand-picked by Brown to fill a mid-term vacancy on the board in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Dot Com bubble burst and office spaces in the city’s South of Market neighborhood started becoming vacant. Care Not Cash, Newsom’s signature issue, became a test of the city’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other city officials claimed out-of-towners were coming into San Francisco to get public assistance checks. And those that were here were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-ewEmPwhY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely using that money for drugs and alcohol\u003c/a>. In one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">television ad\u003c/a> for Care Not Cash, a series of disheveled men speak directly into the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take your cash, and I buy drugs,” the commercial begins, “crack, heroin, alcohol.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Usyn5yg6ejk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Usyn5yg6ejk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“That was pretty harmful to public sentiment around supporting real solutions,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters sided with Newsom, and the measure won with \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/sf/meas/N/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60 percent\u003c/a> approval. It was the boost Newsom needed to launch his mayoral campaign a few months later, De Leon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It put him on the map, politically,” DeLeon said. “It certainly put a spotlight on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, who has served as the executive director of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency since 2000 and oversaw the implementation of Care Not Cash, remembers a young supervisor and later mayor who seemed to genuinely care about the plight of homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer received so many requests for information from Supervisor Newsom that he set up weekly meetings. Reports that Rhorer gave him would return dog-eared and highlighted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have these two-hour sessions … and the meetings would just go on and on and on,” Rhorer recalled. “When he left the office, [Newsom] knew more about homelessness than I did, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony's Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony’s Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Care Not Cash officially launched in May 2004, reducing the amount of money homeless residents received from a maximum of $410 per month to $59. In exchange, program enrollees got food and a guaranteed bed at a shelter or in a single-room occupancy hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city updated its homeless survey in 2005, it saw a 2\u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8 percent reduction\u003c/a> in the number of homeless people compared to 2002. Friedenbach believes it’s unlikely Care Not Cash contributed to that reduction since the program didn’t create any new housing. Newsom’s predecessor, Mayor Brown, approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11765010/timeline-the-frustrating-political-history-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of new affordable housing units\u003c/a>, which Friedenbach said had just finished construction around that time and probably made more of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rhorer says ending homelessness was never the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about welfare reform,” Rhorer said. And in that way, it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Care Not Cash began in the spring of 2004, the city immediately saw a reduction in the number of homeless people claiming benefits. In December 2003, there were 2,632 people who received assistance, which dropped to 642 in December 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In Newsom’s Wake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of people experiencing homelessness then remained relatively stable during Newsom’s tenure until it began to increase again in 2011, right around the time he left to become lieutenant governor, growing from nearly 5,700 people to more than 8,000 in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Newsom’s leadership would have helped stem the increase is impossible to know, but Bevan Dufty thinks it would have helped. Dufty, now a BART board director, served on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors with Newsom. He later served as Mayor Ed Lee’s head of homeless policy.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent, unusually balmy winter morning, Jerry Womack ambles slowly across the spacious courtyard that separates the dining hall and dormitories of San Francisco’s newest navigation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a back badly hunched from years of hard living on the street, Womack eases himself slowly into one of the colorful chairs spread across the yard and flashes a largely toothless grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is one of the best places I have ever stayed in since being a homeless person,\" he said. \"The staff here really shows concern about your well-being.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Womack has been living on San Francisco’s streets for the past 10 years, a consequence, he said, of his longtime struggle with drug addiction. About a month ago, the city’s Homeless Outreach Team found him sleeping in a doorway near Van Ness Avenue and Market Street and encouraged him to come here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They came back every day for about two or three weeks to check on me,\" he said. \"I didn’t even know this place existed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Womack is among the first group of \"guests\" — as they're called — to stay at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center, a gleaming new multiservice homeless shelter on San Francisco's tourist-heavy Embarcadero. Improbably located in the shadow of a glistening glass condominium at the mouth of Bryant Street, the spacious fenced-in compound of three long fabric tent frames opened at the end of December\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/hotly-contested-embarcadero-navigation-center-opens-with-more-to-come/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> to much fanfare among city officials\u003c/a>, despite fierce opposition from neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801543\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Womack, among the first 'guests' at the Embarcadero navigation center, says he's been living on the street for 10 years. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With 200 beds, it's the city's largest navigation center, built from scratch at a cost of nearly $12.5 million. Only about 90 of the beds are currently being used, with plans to ramp up to full capacity by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to most city shelters, navigation centers are open around-the-clock and accommodate families and pets. All guests are brought in by the city's Homeless Outreach Team — they can't just show up on their own. Along with beds, showers and storage bins for personal items, the centers offer a range of supportive services, including medical and mental health care and drug rehabilitation, with the overarching goal of fast-tracking people into stable housing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jerry Womack, Embarcadero navigation center guest\"]'I don't got no Social Security, I don't have no [public] assistance, I don't even have my ID.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And similar to the San Francisco's six other navigation centers, the Embarcadero site is designed to be temporary: The city is leasing the primely located lot from the San Francisco Port Commission for two years, with the option to extend for another two if things go smoothly before the site is permanently developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigation centers are just one of the many strategies the city has deployed — including supportive housing programs and its extensive conventional shelter network — to tackle a seemingly intractable homeless crisis. But despite spending \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/24-hours-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upward of $300 million\u003c/a> a year on the issue, the homeless population has continued to grow, topping 8,000 \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at last count\u003c/a>, nearly 5,200 of whom live in unsheltered conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco unveiled its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SF-s-first-Navigation-Center-which-spawned-13359221.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inaugural navigation center\u003c/a> — the first of its kind in the country — in March 2015, shutting it down, as planned, three years later. Of the more than 5,000 homeless residents that have passed through the city's navigation centers, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">nearly half\u003c/a> have been placed in permanent housing or reunified with family or friends, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, which oversees most of the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to have them come in and meet them where they are, help them figure out what their pathway is [to] housing, what their solution to homelessness is and then work with them so that they can stay here while they exit homelessness,\" said Abigail Stewart-Kahn, director of strategy and external affairs with DHSH. \"It's not always perfect, but that is the intent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The courtyard between the Embarcadero navigation center's two dormitories. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Womack arrived at the Embarcadero center nearly two weeks ago, he, like all guests, was scanned with a wand for weapons before being interviewed by a caseworker to determine his specific needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 70, getting back on his feet after a decade on the street means essentially re-enrolling in society, a formidable task that he says case managers here are working to guide him through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't got no Social Security, I don't have no [public] assistance, I don't even have my ID,\" Womack said. \"I have two meetings today where they're going to take me to get some of these things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard length of stay here is 30 days, but staff insist that residents won't be pushed out unless another shelter bed or housing option is available. The goal, however ambitious, is for these centers to be a springboard out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to put people back on the street,\" said center director Tony Chase of Five Keys, a nonprofit charter school operator contracted by the city to operate the site. \"So we always work to have another place for a person to go if they can't stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus is spare but cheerful, with scattered plantings and an outdoor patio space. That morning, residents wandered freely around the facility, some resting in one of the two sprawling dormitories or lounging in front of a large flat-screen TV in the dining area. A few used the handful of desktop computers available: one writing what appeared to be computer code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801542\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Embarcadero navigation center's two dormitories, which together offer 200 beds. Unlike most traditional shelters, guests can sleep with their families and bring pets and personal belongings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calmness of the space belies the heated community battle that preceded it, and the political capital Mayor London Breed has invested in ensuring its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions flared immediately after Breed first proposed the center last March as part of her goal of creating 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020. A group of neighbors, calling themselves Safe Embarcadero for All, quickly mobilized against the project, claiming it would bring blight and crime to a neighborhood that it said didn't have much of a homeless problem to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a monthslong succession of rancorous community meetings that pitted neighbors against homeless advocates and the mayor, the group appealed to the city's Board of Supervisors to block the project. In a last-ditch effort to halt construction, the group then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788571/judge-rules-again-against-opponents-of-embarcadero-navigation-center-allowing-construction-to-proceed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsuccessfully sued\u003c/a> the city, alleging it had failed to get the necessary permissions from the state or conduct appropriate public outreach and environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a concession, the city agreed to initially fill only about 50 beds, leaving more than three-quarters of the facility empty, and gradually ramp up to full capacity by June. It also pledged to patrol the surrounding area to keep it clean and free of encampments, and give longtime homeless residents in the vicinity first access to the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The covered entrance to the Embarcadero navigation center. All guests have to be brought in by the Homeless Outreach Team — walk-ins aren't allowed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn stressed that nearly all the center's current occupants had been found living on the streets in the surrounding neighborhood, (although that was apparently not the case for Womack), and said concerns that the center would attract homeless people from other areas were unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our experience is that [navigation centers] don't become magnets,\" Stewart-Kahn said. \"You're not allowed to kind of be around the perimeter here. If you're camping outside, it's not going to get you access to the navigation center. And people who are homeless know that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More homeless coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]But Wallace Lee, who lives a block and a half from the center and leads Safe Embarcadero for All, said that doesn't square with some of the recent changes he's seen in the neighborhood as the center has begun to expand its capacity. That includes a handful of new encampments, the occasional pile of syringes and an increase in the number of \"distressed people,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that there are no additional encampments because of the navigation center is clearly preposterous,\" Lee said. \"To give the people at the navigation center credit, they do respond and come out to clean it. But to pretend the problems aren't there is disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the last monthly neighborhood advisory group meeting in late January, Lee added, city officials even admitted they had reached the \"point of diminishing returns\" in their outreach efforts in the neighborhood and had started inviting homeless residents in other parts of the city to come here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, we want to hold the city accountable to its promises and bring attention to these problems,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801584\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests use computers provided in the Embarcadero navigation center's lounge and intake area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In touring the new facility, it's understandable why some neighbors are concerned about it drawing homeless people from other areas: As shelters go, it's a pretty plum destination, a safe, comfortable refuge from the street, flush with resources and amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been eating like a king,\" said Womack, noting that the kitchen is open 23 hours a day. \"Anytime, day or night, you can go in and get yourself something to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a laundry room where residents can drop off bags of dirty clothes and pick them up clean and folded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We literally want to treat the guests here like they're coming into a hotel,\" said Steve Goode, the head of Five Keys. \"Because if we don't treat them appropriately and treat them with dignity and respect, offer them something to eat and drink when they come in, they're not going to want to stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navigation center staff Steve Hawkins (left) and James Bess help fold guests' laundry, a service that's offered daily. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that, of course, comes with a hefty price tag. The city spends more than $6 million, on average, to build each of its navigation centers and over $4 million per site on annual operating costs, according to \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report\u003c/a> by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and the Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing have both championed navigation centers as an effective way to get people off the streets and into housing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-mayor-poised-to-meet-1-000-shelter-bed-goal-14975392.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently proposed\u003c/a> opening two new ones at 33 Gough and 888 Post streets. But in an interesting twist, the department balked at \u003ca href=\"//www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-city-needs-to-be-pushed-SF-supe-wants-14911273.php\">\"proposed legislation\u003c/a> to open eight new centers in the next 2½ years, one in each of districts that don’t currently have any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All seven navigation centers are clustered in just three of the city's 11 districts, and the plan, introduced by Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district includes the Embarcadero site and two others, is intended to share the burden citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Abigail Stewart-Kahn, Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing\"]'We want to have them come in and meet them where they are, help them figure out what their pathway is [to] housing, what their solution to homelessness is.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The proposed ordinance forces time, political capital, financial and personnel resources on expanding one component of our homelessness response,” Stewart-Kahn said at a recent hearing on the measure. “And it does this at the cost of [building more] housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Embarcadero navigation center, resident Joanna Shober said she had been camping near the Ferry Building before she came here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was homeless, living on the street, and I got tired of it,\" she said. \"The first week they opened [the center], they started taking all of my homeless buddies down by the [Ferry Building]. So I know a lot of people here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shober said she got laid off from her long-time job about a decade ago and has been living on and off the streets since then. She now works seasonally for the Giants in guest services and as an occasional coat checker during events at the Moscone and Chase centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I got that job, I tried to pay rent, but I didn't make enough, and I made too much for GA,\" she said, referring to the state General Assistance Program. \"So I got cut off from GA and then I fell behind on rent, and it just spiraled down, and so I ended up on the street again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her most recent stint on the street, Shober had stayed for 30 days at the Bayshore Navigation Center — also run by Five Keys — and when no housing materialized was offered a 90-day spot in a traditional shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The shelter] was so bad that I actually had to leave,\" she said. \"I said, I'd rather be homeless than be in this place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Shober, a guest at the Embarcadero navigation center, said she works three part-time jobs, including guest services for the Giants, but still can't afford to pay rent in the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shober has been impressed with this place so far, she said, and is optimistic things will be different this time around. She is even considering applying for a job here as a homeless ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They give you all information of what to do, where to go, who to see,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless people are often given a bad rap, she said, but many just need an opportunity to get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a problem with people that have not been homeless and then they talk about how bad the homeless are,\" she said. \"There's good homeless people out there. So, you know, they just need to give some people a chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Womack is among the first group of \"guests\" — as they're called — to stay at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center, a gleaming new multiservice homeless shelter on San Francisco's tourist-heavy Embarcadero. Improbably located in the shadow of a glistening glass condominium at the mouth of Bryant Street, the spacious fenced-in compound of three long fabric tent frames opened at the end of December\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/hotly-contested-embarcadero-navigation-center-opens-with-more-to-come/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> to much fanfare among city officials\u003c/a>, despite fierce opposition from neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801543\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Womack, among the first 'guests' at the Embarcadero navigation center, says he's been living on the street for 10 years. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With 200 beds, it's the city's largest navigation center, built from scratch at a cost of nearly $12.5 million. Only about 90 of the beds are currently being used, with plans to ramp up to full capacity by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to most city shelters, navigation centers are open around-the-clock and accommodate families and pets. All guests are brought in by the city's Homeless Outreach Team — they can't just show up on their own. Along with beds, showers and storage bins for personal items, the centers offer a range of supportive services, including medical and mental health care and drug rehabilitation, with the overarching goal of fast-tracking people into stable housing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And similar to the San Francisco's six other navigation centers, the Embarcadero site is designed to be temporary: The city is leasing the primely located lot from the San Francisco Port Commission for two years, with the option to extend for another two if things go smoothly before the site is permanently developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigation centers are just one of the many strategies the city has deployed — including supportive housing programs and its extensive conventional shelter network — to tackle a seemingly intractable homeless crisis. But despite spending \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/24-hours-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upward of $300 million\u003c/a> a year on the issue, the homeless population has continued to grow, topping 8,000 \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at last count\u003c/a>, nearly 5,200 of whom live in unsheltered conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco unveiled its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SF-s-first-Navigation-Center-which-spawned-13359221.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inaugural navigation center\u003c/a> — the first of its kind in the country — in March 2015, shutting it down, as planned, three years later. Of the more than 5,000 homeless residents that have passed through the city's navigation centers, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">nearly half\u003c/a> have been placed in permanent housing or reunified with family or friends, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, which oversees most of the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to have them come in and meet them where they are, help them figure out what their pathway is [to] housing, what their solution to homelessness is and then work with them so that they can stay here while they exit homelessness,\" said Abigail Stewart-Kahn, director of strategy and external affairs with DHSH. \"It's not always perfect, but that is the intent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The courtyard between the Embarcadero navigation center's two dormitories. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Womack arrived at the Embarcadero center nearly two weeks ago, he, like all guests, was scanned with a wand for weapons before being interviewed by a caseworker to determine his specific needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 70, getting back on his feet after a decade on the street means essentially re-enrolling in society, a formidable task that he says case managers here are working to guide him through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't got no Social Security, I don't have no [public] assistance, I don't even have my ID,\" Womack said. \"I have two meetings today where they're going to take me to get some of these things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard length of stay here is 30 days, but staff insist that residents won't be pushed out unless another shelter bed or housing option is available. The goal, however ambitious, is for these centers to be a springboard out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to put people back on the street,\" said center director Tony Chase of Five Keys, a nonprofit charter school operator contracted by the city to operate the site. \"So we always work to have another place for a person to go if they can't stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus is spare but cheerful, with scattered plantings and an outdoor patio space. That morning, residents wandered freely around the facility, some resting in one of the two sprawling dormitories or lounging in front of a large flat-screen TV in the dining area. A few used the handful of desktop computers available: one writing what appeared to be computer code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801542\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Embarcadero navigation center's two dormitories, which together offer 200 beds. Unlike most traditional shelters, guests can sleep with their families and bring pets and personal belongings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calmness of the space belies the heated community battle that preceded it, and the political capital Mayor London Breed has invested in ensuring its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions flared immediately after Breed first proposed the center last March as part of her goal of creating 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020. A group of neighbors, calling themselves Safe Embarcadero for All, quickly mobilized against the project, claiming it would bring blight and crime to a neighborhood that it said didn't have much of a homeless problem to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a monthslong succession of rancorous community meetings that pitted neighbors against homeless advocates and the mayor, the group appealed to the city's Board of Supervisors to block the project. In a last-ditch effort to halt construction, the group then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788571/judge-rules-again-against-opponents-of-embarcadero-navigation-center-allowing-construction-to-proceed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsuccessfully sued\u003c/a> the city, alleging it had failed to get the necessary permissions from the state or conduct appropriate public outreach and environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a concession, the city agreed to initially fill only about 50 beds, leaving more than three-quarters of the facility empty, and gradually ramp up to full capacity by June. It also pledged to patrol the surrounding area to keep it clean and free of encampments, and give longtime homeless residents in the vicinity first access to the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The covered entrance to the Embarcadero navigation center. All guests have to be brought in by the Homeless Outreach Team — walk-ins aren't allowed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn stressed that nearly all the center's current occupants had been found living on the streets in the surrounding neighborhood, (although that was apparently not the case for Womack), and said concerns that the center would attract homeless people from other areas were unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our experience is that [navigation centers] don't become magnets,\" Stewart-Kahn said. \"You're not allowed to kind of be around the perimeter here. If you're camping outside, it's not going to get you access to the navigation center. And people who are homeless know that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Wallace Lee, who lives a block and a half from the center and leads Safe Embarcadero for All, said that doesn't square with some of the recent changes he's seen in the neighborhood as the center has begun to expand its capacity. That includes a handful of new encampments, the occasional pile of syringes and an increase in the number of \"distressed people,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that there are no additional encampments because of the navigation center is clearly preposterous,\" Lee said. \"To give the people at the navigation center credit, they do respond and come out to clean it. But to pretend the problems aren't there is disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the last monthly neighborhood advisory group meeting in late January, Lee added, city officials even admitted they had reached the \"point of diminishing returns\" in their outreach efforts in the neighborhood and had started inviting homeless residents in other parts of the city to come here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, we want to hold the city accountable to its promises and bring attention to these problems,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801584\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests use computers provided in the Embarcadero navigation center's lounge and intake area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In touring the new facility, it's understandable why some neighbors are concerned about it drawing homeless people from other areas: As shelters go, it's a pretty plum destination, a safe, comfortable refuge from the street, flush with resources and amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been eating like a king,\" said Womack, noting that the kitchen is open 23 hours a day. \"Anytime, day or night, you can go in and get yourself something to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a laundry room where residents can drop off bags of dirty clothes and pick them up clean and folded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We literally want to treat the guests here like they're coming into a hotel,\" said Steve Goode, the head of Five Keys. \"Because if we don't treat them appropriately and treat them with dignity and respect, offer them something to eat and drink when they come in, they're not going to want to stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navigation center staff Steve Hawkins (left) and James Bess help fold guests' laundry, a service that's offered daily. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that, of course, comes with a hefty price tag. The city spends more than $6 million, on average, to build each of its navigation centers and over $4 million per site on annual operating costs, according to \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report\u003c/a> by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and the Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing have both championed navigation centers as an effective way to get people off the streets and into housing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-mayor-poised-to-meet-1-000-shelter-bed-goal-14975392.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently proposed\u003c/a> opening two new ones at 33 Gough and 888 Post streets. But in an interesting twist, the department balked at \u003ca href=\"//www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-city-needs-to-be-pushed-SF-supe-wants-14911273.php\">\"proposed legislation\u003c/a> to open eight new centers in the next 2½ years, one in each of districts that don’t currently have any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All seven navigation centers are clustered in just three of the city's 11 districts, and the plan, introduced by Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district includes the Embarcadero site and two others, is intended to share the burden citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The proposed ordinance forces time, political capital, financial and personnel resources on expanding one component of our homelessness response,” Stewart-Kahn said at a recent hearing on the measure. “And it does this at the cost of [building more] housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Embarcadero navigation center, resident Joanna Shober said she had been camping near the Ferry Building before she came here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was homeless, living on the street, and I got tired of it,\" she said. \"The first week they opened [the center], they started taking all of my homeless buddies down by the [Ferry Building]. So I know a lot of people here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shober said she got laid off from her long-time job about a decade ago and has been living on and off the streets since then. She now works seasonally for the Giants in guest services and as an occasional coat checker during events at the Moscone and Chase centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I got that job, I tried to pay rent, but I didn't make enough, and I made too much for GA,\" she said, referring to the state General Assistance Program. \"So I got cut off from GA and then I fell behind on rent, and it just spiraled down, and so I ended up on the street again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her most recent stint on the street, Shober had stayed for 30 days at the Bayshore Navigation Center — also run by Five Keys — and when no housing materialized was offered a 90-day spot in a traditional shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The shelter] was so bad that I actually had to leave,\" she said. \"I said, I'd rather be homeless than be in this place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Shober, a guest at the Embarcadero navigation center, said she works three part-time jobs, including guest services for the Giants, but still can't afford to pay rent in the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shober has been impressed with this place so far, she said, and is optimistic things will be different this time around. She is even considering applying for a job here as a homeless ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They give you all information of what to do, where to go, who to see,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless people are often given a bad rap, she said, but many just need an opportunity to get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was two hours after dusk in Santa Ana, and the temperature had dropped 10 degrees since sundown. A line of men and women bundled against the chill curled past the National Guard Armory’s entrance, around the side of the building and into the parking lot, about 150 in all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, the layout looked like something provided to evacuees after a disaster: row after row of black sleeping pads, lined up edge to edge. But for the people staying here, this is not temporary shelter: Each year for the last decade, from mid-December until the funding runs out in April or May, the same group calls the concrete floor and five bathrooms home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Orange County’s answer to its growing, highly concentrated homeless population. On this day in January, the elderly, people with disabilities and a family were let in early and picked out their sleeping mats first. A trio of men, lined up at least an hour before the shelter doors opened, trickled in with camping gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every December, when the shelter opens, “I’m always amazed. It’s like the first day of school,” said Larry Haynes, executive director of Mercy House, the nonprofit that operates the 10,000-square foot armory shelter. “Everyone says hello like they’re old friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This shelter — on state land, run by a nonprofit agency — should serve as the basic model of what Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 8, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EO-N-23-20-Homelessness-Crisis-01.08.2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsom issued an executive order\u003c/a> that tasked state agencies with evaluating excess land for use as possible emergency homeless shelters. A state \u003ca href=\"https://cadgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=392e5e687e9041bb8f20e3acc5b211c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map \u003c/a>created last year shows more than 1,000 parcels, ranging from a quarter-acre near a San Diego freeway to 70 acres next to a minimum-security prison in Chino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Santa Ana armory has become a harbinger of the problems that mayors and county executives foresee with new emergency shelters in their backyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Pushback from Local Leaders\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a federal judge lauded Orange County for a cooperative plan to avoid arresting homeless people while directing them toward county housing and health services. The judge called the agreement between the county and homeless activists a model for the rest of the state, if not the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peace barely lasted into the new year. Santa Ana, the county’s poorest city, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/7760866/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed suit in January,\u003c/a> alleging that three other Orange County cities are dropping off their homeless population at the armory in a community that already has a disproportionate amount of shelters. The county has a 400-bed shelter in downtown Santa Ana, with plans to expand it, and the city has a 200-bed shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In recent years, the city of Santa Ana has been compelled to spend millions of dollars from its general fund to address health and safety concerns attributable to the homeless population now living here,” the city said in the lawsuit. “That money would otherwise have been spent on providing core services to residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several cities and counties contacted by CalMatters, local leaders expressed concern about the governor’s plan to open land for shelters in their jurisdictions. Some see it as ineffective and unfair — offering state land but not paying for the costs associated with a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Richmond Mayor Tom Butt\"]‘The governor’s task force on homelessness decided that cities and counties should be responsible for this. I think that’s just wrong.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elected leaders say they’ve received little information about how the shelters will operate or who will operate them. They don’t know how people will get to and from the sites. They don’t know how neighbors might react. And they’re still unclear who will pay for it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unlikely the governor is going to come to the city of Oceanside and say, here’s several million dollars to go build a new sobering center, or a new shelter. Just because the governor orders something doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen,” said Peter Weiss, mayor of Oceanside, in northern San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s goals may run into the same not-in-my-backyard resistance that faces nearly every local plan for homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a small piece of excess land in the Bay Area city of Richmond, next to Interstate 80, that could be an emergency shelter. But Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said he’s “not optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor’s task force on homelessness decided that cities and counties should be responsible for this,” Butt said. “I think that’s just wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state expects to make 100 parcels available this year to governments that apply to use the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>State Land, Local Burden\u003c/strong>:\u003cstrong> Each Shelter Costs Millions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nothing can compel a city or county to use the state land as a shelter; they would have to apply for permission to use the land. But if they do, the burden of operating it falls on their own shoulders. That includes food, bedding and transportation, liability arising from fire or violence and the cost of administrators and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration says the excess land plan will help offset shelter costs for cities and counties — at least, those willing to seek the help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local government has a responsibility to put their hands up and be part of the solution,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness. “A good number at the county and city level are answering the call by leaning forward and embracing solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some state funding is available to local governments, and more is on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jason Elliott, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness\"]‘The governor has made available a historic amount of resources, in addition to the money that naturally goes to cities and counties for homelessness and mental health resources.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Newsom pledged $650 million to cities, counties and regional associations called Continuums of Care to fight homelessness. Of that, Newsom has made \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/hhap_allocations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$500 million\u003c/a> available; the other $150 million will be disbursed once the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development certifies the 2019 “point in time” count of homeless people. Newsom is asking the Legislature for another $750 million in this year’s budget, some of which would go to shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor has made available a historic amount of resources, in addition to the money that naturally goes to cities and counties for homelessness and mental health resources,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opening and running a homeless shelter for even just a short time can cost millions. A\u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article235394812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tent shelter underneath a bridge\u003c/a> for 420 people cost Modesto $1.6 million during the 10 months it was open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article230135694.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A shelter in Sacramento\u003c/a> with services focused on finding temporary or permanent housing cost the city $5 million in public and private money over 17 months, raising hackles on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say that the shelters will reduce the cost of jails, emergency room visits and other services that would result from people living outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to bring people indoors,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who is co-chair of the governor’s council on homelessness. “I view this as all new opportunity. Land is costly, and if the state’s willing to partner with us and provide land, I only have two words: thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reducing homelessness and its associated issues, including mental health, are big challenges, said Weiss, mayor of Oceanside. Many residents have negative perceptions of homeless people because of crime, litter and frequent calls for police, so they may oppose a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said he would welcome a new shelter — but not the associated costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a 17-acre parcel of excess land south of State Route 76 in Oceanside, but Weiss said he doesn’t know how the city or county would pay for a shelter there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/pdf/2015-CoC-Application.pdf\">Richmond and Contra Costa County homeless coalition\u003c/a> will be allocated one-time funding of up to $2.7 million in emergency homeless aid from the state, along with another $2.5 million that’s available directly to the county as part of the state’s $650 million going directly to cities, counties and regional care associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Richmond’s mayor says that’s not nearly enough when counts show his city alone has at least 400 unsheltered people at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re either gonna continue to put Band-Aids on it and push these people into shelters and Tuff Sheds and that, or the state is going to pay up. California’s rich enough to afford it, the United States is rich enough to afford it,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read this thing that the problem’s gonna get pushed down to cities and counties, that’s just crazy and it makes no sense. We’re either gonna solve it or we’re gonna keep pushing it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Whatever-It-Takes Mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, Sacramento’s mayor, said the counties and regions could work together to solve the homeless crisis, but they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one would ask the counties or cities to do what they can’t do, but we are in whatever-it-takes mode,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Gore, a Sonoma County supervisor and first vice president of the California State Association of Counties, said there could be electoral consequences for officials that push forward with shelter plans. “Diving into homelessness and affordable housing is a good way for elected officials to get voted out of office in a world run by NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard),” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Gore said the governor’s shelter plan is urgently necessary, especially since local efforts haven’t been effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would look at my colleagues who are criticizing the governor and say the time for criticism is over. There was local control, and there haven’t been results,” he said. “For cities and counties that think they don’t have enough money, they have a reckoning coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, Steinberg said, is how Californians think about the word “shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter has been and in many ways continues to be a pejorative term,” Steinberg said. “It implies to people who are skeptics that the only kind of shelter is a long-term, dusty, mis-run facility where people are helpless without the ability to get long-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a stereotype and it may have been an accurate stereotype at one point. But now, when we say shelter, we’re talking about navigation centers, where the point is to gain stability to get off the streets permanently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on August 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on Aug. 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what kind of shelters would be built on excess state land. The governor’s office has mandated that they all have “service provisions” such as housing assistance and medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing yet compels cities and counties to work together to resolve their homelessness crises, but the Steinberg-led governor’s coalition wants to change that. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/gavin-newsom-homelessness-task-force/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Under a coalition proposal,\u003c/a> the state could sue cities and counties that fail to house the majority of their homeless population. The Legislature would have to design the plan, and it would have to go before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is pushing even further with the idea of turning government land into shelter space. On Jan. 21, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/amp/Newsom-asks-to-have-surplus-federal-land-used-for-14995834.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the governor asked \u003c/a>U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to “match our commitment by similarly providing surplus federal land to local governments across the state so they can build housing for the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shelter 1.0: A Roof and a Bathroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Haynes, who runs the National Guard Armory shelter in Santa Ana, describes it as a “shelter 1.0,” which are deliberately temporary. “Here’s a roof, here’s a door, here’s a bathroom, do the best you can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"homelessness\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the armories are used by the Guard during the day, everything has to be picked up — and cleaned to military standards — by 8 a.m. daily. That means a predawn wake-up call for the people laid out elbow-to-elbow on the floor of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it difficult to get them up? It’s \u003cem>awful\u003c/em>,” Haynes said. “But that’s not our call. It’s got to be mopped, broomed, like no one was ever here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for this model [of shelter] to sunset. There are a lot of options out there. I think there’s a growing frustration with the lack of space, the lack of privacy, and as someone who operates this shelter, I can say, I get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters of more recent vintage, or in more permanent locations, afford better privileges. Some have bunk beds instead of mats. People have a designated spot so they don’t have to line up before the shelter opens. Some have housing assistance programs and a medical clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haynes gazed around at the 150 people inside the armory, shuffling from dinner — that day it was chicken noodle soup, bread and a salad — to the tightly packed mats on the concrete floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, whether there’s going to be legal persuasion or not, at some point in time a policymaker — whether it’s a councilmember, a board of [supervisors] member, a governor, whatever — is going to have to take the heat for making the decision to have a shelter sited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nigel Duara is a reporter at CalMatters. This article is part of\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elected leaders say they’ve received little information about how the shelters will operate or who will operate them. They don’t know how people will get to and from the sites. They don’t know how neighbors might react. And they’re still unclear who will pay for it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unlikely the governor is going to come to the city of Oceanside and say, here’s several million dollars to go build a new sobering center, or a new shelter. Just because the governor orders something doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen,” said Peter Weiss, mayor of Oceanside, in northern San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s goals may run into the same not-in-my-backyard resistance that faces nearly every local plan for homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a small piece of excess land in the Bay Area city of Richmond, next to Interstate 80, that could be an emergency shelter. But Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said he’s “not optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor’s task force on homelessness decided that cities and counties should be responsible for this,” Butt said. “I think that’s just wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state expects to make 100 parcels available this year to governments that apply to use the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>State Land, Local Burden\u003c/strong>:\u003cstrong> Each Shelter Costs Millions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nothing can compel a city or county to use the state land as a shelter; they would have to apply for permission to use the land. But if they do, the burden of operating it falls on their own shoulders. That includes food, bedding and transportation, liability arising from fire or violence and the cost of administrators and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration says the excess land plan will help offset shelter costs for cities and counties — at least, those willing to seek the help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local government has a responsibility to put their hands up and be part of the solution,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness. “A good number at the county and city level are answering the call by leaning forward and embracing solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some state funding is available to local governments, and more is on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Newsom pledged $650 million to cities, counties and regional associations called Continuums of Care to fight homelessness. Of that, Newsom has made \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/hhap_allocations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$500 million\u003c/a> available; the other $150 million will be disbursed once the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development certifies the 2019 “point in time” count of homeless people. Newsom is asking the Legislature for another $750 million in this year’s budget, some of which would go to shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor has made available a historic amount of resources, in addition to the money that naturally goes to cities and counties for homelessness and mental health resources,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opening and running a homeless shelter for even just a short time can cost millions. A\u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article235394812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tent shelter underneath a bridge\u003c/a> for 420 people cost Modesto $1.6 million during the 10 months it was open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article230135694.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A shelter in Sacramento\u003c/a> with services focused on finding temporary or permanent housing cost the city $5 million in public and private money over 17 months, raising hackles on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say that the shelters will reduce the cost of jails, emergency room visits and other services that would result from people living outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to bring people indoors,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who is co-chair of the governor’s council on homelessness. “I view this as all new opportunity. Land is costly, and if the state’s willing to partner with us and provide land, I only have two words: thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reducing homelessness and its associated issues, including mental health, are big challenges, said Weiss, mayor of Oceanside. Many residents have negative perceptions of homeless people because of crime, litter and frequent calls for police, so they may oppose a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said he would welcome a new shelter — but not the associated costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a 17-acre parcel of excess land south of State Route 76 in Oceanside, but Weiss said he doesn’t know how the city or county would pay for a shelter there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/pdf/2015-CoC-Application.pdf\">Richmond and Contra Costa County homeless coalition\u003c/a> will be allocated one-time funding of up to $2.7 million in emergency homeless aid from the state, along with another $2.5 million that’s available directly to the county as part of the state’s $650 million going directly to cities, counties and regional care associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Richmond’s mayor says that’s not nearly enough when counts show his city alone has at least 400 unsheltered people at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re either gonna continue to put Band-Aids on it and push these people into shelters and Tuff Sheds and that, or the state is going to pay up. California’s rich enough to afford it, the United States is rich enough to afford it,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read this thing that the problem’s gonna get pushed down to cities and counties, that’s just crazy and it makes no sense. We’re either gonna solve it or we’re gonna keep pushing it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Whatever-It-Takes Mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, Sacramento’s mayor, said the counties and regions could work together to solve the homeless crisis, but they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one would ask the counties or cities to do what they can’t do, but we are in whatever-it-takes mode,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Gore, a Sonoma County supervisor and first vice president of the California State Association of Counties, said there could be electoral consequences for officials that push forward with shelter plans. “Diving into homelessness and affordable housing is a good way for elected officials to get voted out of office in a world run by NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard),” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Gore said the governor’s shelter plan is urgently necessary, especially since local efforts haven’t been effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would look at my colleagues who are criticizing the governor and say the time for criticism is over. There was local control, and there haven’t been results,” he said. “For cities and counties that think they don’t have enough money, they have a reckoning coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, Steinberg said, is how Californians think about the word “shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter has been and in many ways continues to be a pejorative term,” Steinberg said. “It implies to people who are skeptics that the only kind of shelter is a long-term, dusty, mis-run facility where people are helpless without the ability to get long-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a stereotype and it may have been an accurate stereotype at one point. But now, when we say shelter, we’re talking about navigation centers, where the point is to gain stability to get off the streets permanently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on August 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on Aug. 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what kind of shelters would be built on excess state land. The governor’s office has mandated that they all have “service provisions” such as housing assistance and medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing yet compels cities and counties to work together to resolve their homelessness crises, but the Steinberg-led governor’s coalition wants to change that. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/gavin-newsom-homelessness-task-force/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Under a coalition proposal,\u003c/a> the state could sue cities and counties that fail to house the majority of their homeless population. The Legislature would have to design the plan, and it would have to go before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is pushing even further with the idea of turning government land into shelter space. On Jan. 21, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/amp/Newsom-asks-to-have-surplus-federal-land-used-for-14995834.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the governor asked \u003c/a>U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to “match our commitment by similarly providing surplus federal land to local governments across the state so they can build housing for the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shelter 1.0: A Roof and a Bathroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Haynes, who runs the National Guard Armory shelter in Santa Ana, describes it as a “shelter 1.0,” which are deliberately temporary. “Here’s a roof, here’s a door, here’s a bathroom, do the best you can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the armories are used by the Guard during the day, everything has to be picked up — and cleaned to military standards — by 8 a.m. daily. That means a predawn wake-up call for the people laid out elbow-to-elbow on the floor of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it difficult to get them up? It’s \u003cem>awful\u003c/em>,” Haynes said. “But that’s not our call. It’s got to be mopped, broomed, like no one was ever here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for this model [of shelter] to sunset. There are a lot of options out there. I think there’s a growing frustration with the lack of space, the lack of privacy, and as someone who operates this shelter, I can say, I get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters of more recent vintage, or in more permanent locations, afford better privileges. Some have bunk beds instead of mats. People have a designated spot so they don’t have to line up before the shelter opens. Some have housing assistance programs and a medical clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haynes gazed around at the 150 people inside the armory, shuffling from dinner — that day it was chicken noodle soup, bread and a salad — to the tightly packed mats on the concrete floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, whether there’s going to be legal persuasion or not, at some point in time a policymaker — whether it’s a councilmember, a board of [supervisors] member, a governor, whatever — is going to have to take the heat for making the decision to have a shelter sited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With yellow vests and flashlights, over 200 volunteers fanned out across Fresno to count homeless people this past Tuesday night. Along the railway, one group walked by a freight container with a mattress and shoes inside, and past a dirt cot enclosed in a tarp pegged to a bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who likely slept there the night before were no longer present, and thus not counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing on, BNSF Railway agent Adam Garza led volunteers to where he last week spotted at least a half-dozen people living. Now there were none. “It’s kind of funny,” he said. “CHP cleared out everybody in the areas that we have problems with in these last few weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"homelessness\" label=\"more coverage\"]The Fresno area, by last year’s count, had the highest percentage of unsheltered people anywhere in the country. This year, volunteers are counting again — joining Los Angeles, San Diego and hundreds of cities and counties nationwide that will report their homeless counts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. These “one night count” numbers will translate to state and federal dollars aimed at alleviating the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California’s cities and counties tallied more than 150,000 people living on the streets or in emergency shelters — a 17% uptick from the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as important as that 150,000 figure is, nearly everyone involved in one-night counts acknowledges that the volunteer-led process significantly underestimates the actual number of people without a safe place to call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t use the right numbers for the homeless population, the political class are placing themselves in a situation where they are most likely going to fail,” said Christopher Weare, a UC Berkeley lecturer who researches homelessness. “They can spend billions of dollars, have very effective programs, get a lot of people housed, and we’re still going to have this very large [homeless] population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates complain that the federal definition of homelessness is far too narrow — it excludes people who are doubled-up or couch surfing with relatives or friends, or paying for a cheap motel room. Even those living outdoors can be easily missed, especially if law enforcement has recently cleared encampments. Weare, who’s refining a more comprehensive point-in-time counting method, produced a Sacramento number nearly six times greater than the number of homeless people in the federal count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid all the uncertainties about the accuracy of the count, one thing seems certain: California’s numbers will be big — and weaponized, politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration used the 2019 count to assail the state’s Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom for what the president described as a tremendous failure. Last month, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson singled out California no fewer than \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nine times\u003c/a> in his press release announcing national homelessness figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it wasn’t for California and Oregon, the administration noted, the country could boast a nationwide decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every community in California is required by HUD to conduct a one-night count every other year, but some places such as Fresno and Los Angeles County opt to conduct theirs every year. The tabulations made this month will form the basis for the certified annual U.S. count that HUD will release next December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other California mayors and legislators will be on the hook to show improvement — but that time lag is likely to work against them, and could spell real political problems for the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the $650 million in emergency homelessness funding he approved last year won’t materialize in shelters or emergency rental assistance until well after the one-night counts are concluded. The earliest this year’s $750 million proposal could be accessed by homeless service providers would be July, and that would require a two-thirds vote of state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, statewide homeless counts should only be compared every other year, as communities are required to conduct one night counts only in odd years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why the count will fall short\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Only a handful of cities and counties across California actually try to send volunteers to every corner of their jurisdiction. Most send counters only to homeless “hot spots” — places known to service providers to have lots of unhoused residents sleeping outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also difficult for volunteers to identify on sight who is homeless and who isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone is just walking the street at night and doesn’t have a shopping cart, they may not be recognized as homeless, when they in fact have nowhere to go,” said Weare, the UC Berkeley lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And encampment cleanups pose “a huge challenge,” said Jody Ketcheside, vice chair of the Fresno-Madera Continuum of Care, who coordinates the Fresno count. “Sometimes those will happen the day before, or the day of, and people are displaced and we can’t find them again, because we do our outreach during [the week prior] to determine where the encampments are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another limitation of the one-night-count: timing. The snapshots don’t capture the much larger number of Californians who fall into homelessness over the course of an entire year. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Christopher Weare, UC Berkeley']‘If someone is just walking the street at night and doesn’t have a shopping cart, they may not be recognized as homeless, when they in fact have nowhere to go’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Ketcheside said she thinks the counts are getting more accurate, in part because of more volunteers. Over 300 people signed up to count heads or conduct surveys in Fresno this year, a record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a more comprehensive count now could distort how well homelessness can be tracked over time. Ironically, more volunteers identifying more people experiencing homelessness could overstate how much homelessness has grown significantly, when perhaps it was simply undercounted in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although a lot of us don’t like it, HUD doesn’t have another way right now,” said Doreen Eley, assisted housing manager at Fresno Housing Authority. “This is what they have, so this is what we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How the numbers matter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Point-in-time counts have guided much of the emergency funding state lawmakers have approved in recent years to fight homelessness — \u003ca href=\"https://bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/heap_overview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$500 million distributed in 2018\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/hhap_allocations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$650 million distributed this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more people counted in Los Angeles than Fresno, the larger the share Los Angeles got of that overall funding, according to Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal funding is also tied to point-in-time counts, although that funding is set to maintain current local spending, according to Eley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has asked the Legislature for an additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article239063373.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$750 million in state emergency funds\u003c/a> for homelessness. Whether that money will also be allotted using the new point-in-time numbers remains up in the air, according to Alicia Sutton, deputy secretary for homelessness at the state Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. But there’s no better option in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all aware it’s not a perfect measure but it’s an agreed upon best measure for understanding the current scope of the problem,” Sutton said. “We’re using HUD’s system. They understand the limitations and we’re in conversations with them, but it’s really their system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is there a better way to do this?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Everybody uses these numbers as if they actually tell us something,” said Paul Boden, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://wraphome.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Western Regional Advocacy Project\u003c/a>. “And what they’re telling us lately is the numbers are going up, which means in reality, it’s probably 10 times worse — because they’re using a system that was artificially created to keep the numbers as low as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a more comprehensive count, Boden points to data from the U.S. Education Department. It includes kids who live doubled-up with other families and stay in motels, regardless of who funds their stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, nearly 246,000 students from kindergarten through high school were homeless in 2018, according to the Department of Education’s more expansive definition. That’s nearly 100,000 more than California’s official homeless count of people of all ages last year and doesn’t include those homeless children’s parents, or children under age 5. 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That gets tough because it kind of makes our homeless population numb to the questions,” said Shawn Jenkins, vice chair of the Fresno-Madera Continuum of Care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the state’s tallies are done, the numbers will wend their way to Washington D.C., and untold tens of thousands of Californians will remain without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been blessed by God, and Fresno police have been pretty understanding. They haven’t impounded my truck,” said one such man counted in his vehicle by Fresno volunteers, as a woman slept in the passenger seat. “You know, if they do, I’ll probably end up cuddling with that guy,” he quipped about his friend leaning on the other side of the truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’ll probably freeze to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manuela Tobias is a reporter with the Fresno Bee and Matt Levin is the housing reporter at CalMatters. 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