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"content": "\u003cp>Declaring that moral persuasion and economic incentives aren’t working to bring people in from the sidewalks, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s task force on homelessness called Monday for a “legally enforceable mandate” that would force municipalities and the state to house the growing number of homeless Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which came as Newsom kicked off a \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/01/12/gov-newsom-to-embark-on-week-long-homeless-tour-throughout-state/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weeklong tour\u003c/a> of the state aimed at drawing attention to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, urged the Legislature to put a measure on the November ballot that would force California cities and counties to take steps to provide housing for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 150,000\u003c/a> homeless people in the state, or face legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a measure would require a two-thirds vote of both legislative houses to be brought to voters. California law does not currently penalize the state or local governments for failing to reduce homeless populations, or to make housing sufficiently available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\"]'Housing is health. And to recognize that health dollars should appropriately be used to support housing is a very important part of our recommendations.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who co-chair the governor’s 13-member Council of Regional Homeless Advisors, have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/california-should-make-clear-there-is-a-right-to-housing-not-simply-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocating \u003c/a>some sort of enforceable “right” to sleep indoors since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/04/15-35845.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struck down laws against homeless camping\u003c/a>. That ruling, which the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/why-boise-matters-kamala-harris-poll-numbers-endangered-species-and-rehabilitation-through-college/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Supreme Court let stand\u003c/a> just last month, dramatically limited cities’ enforcement options, finding it to be cruel and unusual punishment to prosecute people for sleeping on the street if sufficient shelter isn’t available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California mandates free public education for all of its children and subsidized health insurance for its low-income residents. It requires its subdivisions to provide services to people with developmental disabilities and foster children,” the council wrote in a letter signed by both elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yet everything that state, county and city governments do to alleviate this crisis is voluntary. There is no mandate to ensure people can live indoors, no legal accountability for failing to do so, no enforceable housing production standard and no requirement to consolidate and coordinate funding streams across jurisdictions. The results speak for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s recommendation stops short of Steinberg’s and Ridley-Thomas’ initial call for a “right to shelter,” which would not only have required cities to provide immediate beds, but also obligated people experiencing homelessness to come inside. But it adds momentum to the strategy of elevating litigation as a tool to accomplish what compassion and money haven’t been able to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, visiting a homelessness program in Nevada County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAgovernor/videos/2568716870024650/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Monday\u003c/a> he “would lean in the direction” of speedily deploying a legal “obligation” to supply sufficient services and housing, adding that “a number of cities and counties” have volunteered to do demonstration projects over the next several months, “not the next few years.” (Ridley-Thomas later said he would propose such a pilot in L.A. County this week.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I broadly have been encouraging this debate about obligations,” the governor said, adding that “there’s a distinction between rights and obligations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without elaborating on that distinction, he seconded the task force’s point that many of the state’s responsibilities stem from legal mandates: “We do it in almost every other respect,” Newsom said. “On this issue we don’t, and I think that’s missing. The question is how do you do it ... . This is not black and white. This is tough stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Municipalities made it clear they would need more clarification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A legally enforceable mandate can only work with clarity of who’s obligated to do what and what new sustainable resources will fund it; that’s the ticket for clear expectations and accountability,” said Graham Knaus, executive director of the California State Association of Counties, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, meanwhile, called Monday’s proposal an improvement on the original “right to shelter” concept, saying a mandate by any name would still have the force of law. The point, the mayor said, is to give the courts a legal “last resort” to address pleas to supersede political gridlock, just as federal laws have in the past armed judges to combat other social crises. “It’s analogous to desegregation,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/klnd87KdQSE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force’s proposal would let a “designated public official” sue the government for not doing enough to offer emergency and permanent housing to the homeless. A judge could then intervene to force a city to approve an emergency shelter, for example, or redirect budget funds to homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, however, so far lacks specifics on how taxpayers would pay for such a mandate. The letter released by the task force, which includes local elected officials from large and small cities, states that “more state resources will undoubtedly be required” but includes no estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local governments in recent years have poured billions into combating homelessness, only to watch the problem worsen as ever-rising rents drive Californians to the streets faster than they can be re-housed. On Friday, for the second straight year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/01/gavin-newsom-budget-california-trump-housing-homelessness-schools-wildfire-surplus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed more than $1 billion in new state funds\u003c/a> to fight homelessness, calling it “the issue that defines our times” in California. But the state’s “point-in-time” homeless count jumped 17% between 2018 and last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, a task force member, said leverage is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do the things we are required to do first ... then for everything else we try very hard,” Fletcher said. “Absent a legally enforceable obligation, I believe people will continue to try very hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a legal mandate would arm jurisdictions to tackle “the underlying problem which is poverty,” rather than appease communities with shelter beds, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Putting the Onus on Government \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-07/newsom-sidesteps-right-to-shelter-plan-but-says-homeless-on-streets-cannot-persist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">floated the idea\u003c/a> of a statewide “right to shelter” law last year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Declaring that moral persuasion and economic incentives aren’t working to bring people in from the sidewalks, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s task force on homelessness called Monday for a “legally enforceable mandate” that would force municipalities and the state to house the growing number of homeless Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which came as Newsom kicked off a \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/01/12/gov-newsom-to-embark-on-week-long-homeless-tour-throughout-state/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weeklong tour\u003c/a> of the state aimed at drawing attention to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, urged the Legislature to put a measure on the November ballot that would force California cities and counties to take steps to provide housing for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 150,000\u003c/a> homeless people in the state, or face legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a measure would require a two-thirds vote of both legislative houses to be brought to voters. California law does not currently penalize the state or local governments for failing to reduce homeless populations, or to make housing sufficiently available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who co-chair the governor’s 13-member Council of Regional Homeless Advisors, have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/california-should-make-clear-there-is-a-right-to-housing-not-simply-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocating \u003c/a>some sort of enforceable “right” to sleep indoors since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/04/15-35845.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struck down laws against homeless camping\u003c/a>. That ruling, which the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/why-boise-matters-kamala-harris-poll-numbers-endangered-species-and-rehabilitation-through-college/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Supreme Court let stand\u003c/a> just last month, dramatically limited cities’ enforcement options, finding it to be cruel and unusual punishment to prosecute people for sleeping on the street if sufficient shelter isn’t available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California mandates free public education for all of its children and subsidized health insurance for its low-income residents. It requires its subdivisions to provide services to people with developmental disabilities and foster children,” the council wrote in a letter signed by both elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yet everything that state, county and city governments do to alleviate this crisis is voluntary. There is no mandate to ensure people can live indoors, no legal accountability for failing to do so, no enforceable housing production standard and no requirement to consolidate and coordinate funding streams across jurisdictions. The results speak for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s recommendation stops short of Steinberg’s and Ridley-Thomas’ initial call for a “right to shelter,” which would not only have required cities to provide immediate beds, but also obligated people experiencing homelessness to come inside. But it adds momentum to the strategy of elevating litigation as a tool to accomplish what compassion and money haven’t been able to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, visiting a homelessness program in Nevada County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAgovernor/videos/2568716870024650/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Monday\u003c/a> he “would lean in the direction” of speedily deploying a legal “obligation” to supply sufficient services and housing, adding that “a number of cities and counties” have volunteered to do demonstration projects over the next several months, “not the next few years.” (Ridley-Thomas later said he would propose such a pilot in L.A. County this week.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I broadly have been encouraging this debate about obligations,” the governor said, adding that “there’s a distinction between rights and obligations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without elaborating on that distinction, he seconded the task force’s point that many of the state’s responsibilities stem from legal mandates: “We do it in almost every other respect,” Newsom said. “On this issue we don’t, and I think that’s missing. The question is how do you do it ... . This is not black and white. This is tough stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Municipalities made it clear they would need more clarification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A legally enforceable mandate can only work with clarity of who’s obligated to do what and what new sustainable resources will fund it; that’s the ticket for clear expectations and accountability,” said Graham Knaus, executive director of the California State Association of Counties, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, meanwhile, called Monday’s proposal an improvement on the original “right to shelter” concept, saying a mandate by any name would still have the force of law. The point, the mayor said, is to give the courts a legal “last resort” to address pleas to supersede political gridlock, just as federal laws have in the past armed judges to combat other social crises. “It’s analogous to desegregation,” Steinberg said.\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/klnd87KdQSE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/klnd87KdQSE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The task force’s proposal would let a “designated public official” sue the government for not doing enough to offer emergency and permanent housing to the homeless. A judge could then intervene to force a city to approve an emergency shelter, for example, or redirect budget funds to homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, however, so far lacks specifics on how taxpayers would pay for such a mandate. The letter released by the task force, which includes local elected officials from large and small cities, states that “more state resources will undoubtedly be required” but includes no estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local governments in recent years have poured billions into combating homelessness, only to watch the problem worsen as ever-rising rents drive Californians to the streets faster than they can be re-housed. On Friday, for the second straight year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/01/gavin-newsom-budget-california-trump-housing-homelessness-schools-wildfire-surplus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed more than $1 billion in new state funds\u003c/a> to fight homelessness, calling it “the issue that defines our times” in California. But the state’s “point-in-time” homeless count jumped 17% between 2018 and last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, a task force member, said leverage is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do the things we are required to do first ... then for everything else we try very hard,” Fletcher said. “Absent a legally enforceable obligation, I believe people will continue to try very hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a legal mandate would arm jurisdictions to tackle “the underlying problem which is poverty,” rather than appease communities with shelter beds, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Putting the Onus on Government \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-07/newsom-sidesteps-right-to-shelter-plan-but-says-homeless-on-streets-cannot-persist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">floated the idea\u003c/a> of a statewide “right to shelter” law last year. Spurred by decades-old litigation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/30/behind-new-yorks-right-shelter-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York state\u003c/a> has a “right to shelter” policy that makes its state and local governments legally liable for having emergency shelter beds available for every unhoused person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many credit “right to shelter” for New York’s success in reducing the number of people sleeping on the streets, Newsom and advocates for the homeless have balked at the idea. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The reason why right to shelter is a mistake is because it diverts resources from the solution, which is housing, not shelter,” said Sharon Rapport, California policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the policy proposed by the task force, a local government would be required to develop a plan to house the vast majority of its homeless people within “an aggressive but reasonable period of time.” “Reasonable” is not defined in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However Steinberg said that, in the case of Sacramento, “aggressive but reasonable” might mean a 1,500-person annual reduction in the city’s 5,500-plus homeless population, and housing the “the vast majority” within five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates on the homelessness issue said more specifics are needed, but applauded the task force’s recommendations as a philosophical pushback, at least, against efforts to criminalize living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any kind of policies that are promoting locking up people or warehousing people or punishing people for being homeless, the council is saying those policies have been very ineffective in the past,” Rapport said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Bakersfield recently proposed ramping up enforcement of low-level drug offenses to get people off the streets there, and advocates have expressed concern that the Trump administration’s threats to do something about homelessness in California may involve heavier use of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness Czar\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The task force also called for a single point-person on homelessness, a Newsom campaign promise that devolved in his first year into confusion over who, at any given point, was his “homelessness czar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various administration members, including Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas, Secretary of Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly and adviser Jason Elliott, have filled the role — so many that last week, Newsom headed off press questions by declaring tartly, “You want to know who’s the homeless czar? I’m the homeless czar in the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issue of who is actually overseeing the state’s disparate homelessness initiatives — across multiple bureaucracies from prisons to health care — is still pressing, at least according to the homelessness task force. One of their key recommendations would “create a single point of authority of homelessness in state government,” suggesting a high-level official that reports directly to Newsom. Another calls for a comprehensive accounting of existing funding for homelessness, housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still other recommendations have already been incorporated into Newsom’s proposed homelessness budget, including a “flexible fund” that service providers can tap for uses from emergency rental assistance to building shelters. The task force also proposed revamping the state’s health insurance program to draw down more federal dollars for homelessness-related services, a key pillar of the strategy Newsom unveiled last week. Doing so would require a waiver from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a member of the task force, said that Medi-Cal reform proposal is key to the their blueprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is health,” she said. “And to recognize that health dollars should appropriately be used to support housing is a very important part of our recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More controversial proposals included an executive order expanding the state’s new rent-gouging law to cover more households and legislation exempting from environmental review any new housing project for people at risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has strict laws that make it difficult to detain mentally ill people against their will for a prolonged period of time. Families of homeless loved ones struggling with schizophrenia or other disorders often blame the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2018/08/california-homeless-mental-illness-conservatorship-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lanterman-Petris-Short Act\u003c/a>, a late 1960s law intended to curb the overuse of asylums, for precluding necessary care. New York’s commitment laws are less stringent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom talked vaguely of reforming the law last week, such reforms are conspicuously absent from the task force’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa. He’s one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular recreation corridor. It’s a community, Gibson says, that often feels caught between opposing forces who aren’t always listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, they [local officials] want us to be able to govern ourselves, but they are not giving us the tools we need,” Gibson says. “They don’t want you hiding, but they don’t want you in their face, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\"]‘I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that’s the reality that we’re facing right now in Sonoma County.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California and other parts of the country, these growing homeless encampments evoke shantytown “Hoovervilles,” where hundreds of thousands of destitute Americans lived during the Great Depression. The encampments are frustrating residents, raising health and safety fears and fueling a debate over poverty and inequality in one of the nation’s wealthiest states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the encampment in Sonoma County’s Santa Rosa underscores the challenges of finding a lasting solution to the growing crisis. Amid a growing chorus of outrage at filthy, unsanitary conditions and the presence of rats and used drug needles, the camp has divided locals and even prompted an effort to recall a local politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that’s the reality that we’re facing right now in Sonoma County\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong>” said county \u003ca href=\"http://lyndaforsupervisor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\u003c/a>, whose district includes the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, makeshift tarp, tent and pallet “homes” have filled a stretch of the paved Joe Rodota bike trail that sides right next to Highway 12, a major commuter artery into Santa Rosa, the county seat. Now, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is considering purchasing three homes to house some of the people who live on the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly challenging,” Hopkins said, noting she gets scores of emails each day from frustrated, alarmed and angry constituents. “I also get emails of people who are just heartbroken at seeing the level of suffering — people freezing cold, living in a tent in the rain with no access to running water or electricity or sewer services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11794599 label='expanded statewide efforts' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/newsom-1020x681.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\nWhile homelessness is a hard-to-fix national problem, it is particularly severe in California. The state’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped 16% in the last year\u003c/a>. California has the \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of tent cities\u003c/a>, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. And according to a \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report \u003c/a>by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, California’s homeless population accounts for 53% of all unsheltered people in the country. Overall, the state has more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the growing crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed more than $1.4 billion in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795344/newsom-zeroes-in-on-education-gaps-homelessness-and-wildfires-in-state-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new budget \u003c/a>for expanded state and local efforts on immediate housing and services. Some $750 million of that would be placed in a \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\">special fund\u003c/a> to pay the rent of people facing homelessness and to jump-start the construction of more affordable housing. The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state’s expanding homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disease\u003c/a>, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. In Los Angeles County alone, the death rate for homeless has risen steadily for years and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 2018 topped 1,000\u003c/a> — about three deaths a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11795792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/img_0429_wide-8877d569f0e7e253f13298d445a54627274c2c58-e1578950118769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Gibson, who goes by the nickname “Cowboy,” lives at the tent city in Santa Rosa. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong,” he says. “I’m doing the best I can.” \u003ccite>(Eric Westervelt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Living on the Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wiry, frenzied and with a ready smile through some missing teeth, Gibson says he prefers the nickname “Cowboy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, they call me cowboy,” Gibson says, “I always ‘cowboy up’ for other people because I take care of others when I have nothing and stretch myself thin. It’s very hard,” he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I’m doing the best I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have someone taking out the trash, it’s gonna pile up,” Gibson says. “Some people are elderly and can’t really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this,” Gibson says. “A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to “cowboy up,” Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken,” says commuter Vania Supulveda. “My daughter complains, ‘Oh, it’s so cold out today’ when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It’s depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I’ve never seen something like this so close to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exploring Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED’s Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\">“No Place Like Home” program \u003c/a>would fund the purchase of the three homes. Hopkins hopes an additional two homes will be purchased eventually, totaling a cost of $6 million that includes furnishings and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is actually a model that … already is actually working in a lot of areas in Sonoma County,” Hopkins told Forum. “They have been very, very successful at getting people off the street and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents in similar models have even transitioned into renting their own apartments, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always the goal, right? Is to get people back fully on their feet and able to be supporting themselves in a type of housing that is acceptable. What’s happening right now on the Joe Rodota Trail, we know is completely unacceptable,” Hopkins told Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Hopkins is exploring an outdoor shelter option that would still allow people to camp, but would provide a navigation trailer with supportive services. It would equip people with “fundamental human needs,” such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about the encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail, it is actually very difficult to service because it’s actually spread out over about a mile and a half of linear trail,” Hopkins said. “So it’s tough for service workers to actually go out there … and actually provide people with a plan to get them off the trail and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Public Backlash in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“It just showcases the failure of government at all levels to meaningfully have a safety net for human beings,” Hopkins said. “There’s just no room for error now, there’s no safety net.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sonoma County’s chief homelessness official, Geoffrey Ross, announced his resignation. The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim executive director of the Community Development Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson has drawn praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for stepping into a leadership position and working alongside Ross to craft a plan to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792903/sonoma-county-approves-12-million-urgent-plan-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million in emergency funds\u003c/a> for the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins has also helped lead efforts to find solutions for the camp, including working on the emergency funding plan and setting up an emergency \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/society/sonoma-co-opens-eoc-for-first-time-in-response-to-homeless-crisis/5823059/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operations center\u003c/a> to better coordinate responses to a complex problem with no easy fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the first-term politician is facing blowback over the camp. A handful of angry constituents started \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10539186-181/recall-effort-targets-sonoma-county?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an effort to recall Hopkins\u003c/a>, even though she faces an election in March. Their petition accuses Hopkins of failing to act — “her watch, her failure” — and calls the homeless encampment a “public cesspool” that’s undermining businesses, homes and quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem cuts across complex issues, including rising housing costs and skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, poverty, addiction and mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating attempts to find a solution in Sonoma is \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CAO/Agreement-with-Homeless-Advocates-on-Preliminary-Injunction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a local injunction\u003c/a> that says the county can’t arrest or fine its way out of the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A federal court ruling\u003c/a> carries even more weight. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that homeless people essentially have a Constitutional right to camp on public property if local governments can’t provide enough shelter beds and services. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Marcos Ramirez, co-founder of the Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition\"]‘We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We’ve just seen it recently with the Kincade fire.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are services Hopkins said the county simply can’t afford now on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can we provide alternatives when we don’t have enough money from the state or federal government to actually provide adequate mental health services, to actually provide adequate housing and shelter for these human beings?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has repeatedly criticized the state response \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to its homeless crisis\u003c/a>, painting it as a result of failed Democratic leadership. He has threatened federal intervention. “It’s a shame. The world is looking at it,” Trump said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899416/los-angeles-has-a-homeless-problem-now-the-trump-administration-is-weighing-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins and other politicians have also promised to relocate the camp within weeks – most likely to a parking lot area near the airport while they design a more permanent housing strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they conceded that a lasting fix could take at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Volunteers Begin to Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a new group of concerned citizens have said that the current situation is simply unacceptable. They’re asking: If the community can pull together during a wildfire crisis, why not a homeless crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We’ve just seen it recently with the Kincade Fire,” said artist and engineer Marcos Ramirez, one of the founders of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SWBCSonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/a> The volunteer group is trying to break the familiar pattern of political outrage, hand wringing, wrangling and inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can organize shelter support, huge amounts of response, emergency services and these kinds of things,” Ramirez said of the wildfires where thousands were temporarily displaced, “there’s no reason why we can’t do this for our unhoused neighbors. It’s the middle of winter and things are only getting colder. There’s no excuse for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the trail encampment decreased during the Kincade Fire, Hopkins told Forum, but residents of the trail returned once the fire was out and temporary shelters closed. The camp has continued to grow since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101875281,news_11792903,news_11679471\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition has drawn up a detailed proposal to retrofit an unused section of Sonoma County’s fairgrounds into a more permanent camp with onsite support, counseling and job services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key, coalition members said, has been spending time at the encampment to better understand the community living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A friend of mind said, ‘You don’t know what’s going on down there.’ And I said, ‘You’re right,’ ” Ramirez said. “And so I went down. And so we’ve spent months down there on the trail and actually getting to know our neighbors. It should seem like a no-brainer that you would need to go talk to the people and ask them what they would like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerned bicyclists for social change hope their ideas gain more traction. And they hope to inspire the formation of more “squeaky wheel coalitions” in cities across California — and other states — facing the same kind of homeless camp crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like to use the term that we are trying to humanize these people because they’re people and we shouldn’t have to humanize them,” said another Squeaky Wheel activist, Miles Sarvis-Wilburn. “And yet, we’re in a position where that kind of feels like what we have to do now. It seems like that should be more normalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Forum contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nWhile homelessness is a hard-to-fix national problem, it is particularly severe in California. The state’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped 16% in the last year\u003c/a>. California has the \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of tent cities\u003c/a>, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. And according to a \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report \u003c/a>by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, California’s homeless population accounts for 53% of all unsheltered people in the country. Overall, the state has more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the growing crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed more than $1.4 billion in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795344/newsom-zeroes-in-on-education-gaps-homelessness-and-wildfires-in-state-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new budget \u003c/a>for expanded state and local efforts on immediate housing and services. Some $750 million of that would be placed in a \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\">special fund\u003c/a> to pay the rent of people facing homelessness and to jump-start the construction of more affordable housing. The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state’s expanding homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disease\u003c/a>, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. In Los Angeles County alone, the death rate for homeless has risen steadily for years and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 2018 topped 1,000\u003c/a> — about three deaths a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11795792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/img_0429_wide-8877d569f0e7e253f13298d445a54627274c2c58-e1578950118769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Gibson, who goes by the nickname “Cowboy,” lives at the tent city in Santa Rosa. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong,” he says. “I’m doing the best I can.” \u003ccite>(Eric Westervelt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Living on the Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wiry, frenzied and with a ready smile through some missing teeth, Gibson says he prefers the nickname “Cowboy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, they call me cowboy,” Gibson says, “I always ‘cowboy up’ for other people because I take care of others when I have nothing and stretch myself thin. It’s very hard,” he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I’m doing the best I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have someone taking out the trash, it’s gonna pile up,” Gibson says. “Some people are elderly and can’t really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this,” Gibson says. “A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to “cowboy up,” Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken,” says commuter Vania Supulveda. “My daughter complains, ‘Oh, it’s so cold out today’ when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It’s depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I’ve never seen something like this so close to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exploring Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED’s Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\">“No Place Like Home” program \u003c/a>would fund the purchase of the three homes. Hopkins hopes an additional two homes will be purchased eventually, totaling a cost of $6 million that includes furnishings and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is actually a model that … already is actually working in a lot of areas in Sonoma County,” Hopkins told Forum. “They have been very, very successful at getting people off the street and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents in similar models have even transitioned into renting their own apartments, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always the goal, right? Is to get people back fully on their feet and able to be supporting themselves in a type of housing that is acceptable. What’s happening right now on the Joe Rodota Trail, we know is completely unacceptable,” Hopkins told Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Hopkins is exploring an outdoor shelter option that would still allow people to camp, but would provide a navigation trailer with supportive services. It would equip people with “fundamental human needs,” such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about the encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail, it is actually very difficult to service because it’s actually spread out over about a mile and a half of linear trail,” Hopkins said. “So it’s tough for service workers to actually go out there … and actually provide people with a plan to get them off the trail and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Public Backlash in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“It just showcases the failure of government at all levels to meaningfully have a safety net for human beings,” Hopkins said. “There’s just no room for error now, there’s no safety net.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sonoma County’s chief homelessness official, Geoffrey Ross, announced his resignation. The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim executive director of the Community Development Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson has drawn praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for stepping into a leadership position and working alongside Ross to craft a plan to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792903/sonoma-county-approves-12-million-urgent-plan-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million in emergency funds\u003c/a> for the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins has also helped lead efforts to find solutions for the camp, including working on the emergency funding plan and setting up an emergency \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/society/sonoma-co-opens-eoc-for-first-time-in-response-to-homeless-crisis/5823059/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operations center\u003c/a> to better coordinate responses to a complex problem with no easy fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the first-term politician is facing blowback over the camp. A handful of angry constituents started \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10539186-181/recall-effort-targets-sonoma-county?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an effort to recall Hopkins\u003c/a>, even though she faces an election in March. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s 5 a.m., and the thermostat reads 44 degrees F. Cars round the bend of an off-ramp of state Route 24 in northern Oakland, spraying bands of light across Norm Ciha and his neighbors. They wear headlamps so they can see in the dark as they gather their belongings: tents, clothes, cooking gear, carts piled with blankets, children’s shoes and, in one case, a set of golf clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shredder, Ciha’s dog, takes a treat, then lets it fall from his mouth. He whines as Ciha walks away with a camping mattress. “I can leave him all day in the tent and he’s fine, but he freaks out every time we have to move,” Ciha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every other week, the residents of this thin slice of state-owned land just off the freeway pack up their possessions and move to another empty lot nearby; they aren’t quite sure who owns it. They move in anticipation of the routine sweeps of homeless encampments ordered by the California Department of Transportation, which has jurisdiction over the state’s highways and exit ramps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highway crews check that the area is clear of people and their belongings, throwing away any items that remain. Once the trucks leave, the residents move back in. Ciha and his neighbors call it “the Caltrans Shuffle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eric Tars, legal director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty\"]‘If cities spent half the energy on trying to provide access to sanitation as they did on trying to find constitutional ways to take people’s belongings, they could address homelessness.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their makeshift neighborhood of tarps and tents is built on one of thousands of public spaces across California where people have set up camp. The state’s homeless population has ballooned in recent years; in 2019, there were more than 150,000 homeless people in California, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 72% of them did not have shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A range of health concerns has spread among homeless communities. A few years ago, hepatitis A, spread primarily through feces, infected more than 700 people in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most of them homeless,\u003c/a> according to state officials. Ancient diseases, such as typhus,\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/typhus-tuberculosis-medieval-diseases-spreading-homeless/584380/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> have resurged\u003c/a>. Homeless people are\u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/the-homeless-are-dying-in-record-numbers-on-the-streets-of-l-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> dying in record numbers\u003c/a> on the streets of Los Angeles, according to data from the county coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities up and down California, increasingly frustrated with the growing number of homeless people living on public property, have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling encampments that they say pollute public areas and pose serious risk of fire, violence and disease. The rousting and cleanups have become a daily occurrence around the state, involving an array of state and local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the response from officials has prompted a public health crisis all its own, according to interviews with dozens of homeless people and their advocates. Personal possessions, including medicines and necessary medical devices, are routinely thrown away. It’s a quotidian event that Leilani Farha, the United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, described as a “cruelty” that she hasn’t seen in other impoverished corners of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciha, who is 57, learned the hard way that living on the street means his belongings can be taken in an instant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, when he was camping by an Ikea in nearby Emeryville, the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans employees showed up unannounced. He was out buying a tent when they arrived, and the crew designated his belongings as garbage. His fellow campers protested and grabbed what they could. Ciha returned and asked for time to gather his things. But everything, he says, was just thrown into a trash compactor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his bedding and clothes, he lost three weeks of an eight-week supply of the medication he’d been prescribed to treat hepatitis C. He’d gotten the medicine through Medi-Cal. Though the drugs were almost certainly purchased at a discount, Ciha’s course of treatment retails for around $40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, a federal court case involving a camping ban in Boise, Idaho, determined that cities can’t cite people for sleeping on public property when there’s nowhere else to go. It doesn’t, however, determine rules about their possessions. That question has been argued for decades, with\u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> multiple courts\u003c/a> determining that destroying or confiscating property without notice is a violation of the constitutional right to personal property. Cities rarely, if ever, fight those decisions, which means there’s been no precedent set by a higher court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The California Department of Transportation is required to post notices of cleanups before clearing out homeless encampments on state property. But housing advocates, who say the agency doesn't always comply with the rules, are suing the state over seized belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Transportation is required to post notices of cleanups before clearing out homeless encampments on state property. But housing advocates, who say the agency doesn’t always comply with the rules, are suing the state over seized belongings. \u003ccite>(Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits in California have made the issue more visible in the state than in other places, even though this is a nationwide problem, says \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/about/our-staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Tars\u003c/a>, legal director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. Today, many California cities have policies that either prevent seizing belongings or require storage, but public health and safety exceptions often allow for things to be thrown away without notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If cities spent half the energy on trying to provide access to sanitation as they did on trying to find constitutional ways to take people’s belongings, they could address homelessness,” Tars says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco contends that it stores people’s belongings when they are seized — a policy that resulted from a settlement of an earlier lawsuit. But advocates for the homeless, including \u003ca href=\"https://sociology.berkeley.edu/graduate-student/chris-herring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Herring\u003c/a>, a doctoral student in sociology at University of California, Berkeley, say that doesn’t always happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Herring, a doctoral student in sociology at University of California, Berkeley,\"]‘[The city will] say we’re just asking people to move, but if you’re being asked that over and over and you have nowhere to go, and people are acting like you’re worthless or they’re scared of you, that affects you fast.’[/pullquote]Herring has been embedding himself in San Francisco’s homeless community off and on for years. He spent nine months in 2014 and 2015 living on the street, for example, and another year studying the police, public health and sanitation workers tasked with cleaning encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring says he has witnessed people refusing medical help because they didn’t want to leave their things behind, and says he knows others who lost jobs after missing shifts to salvage personal items. An elderly man, so ill he lay paralyzed on the sidewalk, once called Herring and asked him to look after his stuff before he called 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles has limited the amount of personal property people can carry with them or store on public property, saying it must fit inside a 60-gallon container — the equivalent of a medium-sized outdoor trash bin. Several homeless residents\u003ca href=\"https://la.curbed.com/2019/7/18/20699345/homeless-camps-seizures-lawsuit-constitutional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> are suing\u003c/a> the city over the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, up the hill from where Ciha camps, Caltrans posts advisories about scheduled cleanups, notifying people when they will come through. Caltrans policy requires the postings, but an ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://sanchezlawsuit.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> against Caltrans claims that policy isn’t always followed, and that the sweeps are a violation of people’s constitutional right to private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciha has joined the suit. Another defendant says Caltrans took her walker, which she was using because an infected wound made it difficult for her to get around. Others have lost ID cards and prescriptions, a setback for making appointments or receiving benefits, according to one of the lawyers on the case, Osha Neumann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans workers say they hate doing the cleanups. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like 100 times worse than it was just a few years ago,” says Steve Crouch, director of public employees for Local 39 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, which represents Caltrans workers. “One of the biggest gripes they have is having to clean up the homeless encampments. It’s a nasty job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sweeps also cause psychological pain. Ciha and his neighbors talk about how horrible it is when people driving by throw garbage at them. Herring says the trauma of living on the streets is so intense he hasn’t yet figured out how to write about it in his academic work. “[The city will] say we’re just asking people to move, but if you’re being asked that over and over and you have nowhere to go, and people are acting like you’re worthless or they’re scared of you, that affects you fast,” Herring says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciha got tested for hep C after a friend went from healthy to sick in a matter of months. When Ciha was prescribed the treatment, the doctor told him he shouldn’t miss a dose. After his things were discarded, he wandered around Oakland for a week, he says, sleeping in random places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha1_custom-122cb834abf574021801eda809eff8866345a8c7-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt='Every other week, Norm Ciha and his homeless neighbors temporarily relocate their camp from land alongside a freeway offramp in Oakland, to a nearby vacant lot — until state cleanup crews have come and gone. They call it \"the Caltrans Shuffle.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha1_custom-122cb834abf574021801eda809eff8866345a8c7-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha1_custom-122cb834abf574021801eda809eff8866345a8c7-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every other week, Norm Ciha and his homeless neighbors temporarily relocate their camp from land alongside a freeway offramp in Oakland, to a nearby vacant lot — until state cleanup crews have come and gone. They call it “the Caltrans Shuffle.” \u003ccite>(Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He eventually stumbled across the encampment he now calls home; he likes it because it has only a few people and, for the most part, everyone keeps their area clean and drama-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"homelessness\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]Ciha went back to the doctor after he moved in and was able to get a refill of his prescription. But he’d gone a week without treatment and hasn’t been back since, to see if his hep C is cured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has since grown accustomed to the Caltrans Shuffle. In the hours before last month’s sweep, he first lugged his cot to the nearby lot. Then his camping mattress and a plastic bin with pots, pans and utensils. Shredder’s food bowl. A cart holding a suitcase filled with bright-white teddy bears that remind him of his mom, a badminton racket, a comforter and a small landscape painting. Things he’ll use, he says, when he gets a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d moved his belongings and was standing on the sidewalk by the time the Caltrans crew arrived, with two police escorts and five trucks. One of Ciha’s neighbors threw garbage into the back of one of the trucks, while workers checked the property. As the cleanup crew packed up, Ciha stood in the lot next door eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The sun was now above the horizon pushing out the morning cold. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s 5 a.m., and the thermostat reads 44 degrees F. Cars round the bend of an off-ramp of state Route 24 in northern Oakland, spraying bands of light across Norm Ciha and his neighbors. They wear headlamps so they can see in the dark as they gather their belongings: tents, clothes, cooking gear, carts piled with blankets, children’s shoes and, in one case, a set of golf clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shredder, Ciha’s dog, takes a treat, then lets it fall from his mouth. He whines as Ciha walks away with a camping mattress. “I can leave him all day in the tent and he’s fine, but he freaks out every time we have to move,” Ciha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every other week, the residents of this thin slice of state-owned land just off the freeway pack up their possessions and move to another empty lot nearby; they aren’t quite sure who owns it. They move in anticipation of the routine sweeps of homeless encampments ordered by the California Department of Transportation, which has jurisdiction over the state’s highways and exit ramps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highway crews check that the area is clear of people and their belongings, throwing away any items that remain. Once the trucks leave, the residents move back in. Ciha and his neighbors call it “the Caltrans Shuffle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their makeshift neighborhood of tarps and tents is built on one of thousands of public spaces across California where people have set up camp. The state’s homeless population has ballooned in recent years; in 2019, there were more than 150,000 homeless people in California, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 72% of them did not have shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A range of health concerns has spread among homeless communities. A few years ago, hepatitis A, spread primarily through feces, infected more than 700 people in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most of them homeless,\u003c/a> according to state officials. Ancient diseases, such as typhus,\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/typhus-tuberculosis-medieval-diseases-spreading-homeless/584380/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> have resurged\u003c/a>. Homeless people are\u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/the-homeless-are-dying-in-record-numbers-on-the-streets-of-l-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> dying in record numbers\u003c/a> on the streets of Los Angeles, according to data from the county coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities up and down California, increasingly frustrated with the growing number of homeless people living on public property, have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling encampments that they say pollute public areas and pose serious risk of fire, violence and disease. The rousting and cleanups have become a daily occurrence around the state, involving an array of state and local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the response from officials has prompted a public health crisis all its own, according to interviews with dozens of homeless people and their advocates. Personal possessions, including medicines and necessary medical devices, are routinely thrown away. It’s a quotidian event that Leilani Farha, the United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, described as a “cruelty” that she hasn’t seen in other impoverished corners of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciha, who is 57, learned the hard way that living on the street means his belongings can be taken in an instant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, when he was camping by an Ikea in nearby Emeryville, the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans employees showed up unannounced. He was out buying a tent when they arrived, and the crew designated his belongings as garbage. His fellow campers protested and grabbed what they could. Ciha returned and asked for time to gather his things. But everything, he says, was just thrown into a trash compactor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his bedding and clothes, he lost three weeks of an eight-week supply of the medication he’d been prescribed to treat hepatitis C. He’d gotten the medicine through Medi-Cal. Though the drugs were almost certainly purchased at a discount, Ciha’s course of treatment retails for around $40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, a federal court case involving a camping ban in Boise, Idaho, determined that cities can’t cite people for sleeping on public property when there’s nowhere else to go. It doesn’t, however, determine rules about their possessions. That question has been argued for decades, with\u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> multiple courts\u003c/a> determining that destroying or confiscating property without notice is a violation of the constitutional right to personal property. Cities rarely, if ever, fight those decisions, which means there’s been no precedent set by a higher court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The California Department of Transportation is required to post notices of cleanups before clearing out homeless encampments on state property. But housing advocates, who say the agency doesn't always comply with the rules, are suing the state over seized belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Transportation is required to post notices of cleanups before clearing out homeless encampments on state property. But housing advocates, who say the agency doesn’t always comply with the rules, are suing the state over seized belongings. \u003ccite>(Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits in California have made the issue more visible in the state than in other places, even though this is a nationwide problem, says \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/about/our-staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Tars\u003c/a>, legal director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. Today, many California cities have policies that either prevent seizing belongings or require storage, but public health and safety exceptions often allow for things to be thrown away without notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If cities spent half the energy on trying to provide access to sanitation as they did on trying to find constitutional ways to take people’s belongings, they could address homelessness,” Tars says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco contends that it stores people’s belongings when they are seized — a policy that resulted from a settlement of an earlier lawsuit. But advocates for the homeless, including \u003ca href=\"https://sociology.berkeley.edu/graduate-student/chris-herring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Herring\u003c/a>, a doctoral student in sociology at University of California, Berkeley, say that doesn’t always happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/michele-byrd-no-longer-oakland-housing-chief/158263/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC Bay Area\u003c/a> reported that Byrd had been fired after falsely claiming that the city had been working with landlords to prevent illegal evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olatoye comes to Oakland at a time when the city is experiencing a surge in homelessness, rising home prices and increasing rents. Last year, there were 4,071 people experiencing homelessness in Oakland, according to the federal government’s \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019HIRDReport_Oakland_2019-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biennial point-in-time count\u003c/a>, a 47% increase since 2017. Meanwhile, the average rent for an apartment in Oakland was $2,905, up 7% from the prior year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RentCafe\u003c/a>, a real estate website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/shola_olatoye-300x381.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/shola_olatoye-300x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/shola_olatoye-300x381.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/shola_olatoye-300x381-160x203.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shola Olatoye\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In New York, Olatoye led a \u003ca href=\"https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/nextgen-nycha-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10-year plan\u003c/a> to stabilize the city's beleaguered housing authority, the largest in the nation, which was facing billions in unmet capital needs. But she \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2018/10/17/former-nycha-chairwoman-lands-job-at-national-real-estate-firm-653481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned\u003c/a> in 2018 amid a lead paint poisoning scandal and accusations that she knowingly signed off on false inspection reports to the federal government. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=AqV54lxywNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In an interview\u003c/a> with a local television station following her resignation, Olatoye said she wished she had known about the lapse in lead paint inspections sooner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Metcalf, the former director of the state’s housing and community development department who interviewed Olatoye as a finalist for the position, said her other achievements outshone the controversy surrounding her departure from the authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to entering the public sector, Olatoye worked on community development investment projects for HSBC Bank in South Florida and Washington, D.C. She later worked at a national affordable housing organization after the 2008 mortgage crisis. After leaving the authority, Olatoye joined Suffolk Construction, a national construction management firm, as its vice president of business development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That varied experience is going to be essential if she hopes to combat homelessness and high housing costs in Oakland, Metcalf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has the ability to bring together different kinds of people and transition across different levels of government,” he said Metcalf. “What she can do is see the big picture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates say she has no time to waste. 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"content": "\u003cp>An Alameda County Superior Court judge on Friday ruled against a homeless mother who moved into an empty West Oakland home and directed sheriff's officials to enforce an eviction within five days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Patrick R. McKinney ordered Dominique Walker to immediately vacate the property along with others in the house, including members of the group Moms 4 Housing. But Walker said she and the other women aren’t going anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here. And we’re not leaving,” she told media and supporters outside the home Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney said Walker has no valid rights of possession to the home on Magnolia Street, which is owned by Redondo Beach-based real estate investment group Wedgewood Properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his ruling, McKinney said “the court recognizes the importance of these issues, but, as raised in connection with Ms. Walker’s claim of right to possession, finds that they are outside the scope of this proceeding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795616\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795616\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Walker with Moms 4 Housing speaks to media and supporters outside 2928 Magnolia Street, a vacant house that she has lived in without permission from the owner since Nov. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walker, 34, and other mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\">began occupying the three-bedroom home on Magnolia Street in November\u003c/a> to avoid living on the streets. The mothers said the house had been vacant for two years, and that they were acting partly in protest against speculators buying up properties in the Bay Area and leaving them empty amid a growing homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Dominique Walker, Moms 4 Housing']'Today is not a defeat. This is the beginning of a movement.'[/pullquote]The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said it plans to enforce the court's eviction order. Spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said the department has offered to discuss alternative housing solutions with the mothers, but its offer for a sit-down conversation was rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does not appear that they are willing to meet us halfway,” said Kelly. “They have decided that they are staying put and are wanting to take this case to the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney has been considering the ruling since he heard oral arguments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793299/moms-4-housing-in-oakland-vow-to-fight-potential-eviction\">Dec. 30\u003c/a>. Attorneys for Walker argued that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793704/west-oakland-housing-human-right-moms4housing\">housing is a human right\u003c/a>, and that if the moms were evicted, their constitutional rights would be severely impacted. The judge had previously made a tentative ruling in favor of Wedgewood. At the December hearing, he had expressed doubts that the courtroom was the right venue to hear these arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice is served,” Sam Singer, a Wedgewood spokesman, said in a statement. “The court’s ruling is the correct legal, moral and ethical judgment against the squatters that broke in and illegally occupied the company’s home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Sam Singer, a Wedgewood spokesman']'The court’s ruling is the correct legal, moral and ethical judgment against the squatters that broke in and illegally occupied the company’s home.'[/pullquote]Despite the judge’s ruling against her, Walker intends to keep fighting for her right to housing. And, she said, she won’t stop until every person experiencing homelessness has shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is not a defeat,” she said. “This is the beginning of a movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Leah Simon-Weisberg, who is representing Walker, said they weren't surprised by the ruling: “We understand that the court's hands are tied because in this country, property rights are valued over human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is why the California Constitution needs to be amended to include the right to housing,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moms 4 Housing has gained support from California lawmakers and Oakland city officials, including City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Nikki Fortunato Bas. 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Gavin Newsom unveiled a \u003ca href=\"http://ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">$222 billion state budget\u003c/a> this morning, saying it attempts to confront two of California's persistent problems: risks caused by climate change and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said the budget proposal, his second, also seeks to tackle long-standing problems in the state's education system, including the teacher shortage and pervasive achievement gap between black California students and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to expand access to healthcare for undocumented seniors in California, lower prescription drug costs by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11794968/california-wants-to-create-its-own-generic-drug-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">creating a generic state drug label\u003c/a>; and see state policy recognize the link between stable housing and mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scottshafer/status/1215720653300486144\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe in universal health care, we believe universal health care lowers costs,\" he said. \"We believe its the right thing to do morally and ethically, and the financially responsible thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's proposing a new tax on nicotine vaping products that he estimated could raise up to $32 million next fiscal year — money he said will be used to prevent youth vaping, and other enforcement programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. 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If you wanna support parents you have to support children,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the governor announced that his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, has been working with his administration on a $70 million expansion of the state's school nutrition program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Housing and Homelessness\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom called homelessness the issue that \"defines our time\" and said the state will invest more than $1 billion to help cities and counties tackle the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the week Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11794599/newsom-seeks-750m-for-homeless-services-and-shelter-in-proposed-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released part of his proposal on homelessness and housing\u003c/a>, calling for $1.4 billion in spending on a wide range of programs and signing an executive order aimed at getting people on the streets into shelter immediately. 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Gavin Newsom announced an executive order Wednesday to address California's homelessness epidemic by proposing a $750 million fund to pay for rent subsidies, help communities build more affordable housing and support boarding houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also directed the state to provide a slew of resources including travel trailers, vacant hospitals and state-owned land to provide temporary housing and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state of California is treating it as a real emergency – because it is one,” Newsom said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/01/08/governor-newsom-previews-1-billion-in-budget-proposal-to-jump-start-new-homeless-fund-and-provide-behavioral-health-services-signs-order-to-accelerate-state-action-to-fight-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money for the fund, which needs to be approved by the state Legislature, would come from a one-time installment from the general fund. Newsom said he hoped ongoing contributions from private companies and philanthropists would help sustain it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'Californians are demanding that all levels of government — federal, state and local — do more to get people off the streets and into services — whether that’s emergency housing, mental health services, substance abuse treatment or all of the above.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are an estimated 151,278 homeless people in California, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest federal count\u003c/a>. That’s a 16.4% increase over the last year and the largest homeless population the state has seen since at least 2007. Driven by the spike in California, the nation’s homeless population increased by 2.7% this year, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal government report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, about 8,000 people were counted in the streets or in shelters, representing a 17% increase from 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s executive order asks state agencies, including Caltrans, to identify state-owned property that counties, cities and nonprofits can temporarily use to provide shelter and related health care and social services. The order directs his administration to identify some of the properties, so long as it doesn't delay the development of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This builds on recent leases that Caltrans worked closely with local partners to execute — including the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton and San Diego,” Caltrans spokesperson Kyle Simerly said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said it would have more details in the coming days on how local partners will use Caltrans property on a short-term emergency basis to house homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain counties and cities could qualify to receive travel trailers and modular tent buildings. Vacant or decommissioned hospitals, clinics and fairgrounds are on the table as well, especially in areas where entire communities became homeless overnight in destructive wildfires. Also, a “strike team” is being formed to help local governments address homelessness on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes cities like Santa Rosa, where hundreds of displaced residents were housed during wildfire evacuations at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins supports the idea of using the space to house the homeless and has previously floated the idea of a sanctioned encampment at the fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can house people there during a natural disaster, why can’t we house people who are currently homeless,” said Hopkins, whose district includes a mile-long homeless encampment along Santa Rosa's Joe Rodota Trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order come two days before Newsom is expected to release details of his proposed budget, which includes $695 million to expand Medi-Cal to pay for housing and supportive services for the chronically homeless. Programs such as recuperative care or navigation centers try to keep people from making repeat visits to emergency rooms or expensive health care clinics by offering housing and medical needs at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address mental health, Newsom is proposing $24.6 million to start a six-year pilot program in three counties that would find housing in the community for people deemed incompetent to stand trial, instead of having them stay in state mental hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"homelessness\" label=\"related coverage\"]Newsom said compassion for those who are homeless “isn’t allowing a person suffering a severe psychotic break or from a lethal substance abuse addiction to literally drift towards death on our streets and sidewalks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1214333364204974082?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> dogged\u003c/a> California and its Democratic leadership for its homelessness epidemic since his visit last spring and even threatened to impose tough policies if the state doesn't make significant improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom isn’t taking all the responsibility for ending homelessness. He said local government leaders are “critical to implementing homeless solutions in their own communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Californians are demanding that all levels of government — federal, state and local — do more to get people off the streets and into services, whether that’s emergency housing, mental health services, substance abuse treatment or all of the above,” Newsom said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff applauded Newsom’s announcement, saying the new fund demonstrates that state and local priorities regarding homelessness are in agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must do more than just shelter people,” said Schaff, who was appointed by Newsom to a state advisory group on homelessness in July. “We must prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place and we must get them permanently and securely housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his executive order, the state will develop accountability metrics that are tied to funding, which will measure whether local governments are making progress on getting people off the streets and into shelter. 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"content": "\u003cp>Recess is over for state legislators, who return to Sacramento today, no doubt brimming with ideas for what issues to tackle in the new year. But aside from whatever unexpected crises arise in 2020, the top of the agenda will surely include homelessness, housing, PG&E and health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s severe lack of affordable housing took years to become a crisis and now eludes any simple solution. This week Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) will unveil amendments to his signature housing bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 50\u003c/a>. The bill, which attempts to jump start construction of taller, denser housing projects, especially near transit corridors, languished in the Senate last year and was pulled out of consideration at the last minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 50 faces opposition from a myriad of groups — notably local officials who fear the loss of control over developments in their own cities and counties. Even in Wiener’s own city, San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors recently passed a resolution opposing the bill in its current form by a 10-1 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717355/gavin-newsom-looks-to-spend-and-save-in-first-budget-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his inaugural state budget last year\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom included $1 billion for local governments to combat homelessness. As former mayor of San Francisco, Newsom knows first hand how difficult homelessness is to manage, much less solve. Nonetheless, with voters telling their representatives they’re tired of seeing so many people living on the streets, the governor is sure to double down on programs to deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As often happens in politics, the issue that captured more attention than any other last year was one few anticipated: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721763/pge-just-filed-for-bankruptcy-heres-what-happens-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the bankruptcy of PG&E\u003c/a> and weeks of planned “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778706/pge-power-shutoffs-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public safety power outages\u003c/a>” in huge swaths of the state aimed at preventing wildfires. The governor and Legislature — especially the Senate — will continue grappling with issues related to wildfire liability, prevention, “community resilience” and “re-imagining PG&E” as Newsom calls it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1954549,news_11792227,news_11792899\" label=\"New state laws\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the Legislature does, many are wary of calls for the government to take over PG&E out of fear the state will simply inherit the huge liabilities that come with owning a utility in the age of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the state Assembly, including Laura Friedman (D-Glendale) and Tom Daly (D-Anaheim), also want to take on the high speed rail fiasco — a train that’s behind schedule, over budget and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748853/california-sues-over-1-billion-in-canceled-high-speed-rail-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">without necessary federal\u003c/a> or private funding. Friedman and Daly want to refocus the project from the Central Valley to higher population areas like the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and Orange County. How much of an appetite exists for that is unclear, either in the Legislature or in the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another issue on the horizon is legalization of sports betting. About 20 states have already made it legal to bet on sporting events, but efforts in California have so far fallen short. It’s likely to come up again this year. Plus, Native American tribes are gathering signatures for a November 2020 ballot measure to legalize sports betting on their lands only. No word yet on the early odds for either effort succeeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom will unveil his own spending priorities later this week, probably on Friday, when he releases the draft of his second state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s most vexing issue is also its most shameful: the large and rising number of residents who lack a safe place to call home. In a state with vast amounts of wealth, more than 150,000 of its residents sleep in shelters, cars or on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/rapporteur-United-Nations-San-Francisco-homeless-13351509.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations\u003c/a> compared the tent encampments of San Francisco to the slums of New Delhi and Mexico City. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/number-of-homeless-people-on-skid-row-spikes-by/article_aa32fbda-bafb-11e9-849f-ab047fa8951a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nearly 5,000 people\u003c/a> live in the half square mile of Los Angeles’ Skid Row. And while the problem is most acute in California’s urban centers, homelessness is now a common fixture in many of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-s-homelessness-crisis-moves-to-the-12182026.php#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suburbs and rural towns\u003c/a>. State and local officials have pledged billions in recent years to help, but voters remain frustrated by a lack of visible progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump has wielded the state’s homelessness woes as a political weapon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/us/politics/trump-california-homeless.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excoriating\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s progressive policies for allowing the country’s “best highways, our best streets, our best entrances to buildings” to be blockaded by people without homes. In a Christmas Day \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1209964406324510720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet\u003c/a>, Trump repeated his threats of federal intervention if the state fails to fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about California’s homelessness crisis — including possible solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">How Many People Are Homeless?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last official count\u003c/a> 151,278 individuals are homeless in California, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s the highest number since at least 2007, and represents a nearly 17% uptick since 2018. The number of unsheltered Californians — living on the streets or in cars — has surged the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/738a2c29-86c2-48b4-a641-c9e37d2db962?src=embed\" title=\"California homelessness over time\" width=\"600\" height=\"718\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official homelessness statistics mostly come from “one night counts” — a volunteer-led snapshot of the number of people experiencing homelessness one night in January. Experts say this method \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/homeless-crisis-oakland-california-hud-point-in-time-data/584023/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely underestimates\u003c/a> the unsheltered, and doesn’t capture the total number of people who fall into homelessness over the course of a year, which could be \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/mar/27/travis-allen/has-californias-homeless-population-skyrocketed-an/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two or three times higher\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"homelessness\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not surprising that California, the largest state, has the biggest homeless population in the country. But while about 1 in 9 Americans lives in California, roughly 1 in 4 homeless Americans lives here. New York and Hawaii have slightly higher per capita rates of homelessness, but California has the largest proportion of people living without shelter. That means the state’s homeless population is far more visible than in other places, and more vulnerable to the illness, violence \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-homeless-hypothermia-20190217-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and death\u003c/a> that accompany living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although states such as Texas and New York have seen a slight uptick in their homeless counts since last year, California saw the largest proportional swell of any state besides New Mexico. The Trump administration is quick to point out that the country would have seen an overall decline in homelessness if California and Oregon were excluded from the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Who Are They?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Governments and services providers tend to focus their efforts on the chronically homeless — an individual with a disability who has lived without consistent shelter for a year, or has had multiple recent bouts of homelessness. About 26% of Californians experiencing homelessness fit that definition, or some 34,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans are disproportionately found on California’s streets — roughly 30% of the state’s unhoused population is Black or African-American, according to HUD. Several Bay Area regions, including San Francisco and Marin County, have some of the highest rates of Black homelessness in the country. A legacy of racial discrimination in rental housing, higher rates of poverty among Black families, and overrepresentation in the state’s incarceration and child welfare systems \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=514-groundbreaking-report-on-black-people-and-homelessness-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all contribute\u003c/a> to the high numbers of African-Americans experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/525f355e-1ab3-401f-ab62-763890e38702?src=embed\" title=\"Demographics_homeless\" width=\"550\" height=\"855\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person experiencing homelessness is about twice as likely to be male than female, and significantly more likely to be LGBTQ than in the population at large. A growing proportion are seniors, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Aging-onto-the-street-Nearly-half-of-older-13668900.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new research\u003c/a> indicating nearly half fall of seniors on the street fall into homelessness after age 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Are They Local, or Are They Coming From Somewhere Else?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the more enduring myths about California’s homeless population is that the vast majority have traveled here from other states, seeking generous government assistance and weather more hospitable to living outdoors. It’s a baseless claim perpetuated by both sides of the aisle — Gov. Newsom has made it \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2019/aug/14/gavin-newsom/gavin-newsoms-ridiculous-claim-texas-responsible-s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While comprehensive statewide data is lacking, local surveys indicate people living on the streets are typically from the surrounding neighborhood. Example: 70% of San Francisco’s homeless people were housed somewhere in the city when they lost housing; only 8% came from out of state. \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=3437-2019-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three quarters\u003c/a> of Los Angeles County’s homeless population lived in the region before becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/373989ba-1c3c-439c-95e8-22df331d8a9f?src=embed\" title=\"Homelessness origin\" width=\"600\" height=\"872\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s little evidence to suggest undocumented immigrants constitute a large share of California’s homeless population. But those that are unhoused are particularly difficult to help. Crucial safety net resources such as Social Security, Section 8 housing vouchers and food stamps are unavailable to the undocumented, who \u003ca href=\"https://latino.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FINAL-DRAFT-02_08_19-Stemming-the-Rise-of-Homelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">often resist engagement\u003c/a> with homeless services providers because of deportation fears. Language and cultural barriers also complicate re-housing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">A Welcome Decrease in Veteran and Family Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Military veterans, at higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse issues, make up a disproportionate share of the country’s homeless population. Roughly 11,000 veterans experience homelessness in California on any given night, about 8% of the state’s total homeless population. Most vets experiencing homelessness are over age 50, and often have significant disabilities and medical conditions that are exacerbated by precarious housing situations. Military members who experienced an episode of sexual trauma during their service are at especially high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]Infancy is the age at which a person in the United States is most likely to be found in a homeless shelter.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that the number of vets living on the streets has declined significantly over the past decade, both nationally and in California. Experts credit initiatives from the Obama administration incentivizing a “housing-first” approach — where permanent housing is provided without preconditions for addiction or mental health treatment — to help homeless vets. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2018/05/the-only-city-in-california-to-solve-veteran-homelessness-is-on-a-mission-to-go-bigger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city of Riverside\u003c/a> succeeded in housing all 89 of its homeless veterans after adopting that approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/f0725372-d44f-4af4-b92f-ceb481dbfa56?src=embed\" title=\"Vets homelessness\" width=\"550\" height=\"796\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11787061,news_11680975,news_11667527 \" label=\"Vets Experiencing Homelessness\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness among families is also down over the last decade. Still, about 6,000 families and 12,000 children were homeless in California last year, according to point-in-time estimates. Unlike households without children, those with at least one child are far more likely to utilize emergency shelter or transitional housing. One striking statistic: Infancy is the age at which a person in the United States is most likely to be found in a homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/opre_homefam_brief3_hhs_children_02_24_2017_b508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Several studies\u003c/a> have found strong correlations between early childhood housing instability and behavioral and learning difficulties later in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">High Rents Drive Up Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mental health problems, addiction, childhood trauma, interaction with the criminal justice system and poverty all play significant roles in whether someone becomes homeless. But the primary reason? They can no longer afford rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1.3 million California renter households are considered “extremely low income,” making less than $25,000 a year, according to the California Housing Partnership, a nonprofit organization the state created to advise affordable housing builders. Predictably, these financially strapped households can barely afford the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots/renting-america-housing-changed-past-decade/#pricegrowth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">escalating rents\u003c/a>, and are most at risk of falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/8ba98878-b59c-40e0-81f2-f5b5229f19c6?src=embed\" title=\"rent vs wage\" width=\"550\" height=\"860\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by decades of underproduction, California’s stock of “naturally occurring” affordable housing is dwindling, as shoddy, older apartments that used to house lower-income families are increasingly taken by higher-income tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government-subsidized housing has not filled the gap. That’s partly because doing so would be insanely expensive. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates that building new housing for every low-income Californian who needs it would cost \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3345\">$15 to $30 billion annually.\u003c/a> That’s what the state currently spends on Medi-Cal, its massive program to provide health care to the poor, which covers a third of the state’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What About Mental Illness and Addiction?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for homeless people are leery of casting too much blame for the state’s crisis on mental health and substance abuse issues. They argue that plenty of low-income residents in other states struggle with drug addiction and debilitating psychological conditions. They simply manage to remain off the streets because the rent is cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recent data suggests these issues are more prevalent among people experiencing homelessness than previously reported, especially for those living on the street. About half of the unsheltered nationally report that mental health and/or substance abuse contributed to their loss of housing. A Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless-population-mental-illness-disability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> found two-thirds of L.A. County’s residents living on the streets suffer from a psychological or substance abuse disorder, far more than what’s been reported in official statistics that exclude mental disorders that aren’t “long-term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/eeb1eed6-df15-40ae-b5ab-6464f6b300d0?src=embed\" title=\"Mental health \" width=\"550\" height=\"879\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methamphetamine use is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/01/716404677/as-meth-use-surges-first-responders-struggle-to-help-those-in-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up across the West Coast\u003c/a>, and is often to blame for some of the most visible episodes of homelessness seen on California streets. Unfortunately, physicians say meth addiction is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Meth-devilishly-hard-to-kick-for-addicts-No-14563881.php#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confoundingly difficult to treat\u003c/a>. While methadone is available to wean heroin addicts off of opioids, no such replacement medication exists for meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_11778887,news_11772258,news_11742865\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worse still, meth can exacerbate existing mental illnesses. Addiction and psychological conditions are often inextricably intertwined, and present a complex case for outreach workers or (more often) law enforcement to confront. A disconcerting number of California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/board-and-care-homes-closing-in-california-mental-health-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">board-and-care facilities\u003c/a>, which have traditionally housed low-income patients with schizophrenia and other severe conditions, have shuttered in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have also blamed California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/breakdown-californias-mental-health-system-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conservatorship laws\u003c/a> for making it too difficult to compel treatment for people with mental illness or drug addiction living on the street. Civil libertarians and disability rights groups argue that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/mentally-ill-forced-treatment-conservatorship-california-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conservatorship\u003c/a> —when a court-appointed official manages another person’s life, including medical decisions — should be used as sparingly as possible, as it risks violating civil liberties and is a hollow remedy given the severe shortage of actual treatment options. Under a 1967 state law known as the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Californians can be held for treatment against their will only if they are deemed a danger to themselves or others, or are determined to be gravely disabled. Other states such as New York do not impose such strict requirements. California is experimenting with allowing three counties to take legal power over mentally ill people living on the street, but only in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/in-the-past-homeless-barely-registered-as-a-political-issue-now-its-a-top-concern/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">limited\u003c/a> circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally there is the eternal question of cause and effect: The severe stresses people face when they lose shelter and are forced to live exposed on the streets can also wreak havoc on their mental health and lead to substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Other Factors That Cause Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Survivors of domestic violence are among those at high risk of homelessness. One California study found that women reporting an episode of domestic violence were \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17234488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four times more likely\u003c/a> to suffer housing instability than other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formerly incarcerated — ineligible for many public housing programs and frequently a target of discrimination in the rental housing market — often take refuge in emergency shelters or on the streets. While comprehensive California data is lacking, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one study\u003c/a> by a criminal justice reform advocacy group found that people who have been in jail or prison are ten times more likely to experience homelessness than the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth aging out of the foster care system likely constitute a significant share of the more than 11,000 homeless young adults in California. One study found \u003ca href=\"https://www.chapinhall.org/wp-content/uploads/Midwest-Eval-Outcomes-at-Age-23-and-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30% of former foster care\u003c/a> children in the Midwest were homeless at least once before age 24. Lacking family support networks and often victims of childhood traumas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aecf.org/m/resourcedoc/california-fosteringyouthtransitions-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about 25%\u003c/a> of California’s foster youth transitioning into adulthood live in precarious housing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Emergency Shelters and Permanent Supportive Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-justify\">California has a patchwork of government-provided housing for people experiencing homelessness. While the nomenclature varies from city to city, the two most prevalent and important categories of housing are emergency shelters and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u003cstrong>Emergency Shelters:\u003c/strong> These are any facilities that provide temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. At their most basic they are a barracks-like arrangement of cots, and provide a bed and a meal. Typically they are operated by publicly funded nonprofit and religious organizations. Many shelters bar residents from staying with partners or \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/03/homeless-shelters-pets-california-bill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pets\u003c/a>, and are often viewed by homeless people as dangerous and dirty, even compared to sleeping on the streets. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/05/09/82908/rats-roaches-bedbugs-mold-why-thousands-of-las-hom/?_ga=2.128451404.1980297995.1577657887-661267234.1574806772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC investigatio\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://a%20kpcc%20investigation%20found%20reports%20of%20bedbugs%2C%20rats%2C%20foul%20odors%2C%20poor%20lighting%2C%20harassment%2C/\">n\u003c/a> of Los Angeles area shelters last year found reports of rats, bedbugs, foul odors and harassment rampant at several shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">But while shelter beds frequently go unused in \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/07/05/there_are_empty_beds_heres_whats_keeping_homeless_people_out_of_shelters.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a>, where transportation is also a complicating factor, overall the state has a major shortage. Federal funding has shifted away from emergency shelters over the last decade, causing the Bay Area, for example, to lose \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/files/pdf/BayAreaHomelessnessReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,700 shelter beds\u003c/a> since 2011, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and Los Angeles have tried to reinvent emergency shelters, equipping them with health and social service providers who can help guide residents to more stable housing outcomes. According to city officials\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-homeless-navigation-centers-seem-to-be-13025012.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> more than 50%\u003c/a> of the short-term residents of San Francisco’s “navigation centers,” which are tailored to high-needs clients, are ultimately placed in housing. Emergency shelters are generally much cheaper to build than permanent supportive housing, but new projects often run into stringent community opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b80bd03e-8fa8-4743-9c44-cb30d72fa68b?src=embed\" title=\"Costs of different types of homeless housing\" width=\"550\" height=\"814\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Permanent Supportive Housing:\u003c/strong> Homelessness experts agree that emergency shelters are mostly just a Band-Aid — permanent supportive housing is the long-term solution. Usually targeted at the chronically homeless, this offers a highly subsidized apartment paired with support services including psychological counseling, substance abuse rehab and job training. Permanent supportive housing is a pillar of the “housing first” model of ending homelessness: Individuals don’t need to quit drugs or agree to participate in any program to get a permanent roof over their head. \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/blog/2018/01/housing-for-health-los-angeles-countys-department-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studies show\u003c/a> that once placed in permanent supportive housing, residents tend to stay off the streets and out of the hospital and jail, saving taxpayers considerable expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One problem: Permanent supportive housing is really expensive to build. In Los Angeles, a recent estimate from the\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2019/10/08/prop_hhh_homeless_housing_audit.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> city auditor\u003c/a> put the median cost of building one unit at more than $530,000. A new project coming on line in San Jose is estimated to pencil out at roughly $470,000 per unit. The outrageous price tags aren’t just driven by land costs — a shortage of construction labor and prolonged city approval processes are also to blame. Cities including Oakland have recently begun buying and converting single-room occupancy hotels to sidestep prohibitively high new construction costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Preventing Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many California cities have made significant strides in moving people from streets and shelters into safe, stable housing. The Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, buoyed by fresh state and local funds approved by voters, estimated that it was able to place \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=3437-2019-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 20,000 people\u003c/a> experiencing homelessness into housing last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why did L.A. County’s homeless population still grow 12% between 2018 and 2019? Because an estimated 55,000 residents simultaneously lost a place to live, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (another \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Predicting_and_Preventing_Homelessness_in_Los_Angeles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">source\u003c/a> puts the number closer to 34,000). San Francisco officials say for every homeless person they house, another three fall into homelessness. Much to the chagrin of local politicians trying to prove taxpayer money is being spent effectively, new shelters and supportive housing will have trouble making a dent in visible homelessness unless the spigot is plugged in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States and local governments across the country (including California) are devoting a rising share of homelessness resources to prevention strategies. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Eviction counseling and defense: \u003c/strong>Being evicted — forcibly removed from an apartment — can lead to devastating family housing instability. An eviction record also makes it exceedingly difficult to find rental housing. The Newsom administration bulked up legal services in last year’s budget for low-income tenants facing evictions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Emergency rental assistance:\u003c/strong> New York and Chicago have seen\u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2019/12/06/90541/can-california-reduce-homelessness-through-better/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> early successes\u003c/a> with programs that provide small cash assistance and landlord mediation services to renters struggling to make ends meet. Many California cities have versions of these programs. But targeting emergency aid to those most at risk of homelessness can be difficult. \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Predicting_and_Preventing_Homelessness_in_Los_Angeles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A pilot project\u003c/a> from Los Angeles County, UCLA and the University of Chicago hopes to use big data and predictive analytics to better target emergency services to stem homelessness.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Diversion and rapid re-housing: \u003c/strong>Quickly connecting individuals who just lost their home with a new one is one of the most cost effective ways of preventing long-term homelessness. In \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/rapid-re-housing-works/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rapid re-housing programs,\u003c/a> people teetering on the verge of homelessness or new to a shelter are often provided a security deposit, first month’s rent (or more), and connected to a landlord with an immediate vacancy.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Law Enforcement’s Role\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Is it legal for someone to sleep on the sidewalk or other public property?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A landmark federal court decision says yes — if there aren’t shelter beds available. Allowed to stand by the Supreme Court in late 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/15-35845/15-35845-2019-04-01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin vs City of Boise\u003c/a> held that ticketing, arresting or otherwise criminalizing people living outside violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. Several California cities and counties filed amicus briefs urging the Supreme Court to reverse the decision, arguing it would hamstring efforts to clear homeless encampments that posed serious public health and safety risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of the Boise decision remains unclear. Police departments and sheriffs still can enforce various “quality of life” ordinances, as well as bans against public defecation and drug use. Many advocates say issuing citations against these behaviors is counterproductive, because people experiencing homelessness have few resources to pay off city fines, and brief incarceration episodes only add to housing instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness puts enormous financial and resource strains on California police and sheriff departments. A recent audit of how Los Angeles spends homelessness dollars found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-cost-police-20150417-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 50% went to law enforcement\u003c/a>. Several police departments have created units dedicated to interacting with homeless populations, often pairing cops with social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeps also take a toll on unsheltered people, who can lose what little belongings they still have — including sleeping bags, family photographs and medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What is the State Doing About Homelessness?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As homelessness has soared in California, so has state spending on programs to address it, especially in the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, then-Gov. Jerry Brown directed $500 million to emergency homelessness funding in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/9fc4b636ece646ff9578a84e8514027d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plea for help\u003c/a> from mayors of the state’s 11 largest cities. That same year, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/california-ballot-measures/proposition-1-affordable-housing-bond/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop. 1\u003c/a>, a $4 billion bond that funds affordable housing construction. They also passed \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/california-ballot-measures/proposition-2-mental-health-money-for-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop. 2\u003c/a>, a $2 billion bond to fund supportive housing for people with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first year, Gov. Gavin Newsom upped the ante on homelessness spending. He designated a record \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Homelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> of his 2019-2020 budget to one-time investments combating homelessness, on top of $1.75 billion to expand California’s affordable housing stock. The budget includes funding to increase welfare grants for low-income families with children, to house mentally ill patients who are homeless or at-risk, and to rapidly rehouse college students who become homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest chunk, $650 million, went to emergency aid for California’s cities and counties to build more emergency shelters, medium- and long-term housing and motel conversions. But that money didn’t start flowing immediately: Cities and counties couldn’t apply for the funds until \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Trump-administration-holding-up-California-14882297.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early December.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to get local governments to cooperate with his homelessness agenda, Newsom also signed a suite of \u003ca href=\"http://a%20suite%20of%20new%20california%20laws%20also%20take%20stab%20at%20the%20state%27s%20severe%20shortage%20of%20emergency%20shelter%20beds%20by%20removing%20regulatory%20barriers%20for%20cities%20and%20counties%20to%20build%20more.bhttps//apnews.com/d3943138ee224eaa84db9c957e9d3963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"bills (opens in a new tab)\">bills\u003c/a> that remove regulatory barriers to building more housing for homeless people. Two of the new laws allow developers to bypass certain requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, which neighborhood groups have tried to use to block new housing developments such as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757452/opponents-of-s-f-navigation-center-to-sue-city-over-controversial-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homeless shelter\u003c/a> on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A task force on homelessness Newsom assembled in May is expected to release its recommendations soon. Those will shape how Newsom tackles homelessness in 2020 on a range of issues, from whether he’ll push a legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-21/homeless-right-to-shelter-housing-law-california-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“right to shelter”\u003c/a> to how much money he’ll budget to try to fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/f090d5c8-bd27-4453-a375-e7ac8f311c71?src=embed\" title=\"2019-2020 California spending homelessness\" width=\"550\" height=\"1012\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties and cities also shell out significant funds to address homelessness. For example, the \u003ca href=\"http://cao.lacity.org/budget/summary/2019-20BudgetSummaryBooklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles city budget for 2018-2019\u003c/a> included $426 million for homeless outreach and services, largely financed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamayor.org/summary-supportive-housing-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop HHH\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion bond measure passed by voters in 2016 to fund 10,000 new units of supportive housing over ten years. But there’s no comprehensive statewide accounting of local spending on the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though California spends big on homelessness, failing to house the growing number of people living on the streets may cost much more. A \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2772270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 study\u003c/a> found Santa Clara County spent $520 million a year on the county’s homeless population of 104,206 residents between 2007 and 2012, including the costs of health care, jail and public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What Are Trump and the Feds Doing?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to data from the \u003ca href=\"https://datalab.usaspending.gov/homelessness-analysis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Treasury Department\u003c/a>, California communities received nearly half a billion in federal grant money to fight homelessness in 2018. California couldn’t come close to providing its current levels of emergency shelter, housing vouchers, health services for the indigent and permanent supportive housing without significant assistance from Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Obama administration, federal resources were steered toward a “housing first” model that prioritized permanent supportive housing and allowing people to access housing without preconditions such as sobriety or job training. While the Trump administration has yet to officially deviate from that bipartisan approach, \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/12/trump-homeless-shelter-agency-robert-g-marbut-texas-housing/603280/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent personnel decisions\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/california-homeless-crisis-trump-intervention-los-angeles/597790/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public comments\u003c/a> from the president have California homeless advocates and housing officials fearful that a federal “crackdown” on homelessness is looming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1209964406324510720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1209964406324510720&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fexplainers%2Fcalifornias-homelessness-crisis-explained%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What exactly a “crackdown” would entail remains an object of fear, loathing and uncertainty for the Newsom administration. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A 2019 report\u003c/a> from the White House Council of Economic Advisers blamed California’s homelessness woes on regulatory barriers to building new housing and lax enforcement of laws against loitering and public nuisance. The report also cast doubt on the efficacy of permanent supportive housing, prompting a homelessness expert at the University of California San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/multimedia/podcasts/gimme-shelter/2019/09/california-housing-crisis-gimme-shelter-podcast-event/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compare\u003c/a> the White House’s findings to climate change denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fear the Trump administration intends to try to force homeless people living on California’s streets to move to former federal armories and other converted federal buildings. While experts says the legal and practical obstacles to such widespread sweeps are considerable, officials at the federal department of Housing and Urban Development have \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/12/trump-policy-homeless-executive-order-city-services-shelters/603670/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly\u003c/a> scouted and inquired about properties across the West Coast. Trump could also issue an \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/12/trump-policy-homeless-executive-order-city-services-shelters/603670/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order\u003c/a> that strips funding from cities that tolerate public encampments, beefs up law enforcement resources to deal with homelessness, and directs funding to shelters and away from permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What Are Other Places Doing Successfully?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. cities, counties and states have made enviable progress in reducing homelessness, revealing possible solutions for California. Four communities have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.usich.gov/communities-that-have-ended-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recognized\u003c/a> by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness for effectively ending chronic homelessness, meaning that any homeless person with a disability is immediately provided shelter and is able to land permanent housing within 90 days if he or she wants. Three states and 78 communities have ended veteran homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston has reduced homelessness by over half, from a peak of around 8,500 in 2011 to around 4,000 in 2019, according to federal point-in-time data. The city began by bringing together more than 100 agencies, including the city of Houston, the counties, nonprofit agencies, businesses and the federal HUD. Coalition members continually update a \u003ca href=\"http://www.homelesshouston.org/hmis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data dashboard\u003c/a> that tracks homeless people as they interact with shelters and services. During regular meetings, they match a list of homeless people seeking permanent supportive housing with spots. A sobriety center provides a safe place for people who are publicly intoxicated to sober up — and avoid an arrest record. Federal funding has been key to bringing thousands of new supportive housing units online: HUD nearly doubled its funding for Houston homelessness programs between 2008 and 2018, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/02/why-homelessness-going-down-houston-dallas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$38.2 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/c5832fa8-1e0d-49be-9c09-b23ffc55e734?src=embed\" title=\"Homelessness in Houston\" width=\"550\" height=\"796\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Atlanta, a city similar in population to Sacramento or Long Beach, the homeless population has also more than halved since 2010, even as rents have raced upwards. Like Houston, Atlanta has embraced the “housing first” approach, investing \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/22/atlanta-reduce-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public and private dollars\u003c/a> in a growing stock of low-barrier shelter beds, rapid rehousing units and permanent supportive housing. One innovative solution: A \u003ca href=\"https://weinspirit.org/blog/2019/4/16/inspiritus-launches-program-serving-youth-experiencing-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">host-family program\u003c/a> that pairs homeless LGBTQ young adults with supportive households.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What About Outside-the-Box Solutions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Desperate shortages of affordable housing have led some cities to consider desperate measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take for example, a recent proposal out of Oakland, where homelessness grew 47% from 2017 to 2019. City Council President Rebecca Kaplan floated a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Councilwoman-says-a-cruise-ship-at-Oakland-s-14897717.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">house up to 1,000 homeless residents on a cruise ship\u003c/a> in the city’s port. Though not a novel idea — cruise ships offered emergency shelter during Hurricane Katrina — the Port of Oakland instantly dismissed the proposal as “untenable,” while Twitter users pointed out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/12/13/oakland-is-considering-housing-its-homeless-cruise-ships-could-it-actually-happen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">irony\u003c/a> of housing people in boats rather than actual homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11677912\" label=\"Cabin communities\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is also home to another controversial solution: move the homeless out of street encampments and into metal structures more often used as tool sheds. The city currently operates four “cabin communities,” which include electricity, security guards and supportive services. About \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Are-Oakland-s-cabins-a-success-Homeless-14477680.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two-thirds of residents\u003c/a> who have been through the program have found more permanent shelter — a statistic the city calls a success. Supporters of the sheds — including Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey, who has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2019/12/14/why-riversides-mayor-is-sleeping-in-an-8-by-8-metal-shed-to-help-the-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sleeping in one himself to garner local support\u003c/a> for the strategy — say that they are warmer, safer, and more humane than sleeping in tents on cement. Detractors argue that the cramped structures are a poor substitute for permanent supportive housing or building affordable apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the country have jumped on the tiny house craze, building \u003ca href=\"https://www.curbed.com/maps/tiny-houses-for-the-homeless-villages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">villages\u003c/a> of the pint-sized dwellings for the homeless. Los Angeles has piloted a \u003ca href=\"http://planning.lacounty.gov/secondunitpilot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">program\u003c/a> to pay homeowners to host homeless people in backyard “granny flats.” Other cities have turned to \u003ca href=\"https://newatlas.com/architecture/3d-printed-low-cost-housing-texas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3D-printed homes\u003c/a> that can be turned out in 48 hours to lower the cost of building extremely-affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s most vexing issue is also its most shameful: the large and rising number of residents who lack a safe place to call home. In a state with vast amounts of wealth, more than 150,000 of its residents sleep in shelters, cars or on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/rapporteur-United-Nations-San-Francisco-homeless-13351509.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations\u003c/a> compared the tent encampments of San Francisco to the slums of New Delhi and Mexico City. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/number-of-homeless-people-on-skid-row-spikes-by/article_aa32fbda-bafb-11e9-849f-ab047fa8951a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nearly 5,000 people\u003c/a> live in the half square mile of Los Angeles’ Skid Row. And while the problem is most acute in California’s urban centers, homelessness is now a common fixture in many of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-s-homelessness-crisis-moves-to-the-12182026.php#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suburbs and rural towns\u003c/a>. State and local officials have pledged billions in recent years to help, but voters remain frustrated by a lack of visible progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump has wielded the state’s homelessness woes as a political weapon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/us/politics/trump-california-homeless.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excoriating\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s progressive policies for allowing the country’s “best highways, our best streets, our best entrances to buildings” to be blockaded by people without homes. In a Christmas Day \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1209964406324510720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet\u003c/a>, Trump repeated his threats of federal intervention if the state fails to fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about California’s homelessness crisis — including possible solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">How Many People Are Homeless?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last official count\u003c/a> 151,278 individuals are homeless in California, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s the highest number since at least 2007, and represents a nearly 17% uptick since 2018. The number of unsheltered Californians — living on the streets or in cars — has surged the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not surprising that California, the largest state, has the biggest homeless population in the country. But while about 1 in 9 Americans lives in California, roughly 1 in 4 homeless Americans lives here. New York and Hawaii have slightly higher per capita rates of homelessness, but California has the largest proportion of people living without shelter. That means the state’s homeless population is far more visible than in other places, and more vulnerable to the illness, violence \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-homeless-hypothermia-20190217-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and death\u003c/a> that accompany living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although states such as Texas and New York have seen a slight uptick in their homeless counts since last year, California saw the largest proportional swell of any state besides New Mexico. The Trump administration is quick to point out that the country would have seen an overall decline in homelessness if California and Oregon were excluded from the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Who Are They?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Governments and services providers tend to focus their efforts on the chronically homeless — an individual with a disability who has lived without consistent shelter for a year, or has had multiple recent bouts of homelessness. About 26% of Californians experiencing homelessness fit that definition, or some 34,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans are disproportionately found on California’s streets — roughly 30% of the state’s unhoused population is Black or African-American, according to HUD. Several Bay Area regions, including San Francisco and Marin County, have some of the highest rates of Black homelessness in the country. A legacy of racial discrimination in rental housing, higher rates of poverty among Black families, and overrepresentation in the state’s incarceration and child welfare systems \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=514-groundbreaking-report-on-black-people-and-homelessness-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all contribute\u003c/a> to the high numbers of African-Americans experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/525f355e-1ab3-401f-ab62-763890e38702?src=embed\" title=\"Demographics_homeless\" width=\"550\" height=\"855\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person experiencing homelessness is about twice as likely to be male than female, and significantly more likely to be LGBTQ than in the population at large. A growing proportion are seniors, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Aging-onto-the-street-Nearly-half-of-older-13668900.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new research\u003c/a> indicating nearly half fall of seniors on the street fall into homelessness after age 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Are They Local, or Are They Coming From Somewhere Else?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the more enduring myths about California’s homeless population is that the vast majority have traveled here from other states, seeking generous government assistance and weather more hospitable to living outdoors. It’s a baseless claim perpetuated by both sides of the aisle — Gov. Newsom has made it \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2019/aug/14/gavin-newsom/gavin-newsoms-ridiculous-claim-texas-responsible-s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While comprehensive statewide data is lacking, local surveys indicate people living on the streets are typically from the surrounding neighborhood. Example: 70% of San Francisco’s homeless people were housed somewhere in the city when they lost housing; only 8% came from out of state. \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=3437-2019-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three quarters\u003c/a> of Los Angeles County’s homeless population lived in the region before becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/373989ba-1c3c-439c-95e8-22df331d8a9f?src=embed\" title=\"Homelessness origin\" width=\"600\" height=\"872\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s little evidence to suggest undocumented immigrants constitute a large share of California’s homeless population. But those that are unhoused are particularly difficult to help. Crucial safety net resources such as Social Security, Section 8 housing vouchers and food stamps are unavailable to the undocumented, who \u003ca href=\"https://latino.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FINAL-DRAFT-02_08_19-Stemming-the-Rise-of-Homelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">often resist engagement\u003c/a> with homeless services providers because of deportation fears. Language and cultural barriers also complicate re-housing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">A Welcome Decrease in Veteran and Family Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Military veterans, at higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse issues, make up a disproportionate share of the country’s homeless population. Roughly 11,000 veterans experience homelessness in California on any given night, about 8% of the state’s total homeless population. Most vets experiencing homelessness are over age 50, and often have significant disabilities and medical conditions that are exacerbated by precarious housing situations. Military members who experienced an episode of sexual trauma during their service are at especially high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness among families is also down over the last decade. Still, about 6,000 families and 12,000 children were homeless in California last year, according to point-in-time estimates. Unlike households without children, those with at least one child are far more likely to utilize emergency shelter or transitional housing. One striking statistic: Infancy is the age at which a person in the United States is most likely to be found in a homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/opre_homefam_brief3_hhs_children_02_24_2017_b508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Several studies\u003c/a> have found strong correlations between early childhood housing instability and behavioral and learning difficulties later in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">High Rents Drive Up Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mental health problems, addiction, childhood trauma, interaction with the criminal justice system and poverty all play significant roles in whether someone becomes homeless. But the primary reason? They can no longer afford rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1.3 million California renter households are considered “extremely low income,” making less than $25,000 a year, according to the California Housing Partnership, a nonprofit organization the state created to advise affordable housing builders. Predictably, these financially strapped households can barely afford the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots/renting-america-housing-changed-past-decade/#pricegrowth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">escalating rents\u003c/a>, and are most at risk of falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/8ba98878-b59c-40e0-81f2-f5b5229f19c6?src=embed\" title=\"rent vs wage\" width=\"550\" height=\"860\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by decades of underproduction, California’s stock of “naturally occurring” affordable housing is dwindling, as shoddy, older apartments that used to house lower-income families are increasingly taken by higher-income tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government-subsidized housing has not filled the gap. That’s partly because doing so would be insanely expensive. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates that building new housing for every low-income Californian who needs it would cost \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3345\">$15 to $30 billion annually.\u003c/a> That’s what the state currently spends on Medi-Cal, its massive program to provide health care to the poor, which covers a third of the state’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What About Mental Illness and Addiction?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for homeless people are leery of casting too much blame for the state’s crisis on mental health and substance abuse issues. They argue that plenty of low-income residents in other states struggle with drug addiction and debilitating psychological conditions. They simply manage to remain off the streets because the rent is cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recent data suggests these issues are more prevalent among people experiencing homelessness than previously reported, especially for those living on the street. About half of the unsheltered nationally report that mental health and/or substance abuse contributed to their loss of housing. A Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless-population-mental-illness-disability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> found two-thirds of L.A. County’s residents living on the streets suffer from a psychological or substance abuse disorder, far more than what’s been reported in official statistics that exclude mental disorders that aren’t “long-term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/eeb1eed6-df15-40ae-b5ab-6464f6b300d0?src=embed\" title=\"Mental health \" width=\"550\" height=\"879\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methamphetamine use is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/01/716404677/as-meth-use-surges-first-responders-struggle-to-help-those-in-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up across the West Coast\u003c/a>, and is often to blame for some of the most visible episodes of homelessness seen on California streets. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worse still, meth can exacerbate existing mental illnesses. Addiction and psychological conditions are often inextricably intertwined, and present a complex case for outreach workers or (more often) law enforcement to confront. A disconcerting number of California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/board-and-care-homes-closing-in-california-mental-health-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">board-and-care facilities\u003c/a>, which have traditionally housed low-income patients with schizophrenia and other severe conditions, have shuttered in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have also blamed California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/breakdown-californias-mental-health-system-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conservatorship laws\u003c/a> for making it too difficult to compel treatment for people with mental illness or drug addiction living on the street. Civil libertarians and disability rights groups argue that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/mentally-ill-forced-treatment-conservatorship-california-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conservatorship\u003c/a> —when a court-appointed official manages another person’s life, including medical decisions — should be used as sparingly as possible, as it risks violating civil liberties and is a hollow remedy given the severe shortage of actual treatment options. Under a 1967 state law known as the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Californians can be held for treatment against their will only if they are deemed a danger to themselves or others, or are determined to be gravely disabled. Other states such as New York do not impose such strict requirements. California is experimenting with allowing three counties to take legal power over mentally ill people living on the street, but only in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/in-the-past-homeless-barely-registered-as-a-political-issue-now-its-a-top-concern/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">limited\u003c/a> circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally there is the eternal question of cause and effect: The severe stresses people face when they lose shelter and are forced to live exposed on the streets can also wreak havoc on their mental health and lead to substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Other Factors That Cause Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Survivors of domestic violence are among those at high risk of homelessness. One California study found that women reporting an episode of domestic violence were \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17234488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four times more likely\u003c/a> to suffer housing instability than other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formerly incarcerated — ineligible for many public housing programs and frequently a target of discrimination in the rental housing market — often take refuge in emergency shelters or on the streets. While comprehensive California data is lacking, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one study\u003c/a> by a criminal justice reform advocacy group found that people who have been in jail or prison are ten times more likely to experience homelessness than the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth aging out of the foster care system likely constitute a significant share of the more than 11,000 homeless young adults in California. One study found \u003ca href=\"https://www.chapinhall.org/wp-content/uploads/Midwest-Eval-Outcomes-at-Age-23-and-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30% of former foster care\u003c/a> children in the Midwest were homeless at least once before age 24. Lacking family support networks and often victims of childhood traumas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aecf.org/m/resourcedoc/california-fosteringyouthtransitions-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about 25%\u003c/a> of California’s foster youth transitioning into adulthood live in precarious housing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Emergency Shelters and Permanent Supportive Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-justify\">California has a patchwork of government-provided housing for people experiencing homelessness. While the nomenclature varies from city to city, the two most prevalent and important categories of housing are emergency shelters and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u003cstrong>Emergency Shelters:\u003c/strong> These are any facilities that provide temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. At their most basic they are a barracks-like arrangement of cots, and provide a bed and a meal. Typically they are operated by publicly funded nonprofit and religious organizations. Many shelters bar residents from staying with partners or \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/03/homeless-shelters-pets-california-bill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pets\u003c/a>, and are often viewed by homeless people as dangerous and dirty, even compared to sleeping on the streets. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/05/09/82908/rats-roaches-bedbugs-mold-why-thousands-of-las-hom/?_ga=2.128451404.1980297995.1577657887-661267234.1574806772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC investigatio\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://a%20kpcc%20investigation%20found%20reports%20of%20bedbugs%2C%20rats%2C%20foul%20odors%2C%20poor%20lighting%2C%20harassment%2C/\">n\u003c/a> of Los Angeles area shelters last year found reports of rats, bedbugs, foul odors and harassment rampant at several shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">But while shelter beds frequently go unused in \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/07/05/there_are_empty_beds_heres_whats_keeping_homeless_people_out_of_shelters.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a>, where transportation is also a complicating factor, overall the state has a major shortage. Federal funding has shifted away from emergency shelters over the last decade, causing the Bay Area, for example, to lose \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/files/pdf/BayAreaHomelessnessReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,700 shelter beds\u003c/a> since 2011, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and Los Angeles have tried to reinvent emergency shelters, equipping them with health and social service providers who can help guide residents to more stable housing outcomes. According to city officials\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-homeless-navigation-centers-seem-to-be-13025012.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> more than 50%\u003c/a> of the short-term residents of San Francisco’s “navigation centers,” which are tailored to high-needs clients, are ultimately placed in housing. Emergency shelters are generally much cheaper to build than permanent supportive housing, but new projects often run into stringent community opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b80bd03e-8fa8-4743-9c44-cb30d72fa68b?src=embed\" title=\"Costs of different types of homeless housing\" width=\"550\" height=\"814\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Permanent Supportive Housing:\u003c/strong> Homelessness experts agree that emergency shelters are mostly just a Band-Aid — permanent supportive housing is the long-term solution. Usually targeted at the chronically homeless, this offers a highly subsidized apartment paired with support services including psychological counseling, substance abuse rehab and job training. Permanent supportive housing is a pillar of the “housing first” model of ending homelessness: Individuals don’t need to quit drugs or agree to participate in any program to get a permanent roof over their head. \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/blog/2018/01/housing-for-health-los-angeles-countys-department-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studies show\u003c/a> that once placed in permanent supportive housing, residents tend to stay off the streets and out of the hospital and jail, saving taxpayers considerable expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One problem: Permanent supportive housing is really expensive to build. In Los Angeles, a recent estimate from the\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2019/10/08/prop_hhh_homeless_housing_audit.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> city auditor\u003c/a> put the median cost of building one unit at more than $530,000. A new project coming on line in San Jose is estimated to pencil out at roughly $470,000 per unit. The outrageous price tags aren’t just driven by land costs — a shortage of construction labor and prolonged city approval processes are also to blame. Cities including Oakland have recently begun buying and converting single-room occupancy hotels to sidestep prohibitively high new construction costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Preventing Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many California cities have made significant strides in moving people from streets and shelters into safe, stable housing. The Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, buoyed by fresh state and local funds approved by voters, estimated that it was able to place \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=3437-2019-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 20,000 people\u003c/a> experiencing homelessness into housing last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why did L.A. County’s homeless population still grow 12% between 2018 and 2019? Because an estimated 55,000 residents simultaneously lost a place to live, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (another \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Predicting_and_Preventing_Homelessness_in_Los_Angeles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">source\u003c/a> puts the number closer to 34,000). San Francisco officials say for every homeless person they house, another three fall into homelessness. Much to the chagrin of local politicians trying to prove taxpayer money is being spent effectively, new shelters and supportive housing will have trouble making a dent in visible homelessness unless the spigot is plugged in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States and local governments across the country (including California) are devoting a rising share of homelessness resources to prevention strategies. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Eviction counseling and defense: \u003c/strong>Being evicted — forcibly removed from an apartment — can lead to devastating family housing instability. An eviction record also makes it exceedingly difficult to find rental housing. The Newsom administration bulked up legal services in last year’s budget for low-income tenants facing evictions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Emergency rental assistance:\u003c/strong> New York and Chicago have seen\u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2019/12/06/90541/can-california-reduce-homelessness-through-better/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> early successes\u003c/a> with programs that provide small cash assistance and landlord mediation services to renters struggling to make ends meet. Many California cities have versions of these programs. But targeting emergency aid to those most at risk of homelessness can be difficult. \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Predicting_and_Preventing_Homelessness_in_Los_Angeles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A pilot project\u003c/a> from Los Angeles County, UCLA and the University of Chicago hopes to use big data and predictive analytics to better target emergency services to stem homelessness.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Diversion and rapid re-housing: \u003c/strong>Quickly connecting individuals who just lost their home with a new one is one of the most cost effective ways of preventing long-term homelessness. In \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/rapid-re-housing-works/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rapid re-housing programs,\u003c/a> people teetering on the verge of homelessness or new to a shelter are often provided a security deposit, first month’s rent (or more), and connected to a landlord with an immediate vacancy.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">Law Enforcement’s Role\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Is it legal for someone to sleep on the sidewalk or other public property?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A landmark federal court decision says yes — if there aren’t shelter beds available. Allowed to stand by the Supreme Court in late 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/15-35845/15-35845-2019-04-01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin vs City of Boise\u003c/a> held that ticketing, arresting or otherwise criminalizing people living outside violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. Several California cities and counties filed amicus briefs urging the Supreme Court to reverse the decision, arguing it would hamstring efforts to clear homeless encampments that posed serious public health and safety risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of the Boise decision remains unclear. Police departments and sheriffs still can enforce various “quality of life” ordinances, as well as bans against public defecation and drug use. Many advocates say issuing citations against these behaviors is counterproductive, because people experiencing homelessness have few resources to pay off city fines, and brief incarceration episodes only add to housing instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness puts enormous financial and resource strains on California police and sheriff departments. A recent audit of how Los Angeles spends homelessness dollars found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-cost-police-20150417-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 50% went to law enforcement\u003c/a>. Several police departments have created units dedicated to interacting with homeless populations, often pairing cops with social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeps also take a toll on unsheltered people, who can lose what little belongings they still have — including sleeping bags, family photographs and medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What is the State Doing About Homelessness?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As homelessness has soared in California, so has state spending on programs to address it, especially in the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, then-Gov. Jerry Brown directed $500 million to emergency homelessness funding in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/9fc4b636ece646ff9578a84e8514027d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plea for help\u003c/a> from mayors of the state’s 11 largest cities. That same year, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/california-ballot-measures/proposition-1-affordable-housing-bond/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop. 1\u003c/a>, a $4 billion bond that funds affordable housing construction. They also passed \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/california-ballot-measures/proposition-2-mental-health-money-for-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop. 2\u003c/a>, a $2 billion bond to fund supportive housing for people with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first year, Gov. Gavin Newsom upped the ante on homelessness spending. He designated a record \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Homelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> of his 2019-2020 budget to one-time investments combating homelessness, on top of $1.75 billion to expand California’s affordable housing stock. The budget includes funding to increase welfare grants for low-income families with children, to house mentally ill patients who are homeless or at-risk, and to rapidly rehouse college students who become homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest chunk, $650 million, went to emergency aid for California’s cities and counties to build more emergency shelters, medium- and long-term housing and motel conversions. But that money didn’t start flowing immediately: Cities and counties couldn’t apply for the funds until \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Trump-administration-holding-up-California-14882297.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early December.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to get local governments to cooperate with his homelessness agenda, Newsom also signed a suite of \u003ca href=\"http://a%20suite%20of%20new%20california%20laws%20also%20take%20stab%20at%20the%20state%27s%20severe%20shortage%20of%20emergency%20shelter%20beds%20by%20removing%20regulatory%20barriers%20for%20cities%20and%20counties%20to%20build%20more.bhttps//apnews.com/d3943138ee224eaa84db9c957e9d3963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"bills (opens in a new tab)\">bills\u003c/a> that remove regulatory barriers to building more housing for homeless people. Two of the new laws allow developers to bypass certain requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, which neighborhood groups have tried to use to block new housing developments such as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757452/opponents-of-s-f-navigation-center-to-sue-city-over-controversial-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homeless shelter\u003c/a> on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A task force on homelessness Newsom assembled in May is expected to release its recommendations soon. Those will shape how Newsom tackles homelessness in 2020 on a range of issues, from whether he’ll push a legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-21/homeless-right-to-shelter-housing-law-california-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“right to shelter”\u003c/a> to how much money he’ll budget to try to fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/f090d5c8-bd27-4453-a375-e7ac8f311c71?src=embed\" title=\"2019-2020 California spending homelessness\" width=\"550\" height=\"1012\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties and cities also shell out significant funds to address homelessness. For example, the \u003ca href=\"http://cao.lacity.org/budget/summary/2019-20BudgetSummaryBooklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles city budget for 2018-2019\u003c/a> included $426 million for homeless outreach and services, largely financed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamayor.org/summary-supportive-housing-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop HHH\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion bond measure passed by voters in 2016 to fund 10,000 new units of supportive housing over ten years. But there’s no comprehensive statewide accounting of local spending on the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though California spends big on homelessness, failing to house the growing number of people living on the streets may cost much more. A \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2772270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 study\u003c/a> found Santa Clara County spent $520 million a year on the county’s homeless population of 104,206 residents between 2007 and 2012, including the costs of health care, jail and public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What Are Trump and the Feds Doing?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to data from the \u003ca href=\"https://datalab.usaspending.gov/homelessness-analysis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Treasury Department\u003c/a>, California communities received nearly half a billion in federal grant money to fight homelessness in 2018. California couldn’t come close to providing its current levels of emergency shelter, housing vouchers, health services for the indigent and permanent supportive housing without significant assistance from Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Obama administration, federal resources were steered toward a “housing first” model that prioritized permanent supportive housing and allowing people to access housing without preconditions such as sobriety or job training. While the Trump administration has yet to officially deviate from that bipartisan approach, \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/12/trump-homeless-shelter-agency-robert-g-marbut-texas-housing/603280/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent personnel decisions\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/california-homeless-crisis-trump-intervention-los-angeles/597790/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public comments\u003c/a> from the president have California homeless advocates and housing officials fearful that a federal “crackdown” on homelessness is looming.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>What exactly a “crackdown” would entail remains an object of fear, loathing and uncertainty for the Newsom administration. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A 2019 report\u003c/a> from the White House Council of Economic Advisers blamed California’s homelessness woes on regulatory barriers to building new housing and lax enforcement of laws against loitering and public nuisance. The report also cast doubt on the efficacy of permanent supportive housing, prompting a homelessness expert at the University of California San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/multimedia/podcasts/gimme-shelter/2019/09/california-housing-crisis-gimme-shelter-podcast-event/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compare\u003c/a> the White House’s findings to climate change denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fear the Trump administration intends to try to force homeless people living on California’s streets to move to former federal armories and other converted federal buildings. While experts says the legal and practical obstacles to such widespread sweeps are considerable, officials at the federal department of Housing and Urban Development have \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/12/trump-policy-homeless-executive-order-city-services-shelters/603670/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly\u003c/a> scouted and inquired about properties across the West Coast. Trump could also issue an \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/12/trump-policy-homeless-executive-order-city-services-shelters/603670/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order\u003c/a> that strips funding from cities that tolerate public encampments, beefs up law enforcement resources to deal with homelessness, and directs funding to shelters and away from permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What Are Other Places Doing Successfully?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. cities, counties and states have made enviable progress in reducing homelessness, revealing possible solutions for California. Four communities have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.usich.gov/communities-that-have-ended-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recognized\u003c/a> by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness for effectively ending chronic homelessness, meaning that any homeless person with a disability is immediately provided shelter and is able to land permanent housing within 90 days if he or she wants. Three states and 78 communities have ended veteran homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston has reduced homelessness by over half, from a peak of around 8,500 in 2011 to around 4,000 in 2019, according to federal point-in-time data. The city began by bringing together more than 100 agencies, including the city of Houston, the counties, nonprofit agencies, businesses and the federal HUD. Coalition members continually update a \u003ca href=\"http://www.homelesshouston.org/hmis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data dashboard\u003c/a> that tracks homeless people as they interact with shelters and services. During regular meetings, they match a list of homeless people seeking permanent supportive housing with spots. A sobriety center provides a safe place for people who are publicly intoxicated to sober up — and avoid an arrest record. Federal funding has been key to bringing thousands of new supportive housing units online: HUD nearly doubled its funding for Houston homelessness programs between 2008 and 2018, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/02/why-homelessness-going-down-houston-dallas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$38.2 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/c5832fa8-1e0d-49be-9c09-b23ffc55e734?src=embed\" title=\"Homelessness in Houston\" width=\"550\" height=\"796\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Atlanta, a city similar in population to Sacramento or Long Beach, the homeless population has also more than halved since 2010, even as rents have raced upwards. Like Houston, Atlanta has embraced the “housing first” approach, investing \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/22/atlanta-reduce-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public and private dollars\u003c/a> in a growing stock of low-barrier shelter beds, rapid rehousing units and permanent supportive housing. One innovative solution: A \u003ca href=\"https://weinspirit.org/blog/2019/4/16/inspiritus-launches-program-serving-youth-experiencing-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">host-family program\u003c/a> that pairs homeless LGBTQ young adults with supportive households.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"explainer-card-title\">What About Outside-the-Box Solutions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Desperate shortages of affordable housing have led some cities to consider desperate measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take for example, a recent proposal out of Oakland, where homelessness grew 47% from 2017 to 2019. City Council President Rebecca Kaplan floated a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Councilwoman-says-a-cruise-ship-at-Oakland-s-14897717.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">house up to 1,000 homeless residents on a cruise ship\u003c/a> in the city’s port. Though not a novel idea — cruise ships offered emergency shelter during Hurricane Katrina — the Port of Oakland instantly dismissed the proposal as “untenable,” while Twitter users pointed out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/12/13/oakland-is-considering-housing-its-homeless-cruise-ships-could-it-actually-happen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">irony\u003c/a> of housing people in boats rather than actual homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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