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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland officials are searching for at least two sites to relocate an estimated 100 homeless people living at the city’s largest encampment, according to Joe DeVries, assistant to the city administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone must be out by November when the 23rd Avenue bridge, which passes over the East 12th Street encampment, is scheduled to be retrofitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the pending move is complicated by ongoing tensions between Oakland and activists with \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/TheVillageInOakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Village\u003c/a>, whose volunteers are building cabins for homeless people at the current site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampment is a sprawling collection of tents, tarps and lean-tos. But at the southern end, The Village has constructed six one-room wood cabins providing some order to the surrounding chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11677114 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An area of the East 12th Street encampment, under the 23rd Street bridge — which is scheduled to be retrofitted. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Village, a city-sanctioned grass-roots project, is aiming to build a total of 40 of these cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day I moved in it was beautiful,” says Leonard Williams, who is 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11677548 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-800x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-800x679.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-160x136.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-1020x866.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-1200x1019.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-1920x1630.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-1180x1002.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-960x815.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-240x204.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-375x318.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-520x442.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonard Williams recently moved into one of the cabins built by The Village. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams, a former heroin addict, is cradling a tall Colt 45 Malt Liquor. He says he’s been on the streets or in prison nearly his whole life. In a way, this cabin is a step up. “I don’t have to worry about rats coming in,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he grew up just a couple of miles from this encampment. His roots are inked across his body — from a “Bay Area” tattoo on his abdomen to an homage to the Raiders spanning his entire back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William is among the more than 85 percent of Oakland’s homeless who are from Alameda County, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/everyone-counts/\">Point-In-Time homeless survey.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now the future of Williams’ small shelter is in question due to the pending bridge construction. At this point he seems resigned to moving again — he’s just hoping the city finds The Village its own site. He also warns that putting too many people in one spot will “cause friction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams knows what he’s talking about — there has been plenty of friction at this encampment — including several rapes and beatings, according to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s friction between The Village and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mistrust began when the city tore down a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11299819/oakland-dismantles-tiny-houses-at-homeless-village\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">different Village encampment\u003c/a> at Grove Shafter Park in West Oakland in February 2017. That encampment went up without official permission, and the city deemed it unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then last fall, the City Council granted The Village the 23rd Avenue site for an encampment. But Village lead organizer Anita De Asis, who goes by the name Needa Bee, says that before organizers had arrived, the city dropped scores of homeless people at the site — far more than they could manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then the numbers at the site have exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very frustrated,” says Bee, who accuses the city of trying to sabotage their grassroots effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_3961-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Needa Bee, lead organizer for The Village. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest blow to The Village came when the city told the group it would have to move again within a year of arriving — because of the bridge construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re incompetent or you’re lying,” Bee says. “And either way, it sucks because what you were supposed to do was vet the land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVries, the assistant to the city administrator, says he understands why it might look like incompetence or sabotage. But he explains that it’s hard to predict the schedule of the Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a big city with “a lot of moving parts,” DeVries says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for moving other homeless people to the East 12th Street site, DeVries says the city only relocated one group of about a dozen people from a nearby median for safety reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to solve this homeless crisis together,” DeVries says. “We’re all doing it with good intention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the skepticism, DeVries says the city is actively searching for new sites: One to be managed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/TheVillageInOakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Village\u003c/a> and a second for people with higher needs that would be managed by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also hoping to partner with Village organizers to make the transition as smooth as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because they’ve built relationships with people out there and we do know that those relationships are really critical to get people to seek or accept services,” DeVries says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says case managers will be starting the intake process soon — interviewing each person to determine their needs and the best path toward more permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Leonard Williams says he wants, too. “What I like to do is use this as a stepping stone to get me into a better spot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until all this is worked out, Village volunteers plan to keep building more cabins at the current site. 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He says he’s been on the streets or in prison nearly his whole life. In a way, this cabin is a step up. “I don’t have to worry about rats coming in,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he grew up just a couple of miles from this encampment. His roots are inked across his body — from a “Bay Area” tattoo on his abdomen to an homage to the Raiders spanning his entire back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William is among the more than 85 percent of Oakland’s homeless who are from Alameda County, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/everyone-counts/\">Point-In-Time homeless survey.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now the future of Williams’ small shelter is in question due to the pending bridge construction. At this point he seems resigned to moving again — he’s just hoping the city finds The Village its own site. He also warns that putting too many people in one spot will “cause friction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams knows what he’s talking about — there has been plenty of friction at this encampment — including several rapes and beatings, according to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s friction between The Village and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mistrust began when the city tore down a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11299819/oakland-dismantles-tiny-houses-at-homeless-village\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">different Village encampment\u003c/a> at Grove Shafter Park in West Oakland in February 2017. That encampment went up without official permission, and the city deemed it unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then last fall, the City Council granted The Village the 23rd Avenue site for an encampment. But Village lead organizer Anita De Asis, who goes by the name Needa Bee, says that before organizers had arrived, the city dropped scores of homeless people at the site — far more than they could manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then the numbers at the site have exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very frustrated,” says Bee, who accuses the city of trying to sabotage their grassroots effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_3961-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Needa Bee, lead organizer for The Village. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest blow to The Village came when the city told the group it would have to move again within a year of arriving — because of the bridge construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re incompetent or you’re lying,” Bee says. “And either way, it sucks because what you were supposed to do was vet the land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVries, the assistant to the city administrator, says he understands why it might look like incompetence or sabotage. 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Then the next task will be to figure out how these wood structures will be transported to a new home.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the SF Homeless Project\u003c/a> we’re once again concentrating coverage around housing affordability this June. Here’s a first-person account of what it’s like to be a grad student and live in an RV in the Berkeley Marina.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My name is Yesica Prado and I am 26 years old. I moved to the Bay Area four years ago from the South Side of Chicago, but I was born in Mexico City. 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Being on the streets gave me a mission. It helped me stay alert about what really happens in our cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would get shamed at school sometimes for not reading the news, but living from phone charge to phone charge forces compromises. I used the power on my cellphone to navigate the cities, hunting for story sources, food, restrooms and gyms to complete daily tasks and homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today I’m part of a community of four families, including nine children, living out of eight vehicles in a parking lot at the marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As humans, we all want to be directors of our own dream. Our relationships with one another help us grow: financially, physically, spiritually and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have created a network of neighbors, family, friends, comrades. 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Their daily routine is to make breakfast with their camping stove, hit the gym, shower, commute around the city for food, and linger at coffee shops or libraries to charge up battery packs and electronics for the day. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31596_RS31596_Prado_MarinaFriends010-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr., age 5, plays inside an inflatable ball outside his motorhome at the Hs Lordships parking lot. Paul was the first child in the Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels. 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian and Jim Hauso prepare hamburgers and hot dogs at a community barbecue on Sunday afternoon at Hs Lordships. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hs Lordships parking lot is a popular spot to come race and make car doughnuts. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31594_Marina_Friends036edit-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" 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While living at the marina, Paul has learned about the animals, plants and geology you can find here. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the SF Homeless Project\u003c/a> we’re once again concentrating coverage around housing affordability this June. Here’s a first-person account of what it’s like to be a grad student and live in an RV in the Berkeley Marina.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My name is Yesica Prado and I am 26 years old. I moved to the Bay Area four years ago from the South Side of Chicago, but I was born in Mexico City. I came to live at the Berkeley Marina after my second semester of graduate school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I had bounced around the bay, chasing stories while studying at the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. \u003c/a>I worked the night shift at Whole Foods in San Francisco, and went to school during the day for a year before deciding to quit the job, the rent and the long commute, and buy an RV last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lost my housing in San Francisco more than a year ago after not keeping up with rent, but I never considered myself homeless. Being on the streets gave me a mission. It helped me stay alert about what really happens in our cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would get shamed at school sometimes for not reading the news, but living from phone charge to phone charge forces compromises. I used the power on my cellphone to navigate the cities, hunting for story sources, food, restrooms and gyms to complete daily tasks and homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today I’m part of a community of four families, including nine children, living out of eight vehicles in a parking lot at the marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As humans, we all want to be directors of our own dream. Our relationships with one another help us grow: financially, physically, spiritually and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have created a network of neighbors, family, friends, comrades. The Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels is an example of how poverty is a shared experience in the world, regardless of education, color or nationality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community meetings are held weekly, and neighbors gather to share concerns and issues that happened throughout the week. Amber leads the discussions, encouraging neighbors to know their rights on the street. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Sweeney, the grandfather in the Bockover family, prepares and eats a ribeye steak from Whole Foods Market. He enjoys the small pleasures of life: good food and dancing. He works with his son-in-law in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Torres, Prado’s friend, smiles for a portrait inside her RV at the Berkeley Marina. Their daily routine is to make breakfast with their camping stove, hit the gym, shower, commute around the city for food, and linger at coffee shops or libraries to charge up battery packs and electronics for the day. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31596_RS31596_Prado_MarinaFriends010-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr., age 5, plays inside an inflatable ball outside his motorhome at the Hs Lordships parking lot. Paul was the first child in the Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels. He attends pre-kindergarten at the Berkeley Technology Academy. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677600\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian and Jim Hauso prepare hamburgers and hot dogs at a community barbecue on Sunday afternoon at Hs Lordships. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hs Lordships parking lot is a popular spot to come race and make car doughnuts. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31594_Marina_Friends036edit-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" 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"content": "\u003cp>After a fire burned down her home, Dorothy Nolan began living in an RV. One of the biggest challenges she has found as an RV dweller? Being told to move — constantly — by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just could not park,” Nolan said. “We’d park to even just cook or take our dogs out for a walk. And, ‘What are you doing here? How long are you gonna be here? There’s no camping. Move it; you’ve got an hour.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan recently found a parking lot at the edge of the Berkeley Marina where, so far, no one has ticketed or towed her RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been sleeping for two days,” she said. “After not sleeping for six months, we were dead tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorothy Nolan smiles for a portrait outside her trailer, which is pulled by another friend with his motor home. Nolan lived in San Pablo, and became homeless after her house burned down. Nolan is a former veterinary technician and lives in the trailer with her seven dogs and boyfriend. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017HIRDReport-Berkeley-1.pdf\">latest count\u003c/a>, the city of Berkeley has nearly 1,000 homeless people, many living in tented encampments along roads and underpasses. But in the past year, a group of people living in their vehicles — mostly RVs — have been living at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Marina_Home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Marina. \u003c/a> Now the city is considering whether to create a sanctioned area for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parked near Nolan is Berkeley native Paul Schrager, who grew up just off of University Avenue, right up the road from the Berkeley Marina. He’s on disability and can’t work right now. Schrager left the Bay Area for a year, and then moved back to his hometown, closer to a support network of relatives and friends. But rents were so high, he was unable to find a place his family could afford. When he bought the RV for $300, he thought of it as a temporary home while he searched for housing. It’s been three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think we’d be in this thing this long,” Schrager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Schrager’s 5-year-old attends a public school in Berkeley and often plays outdoors near the bay. Schrager doesn’t want to leave his friends and family in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been hard raising a child here in this environment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schrager’s RV has electricity now, so his son can watch TV, but it lacks proper facilities. Some of his neighbors pay for gym memberships in order to shower — much easier to afford than local rent. Schrager and his son are able to bathe at his dad’s house nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a bathroom, but we have no shower or bathtub or running water right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr. and his dad fly a kite in a parking lot at the Berkeley Marina, where they are part of a community of people living in vehicles. Paul’s favorite color is “the whole rainbow,” he says, and he enjoys flying colorful kites at the marina. He shares his toys with the other children. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schrager and Nolan are part of a fluctuating group of RV dwellers who have formed a community here over the past year. There are retired seniors, several people on disability, and many working adults: a barista, a security guard and a delivery driver for Amazon, to name a few. One woman earned her master’s degree at UC Berkeley while living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday, there were about 16 live-in vehicles mostly in a row. They are in the parking lot of a marina restaurant that leases the land from the city. The restaurant is shutting down in a few days, and the city does not yet have a plan for what will happen to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, Berkeley doesn’t allow vehicular camping, though the city sometimes looks the other way. The core RV dwellers here have become a tight-knit group. Last April, when the city made everyone leave an area near a local hotel, they voted to all move to a new part of the marina — together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Whitson lived for seven years at an encampment on nearby Albany Bulb park, before it was forcibly disbanded. Now living in a RV in the marina, Whitson still worries that she and her neighbors could be towed or forced to move at any moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still in an unsure place here as far as the legality of our being here. It isn’t technically sanctioned for us to be here,” said Whitson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Whitson rakes weeds off the parking lot at Hs Lordships on the Berkeley Marina. She is getting rid of the spiky weeds hidden in the patches of overgrown grass for the safety of the kids and pets playing in the parking lot. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So Whitson has been pushing her neighbors to organize and advocate on their own behalf, including bringing their concerns to people who have the political power to make changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve started showing up at City Council meetings. And they’re asking for a longer-term fix — a sanctioned area, like an RV park, with running water and septic tank disposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that we ask for in order to ensure that we have the most basic human amenities is a parking lot with a single shower and a porta-potty,” Whitson said at a recent City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they are willing to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>All that we ask for in order to ensure that we have the most basic human amenities\u003c/strong> is a parking lot with a single shower and a porta-potty.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Amber Whitson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some in the marina have been supportive, but there has also been some pushback. There have been complaints about sanitation and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of why Whitson and others have also been working to establish rules for those seeking to live here, to help maintain order and safety and avoid negative attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in between a row of RVs, Whitson reads from a draft of their proposed community rules of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No street drugs and/or alcohol. No rowdy behavior. 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. noise curfew. All holding tanks must be proper and legal working order,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A van at the marina. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin and City Council members Cheryl Davila and Kate Harrison are trying to find an answer. They are introducing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2018/06_June/City_Council__06-26-2018_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a proposal\u003c/a> for the city manager to develop a local vehicle-dweller park. It would have toilets, garbage service, showers and potable water. There would also be access to social services. The city would issue permits, and collect a fee of somewhere between $60 to $150 per month, far less than most RV parks. The local RV-dwelling community could live there without fear of harassment or citation, if they abide by some rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s approved, Arreguin said there would have to be limits to how many people could stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also going to be people that are going to want to come, that are going to want to live there, that either won’t be able to live there because of space or are not going to be able to conform to those rules,” said Arreguin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitson is hopeful the city’s proposal could lead to a longer-term solution for the community, even if it’s not in the marina. For now, she’s helping the community organize so they can stay in the minds — and good graces — of the city.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a fire burned down her home, Dorothy Nolan began living in an RV. One of the biggest challenges she has found as an RV dweller? Being told to move — constantly — by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just could not park,” Nolan said. “We’d park to even just cook or take our dogs out for a walk. And, ‘What are you doing here? How long are you gonna be here? There’s no camping. Move it; you’ve got an hour.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan recently found a parking lot at the edge of the Berkeley Marina where, so far, no one has ticketed or towed her RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been sleeping for two days,” she said. “After not sleeping for six months, we were dead tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorothy Nolan smiles for a portrait outside her trailer, which is pulled by another friend with his motor home. Nolan lived in San Pablo, and became homeless after her house burned down. Nolan is a former veterinary technician and lives in the trailer with her seven dogs and boyfriend. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017HIRDReport-Berkeley-1.pdf\">latest count\u003c/a>, the city of Berkeley has nearly 1,000 homeless people, many living in tented encampments along roads and underpasses. But in the past year, a group of people living in their vehicles — mostly RVs — have been living at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Marina_Home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Marina. \u003c/a> Now the city is considering whether to create a sanctioned area for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parked near Nolan is Berkeley native Paul Schrager, who grew up just off of University Avenue, right up the road from the Berkeley Marina. He’s on disability and can’t work right now. Schrager left the Bay Area for a year, and then moved back to his hometown, closer to a support network of relatives and friends. But rents were so high, he was unable to find a place his family could afford. When he bought the RV for $300, he thought of it as a temporary home while he searched for housing. It’s been three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think we’d be in this thing this long,” Schrager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Schrager’s 5-year-old attends a public school in Berkeley and often plays outdoors near the bay. Schrager doesn’t want to leave his friends and family in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been hard raising a child here in this environment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schrager’s RV has electricity now, so his son can watch TV, but it lacks proper facilities. Some of his neighbors pay for gym memberships in order to shower — much easier to afford than local rent. Schrager and his son are able to bathe at his dad’s house nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a bathroom, but we have no shower or bathtub or running water right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr. and his dad fly a kite in a parking lot at the Berkeley Marina, where they are part of a community of people living in vehicles. Paul’s favorite color is “the whole rainbow,” he says, and he enjoys flying colorful kites at the marina. He shares his toys with the other children. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schrager and Nolan are part of a fluctuating group of RV dwellers who have formed a community here over the past year. There are retired seniors, several people on disability, and many working adults: a barista, a security guard and a delivery driver for Amazon, to name a few. One woman earned her master’s degree at UC Berkeley while living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday, there were about 16 live-in vehicles mostly in a row. They are in the parking lot of a marina restaurant that leases the land from the city. The restaurant is shutting down in a few days, and the city does not yet have a plan for what will happen to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, Berkeley doesn’t allow vehicular camping, though the city sometimes looks the other way. The core RV dwellers here have become a tight-knit group. Last April, when the city made everyone leave an area near a local hotel, they voted to all move to a new part of the marina — together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Whitson lived for seven years at an encampment on nearby Albany Bulb park, before it was forcibly disbanded. Now living in a RV in the marina, Whitson still worries that she and her neighbors could be towed or forced to move at any moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still in an unsure place here as far as the legality of our being here. It isn’t technically sanctioned for us to be here,” said Whitson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Whitson rakes weeds off the parking lot at Hs Lordships on the Berkeley Marina. She is getting rid of the spiky weeds hidden in the patches of overgrown grass for the safety of the kids and pets playing in the parking lot. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So Whitson has been pushing her neighbors to organize and advocate on their own behalf, including bringing their concerns to people who have the political power to make changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve started showing up at City Council meetings. And they’re asking for a longer-term fix — a sanctioned area, like an RV park, with running water and septic tank disposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that we ask for in order to ensure that we have the most basic human amenities is a parking lot with a single shower and a porta-potty,” Whitson said at a recent City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they are willing to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>All that we ask for in order to ensure that we have the most basic human amenities\u003c/strong> is a parking lot with a single shower and a porta-potty.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Amber Whitson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some in the marina have been supportive, but there has also been some pushback. There have been complaints about sanitation and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of why Whitson and others have also been working to establish rules for those seeking to live here, to help maintain order and safety and avoid negative attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in between a row of RVs, Whitson reads from a draft of their proposed community rules of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No street drugs and/or alcohol. No rowdy behavior. 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. noise curfew. All holding tanks must be proper and legal working order,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A van at the marina. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin and City Council members Cheryl Davila and Kate Harrison are trying to find an answer. They are introducing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2018/06_June/City_Council__06-26-2018_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a proposal\u003c/a> for the city manager to develop a local vehicle-dweller park. It would have toilets, garbage service, showers and potable water. There would also be access to social services. The city would issue permits, and collect a fee of somewhere between $60 to $150 per month, far less than most RV parks. The local RV-dwelling community could live there without fear of harassment or citation, if they abide by some rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s approved, Arreguin said there would have to be limits to how many people could stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also going to be people that are going to want to come, that are going to want to live there, that either won’t be able to live there because of space or are not going to be able to conform to those rules,” said Arreguin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gregory Andrews, 60, sleeps in his Chevy Malibu just outside a health clinic on the west side of Los Angeles. In the morning, he lines up there for a free shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Besides trying to find something healthy to eat, the next most important thing is to take a shower,” Andrews said. “It keeps your self-esteem up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Not many health clinics offer showers, but Saban Community Clinic, where Andrews goes, has been doing it for about three decades. The clinic serves an urgent need, given L.A. County’s growing homeless population, which is up almost 50 percent in the past six years to roughly 53,000, though it dipped slightly this year, according to the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=410-2018-homeless-count-results\">homeless count.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen people line up at the Saban clinic each weekday morning, waiting for the showers. They come with backpacks, shopping carts and folded-up tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinic staff also help them find temporary lodging and get health insurance, as they did for Andrews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just told me at the front desk, ‘Do you know you qualify for Medi-Cal?’ ” Andrews said. “I went upstairs, talked to one person, and within 30 days I had Medi-Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Henderson has been homeless for more than a decade. He uses the showers and has been cared for by the dentist at Saban Community Clinic but says he’s reluctant to see the doctor. His basketball injuries are nothing “ibuprofen can’t take care of,” he says. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676528\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Bloom packs up his tent after spending the night just outside the Saban Community Clinic in Los Angeles. Bloom takes showers at the clinic on weekday mornings and meets with doctors and mental health counselors there. \u003ccite>( Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saban’s free showers are a gateway to other services it offers homeless people, who sometimes resist seeking medical care, said Adam Friedman, the clinic’s chief marketing officer. About a third of the people who take showers at Saban also see doctors there. Some of the patients have untreated mental illnesses and chronic diseases. Others have injuries from living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole goal is to build trust so … they will be open to seeing a therapist, going to the dentist, getting their medical needs taken care of,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Henderson, a 46-year-old who has been homeless for more than a decade, said finding a shower on this relatively affluent side of town wasn’t easy. It is easier to find one in downtown L.A. or other parts of the city, he said. “In other areas, like the beach, there’s not only a shelter shower but … also the showers on the sand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said he was glad to find the showers at Saban and to see the dentist upstairs. But he generally avoids the doctor. “I’m reluctant,” he said. “If I’m in pain I’ll go see the doctor, but normally the pains that I have are from basketball injuries so I know how to deal with those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrews, who stands over 6 feet tall and walks with a cane — started seeing the doctor and the dentist soon after going to Saban for a shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Andrews takes showers at the clinic and has seen doctors and dentists there. The clinic also helped him get temporary shelter and health insurance. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friedman said that with the growth of the homeless population, he expects even more people will need a place to shower. The clinic also offers showers at its Hollywood location three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for those who don’t seek medical care, showering itself has health benefits, such as keeping wounds clean and avoiding infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At precisely 7:30 a.m., the doors open. Caseworker Chenelle Groomes greets people by name and hands out towels and soap. If anyone needs socks or underwear, she has a closet filled with donations. Groomes keeps track of who is next with a sign-up sheet and a clipboard. And she helps schedule same-day medical appointments for those who want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff at the clinic hand out towels to participants. Soap and shampoo are also available. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the regulars said they take showers at the clinic because they don’t want to look homeless. Kevin Bloom, 30, said he wouldn’t know what to do without the showers. He sleeps in a tent near the front door of the Saban clinic, and he also sees doctors and mental health counselors there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait their turn in the shower, participants pass the time reading books or looking at their phones. A few close their eyes. Sometimes, arguments break out, and there’s rarely a dull moment for Groomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep her busy,” Andrews said. “She keeps us out of trouble. Some of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking a shower is just a good way to start the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A nice warm shower? Makes anybody feel good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\">\u003cem>Kaiser Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> (KHN), which publishes \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/\">\u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, an editorially independent service of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/\">\u003cem>California Health Care Foundation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gregory Andrews, 60, sleeps in his Chevy Malibu just outside a health clinic on the west side of Los Angeles. In the morning, he lines up there for a free shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Besides trying to find something healthy to eat, the next most important thing is to take a shower,” Andrews said. “It keeps your self-esteem up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Not many health clinics offer showers, but Saban Community Clinic, where Andrews goes, has been doing it for about three decades. The clinic serves an urgent need, given L.A. County’s growing homeless population, which is up almost 50 percent in the past six years to roughly 53,000, though it dipped slightly this year, according to the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=410-2018-homeless-count-results\">homeless count.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen people line up at the Saban clinic each weekday morning, waiting for the showers. They come with backpacks, shopping carts and folded-up tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinic staff also help them find temporary lodging and get health insurance, as they did for Andrews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just told me at the front desk, ‘Do you know you qualify for Medi-Cal?’ ” Andrews said. “I went upstairs, talked to one person, and within 30 days I had Medi-Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Henderson has been homeless for more than a decade. He uses the showers and has been cared for by the dentist at Saban Community Clinic but says he’s reluctant to see the doctor. His basketball injuries are nothing “ibuprofen can’t take care of,” he says. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676528\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Bloom packs up his tent after spending the night just outside the Saban Community Clinic in Los Angeles. Bloom takes showers at the clinic on weekday mornings and meets with doctors and mental health counselors there. \u003ccite>( Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saban’s free showers are a gateway to other services it offers homeless people, who sometimes resist seeking medical care, said Adam Friedman, the clinic’s chief marketing officer. About a third of the people who take showers at Saban also see doctors there. Some of the patients have untreated mental illnesses and chronic diseases. Others have injuries from living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole goal is to build trust so … they will be open to seeing a therapist, going to the dentist, getting their medical needs taken care of,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Henderson, a 46-year-old who has been homeless for more than a decade, said finding a shower on this relatively affluent side of town wasn’t easy. It is easier to find one in downtown L.A. or other parts of the city, he said. “In other areas, like the beach, there’s not only a shelter shower but … also the showers on the sand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said he was glad to find the showers at Saban and to see the dentist upstairs. But he generally avoids the doctor. “I’m reluctant,” he said. “If I’m in pain I’ll go see the doctor, but normally the pains that I have are from basketball injuries so I know how to deal with those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrews, who stands over 6 feet tall and walks with a cane — started seeing the doctor and the dentist soon after going to Saban for a shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Andrews takes showers at the clinic and has seen doctors and dentists there. The clinic also helped him get temporary shelter and health insurance. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friedman said that with the growth of the homeless population, he expects even more people will need a place to shower. The clinic also offers showers at its Hollywood location three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for those who don’t seek medical care, showering itself has health benefits, such as keeping wounds clean and avoiding infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At precisely 7:30 a.m., the doors open. Caseworker Chenelle Groomes greets people by name and hands out towels and soap. If anyone needs socks or underwear, she has a closet filled with donations. Groomes keeps track of who is next with a sign-up sheet and a clipboard. And she helps schedule same-day medical appointments for those who want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff at the clinic hand out towels to participants. Soap and shampoo are also available. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the regulars said they take showers at the clinic because they don’t want to look homeless. Kevin Bloom, 30, said he wouldn’t know what to do without the showers. He sleeps in a tent near the front door of the Saban clinic, and he also sees doctors and mental health counselors there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait their turn in the shower, participants pass the time reading books or looking at their phones. A few close their eyes. Sometimes, arguments break out, and there’s rarely a dull moment for Groomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep her busy,” Andrews said. “She keeps us out of trouble. Some of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking a shower is just a good way to start the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A nice warm shower? Makes anybody feel good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\">\u003cem>Kaiser Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> (KHN), which publishes \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/\">\u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, an editorially independent service of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/\">\u003cem>California Health Care Foundation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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They face frequent forced moves, which disrupt relationships and make it difficult for family, friends or service providers to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are unsheltered are at high risk of physical and sexual abuse. If they struggle with substance use disorders, their use of drugs and alcohol occurs in public, leaving them open to arrest. There are no places to refrigerate or store medicines, no place to receive mailed appointment reminders or a visit from a visiting nurse, no place to dress a wound or plug in medical equipment like oxygen. Without access to hygiene facilities, they are at high risk for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1714134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">communicable diseases\u003c/a> like hepatitis A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffordable housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some assume that homelessness is so common on the West Coast because people move here when they become homeless, but data do not support this. Most people \u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10900-013-9664-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experience homelessness\u003c/a> close to where they lost their housing. \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My team’s research\u003c/a> in Oakland found that 81 percent of older adults who are homeless became homeless in the Bay Area. Only 10 percent had lost their housing outside of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the high rate of homelessness can be attributed to the lack of affordable housing in these regions. The West Coast suffers from rising costs of rental housing, stagnant incomes for low-wage workers and a decline in federal support for affordable housing. For example, California has gained 900,000 renter households since 2005, but \u003ca href=\"https://1p08d91kd0c03rlxhmhtydpr-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CHPC-State-Housing-Need-Report-2018-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost $1.7 billion in state and federal funding\u003c/a> for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extremely low-income households – defined as those with income less than 30 percent of the area median income – are at the highest risk of homelessness. 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Unlike typical shelters, these centers allow people to come in groups, bring pets and belongings, and stay all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many areas have passed tax increases to fund new housing and services. These efforts show modest success but continue to struggle against the unfavorable housing conditions that lead people to become homeless in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where can we go from here? There are solutions to homelessness, but, in my view, these will not succeed without solving the affordable housing crisis that is the underlying cause of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people who are chronically homeless and have disabling conditions, permanent supportive housing is \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2017-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highly effective\u003c/a>. This type of subsidized housing offers supportive services, without the requirement that people be sober or engaged in medical care. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/FY2017_USICH_PAR_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studies show\u003c/a> that expanding permanent supportive housing has reduced the number of people experiencing homelessness in many parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of permanent supportive housing has been overshadowed by increases in people becoming newly homeless due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/california-today-states-homeless-population-drives-national-increase.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lack of affordable housing\u003c/a>. In my view, preventing and ending homelessness will require a commitment to creating housing that is affordable to all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was originally published on The Conversation. 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Anyone is allowed to use the name as long as they’re providing burritos and not making any money off the service. “From what I understand, we have one of the only burrito projects that runs four days a week,” says Rai Doty, a coordinator in Salt Lake City. “Four days a week, we feed 200 to 500 people a night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p10404041-fb20eab30fc96338acf461f080b041ded020e027-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some Burrito Project volunteers, including organizer Michael Walters, show up early to cook the rice and beans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Burrito Project volunteers, including organizer Michael Walters, show up early to cook the rice and beans. \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The groups rely on a mix of donated food and sponsorships. 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But for others, this was a quick and painless way to give back, requiring less effort or time commitment than volunteering at some of the more established nonprofits in town. Those who walked in saying they don’t normally cook found that they could certainly chop and scoop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several participants said they showed up because the Burrito Project simply sounds like a fun charity. In San Francisco, one of the world’s great foodie capitals, the humble burrito retains an outsized place in the culinary imagination, with competing burrito palaces in the Mission District drawing long lines day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Burritos hit my self-interest,” says retired volunteer Calvin Pon. “When I saw an article about it, I thought, ‘Burritos? 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The general rule is one per customer, but no one who asks for a second is refused. Ingredients may vary depending on donations, but the burritos are kept vegan so they won’t go bad if they’re saved for a day or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A few people want meat, but they’re a vocal minority,” says Nic Fontaine, who regularly helps hand them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soup kitchen that allows the Burrito Project to use its kitchen is located on the edge of the Mission District, which is ground zero for gentrification pressures in San Francisco. It’s still a melting pot of Mexican fruit markets, meditative cafes and radical-left bookshops, but a million-dollar apartment in the neighborhood would now be considered a steal. 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Several of the volunteers who showed up at the most recent event spoke openly about wanting to do something to assuage the sense of guilt that comes from thriving in tech or finance in a boom city where so many are left with nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Burrito Project encourages volunteers not just to hand out food, but to stop and interact with individuals who are often neglected or avoided. “Obviously, my daughter sees a lot of homeless people,” says Rahul Young, a Mission resident who brought Ione, his 7-year-old daughter, to participate. “This is a way of helping her understand all parts of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one is under the illusion that handing out an occasional burrito is going to solve anyone’s problems. Some Burrito Project outposts try to do more than occasionally feed people. During the snowy season in Salt Lake City, the group partners with Warm the Homeless, which distributes blankets, coats and hats. 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In San Francisco, one of the world’s great foodie capitals, the humble burrito retains an outsized place in the culinary imagination, with competing burrito palaces in the Mission District drawing long lines day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Burritos hit my self-interest,” says retired volunteer Calvin Pon. “When I saw an article about it, I thought, ‘Burritos? I love burritos!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p1040442-1-f192bd814a3e0aecb444ec4ad2f32b0d6c1503fd-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Once the assembly line got going, a mix of regular and newbie volunteers were able to put together hundreds of burritos in an hour.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the assembly line got going, a mix of regular and newbie volunteers were able to put together hundreds of burritos in an hour. \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once people learn about the ongoing event through news accounts or social media, there tends to be a ripple effect — participants bring friends along the next time around. The organizers say they’re trying to make the event fun and welcoming, asking everyone to introduce themselves and providing kombucha and cake to celebrate their anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler Winterholter used to routinely come to help. When Winterholter moved to Denver for a job, he brought the idea with him. During their first outing last month, they served 279 burritos to the homeless. His new employer, the restaurant group Bonanno Concepts, is donating all the ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out here, they’re really hungry, because they don’t have all the services they do in San Francisco,” Winterholter says. “When we showed up, they were literally running to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, volunteers from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and other cyclists go wherever the homeless might be found, carrying homemade Google maps that display encampment areas the group has come across over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each cyclist stuffs a bag with 20 or 30 burritos. The general rule is one per customer, but no one who asks for a second is refused. Ingredients may vary depending on donations, but the burritos are kept vegan so they won’t go bad if they’re saved for a day or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A few people want meat, but they’re a vocal minority,” says Nic Fontaine, who regularly helps hand them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soup kitchen that allows the Burrito Project to use its kitchen is located on the edge of the Mission District, which is ground zero for gentrification pressures in San Francisco. It’s still a melting pot of Mexican fruit markets, meditative cafes and radical-left bookshops, but a million-dollar apartment in the neighborhood would now be considered a steal. 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Several of the volunteers who showed up at the most recent event spoke openly about wanting to do something to assuage the sense of guilt that comes from thriving in tech or finance in a boom city where so many are left with nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Burrito Project encourages volunteers not just to hand out food, but to stop and interact with individuals who are often neglected or avoided. “Obviously, my daughter sees a lot of homeless people,” says Rahul Young, a Mission resident who brought Ione, his 7-year-old daughter, to participate. “This is a way of helping her understand all parts of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one is under the illusion that handing out an occasional burrito is going to solve anyone’s problems. Some Burrito Project outposts try to do more than occasionally feed people. During the snowy season in Salt Lake City, the group partners with Warm the Homeless, which distributes blankets, coats and hats. 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"content": "\u003cp>Before the sun comes up on a recent weekday morning, a crew from San Francisco Public Works is cleaning up one of the city’s many homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers are picking up trash and syringes and pressure washing the sidewalk. Crew leader Guillermo Perez has pretty much seen it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of needles, urine, a lot of feces, rotten food,” Perez says. “Sex trafficking, there’s drug selling, all kinds of illegal things at these encampments. Bike chop shops, mouse droppings, rat droppings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was even a makeshift methamphetamine lab in one tent they found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between cleaning up, the crew also offers the campers shelter and city services. “We’re part sanitation worker, part social worker, mental health physician — a little bit of everything,” Perez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past few decades, San Francisco has spent billions of dollars to address homelessness. And yet many residents say the situation on the streets is worse than ever, with tents on sidewalks and people with serious mental illness roaming the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671744\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11671744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/syringes-e1527807395444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Public Works worker shows a box of syringes he has collected from homeless encampments in San Francisco on May 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, with a mayoral election underway, it seems many in this famously tolerant City of St. Francis have finally have run out of patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, literally every single voter I talked to said the same thing when asked what was the top issue facing the city: homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walking each day in this neighborhood and seeing everybody sleeping in doorways,” says Castro neighborhood resident Linda Zaretsky. “It’s just intolerable, painful and morally wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has lived in San Francisco for about 30 years and she sees poverty as the fundamental problem. And she says she’d pay more taxes to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voter Paul Miller also feels compassion, but he’s weary of confronting the issue everywhere he goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should live in a city where they walk past people on the street who may or may not be shooting up or dead or needing help,” Miller says. “There’s no easy solution to homelessness. There’s a thousand different problems which create a thousand different stories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duboce Triangle resident Abraham Ali is less circumspect, and says he has run out of patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanna see results. I wanna see action,” Ali says. “Like when you go to the Muni or BART, they’re all over — laying down, doing drugs in front of you, trash everywhere. And if I was a tourist coming to San Francisco, I’d think the whole city is like that. And it’s not — it’s a beautiful city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe D’Alessandro, CEO of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, has been hearing so many complaints from tourists and convention-goers that he decided to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the wealthiest major city in the wealthiest state in the wealthiest major country in the world,” D’Alessandro says. “And we can’t live with the situation on the streets we find ourselves with right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing near the Powell Street cable car turnaround, D’Alessandro is careful not to blame anyone, including the homeless themselves. “We’ve just become oblivious to what’s happening in the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that tourism is a $10 billion industry in San Francisco, generating $700 million in tax revenue each year. It can’t be ignored any longer, he says, and he’s pleased that at least all the mayoral candidates are talking about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to be sure that there’s some action and it’s not just talk — that’s there’s really steps being taken,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Alessandro admits conditions on the streets are looking better. In recent weeks, Mayor Mark Farrell has moved aggressively to clean up encampments — raising the bar for whatever the next mayor decides to do. But his actions have riled up homeless activists, who plastered street poles with posters condemning him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671757\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell is being criticized by homeless activists for cleaning up encampments. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three leading candidates for mayor are all offering similar plans to deal with homelessness — and clean up the streets and sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed supports so-called safe injection sites so that addicts aren’t shooting up out in the open. At a candidates forum, Breed stressed prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the folks who are out there on our streets homeless had a house here in San Francisco before they became homeless,” Breed said. “We have to make sure that we do everything we can to keep people housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Supervisor Jane Kim, considered by many to be the most liberal candidate, the priority should be more services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we have to invest greatly in supportive housing, more shelters, if we’re really going to address this crisis,” Kim said at a candidates forum co-sponsored by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Mark Leno released an 11-page plan that calls for ending homelessness by 2020. One of his campaign slogans is “Shake Up City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the city is out of control in terms of homelessness, housing affordability, condition of our streets — and I think City Hall has failed us,” Leno told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he suddenly died in December, Mayor Ed Lee created a new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services to coordinate the city’s response to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man in charge of that department, Jeff Kositsky, says things are going in the right direction now — with many encampments cleaned up and more people connected to shelters and services. He just hopes the next mayor — whoever it is — doesn’t disrupt that momentum with too many new initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if we keep pivoting from shiny object to shiny object, or if we keep panicking and just grasping at these … we’re not going to get the job done,” Kositsky said recently at one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navigation Centers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting the job done is exactly what voters will expect from the new mayor — whoever it is.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And it’s not — it’s a beautiful city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe D’Alessandro, CEO of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, has been hearing so many complaints from tourists and convention-goers that he decided to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the wealthiest major city in the wealthiest state in the wealthiest major country in the world,” D’Alessandro says. “And we can’t live with the situation on the streets we find ourselves with right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing near the Powell Street cable car turnaround, D’Alessandro is careful not to blame anyone, including the homeless themselves. “We’ve just become oblivious to what’s happening in the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that tourism is a $10 billion industry in San Francisco, generating $700 million in tax revenue each year. It can’t be ignored any longer, he says, and he’s pleased that at least all the mayoral candidates are talking about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to be sure that there’s some action and it’s not just talk — that’s there’s really steps being taken,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Alessandro admits conditions on the streets are looking better. In recent weeks, Mayor Mark Farrell has moved aggressively to clean up encampments — raising the bar for whatever the next mayor decides to do. But his actions have riled up homeless activists, who plastered street poles with posters condemning him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671757\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell is being criticized by homeless activists for cleaning up encampments. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three leading candidates for mayor are all offering similar plans to deal with homelessness — and clean up the streets and sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed supports so-called safe injection sites so that addicts aren’t shooting up out in the open. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a wet sidewalk in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Michael Cameron approached a middle-aged man snorting a white powder cupped in his hands. Cameron, a 65-year-old volunteer in the neighborhood, asked the drug user to move across the street. He knew hundreds of schoolchildren soon would be walking by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guys were sitting there snorting coke and smoking dope and didn't want to move,” said Cameron, who grew up in the Tenderloin. “You know, they want time. But we got these babies coming by!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron is one of about two dozen volunteers with Safe Passage, a citizens’ effort that transforms the Tenderloin’s sidewalks into a more kid-friendly environment a couple of hours every schoolday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/06/RomeroSafePassageTenderloin.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" Title=\"Creating a Safe Passage for Kids in San Francisco's Gritty Tenderloin\" program=\"The California Report\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin is notorious for the homelessness on its streets and open drug use and sales. But it is also one of the few affordable neighborhoods left in one of the most expensive cities in the nation, and is home to hundreds of low-income and immigrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. census figures report 2,200 children live in the Tenderloin, but local nonprofits estimate there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">more than 3,000 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">kids\u003c/a> in that neighborhood, between Union Square and the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the Tenderloin has attracted immigrant families and workers because of its high density of affordable housing. In a city where median rents have skyrocketed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/\">nearly $4,200\u003c/a> a month, the Tenderloin represents an island of affordable studios, one-bedroom apartments and residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole different world than the rest of San Francisco,” said Randy Shaw, who directs the nonprofit Tenderloin Housing Clinic and has worked in the neighborhood for about 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are under rent control or permanently affordable, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/wp-content/uploads/TLDWDI-Action-Plan-June-2017.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working-class families worried about safety in the Tenderloin have few options to move to other parts of the city where rents are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for an adult to live here, and I don’t recommend it for kids,” said Margarita Mena, 60, who lives with three grandchildren in an apartment building for low-income families. “Children see people shooting up, people lying on the street, and syringes thrown out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 10 years ago, Mena and other moms in the Tenderloin began meeting with the goal of making streets safer for kids walking to and from three schools in the neighborhood. That push became Safe Passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service.'\u003ccite>Eric Robinson, SFPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘We need to do something!’ ” said Mena, who has lived in the Tenderloin since she immigrated to the United States from Mexico. “We need for somebody to be on the corners when kids are off school, helping them cross the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During morning and afternoon shifts, Mena, Cameron and other volunteers head out in pairs to their assigned corners. The walkie-talkies they carry frequently crackle with short messages about what’s happening on their route -- if human waste litters sidewalks, or if people hanging out on the corners need medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “corner captains” are easily recognizable because of the neon-green vests they wear as they hold up stop signs and help kids cross the busy intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Passage volunteers, most of whom are Tenderloin residents and parents, are now familiar faces to 8-year old Diana Eusebio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always say hi because they are nice and because they're helping us not to be crushed by a car,” said Diana, a student at Tenderloin Community Elementary School. “They actually really make the streets nicer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Robinson (R) greets school children after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-960x679.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Robinson (R) greets schoolchildren after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the Tenderloin streets that Diana and her classmates walk on are considered some of San Francisco’s biggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4489309-LEAD-BaselineCrimeAnalysis-PolicyCommittee-5-22-17.html\">“drug hotspots”\u003c/a> by city agencies. But when Safe Passage volunteers are out there, the community sees improved safety, said San Francisco police Officer Eric Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service,” said Robinson, who walks the Tenderloin beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, a couple of SFPD officers are visible along the Safe Passage route to help keep “a positive atmosphere,” said Kate Robinson, who directs Safe Passage and has no relation to Officer Robinson. It’s an example of the many collaborations people in the program have built over the years to be effective in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">Why Hasn't the Tenderloin Gentrified Like the Rest of San Francisco?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/20171217_113056-e1525128581450-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who don't spend time in the Tenderloin, they only see trash on the ground or people openly shooting up. And yes, we do grapple with that,” said Kate Robinson, who has worked in the area for over a decade. “But it has amazed me, you know, just how much community is here and how amazing the people who live here are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of standing at the same corner for about six years has shown her a different side of the Tenderloin. She points to the time she witnessed a child falling out of a fourth-floor window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A group of drug dealers caught her and saved her life and nobody would know that story. We were standing there and we saw this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout its history, the Tenderloin has welcomed working people and, since the 1970s, many immigrant families. The neighborhood has also been an area for vice, said Katie Conry, executive director of the nonprofit Tenderloin Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That looked really different in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. It was more glitzy. The primary underground economy was gambling, but it’s still a vice area in a lot of ways,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1200x728.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1180x716.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-960x583.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-375x228.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-520x316.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe Passage volunteer Michael Cameron takes pride in helping children navigate the Tenderloin. “I love what I do, and I really feel like I make a difference,” said Cameron, 65. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An often misunderstood or ignored neighborhood, the Tenderloin is an area where larger issues collide, such as income inequality and the housing crisis, said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/research-reports/san-francisco-homeless-point-in-time-count-reports/\">city’s homeless population\u003c/a> -- and services for them -- are concentrated in the Tenderloin and a neighboring area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Tenderloin is this place that’s really empathetic and supportive that didn’t cause all these issues to happen,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco and the state wrestle with those huge problems, Margarita Mena said she’s proud of what she and other residents have accomplished with Safe Passage, which is now part of the nonprofit Tenderloin Community Benefit District. She will continue volunteering for the program as long as she lives in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you feel good, because you are doing something good for children and for your community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Farida Jhabvala Romero reports on immigration, economic opportunity, and race and ethnicity for KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. census figures report 2,200 children live in the Tenderloin, but local nonprofits estimate there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">more than 3,000 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">kids\u003c/a> in that neighborhood, between Union Square and the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the Tenderloin has attracted immigrant families and workers because of its high density of affordable housing. In a city where median rents have skyrocketed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/\">nearly $4,200\u003c/a> a month, the Tenderloin represents an island of affordable studios, one-bedroom apartments and residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole different world than the rest of San Francisco,” said Randy Shaw, who directs the nonprofit Tenderloin Housing Clinic and has worked in the neighborhood for about 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are under rent control or permanently affordable, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/wp-content/uploads/TLDWDI-Action-Plan-June-2017.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working-class families worried about safety in the Tenderloin have few options to move to other parts of the city where rents are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for an adult to live here, and I don’t recommend it for kids,” said Margarita Mena, 60, who lives with three grandchildren in an apartment building for low-income families. “Children see people shooting up, people lying on the street, and syringes thrown out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 10 years ago, Mena and other moms in the Tenderloin began meeting with the goal of making streets safer for kids walking to and from three schools in the neighborhood. That push became Safe Passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service.'\u003ccite>Eric Robinson, SFPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘We need to do something!’ ” said Mena, who has lived in the Tenderloin since she immigrated to the United States from Mexico. “We need for somebody to be on the corners when kids are off school, helping them cross the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During morning and afternoon shifts, Mena, Cameron and other volunteers head out in pairs to their assigned corners. 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