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His cheeky celebration of economic recovery downtown came a day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">violently clashed with protesters\u003c/a> outside the city’s downtown courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical internet fashion, backlash followed almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s troublingly dystopian to see this video about Labubus from you while your constituents are being kidnapped by federal agents, and those who are trying to stop that from happening are being brutalized. Is this what you want your legacy to be?” read one comment from a group representing a coalition of left-leaning San Francisco City Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comment was one of many criticizing the mayor online for not speaking out more about escalating ICE raids in San Francisco this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFPD officer stares straight ahead past a line of anti-ICE protesters during a protest in San Francisco on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie takes a cautious, positive approach on TikTok and Instagram, highlighting the city’s recovery while avoiding the partisan fights that fuel much of today’s online political discourse. His strategy reflects the challenge moderate Democrats face in balancing tough issues with hopeful messaging in a polarized digital landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, he speaks directly to residents through selfie videos showing off things like thriving coffee shops, housing development plans or AI companies making San Francisco their home base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think is important is that we’ve got to show all the good things happening,” Lurie told KQED after wrapping up a selfie video with Warriors star Jimmy Butler at his new coffee pop-up in the Mission.[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed-1020x680.jpg']The mayor isn’t shying away from tough topics that San Franciscans care about, like the city’s $800-million budget deficit, homelessness and the overdose crisis. He often films himself walking through parts of the city, talking to residents where those issues are most visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be totally transparent, while driving here, I saw people struggling on the street,” he said on Mission Street. “We have to be honest and transparent with people, and that’s what we’re able to do with our Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie strikes a different tone online compared to other politicians who have fueled and benefited from online vitriol. President Donald Trump, who also owns the social media website Truth Social, exemplifies how lashing out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/trump-blames-newsom-deadly-los-angeles-fires/\">political opponents\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg\">or allies\u003c/a>) online can have real implications and capture the internet’s fleeting attention. Trump’s posts have had wild success on social media platforms like X, where \u003ca href=\"https://csmapnyu.org/research/reports-analysis/twitter-amplifies-conservative-politicians-is-it-because-users-mock-them\">studies show\u003c/a> posts from conservative politicians are amplified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats have found their niche, too. Gov. Gavin Newsom, for example, saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/07/07/how-trolling-trump-is-helping-gavin-newsom-00441062\">boost in popularity online\u003c/a> after criticizing Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests and posting things like \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1932447842683249033\">Star Wars memes\u003c/a> to mock White House actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this moment, what goes viral, what gets attention, is really being outspoken either as a MAGA guy or as an anti-MAGA person. And Lurie struggles with both of those,” said Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches politics at Columbia University and writes about San Francisco, where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048164 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Golden State Warriors player Jimmy Butler (right) record a selfie video together at the opening of the Corner Store in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. Democratic politicians are using social media to rally their supporters, and Mayor Daniel Lurie is doing just that, but moderate Democrats like him face challenges in a volatile online landscape. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partisan conflict isn’t the only ticket to online success for politicians. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has become nationally known through TikTok and Instagram videos explaining populist economic ideas like free bus service and child care — a factor \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-campaign-videos.html\">credited as a powerful tool\u003c/a> in his rise and victory in the city’s mayoral race primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie’s not doing just the vibes and values like [Kamala] Harris. He’s also not quite Mamdani, who had this amazing two-minute video of him breaking down the food truck permitting process,” said Zeve Sanderson, executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. “He sort of sits in between those two poles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie isn’t picking fights or giving followers radical new ideas to chew on. His focus appears to be on presenting a counter-narrative to the so-called “doom loop,” contrasting with his predecessor, former Mayor London Breed.[aside postID=news_12048367 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BondiBurgumSFVisitAP1.jpg']“It’s a good political strategy,” Mitchell said of Lurie’s pro-San Francisco tone. “His predecessor decided that she could benefit by telling a story about how horrible San Francisco is. That has never worked, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some residents, Lurie’s affable selfie videos are a welcome reprieve from headlines of the city’s struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems super personable. And the fact that he’s the one taking the selfie videos seems more personal with SF residents versus just having someone make it super professional,” said Boris Cotom, an Excelsior resident who brought his younger brother to wait in line at Butler’s coffee pop-up. “I think it’s a cool way to kind of show what he’s been doing for the city so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll\u003c/a> found similar opinions. Half of surveyed voters said the mayor should remain focused on local issues, and 29% said Lurie should help lead the opposition to Trump. His Instagram account drew 9.7 million views in the past month, reaching more than 880,000 accounts — all without paid promotion, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s cautious online approach aims to project his genuine optimism on the city’s recovery, according to Annie Gabillet, who manages his social media with Gen Z staffers Haakon Black and Sophia Robles-Mendoza. The team follows Lurie around throughout the day, snapping photos, revising texts and quickly editing his videos for residents to see what the mayor is up to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upbeat “cheerleader dad” tone is authentic to his personality off-camera. A moderate Democrat and father of two, he has rarely, if ever, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">said Trump’s name\u003c/a> when asked by reporters about federal issues affecting San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048167 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Haakon Black (right), a member of his social media team, walk in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several city supervisors have participated in anti-ICE protests. Lurie’s cautious stance has left some followers frustrated, comments to his posts show, and feeling like their outrage over mass deportations, wealth inequality and cuts to public services isn’t echoed by their mayor, who is also an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians just a few years ago were less willing to get into arguments on social media or directly engage in criticism. And I think today, establishment politicians who have been around a while do that on the flip side, sort of Bravo TV-style, just steering into fights,” Sanderson said. “[Lurie] seems to engage with what he perceives to be criticisms or problems, but he doesn’t go full Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie had never posted a selfie video before running for office. But he understands how provocative content tends to get more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparent when JJ Smith, who frequently posts videos of unhoused residents and outdoor drug use on X, filmed Lurie approaching him on the street. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1925038514393251850\">In the video\u003c/a>, Lurie told Smith that his posting “kills our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if Lurie would help San Francisco by fighting with Republicans online. Breed struck a much stronger tone against Trump during his first presidential term, while Lurie has managed to somewhat steer right-wing pundits’ attention away from the city’s ills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048168\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie looks to his social media team to prepare for a social video recording on 16th Street in the Mission District with his team in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he does wade into thornier territory, such as the city’s drug and homelessness crises, Lurie often acknowledges that there’s “more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting Butler’s pop-up on Valencia Street, Lurie’s team headed to 16th Street to observe conditions around homelessness and drug use, which neighbors say have worsened as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">crackdowns in the Tenderloin and South of Market\u003c/a> have displaced issues to other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the 16th Street BART station, Lurie stopped and faced Black, his cameraman, while Gabillet stood to the side, ready to offer feedback. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical internet fashion, backlash followed almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s troublingly dystopian to see this video about Labubus from you while your constituents are being kidnapped by federal agents, and those who are trying to stop that from happening are being brutalized. Is this what you want your legacy to be?” read one comment from a group representing a coalition of left-leaning San Francisco City Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comment was one of many criticizing the mayor online for not speaking out more about escalating ICE raids in San Francisco this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFPD officer stares straight ahead past a line of anti-ICE protesters during a protest in San Francisco on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie takes a cautious, positive approach on TikTok and Instagram, highlighting the city’s recovery while avoiding the partisan fights that fuel much of today’s online political discourse. His strategy reflects the challenge moderate Democrats face in balancing tough issues with hopeful messaging in a polarized digital landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, he speaks directly to residents through selfie videos showing off things like thriving coffee shops, housing development plans or AI companies making San Francisco their home base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think is important is that we’ve got to show all the good things happening,” Lurie told KQED after wrapping up a selfie video with Warriors star Jimmy Butler at his new coffee pop-up in the Mission.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The mayor isn’t shying away from tough topics that San Franciscans care about, like the city’s $800-million budget deficit, homelessness and the overdose crisis. He often films himself walking through parts of the city, talking to residents where those issues are most visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be totally transparent, while driving here, I saw people struggling on the street,” he said on Mission Street. “We have to be honest and transparent with people, and that’s what we’re able to do with our Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie strikes a different tone online compared to other politicians who have fueled and benefited from online vitriol. President Donald Trump, who also owns the social media website Truth Social, exemplifies how lashing out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/trump-blames-newsom-deadly-los-angeles-fires/\">political opponents\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg\">or allies\u003c/a>) online can have real implications and capture the internet’s fleeting attention. Trump’s posts have had wild success on social media platforms like X, where \u003ca href=\"https://csmapnyu.org/research/reports-analysis/twitter-amplifies-conservative-politicians-is-it-because-users-mock-them\">studies show\u003c/a> posts from conservative politicians are amplified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats have found their niche, too. Gov. Gavin Newsom, for example, saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/07/07/how-trolling-trump-is-helping-gavin-newsom-00441062\">boost in popularity online\u003c/a> after criticizing Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests and posting things like \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1932447842683249033\">Star Wars memes\u003c/a> to mock White House actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this moment, what goes viral, what gets attention, is really being outspoken either as a MAGA guy or as an anti-MAGA person. And Lurie struggles with both of those,” said Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches politics at Columbia University and writes about San Francisco, where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048164 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Golden State Warriors player Jimmy Butler (right) record a selfie video together at the opening of the Corner Store in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. Democratic politicians are using social media to rally their supporters, and Mayor Daniel Lurie is doing just that, but moderate Democrats like him face challenges in a volatile online landscape. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partisan conflict isn’t the only ticket to online success for politicians. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has become nationally known through TikTok and Instagram videos explaining populist economic ideas like free bus service and child care — a factor \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-campaign-videos.html\">credited as a powerful tool\u003c/a> in his rise and victory in the city’s mayoral race primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie’s not doing just the vibes and values like [Kamala] Harris. He’s also not quite Mamdani, who had this amazing two-minute video of him breaking down the food truck permitting process,” said Zeve Sanderson, executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. “He sort of sits in between those two poles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie isn’t picking fights or giving followers radical new ideas to chew on. His focus appears to be on presenting a counter-narrative to the so-called “doom loop,” contrasting with his predecessor, former Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s a good political strategy,” Mitchell said of Lurie’s pro-San Francisco tone. “His predecessor decided that she could benefit by telling a story about how horrible San Francisco is. That has never worked, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some residents, Lurie’s affable selfie videos are a welcome reprieve from headlines of the city’s struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems super personable. And the fact that he’s the one taking the selfie videos seems more personal with SF residents versus just having someone make it super professional,” said Boris Cotom, an Excelsior resident who brought his younger brother to wait in line at Butler’s coffee pop-up. “I think it’s a cool way to kind of show what he’s been doing for the city so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll\u003c/a> found similar opinions. Half of surveyed voters said the mayor should remain focused on local issues, and 29% said Lurie should help lead the opposition to Trump. His Instagram account drew 9.7 million views in the past month, reaching more than 880,000 accounts — all without paid promotion, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s cautious online approach aims to project his genuine optimism on the city’s recovery, according to Annie Gabillet, who manages his social media with Gen Z staffers Haakon Black and Sophia Robles-Mendoza. The team follows Lurie around throughout the day, snapping photos, revising texts and quickly editing his videos for residents to see what the mayor is up to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upbeat “cheerleader dad” tone is authentic to his personality off-camera. A moderate Democrat and father of two, he has rarely, if ever, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">said Trump’s name\u003c/a> when asked by reporters about federal issues affecting San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048167 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Haakon Black (right), a member of his social media team, walk in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several city supervisors have participated in anti-ICE protests. Lurie’s cautious stance has left some followers frustrated, comments to his posts show, and feeling like their outrage over mass deportations, wealth inequality and cuts to public services isn’t echoed by their mayor, who is also an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians just a few years ago were less willing to get into arguments on social media or directly engage in criticism. And I think today, establishment politicians who have been around a while do that on the flip side, sort of Bravo TV-style, just steering into fights,” Sanderson said. “[Lurie] seems to engage with what he perceives to be criticisms or problems, but he doesn’t go full Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie had never posted a selfie video before running for office. But he understands how provocative content tends to get more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparent when JJ Smith, who frequently posts videos of unhoused residents and outdoor drug use on X, filmed Lurie approaching him on the street. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1925038514393251850\">In the video\u003c/a>, Lurie told Smith that his posting “kills our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if Lurie would help San Francisco by fighting with Republicans online. Breed struck a much stronger tone against Trump during his first presidential term, while Lurie has managed to somewhat steer right-wing pundits’ attention away from the city’s ills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048168\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie looks to his social media team to prepare for a social video recording on 16th Street in the Mission District with his team in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he does wade into thornier territory, such as the city’s drug and homelessness crises, Lurie often acknowledges that there’s “more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting Butler’s pop-up on Valencia Street, Lurie’s team headed to 16th Street to observe conditions around homelessness and drug use, which neighbors say have worsened as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">crackdowns in the Tenderloin and South of Market\u003c/a> have displaced issues to other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the 16th Street BART station, Lurie stopped and faced Black, his cameraman, while Gabillet stood to the side, ready to offer feedback. In two takes, Lurie summarized what he saw in the area: mild but incomplete progress clearing the area of outdoor drug use. He chatted with neighborhood outreach workers and police officers before returning to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicizing it, I don’t get into that. I’m going to work with anybody that wants to fix this issue,” Lurie said as he strolled down Mission Street. “We’re going to work with every side of the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his carefully crafted online persona and his restraint from wading into heated online debates, Lurie said, “I’m trying to highlight not just to San Franciscans but to the world what is so unique and special about San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After years of strife over RV dwellers living on San Francisco streets, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047562/please-just-let-us-be-san-francisco-rv-crackdown-advances-despite-families-pleas\">ban long-term oversized vehicle parking\u003c/a> citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial vote by the board means people residing in RVs will soon have to move their vehicles every two hours unless they acquire a permit, leaving hundreds of people at risk of being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that someone living in a vehicle does not have a home is malicious when they have no other form of shelter,” Supervisor Shamann Walton, who voted against the ban, said at Tuesday’s board meeting. “This legislation is alluding to supporting brick and mortar as the only possible home in the most expensive city on the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot condone mass evictions to the streets for people trying to live in their homes — especially at a time when there’s an attack on immigrants, people of color, our LGBTQ community and basically anyone that is not in the one percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> In 2024, city officials attempted to implement targeted parking restrictions in neighborhoods with longstanding RV communities, like the Lake Merced area near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">Stonestown Galleria and San Francisco State University\u003c/a> and Bernal Hill. In the fall, former Mayor London Breed proposed legislation that would allow vehicles parked overnight to be towed citywide if residents had previously refused shelter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">supervisors blocked it\u003c/a> in December after pushback from community advocates. Last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie revived the ban, proposing a strict two-hour limit for oversized vehicles on all city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">June legislation\u003c/a> takes a citywide approach to address the reshuffling caused by earlier iterations and includes incentives for people moving into housing, his office told the board this month. Some carve-outs will be made for commercial vehicles parked in industrial areas. The proposal received unanimous approval from the city’s Budget and Finance Committee last week, and this week, it passed a first vote, 9–2. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, and Walton, whose district spans the Bayview and Potrero Hill, opposed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie’s office said the plan “offers a path forward on what has long been an intractable challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With compassion and accountability, we will give those living in vehicles a better option and deliver safe and clean streets for our communities,” he said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>Other cities across the Bay Area, including Berkeley and Fremont in the East Bay, have also been cracking down on vehicle homelessness. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">Fremont passed\u003c/a> what is believed to be the most restrictive overnight camping ban in the state, prohibiting RV parking on public and private property, including residential streets, for more than three consecutive nights.[aside postID=news_12047562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL_qed.jpg']In November, Berkeley’s city council directed city workers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">clean up a known RV community\u003c/a> on Second Street in West Berkeley. The move was in line with a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">aggressive approach\u003c/a> to sweeping encampments, which allows people to be cleared from streets even if the city cannot offer them housing. Both cities’ new rules came after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ordered state agencies\u003c/a> last July to dismantle homeless encampments across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>If Lurie’s legislation passes a second vote in the coming weeks as expected, the new parking regulations will take effect. Homelessness advocates say this could affect residents living in about 475 vehicles, many of whom may not be willing to trade their private mobile homes for the housing options the city can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents actively looking for housing will be eligible for permits up to six months to remain in their RVs while they wait to relocate. The legislation includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots in addition to more than 300 similar subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are awaiting more details about another incentive to move people off the streets: a vehicle buyback program that will offer people cash for their RVs. It’s unclear how much residents stand to receive, though the legislation includes a $500,000 budget for buybacks. Earlier this year, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">piloted a similar program\u003c/a> that pays residents $175 per linear foot of an RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear if San Francisco is still pursuing a new westside safe parking site similar to one opened in the Bayview during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the city was looking for two lots in the area to convert into safe parking, but neither of the sites has been secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:05 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oakland officials are expected to begin evicting residents of two city-run homeless shelters along Wood Street, the site of what was once the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949327/the-end-of-wood-street-inside-the-struggle-for-stability-housing-on-the-margins-of-the-bay-area\">largest community of unhoused people\u003c/a> in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sites — a safe RV parking site with 40 spots and a 100-bed cabin community — were always meant to be temporary shelters, but ceased operation in mid-May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/30/oakland-wood-street-cabins-shelter/\">when the shelter operator abruptly left\u003c/a>. While some residents have found permanent housing, others have already left to find shelter in tents, RVs or other makeshift homes, according to SheMika Crawford, who was living in the cabins until she moved out on Thursday. At least five residents remain, city officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, Crawford signed the lease on a new home. She was only meant to stay at the cabin for 90 days, but June marked two years living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at the cabin falling apart,” she said. “We fix it ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After BOSS stopped managing the sites in May, Crawford said, “We’ve been winging it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the city and Caltrans began evicting unhoused residents from a sprawling, nearly milelong encampment on a vacant lot underneath Interstate 580 that runs parallel to Wood Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047669\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident SheMika Crawford stands near the Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the RVs and makeshift homes were on Caltrans’ land, which the agency closed in the fall of 2022. A portion of the encampment, which was on city-owned land, remained there until the spring of 2023, when the city moved many of the remaining residents into the newly opened cabin community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It partnered with nonprofit Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) to operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.self-sufficiency.org/post/wood-street-community-cabins-registration-is-open\">both sites\u003c/a>. Along with RV spaces and cabin beds, BOSS also promised to provide services to find stable housing and employment opportunities. During its two years of operation, 185 people lived between the two sites.[aside postID=news_12032734 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1020x680.jpg']But in late May, the nonprofit stopped operating the sites \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032734/homeless-services-nonprofits-oakland-fails-pay-contracts\">after months of late or missing payments\u003c/a> from the city of Oakland. In June, the City Council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045763/oaklands-wood-street-shelters-to-close-on-june-30\">decommission the two sites\u003c/a> and return them to the owner by December. According to a city notice, residents remaining after 5 p.m. on Monday will be arrested. Any belongings will be discarded and vehicles will be towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city estimates that the work to restore the property to returnable condition will require up to six months,” Sean Maher, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland, wrote in an email to KQED. “Work to implement this closure and find alternative support for the program residents has been underway for the last several months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSS started providing housing and employment services for people living at the RV safe parking site on Wood Street in July 2022, according to the company. From then through late May, the nonprofit served 48 people. Of those, 75% found permanent housing before the nonprofit left the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the numbers look more grim for those who lived in the cabins. Of the 137 residents, fewer than a quarter found permanent housing and nearly 84% went to other shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Frazier, CEO of the nonprofit, said the program had its issues — the roads leading to the sites were riddled with potholes, staff slowly left and services dwindled as the city’s payments to the nonprofit grew less frequent. Though people are remaining on the sites, he said it’s not for a lack of trying on BOSS’s part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were brought in from the beginning to provide housing navigation services, clinical services and just day-to-day services, food and making sure that everything is operational,” he said. “A vast majority of people were successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Oakland%20PIT%202024%20Infographic.pdf\">city’s latest count\u003c/a>, roughly 5,480 unhoused people were living in Oakland last year, about two-thirds of whom were living in tents, cars and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher said the city is working with Alameda County officials to place those remaining at the sites into temporary housing. In the meantime, John Janosko, a former resident of the Wood Street cabins, hopes the city and the county consider the solutions he and other housing rights advocates proposed to address housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>The city needs to really start listening to us,” he said. “We have an opportunity because of Barbara Lee right now to change the narrative, to change how things are being done, how we treat unhoused people in Oakland right now and in Alameda County and be a leader in change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge\">Beth LaBerge\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at the cabin falling apart,” she said. “We fix it ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After BOSS stopped managing the sites in May, Crawford said, “We’ve been winging it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the city and Caltrans began evicting unhoused residents from a sprawling, nearly milelong encampment on a vacant lot underneath Interstate 580 that runs parallel to Wood Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047669\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident SheMika Crawford stands near the Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the RVs and makeshift homes were on Caltrans’ land, which the agency closed in the fall of 2022. A portion of the encampment, which was on city-owned land, remained there until the spring of 2023, when the city moved many of the remaining residents into the newly opened cabin community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It partnered with nonprofit Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) to operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.self-sufficiency.org/post/wood-street-community-cabins-registration-is-open\">both sites\u003c/a>. Along with RV spaces and cabin beds, BOSS also promised to provide services to find stable housing and employment opportunities. During its two years of operation, 185 people lived between the two sites.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But in late May, the nonprofit stopped operating the sites \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032734/homeless-services-nonprofits-oakland-fails-pay-contracts\">after months of late or missing payments\u003c/a> from the city of Oakland. In June, the City Council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045763/oaklands-wood-street-shelters-to-close-on-june-30\">decommission the two sites\u003c/a> and return them to the owner by December. According to a city notice, residents remaining after 5 p.m. on Monday will be arrested. Any belongings will be discarded and vehicles will be towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city estimates that the work to restore the property to returnable condition will require up to six months,” Sean Maher, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland, wrote in an email to KQED. “Work to implement this closure and find alternative support for the program residents has been underway for the last several months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSS started providing housing and employment services for people living at the RV safe parking site on Wood Street in July 2022, according to the company. From then through late May, the nonprofit served 48 people. Of those, 75% found permanent housing before the nonprofit left the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the numbers look more grim for those who lived in the cabins. Of the 137 residents, fewer than a quarter found permanent housing and nearly 84% went to other shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Frazier, CEO of the nonprofit, said the program had its issues — the roads leading to the sites were riddled with potholes, staff slowly left and services dwindled as the city’s payments to the nonprofit grew less frequent. Though people are remaining on the sites, he said it’s not for a lack of trying on BOSS’s part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250710-WoodStreetCabins-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wood Street Cabins in Oakland on July 10, 2025, before the city shuts down the temporary tiny-home site, which opened in 2023 to shelter people displaced from a nearby encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were brought in from the beginning to provide housing navigation services, clinical services and just day-to-day services, food and making sure that everything is operational,” he said. “A vast majority of people were successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Oakland%20PIT%202024%20Infographic.pdf\">city’s latest count\u003c/a>, roughly 5,480 unhoused people were living in Oakland last year, about two-thirds of whom were living in tents, cars and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher said the city is working with Alameda County officials to place those remaining at the sites into temporary housing. In the meantime, John Janosko, a former resident of the Wood Street cabins, hopes the city and the county consider the solutions he and other housing rights advocates proposed to address housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>The city needs to really start listening to us,” he said. “We have an opportunity because of Barbara Lee right now to change the narrative, to change how things are being done, how we treat unhoused people in Oakland right now and in Alameda County and be a leader in change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge\">Beth LaBerge\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">crackdown on RV parking\u003c/a> is one step closer to reality after a key committee gave it the green light on Wednesday, despite unhoused residents and advocates’ pleas to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Budget and Finance Committee voted unanimously to recommend policy changes limiting the amount of time RVs can park on streets citywide to two hours, sending the ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors after years of strife over the large vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, San Franciscans who have lived in RVs for years asked board members to drop the legislation proposed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, which they said would exacerbate their housing difficulties and pose challenges for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m asking you to please legislate from your heart,” a woman named Lucy told the supervisors in Spanish. She was one of dozens who opposed the policy during public comment. “We feel like we were not heard. I feel personally destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t bother anybody, we’re not asking for money, please just let us be in a place where we can have our home and be at peace,” she continued, speaking through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023, near San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s plan is the latest effort to reduce the number of people living in RVs in pockets of the city, estimated to total hundreds citywide. The vehicles have blocked sidewalks, caused traffic congestion and created health hazards that harm surrounding neighborhoods, Lurie’s chief of health, homelessness and family services, Kunal Modi, told the supervisors on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the ongoing controversy has centered on the quiet westside streets around Lake Merced, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">dozens of families have lived for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents parked along Winston Drive behind Stonestown Galleria were forced to move last year after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency passed new parking restrictions for the area in 2023. The changes came amid mounting complaints from neighbors and were meant to clear space for San Francisco State students and staff to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those limits briefly went into effect over the summer of 2024, RV dwellers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">moved to Zoo Road near Lake Merced\u003c/a> before facing similar pushback and notices to vacate.[aside postID=news_12047353 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In the months since, oversized vehicles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">shuffled around the area\u003c/a> as then-Mayor London Breed and now Lurie proposed plans that sought to appease residents in surrounding neighborhoods while coming up with housing solutions, including promises to find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970299/city-delays-parking-restrictions-near-sf-state-offering-brief-reprieve-to-rv-community\">new westside spaces for a safe parking site\u003c/a> similar to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/solutions/bayview-vehicle-triage-center/\">opened in the Bayview\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Breed proposed a plan that would have allowed SFMTA to tow large vehicles if people living in them refused shelter and housing services. That ban on overnight parking was set to go into effect in November, but an \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appeal\u003c/a> from homelessness advocates delayed it, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">the Board of Supervisors later reversed it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi told the board’s Budget and Finance Committee that his plan, which seems to have wider support, differs from previous attempts to restrict RV parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We owe our small businesses and residents safe and clean public spaces,” he said. “People experiencing RV homelessness deserve compassion and pathways to stability. At the same time, our neighborhoods and small businesses deserve safe and clean streets. We really do believe that we can do both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-person committee — including Supervisors Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar, who had voted to overturn Breed’s policy — unanimously forwarded the proposal with a positive recommendation. It also has support from Board President Rafael Mandelman and Supervisors Stephen Sherrill, Matt Dorsey and Joel Engardio, who are co-sponsors of the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, some RV dwellers who are actively pursuing housing options would be eligible to receive temporary parking permits for up to six months while they wait to relocate, Modi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots, which policy documents say would be in addition to over 300 of these subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget for families, adults and young people this year. About 437 vehicles are currently being used as housing in San Francisco, according to city documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new half-million-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">rebate program\u003c/a> would also allow residents to sell their vehicles back to the city — an idea some advocates believe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">could be valuable\u003c/a> so long as RV owners get fair compensation, but others view as possibly coercive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, co-chair of San Francisco’s Homeless Oversight Commission, warned that the ban on long-term parking might not have a significant effect on the level of street homelessness in the city, since it’s unlikely many families will agree to a communal or highly regulated housing option over their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not really a rational choice for somebody to make to switch out of a vehicle where they have privacy, a private bathroom, and move into a congregate shelter where they’re in a very crowded situation,” Evans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">told KQED earlier this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If vehicles are towed or impounded as a result of the crackdown, she said, it could increase the strain on the city’s shelters and housing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those resources, I don’t know that that should be our priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other homelessness advocates have urged supervisors to reconsider before the whole board is expected to hear the proposal in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m asking you to please legislate from your heart,” a woman named Lucy told the supervisors in Spanish. She was one of dozens who opposed the policy during public comment. “We feel like we were not heard. I feel personally destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t bother anybody, we’re not asking for money, please just let us be in a place where we can have our home and be at peace,” she continued, speaking through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023, near San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s plan is the latest effort to reduce the number of people living in RVs in pockets of the city, estimated to total hundreds citywide. The vehicles have blocked sidewalks, caused traffic congestion and created health hazards that harm surrounding neighborhoods, Lurie’s chief of health, homelessness and family services, Kunal Modi, told the supervisors on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the ongoing controversy has centered on the quiet westside streets around Lake Merced, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">dozens of families have lived for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents parked along Winston Drive behind Stonestown Galleria were forced to move last year after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency passed new parking restrictions for the area in 2023. The changes came amid mounting complaints from neighbors and were meant to clear space for San Francisco State students and staff to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those limits briefly went into effect over the summer of 2024, RV dwellers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">moved to Zoo Road near Lake Merced\u003c/a> before facing similar pushback and notices to vacate.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the months since, oversized vehicles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">shuffled around the area\u003c/a> as then-Mayor London Breed and now Lurie proposed plans that sought to appease residents in surrounding neighborhoods while coming up with housing solutions, including promises to find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970299/city-delays-parking-restrictions-near-sf-state-offering-brief-reprieve-to-rv-community\">new westside spaces for a safe parking site\u003c/a> similar to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/solutions/bayview-vehicle-triage-center/\">opened in the Bayview\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Breed proposed a plan that would have allowed SFMTA to tow large vehicles if people living in them refused shelter and housing services. That ban on overnight parking was set to go into effect in November, but an \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appeal\u003c/a> from homelessness advocates delayed it, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">the Board of Supervisors later reversed it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi told the board’s Budget and Finance Committee that his plan, which seems to have wider support, differs from previous attempts to restrict RV parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We owe our small businesses and residents safe and clean public spaces,” he said. “People experiencing RV homelessness deserve compassion and pathways to stability. At the same time, our neighborhoods and small businesses deserve safe and clean streets. We really do believe that we can do both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-person committee — including Supervisors Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar, who had voted to overturn Breed’s policy — unanimously forwarded the proposal with a positive recommendation. It also has support from Board President Rafael Mandelman and Supervisors Stephen Sherrill, Matt Dorsey and Joel Engardio, who are co-sponsors of the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, some RV dwellers who are actively pursuing housing options would be eligible to receive temporary parking permits for up to six months while they wait to relocate, Modi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots, which policy documents say would be in addition to over 300 of these subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget for families, adults and young people this year. About 437 vehicles are currently being used as housing in San Francisco, according to city documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new half-million-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">rebate program\u003c/a> would also allow residents to sell their vehicles back to the city — an idea some advocates believe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">could be valuable\u003c/a> so long as RV owners get fair compensation, but others view as possibly coercive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, co-chair of San Francisco’s Homeless Oversight Commission, warned that the ban on long-term parking might not have a significant effect on the level of street homelessness in the city, since it’s unlikely many families will agree to a communal or highly regulated housing option over their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not really a rational choice for somebody to make to switch out of a vehicle where they have privacy, a private bathroom, and move into a congregate shelter where they’re in a very crowded situation,” Evans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">told KQED earlier this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If vehicles are towed or impounded as a result of the crackdown, she said, it could increase the strain on the city’s shelters and housing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those resources, I don’t know that that should be our priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other homelessness advocates have urged supervisors to reconsider before the whole board is expected to hear the proposal in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Six months into his term, San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is abandoning his headline-making campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in that time, but homelessness experts and nonprofit leaders are optimistic about the shift in priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Lurie vowed to help end unsheltered homelessness by significantly expanding the city’s shelter capacity in his first six months, a lofty goal that some homelessness advocates warned at the time was likely both unattainable and unproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his election, though, Lurie doubled down on the plan in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">an executive order\u003c/a>, and in May, he announced he’d raised nearly $40 million toward the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the six-month mark, Lurie has fallen short, with just 400 beds opening during his term so far. Now, the pivot suggests he is coming to terms with advocates’ warnings that the huge investment in short-term housing might not be the best way to address San Francisco’s homelessness and behavioral health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Lurie’s chief of homelessness policy, Kunal Modi, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/07/07/we-promised-the-city-1500-shelter-beds-heres-what-were-doing-instead/\">op-ed published by the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on Monday that the administration will focus on “making our system more effective, not building toward a specific number of beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Modi said that while San Francisco’s unsheltered homeless population needs places to sleep, many also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045893/sf-supervisors-preserve-millions-for-homeless-prevention-housing-in-budget\">need wraparound services\u003c/a> like drug treatment options, mental health care and more permanent housing support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates expressed optimism about the Lurie administration’s pivot, but they’re also urging the mayor not to bow to constituent pressure and initiatives that are more focused on the public’s perception of homelessness than on systemic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without access to resources like those wraparound services, many people who are placed in short-term shelters remain homeless, said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.[aside postID=news_12046854 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/021_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg']Right now, only 13% of people who make use of San Francisco’s different shelter types move into permanent housing, according to Friedenbach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their health outcomes are still diminished. They don’t have the stability. They don’t have that opportunity for the transformation that often takes place once folks leave homelessness behind and have a safe and dignified home,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you really want to do is make sure that folks have housing so that they can move out of shelter and then that bed can be available for someone else,” Friedenbach said. “You want to invest in prevention. That really has been our recommendation all along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach said that ideally, when the city adds a shelter bed, it should also be adding two to three longer-term housing exits for people to move into next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, San Francisco has overinvested in shelter beds compared to other types of supportive housing, she said, which often results in a short-term reprieve from street homelessness, followed by a strong resurgence. Similarly, San Franciscans who go into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036307/sf-expand-combination-shelter-opioid-treatment-program-homeless-residents\">drug treatment\u003c/a> but don’t have a suitable housing option to transition to often end up back on the street, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The systems that work the best … really concentrate on system flow,” Friedenbach said. “We’ve done massive expansion to shelter over the past few years, and that has not resulted in a dramatic difference, but it’s been quite expensive. You [have] got to have this more balanced approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman standings preparing a document, wearing a blue dress, and a man and woman beside her in a large crowded hall.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Friedenbach (right) from the Coalition on Homelessness helps people lining up to place questions for the speakers in the first in a series of town hall city budget meetings at Tenderloin Community School, in San Francisco, with then-mayor Ed Lee and then-supervisor Jane Kim on March 16, 2011. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Modi said Lurie’s office would aim to improve the existing homelessness services system by investing in programs that support people who are within the first 48 hours of getting housed, coordinating street teams and upping the number of shelter, short-term and permanent supportive housing options that offer clinical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Friedenbach and Homeless Oversight Commission co-chair Christin Evans commended Lurie’s pivot, but they also warned that other policies in the pipeline to reduce visible homelessness could similarly backfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to Lurie’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">ban on long-term RV parking\u003c/a> as an example. The new ordinance would allocate $3 million for enforcement of a two-hour limit on large vehicle parking on all city streets, along with funding for housing subsidies and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">vehicle buyback option\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12045893 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED.jpg']“He’s getting constituent pressure. The visible homelessness signs have clearly been a priority of his,” she said. But of the RV ban, she added, “It’s not as much about actually reducing homelessness, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy probably won’t significantly decrease the number of unhoused San Franciscans, Evans said, but it could increase the strain on shelters and housing resources. Many people living in vehicles also won’t likely be willing to accept the housing offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not really a rational choice for somebody to make to switch out of a vehicle where they have privacy, a private bathroom, and move into a congregate shelter where they’re in a very crowded situation,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those resources, I don’t know that that should be our priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both she and Friedenbach also worry about the mayor’s request for the Board of Supervisors to weaken its legislative check on Proposition C spending, which is mostly aimed at homeless family housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members look for vehicles and RVs serving as shelters during a point-in-time homeless population count in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2024. Teams spread out through San Francisco to count sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The measure, which instituted an additional tax on businesses and people who make more than $50 million a year, passed in 2018, creating the Our City, Our Home Fund to help pay for access to permanent housing, with large portions of the revenue funding family and youth housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s original budget proposal this spring would have used unspent money and interest earned on the Our City, Our Home Fund \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045893/sf-supervisors-preserve-millions-for-homeless-prevention-housing-in-budget\">to fund additional adult shelter beds\u003c/a>, but he faced pushback from homelessness advocates who said the focus on young people was important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children, when they experience homelessness, are more likely to become homeless themselves later in life if they experience that homelessness longer than six months,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After negotiations, the revised budget retains much of the family homelessness support, but Lurie has still asked supervisors to remove a requirement that a supermajority of the board approve changes in how he allocates leftover Our City, Our Home funding in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the past three years, mayors keep proposing moving money … three years ago, it was $60 million from family and youth housing. This year, $88.5 million being taken away primarily from family youth housing and moving it over primarily to single adult shelter,” Friedenbach said ahead of a rally opposing the policy change, which was scheduled for a vote on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families have doubled in San Francisco in homelessness, and this is where we’re failing and we need the most resources,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Right now, only 13% of people who make use of San Francisco’s different shelter types move into permanent housing, according to Friedenbach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their health outcomes are still diminished. They don’t have the stability. They don’t have that opportunity for the transformation that often takes place once folks leave homelessness behind and have a safe and dignified home,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you really want to do is make sure that folks have housing so that they can move out of shelter and then that bed can be available for someone else,” Friedenbach said. “You want to invest in prevention. That really has been our recommendation all along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach said that ideally, when the city adds a shelter bed, it should also be adding two to three longer-term housing exits for people to move into next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, San Francisco has overinvested in shelter beds compared to other types of supportive housing, she said, which often results in a short-term reprieve from street homelessness, followed by a strong resurgence. Similarly, San Franciscans who go into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036307/sf-expand-combination-shelter-opioid-treatment-program-homeless-residents\">drug treatment\u003c/a> but don’t have a suitable housing option to transition to often end up back on the street, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The systems that work the best … really concentrate on system flow,” Friedenbach said. “We’ve done massive expansion to shelter over the past few years, and that has not resulted in a dramatic difference, but it’s been quite expensive. You [have] got to have this more balanced approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman standings preparing a document, wearing a blue dress, and a man and woman beside her in a large crowded hall.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Friedenbach (right) from the Coalition on Homelessness helps people lining up to place questions for the speakers in the first in a series of town hall city budget meetings at Tenderloin Community School, in San Francisco, with then-mayor Ed Lee and then-supervisor Jane Kim on March 16, 2011. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Modi said Lurie’s office would aim to improve the existing homelessness services system by investing in programs that support people who are within the first 48 hours of getting housed, coordinating street teams and upping the number of shelter, short-term and permanent supportive housing options that offer clinical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Friedenbach and Homeless Oversight Commission co-chair Christin Evans commended Lurie’s pivot, but they also warned that other policies in the pipeline to reduce visible homelessness could similarly backfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to Lurie’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">ban on long-term RV parking\u003c/a> as an example. The new ordinance would allocate $3 million for enforcement of a two-hour limit on large vehicle parking on all city streets, along with funding for housing subsidies and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">vehicle buyback option\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is backing down — somewhat — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">his effort\u003c/a> to sweep money set aside for homeless prevention programs and permanent housing to instead fund temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">community groups and experts\u003c/a> warned that the mayor’s plan, proposed last month, could inadvertently inflate the need for temporary shelter if more permanent housing is not available for people to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s way better than where we started,” said Christin Evans, co-chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “If you put all your investment into shelter, you aren’t ending homelessness. You’re perpetuating homelessness and warehousing people. So we need more housing that people can exit shelter into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 14 hours of tense closed-door negotiations, the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee at 2 a.m. Thursday voted to move the amended $16 billion budget proposal forward to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also preserved funding for 57 of 100 filled jobs that Lurie had proposed to cut to help balance the city’s nearly $800 million deficit. Lurie had proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">eliminating around 1,400 positions\u003c/a>, most of which are currently vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passing this budget also required painful decisions that were, unfortunately, necessary to set up our entire city for success,” Lurie said in a statement on Thursday morning. “Leadership means making those tough decisions, and this group of city leaders did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie delivers remarks on a progress report of his first 100 days in office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s initial plan would have reappropriated nearly $88 million from the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to generate revenue for homeless services by taxing the city’s wealthiest businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about 50% of Proposition C dollars are slated for permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of negotiations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts\">protests\u003c/a> from community advocates, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reallocate $34 million toward shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of services, a lot of restorations that we are used to being able to make possible that won’t be reflective of this budget,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the marathon hearing. “But most certainly we did work hard to do everything we could to continue critical services.”[aside postID=news_12045555 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12045887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ggbridge_003_qed.jpg']This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] So the city of Oakland built a cabin site at Wood Street. They’ve definitely improved their tiny cabins. It’s one person or you can choose to have a roommate. There was laundry on site, there were showers, there were toilets, there was a small kitchen, a little bit of a space for people to sit and hang out. But I still wouldn’t call it a home. I mean, people can’t have keys to their own space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] But basically what they were offered were these tiny homes with showers and a kitchen, not a key, but a roof over their heads. What exactly were people promised when they moved into these tiny home? Because they weren’t necessarily expected to live there forever, right? They were supposed to be temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:03:11] When folks moved into these tiny homes, they were told that they could stay for 90 days with the option to extend for another 90 days. And some folks have stayed there for the entire two years they’ve been open. The city of Oakland often does not have enough shelter beds available, so this site was created for the people at Wood Street. They were essentially told that this is the way that you get into permanent housing is by moving into this cabin site, and then if you get your documents ready, if you work with us, we can get you in the pipeline for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] How did the people that you met at these tiny homes describe what it was like to live at these tiny homes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:03:54] I spoke with a couple of different folks who are currently living at the cabins. One of those people was Larry Coke. He’s someone who kind of keeps to himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] Well, I’ve been in this one, Wood Street encampment for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:04:09] He was okay with living at the cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:04:11] It’s not bad because we have showers and stuff, you know, so that was a plus they tried to help us, you know with as far as getting also security cards and stuff like that all our documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:04:22] He didn’t mind not having a key. I think he mentioned not liking places that have a lot of rules that kind of feel infantilizing, but he was definitely happier to be in the cabins than on the street, for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:37] And I know you met one woman who had a sort of less positive experience. Tell me about Tamra Lynn Rosselli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] So I spoke with Tamara Rosselli, who I had met from living at the 1707 Wood Street lot before it was evicted. Tamara has a very typical experience to, I think, what a lot of unhoused folks have, which is, you know, she was living at The Cabins for what she said was 16 months, and she was informed by another housing service provider, folks who were not running the cabin site that she was not on the list for housing yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] And I’m like, excuse me? She was like, no. She’s like, you’ve been doc ready since the second week you were there, correct? I said, yes. She said, they never put you in the housing queue. So all that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:05:22] One time I sat there for nothing, you know. And so that person helped her get on the housing list. Eventually she moved into another apartment, but she felt like, you know, she didn’t really like this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:34] I had crazy neighbors that broke our glass windows in front. She knocked on my doors and windows all night long, screaming, and their answer is call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:05:43] You know, she didn’t like her neighbors there. She said that someone tased her dog, like it was not a space where she really felt like she wanted to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] I mean, it was more uncomfortable than the encampment. It was just, that place, it just wasn’t for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:06:00] And so she eventually left that placement and came back to the cabin site. But at that point, I think she couldn’t get an official cabin there, so she kind of ended up just squatting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] And I say, I’m not leaving, you do what you have to do, but this is a place for homeless people that need housing and I’m homeless and I need housing. You’re asking me to go live on the streets so that you can hold this empty until you guys leave? That’s insane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] I’d also like to say, like, it wasn’t necessarily, like permanent housing. Like, she was moved into, you know, a housing spot for domestic violence survivors. She had also been offered SROs. I don’t think these are things that you or I would consider permanent housing. It’s still kind of a transitional space. Even the way she talked about, you know, being kicked out of the cabin site now was that, you know, she really stressed out about it at first, but she, I think she’s experienced so much. Instability in her life that she can handle it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:06:56] I’ve learned in the last five years not to become attached to things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] Coming up, why the cabins are closing down, and why the process has been so messy. Stay with us. I mean, now these cabins are closing sort of officially, right? What does it mean now that these are closing? What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:07:30] Yeah, so what I can gather from what the cities told me is that, you know, they need to close the cabins because they have to clear the site to give it back to the actual landowner. The city’s leasing it from a private developer. And so they need have a certain amount of time to clear a lot again, get everything off of it before the end of the year when it has to go back to them. So the cabs were definitely set to close at the end June. It was really just the there was a lot of back-and-forth about when that would happen and whether the service provider, BOSS – Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency, would stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:11] For the last few months, people living at the cabins have been jerked around by the timeline of its closure. First, the cabin’s nearly shut down in March, three months early, because of several missed payments from the city of Oakland. The service provider, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency or BOSS, said it wasn’t until it started sending out layoff notices that the city sat down with its CEO, promising to make good on its debts. So BOSS rescinded its layoff notice with the intention of closing down as planned at the end of June. But then, at the end of May, people living at the Wood Street cabins got another piece of unexpected news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:09:05] BOSS pulled out of the cabins last month because they said they weren’t being paid by the city of Oakland. They said they would lose $400,000 if they had to spend another month working there unpaid. On May 30th, folks at the cabins got notices on their doors that said 24-hour notice, no trespassing. And that was kind of the big indicator. That was when Boss stepped out. The city says that they think BOSS put up the signs. BOSS says they think the city put up signs. I know a lot of folks who live at the cabins were pretty disturbed when they got those notices. It didn’t state a time of day when they would have to leave. And then, of course, the city came by and took down the notices, said, you don’t have to live now, but you do have to on June 30th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:48] What has it meant that BOSS has been unpaid for the last couple of months? What has that meant for the services that this provider is supposed to offer and also the timeline of how this closure even happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Since BOSS has pulled out, there are other people who’ve kind of moved into the cabin site and are maybe squatting there. Those folks probably won’t get a placement even though they’re still homeless. Over time, residents complained about the toilets and bathrooms not being cleaned up. The photos looked really disgusting. And so I think it’s just created a lot more chaos for folks who were really hoping to kind of get rid of some of that chaos in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] Here, we were never like really informed of much, you know? They weren’t really telling us anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:10:33] When folks got those notices. I think they were pretty stressed out for about 24 hours and then realized they’d been abandoned by the service provider. And that’s when Tamara tried to step up and help take care of her friends who were living there and kind of tried to organize people to keep things clean together while they were kind of waiting to see what their next steps would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] I know a lot of people from when I lived in the encampment, I used to be really involved and maybe this is my time to get re-involved. And I said, I’ll make some phone calls tomorrow and see if I can get us some resources. And so that’s when I started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:09] I mean, that sounds so chaotic. How does Larry describe what it was like to get that notification and what has been explained to him about what is even happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] Yeah, I spoke with Larry the day that they that the notices had been put up and has anybody like come to talk to you in person about the notice?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] No, they just taped a piece of paper on the door and that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] He was pretty confused. We were heading into a weekend. It was a Friday. He wasn’t sure if he would, I mean, he assumed that he’d be able to stay the weekend at least, but you know, he thought maybe he’d be kicked out on Monday. But I think like so many unhoused people who face such instability, again, like he was just like, well, whatever it is, I’ll deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] I’ll take anything really, as long as I’m by myself, not sharing spaces with anybody. But, you know, I just need a place that’s decent and I can have my dog with me that allows animals and stuff like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] Caron reached out to BOSS, the service provider for the cabins, but didn’t get a reply to calls or emails. The City of Oakland provided a written statement and did not respond to follow-up questions. In their statement, the city says that as of May 30, there were roughly 37 residents in the Safe RV and cabin sites. The statement also said that the city is providing, “short-term emergency support” through June 30. But it’s still unclear just how many former Wood Street residents will be permanently housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:56] Going back to two years ago when the Wood Street encampment folks were told that this was the only pathway to housing, if you move into these tiny homes, I mean, how many people actually got that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:13:09] When I asked the city about how many folks had moved into permanent housing this year, reporting for this story, they said basically that since the spring, more than 50 people had either left the program or transitioned into alternative programs. So, you know, that’s not information on how many people had moved into permanent house, that’s just, you now, 50 people went somewhere. So, as you can see, it’s kind of tough to get this information from the city. I spoke with someone at Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless who told me that they’re working with the City of Oakland. To try to get folks into placements, but getting folks into permanent placements can take a long time. I don’t know how many people have moved into permanent housing from this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:50] So, I mean, now that the cabin sites are closing, Caron, what are the plans for this specific location at Wood Street for this land?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:14:00] The neighborhood has been changing a lot since the Wood Street encampment’s been evicted. There’s the Prescott Market, there’s the Ballers Stadium, there’s some new housing developments, there’s plans to build a new beer garden up there. So I don’t know what’s happening at 2601 Wood Street where the cabins are. 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Eventually she moved into another apartment, but she felt like, you know, she didn’t really like this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:34] I had crazy neighbors that broke our glass windows in front. She knocked on my doors and windows all night long, screaming, and their answer is call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:05:43] You know, she didn’t like her neighbors there. She said that someone tased her dog, like it was not a space where she really felt like she wanted to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] I mean, it was more uncomfortable than the encampment. It was just, that place, it just wasn’t for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:06:00] And so she eventually left that placement and came back to the cabin site. But at that point, I think she couldn’t get an official cabin there, so she kind of ended up just squatting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] And I say, I’m not leaving, you do what you have to do, but this is a place for homeless people that need housing and I’m homeless and I need housing. You’re asking me to go live on the streets so that you can hold this empty until you guys leave? That’s insane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] I’d also like to say, like, it wasn’t necessarily, like permanent housing. Like, she was moved into, you know, a housing spot for domestic violence survivors. She had also been offered SROs. I don’t think these are things that you or I would consider permanent housing. It’s still kind of a transitional space. Even the way she talked about, you know, being kicked out of the cabin site now was that, you know, she really stressed out about it at first, but she, I think she’s experienced so much. Instability in her life that she can handle it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:06:56] I’ve learned in the last five years not to become attached to things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] Coming up, why the cabins are closing down, and why the process has been so messy. Stay with us. I mean, now these cabins are closing sort of officially, right? What does it mean now that these are closing? What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:07:30] Yeah, so what I can gather from what the cities told me is that, you know, they need to close the cabins because they have to clear the site to give it back to the actual landowner. The city’s leasing it from a private developer. And so they need have a certain amount of time to clear a lot again, get everything off of it before the end of the year when it has to go back to them. So the cabs were definitely set to close at the end June. It was really just the there was a lot of back-and-forth about when that would happen and whether the service provider, BOSS – Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency, would stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:11] For the last few months, people living at the cabins have been jerked around by the timeline of its closure. First, the cabin’s nearly shut down in March, three months early, because of several missed payments from the city of Oakland. The service provider, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency or BOSS, said it wasn’t until it started sending out layoff notices that the city sat down with its CEO, promising to make good on its debts. So BOSS rescinded its layoff notice with the intention of closing down as planned at the end of June. But then, at the end of May, people living at the Wood Street cabins got another piece of unexpected news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:09:05] BOSS pulled out of the cabins last month because they said they weren’t being paid by the city of Oakland. They said they would lose $400,000 if they had to spend another month working there unpaid. On May 30th, folks at the cabins got notices on their doors that said 24-hour notice, no trespassing. And that was kind of the big indicator. That was when Boss stepped out. The city says that they think BOSS put up the signs. BOSS says they think the city put up signs. I know a lot of folks who live at the cabins were pretty disturbed when they got those notices. It didn’t state a time of day when they would have to leave. And then, of course, the city came by and took down the notices, said, you don’t have to live now, but you do have to on June 30th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:48] What has it meant that BOSS has been unpaid for the last couple of months? What has that meant for the services that this provider is supposed to offer and also the timeline of how this closure even happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Since BOSS has pulled out, there are other people who’ve kind of moved into the cabin site and are maybe squatting there. Those folks probably won’t get a placement even though they’re still homeless. Over time, residents complained about the toilets and bathrooms not being cleaned up. The photos looked really disgusting. And so I think it’s just created a lot more chaos for folks who were really hoping to kind of get rid of some of that chaos in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] Here, we were never like really informed of much, you know? They weren’t really telling us anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:10:33] When folks got those notices. I think they were pretty stressed out for about 24 hours and then realized they’d been abandoned by the service provider. And that’s when Tamara tried to step up and help take care of her friends who were living there and kind of tried to organize people to keep things clean together while they were kind of waiting to see what their next steps would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] I know a lot of people from when I lived in the encampment, I used to be really involved and maybe this is my time to get re-involved. And I said, I’ll make some phone calls tomorrow and see if I can get us some resources. And so that’s when I started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:09] I mean, that sounds so chaotic. How does Larry describe what it was like to get that notification and what has been explained to him about what is even happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] Yeah, I spoke with Larry the day that they that the notices had been put up and has anybody like come to talk to you in person about the notice?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] No, they just taped a piece of paper on the door and that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] He was pretty confused. We were heading into a weekend. It was a Friday. He wasn’t sure if he would, I mean, he assumed that he’d be able to stay the weekend at least, but you know, he thought maybe he’d be kicked out on Monday. But I think like so many unhoused people who face such instability, again, like he was just like, well, whatever it is, I’ll deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] I’ll take anything really, as long as I’m by myself, not sharing spaces with anybody. But, you know, I just need a place that’s decent and I can have my dog with me that allows animals and stuff like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] Caron reached out to BOSS, the service provider for the cabins, but didn’t get a reply to calls or emails. The City of Oakland provided a written statement and did not respond to follow-up questions. In their statement, the city says that as of May 30, there were roughly 37 residents in the Safe RV and cabin sites. The statement also said that the city is providing, “short-term emergency support” through June 30. But it’s still unclear just how many former Wood Street residents will be permanently housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:56] Going back to two years ago when the Wood Street encampment folks were told that this was the only pathway to housing, if you move into these tiny homes, I mean, how many people actually got that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:13:09] When I asked the city about how many folks had moved into permanent housing this year, reporting for this story, they said basically that since the spring, more than 50 people had either left the program or transitioned into alternative programs. So, you know, that’s not information on how many people had moved into permanent house, that’s just, you now, 50 people went somewhere. So, as you can see, it’s kind of tough to get this information from the city. I spoke with someone at Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless who told me that they’re working with the City of Oakland. To try to get folks into placements, but getting folks into permanent placements can take a long time. I don’t know how many people have moved into permanent housing from this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:50] So, I mean, now that the cabin sites are closing, Caron, what are the plans for this specific location at Wood Street for this land?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:14:00] The neighborhood has been changing a lot since the Wood Street encampment’s been evicted. There’s the Prescott Market, there’s the Ballers Stadium, there’s some new housing developments, there’s plans to build a new beer garden up there. So I don’t know what’s happening at 2601 Wood Street where the cabins are. I would assume, based on everything else that’s happening in that neighborhood, that they’re probably going to build housing, but I couldn’t say exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:31] I mean, you’ve been covering Wood Street for a long time now. What do you make of this latest chapter, I guess, in the Wood Street saga?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:14:42] It really feels kind of like, you know, the perfect ending for the Wood Street saga. I mean, it was really disorganized when the city was talking to folks and trying to get them to come to the cabins. When they first started evicting people off of the lot on state land, the cab ins didn’t even exist. There was nowhere for them to go. And when they talked to people, there was so much miscommunication about what would be at the site. Would they have kitchens? Would they had bathrooms? Would they get keys? It’s clearly still very disorganized. So yeah, it makes sense to me that it would end this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:19] Well, Caron Creighton, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:15:30] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the city of Berkeley ordered the clearing of RV encampments on Second Street, the city began offering cash to people living in their RVs in addition to a room at a motel shelter. Most accepted the offer, and city leaders are hopeful that this approach can expand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7936715503&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:42] Your story focused on this concentration of RVs on Second Street in Berkeley. Tell me a little bit more about this area and why it was such an area of interest for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:01:55] Yeah, this is an industrial area on the western edge of the city. It attracted people living in RVs over the past few years, but eventually got to the point where there were RVs, cars, broken down busses, tents and structures that people built just for blocks and blocks along Second Street and some of the cross streets there. Trash started piling up. There were problems with rats. There was rotting food. There was feces. The data I saw was that in 2023, police were called to the area about 250 times. And there were 20 fires reported to the fire department. Eventually city officials declared this area an imminent health hazard and the city council actually directed staff to focus on cleaning up this area and another large RV encampment nearby that’s on Harrison Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] I know you met some people who were living on Second Street before the city decided that they wanted to clear it. Who did you meet and how did they describe life on Second street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:19] I met Fannie Hall when I was down there early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Yeah, all these little guys. Plus I got my daughter’s dog. He’s a little smaller. So I got 11, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:31] She was poking her head out of this vintage blue and white RV that she has. She shares it with her adult daughter and granddaughter and so many Chihuahuas, nine puppies and two adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Oh, my goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Her son was also living across the street in another camper that she has. She said that she’d been there about six years and the family ended up there. After this house they were renting in San Pablo got red tagged for code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] My landlord was one of those landlords that tried to do everything cheaply and it cost me my home and I had to move out with them. They came on a Monday, I had to be out by Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:04:18] She claims that they were some of the first people down on Second Street, that it was quiet at first, and she tried to keep the area where she was clean and keep a low profile. She works three days a week as a home health aide, and she has a car, so she said she would use that to haul garbage to a dumpster down the street. But over time, more and more people moved in, trash started piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Rats became a problem. I’ve had my camper chewed on and I’ve killed multiple rats up in my camper and I keep a clean camper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] So it became increasingly difficult, but she seemed to like the independence and she’d been there for quite some time, you know, so while it was certainly not ideal and she talked about wanting housing, I think she had figured out a fairly manageable life for herself and her family under really hard circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:22] Yeah, and I imagine her family unit, it’s very important for her to keep them all together and that they were, it sounds like they were really able to do that. And then I know you met someone who moved to Second Street a little bit more recently. Tell me about Elvia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:38] Elvia Guzman told me that she and her husband ended up on Second Street last year after bouncing around a couple different RV encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there, so we just came down here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:56] Briefly been around Harrison Street in that big encampment in Berkeley, recently got swept. Before that, they were in Richmond, where she had lived for a long time. And they ended up in an RV there until the area, the encampments they were living in there got cleared. Then she came to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:19] Police wasn’t moving us as much and they weren’t really bothering us over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] In general, she made it sound like she never felt fully safe or comfortable living in an RV. She talked about how they always had to park in sort of sketchy areas. She also talked about ways in which life was just hard in an RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:49] Everything is like ten times harder. Sometimes you don’t have water. Sometimes, you know, it’s too cold or too hot not enough space and I Think it’s frustrating a little bit for like it was frustrating a lot a little it for me because I get anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:06] She seemed much less comfortable than Fannie living in an RV, although she was really grateful for the shelter it provided and the security, you know? To the extent that it provided security, she was very grateful for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] How long was Elvia living in an RV on Second Street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] Elvia and her husband moved to 2nd Street around six months before the city started moving in earnest to close down this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] I want to talk more about the city’s effort to close down this encampment. Tell me about what the city began offering to people living in these RVs on Second Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:59] So what they did is offer people cash for their RVs. So if participants agreed to move indoors into this motel shelter they were offering, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV. That pencils out to about $6,000 for a 35-foot RV. And the way it would work is that people would get some of that money when they first moved into the motel. Then they do this trial period. To see if they felt comfortable at the shelter, if they wanted to stay. And if they decided they wanted to stay, they’d get their RV towed. And at that point, they got the rest of the money. If they decided to leave, they would keep the initial 15% of the payout that they’d already gotten, and they got to keep their RV. RV encampments are hard to deal with because people are reluctant to leave their RV for shelter. And that had been the case on Second Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] And so, we’re just giving folks another choice in their choice set, right? About how to navigate this reality that we had to close this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Peter Radu, who oversees the city’s homeless response team, told me that he saw it as a way to build trust with people and overcome some of that reluctance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Anything interim or anything time-limited, I think they were very rationally and rightly afraid that if they moved in and that didn’t work out, they would be back out on the street, but this time without their largest remaining asset, which is their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:38] They were out there for about three months, hearing them out about their concerns and trying to find ways to accommodate their individual needs, right? So some people, initially, I was told the motel was gonna only accept one dog per room. It quickly became clear that that wasn’t gonna work because so many people had. Dogs. So they found ways to accommodate more dogs. They found ways to place people together in rooms, not just couples, but friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] And I mean, that’s pretty unique, Vanessa, I feel like you don’t often hear of efforts like this that feel and sound very individual. Usually it feels like a one-size-fit-all sort of solution, just throw folks into shelters, but it seems like there was a real effort here to accommodate people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] That’s right, but I think Peter Radu would say that they’ve known for a long time that a low barrier model, right, which is what they would call this shelter, is crucial. But what really made the difference in this case was really the buyback program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] The hypothesis, I suppose, in wanting to pilot this is what if we could liquefy that asset for them? What if we can buy it for them, would that change their decision-making, and would that changed their willingness to engage with us in the homeless system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] I think it’s more than just an incentive, I think that it’s building trust by promising these people a bit of a safety net. People are very distrustful that they will actually end up getting permanent housing. So if they give up their RV but they at least have a few thousand dollars in their pocket, that’s a big difference, right? I mean, I talked to multiple people who told me that. That gave them a bit of reassurance and made them feel more comfortable taking the city up on this shelter offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:01] It sounds like a really big decision to make for many of the folks living on Second Street. How many people were offered this buyout program and how many took it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] So Radu told me that outreach workers encountered 32 vehicles out there during the closure process. In all, 36 people and 26 dogs ended up moving into this motel. Of those 32 vehicles they encountered, only three of them are still on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] The housing market is not great. That’s the reason why I’m still where I’m at, because who can afford the high cost of living?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] Fannie’s two RVs, hers and her sons, are among those three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:03] I’m one of the people that can go in, but I don’t want to go in. I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with, and I want to do the RV buyback, but I think they could come up with a little bit better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Fannie told me she was worried about the unknowns at the shelter, so would she feel safe there? Who would be there? She worried about restrictions, not being able to cook in her motel room, not be able to have guests. She knew that however accommodating they were going to be, she was never going to to take 11 dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:41] You know, there were criteria that they require for you to move in. They want to get into too much in your personal business. You know that doesn’t require them to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:13:49] They ultimately did not take the offer and they ended up moving to the Oakland-Emeryville border. She’s working with outreach workers and says she is in the process of trying to get housing. It sounds like if that doesn’t happen in the next couple of years, she’s seriously considering moving out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:12] So it sounds like Fannie Hall decided not to take the offer because there was a sense of stability in her current situation, and giving up her RV felt like a huge risk. 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About how to navigate this reality that we had to close this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Peter Radu, who oversees the city’s homeless response team, told me that he saw it as a way to build trust with people and overcome some of that reluctance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Anything interim or anything time-limited, I think they were very rationally and rightly afraid that if they moved in and that didn’t work out, they would be back out on the street, but this time without their largest remaining asset, which is their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:38] They were out there for about three months, hearing them out about their concerns and trying to find ways to accommodate their individual needs, right? So some people, initially, I was told the motel was gonna only accept one dog per room. 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Now, some farmers on the Central Coast are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-06-13/researchers-got-millions-to-incentivize-sustainable-farming-in-the-salinas-valley-the-trump-administration-might-take-it-away\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">trying to find ways\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to keep their land nourished despite precarious funding. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A federal appeals court \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles-appeals-court/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">will hear arguments Tuesday\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on President Donald Trump’s decision to send armed troops to Los Angeles in response to immigration protests.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Governor Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/06/california-homelessness-funding-budget/\">are proposing to gut\u003c/a> California’s main source of homelessness funding.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-06-13/researchers-got-millions-to-incentivize-sustainable-farming-in-the-salinas-valley-the-trump-administration-might-take-it-away\">\u003cstrong>Researchers Got Millions To Incentivize Sustainable Farming In The Salinas Valley. But That Money May Be Going Away\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Celsa Ortega walks up and down the rows of her 4.25-acre farm in Aromas in Monterey and San Benito counties on a cloudy morning in early June. She’s been farming for five years, but has only had her own plot for about a year. She’s currently growing lettuce and three different varieties of onion. “My biggest dream in agriculture is to understand the earth,” Ortega said, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federally funded grant project aimed to foster that. Researchers at Cal State Monterey Bay \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2024-12-17/cal-state-monterey-bay-researchers-are-expanding-climate-smart-practices-through-a-partnership-with-local-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>got $5 million\u003c/u>\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.usda.gov/climate-solutions/climate-smart-commodities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (PCSC) program last year to test the effectiveness of three climate-smart practices on farmland in the Salinas Valley: adding compost, planting cover crops, and reducing the amount of applied nitrogen fertilizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “climate-smart” refers to strategies farmers use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from crop production and to make their operations more resilient to climate change. The grant was initially supposed to fund five years of research. But in April, researchers got a letter from the USDA stating their grant was getting cancelled—and not just theirs. The whole nationwide program was getting axed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA has since announced it was changing course. Instead of a full-blown termination, the PCSC program is getting revamped under a new name—Advancing Markets for Producers. Current grant recipients might be able to keep their funding as long as they comply with the new requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles-appeals-court/\">\u003cstrong>Can Trump Keep Troops In LA? Appeals Court To Hear Case Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Governor Gavin Newsom had a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/los-angeles-marines-newsom-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fleeting win against President Trump\u003c/a> last week when a federal judge handed down an order that would have halted Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. Within hours of that decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the ruling, allowing the troops to remain under Trump’s control. On Tuesday, the appeals court is scheduled to pick up where it left off in Newsom’s challenge to Trump’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrow focus of the hearing — and the expected order from the judges sometime this week — has massive implications for California. Namely: Can Newsom reclaim command of the National Guard against Trump’s wishes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arguments will play out in front of a three-judge panel, two of whom \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/judicial-council/judges-seniority-list/\">were appointed by Trump\u003c/a> and one by former President Joe Biden, a Democrat. This isn’t the only hearing that’ll determine who gets control of the 4,000 guard members Trump deployed since June 7, after protests in the Los Angeles area erupted in response to federal immigration officers raiding work sites and arresting individuals they say are in the U.S. without authorization. Those protests \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/no-kings-california-protests/\">were in full force over the weekend\u003c/a>. On Friday, the lower court judge who initially sided with Newsom’s lawyers is expected to hold a hearing on whether to issue a preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s deployment of military personnel, including the Guard, to Los Angeles. For Newsom’s legal team to prevail in that hearing, they’ll have to clear a higher threshold of scrutiny. That’s because anyone seeking a preliminary injunction must demonstrate that the merits of their arguments will likely prevail \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/los-angeles-marines-newsom-lawsuit/#:~:text=Breyer%E2%80%99s%20order%20was,appeal%20his%20ruling.\">in the full trial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/06/california-homelessness-funding-budget/\">\u003cstrong>Proposed Budget Eliminates Funding For Homelessness\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State leaders have been talking a lot lately about cleaning up California’s homeless encampments and moving people indoors. But the tentative budget they’ve drawn up for the upcoming year has many asking: With what money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/california-budget-legislature-proposal/\">proposed gutting\u003c/a> the state’s main source of homelessness funding in the \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2025-06/legislature-s-version-of-the-budget-summary-sb-101-final.pdf\">2025-26 budget\u003c/a>, sending a wave of panic through the cities, counties and service providers that have been relying on that money for years. Now, those critics warn that thousands of Californians could end up back on the streets, undoing the tenuous progress the state has made in addressing the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely frustrating,” said San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, whose city had been receiving about $30 million a year from that pot of homelessness funding — enough to pay for about 1,000 interim housing placements. “Residents of California tell us consistently that ending unsheltered homelessness is one of their very top priorities…So the idea that the state can’t make a substantial, consistent investment in residents’ top priority makes me question whether or not they’re really listening to the people of California.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>An \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">El Tecolote investigation\u003c/a> reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, dozens of working-class families living in RVs along Winston Drive built a stable, self-reliant community on San Francisco’s west side. But in 2024, new city policies tore it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em> investigation — based on thousands of internal emails, city records and firsthand accounts — reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents even when safe alternatives didn’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind closed doors, staff warned the crackdown would likely fail and destabilize vulnerable residents. But officials moved forward anyway — citing political pressure, optics and infrastructure plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg']“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. 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