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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the city should be investing in permanent supportive housing, intensive case management, programs for people with both substance use disorder and serious mental illness, and case managers who can find people when they don’t show up for appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This expansion of conservatorship doesn’t actually create any new services,” Small said. “There’s no funding for it. There’s no new housing units provided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said critics are overstating their case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to recreate the hospitals of the past but we have a kind of institutionalization today, which is jail, and a lot of these folks are finding themselves in jail, in prison or on the streets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of contemporary addiction, conservatorship needs to adapt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is half a century old. It was not written to address things like meth-induced psychosis or people who suffer from serious meth addiction. We see that as a huge problem in San Francisco every day,” Mandelman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of critics’ concerns, San Francisco has been slow to implement conservatorship — and it could stop altogether. Before anyone in the city can be forced into conservatorship, the Board of Supervisors has to pass an ordinance that spells out how. The supervisors’ Rules Committee could review the proposed ordinance on May 13.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Port Commission on Tuesday gave the city the green light to build a temporary multiservice homeless shelter on a large Embarcadero lot near the Bay Bridge, a move fiercely contested by neighborhood residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='navigation-center' label='Navigation Centers in San Francisco']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/32968?view_id=92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than five hours\u003c/a> of impassioned public comment from supporters and opponents, the four commissioners in attendance voted unanimously to lease the 2.3-acre site to the city for its proposed Embarcadero \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I see today is just the beginning of a journey,” said Commissioner Doreen Woo Ho, stressing that proper execution of the project would be critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She reminded concerned residents that the lease is temporary, and that the Port still plans to develop the prime piece of real estate — Seawall Lot 330 — for longer-term, more profitable use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here to hopefully demonstrate that if this navigation center works in this kind of neighborhood, in this kind of city, then it will work everywhere in the city,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 200-bed facility will be the city’s largest navigation center, providing a range of round-the-clock supportive housing and rehabilitative services to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s vote caps a succession of heated, sometimes vitriolic community meetings about the project, attended by staunch advocates for and against the plan. The strongest pushback comes from residents of the South Beach, Rincon Hill and Mission Bay neighborhoods, amid concerns that the facility will transform the tourist-heavy neighborhood into a dirty, crime-ridden area and reduce property values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides came out in force on Tuesday, packing the commission hall and spilling into a boisterous overflow room. Attendees gave hours of often emotional testimony as their supporters hoisted competing orange and pink signs with messages like “Not good for residents; not good for visitors” and “Hate has no place here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the lease now secured, the city plans to break ground on the center this summer, with hopes of opening it in the early fall, although the expected litigation could delay that schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is leasing the Port-owned land for two years \u003ca href=\"https://sfport.com/sites/default/files/Documents/Item%208A%20SWL%20330%204-18_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for nearly $37,000 a month\u003c/a>, and will have the option of renewing for an additional two years if it can demonstrate the center has helped reduced homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the last community meeting a week ago, city officials tried to appease opponents by promising dedicated police patrols near the center, splitting the original four-year lease half and scaling back the proposed facility to 130 beds, consistent with the size of other navigation centers, and then ramping up to 200 beds over six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that did little to allay neighbors’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even that I personally am against the navigation center at that particular location,” said Judy Lin, who’s lived in South Beach since 2008. “It’s just the fact that the city has not listened to or addressed any of our concerns when it comes to the size of the facility, the length of the lease, the policies with respect to drug use or curfew or any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said the roughly dozen community meetings she’s attended with city officials felt like “talking into a black hole.” A newly formed neighborhood group she’s part of, called Safe Embarcadero for All, intends to sue the city in a last-ditch attempt to stop the project from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have worked together to come up with a solution that helped the homeless and that the neighborhood can support,” she said. “But instead, the mayor is just ramming this down onto the neighborhood without addressing any of the concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11742418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates for and against the navigation center pack the hearing room on Tuesday, hoisting competing orange and pink signs, as Port commissioners listen to hours of impassioned testimony. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for supporters of the plan, Tuesday’s vote signaled a major step forward in addressing the city’s worsening homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This crisis belongs to all of us equally, no matter what neighborhood you live in,” said Carmen King, who lives next to a homeless shelter in the Tenderloin and insists that safety has never been an issue. “People die sleeping outdoors, and that’s the real issue here today. … All of us are safer when everyone in San Francisco can sleep indoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First proposed in early March by Mayor London Breed, controversy over the center erupted weeks later after a group of neighborhood residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started an online fundraiser\u003c/a> to challenge the plan in court. The group has already hired a local land-use attorney who plans to file an appeal under the California Environmental Quality Act in an effort to block construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That campaign, in turn, provoked \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dueling fundraiser\u003c/a> among supporters of the proposal, one that quickly eclipsed its rival and has now raised more than $175,000, including major contributions from several high-profile tech CEOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two fundraisers underscore just how divided San Franciscans are on the issue of homelessness and how to address it. And that makes new legislation, introduced earlier this month by San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney — which would require a navigation center in each of San Francisco’s 11 districts — all the more controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately I think this is going to be a positive thing for the many people that it serves,” said Haney, who supports the Embarcadero facility, which will be in his district. “And also for the community. I expect in a year or two the people in this community will look around and say there’s actually less people who are living on the streets in this neighborhood because of this navigation center. And they should be proud they had the opportunity to be part of the solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco opened its first homeless navigation center in 2015 and currently operates six throughout the city. Unlike traditional shelters, the centers allow occupants to bring pets and don’t make them leave in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed navigation center in the Embarcadero is a critical part of Breed’s campaign pledge to open 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='homelessness' label='Coverage of Homelessness in the Bay Area']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the waterfront shelter plan, including some who live in the neighborhood, have accused opponents of being selfish and heartless. But many of the mostly middle-aged residents who stayed for the duration of the hearing insisted they were in full support of more homeless services. They argued, though, that it was irresponsible of the city to open a large shelter in a neighborhood filled with tourists and families, where homelessness is currently not a major issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually was going to give up my time to speak until I was just called a racist, a bigot, a class elitist for not wanting to give up my backyard for drug use, drug sales, mental illness and busing additional homeless into our neighborhood,” said James Dorsch, who lives a stone’s throw from the site. “Yeah, I don’t think a lot of people would want those things in their backyard. That doesn’t make someone a bigot. That doesn’t make someone a racist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/32968?view_id=92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than five hours\u003c/a> of impassioned public comment from supporters and opponents, the four commissioners in attendance voted unanimously to lease the 2.3-acre site to the city for its proposed Embarcadero \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I see today is just the beginning of a journey,” said Commissioner Doreen Woo Ho, stressing that proper execution of the project would be critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She reminded concerned residents that the lease is temporary, and that the Port still plans to develop the prime piece of real estate — Seawall Lot 330 — for longer-term, more profitable use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here to hopefully demonstrate that if this navigation center works in this kind of neighborhood, in this kind of city, then it will work everywhere in the city,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 200-bed facility will be the city’s largest navigation center, providing a range of round-the-clock supportive housing and rehabilitative services to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s vote caps a succession of heated, sometimes vitriolic community meetings about the project, attended by staunch advocates for and against the plan. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rey Blanco is running for president — at least if he gets enough signatures from his San Jose City College classmates to get on the ballot for the upcoming student government election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More stories from 'The College Try' series\" tag=\"college-try\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 36, Blanco is in his first semester of community college, and for the first time in his life he’s embracing school. He’s already vice president and treasurer of the media club and produces a weekly podcast for the college radio station. Plus he’s taking 18 credits, more than a full-time course load, because he wants to transfer to a four-year school as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Blanco, diving into school is a way to break with a past he’s not proud of, one that led him in and out of jail and prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going full throttle comes at a cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To manage his course load and extracurriculars, Blanco had to reduce the number of hours he was working as a barber. So despite his free tuition and financial aid, he still struggles to cover the high cost of living in San Jose, and spent most of this semester couch-surfing or sleeping in his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanco’s situation is so common state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737198/overnight-parking-for-homeless-college-students-lawmakers-consider-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently advanced a bill\u003c/a> requiring community colleges to let homeless students sleep in their cars on campus lots. But there’s also a more permanent solution in the works: Community college leaders and their allies in the state Legislature are pushing to create a new financial aid program for their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740493 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rey Blanco struggles in math and takes advantage of campus tutoring when he can, but managing the cost of living in San Jose makes it hard to find the time to focus on homework. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the current system, most community college students are shut out of some financial aid programs. As a result, students can \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fticas.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpub_files%2Fwhat_college_costs_for_low-income_californians_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end up with higher \u003c/a>out-of-pocket costs than they would have at a four-year school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of attending our colleges isn’t the cost of tuition,” said California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley. “It is the cost of transportation, living expenses, books — the cost of not having to work two and three jobs to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley and other advocates for financial aid reform often fight against misconceptions about who attends community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks, when they think about community colleges, the picture that they have in their mind is a student who’s living at home with their parents,” said Debbie Cochrane, vice president of the Institute for College Access and Success. “In fact, all the data show that most community college students are living independently. That means they’re having to pay rent in California markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740495 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the help of his physical education classmates, Rey Blanco livestreams workouts, one of the examples of self-improvement he shares with his social media followers. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To address those costs, Oakley has helped champion \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 291,\u003c/a> which would establish the California Community College Student Financial Aid Program for students like Blanco, who are falling through the cracks in the current financial aid system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest problem is I don’t have the time to do tutoring or to focus on my work because I have to try to support myself,” said Blanco, who despite cutting back on his barbershop hours, still spends much of his time outside of class working. “My grades are OK, but I know that if I had that one weekend, or one day of the week to just really focus, then my grades would be so much better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrators estimate the total annual cost of attendance, including living expenses, is $21,000 for full-time SJCC students who don’t live at home. Meanwhile, the maximum amount of aid a full-time student can receive is roughly $12,000 a year, a shortfall of roughly $9,000, said the school’s financial aid director, Takeo Kubo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students who receive financial aid are typically our lowest-income students,” Kubo said. “They’re living well below poverty level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, only about 1% of community college students receive the maximum amount of aid, according to Cochrane of the Institute for College Access and Success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At SJCC, Kubo estimates most students receive between $4,000 and $5,000 per year in aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740496 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanco produces a weekly podcast called “Turn Your Life Around with Rey Blanco” for his college radio station. It features interviews with formerly incarcerated men who’ve become mentors and community leaders. Blanco aspires to be like them and serves as an informal counselor to younger classmates who come from similar backgrounds.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because some state and federal student aid programs are structured to help full-time students, and most community college students attend part time. It’s also because older students like Blanco aren’t eligible for some Cal Grant programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the Cal Grant money available is reserved for recent high school graduates, shutting out the majority of community college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of community college students are older,” said Cochrane. “So a lot of them are just left out of the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/PolicyInAction/KeyFacts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fewer than 30 percent\u003c/a> of community college students are under 21, whereas \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruecollegecost.com%2Fassets%2Fdownloads%2Fpdf%2FCCCCO-FAQ-02-13-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 percent\u003c/a> are, like Blanco, over 35.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kubo estimates that only about 300 to 400 of SJCC’s 9,000 students receive Cal Grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, the picture is similar. Only about 5 percent of California’s more than 2 million community college students receive any kind of Cal Grant,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> according to the California Community Colleges\u003c/a>. Meanwhile \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/net-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">36 percent\u003c/a> of undergraduates in the University of California system receive them, and 32 percent in California State University schools, according to a CSU spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eligibility rules around Cal Grants just aren’t made well for community college students,” Cochrane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From where Kubo sits, the amount of aid available doesn’t come close to meeting students’ needs. “Our students are struggling,” he said. “Given the rent prices here in San Jose — not to mention transportation — if the students want to eat, it really just isn’t enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanco gets some aid from the federal Pell Grant program\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>He even gets a little extra help for textbooks because he’s from an acutely disadvantaged background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he still relies heavily on his $192-a-month food stamp allowance, the McDonald’s Dollar Menu and 7-Eleven pizza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now he’s able to pay the $700 monthly rent for the room he just found, but the smallest setback could put him in his car again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the California Community College Student Financial Aid Program, which SB 291 aims to create, students would still be expected to contribute some portion of their costs, but the new grants would pick up where the current aid leaves off, providing the lowest income students with an additional $6,000 each year, according to estimates from the chancellor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740499 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After couch-surfing and sleeping in his car for months, Blanco found a $700-a-month room to rent. The owner is still renovating it, so for now he’s sleeping in a guest room. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program would have no age requirement, and aid would be proportionate to a students’ course load, so even students attending half time or less could receive some money. Aid would be limited to California residents who show decent academic progress, and would be capped at two full-time years. The program would also be voluntary, so community college districts could opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation has a strong sponsor in state Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, who chairs the Senate’s Education Committee. It’s currently working its way through the legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents argue that making more financial aid available to community college students via SB 291 and other reforms will allow more students to attend full time, and help reduce the high dropout rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, outcomes are notoriously poor. \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.cccco.edu/scorecardrates.aspx?CollegeID=000#home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fewer than half\u003c/a> of students who set out to get a degree or transfer out of a community college do so within six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal would be an amazing benefit to students,” said SJCC’s Kubo. “I think it would really help to increase completion rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have wisely invested a tremendous amount of money in paying for the cost of attending college at CSU and the UC,” said CCC Chancellor Oakley. “What we’re saying now is that it’s becoming equally important that we make a similar investment in community college students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no small investment. To fully fund the program, the plan’s architects estimate it would cost $1.5 billion a year, with a ramp up in funding over six years, starting with $250 million in 2019-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakley argues there’s \u003ca href=\"https://tcf.org/content/commentary/californias-workforce-needs-cal-grant-reform/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more at stake\u003c/a> than the future of individual students like Blanco, who hopes to study psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can’t help these individuals complete a higher education or some quality credential that allows them to participate in the workforce, our states and our nation are going to suffer,” he said. “It’s really not just about our students; it’s about the economies of our states and our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our series The College Try, about what it takes for students who don’t come from means to get a higher ed degree in California today.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 36, Blanco is in his first semester of community college, and for the first time in his life he’s embracing school. He’s already vice president and treasurer of the media club and produces a weekly podcast for the college radio station. Plus he’s taking 18 credits, more than a full-time course load, because he wants to transfer to a four-year school as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Blanco, diving into school is a way to break with a past he’s not proud of, one that led him in and out of jail and prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going full throttle comes at a cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To manage his course load and extracurriculars, Blanco had to reduce the number of hours he was working as a barber. So despite his free tuition and financial aid, he still struggles to cover the high cost of living in San Jose, and spent most of this semester couch-surfing or sleeping in his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanco’s situation is so common state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737198/overnight-parking-for-homeless-college-students-lawmakers-consider-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently advanced a bill\u003c/a> requiring community colleges to let homeless students sleep in their cars on campus lots. But there’s also a more permanent solution in the works: Community college leaders and their allies in the state Legislature are pushing to create a new financial aid program for their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740493 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rey Blanco struggles in math and takes advantage of campus tutoring when he can, but managing the cost of living in San Jose makes it hard to find the time to focus on homework. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the current system, most community college students are shut out of some financial aid programs. As a result, students can \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fticas.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpub_files%2Fwhat_college_costs_for_low-income_californians_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end up with higher \u003c/a>out-of-pocket costs than they would have at a four-year school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of attending our colleges isn’t the cost of tuition,” said California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley. “It is the cost of transportation, living expenses, books — the cost of not having to work two and three jobs to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley and other advocates for financial aid reform often fight against misconceptions about who attends community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks, when they think about community colleges, the picture that they have in their mind is a student who’s living at home with their parents,” said Debbie Cochrane, vice president of the Institute for College Access and Success. “In fact, all the data show that most community college students are living independently. That means they’re having to pay rent in California markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740495 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey4-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the help of his physical education classmates, Rey Blanco livestreams workouts, one of the examples of self-improvement he shares with his social media followers. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To address those costs, Oakley has helped champion \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 291,\u003c/a> which would establish the California Community College Student Financial Aid Program for students like Blanco, who are falling through the cracks in the current financial aid system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest problem is I don’t have the time to do tutoring or to focus on my work because I have to try to support myself,” said Blanco, who despite cutting back on his barbershop hours, still spends much of his time outside of class working. “My grades are OK, but I know that if I had that one weekend, or one day of the week to just really focus, then my grades would be so much better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrators estimate the total annual cost of attendance, including living expenses, is $21,000 for full-time SJCC students who don’t live at home. Meanwhile, the maximum amount of aid a full-time student can receive is roughly $12,000 a year, a shortfall of roughly $9,000, said the school’s financial aid director, Takeo Kubo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students who receive financial aid are typically our lowest-income students,” Kubo said. “They’re living well below poverty level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, only about 1% of community college students receive the maximum amount of aid, according to Cochrane of the Institute for College Access and Success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At SJCC, Kubo estimates most students receive between $4,000 and $5,000 per year in aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740496 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey8.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanco produces a weekly podcast called “Turn Your Life Around with Rey Blanco” for his college radio station. It features interviews with formerly incarcerated men who’ve become mentors and community leaders. Blanco aspires to be like them and serves as an informal counselor to younger classmates who come from similar backgrounds.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because some state and federal student aid programs are structured to help full-time students, and most community college students attend part time. It’s also because older students like Blanco aren’t eligible for some Cal Grant programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the Cal Grant money available is reserved for recent high school graduates, shutting out the majority of community college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of community college students are older,” said Cochrane. “So a lot of them are just left out of the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/PolicyInAction/KeyFacts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fewer than 30 percent\u003c/a> of community college students are under 21, whereas \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruecollegecost.com%2Fassets%2Fdownloads%2Fpdf%2FCCCCO-FAQ-02-13-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 percent\u003c/a> are, like Blanco, over 35.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kubo estimates that only about 300 to 400 of SJCC’s 9,000 students receive Cal Grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, the picture is similar. Only about 5 percent of California’s more than 2 million community college students receive any kind of Cal Grant,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> according to the California Community Colleges\u003c/a>. Meanwhile \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/net-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">36 percent\u003c/a> of undergraduates in the University of California system receive them, and 32 percent in California State University schools, according to a CSU spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eligibility rules around Cal Grants just aren’t made well for community college students,” Cochrane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From where Kubo sits, the amount of aid available doesn’t come close to meeting students’ needs. “Our students are struggling,” he said. “Given the rent prices here in San Jose — not to mention transportation — if the students want to eat, it really just isn’t enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanco gets some aid from the federal Pell Grant program\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>He even gets a little extra help for textbooks because he’s from an acutely disadvantaged background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he still relies heavily on his $192-a-month food stamp allowance, the McDonald’s Dollar Menu and 7-Eleven pizza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now he’s able to pay the $700 monthly rent for the room he just found, but the smallest setback could put him in his car again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the California Community College Student Financial Aid Program, which SB 291 aims to create, students would still be expected to contribute some portion of their costs, but the new grants would pick up where the current aid leaves off, providing the lowest income students with an additional $6,000 each year, according to estimates from the chancellor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740499 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Rey11.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After couch-surfing and sleeping in his car for months, Blanco found a $700-a-month room to rent. The owner is still renovating it, so for now he’s sleeping in a guest room. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program would have no age requirement, and aid would be proportionate to a students’ course load, so even students attending half time or less could receive some money. Aid would be limited to California residents who show decent academic progress, and would be capped at two full-time years. The program would also be voluntary, so community college districts could opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation has a strong sponsor in state Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, who chairs the Senate’s Education Committee. It’s currently working its way through the legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents argue that making more financial aid available to community college students via SB 291 and other reforms will allow more students to attend full time, and help reduce the high dropout rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, outcomes are notoriously poor. \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.cccco.edu/scorecardrates.aspx?CollegeID=000#home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fewer than half\u003c/a> of students who set out to get a degree or transfer out of a community college do so within six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal would be an amazing benefit to students,” said SJCC’s Kubo. “I think it would really help to increase completion rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have wisely invested a tremendous amount of money in paying for the cost of attending college at CSU and the UC,” said CCC Chancellor Oakley. “What we’re saying now is that it’s becoming equally important that we make a similar investment in community college students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no small investment. To fully fund the program, the plan’s architects estimate it would cost $1.5 billion a year, with a ramp up in funding over six years, starting with $250 million in 2019-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakley argues there’s \u003ca href=\"https://tcf.org/content/commentary/californias-workforce-needs-cal-grant-reform/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more at stake\u003c/a> than the future of individual students like Blanco, who hopes to study psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can’t help these individuals complete a higher education or some quality credential that allows them to participate in the workforce, our states and our nation are going to suffer,” he said. “It’s really not just about our students; it’s about the economies of our states and our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our series The College Try, about what it takes for students who don’t come from means to get a higher ed degree in California today.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cella Jones had left for only a few hours Tuesday morning, but when she returned to her tent -- which had been covered with a blue tarp to keep out the rain -- she found it cut open and her box spring, mattress and water had been moved outside. Homeless outreach staff had been waiting for her to return, but an \"abatement\" crew had been given the go-ahead to begin clearing one of Richmond’s largest homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she returned a few minutes after they began, she was too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11730960' label='More Coverage From KQED']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones’ other belongings were visible, laid bare in her splayed-out tent — a pile of clothing, folders with documents, shoes, dry foods and some dishes. She packed up what she wanted to take while the work crews watched, with loud, beeping bulldozers ready to sweep through when she was done. One member of the crew gave her an empty blue recycling bin to hold what she wanted to keep. She packed her essentials and rolled the bin down the street, leaving the destroyed tent and pile of clothing behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 30 minutes, the spot where she’d lived for the last year had been cleared, covered by mulch, and landscaping boulders were being placed, intended to keep people like Jones from returning, as she had three times before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, a lifelong Richmond resident who has been camping since her car was impounded in 2014, had been living at the site at 22nd Street and Carlson Boulevard for nearly a year. About 30 to 60 people had lived at the encampment. Jones said it had worked well for her because it was next to resources at the Greater Richmond Interfaith Program, or GRIP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here, close to the facilities, so I can maintain my health and self-worth,” said Jones, who went to GRIP daily for food and to use the bathroom, telephone and laundry facilities, and to collect mail. She said she has tried to get into shelters, but they were often full and can be restrictive. When she left the encampment, she had nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clearing5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cella Jones leaves her spot in the Richmond encampment on April 16, 2019, with her belongings in a blue recycling bin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cella Jones leaves her spot in the Richmond encampment on April 16, 2019, with her belongings in a blue recycling bin. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People began setting up tents at the central Richmond site in early 2018. The tents flanked a wide transportation corridor situated near BART and Amtrak lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Higares, director of Richmond’s Department of Infrastructure and Maintenance Operations, said the encampment had become a public health and safety risk and a drain on city resources. He said crews had to come multiple times a week to clear sometimes hazardous debris and a growing vermin issue in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone understands that this is a health and safety hazard,\" Higares said. \"We’re doing this not only for the general public health. We’re doing it for (the homeless residents’) health and safety, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, residents and homeless groups say a local shelter shortage and the wider Bay Area housing crisis have made it tough for them to find permanent homes. The camp had grown from about a dozen people since September during the city’s most recent attempt to clear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/katewolffe/status/1118206545513160704\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wish we had the ability to house our homeless population, but just like our neighboring cities — Berkeley, Oakland — everyone is dealing with this crisis,” Higares said in an interview with KQED last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny Valdepena, who is seeking shelter for himself, as well as his wife and child, said he believes Richmond has invested less in their homeless population than surrounding cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If (CORE) takes us right now to a shelter. They say they’re going to get us in, but that’s what they told us the last time ... and you see where I’m at,” Valdepena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents agreed that help was limited. Deshawn Brown had been living at the site for 10 months, and said he’d been approached by CORE, Contra Costa County’s Coordinated Outreach, Referral and Engagement team, a few times before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the interactions were limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would you like to go to a shelter? You answer yes, and they’ll put you on a waiting list or something like that. ... You answer no and it’s just no, you know?” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampment was originally scheduled to be cleared in mid-March, but was postponed because the Greater Richmond Interfaith Program was working on opening up a new warming center nearby. That warming center has 30 beds and is a place for homeless people who are referred by CORE to spend the night, have a meal and get warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mulch is spread over the site of the former Richmond homeless encampment on April 16, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mulch is spread over the site of the former Richmond homeless encampment on April 16, 2019. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Something that city officials and residents of the camp agree on is that Contra Costa County doesn’t have enough resources to help the homeless in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, who was at the clearing of the camp, said, “(Are) there enough resources for people in Contra Costa County? The answer’s clearly no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He maintained, however, that there were enough resources to help the people being moved during the encampment clearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Sullivan, executive director of GRIP, said the organization is strained enough just to offer the services it currently does and struggles with how to handle its caseload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearest shelter option is the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond, which had no available beds for women and children and only three for men as of Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is legal in California to sleep on the street if no other option is available. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones’ other belongings were visible, laid bare in her splayed-out tent — a pile of clothing, folders with documents, shoes, dry foods and some dishes. She packed up what she wanted to take while the work crews watched, with loud, beeping bulldozers ready to sweep through when she was done. One member of the crew gave her an empty blue recycling bin to hold what she wanted to keep. She packed her essentials and rolled the bin down the street, leaving the destroyed tent and pile of clothing behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 30 minutes, the spot where she’d lived for the last year had been cleared, covered by mulch, and landscaping boulders were being placed, intended to keep people like Jones from returning, as she had three times before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, a lifelong Richmond resident who has been camping since her car was impounded in 2014, had been living at the site at 22nd Street and Carlson Boulevard for nearly a year. About 30 to 60 people had lived at the encampment. Jones said it had worked well for her because it was next to resources at the Greater Richmond Interfaith Program, or GRIP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here, close to the facilities, so I can maintain my health and self-worth,” said Jones, who went to GRIP daily for food and to use the bathroom, telephone and laundry facilities, and to collect mail. She said she has tried to get into shelters, but they were often full and can be restrictive. When she left the encampment, she had nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clearing5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cella Jones leaves her spot in the Richmond encampment on April 16, 2019, with her belongings in a blue recycling bin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cella Jones leaves her spot in the Richmond encampment on April 16, 2019, with her belongings in a blue recycling bin. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People began setting up tents at the central Richmond site in early 2018. The tents flanked a wide transportation corridor situated near BART and Amtrak lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Higares, director of Richmond’s Department of Infrastructure and Maintenance Operations, said the encampment had become a public health and safety risk and a drain on city resources. He said crews had to come multiple times a week to clear sometimes hazardous debris and a growing vermin issue in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone understands that this is a health and safety hazard,\" Higares said. \"We’re doing this not only for the general public health. We’re doing it for (the homeless residents’) health and safety, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, residents and homeless groups say a local shelter shortage and the wider Bay Area housing crisis have made it tough for them to find permanent homes. The camp had grown from about a dozen people since September during the city’s most recent attempt to clear it.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“We wish we had the ability to house our homeless population, but just like our neighboring cities — Berkeley, Oakland — everyone is dealing with this crisis,” Higares said in an interview with KQED last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny Valdepena, who is seeking shelter for himself, as well as his wife and child, said he believes Richmond has invested less in their homeless population than surrounding cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If (CORE) takes us right now to a shelter. They say they’re going to get us in, but that’s what they told us the last time ... and you see where I’m at,” Valdepena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents agreed that help was limited. Deshawn Brown had been living at the site for 10 months, and said he’d been approached by CORE, Contra Costa County’s Coordinated Outreach, Referral and Engagement team, a few times before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the interactions were limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would you like to go to a shelter? You answer yes, and they’ll put you on a waiting list or something like that. ... You answer no and it’s just no, you know?” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampment was originally scheduled to be cleared in mid-March, but was postponed because the Greater Richmond Interfaith Program was working on opening up a new warming center nearby. That warming center has 30 beds and is a place for homeless people who are referred by CORE to spend the night, have a meal and get warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mulch is spread over the site of the former Richmond homeless encampment on April 16, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/richmond-camp-clear4-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mulch is spread over the site of the former Richmond homeless encampment on April 16, 2019. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Something that city officials and residents of the camp agree on is that Contra Costa County doesn’t have enough resources to help the homeless in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, who was at the clearing of the camp, said, “(Are) there enough resources for people in Contra Costa County? The answer’s clearly no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He maintained, however, that there were enough resources to help the people being moved during the encampment clearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Sullivan, executive director of GRIP, said the organization is strained enough just to offer the services it currently does and struggles with how to handle its caseload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearest shelter option is the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond, which had no available beds for women and children and only three for men as of Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is legal in California to sleep on the street if no other option is available. Richmond also has a local ordinance that allows people to camp on streets and in public places if there are no shelter beds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mayor Butt, local groups and the county have provided occupants of the Richmond encampment with services, and they will continue to do so now that the camp is cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had it all in one place and could fix it, but they chose not to fix it and let the situation arise. And now they’re going to have us all over the city, and it’s going to make more of a ruckus and more of a problem,” Valdepena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco officials presented an updated plan at a community meeting Monday night to address concerns about a proposed Embarcadero navigation center for the homeless, an issue that has become a lightning rod among local residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11737778' label='More Coverage From KQED']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pressing their case for the multiservice homeless shelter, city officials offered a compromise of sorts, in an effort to appease residents from the South Beach, Rincon Hill and Mission Bay neighborhoods, who have ardently opposed the plan. Officials suggested initially scaling back the proposed facility to 130 beds, consistent with the size of other navigation centers, and then gradually ramping up to 200 beds over six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also proposed incorporating more community feedback into the facility’s design and ensuring committed police patrols in the area to allay concerns about it transforming the tourist-heavy neighborhood into a dirty, crime-ridden place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Loitering and encampments are the main problems around other navigation centers,”Jeff Kositsky, director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, told meeting attendees. “It has been intermittent and has been addressed as quickly as possible. SFPD will provide an extra level of security not available at other centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky stressed that Dogpatch residents have been very happy with the navigation center in their neighborhood and have even asked the city to extend its lease for an additional three years. That detail, though, did little to assuage opponents, who quickly countered that the more industrial Dogpatch neighborhood was innately more conducive to hosting such a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740498 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local resident Bruce Goldetsky asks meeting attendees on April 15, 2019, to raise their hands if they are “still very concerned” about the proposed Embarcadero Navigation center in their neighborhood. 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Because we’re not comfortable with it being built in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the proposal made up the vast majority of the roughly 100 people who attended the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Embarcadero \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a> would be built in the shadow of the Bay Bridge on the site of Seawall Lot 330, a 2.3-acre parking lot across from Piers 30-32.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a similar meeting earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737778/london-breed-booed-at-heated-meeting-on-proposed-embarcadero-homeless-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared unexpectedly and was promptly booed by opponents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although first proposed in early March by Breed, controversy over the center erupted only a few weeks ago after a group of neighborhood residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started an online fundraiser\u003c/a> to potentially challenge the plan in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in turn, provoked \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dueling fundraiser\u003c/a> among supporters of the proposal, one that quickly eclipsed its rival and has now raised more than $175,000, including major contributions from several high-profile tech CEOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740473 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney listens to the grievances of his constituents at the SAFE Embarcadero navigation center community meeting on April 15, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney listens to the grievances of his constituents at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center community meeting on April 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two fundraisers underscore just how divided San Franciscans are on the issue of homelessness and how best to address it. 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And that makes new legislation, to be introduced Tuesday by San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, all the more controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s legislation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Forget-the-excuses-new-proposal-requires-13760947.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would require\u003c/a> every district in the city that doesn’t currently have a navigation center to open one within 30 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in San Francisco knows that homelessness is a citywide crisis,” he told KQED before Monday’s meeting. “We have a solution — navigation centers — which have been around now for about five years and have shown that they can be effective in helping us solve this challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said he supports the proposed Embarcadero facility, which would be located in his district, despite staunch objections from some of his constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Deue, who has been a South Beach resident since 2002, said she was disappointed with both Breed and Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needs to put his feet down and say no more in District 6 until you get one [navigation center] in every other district,” Deue said. “Because I just feel like he’s placating us in working with the mayor and just saying, ‘Well after this law gets passed then we’ll go to the other districts.’ No, we have to put our foot down now and say equal distribution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">currently operates six navigation centers\u003c/a> but, Haney notes, they’re located in only three city districts, and conspicuously absent in a number of neighborhoods with large homeless populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>The five-member Port Commission is tentatively scheduled to vote at its April 23 meeting on whether to lease the land to the city, even though Haney requested that the decision be postponed to allow more time for community members to discuss the issue further, his staff said. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed made a surprise appearance at a heated community meeting along the city’s Embarcadero Wednesday night, where hundreds of residents had gathered to either support or oppose the city’s plans for a neighborhood multiservice navigation center for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Homelessness Coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing a packed hall at the Delancey Street Foundation, city officials tried to allay concerns about the mayor’s proposal to open the roughly 225-bed navigation center this summer on a nearby public lot on the Embarcadero, emphasizing that it would be a drug-free site with regular police patrols, and that the community would have a say in the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who live near the proposed \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a> — which would provide both shelter and rehabilitative services to homeless residents, with the aim of finding permanent housing options — say the city is unfairly targeting their district and rapidly trying to push the plan forward without community input. The shelter, they argue, would compromise the health and safety of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s kinda a fairness issue,” said Jan Duffy, who lives and works blocks from the proposed site. “I have the biggest homeless shelter in the city three blocks from me, as well as another navigation center. And now, my only outdoor space, which is the Embarcadero, is going to have another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting attendees, many of whom live or work near the Embarcadero, listened to presentations by city officials about the proposed navigation center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A rival contingent of attendees — many holding signs reading, “Hate has no home here” and “Being homeless doesn’t mean you matter less” — adamantly defended the planned shelter, and accused opponents of being selfish and not caring about the welfare of the city’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people’s lives are at risk, when people are dying on the streets, and it is a life and death issue, it is very hard for it to not be charged,” said April Long, a case manager who works with formerly homeless families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees in support of the homeless navigation center hold 'Hate Has No Home Here' signs and cheer for San Francisco Mayor London Breed at a community meeting on April 3, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees in support of the homeless navigation center hold ‘Hate has no home here’ signs and cheer for San Francisco Mayor London Breed at a community meeting on April 3, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tensions came to a head when Breed arrived unexpectedly in the middle of the meeting, and was greeted by boos from members of the contingent opposing the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you want me to talk or not? If you don’t want to hear me, then leave,” said Breed, visibly frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry this issue has divided your community,” she added. “My role is to hear all of you today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the project’s opponents continued to interrupt her, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/yimbyaction/status/1113640599335260160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shouting\u003c/a> “We live here,” Breed made an effort to continue. “What I am trying to do is to address what we know is the biggest challenge we have in this city,” she said. “So on the one hand you can’t be upset about homelessness, and then when I propose a real solution that’s gonna make a difference, then you’re upset about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed eventually handed over the mic and took a seat for the remainder of the meeting. “I can’t continue, but I will stay and listen to the comments,” she said. “The least we could do is show respect for one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor London Breed listens to comments after being shouted down at a community meeting on a proposed homeless navigation center in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-1200x807.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed listens to comments after being shouted down at a community meeting on a proposed homeless navigation center in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The proposed Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center would be built on the site of Seawall Lot 330, a 2.3-acre parking lot near the intersection of Bryant and Beale streets, across the Embarcadero from Piers 30-32. The parcel is owned by the San Francisco Port Commission, which is tentatively scheduled to vote later this month on leasing the land to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736644\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11736644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-800x597.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of the proposed project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Port of San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The facility is part of Breed’s goal of creating 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020. Breed said she wants to keep the center on the site for four years, but is flexible on the terms of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">currently operates six other navigation centers\u003c/a> throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Breed first announced plans for the new navigation center in March, the proposal garnered a flood of attention last week after a group of residents opposing it started an online fundraiser to pay for a potential legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling themselves “Safe Embarcadero for All,” the loose coalition of residents from Rincon Hill, South Beach and other nearby neighborhoods have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised more than $90,000 online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds, the group said on its GoFundMe page, will be used exclusively for legal costs necessary to block construction of the proposed navigation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My main concern is safety, not just myself, but my family and other people in the community,” said Wallace Lee, one of the group’s organizers. “It’s really an experiment that the city is putting into a densely populated residential area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As supporters of the proposed shelter rallied behind him. a neighborhood resident who lives a few blocks from the proposed navigation site explained to reporters why he opposed it. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by Thursday, as funds continued to pour in, a dueling GoFundMe campaign in support of the center was launched by William Fitzgerald, a San Francisco community activist with a history of supporting local homeless causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fundraiser, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFER Embarcadero for ALL\u003c/a>, eclipsed its rival within 24 hours, and has now raised nearly $165,000, contributed by more than 1,700 people. Among them are several tech giants, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently contributed $25,000, as well as Marc Benioff, head of Salesforce, and Twilio chief Jeff Lawson, who both gave $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds will be donated to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>, according to Fitzgerald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees shout at Mayor London Breed during the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center informational meeting on Wednesday evening.\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-1200x839.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees shout at Mayor London Breed during the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center informational meeting on Wednesday evening. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wednesday night’s meeting ended with little resolution or agreement, and a follow-up meeting is scheduled for April 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of attendees opposed to the facility, like Diem Tran who lives nearby, left early in frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just hurts that the mayor showed up but I don’t feel like our voices were heard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people representing opposing sides sat down to talk about the issue after the meeting ended, in an effort to find some common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My greatest concern is not your feelings,” April Long, the case manager, said to neighborhood resident Jan Duffy. “It’s the lives of the people who are sleeping outside every night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffy responded, “That’s reasonable. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing a packed hall at the Delancey Street Foundation, city officials tried to allay concerns about the mayor’s proposal to open the roughly 225-bed navigation center this summer on a nearby public lot on the Embarcadero, emphasizing that it would be a drug-free site with regular police patrols, and that the community would have a say in the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who live near the proposed \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a> — which would provide both shelter and rehabilitative services to homeless residents, with the aim of finding permanent housing options — say the city is unfairly targeting their district and rapidly trying to push the plan forward without community input. The shelter, they argue, would compromise the health and safety of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s kinda a fairness issue,” said Jan Duffy, who lives and works blocks from the proposed site. “I have the biggest homeless shelter in the city three blocks from me, as well as another navigation center. 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The parcel is owned by the San Francisco Port Commission, which is tentatively scheduled to vote later this month on leasing the land to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736644\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11736644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-800x597.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of the proposed project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Port of San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The facility is part of Breed’s goal of creating 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020. Breed said she wants to keep the center on the site for four years, but is flexible on the terms of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">currently operates six other navigation centers\u003c/a> throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Breed first announced plans for the new navigation center in March, the proposal garnered a flood of attention last week after a group of residents opposing it started an online fundraiser to pay for a potential legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling themselves “Safe Embarcadero for All,” the loose coalition of residents from Rincon Hill, South Beach and other nearby neighborhoods have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised more than $90,000 online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds, the group said on its GoFundMe page, will be used exclusively for legal costs necessary to block construction of the proposed navigation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My main concern is safety, not just myself, but my family and other people in the community,” said Wallace Lee, one of the group’s organizers. “It’s really an experiment that the city is putting into a densely populated residential area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As supporters of the proposed shelter rallied behind him. a neighborhood resident who lives a few blocks from the proposed navigation site explained to reporters why he opposed it. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by Thursday, as funds continued to pour in, a dueling GoFundMe campaign in support of the center was launched by William Fitzgerald, a San Francisco community activist with a history of supporting local homeless causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fundraiser, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFER Embarcadero for ALL\u003c/a>, eclipsed its rival within 24 hours, and has now raised nearly $165,000, contributed by more than 1,700 people. Among them are several tech giants, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently contributed $25,000, as well as Marc Benioff, head of Salesforce, and Twilio chief Jeff Lawson, who both gave $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds will be donated to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>, according to Fitzgerald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees shout at Mayor London Breed during the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center informational meeting on Wednesday evening.\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-1200x839.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees shout at Mayor London Breed during the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center informational meeting on Wednesday evening. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wednesday night’s meeting ended with little resolution or agreement, and a follow-up meeting is scheduled for April 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of attendees opposed to the facility, like Diem Tran who lives nearby, left early in frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just hurts that the mayor showed up but I don’t feel like our voices were heard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people representing opposing sides sat down to talk about the issue after the meeting ended, in an effort to find some common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My greatest concern is not your feelings,” April Long, the case manager, said to neighborhood resident Jan Duffy. “It’s the lives of the people who are sleeping outside every night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffy responded, “That’s reasonable. 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