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"content": "\u003cp>As California faces an unprecedented homelessness crisis, schools across the state are failing to connect their homeless students with the vital services they’re entitled to, a state audit found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students experiencing homelessness often face major hurdles to academic success and are far more likely than their peers to be chronically absent or to drop out altogether. While services like tutoring, transportation and free school meals are known to help, many kids don’t receive that support because their schools often aren’t even aware that they’re homeless, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-104/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">audit\u003c/a>, released Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Adam Clark, Superintendent of Vallejo City Unified School District\"]‘We’re just spread so thin with trying to provide the basics that it’s really hard to follow all the requirements when we’re not getting the resources and support to do it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers requested the audit earlier this year after questioning the results of data from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/sd/filescupc.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Education\u003c/a> (CDE) that show a quarter of California’s schools reported zero homeless students during the 2017-18 school year, even though it’s widely understood that homelessness doesn’t spare any corner of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/mckinney-vento/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal law\u003c/a>, schools must identify homeless students and provide them with support services. Those students are also guaranteed the right to be immediately enrolled in school even if they lack proper documentation, and to remain at whatever school they’ve been attending, regardless of whether they move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Auditor Elaine Howle analyzed five districts across California, as well as one charter high school, and found all but two were undercounting their student homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis of the five districts — Greenfield Union School District, Gridley Unified School District, Norwalk‑La Mirada Unified School District, San Bernardino City Unified School District and Vallejo City Unified School District — and Birmingham Community Charter High School\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>showed that homeless youth were overall more academically successful in the schools that did a better job of identifying and supporting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 5% and 10% of all low-income students in California experience homelessness in a given year, according to estimates by education experts cited in the audit. Meanwhile, most of the districts scrutinized in the report identified 3% or fewer of their low-income students as homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We determined that the [local districts] we reviewed could do more to identify and support these youth, and that [CDE] has provided inadequate oversight of the state’s homeless education program,” Howle wrote in a public letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School staff, the audit found, aren’t properly trained or are not following best practices. Not one of the five districts, or the charter school, had given staff the necessary training to understand the requirements of state or federal law or accurately identify homeless youth. Only one district publicly posted information about programs available to homeless students, as required by law, while two didn’t distribute annual housing questionnaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The differences in districts’ approaches and the resources they devote to homeless students is also striking, the audit found. Both Norwalk-La Mirada and San Bernardino City districts work closely with outside organizations to support homeless students, according to the report, while the remainder of the districts analyzed do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" postID=news_11716780,news_11716742]And while Norwalk-La Mirada has one full-time and one part-time staffer dedicated to homeless education programs, and San Bernardino has four full-time dedicated staff, the one homeless liaison in the Vallejo City district is also in charge of the district’s discipline policy while simultaneously running its absentee program and overseeing its alternative schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results of the differing investments are equally stark: Despite similar enrollment and student demographics across the districts, Norwalk-La Mirada’s homeless youth far outperformed those in Vallejo City, with significantly lower rates of suspension and chronic absenteeism during the 2017–18 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the audit found that almost 80% of reported homeless seniors in the San Bernardino City district graduated in 2018. For Norwalk‑La Mirada, that rate was 85%. But for Vallejo City, it was a mere 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report outlines several steps lawmakers could take to strengthen local programs and department oversight. At the local level, it says, legislators could require districts to put out housing questionnaires annually to students and their families, as well as mandate annual training for staff who work with homeless youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This training would help to ensure that the staff are aware of important information, such as the definition of a youth experiencing homelessness and the key indicators to look for, that would help them identify the youth needing services,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To ensure better oversight at the state level, the audit also recommends that lawmakers require CDE to come up with a plan to more effectively monitor districts, especially those at greatest risk of undercounting homeless students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716764 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0730-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0730-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0730-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0730-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0730-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0730-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0730.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tote bags with messages for homeless families made by students on display at the Salinas City Elementary School District Family Resource Center. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vallejo City Unified’s Superintendent Adam Clark says he agrees with the findings and recommendations, but notes that implementing those changes is a complicated proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like districts are saying ‘It’s just our job to educate.’ We’re way past that,” he said. “We understand that the whole child and whole family needs to be addressed. But to look at 28 kids in a class, sometimes those needs are really truly beyond what we have the resources to provide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income families, he added, often turn to school officials for help finding housing or job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With enrollment dropping in his district, Clark says, budgetary pressures have forced punishing cuts to services and staff, affecting all students in the district. While he says his schools are working to better prepare staff to support homeless students, he also worries that any new legislative requirements resulting from the audit would put further strain on schools already grappling with shortages of teachers and substitutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just spread so thin with trying to provide the basics that it’s really hard to follow all the requirements when we’re not getting the resources and support to do it,” he said. “Hopefully this report leads to greater support so we can do the things we know are right to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit places ultimate blame on CDE for failing to provide oversight and leadership. While the department is required to ensure districts comply with the law, the report found that of the 2,300 local educational agencies in California, CDE has only been monitoring about 20 each year — less than 1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu, one of the lawmakers who called for the audit, expressed outrage over the failures identified in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unacceptable that we are monitoring less than 1% of the programs in the state. The department needs to monitor many more programs,” he said. “They haven’t been supporting schools, materials have been out of date, which can be updated, training modules haven’t been released that could be released. 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But for Vallejo City, it was a mere 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report outlines several steps lawmakers could take to strengthen local programs and department oversight. 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In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686413267/microsoft-pledges-500-million-investment-to-tackle-affordable-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft\u003c/a> made a $500 million investment to ease similar pressures near its headquarters in the Seattle area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes as California grapples with how to keep pace with growing housing demand — by one estimate, the state must build more than 3 million homes by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sky-high cost of housing — both for homeowners and renters — is the defining quality-of-life concern for millions of families across this state, one that can only be fixed by building more housing,” Gov. 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While the crisis has a wide reach, the struggle to find new housing at an affordable price is even more daunting for the millions of people who haven’t benefited from the tech boom that has made some into billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s plan includes $1 billion to create a mortgage assistance fund for first-time homebuyers, and another $1 billion that will be an open line of credit to support building “very low- to moderate-income housing,” the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Apple’s projected breakdown of the $2.5 billion in aid:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$1 billion affordable housing investment fund\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1 billion first-time homebuyer mortgage assistance fund\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$300 million worth of land Apple owns in San Jose, which will be available for affordable housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$150 million Bay Area housing fund, consisting of long-term forgivable loans and grants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$50 million to support vulnerable people: Apple is donating $50 million to support Destination: Home’s efforts to address homelessness in Silicon Valley, and will look for similar philanthropies throughout the state\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Before the world knew the name Silicon Valley, and long before we carried technology in our pockets, Apple called this region home, and we feel a profound civic responsibility to ensure it remains a vibrant place where people can live, have a family and contribute to the community,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook in the company’s release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move, however, marks a \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/google-v-apple-while-one-takes-on-the-housing-crisis-the-other-stands-back/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major shift\u003c/a> in tactics for the iconic company, which unlike Google and Facebook has traditionally distanced itself from high-profile civic engagement projects. That general lack of involvement has been a source of criticism among some local advocacy groups, which argue that Apple has largely abdicated its responsibility to address community issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have walled themselves inside their mini-Pentagon as if they don’t participate in community life here,” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, told Reveal last month. “And that’s really insulting and wrong. So I welcome Apple to come to the table and be part of the community that they benefit from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, was quick to criticize the company’s announcement, accusing the company of “throwing pennies” at the housing crisis he said Apple helped create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple’s announcement that it is entering the real estate lending business is an effort to distract from the fact that it has helped create California’s housing crisis — all while raking in \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/T07iC829m0ujXkPyT1glMC?domain=u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\">$800 million \u003c/a>of taxpayer subsidies, and keeping a quarter trillion dollars of profit offshore, in order to avoid paying \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/g14lC9r2nPTmzONwf3Ldy6?domain=u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\">billions of dollars in taxes\u003c/a>,” Sanders said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple is committed to being a good neighbor and helping to write the next chapter of the region that has been a great home of innovation and creativity for generations,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said Apple crafted its approach to match the broad reach of the housing crisis, from helping first-time homebuyers to backing philanthropies that support people who are at the greatest risk of experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple said its funding commitment will be rolled out over two years, depending on the availability of projects, and that it plans reinvest unused funds in future projects over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also said it is working to identify private developers who, with the right financing and investment, are ready to immediately begin construction on affordable housing projects in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting from NPR’s Bill Chappell.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg\" alt='\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism, and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Who Owns Silicon Valley?” is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just a few years ago, Yolanda Harraway was living in a tent on the streets of Chinatown in Salinas, an agricultural hub struggling with a growing homeless community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harraway’s slide into homelessness began when her son was taken from her custody by Child Protective Services. She struggled with addiction and had several felonies on her record, which cut her off from various state and government-funded housing options. She also had a hard time holding a job — once her background check came back, she would be let go, time and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harraway, who is black, has since found permanent housing, earned her high school diploma and sobriety. Yet, experts say the problems she encountered are more prevalent among black people and can lead to or perpetuate homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Steve Berg, National Alliance to End Homelessness\"]‘Higher poverty rates among black and Native American people are quite pronounced. And race discrimination by landlords or by the corrections system, those all combine to lead to these vary disparate rates of homelessness.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new homeless census carried out nationally shows that black people are greatly overrepresented in the homeless population across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, the percentage of black or African American people who are homeless is more than seven times higher than the county’s black population. It is nearly six times higher at the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While only 3.5% of people living in Monterey County identify as “black or African American,” 25% of the county’s homeless population identifies as such, according to the homeless census, also known as the Point-in-Time Count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And across the state, the U.S. Census shows about 6.5% of Californians identify as black or African American, but they account for nearly 40% of the state’s homeless, according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development report to Congress. Nationally, black people account for 13.4% of the population but are 39.8% of the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A September report from Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) indicates institutional racism plays a large role in the extreme over-representation of homelessness of all people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black people are more likely than white people to experience homelessness in the United States, including in Los Angeles County,” the report says. “… The impact of institutional and structural racism in education, criminal justice, housing, employment, health care and access to opportunities cannot be denied: Homelessness is a by-product of racism in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-graphic-800x378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11778748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-graphic-800x378.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-graphic-160x76.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-graphic-1020x482.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-graphic.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, estimates from the homeless census show the black homeless rate more than doubled from 2017-2019, growing from 12% of the population to 25% in that time. The numbers surprised local officials, some suggesting the count might have been at fault, as it is an imperfect snapshot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is carried out in the dark, of a population that does not want to be seen,” said Elliott Robinson, interim executive director of the nonprofit Coalition of Homeless Service Providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, the count is often carried out as unobtrusively as possible, meaning census takers, most of whom are volunteers, may guess at the race or ethnicity of homeless people so as not to wake or frighten them, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in that same amount of time, Los Angeles County showed a large growth in its black homeless population as well, increasing 22%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prison Reform and Homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Steve Berg, vice president of programs and policy for the National Alliance to End Homelessness, suggested that California’s prison reform efforts might be another factor in the increased percentage of black homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people have been released from prison in California since 2008 as the state pursued aggressive policies to relieve overcrowding and handle punishment and rehabilitation outside prison walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Homelessness\" tag=\"homelessness\"]According to an April report by the Pew Research Center, while the percentage of black people sentenced to prison has decreased in number in recent years, it is still disproportionately high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, white people accounted for 64% of adults in the U.S. but only for 30% of prisoners, and while Hispanics represented 16% of the adult population, they accounted for 23% of inmates. Accounting for only 12% of the adult population, black people are 33% of the sentenced prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming out of corrections is a huge risk factor for homelessness,” Berg said. “That creates a sort of bounceback effect. People who come out of prison and become homeless are far more likely to go back to prison than people who come out of prison and don’t become homeless. The large racial disparities in the corrections system are both a cause and effect of disparities in homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harraway was arrested at least a dozen times, most often related to drugs, and cycled in and out of the prison system, which she said was common among the homeless residents of Chinatown. She connected with Community Homeless Solutions and entered its Women in Transition program, after which she found permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the state’s prison reform efforts, the rate of successful parole applications has jumped from a few out of every 100 to almost one in six. In 2017, a congressional committee found that “95 percent of the prison population today will be released at some point in the future.” The share of parole hearings that ended in a recommended release jumped from under 3% in 2007 to 19.1% in 2014, according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But felony records, stagnant wages and a rising housing crisis combined with policies that exclude or punish marginalized groups can ensnare vulnerable black people in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without felony records, black people face more difficulties finding employment and housing than other races or ethnicities, the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) demonstrated in a recent report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NFHA found that even after the Fair Housing Act of 1968 legally outlawed denying people housing based on race after redlining and exclusionary zoning targeted people of color, black people still face housing discrimination. Another analysis of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data evidenced that black people are charged higher fees and rates than white borrowers and are routinely denied mortgage loan applications at a much higher rate than white applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a community where the barrier is at the front door,” Berg said. “The higher poverty rates among black and Native American people are quite pronounced. And race discrimination by landlords or by the corrections system, those all combine to lead to these vary disparate rates of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-train-tracks-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"A man walks the railroad tracks along the edge of a homeless encampment where he stays on June 12, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-train-tracks-800x613.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-train-tracks-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-train-tracks-1020x782.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-train-tracks-1200x920.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/BLACK-HOMELESS-train-tracks.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man walks the railroad tracks along the edge of a homeless encampment where he stays on June 12, 2019. \u003ccite>(Photo: Kate Cimini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The R-Word:’ Racism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“When you get the r-word in your head, it’s bad for the whole community,” Harraway said. “It can start a riot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At shelters and programs in Chinatown, Harraway said she noticed rules were often more harshly applied to black people. While people with lighter skin might be allowed to cut in line for the bathroom in an emergency, for example, black people in the same situation might be told to wait their turn, Harraway said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s alienating,” Harraway said. “It hurts. Especially when you have the attitude (that) we’re all in this together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, she said, racial tensions violently divided the community in Chinatown where she stayed. People began to retreat behind racial lines, with black people facing off against Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harraway herself was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder from all the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harraway’s cousin was killed; she arrived just in time to witness his last breaths. Between Aug. 22 and Sept. 17, six people were killed in Chinatown, some shot in broad daylight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When broken down by race and ethnicity, PTSD affects black people more than any other group, and black women at a greater rate than black men, according to a 2011 study published in the Journal of Psychological Medicine. A 2006 study in the Journal of Emotional Abuse also found that perceived racism contributed to emotional and psychological trauma in people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11777759,news_11777005,news_11774832,news_11764275 label='Related Coverage']When asked by LAHSA what would have kept survey participants from becoming homeless, the most common answer was “someone who cared about me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some homeless black residents in Monterey County say that is exacerbated by the lack of black people in decision-making positions in programs that serve the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Powers, a black woman in her 30s who has lived in Chinatown since she was 15, agrees. Latinos working in shelters gave special treatment to the Latinos living on the street, she said, but the same was not true for black people hired by the shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d think they’d want to help their people, but they’re too afraid of getting fired,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just shows that racism still, in some form, exists,” added Shawn Payton, a black homeless resident in Chinatown and Harraway’s cousin. “The whites, the Mexicans (working in shelters and housing) are going to look out for their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powers and others said they felt shut out of services, that they weren’t told certain programs existed until another black person clued them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s the money going?” Powers asked. “We don’t see it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes Bonilla, executive director of Monterey County’s Community Homeless Solutions, which runs the transitional housing program Harraway went through, said he often encounters that perception by black people coming into transitional housing programs. However, he denied that race factored into the way clients are treated, calling it a misconception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg noted that this sense of exclusion is not unusual among black homeless people, however, and added that there are ways to combat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really a matter of working with the black community to make sure, to know that these resources exist and work with people to make sure they’re as friendly as possible,” Berg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with people experiencing the programs as well will go a long way to improving gaps in the program and helping streamline the process, continued Berg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson, at the Coalition of Homeless Services, noted that the coalition has seen a gap in the number of black people enrolled in their services versus the number of white people enrolled, evidenced in its 2018 report on racial disparities in homelessness. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When asked by LAHSA what would have kept survey participants from becoming homeless, the most common answer was “someone who cared about me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some homeless black residents in Monterey County say that is exacerbated by the lack of black people in decision-making positions in programs that serve the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Powers, a black woman in her 30s who has lived in Chinatown since she was 15, agrees. Latinos working in shelters gave special treatment to the Latinos living on the street, she said, but the same was not true for black people hired by the shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d think they’d want to help their people, but they’re too afraid of getting fired,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just shows that racism still, in some form, exists,” added Shawn Payton, a black homeless resident in Chinatown and Harraway’s cousin. “The whites, the Mexicans (working in shelters and housing) are going to look out for their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powers and others said they felt shut out of services, that they weren’t told certain programs existed until another black person clued them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s the money going?” Powers asked. “We don’t see it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes Bonilla, executive director of Monterey County’s Community Homeless Solutions, which runs the transitional housing program Harraway went through, said he often encounters that perception by black people coming into transitional housing programs. However, he denied that race factored into the way clients are treated, calling it a misconception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg noted that this sense of exclusion is not unusual among black homeless people, however, and added that there are ways to combat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really a matter of working with the black community to make sure, to know that these resources exist and work with people to make sure they’re as friendly as possible,” Berg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with people experiencing the programs as well will go a long way to improving gaps in the program and helping streamline the process, continued Berg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson, at the Coalition of Homeless Services, noted that the coalition has seen a gap in the number of black people enrolled in their services versus the number of white people enrolled, evidenced in its 2018 report on racial disparities in homelessness. While black people outnumber white people 12-to-1 among the homeless population, they only enroll at a rate of 3-to-1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, once enrolled in the program, the percentage of positive outcomes for black and white clients are nearly uniform, with 8.59 black people graduating to permanent housing for every 10 white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you enter the system, your chance of a positive outcome is the same as anyone else,” Robinson said. “I think that’s an important point, though, that we should do a better job of outreach or building trust. We are falling short.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kate Cimini is a multimedia journalist for The Californian. This article is part of the California Divide project, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct 3: \u003c/strong>California’s senators want to know whether the Trump administration was involved in slapping San Francisco with an environmental violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are pressing the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General to examine if the agency’s decision to cite the city for improperly dumping sewage into the ocean was politically motivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/5/3584a2bd-ce0d-4c87-9ffb-6dc013675bb7/A1785A4075E2B0970E5EC6E5D52DB15F.2019.10.03-epa-ig-letter.pdf\">letter\u003c/a>, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris asked the watchdog agency to determine if EPA officials abused their power by reprimanding the city. They are also asking if officials acted in coordination with the White House and without the knowledge of the federal agency’s regional staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request comes just one day after the EPA \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-10/documents/sfpuc-npdes-violation-notice-2019-10-02.pdf\">notified\u003c/a> San Francisco in a letter that it had been issued a violation for “failure to properly operate and maintain the City's sewage collection and treatment facilities” and accused the city of creating a public health risk by failing to capture “substantial volumes of raw and partially treated sewage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s reprimand came after President Donald Trump baselessly accused San Francisco of allowing used needles to wash into the ocean, and promised to cite the city for water pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board issued a permit for the city’s Oceanside treatment plant on September 11, with the support of the EPA’s regional staff, who had been in contact with city officials for months over the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ask you to investigate why EPA abruptly reversed course,\" the senators wrote, categorizing the decision as contradicting the \"agency's own reasoned findings in recent permit approvals for San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original 4:55 p.m. Sept. 26: \u003c/strong>The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is threatening to \"take action\" against California if the state doesn't fix water pollution problems the agency alleges may be caused, in part, by a worsening homeless crisis in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a strongly worded \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-09/documents/9.26.19_letter-epa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to Gov. 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The EPA is concerned, Wheeler said, about \"pathogens and other contaminants from untreated human waste entering nearby waters\" and affecting water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco, Los Angeles and the state do not appear to be acting with urgency to mitigate the risks to human health and the environment that may result from the homelessness crisis,\" Wheeler wrote. \"California is responsible for implementing appropriate municipal storm water management and waste treatment requirements as part of its assumed federal program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter comes about a week after President Trump visited the Bay Area and blasted San Francisco's \"liberal\" policies, which he claimed have exacerbated the region's homelessness crisis. During his trip, Trump threatened EPA action against San Francisco, accusing the city of letting dangerous waste, including needles, drain into the ocean. That claim was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Trump-threatens-to-cite-San-Francisco-says-city-14451275.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refuted\u003c/a> by city officials and environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler's letter marks the latest escalation in a series of disputes between California and the federal government over environmental policies. Last week, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced he was leading a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over its decision to revoke the Golden State's authority to set its own emission standards for cars and light trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a common theme in the news coming out of this White House this week. The President is abusing the powers of the presidency and weaponizing government to attack his political opponents,\" Nathan Click, a spokesman for Gov. 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This is political retribution against California, plain and simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Secretary for Environmental Protection Jared Blumenfeld said Wheeler's concerns about homelessness and water quality in San Francisco, specifically, are odd, because the city's system of combined sewage and stormflow actually leads to cleaner water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unlike other places where water goes right from the streets into the bay or into the ocean, San Francisco has a really good system of dealing with cleaning up all the effluence coming off the streets and sidewalks,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler Gamble, a spokesman for San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which oversees the treatment of the city's water, agreed. \"San Francisco never discharges untreated water into the bay or the ocean.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler's letter also cited other \"health based exeedances,\" including Los Angeles surpassing its permit limit of a potential carcinogen, the University of California exceeding its limit for copper, and part of Marin County exceeding its limit for cyanide by more than 5,000 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, Wheeler wrote, the alleged exceedences, \"call into question the state's ability to protect the public and administer its [Safe Drinking Water Act] programs in a manner consistent with federal requirements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalEPA's Blumenthal said most of the examples in the letter are \"either gross inaccuracies or misrepresentations\" about what's actually happening in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just at a meeting yesterday of all 50 environmental directors and secretaries from each of the states and the question was, 'Why didn’t other states get letters?'\" he said. \"There’s certainly similar environmental issues in all 50 states, and I think everyone acknowledged that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blumenfeld said Wheeler's letter came as a surprise, adding that his agency \"never had any phone call from the federal government\" about the issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It definitely feels out of the ordinary,\" he said. \"It definitely feels like it isn't being done in a collaborative way to solve a problem, but really to score a political point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed also characterized the move as a political statement, blasting the Trump administration's claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m sick of this President taking swipes at our city for no reason other than politics,\" she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As I’ve said before, there are no needles washing out to the Bay or Ocean from our sewer system, and there is no relationship between homelessness and water quality in San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cp>This is what it might look like if \u003ca href=\"https://www.ancient.eu/sisyphus/#targetText=Sisyphus%20(or%20Sisyphos)%20is%20a,in%20the%20depths%20of%20Hades.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sisyphus\u003c/a> dabbled in urban planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early September, a group of residents living near Clinton Park in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores neighborhood triggered a strong backlash when they bought two dozen boulders and put them on the sidewalk in an effort to thwart the homeless encampments and illicit drug activity that they said has become commonplace there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of San Francisco's Coalition on Homelessness\"]‘Hostile architecture is not a solution to homelessness and it shouldn’t ever be considered in that way.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the year, neighbors had called 311 and 911 hundreds of times, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Anti-tent-boulders-set-to-be-moved-by-city-14479827.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported, detailing scenes of round-the-clock drug use, needles scattered on the sidewalk and inebriated homeless people cooking on open flames and raucously partying late into the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city failed to resolve the situation, neighbors took matters into their own hands: Without official sanction, they rolled out the hefty boulders, positioning them to occupy prime sidewalk real estate — a geologically inspired effort to clear the area. (They \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/city-to-remove-anti-homeless-boulders-from-clinton-park/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly\u003c/a> raised $2,000 via GoFundMe for the boulders).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work out quite as they had hoped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As word of the boulders spread among homeless advocates — after it was first \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2019/09/25-boulders-from-unknown-source-appear-on-clinton-park-sidewalk-in-apparent-anti-encampment-measure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> by Hoodline last week — Clinton Park neighbors soon realized that in their bid to put out one fire, they’d ignited a much larger firestorm that hits at the heart of San Francisco’s most pressing and divisive issue: how to handle the city’s seemingly intractable homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists converged nightly on Clinton Park, a narrow byway off Market Street, to push the boulders off the sidewalk into the street. Some, according to the Chronicle, reportedly harassed neighbors with threatening messages on social media, accusing them of being anti-homeless and inhumane and resorting to cruel, passive-aggressive Band-Aid tactics, rather than working toward real solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you had to do is come and say something to us. We’re all pretty reasonable people and we’re very kind,” Daniel Bartosiewicz, a homeless person who had camped at Clinton Park for months, said in a Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TayAhlgren/status/1179116093585027073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video\u003c/a>. “All of you guys just would smile and walk by and silently act like everything was OK instead of coming and confronting us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One demonstrator tried, unsuccessfully, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/amp/SF-artist-offers-up-anti-homeless-street-rocks-14472800.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auction\u003c/a> the rocks on Craigslist, a post that was quickly removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Daniel Bartosiewicz, a homeless person who had camped at Clinton Park\"]‘All of you guys just would smile and walk by and silently act like everything was OK instead of coming and confronting us.’[/pullquote]The activists were rebelling against a growing urban design trend known as “hostile architecture,” one that restricts the use of public space and is often aimed at discouraging homeless people from congregating or lying down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861966/barts-fare-evasion-crackdown-exposes-the-deadly-elegance-of-hostile-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> the expansion of “anti-homeless” designs around the city, including spiked planter boxes, newly erected barricades and benches with segmented dividers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hostile architecture is not a solution to homelessness and it shouldn’t ever be considered in that way,” Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness, said Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101873602/boulder-controversy-highlights-san-franciscos-homelessness-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>. “It’s just making it harder for people to be able to sleep and rest and pushing people out of particular areas and really does not get us anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/rock-pic.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/rock-pic.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1814\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/rock-pic.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/rock-pic-160x142.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/rock-pic-800x709.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/rock-pic-1020x903.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/rock-pic-1200x1063.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/rock-pic-1920x1701.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeless activists converged last week on Clinton Park to protest against neighbors who had placed boulders on the sidewalk to thwart homeless activity. \u003ccite>(Taylor Ahlgren via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fracas — which has since drawn \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/02/residents-put-huge-rocks-their-sidewalk-keep-homeless-away-launched-battle/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national attention\u003c/a> — has come to symbolize the city’s inability to adequately address and manage its homelessness problem, and starkly underscores the sharp wedge the issue has driven between residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2017, the number of unhoused San Franciscans has risen 17% as rents and real estate prices continue to explode and the city — despite throwing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year at the problem — struggles to create or preserve enough affordable housing or rehabilitation services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Rachel Gordon, a public works spokeswoman\"]‘We decided we’ll see what we could do to work with them to somehow sanction the boulders that were on the street.’[/pullquote]As of Wednesday, more than 1,100 people were on the shelter \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/information/waitlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waiting list\u003c/a> in San Francisco, a city with an annual budget over $12 billion and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2019-05-10/san-francisco-is-home-to-the-worlds-most-billionaires-per-capita\">highest concentration\u003c/a> of billionaires in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach said the “wait for housing is years and years long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks don’t have anywhere to go. And I think the city’s response has been primarily moving folks from place to place,” she added. “That locks people into a cycle of homelessness even further and really oftentimes creates a lot more instability for folks and [makes it] more difficult for people to get off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, the neighbors behind the rocks said they had no ill intent toward the homeless people living outside their doors. The boulder plan, they said, was a last resort, rolled out only after they had made repeated attempts to enlist the help of the city’s outreach services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more homelessness coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]“This is about people yelling and screaming at 3 in the morning and openly flashing weapons,” one woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-Francisco-OK-with-boulders-on-small-street-to-14465305.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told\u003c/a> the San Francisco Chronicle. “I’m not rich. I’m having a hard enough time making it myself. They even set up a shelf and were openly dealing drugs, and nobody was doing anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At residents’ request, city workers came through many times to put the boulders back on the sidewalk, only to find them pushed onto the street hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of last weekend, the group of neighbors decided they’d had enough, and summoned city workers yet again, who returned Monday — their fourth visit in nearly as many days — to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Anti-tent-boulders-set-to-be-moved-by-city-14479827.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remove\u003c/a> the boulders, placing them in storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We traded criminals for activists and the media,” one unnamed resident told the Chronicle. “We don’t want to feel the fire anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1178737047005065216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the neighborhood, said he sympathizes with residents who are seeking a safe environment to live in but also recognizes the frustration felt by the homeless population and their defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, I think there’s the will in the mayor’s office and on the board to find additional resources and try and get people into long-term housing solutions,” he told Forum. “But in the short term, we’re spending a whole lot of money on moving people around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman\"]‘There are a lot of folks who see any effort to address any of the street behavior issues as a war on the homeless.’[/pullquote]Mandelman noted how split the city is on the issue and how difficult it has been to reach a consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think these boulders sort of encapsulate that. There are a lot of folks who see any effort to address any of the street behavior issues as a war on the homeless,” he said. “And then … I hear from my constituents who are not hostile to homeless people but are not willing to continue living in the conditions San Francisco is in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton Park neighbors told the San Francisco Examiner they’re still intent on cleaning up the street and are considering their next move — one that could involve another landscaping tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammed Nuru, the city’s public works director, on Monday told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/city-to-remove-anti-homeless-boulders-from-clinton-park/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Examiner\u003c/a> that he commended the group for banding together to find a creative “solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is they were not big enough,” Nuru said, suggesting a permanent fix could involve larger boulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon, a public works spokeswoman confirmed her department had supported the neighbors’ unconventional boulder initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided we’ll see what we could do to work with them to somehow sanction the boulders that were on the street,” she told Forum. “Obviously, that didn’t work out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Coley King of the Venice Family Clinic is one of a growing number of medical professionals making house calls to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of trying to power-wash the problem away, California’s hospitals, public health departments and homeless service organizations are increasingly sending trained health practitioners into homeless encampments in a quest to improve health outcomes for individual homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Western medicine is very much built around the ideal care for the ideal patient. Most of these folks are not in the ideal situation,” King said. “We can make some compromises that still do good medical care and get them to a very good average. It's better to take half of your medicine than none of your medicine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One late September day, King makes a house call on Shawnda Thornton, a homeless woman in her late 40s living on the sidewalk across the street from a Silicon Beach tech campus in Venice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777769\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11777769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Coley King practices “street medicine” in West Los Angeles County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Coley King practices 'street medicine' in Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Coley King)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“OK, how are you feeling now on these medications?” he asked her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love these medications because I'm not tired. I don't have to sleep all day. I can walk around and manage myself just like I used to,” she responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornton has congestive heart failure, and September is the first month this year that she hasn’t been hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal King has for Thornton is to ensure she has access to ongoing medical care that keeps her out of the hospital. He thinks a lot of the public discussion that revolves around California’s crisis of homelessness misses the individual people who are physically deteriorating because they lack shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pitfall of labeling it a public health crisis is it becomes a reactionary ‘not-in-my-backyard’ issue,” King said. “That’s not what this is about. This is about the individuals who are sicker than the rest of us, and who are dying sooner than the rest of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Life on the Streets Is 30 Years Short\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of California’s homelessness crisis is that it has a body count. Life expectancy for those who are living outside is about 30 years shorter than those who are housed. The median age of death outside is about 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most comprehensive study available of mortality on the street \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2687991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comes from Boston\u003c/a>. It found that two of the three most common causes of death were heart disease and cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the state’s homelessness crisis, is expected to see more than 1,000 people die while experiencing homelessness this year. Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-04/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-coroner-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number was 921\u003c/a>. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocsd.org/news/details?NewsID=5863&TargetID=88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orange County in 2018\u003c/a>, it was 210; \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/hc/HCAgen/2019/February%2019/Homeless%20Mortality%20-%20Health%20Commission%20Background%20Reading%2020180219.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco, 135\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article234279812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento, 132\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distinct from the plainly human toll, the amount of money spent on the medical care of the sickest homeless people, many of whom eventually die on the street or in the hospital, is mind-bogglingly high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2016 study found that L.A. County spent nearly $400 million in one year \u003ca href=\"http://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/homeless-costs-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on its “frequent flyers”\u003c/a> — the 5% of the homeless population in poorest health who most frequently cycle through publicly operated institutions like jails and hospitals. \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A RAND estimate\u003c/a> placed the individual cost per person for another particularly sick study group around $38,000 annually. Neither of those estimates include insurance costs typically paid out by California’s Medi-Cal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Futility Merry-Go-Round\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinne Feldman of USC’s Keck School of Medicine studies health care for homeless patients. She calls the persistent cycle of emergency hospitalizations a “futility merry-go-round.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all sort of end up on this seemingly never-ending merry-go-round together, and no one feels good about it,” Feldman said. “The ER provider who's seen the same person five times in the last five shifts recognizes wholeheartedly that the plan that they have is not going to work, the patient is going to come back, and around we go again on the merry-go-round.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some, but relatively limited, evidence that shows doctors deployed to homeless encampments directly reduces public health care expenditures. There are also patient-centered studies that show regular visits from health practitioners have been shown to increase homeless patients' engagement with \u003ca href=\"https://www.brightresearchgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Street-Medicine-Models-Summary-of-Findings-9.26.18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primary care and behavioral care services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Street medicine has been a vehicle to stop the merry-go-round a little bit,” Feldman said. “If we do this differently, and look at the problem differently, and tackle it together, we can at least maybe slow down the merry-go-round. Maybe we can stop it altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11777771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A disabled homeless man begs for change at the Western Avenue exit from the Santa Monica Freeway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Western-Avenue-1920-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A disabled homeless man begs for change at the Western Avenue exit of the Santa Monica Freeway. \u003ccite>(Matt Tinoco/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The logistics of how street medicine teams are funded and deployed varies from county to county. In the case of Los Angeles, county agencies dole out grants to free clinics and hospitals, and contracts health providers directly to provide street outreach. Hospitals and other foundations also offer to fund programs, too. On a typical weekday, L.A. county officials say there are 38 outreach teams of doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and mental health professions out working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they’re providing basic primary care, basic psychiatry, enrolling people in Medi-Cal insurance, setting referral appointments and arranging transportation for homeless individuals to clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street medicine is practiced in most California counties where there is street homelessness. Besides Los Angeles County, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Ventura, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Riverside and Sacramento counties have dedicated public or private funding for some health-oriented homeless outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='california-dream' label='More Stories From the Cal']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Orange County’s CalOptima health system proposed \u003ca href=\"https://voiceofoc.org/2019/04/caloptima-unveils-medical-care-street-teams-for-homeless-commits-100-million-to-homeless-services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earmarking $100 million for homeless health care\u003c/a>, including street medical teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the process to do so has been complicated after \u003ca href=\"https://voiceofoc.org/2019/09/homeless-shelter-commitments-expand-to-three-new-cities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">objections from local hospitals\u003c/a>. They argued in an \u003ca href=\"https://voiceofoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OC-hospital-execs-letter-about-homeless-health-outreach-August-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2019 letter\u003c/a> to CalOptima that not including private hospitals in the planning process would inevitably hamstring the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health system first proposed the project after learning that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2019/05/29/orange-county-supervisor-tells-caloptima-how-to-spend-60-million-for-homeless-health-care/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three-quarters of the 210 homeless people who died\u003c/a> in Orange County in 2018 were enrolled in CalOptima.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Street Is No Place to Heal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge for CalOptima is the same confounding public health officials across the state; How do you get quality medical care to people who neither have shelter, money, nor (typically), transportation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to advocates, street medicine is a first step to proactively including people in a health care system that otherwise excludes them until the last possible minute. Dr. King says street medicine is a start, but what he really pines for is the ability to write a prescription for a patient for a housing unit with affordable rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11777772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Pedro-Street-1920-800x615.jpg\" alt=\"San Pedro Street in Los Angeles’ Skid Row.\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Pedro-Street-1920-800x615.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Pedro-Street-1920-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Pedro-Street-1920-1020x785.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Pedro-Street-1920-1200x923.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Pedro-Street-1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Pedro Street in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. \u003ccite>(Matt Tinoco/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My novel intervention for all the illness that comes with chronic homelessness would be affordable housing,” King said. “But right now, I'm left with trying to give good health care to these folks, trying to find them, engage them and make them welcome in my clinic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for his patient, Shawnda Thornton, when it comes to getting off the street, she’s actually doing better than most. After more than three years of waiting, she obtained a Section 8 housing voucher. Her challenge now is finding a place to use it. While she’s had several appointments to meet with property managers, she hasn’t been able to because she’s been so sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I had an appointment, I would be in the hospital,” Thornton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now her voucher is close to expiring, Dr. King’s job is to make sure she stays on her meds, stays out of the hospital and has time to actually find a place where she can heal that isn’t a red nylon tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can work on it, it’s certainly a place to start working. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dr. Coley King of the Venice Family Clinic is one of a growing number of medical professionals making house calls to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of trying to power-wash the problem away, California’s hospitals, public health departments and homeless service organizations are increasingly sending trained health practitioners into homeless encampments in a quest to improve health outcomes for individual homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Western medicine is very much built around the ideal care for the ideal patient. Most of these folks are not in the ideal situation,” King said. “We can make some compromises that still do good medical care and get them to a very good average. It's better to take half of your medicine than none of your medicine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One late September day, King makes a house call on Shawnda Thornton, a homeless woman in her late 40s living on the sidewalk across the street from a Silicon Beach tech campus in Venice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777769\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11777769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Coley King practices “street medicine” in West Los Angeles County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Coley-King-1920.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Coley King practices 'street medicine' in Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Coley King)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“OK, how are you feeling now on these medications?” he asked her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love these medications because I'm not tired. I don't have to sleep all day. I can walk around and manage myself just like I used to,” she responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornton has congestive heart failure, and September is the first month this year that she hasn’t been hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal King has for Thornton is to ensure she has access to ongoing medical care that keeps her out of the hospital. He thinks a lot of the public discussion that revolves around California’s crisis of homelessness misses the individual people who are physically deteriorating because they lack shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pitfall of labeling it a public health crisis is it becomes a reactionary ‘not-in-my-backyard’ issue,” King said. “That’s not what this is about. This is about the individuals who are sicker than the rest of us, and who are dying sooner than the rest of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Life on the Streets Is 30 Years Short\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of California’s homelessness crisis is that it has a body count. Life expectancy for those who are living outside is about 30 years shorter than those who are housed. The median age of death outside is about 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most comprehensive study available of mortality on the street \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2687991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comes from Boston\u003c/a>. It found that two of the three most common causes of death were heart disease and cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the state’s homelessness crisis, is expected to see more than 1,000 people die while experiencing homelessness this year. Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-04/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-coroner-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number was 921\u003c/a>. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocsd.org/news/details?NewsID=5863&TargetID=88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orange County in 2018\u003c/a>, it was 210; \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/hc/HCAgen/2019/February%2019/Homeless%20Mortality%20-%20Health%20Commission%20Background%20Reading%2020180219.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco, 135\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article234279812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento, 132\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Neither of those estimates include insurance costs typically paid out by California’s Medi-Cal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Futility Merry-Go-Round\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinne Feldman of USC’s Keck School of Medicine studies health care for homeless patients. She calls the persistent cycle of emergency hospitalizations a “futility merry-go-round.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all sort of end up on this seemingly never-ending merry-go-round together, and no one feels good about it,” Feldman said. “The ER provider who's seen the same person five times in the last five shifts recognizes wholeheartedly that the plan that they have is not going to work, the patient is going to come back, and around we go again on the merry-go-round.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some, but relatively limited, evidence that shows doctors deployed to homeless encampments directly reduces public health care expenditures. 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