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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. 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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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. 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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. 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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. That funding changed the way that the Continuum of Care did business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11755513\" label=\"Homelessness in Butte County\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just one of many across the state trying to figure out ways to process all these new resources,” said Thomas Tenorio, CEO of the Community Action Agency of Butte County and current chair of the Butte Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care. “We had a brand-new coordinator at the time, so she was trying to get on top of expectations or requirements of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all that money on the table, that brand-new coordinator — Griggs — encouraged providers to collaborate on projects, rather than apply for them individually. The idea was to help nonprofits who were unfamiliar with the accountability requirements that come with taxpayer dollars to be paired with more experienced providers, so they could work together more effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Thomas Tenorio, CEO of the Community Action Agency of Butte County and current chair of the Butte Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care\"]“We were trying to gear up for a way to help provide that technical assistance or guidance to some of the more inexperienced agencies. It was when the disaster hit that all hell just broke loose.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, both Griggs and Tenorio said that each individual homeless service provider would often offer their own proposals for the same batch of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were trying to gear up for a way to help provide that technical assistance or guidance to some of the more inexperienced agencies,” Tenorio said. “It was when the disaster hit that all hell just broke loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Camp Fire, even more money was made available to help address issues of housing and homelessness. But just because more money was coming in didn’t mean providers knew how to acquire or use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even when providers were able to work together, they would sometimes face significant community opposition to their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the city of Chico, and the citizens of Chico, really not coming together to embrace those who are experiencing homelessness,” Griggs said. “And it’s not even the people who were homeless prior [to the Camp Fire], we’re talking about anyone who was in that homeless situation. They were putting up barriers every single time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Changing Chico\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the city welcomed fire survivors, the rapid influx of residents stretched an already limited infrastructure. And along with more people came more traffic, a smaller safety net and changing demographics in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cootsona, director of the Jesus Center, thinks that frustrated Chico residents see their city changing into a place that they don’t recognize and that their way of life is being threatened by an increasingly visible homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Laura Cootsona, executive director of the Jesus Center\"]“I think the amount of poverty on the ridge [in Paradise] and the burn scar revealed something that most people didn’t understand. Those of us who look at the numbers … we knew how poor we were. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. That funding changed the way that the Continuum of Care did business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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. 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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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The range of initiatives include aid for prospective homebuyers and the new affordable developments in and around San Jose.[aside label=related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s housing offer eclipses recent large commitments from other tech giants to address the state’s housing crisis. Both \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/733728082/google-will-devote-1-billion-trying-to-tame-housing-costs-in-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u003c/a> have pledged $1 billion in recent months. 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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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. Gavin Newsom Thursday, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler claimed California is falling short on complying with federal environmental laws and asked the governor to provide a detailed plan for fixing the problems within a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler outlined a wide array of alleged deficiencies, including air quality problems and water pollution, and took specific aim at San Francisco. The city is one of the few major metropolitan areas that combine sewage flows and stormwater but haven't reached legal agreements with the EPA to ensure those systems comply with the Clean Water Act, Wheeler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing press reports, Wheeler claimed \"piles of human feces\" on sidewalks are becoming \"all too common\" in San Francisco. 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. Newsom, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not about clean air, clean water or helping our state with homelessness. 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. It’s just not a real issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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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