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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Dec. 16, 2019\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal in a case originating from Boise, Idaho, that would have made it a crime to camp and sleep in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to let a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stand has reverberating effects for the states under the circuit court, including California. The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear an appeal is considered a setback for governments in much of the West that are grappling with widespread homelessness by designing laws to regulate makeshift encampments on sidewalks and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11777005,news_11764548']The case stems from a lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago. A handful of people sued the city of Boise for repeatedly ticketing them for violating an ordinance against sleeping outside. While Boise officials later amended their ordinance, the 9th Circuit eventually determined the local law was unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a decision last year, the court said it was “cruel and unusual punishment” to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go. That means states across the 9th Circuit can no longer enforce similar statutes if they don’t have enough shelter beds for homeless people sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case now returns to the 9th Circuit. The city of Boise says it’s evaluating its next steps.\u003cbr>\n___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\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\">NPR’s original story\u003c/a> on the Boise case published Dec. 13, 2019:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s billed as one of the most livable places in the country with its good schools, leafy streets and safe neighborhoods. That’s what makes Boise, Idaho, an odd backdrop for a heated legal fight around homelessness that is reverberating across the western United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes back nearly a decade to when seven homeless people sued Boise for repeatedly ticketing them for sleeping outside. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/04/01/15-35845.pdf\">ruled in their favor\u003c/a>. The decision said it was “cruel and unusual punishment” to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go. That means in states across the 9th Circuit — including Washington, Oregon and California — cities and counties can no longer enforce similar statutes if they don’t have enough shelter beds for homeless people sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pam Hawkes was one of the original plaintiffs in the case. She now lives in Spokane, Washington, where she had been in and out of homelessness and only recently found stable housing. Seven years ago, she and her then-partner had nowhere to live in Boise, and many nights, they had no other choice but to pitch a tent in a wooded area along the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘I just need somewhere to lay my head overnight,’ and it’s not like we left camp up,” she said. “We always packed up and we always kept it clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she says she tried to keep herself hidden, police issued her more than a dozen tickets. Like most people living on the streets, Hawkes didn’t have steady work and couldn’t pay the fines. So she ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d never been in jail a whole day and night before,” she said. “It was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boise has hired a high-powered Los Angeles-based law firm to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Dozens of other municipalities and organizations, ranging from the downtown L.A. YMCA to a group of California counties, have filed amicus briefs in support of the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the fight over how to deal with the ever-growing homelessness crisis — most acutely visible in places such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle — is dividing cities, neighborhoods and political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a deciding factor in the unusually heated Boise mayoral race between two Democrats this past fall. Like many western cities, Boise is in the midst of an extraordinary affordable housing shortage. It’s also one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, a source of tension in some corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message that prevailed was city council president Lauren McLean’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The part that is missed all too often is the importance of prevention, if we want to prevent camps, we have to prevent homelessness,” she said during a forum at at a local homeless shelter. “We’ve got to address the affordability crisis in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a divisive runoff earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/runoff-election-results-2019-mclean-wins-boise-mayor-race-mcgee-takes-caldwell-city-council\">McLean handily beat the city’s longest-serving mayor\u003c/a>, Dave Bieter. He took heat for the city spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to appeal a case, money that some argued should be going to housing and more support services for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bieter warned that the famously pleasant and livable city of Boise can remain that way only if it has the ability to issue some tickets to stop the spread of tent cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really concerned when I see Seattle or Portland or San Francisco, I go there and I see a city that’s overwhelmed by the problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/san-francisco-like-many-places-across-the-west-face-a-growing-homelessness-crisis/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791457\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco, like many places across the West, face a growing homelessness crisis. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In cities like those, and in Los Angeles, the homelessness crisis is far more eye-opening than in Boise. Homeless encampments are sprouting up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In downtown Los Angeles’ skid row, some 3,000 people sleep on the streets in the shadow of the financial district and luxury condos. The county is home to nearly 60,000 homeless people, and the city’s homeless \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-encampment-affordable-housing-2019-results-20190604-story.html\">population jumped 16%\u003c/a> in the last year. California is where nearly a quarter of the country’s homeless population live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer and Los Angeles County each filed \u003ca href=\"http://filedn.com/lOJqn8isbUNJvUBnJTlV5OS/CITY%20OF%20LA%20AMICUS%20BRIEF%20CITY%20OF%20BOISE.pdf\">amicus briefs\u003c/a> in support of the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the Supreme Court to issue clear rules that lead there to be certainty in jurisdictions like ours as to how we can regulate — constitutionally — conduct on our sidewalks,” Feuer said. “A shared space for which we need to strike a very fine balance between the rights and legitimate interests of homeless people and the rights and legitimate interests of other residents and businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11752329,news_11748088,news_11739894,news_11745902,news_11678178' label='The Rise in Homelessness']The Boise ruling, he said, sweeps too broadly. He wants clarity. Does Los Angeles have the right to intervene if someone, for example, refuses to take an available shelter bed even if the city doesn’t have beds for everyone? Is the city required to do burdensome nightly counts of the homeless population as compared with the number of shelter beds available?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to assure that there are rules that everybody can live by, so that all our public spaces that are shared by everybody can be safe for everybody,” he said. “Occasionally that is going to require some level of enforcement, and sometimes a level of enforcement is going to pertain to people who are homeless, not because of their status of being homeless, but because of conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is nowhere near the number of shelter beds or temporary and permanent housing for the people who need it, Feuer said. But as the city works to solve the crisis, it also needs tools to keep Los Angeles safe. Business owners, housed residents, homeless people and advocates are frustrated with the growing encampments, garbage, human feces and used needles. This is all increasing as the city spends more on tackling the homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://hcidla.lacity.org/prop-hhh\">Proposition HHH\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion affordable housing bond program to build 10,000 supportive housing units for the chronically homeless in Los Angeles. Not one unit is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/in-los-angeles-homeless-encampments-sprout-up-in-underpasses-along-streets-on-scores-of-sidewalks-and-inside-parks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791458\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1200x924.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1920x1479.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, homeless encampments sprout up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Three years later, we have more houseless people than ever before. Three years later, three houseless people per day are dying. Three years later, 150 people per day are entering into the houseless ranks,” said Pete White, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://cangress.org/\">Los Angeles Community Action Network\u003c/a> or L.A. CAN, based on skid row. His organization has been on the other side of many legal challenges against city ordinances it considers anti-homeless, from property confiscation to stopping people who have nowhere to go from sleeping in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Los Angeles and other cities have to stop reaching into a toolbox to police the problem and start reaching into a toolbox to solve the problem. The solution is clear: affordable housing and services for the underserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the L.A. CAN office, Juan Brown is shaking his head as he watches sanitation workers fill garbage trucks and power-wash the sidewalks. Police are taping off the area as outreach workers roam the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just another ploy to harass the homeless, making us move,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was living on the corner where he stands for three years before finally getting into housing a month ago. He lost his job as a truck driver after he was hit by a drunken driver. He couldn’t make rent and ended up outside. He refers to the clean streets effort he’s watching as clean sweeps, because homeless people are forced to move, temporarily. If they don’t get their stuff out of the way in time, he said, it gets confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re targeted because Los Angeles look at us like cockroaches instead of human beings,” he said. “We’re no longer human beings out here. Homeless people are cockroaches to society now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vanessa Romo of NPR also contributed reporting to this updated article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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So she ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d never been in jail a whole day and night before,” she said. “It was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boise has hired a high-powered Los Angeles-based law firm to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Dozens of other municipalities and organizations, ranging from the downtown L.A. YMCA to a group of California counties, have filed amicus briefs in support of the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the fight over how to deal with the ever-growing homelessness crisis — most acutely visible in places such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle — is dividing cities, neighborhoods and political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a deciding factor in the unusually heated Boise mayoral race between two Democrats this past fall. Like many western cities, Boise is in the midst of an extraordinary affordable housing shortage. It’s also one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, a source of tension in some corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message that prevailed was city council president Lauren McLean’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The part that is missed all too often is the importance of prevention, if we want to prevent camps, we have to prevent homelessness,” she said during a forum at at a local homeless shelter. “We’ve got to address the affordability crisis in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a divisive runoff earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/runoff-election-results-2019-mclean-wins-boise-mayor-race-mcgee-takes-caldwell-city-council\">McLean handily beat the city’s longest-serving mayor\u003c/a>, Dave Bieter. 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Homeless encampments are sprouting up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In downtown Los Angeles’ skid row, some 3,000 people sleep on the streets in the shadow of the financial district and luxury condos. The county is home to nearly 60,000 homeless people, and the city’s homeless \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-encampment-affordable-housing-2019-results-20190604-story.html\">population jumped 16%\u003c/a> in the last year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Boise ruling, he said, sweeps too broadly. He wants clarity. Does Los Angeles have the right to intervene if someone, for example, refuses to take an available shelter bed even if the city doesn’t have beds for everyone? Is the city required to do burdensome nightly counts of the homeless population as compared with the number of shelter beds available?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to assure that there are rules that everybody can live by, so that all our public spaces that are shared by everybody can be safe for everybody,” he said. “Occasionally that is going to require some level of enforcement, and sometimes a level of enforcement is going to pertain to people who are homeless, not because of their status of being homeless, but because of conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is nowhere near the number of shelter beds or temporary and permanent housing for the people who need it, Feuer said. But as the city works to solve the crisis, it also needs tools to keep Los Angeles safe. Business owners, housed residents, homeless people and advocates are frustrated with the growing encampments, garbage, human feces and used needles. This is all increasing as the city spends more on tackling the homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://hcidla.lacity.org/prop-hhh\">Proposition HHH\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion affordable housing bond program to build 10,000 supportive housing units for the chronically homeless in Los Angeles. Not one unit is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/in-los-angeles-homeless-encampments-sprout-up-in-underpasses-along-streets-on-scores-of-sidewalks-and-inside-parks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791458\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1200x924.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1920x1479.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, homeless encampments sprout up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Three years later, we have more houseless people than ever before. Three years later, three houseless people per day are dying. Three years later, 150 people per day are entering into the houseless ranks,” said Pete White, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://cangress.org/\">Los Angeles Community Action Network\u003c/a> or L.A. CAN, based on skid row. His organization has been on the other side of many legal challenges against city ordinances it considers anti-homeless, from property confiscation to stopping people who have nowhere to go from sleeping in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Los Angeles and other cities have to stop reaching into a toolbox to police the problem and start reaching into a toolbox to solve the problem. The solution is clear: affordable housing and services for the underserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the L.A. CAN office, Juan Brown is shaking his head as he watches sanitation workers fill garbage trucks and power-wash the sidewalks. Police are taping off the area as outreach workers roam the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just another ploy to harass the homeless, making us move,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was living on the corner where he stands for three years before finally getting into housing a month ago. He lost his job as a truck driver after he was hit by a drunken driver. He couldn’t make rent and ended up outside. He refers to the clean streets effort he’s watching as clean sweeps, because homeless people are forced to move, temporarily. If they don’t get their stuff out of the way in time, he said, it gets confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re targeted because Los Angeles look at us like cockroaches instead of human beings,” he said. “We’re no longer human beings out here. Homeless people are cockroaches to society now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vanessa Romo of NPR also contributed reporting to this updated article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland’s City Council president wants to explore the possibility of using a cruise ship to house up to 1,000 homeless people as a way of addressing the city’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Kaplan told a council meeting Tuesday that the ship would be brought to the Port of Oakland, but port officials were quick to call the plan “untenable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We respect President Kaplan’s desire to address homelessness, but Port of Oakland docks are designed to work cargo ships. There isn’t the infrastructure to berth a cruise ship,” port spokesman Mike Zampa said on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s port is one of the nation’s busiest, and safety and security issues in the federally regulated facilities “would make residential uses untenable,” Zampa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kaplan didn’t immediately return a request for further comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Kaplan said she had been contacted by cruise ship companies about providing a vessel for emergency housing, and that the companies were reaching out to the port about what options might exist to berth a ship there, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Councilwoman-says-a-cruise-ship-at-Oakland-s-14897717.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a>. She didn’t provide further details on those companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we can have a way to create a 1,000 housing units overnight,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she plans to present a proposal to the council in January that will be “no or low” cost to the city because residents of the cruise ship would pay for rooms based on their income, and the city would not actually buy the vessel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness has spiked in Oakland, according to this year’s point-in-time count, which found that the number of people living in unsheltered conditions \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019_HIRDReport_Alameda_FinalDraft_8.15.19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped\u003c/a> from roughly 1,900 to more than 3,200 in the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a great way to house a lot of people quickly,” Kaplan told The Chronicle. “Cruise ships have been used for emergency housing after natural disasters and for extra housing for things like Olympics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruise ships offered temporary housing for about 8,000 people displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to FEMA. And earlier this year, President Trump suggested using them as shelters for victims of Hurricane Dorian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan compared her vision for an Oakland cruise ship to something akin to the Queen Mary, a 1936 ocean liner based in Long Beach now being used as a floating hotel with 347 rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be like that,” Kaplan said. “But as affordable housing instead of hotel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elaine de Coligny, executive director of the homeless advocacy group EveryOne Home in Alameda County, said she appreciated Kaplan’s creativity and desire to find permanent housing for homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But de Coligny said it would be pricey to convert a cruise ship into long term living space. Before embarking on plans to do so, officials should talk to homeless people about whether they would even want to live on a cruise ship, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re all feeling desperate about the desperation that we’re seeing of people who are living outdoors,” de Coligny said. “I appreciate the creativity, but I have lots of questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on July 31, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]G[/dropcap]rowing up, Robin Burton didn’t really know much about her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells. “I was never told that my mom was mentally ill. My grandparents raised me, her mom and dad, and my mom would come home for a couple months and she’d be gone for a couple of years, and this was normal to me growing up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Robin Burton, founder of the Facebook group Missing & Homeless']‘The only thing that I want to say to my mom whenever I find her is, “I love you.” That means more to me than anything else in the world, is just for her to hear those three words: “I love you.”‘[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was an adult by the time she learned her mom had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. That finally answered questions unanswered when her mom was breezing in and out of her life. Like many kids who don’t understand what they’re looking at when they’re looking at severe mental illness, little Robin came up with a story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that she was living the life of the rich and famous, and didn’t have time for me. That was so far from the truth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a sadness she learned to live with early in life. But when Burton was in her 20s, she lost her mom in a new and different way. First, her grandparents died. Then, when her mom swung through town, sometime around Christmas in 1994, and learned about their deaths, she left and didn’t come back. Ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was 23 whenever she went missing, and I’m 48 years old now,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schizophrenia can be a debilitating disease. There’s no known cure, though medications can help. “We don’t know what it is. We don’t know what causes it. I don’t even know what the meaning of a cure would be,” said \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/people/robert_rosenheck.profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Rosenheck\u003c/a>, professor of psychiatry and of health policy at the Yale School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538.jpg\" alt=\"A rare family photo of young Robin Burton with her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells.\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rare family photo of young Robin Burton with her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robin Burton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists do know schizophrenia affects people of every race, culture and economic class. Common symptoms include delusions, social withdrawal and an inability to cope with strong emotions. “Schizophrenia interferes with all areas of mental life. It makes it hard to think clearly. It makes people fearful, angry sometimes, and sometimes numb,” Rosenheck added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why you see so many homeless people with schizophrenia. It’s hard for other people to connect with them and stay connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the years wore on, Burton hired a private investigator to find Cloudia, though a lot of people told her to let it go. A lot of people tell her that now. But Burton won’t give up on the hope that Cloudia is still alive, and that there might be some benefit to seeing her again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not here to judge my mom, and I’m not here to ask her any questions on why she didn’t come home, or where she’s been, because she has her own reasons. The only thing that I want to say to my mom whenever I find her is, ‘I love you.’ That means more to me than anything else in the world, is just for her to hear those three words: ‘I love you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is, how to find her?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The First Trip to California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Burton lives in Collinsville, Illinois. “I work at Geico. I’m an insurance agent. I also bartend on the weekends,” at a popular local watering hole called Ardie and Tiny’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Robin Burton, founder of the Facebook group Missing & Homeless']‘You know, the question that I get asked a lot, and most families do that are looking for their missing loved ones that are living homeless, is maybe they don’t want to be found.’[/pullquote]One evening, almost five years ago, Burton was working at that bar, “and it was a slow night, and I had a phone call from my private investigator, and he had told me that he doesn’t know how he missed it. But my mom’s Social Security number was used at a homeless shelter in 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a homeless shelter in Santa Monica, California, roughly 2,000 miles from Collinsville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton explained, “I didn’t think a whole lot of it because I’ve been on wild goose chases before. I told a customer, just for small talk, about the phone call conversation. Unbeknownst to me, that customer went home and started Googling the Web. Two days later, he called me on the phone and he said, ‘Robin, I need your email address. There’s something I want you to look at.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a 2014 article from the Los Angeles Times, talking about the annual point-in-time count of the local homeless population. There was one photograph up top, of a homeless woman on the street. “I knew immediately that it was her. Because your eyes don’t change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton called up the L.A. Times, and the reporter put Burton in touch with the photographer, who said the photo was taken one year before the article was written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“January 2013 in Santa Monica, California, the exact same place and area my mom’s Social Security number was used. In the same year. And that was all the confirmation I needed, ’cause I already knew it was her,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tip was 2 years old, but she decided to chase it down anyway. She set up a Go Fund Me page to get help paying for a rental car to get to California, and for a motel room to stay in when she got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local \u003ca href=\"https://fox2now.com/2015/02/17/collinsville-woman-heads-to-la-to-find-her-mother-after-spotting-her-in-la-times-picture/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News\u003c/a> outlet broadcast a set-up story the night before Burton left for L.A. By then, Burton had talked with a police officer at the LAPD, who told her Cloudia had been sighted on L.A.’s skid row. Burton told Fox, “I’m not scared of skid row. That’s not my biggest fear. My biggest fear is my mom not wanting to come back with me. Alls I know is I have to find her. I gotta let her know I love her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons Learned on Skid Row\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11764385 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman passes a wheelchair-bound homeless man on Spring Street on May 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. The 2017 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count indicated a dramatic jump of 20 percent in the city of Los Angeles, while Los Angeles County has spiked 23 percent. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There has been a skid row in Los Angeles since the late 19th century. There have been attempts to clear out the poverty and crime from this square mile in the heart of downtown since the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s never looked as bad as it does in modern times: a tent city of roughly 4,000 people has sprung up on these sun-baked concrete sidewalks, crawling with rats and bedbugs, reeking with the smell of human urine and feces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin arrived in 2015 carrying a box of candy bars wrapped with her mom’s picture, but she made a critical mistake. She brought along another TV camera crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People on the streets were not happy to see that, or her. “The very first day out there was very scary and emotional for me. I broke down crying. I had to leave. I had to leave and I had to go back to my motel and take a deep breath and re-evaluate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the motel room, Burton decided she needed to try again, in a different way. “Without the cameras, everything was so different. and it was actually the homeless that was helping me look for my mom. It was them that was telling me, ‘You know I wish I had somebody looking for me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could imagine Cloudia visiting a place like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.downtownwomenscenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Downtown Women’s Center\u003c/a>. Homeless and near-homeless women from all over Southern California come here looking for help for a range of problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We serve about 4,000 women a year and it’s very fairly infrequent that we see them reunify. It’s really probably only about five a year,” said chief program officer Erika Hartman, who betrays in her voice a certain exhaustion at the very idea of what sounds like a much desired fairy-tale ending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Robin Burton, founder of the Facebook group Missing & Homeless']‘I was very, very angry at God. How could you send me a picture after 20 years? How could I go out there and not find her? And it wasn’t until I came home and I realized I’m not alone. There are other families just like me.’[/pullquote]“Usually, at the point that they have come to skid row, they have really run out of other connections that they can turn to. Sometimes, it’s because they’ve really exhausted their relationships with people who are trying support them. Or who have set boundaries due to substance use. Lots of women report experiencing shame about homelessness,” Hartman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with help, three weeks passed with no sign of Cloudia. Some people told Burton they believed Cloudia must be dead. Whatever the case, Burton needed to go back home and get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spring, Burton started a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MissingHomelessOrg/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Missing & Homeless\u003c/a>. The concept is simple: post a person’s story, with enough details and photos, in the hopes somebody in the group will recognize that missing person and help put them in touch with the family looking for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not a piece of garbage, you know. They’re somebody’s mother. They’re somebody son. They’re somebody’s sister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 742px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/1485734303999.jpeg\" alt=\"One of numerous posters Robin Burton has drawn up over the years in the search for her mother, believed to be homeless somewhere in California.\" width=\"742\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/1485734303999.jpeg 742w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/1485734303999-160x207.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of numerous posters Robin Burton has drawn up over the years in the search for her mother, believed to be homeless somewhere in California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robin Burton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An Education in Finding People\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Robin said she functions like a reporter when a family contacts her for help. She presses them for more information. Where, exactly, did the person go missing? Are there any distinguishing characteristics, like eye color or tattoos? Do they suffer from mental illness or addiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details make it easier to find somebody, but they also emotionally engage the Facebook group members. As opposed to say, some generic post about a Jane Doe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea when I started ‘Missing & Homeless’ what it was going to become, and how many followers and supporters that we were gonna have. Then we started finding people. Four years later, we have probably found 70 or 80 people,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out a lot of the group’s 63,000 members are homeless themselves, typically logging into Facebook at public libraries — in part because they don’t have any barriers precluding them from getting involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='homelessness' label='More on Homelessness']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton has had a number of frustrating conversations with health care providers and social service workers who won’t say boo about someone who friends and family are searching for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can walk into a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen and they will not tell you if they’re there. My mom could be in the same building as me and I would never even know it. It’s heartbreaking, whenever you have a family member that is missing and living homeless, the lack of help that you get because of it,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a very big reason why most social workers and health care providers would not tell Robin if her mom was in a particular building. It’s against federal law, specifically, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996\u003c/a>. HIPAA, as most people call it, has a provision that protects the privacy of individuals’ medical records, including the fact of a person’s presence in a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartman of the Downtown Women’s Center explained staff are happy to take a message and pass it on. But it’s the homeless person’s choice whether to connect. Always. In part, because they can’t presume the best about people who say they’re searching for a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have women who have been trafficked or abused or exploited by family members,” Hartman said. “Many of them don’t list an emergency contact. We have women who pass and we don’t know how to find a next of kin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, many of these women have good reasons they don’t want to be found. Burton gets that. She’s also seen enough to know some people are just too far gone into the abyss of mental illness, or addiction, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a lady that was looking for her son that was schizophrenic, and he was found after, after five or six years, and she didn’t recognize him at first. You know, because the streets weather you. You change drastically. He didn’t recognize her either, and he said, ‘You’re not my mom.’ He’s missing again,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, we’ve been presuming that the right homeless person has been correctly identified. Sometimes, people eager to help say they’ve seen someone they actually haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happened to Burton, just weeks after she returned home from skid row that first time. A volunteer from the Downtown Women’s Center called Burton to say Cloudia was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton bought a plane ticket. She was sitting on that plane ahead of takeoff, when she got another call saying the volunteer was mistaken. The timing was such that Burton flew to L.A. and back: an expensive, useless and emotionally painful trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that wouldn’t stop Burton from recommending families make every effort to file missing person reports, and take all the other recommended steps. Because the wins, when they happen, are so satisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A former workmate of Corey Abernathy's asked his parents for permission to post this on the Facebook group "Missing & Homeless." That's how a housemate of Abernathy's in San Francisco spotted it, and told him, and he called his parents after a radio silence of two years.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-1200x779.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former workmate of Corey Abernathy asked his parents for permission to post this on the Facebook group “Missing & Homeless.” That’s how a housemate of Abernathy’s in San Francisco spotted it, and told him, and he called his parents after a radio silence of two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Corey Abernathy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Win in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Corey Abernathy, and his parents, Cathy and Robert Abernathy, agreed to meet me on a bright, breezy day at one of his favorite haunts in San Francisco: Crissy Field. When he was homeless, Corey used to camp in the Presidio, not far from where tourists whiz by on their rented bicycles and children eat ice cream while wearing fleece jackets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just thought too much about life. I felt a lot of pressure,” Corey said. He’s 5-foot-9. About 160 pounds. Hair and beard close-cropped. His blue eyes twinkle in the sun. He looks like he’s gotten a lot of sun in recent years, but nothing that seems out of the ordinary for an athletic white man in his early 30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey was 28 when he decided to throw on a backpack one day and leave his parents’ home in Willits in Mendocino County. With no warning, or explanation — though there were signs when the family looks back on it — that he wasn’t happy. That he was drifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember that there was like a weird amount of anxiety on me,” Abernathy said. “I always tried to make sense of everything. I put too much pressure on myself that wasn’t really there. Yeah, the way I dealt with it was just drinking a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d struggled with anxiety since childhood. He didn’t seem to have a strong idea for a career the way his older brother had. He dropped out of Sacramento State almost as soon as he got there. He lost a job in retail, then switched to a local casino. But there, he was surrounded by alcohol, and the consequences were predictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey started reading about people who dropped out of society for a different kind of life. “So it wasn’t like one single moment. It was something I was thinking about for probably like a year,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Corey got a DUI, something he was really ashamed about. He thought to himself, if he had no money, he wouldn’t be able to buy alcohol. And if he had nothing to worry about, he wouldn’t want to buy alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained, “My car got towed and I just said, ‘I’m done.’ At the time, it was a good feeling. I don’t have to deal with problems I can’t figure out anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember, he was living with his parents at the time. And when he walked out that front door, he left no note. No explanation. His mom, Cathy, is a registered nurse. His dad, Robert, is a retired custom cabinetmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father recalled the day, “Got home and the house was empty. To me, it looked like he’d just walked out the door to go out for a walk. Everything was still in his room. Nothing disturbed. He just disappeared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called the police and filed a missing person’s report. Only to discover the police in Mendocino County have a loose attitude about adults who disappear, given the local marijuana growing industry’s reliance on seasonal workers. In this business, pruning is called “trimming,” and many of the trimmers come and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Mendocino County, Sonoma County if a adult is missing, they’re out trimming,” Cathy said. “It was October and it was trimming season. They took the report, but they weren’t doing anything with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Robert and Cathy had to start looking on their own. Corey’s friends helped. A former workmate tacking up a poster in Ukiah met a homeless person who directed them to Fort Bragg, where Robert and Cathy found Corey in a park, about six weeks after he disappeared. But Corey wouldn’t come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t ready to see them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Corey Abernathy, building a new life for himself in San Francisco after more than three years homeless']‘I gave everything up, you know. It was like, I don’t know if I’m ever going to have a room again. I don’t know if I’m ever going to have a relationship again. I distinctively classified myself aside from society.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert described his thinking in that moment, “As much as I wanted to grab him and throw him in the car, I knew he’d be gone again. So that was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make was to let him go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they did, and Corey kept hitchhiking, to Point Arena, Gualala and finally San Francisco — where he proceeded to bounce from sleeping rough in the Presidio to side streets and shelters, sporadically sending his parents Facebook messages from public libraries. Until he stopped doing that. The last one was in February 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt regret and guilt. I knew I was going to have to figure out a way to speak to them, and yeah, apologize,” Corey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every now and then, his parents would get a lead and take off to follow it, only to find it mistaken. Often, from somebody overcome with wishful thinking. A lot of guys on the street look like Corey. “OK, he’s here. He’s in Yuba City. He’s in Sacramento. Manteca. Denver. I mean, you name it, he was there,” Robert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks turned into months, and then years. Corey’s last messages came from San Francisco. So Robert and Cathy drove south repeatedly to scour the city’s Tenderloin on foot. “He could be on the next block over headed in the opposite direction, and we’d never know it. You know, there were days when we walked 25 miles,” Robert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night before Corey left his parents’ home in Willits, Cathy started having this recurring dream — nightmare, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, she keeps getting woken up by her nephew, Bobby, who committed suicide in 2010. It’s like he was a contact from the underworld, trying to tell her something about her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d wake me up that, ‘We gotta get going.’ I was on the hard ground. I was cold. I wasn’t safe. I had to get moving. You know, we had to get moving,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, at some point, the nightmares abruptly stopped. Cathy had two theories about what happened to Corey. “Maybe, you know, he’s getting his life together. Or he wasn’t on this earth anymore. You know, it was one of the two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it happened, this was right around the time Corey was ready for rehab. He got involved with \u003ca href=\"https://www.aa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcoholics Anonymous\u003c/a>. He got into a sober living facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn’t reconnect with his parents. And two years passed. That’s when, early this year, one of Corey’s old workmates posted on “Missing & Homeless.” And someone Corey lives with recognized him. And told Corey. And Corey called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Robert Abernathy, whose son went missing for more than three years']‘You see the homeless. You hear about people missing family. And that’s supposed to happen to other people. It’s not supposed to happen to you. With Corey missing, I am much, much, much more aware of how it’s happening everywhere. Man, this is an epidemic.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t even remember the drive down here. You know, we sat down, and he talked about why — some of the things that made him leave. And him realizing that the DUI, everybody gets one and it’s nothing to run from, but this is something he’s been thinking about, and it’s something he needed to finish. And it’s like, he’s part of our family, and as I told him, he’s going to be my son forever, no matter what. I still love him,” Robert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Robert and Cathy come down from Willits periodically to visit Corey in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey doesn’t have a strong answer as to why he didn’t call his parents before a prompt from the acquaintance who spotted him on “Missing & Homeless.” What Corey can say is that he was ready when he got the nudge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Kind of Story Robin Burton Lives For\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“A lot of homeless are afraid to contact their family because they don’t know if they’re going to be turned away,” Burton said. “Some, you know, it’s just they’ve been gone for so long they don’t even know what to say to families anymore. Those are our miracle stories. There was a reason he was supposed to be found, and there was closure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search for Cloudia morphed into something else for Burton. She’s found a mission, a purpose in life, as a guide for others in need. The story about Burton’s search for her mom has become an invitation for people to trust her. “The same people have probably heard it a thousand times. Well, now they’re coming to me for help and we’re finding their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say there haven’t been personal wins for Burton, too. She never knew who her father was. But this summer, she found him. She was told as a kid that her mom got pregnant at 17, and had her at 18. But her grandparents didn’t know who her father was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Burton took a DNA test and it led to Kansas and her 71- year-old dad. He doesn’t profess to remember Cloudia, but has met with Burton once already — and she’s going to Kansas soon to spend some vacation time with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton’s got a new lead for Cloudia, by the way, from someone in San Francisco who thought they saw her back in June. She would be 66 years old now. White woman, round face that’s probably slouched somewhat with age, presumed shoulder-length gray hair. Might still answer to the name of Cloudia. Or Leslie. Or Diane. Or some other name we don’t know about. Yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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There was one photograph up top, of a homeless woman on the street. “I knew immediately that it was her. Because your eyes don’t change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton called up the L.A. Times, and the reporter put Burton in touch with the photographer, who said the photo was taken one year before the article was written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“January 2013 in Santa Monica, California, the exact same place and area my mom’s Social Security number was used. In the same year. And that was all the confirmation I needed, ’cause I already knew it was her,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tip was 2 years old, but she decided to chase it down anyway. 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She brought along another TV camera crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People on the streets were not happy to see that, or her. “The very first day out there was very scary and emotional for me. I broke down crying. I had to leave. I had to leave and I had to go back to my motel and take a deep breath and re-evaluate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the motel room, Burton decided she needed to try again, in a different way. “Without the cameras, everything was so different. and it was actually the homeless that was helping me look for my mom. It was them that was telling me, ‘You know I wish I had somebody looking for me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could imagine Cloudia visiting a place like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.downtownwomenscenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Downtown Women’s Center\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton has had a number of frustrating conversations with health care providers and social service workers who won’t say boo about someone who friends and family are searching for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can walk into a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen and they will not tell you if they’re there. My mom could be in the same building as me and I would never even know it. It’s heartbreaking, whenever you have a family member that is missing and living homeless, the lack of help that you get because of it,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a very big reason why most social workers and health care providers would not tell Robin if her mom was in a particular building. It’s against federal law, specifically, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996\u003c/a>. HIPAA, as most people call it, has a provision that protects the privacy of individuals’ medical records, including the fact of a person’s presence in a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartman of the Downtown Women’s Center explained staff are happy to take a message and pass it on. But it’s the homeless person’s choice whether to connect. Always. In part, because they can’t presume the best about people who say they’re searching for a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have women who have been trafficked or abused or exploited by family members,” Hartman said. “Many of them don’t list an emergency contact. We have women who pass and we don’t know how to find a next of kin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, many of these women have good reasons they don’t want to be found. Burton gets that. She’s also seen enough to know some people are just too far gone into the abyss of mental illness, or addiction, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a lady that was looking for her son that was schizophrenic, and he was found after, after five or six years, and she didn’t recognize him at first. You know, because the streets weather you. You change drastically. He didn’t recognize her either, and he said, ‘You’re not my mom.’ He’s missing again,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, we’ve been presuming that the right homeless person has been correctly identified. Sometimes, people eager to help say they’ve seen someone they actually haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happened to Burton, just weeks after she returned home from skid row that first time. A volunteer from the Downtown Women’s Center called Burton to say Cloudia was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton bought a plane ticket. She was sitting on that plane ahead of takeoff, when she got another call saying the volunteer was mistaken. The timing was such that Burton flew to L.A. and back: an expensive, useless and emotionally painful trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that wouldn’t stop Burton from recommending families make every effort to file missing person reports, and take all the other recommended steps. Because the wins, when they happen, are so satisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A former workmate of Corey Abernathy's asked his parents for permission to post this on the Facebook group "Missing & Homeless." That's how a housemate of Abernathy's in San Francisco spotted it, and told him, and he called his parents after a radio silence of two years.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-1200x779.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former workmate of Corey Abernathy asked his parents for permission to post this on the Facebook group “Missing & Homeless.” That’s how a housemate of Abernathy’s in San Francisco spotted it, and told him, and he called his parents after a radio silence of two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Corey Abernathy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Win in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Corey Abernathy, and his parents, Cathy and Robert Abernathy, agreed to meet me on a bright, breezy day at one of his favorite haunts in San Francisco: Crissy Field. When he was homeless, Corey used to camp in the Presidio, not far from where tourists whiz by on their rented bicycles and children eat ice cream while wearing fleece jackets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just thought too much about life. I felt a lot of pressure,” Corey said. He’s 5-foot-9. About 160 pounds. Hair and beard close-cropped. His blue eyes twinkle in the sun. He looks like he’s gotten a lot of sun in recent years, but nothing that seems out of the ordinary for an athletic white man in his early 30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey was 28 when he decided to throw on a backpack one day and leave his parents’ home in Willits in Mendocino County. With no warning, or explanation — though there were signs when the family looks back on it — that he wasn’t happy. That he was drifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember that there was like a weird amount of anxiety on me,” Abernathy said. “I always tried to make sense of everything. I put too much pressure on myself that wasn’t really there. Yeah, the way I dealt with it was just drinking a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d struggled with anxiety since childhood. He didn’t seem to have a strong idea for a career the way his older brother had. He dropped out of Sacramento State almost as soon as he got there. He lost a job in retail, then switched to a local casino. But there, he was surrounded by alcohol, and the consequences were predictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey started reading about people who dropped out of society for a different kind of life. “So it wasn’t like one single moment. It was something I was thinking about for probably like a year,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Corey got a DUI, something he was really ashamed about. He thought to himself, if he had no money, he wouldn’t be able to buy alcohol. And if he had nothing to worry about, he wouldn’t want to buy alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained, “My car got towed and I just said, ‘I’m done.’ At the time, it was a good feeling. I don’t have to deal with problems I can’t figure out anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember, he was living with his parents at the time. And when he walked out that front door, he left no note. No explanation. His mom, Cathy, is a registered nurse. His dad, Robert, is a retired custom cabinetmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father recalled the day, “Got home and the house was empty. To me, it looked like he’d just walked out the door to go out for a walk. Everything was still in his room. Nothing disturbed. He just disappeared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called the police and filed a missing person’s report. Only to discover the police in Mendocino County have a loose attitude about adults who disappear, given the local marijuana growing industry’s reliance on seasonal workers. In this business, pruning is called “trimming,” and many of the trimmers come and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Mendocino County, Sonoma County if a adult is missing, they’re out trimming,” Cathy said. “It was October and it was trimming season. They took the report, but they weren’t doing anything with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Robert and Cathy had to start looking on their own. Corey’s friends helped. A former workmate tacking up a poster in Ukiah met a homeless person who directed them to Fort Bragg, where Robert and Cathy found Corey in a park, about six weeks after he disappeared. But Corey wouldn’t come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t ready to see them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The cardboard, he said, helps insulate from the cold concrete and soaks up some of the splashes when cars drive by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildeman, two women and another man slept near each other in a small dry spot under the awning of a building. Asked why he hadn’t gone to one of the city’s shelters for the night, he said it’s often not worth waiting in line when there’s little guarantee of an available spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, you can wait in line and hope somebody decides they can’t wait no more and they leave,” he said. “But I find it’s better to make sure you have food than a shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildeman pointed out the irony that standing in line for a spot at a shelter often means getting even more wet. “There’s no shelter to be under to stay dry,” he said. “Everyone will get soaked while you’re waiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With temperatures expected to dip into the low 40s through Friday, followed by a long stretch of rain, a handful of local agencies and nonprofits around the Bay Area are offering additional shelter beds and space in warming centers through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788936\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_20191127_153031-e1574906000177.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11788936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_20191127_153031-e1574906000177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1510\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Ellis Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That includes San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), which homeless advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731543/whats-san-francisco-doing-for-homeless-in-bad-weather-not-enough-critics-say\">criticized\u003c/a> in previous years for not providing adequate emergency services during periods of rough weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said it’s \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/inclement-weather/\">expanding\u003c/a> the city’s existing shelter system by an additional 75 sleeping mats through Dec. 3. This week, it also began a \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/\">temporary winter shelter program\u003c/a>, run by a group of churches, that offers last-minute shelter and meals for up to seven days to those who can’t get into the existing system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]“We wanted to lean forward and bring as many people as we can inside, given the weather,” said HSH director of strategy and external affairs Abigail Stewart-Kahn, adding that the city’s homeless outreach teams are also conducting additional wellness checks this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s year-round shelter system, which generally requires a reservation, provides homeless residents with beds for up to 90 days. Those shelters and the city’s six navigation centers can accommodate nearly 3,000 people each night. Even so, Stewart-Kahn said, there is a waitlist of about 1,000 people on any given night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 8,000 homeless people in San Francisco, including 5,180 people living in unsheltered in tents,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> vehicles\u003c/span>, or on the sidewalk, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\">point-in-time homeless count\u003c/a>, conducted in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that these expansions are [still] not meeting the need,” Stewart-Kahn said, noting that Mayor London Breed has pledged to add \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Mayor-Breed-promised-1-000-new-shelter-beds-by-14072525.php\">1,000 new shelter beds\u003c/a> by the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some beds available. She said there have been empty beds in the two shelters that just added more mats, as well as in the temporary church shelters. Those seeking shelter should call 3-1-1 or to go directly to the St. Vincent De Paul Society Multi-Service Center (525 5th Street) to find all available current vacancies and get free transportation to them, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Service providers in other cities throughout the region, where homeless populations have also spiked in recent years, are facing a similar demand as temperatures drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20191127150329837_COVER-e1574904482976.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11788924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20191127150329837_COVER-e1574904482976.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laval Briston, 52, has been homeless in San Francisco for seven months. “I drink to keep warm and help deal with the elements out here on these streets,” he said. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like San Francisco, Santa Clara County \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/newsroom/Pages/warming-centers-11-26-2019.aspx\">began offering\u003c/a> additional shelter beds and warming centers through the cold front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Oakland, some privately run shelters are also expanding their hours and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see folks who have moderate health needs that are exacerbated by the time they spend without housing,” said Sharon Cornu, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://stmaryscenter.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Mary’s Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, which offers winter emergency shelter for up to 30 seniors each night. 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"content": "\u003cp>The two new occupants of a three-bedroom house on Magnolia Street in West Oakland were busy this week sprucing up the place — the blue cement front stairs still wet from a recent power wash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dominique Walker, 34, and Sameerah Karim, 41, are not the legal tenants. On Monday, they occupied the long-vacant house, which is owned by a real estate investment firm, in a protest against housing speculation and Oakland’s growing homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Dominique Walker\"]‘The only crime being committed here is the fact that we’re letting people sleep on the streets. That’s the biggest crime.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker and Karim, part of a newly formed small group called \u003ca href=\"https://moms4housing.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, are not your typical squatters. 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Even when she could afford to pay the first and last month’s rent in a one-bedroom, her poor credit meant she’d have to pay landlords an “enormous” price to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788062\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11788062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe-1104x1104.jpeg 1104w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe-912x912.jpeg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe-550x550.jpeg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/EJsOjHOUcAEPuqe-470x470.jpeg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Moms 4 Housing in front of a vacant house in West Oakland that Dominique Walker (center) and Sameerah M. Karim (rear left) began to occupy this week. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Moms 4 Housing, via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And so, despite working multiple jobs, Walker has been homeless since coming back to Oakland. She and her daughters have been bouncing between friends and family’s houses, and spending some nights in hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karim, a second-generation Oakland resident with one adult son, is an Oakland Tech graduate studying nursing at Merritt College while also working full time. She became homeless four years ago, she said, when she lost her Section 8 housing voucher after being unable to find a landlord who would accept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m working 70 hours a week — I know I deserve a roof over my head,” Karim wrote on her group’s website. “I’m doing this so the generations that come after me don’t never have to fight for the right to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the two single moms learned that Oakland had thousands of vacant homes, they decided to take action, insisting that there are more than enough places to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see all unhoused moms have shelter,” Walker said. Since then, Moms 4 Housing, which describes itself as a small collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers trying to “reclaim housing for the Oakland community from the big banks and real estate speculators,” has worked hard to make the Magnolia Street house livable, despite the distinct possibility of getting kicked out by its owners or the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only crime being committed here is the fact that we’re letting people sleep on the streets. That’s the biggest crime,” Walker said. “People deserve to be housed. 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The two say the house has been vacant for more than two years, and are demanding that the real estate company that owns it either donate or sell it to them at an affordable price. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The house is owned by Catamount Properties 2018 LLC, a subsidiary of the Redondo Beach real estate investment firm Wedgewood Inc., according to Alameda County assessor records. On its website, Wedgewood describes itself as a “leading acquirer of distressed residential real estate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies, they don’t live in these houses,” said Aaron Glantz, an investigative reporter with Reveal who has written extensively about the nationwide housing crisis and whose book “Homewreckers” was recently published. “They don’t live next door to these houses. They don’t live in Oakland. They’re just interested in realizing return on the investment of this property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property manager of the home, who is employed by Wedgewood, did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker’s group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/04/retake-the-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citing a 2018 Mother Jones article\u003c/a>, claims there are four empty homes for every one homeless person in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]The \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ExecutiveSummary_Alameda2019-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent federal homeless survey\u003c/a> counted \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ExecutiveSummary_Alameda2019-1.pdf\">4,071 unhoused people\u003c/a> in Oakland. The city, meanwhile, found 4,366 \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4134930&GUID=23AE96D2-A4D9-4E2E-911C-DABCB7FDA1F7&Options=&Search=\">vacant privately owned parcels\u003c/a> —including houses and undeveloped land —according to a 2018 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly as a result of that discrepancy, Oakland voters last year approved a measure taxing owners of non-occupied properties, which goes into effect in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see the end of speculators in our community,” Walker said, claiming that the house has been vacant for more than two years. She hopes Wedgewood will sell it to them at an affordable price, or possibly even donate it. “We want vacant land that is owned by speculators to be given back to the community to which it belongs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although rare, squatters have been able to take over houses in California through a complex and lengthy legal process called \u003ca href=\"https://homeguides.sfgate.com/procedure-making-claim-adverse-possession-81571.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adverse possession\u003c/a> — also known as “squatter’s rights.” But it’s only possible if the property owners don’t step forward, and requires the occupants to pay property taxes and remain in the property for at least five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the two women are in the process of moving into the Magnolia Street house. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker and Karim, part of a newly formed small group called \u003ca href=\"https://moms4housing.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, are not your typical squatters. For one, they’re being loud about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that housing is a human right and we’re going to fight for that,” Walker said on Monday, as she stood in front of the house to announce the occupation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker grew up in Oakland, but moved to Mississippi for college. In April, she fled a domestic violence situation, returning to Oakland with her two young daughters. She’d already been burdened with student loans, and went even further into debt after the move, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Oakland, she said she was stymied by an extremely competitive and expensive housing market. 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Karim (rear left) began to occupy this week. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Moms 4 Housing, via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And so, despite working multiple jobs, Walker has been homeless since coming back to Oakland. She and her daughters have been bouncing between friends and family’s houses, and spending some nights in hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karim, a second-generation Oakland resident with one adult son, is an Oakland Tech graduate studying nursing at Merritt College while also working full time. 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Since then, Moms 4 Housing, which describes itself as a small collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers trying to “reclaim housing for the Oakland community from the big banks and real estate speculators,” has worked hard to make the Magnolia Street house livable, despite the distinct possibility of getting kicked out by its owners or the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only crime being committed here is the fact that we’re letting people sleep on the streets. That’s the biggest crime,” Walker said. “People deserve to be housed. 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The two say the house has been vacant for more than two years, and are demanding that the real estate company that owns it either donate or sell it to them at an affordable price. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The house is owned by Catamount Properties 2018 LLC, a subsidiary of the Redondo Beach real estate investment firm Wedgewood Inc., according to Alameda County assessor records. On its website, Wedgewood describes itself as a “leading acquirer of distressed residential real estate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies, they don’t live in these houses,” said Aaron Glantz, an investigative reporter with Reveal who has written extensively about the nationwide housing crisis and whose book “Homewreckers” was recently published. “They don’t live next door to these houses. They don’t live in Oakland. They’re just interested in realizing return on the investment of this property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property manager of the home, who is employed by Wedgewood, did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker’s group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/04/retake-the-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citing a 2018 Mother Jones article\u003c/a>, claims there are four empty homes for every one homeless person in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ExecutiveSummary_Alameda2019-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent federal homeless survey\u003c/a> counted \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ExecutiveSummary_Alameda2019-1.pdf\">4,071 unhoused people\u003c/a> in Oakland. The city, meanwhile, found 4,366 \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4134930&GUID=23AE96D2-A4D9-4E2E-911C-DABCB7FDA1F7&Options=&Search=\">vacant privately owned parcels\u003c/a> —including houses and undeveloped land —according to a 2018 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly as a result of that discrepancy, Oakland voters last year approved a measure taxing owners of non-occupied properties, which goes into effect in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see the end of speculators in our community,” Walker said, claiming that the house has been vacant for more than two years. She hopes Wedgewood will sell it to them at an affordable price, or possibly even donate it. “We want vacant land that is owned by speculators to be given back to the community to which it belongs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although rare, squatters have been able to take over houses in California through a complex and lengthy legal process called \u003ca href=\"https://homeguides.sfgate.com/procedure-making-claim-adverse-possession-81571.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adverse possession\u003c/a> — also known as “squatter’s rights.” But it’s only possible if the property owners don’t step forward, and requires the occupants to pay property taxes and remain in the property for at least five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The East Bay’s only emergency winter shelter for homeless seniors opens Monday — two weeks earlier than usual due to urgent need.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of\u003ca href=\"http://stmaryscenter.org/homeless-senior-services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> St. Mary’s Center\u003c/a> in West Oakland, Sharon Cornu, said that with more homeless seniors each year, it’s important to get a head start this winter. She said most seniors she serves fell into homelessness after working much of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/report-predicts-aging-homeless-population-will-nearly-triple-2030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Pennsylvania study\u003c/a> estimates the aging homeless population will triple by 2030. In 1990, only 11% of the nation’s homeless population was over the age of 50, today more than 50% are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/02/403511/homeless-people-suffer-geriatric-conditions-decades-early-ucsf-study-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A UC San Francisco study\u003c/a> shows homeless people in their 50s face more geriatric conditions than those living in homes who are decades older. According to the study, nearly half of the growing population of unhoused seniors became homeless after they turned 50-years-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Thomas, a former marine who lives in the East Bay, remembers the moment life as he knew it took a precarious dive — it was back in 2013, when he was 55, that he lost his job as a component repair technician at Intel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas is now 61.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Let Me Get a Job’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“They really gave us no prior warning. They met us at the gate after we went through a fingerprint and retinal scan,” he said of his experience being laid off in 2013. “Armed security guards escorted us to human resources to get our severance package, back pay, vacation pay, sick pay… So I started living off my savings,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101872481,news_11765010,news_11778741\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was able to keep his apartment at first, then he lived at the home of someone from his church, eventually a motel room — all while applying for job after job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has always been good with his hands, so side jobs replacing ceiling fans and cutting grass helped stretch out his unemployment and savings for quite a while, but eventually, three years went by.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a victim of age discrimination big time,” Thomas said. “Maybe too some of \u003cem>that\u003c/em> discrimination,” he added, as he pointed to his skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all of his money nearly gone, a Marine Corps career counselor referred Thomas to a long-term shelter in Berkeley. He packed his bags and stayed there for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the shelter, he was persistent, and luckier than most. Thomas conveys an uncommon persistence and adeptness at navigating through the systems around him. And he had the support of a Veteran Affairs social worker who helped get him a few hundred dollars of general assistance each month. By December of last year, the social worker set him up with a coveted Section 8 housing voucher in mere days — a feat that can sometimes take years to accomplish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Section 8 is a voucher program operated by the federal government. The recipient pays a percentage of their income and the government pays the rest. “But I’d been working all my life, and I was like, ‘No, let me get a job,'” Thomas said.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11787141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_7768-e1574030980450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Thomas suffered an injury last year that left him financially broke, homeless and unable to work. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>High Hopes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thomas’s hopes were high the morning of Dec. 16, 2018 when he set out for an interview at Sun Microsystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Margot Kushel, UCSF\"]“Your 80-year-old grandma, if housed, might not be running to catch the bus all the time. You, in fact, might hold her arm as she as she’s crossing the street. She might use a cane or a walker.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was dark. Had to be there at 7 but it was 5:30. I was running across the street. I had my… laptop, tool bag, and backpack. And I fell — some kind of indentation or rise in the road or something, I don’t remember,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he woke up 8 days later, it was Christmas Eve and he was at Highland Hospital in Oakland. He couldn’t use his right hand, he had a fractured skull, and his neck vertebrae had been fused.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The injury left him financially broke, homeless and unable to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF’s Dr. Margot Kushel has done landmark research on Oakland’s unhoused seniors. She said falls are a big part of the epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though these individuals are in their 50s or 60s, a lot of their health is much more similar to their 70s and 80s. You know your 80-year-old grandma, if housed, might not be running to catch the bus all the time. You, in fact, might hold her arm as she as she’s crossing the street. She might use a cane or a walker,” said Kushel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his fall, Thomas has been wheelchair-bound. He spent about ten months living in a skilled nursing facility. It was the nerve pain from his spinal surgery that bothered him the most, as well as other patients. He just wanted a place of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t come in to make friends. I came in to get the hell out,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Still Waiting\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>He’s had two promising leads since being granted the hard-to-get Section 8 housing subsidy voucher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last one was a three-interview and four-month application process, after which he says his Veteran’s Affairs social worker relayed the landlord’s decision. They weren’t renting anymore, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Section 8 guarantees landlords get paid at least $1700 for a one-bedroom apartment in Alameda County. While discrimination against people with vouchers is illegal, a quick search on Craigslist provides a myriad of examples with listings explicitly stating “No Section 8.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has steadily rolled back housing funds for high cost-of-living areas — despite skyrocketing rents and deepening poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just so competitive,” said Veteran Affairs regional housing program supervisor Patrick Kowalski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of Alameda County veterans with Section 8 vouchers — which is more than 600 people — are currently waiting for a home, Kowalski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11771019\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vacancy rate in Alameda County is below 5%. When you throw in some specialty such as senior status or a need to be near public transportation or even a VA facility, you shrink the available number of units even more,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kowalski hopes to encourage more property owners to open their units to veterans with Section 8 vouchers who continue to get VA support to ensure their placements are successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Eddie Thomas, he moved to Veteran Affairs transitional housing in Alameda last month. He says he’s been promised a one bedroom in the VA’s \u003ca href=\"https://rcdhousing.org/upcoming-properties/\">new veteran-only residential building\u003c/a> by the end of the year. But for now, he’s still waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the Camp Fire swept through Paradise, Magalia and Concow last November, killing 85 and destroying almost 14,000 homes, it displaced some 52,000 people. And while some of them were able to quickly find solace on friends’ couches or in motel rooms, others were forced to seek shelter elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with a norovirus outbreak at the Red Cross shelter, many chose what they considered the lesser of two evils: camping at a Walmart parking lot in Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation was untenable. While the camping may have started as a last resort for fire survivors, other homeless residents from Butte County began camping there as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, on Nov. 29, 2018, the Walmart Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2018/11/29/walmart-and-the-walmart-foundation-increase-commitment-to-california-wildfire-relief-and-announce-funding-for-homeless-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed $1 million\u003c/a> to “help address the increased needs of the local homeless population affected by the Camp Fire” and to establish a year-round, low-barrier homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the shelter was never built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents were conflicted over the proposed shelter. Part of the problem was that, because the real estate market is so tight in Chico, the chosen shelter location ended up being a few blocks away from an elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backlash was \u003ca href=\"https://krcrtv.com/news/butte-county/citizens-react-to-low-barrier-shelter-proposed-in-chico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heated\u003c/a>. A petition opposing the shelter gained nearly 5,000 signatures, and during a lengthy public comment period at a Chico City Council \u003ca href=\"http://chico-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meeting in early April\u003c/a>, dozens of residents expressed their concerns over the placement of the shelter. One resident said the shelter had “no business” in their school neighborhoods, arguing that organizers should be prioritizing “public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The location sucks, the plan sucks, the impact sucks,” Chico resident Rob Berry said during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"camp-fire\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, one of the service providers key to the project — the Jesus Center — dropped out due to the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local stakeholders said that Walmart later dropped out of the project as well, though the company would not return a request for comment. And, at the end of the day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/24/nvcf-returns-1-million-camp-fire-donation-to-walmart-foundation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the funding was returned\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a council member call and say, ‘What are we supposed to do? There’s people everywhere,’ ” said Laura Cootsona, executive director of the Jesus Center. “This was our big idea, and we had a big break because we had a funder that we don’t normally have and we’re not going to have again. I think that’s the part that’s just so sad to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chaos at the Continuum of Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In her first year in a new position, Jennifer Griggs was having a hard time making her job work. Griggs had been hired as the Homeless Continuum of Care coordinator in Butte County the winter before the 2018 Camp Fire hit. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her job\u003c/a> to help connect homeless service providers with state and federal funding, conduct the biennial point-in-time homeless count and support rehousing efforts for the ballooning homeless population across Butte County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.buttehomelesscoc.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/117500423/final_2019_point_in_time_executive_summary_report_published_on_june_17_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless count\u003c/a> was conducted on a single day in March, just five months after the Camp Fire. That tally identified 2,304 sheltered and unsheltered homeless people in Butte County, many of whom were directly impacted by the fire. That’s a 16% increase since 2017. But the report acknowledged that the results were likely an undercount “due to ongoing challenges in locating homeless individuals, especially those that are displaced and unhoused due to the Camp Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Griggs left the job — and the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griggs cited many reasons for leaving. For one, while her home didn’t burn during the fire, it was damaged during subsequent floods — resulting in the loss of most of her belongings. And because of the damage to her home, Griggs and her husband spent several months living in a trailer on her property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said one of the biggest reasons she left Butte County was the chaos behind the scenes at the Continuum of Care among providers and stakeholders, and a lack of empathy from residents as they tried to address the homelessness crisis in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the Camp Fire devastated the town of Paradise and surrounding areas in early November, the Continuum of Care system, which is responsible for assisting local providers in obtaining money to address homelessness, was already overextended — both because of funding changes at the state level and a lack of administrative and technical support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2018, California created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/getdoc/341f4873-3c91-4cf3-8031-ab54c8fafebc/HEAP-Overview-August-2018-Final.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new block of grant funding\u003c/a> to address the homelessness crisis in the state. 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