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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weitzman said the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/08/79581/orange-county-to-start-clearing-massive-homeless-e/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">county’s latest effort \u003c/a>to clear the largest homeless encampment along the riverbed, which began in January, will push many homeless people back to the same cities that forced them out previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen that in response to the county’s action, the cities are all investing in stepping up this criminalization,” Weitzman said. “That really leaves these people with nowhere to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 500 to 1,000 people live in the encampment behind Angel Stadium and the Honda Center. Starting in January last year, the county has made several efforts to remove homeless people from the area, saying the encampments are a public health hazard and compromise the riverbed’s purpose as a flood control channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County residents and users of the adjacent Santa Ana River bike trail have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/09/13/75588/anaheim-declares-homelessness-emergency/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained about the sprawling, trash-strewn encampment\u003c/a> and what they say is a corresponding rise in nearby property crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit filed last year by the Elder Law and Disability Rights Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/04/26/71184/judge-lawyers-tour-orange-county-homeless-camp-in/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resulted in an injunction\u003c/a> that kept the county from trying to clear the largest encampments until recently. But the county says it can no longer defer maintenance in the area occupied by tents and wants to have it cleared of human habitation within a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has offered homeless people rides to nearby shelters, temporary storage of their belongings and kenneling of pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say there aren't enough shelter beds and that they're not an appropriate option for many homeless people, including couples and individuals with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Ford is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. He said he had been forced to move several times since he became homeless in Huntington Beach about four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very respectful of law enforcement and the powers that they have and the position that they’re in,” he said. \"But at the same time, I got a right to be somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs seek an injunction preventing the county from clearing the riverbed encampments until appropriate alternatives can be found for all the homeless people currently living there. It also seeks to prevent the county and cities of Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Orange from arresting homeless individuals for violating anti-camping laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Orange County Counsel Leon Page declined to comment on the merits of the litigation, but said, \"We look forward to discussing positive solutions that will benefit all stakeholders, including the population encamped in the Santa Ana Riverbed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Lyster, spokesman for the city of Anaheim, also declined to comment directly on the lawsuit. He said the city would “continue to extend our outreach services to anyone in need while also ensuring that all feel comfortable in our parks and other public places.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Victor Hinderliter was driving home in a mild drizzle last month, it dawned on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rain started coming down and I just thought, ‘Oh no. This was not on my radar for tonight,’ ” says Hinderliter, associate director of Homeless Services for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority\u003c/a> (LAHSA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”hlae7ojPdpveUcXpehEJz9fARd8cTHHi”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinderliter still had his mind on recent wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes and burned out several homeless encampments last month. The focus of LAHSA street outreach teams now shifts to potentially dangerous winter weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be thinking about the freezing temperatures in Lancaster and in Pomona,” says Hinderliter. “And then we need to be thinking about the rain downtown and how all of these different weather events are going to impact people differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11640429 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/IMG_9649-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAHSA’s Victor Hinderliter (L) and a team of homeless outreach workers hike across the foothills of Sunland-Tujunga north of L.A. last month. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>L.A. County has opened more than a dozen \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://www.lahsa.org/item.ashx?id%3D1756-2017-2018-winter-shelter-program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temporary winter shelters\u003c/a>, with about 1,500 beds. Hinderliter says the shelters give LAHSA outreach workers a chance to offer services to people who can otherwise be hard to reach and track at a time when there isn’t enough supportive housing to shelter the county’s surging homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless there are 57,000 vacant affordable housing units right now that we can be moving people into, part of the discussion does have to be, ‘How are we going to provide resources so that the folks camping outdoors can be good neighbors?’ ” says Hinderliter. “Being as safe as possible during the time we’re transitioning them to permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers will fan out across Los Angeles County later this month for the region’s annual \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://www.lahsa.org/item.ashx?id%3D1756-2017-2018-winter-shelter-program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=297-homeless-count-results-by-the-u-s-congressional-state-senate-and-assembly-districts-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Results of the count\u003c/a> are tied to the amount of federal dollars that cities and counties receive to combat homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s tally showed a 23 percent spike in the number of people living on the streets and in the foothills, canyons and river bottoms of L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When December's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creek Fire\u003c/a> ripped across the canyons and foothills near the San Fernando Valley city of Sylmar, it destroyed dozens of homes and scorched 15,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also displaced many homeless people who have used the area’s thick brush and steep canyons to carve out a small network of hidden encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t have to hike too far off the paved roads and horse trails around Tujunga-Sunland north of Los Angeles to find them. 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There’s a little gully in between, so it did get pretty close,” says Montoya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeless outreach workers from L.A. County hike the Tujunga-Sunland area near Sylmar looking for homeless camps. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He's hoping to find a guy named Russell. Montoya lost track of him after the Creek Fire and wants to see if he’s OK. The encampment is here. Russell isn’t. Montoya thinks he probably took off when the fire got close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Might be the reason why things are thrown around everywhere, too. Maybe he was getting ready to evacuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the belongings left behind: a tent, bike parts, piles of clothing, food and a red fire extinguisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come up here when he’s been cooking and he’s really careful about it. He’s got a little (fire) pit there with a cover over it, so that embers won’t fly away,” says Montoya. “He really doesn’t want a fire starting in his encampment. Russell is really safe about how and when he uses fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-960x684.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire extinguisher is among the belongings left behind in an apparently abandoned homeless encampment. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arson investigators say a cooking fire at another homeless encampment in the foothills above Bel Air \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/12/l-a-s-skirball-fire-was-sparked-by-an-illegal-cooking-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was responsible for starting last month's Skirball Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That blaze damaged or destroyed 18 homes in one of L.A.'s most upscale communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"NVybdRtcSpBvRWIeeO57B2RK8EsC9Cxx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the \u003ca href=\"http://babcnc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council\u003c/a> vowed to put more pressure on authorities to locate and clear out homeless encampments when fire danger is high. But the council's president, Robin Greenberg, says there's also a great deal of sympathy in the community for their homeless neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t want, we didn’t want to have a fire,” says Greenberg. \"They were just hungry and they were just eating, that’s all they were doing, on a cold morning. (But) I do believe that identifying the locations of the encampments in high fire danger would be to everyone’s best interest. Protecting them, too, as well as us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenberg says the Bel Air council plans to convene a town hall meeting on the issue sometime in late January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. County Homeless Authority says it plans to step up its cooperation with law enforcement and other agencies to help reduce the number of wildland homeless camps and steer people to shelters and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A camp fire at a homeless encampment in the Tujunga-Sunland area near Sylmar. The residents say they don’t start cooking fires when fire danger is high and they always keep buckets of water nearby. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If a fire starts, you are in danger. You are in an area that can quickly catch fire (and) you can wake up surrounded,\" says Victor Hinderliter of the L.A. County Homeless Authority. \"We need to move you out for your own safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually at this time of year, L.A.'s homeless outreach teams are out in the washes and creek beds warning of winter rains and freezing temperatures and urging people to at least get out of harm’s way and into a temporary winter shelter. Now they plan to do something similar when fire danger is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if you’re not willing to move, we’re not an enforcement agency,\" Hinderliter says. \"We’re not in the business of forcing anyone to do anything, so let’s talk about how you can be safe up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another Tujunga encampment home to about half a dozen people, a cat on a leash and a couple of strapping pit bulls, there's a fire pit for cooking. But those living there say they don't use it when winds are whipping through the canyons. They keep buckets of water nearby when they do use the pit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"cI0INg5Qo7IHYwHKaakmaSxUQfzFoVYr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did have the fire department tell me to put out my fire before,\" says Robert Norman. \"It was not windy like this, but they could see the smoke from the freeway and they were right on me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman moved to this encampment after another he was in got burned out by the Creek Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw the fire coming down and I ended up fighting the fire that was threatening (some homes) back there for three days,” says Norman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman also understands people have legitimate concerns about people like him living in wildland places like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The homeowners say, ‘Well, we’re scared of fire. That’s why you guys need to leave.' And I said, 'You know, I’ll be the first one to be standing in line to fight a fire to protect your house.' That’s the level of concern and respect I have for people around here.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When December's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creek Fire\u003c/a> ripped across the canyons and foothills near the San Fernando Valley city of Sylmar, it destroyed dozens of homes and scorched 15,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also displaced many homeless people who have used the area’s thick brush and steep canyons to carve out a small network of hidden encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t have to hike too far off the paved roads and horse trails around Tujunga-Sunland north of Los Angeles to find them. You just have to know where to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"Homeless outreach workers visit a homeless camp in the Tujunga-Sunland area near Sylmar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-960x651.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9775-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeless outreach workers visit a homeless camp in the Tujunga-Sunland area near Sylmar. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Just around the corner you can see where the brush provides a little bit of coverage over there,” says Victor Hinderliter of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles County Homeless Authority,\u003c/a> as he wends his way through thickets of bone-dry bamboo and chaparral with a crew of outreach workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Montoya of \u003ca href=\"https://lafh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Family Housing\u003c/a> pushes through the brush to a clearing below the burn zone of the Creek Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It came to the other side of this mountain right here. There’s a little gully in between, so it did get pretty close,” says Montoya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9771-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeless outreach workers from L.A. County hike the Tujunga-Sunland area near Sylmar looking for homeless camps. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He's hoping to find a guy named Russell. Montoya lost track of him after the Creek Fire and wants to see if he’s OK. The encampment is here. Russell isn’t. Montoya thinks he probably took off when the fire got close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Might be the reason why things are thrown around everywhere, too. Maybe he was getting ready to evacuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the belongings left behind: a tent, bike parts, piles of clothing, food and a red fire extinguisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come up here when he’s been cooking and he’s really careful about it. He’s got a little (fire) pit there with a cover over it, so that embers won’t fly away,” says Montoya. “He really doesn’t want a fire starting in his encampment. Russell is really safe about how and when he uses fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-960x684.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9774-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire extinguisher is among the belongings left behind in an apparently abandoned homeless encampment. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arson investigators say a cooking fire at another homeless encampment in the foothills above Bel Air \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/12/l-a-s-skirball-fire-was-sparked-by-an-illegal-cooking-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was responsible for starting last month's Skirball Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That blaze damaged or destroyed 18 homes in one of L.A.'s most upscale communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the \u003ca href=\"http://babcnc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council\u003c/a> vowed to put more pressure on authorities to locate and clear out homeless encampments when fire danger is high. But the council's president, Robin Greenberg, says there's also a great deal of sympathy in the community for their homeless neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t want, we didn’t want to have a fire,” says Greenberg. \"They were just hungry and they were just eating, that’s all they were doing, on a cold morning. (But) I do believe that identifying the locations of the encampments in high fire danger would be to everyone’s best interest. Protecting them, too, as well as us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenberg says the Bel Air council plans to convene a town hall meeting on the issue sometime in late January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. County Homeless Authority says it plans to step up its cooperation with law enforcement and other agencies to help reduce the number of wildland homeless camps and steer people to shelters and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_9773-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A camp fire at a homeless encampment in the Tujunga-Sunland area near Sylmar. The residents say they don’t start cooking fires when fire danger is high and they always keep buckets of water nearby. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If a fire starts, you are in danger. You are in an area that can quickly catch fire (and) you can wake up surrounded,\" says Victor Hinderliter of the L.A. County Homeless Authority. \"We need to move you out for your own safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually at this time of year, L.A.'s homeless outreach teams are out in the washes and creek beds warning of winter rains and freezing temperatures and urging people to at least get out of harm’s way and into a temporary winter shelter. Now they plan to do something similar when fire danger is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if you’re not willing to move, we’re not an enforcement agency,\" Hinderliter says. \"We’re not in the business of forcing anyone to do anything, so let’s talk about how you can be safe up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another Tujunga encampment home to about half a dozen people, a cat on a leash and a couple of strapping pit bulls, there's a fire pit for cooking. But those living there say they don't use it when winds are whipping through the canyons. They keep buckets of water nearby when they do use the pit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did have the fire department tell me to put out my fire before,\" says Robert Norman. \"It was not windy like this, but they could see the smoke from the freeway and they were right on me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman moved to this encampment after another he was in got burned out by the Creek Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw the fire coming down and I ended up fighting the fire that was threatening (some homes) back there for three days,” says Norman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman also understands people have legitimate concerns about people like him living in wildland places like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The homeowners say, ‘Well, we’re scared of fire. That’s why you guys need to leave.' And I said, 'You know, I’ll be the first one to be standing in line to fight a fire to protect your house.' That’s the level of concern and respect I have for people around here.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Counts taken earlier this year show 168,000 homeless people in California, Oregon and Washington — 20,000 more than were counted just two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The booming economy, fueled by the tech sector, and decades of under-building have led to a historic shortage of affordable housing. It has upended the stereotypical view of people out on the streets as unemployed: They are retail clerks, plumbers, janitors — even teachers — who go to work, sleep where they can and buy gym memberships for a place to shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge in homelessness has prompted at least 10 local governments along the West Coast to declare states of emergency, and cities from San Diego to Seattle are struggling to come up with immediate and long-range solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is well-known for homeless tent encampments. But the homeless problem has now spread throughout Silicon Valley, where the disparity between the rich and everyone else is glaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no firm estimate on the number of people who live in vehicles in Silicon Valley, but the problem is pervasive and apparent to anyone who sees RVs lining thoroughfares; not as visible are the cars tucked away at night in parking lots. Advocates for the homeless say it will only get worse unless more affordable housing is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median rent in the San Jose metro area is $3,500 a month, yet the median wage is $12 an hour in food service and $19 an hour in health care support, an amount that won’t even cover housing costs. The minimum annual salary needed to live comfortably in San Jose is $87,000, according to a study by personal finance website GoBankingRates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So dilapidated RVs line the eastern edge of Stanford University in Palo Alto, and officials in neighboring Mountain View have mapped out more than a dozen areas where campers tend to cluster, some of them about a mile from Google headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent evening, Benito Hernandez returned to a crammed RV in Mountain View after laying flagstones for a home in Atherton, where Zillow pegs the median value of a house at $6.5 million. He rents the RV for $1,000 a month and lives there with his pregnant wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was evicted two years ago from an apartment where the rent kept going up, nearing $3,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, I lost everything,” said Hernandez, 33, who works as a landscaper and roofer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his wife “is a little bit sad because she says, ‘You’re working very hard but don’t have credit to get an apartment.’ I tell her, ‘Just wait, maybe a half-year more, and I’ll get my credit back.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of the Hernandez family points out one of the confounding problems of the homeless surge along the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a crisis of unemployment that’s leading to poverty around here,” said Tom Myers, executive director of Community Services Agency, a nonprofit based in Mountain View. “People are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View, a city of 80,000 which also is home to Mozilla and 23andMe, has committed more than $1 million over two years for homeless services, including money for an outreach case manager and a police officer to help people who live in vehicles. At last count, there were people living in more than 330 vehicles throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ken Rosenberg is proud of the city’s response to the crisis — focusing not on penalties but on providing services. Yet he’s also worried that the peace won’t last as RVs crowd into bike lanes and overtaxed streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Mountain View officials posted signs banning vehicles more than 6 feet high on some parts of the street where Saldana, Hernandez and others living in RVs were parked, saying they were creating a traffic hazard. The average RV is well over that height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That follows similar moves over the summer by Palo Alto, which started cracking down on RVs and other vehicles that exceed the 72-hour limit on a busy stretch of El Camino Real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, officials recently approved an ordinance pushed by an interfaith group called the Winter Faith Collaborative to allow places of assembly — including gyms and churches — to shelter homeless people year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Tara James-Penney, a 54-year-old lecturer at San Jose State University, parks her old Volvo at one of those safe-haven churches, Grace Baptist Church, and eats in its dining hall. She is paid $28,000 a year to teach four English classes and is carrying $143,000 in student debt after earning two degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grades papers and prepares lessons in the Volvo. At night, she leans back in the driver’s seat and prepares for sleep, one of two dogs, Hank, by her side. Her husband, Jim, who is too tall for the car, sleeps outside in a tent cot with their other dog, Buddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area native remembers the time a class was studying John Steinbeck, when another student said that she was sick of hearing about the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I said, ‘Watch your mouth. You’re looking at one.’ Then you could have heard a pin drop,” she said. “It’s quite easy to judge when you have a house to live in or you have meds when you’re depressed and health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to growing wealth inequities, unions, civil rights groups and community organizations formed Silicon Valley Rising about three years ago. They demand better pay and benefits for the low-income earners who make the region run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU United Service Workers West, for example, organized roughly 3,000 security guards who work for companies that contract with Facebook, Google and Caltrain, the mass transit system that connects Silicon Valley with San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those workers is Albert Brown III, a 46-year-old security officer who recently signed a lease for half of a $3,400 two-bedroom unit in Half Moon Bay, about 13 miles from his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He can barely afford the rent on his $16-an-hour salary, even with overtime, but the car that doubled as his home needed a pricey repair and he found a landlord willing to overlook his lousy credit. Still, Brown worries he won’t be able to keep up with his payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His feet have been hurting. What if a doctor tells him to rest for a few days or a week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t miss a minute. 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Counts taken earlier this year show 168,000 homeless people in California, Oregon and Washington — 20,000 more than were counted just two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The booming economy, fueled by the tech sector, and decades of under-building have led to a historic shortage of affordable housing. It has upended the stereotypical view of people out on the streets as unemployed: They are retail clerks, plumbers, janitors — even teachers — who go to work, sleep where they can and buy gym memberships for a place to shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge in homelessness has prompted at least 10 local governments along the West Coast to declare states of emergency, and cities from San Diego to Seattle are struggling to come up with immediate and long-range solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is well-known for homeless tent encampments. But the homeless problem has now spread throughout Silicon Valley, where the disparity between the rich and everyone else is glaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no firm estimate on the number of people who live in vehicles in Silicon Valley, but the problem is pervasive and apparent to anyone who sees RVs lining thoroughfares; not as visible are the cars tucked away at night in parking lots. Advocates for the homeless say it will only get worse unless more affordable housing is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median rent in the San Jose metro area is $3,500 a month, yet the median wage is $12 an hour in food service and $19 an hour in health care support, an amount that won’t even cover housing costs. The minimum annual salary needed to live comfortably in San Jose is $87,000, according to a study by personal finance website GoBankingRates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So dilapidated RVs line the eastern edge of Stanford University in Palo Alto, and officials in neighboring Mountain View have mapped out more than a dozen areas where campers tend to cluster, some of them about a mile from Google headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent evening, Benito Hernandez returned to a crammed RV in Mountain View after laying flagstones for a home in Atherton, where Zillow pegs the median value of a house at $6.5 million. He rents the RV for $1,000 a month and lives there with his pregnant wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was evicted two years ago from an apartment where the rent kept going up, nearing $3,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, I lost everything,” said Hernandez, 33, who works as a landscaper and roofer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his wife “is a little bit sad because she says, ‘You’re working very hard but don’t have credit to get an apartment.’ I tell her, ‘Just wait, maybe a half-year more, and I’ll get my credit back.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of the Hernandez family points out one of the confounding problems of the homeless surge along the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a crisis of unemployment that’s leading to poverty around here,” said Tom Myers, executive director of Community Services Agency, a nonprofit based in Mountain View. “People are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View, a city of 80,000 which also is home to Mozilla and 23andMe, has committed more than $1 million over two years for homeless services, including money for an outreach case manager and a police officer to help people who live in vehicles. At last count, there were people living in more than 330 vehicles throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ken Rosenberg is proud of the city’s response to the crisis — focusing not on penalties but on providing services. Yet he’s also worried that the peace won’t last as RVs crowd into bike lanes and overtaxed streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Mountain View officials posted signs banning vehicles more than 6 feet high on some parts of the street where Saldana, Hernandez and others living in RVs were parked, saying they were creating a traffic hazard. The average RV is well over that height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That follows similar moves over the summer by Palo Alto, which started cracking down on RVs and other vehicles that exceed the 72-hour limit on a busy stretch of El Camino Real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, officials recently approved an ordinance pushed by an interfaith group called the Winter Faith Collaborative to allow places of assembly — including gyms and churches — to shelter homeless people year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Tara James-Penney, a 54-year-old lecturer at San Jose State University, parks her old Volvo at one of those safe-haven churches, Grace Baptist Church, and eats in its dining hall. She is paid $28,000 a year to teach four English classes and is carrying $143,000 in student debt after earning two degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grades papers and prepares lessons in the Volvo. At night, she leans back in the driver’s seat and prepares for sleep, one of two dogs, Hank, by her side. Her husband, Jim, who is too tall for the car, sleeps outside in a tent cot with their other dog, Buddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area native remembers the time a class was studying John Steinbeck, when another student said that she was sick of hearing about the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I said, ‘Watch your mouth. You’re looking at one.’ Then you could have heard a pin drop,” she said. “It’s quite easy to judge when you have a house to live in or you have meds when you’re depressed and health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to growing wealth inequities, unions, civil rights groups and community organizations formed Silicon Valley Rising about three years ago. 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"content": "\u003cp>When people think of homelessness, they often think of cities like Fresno or Los Angeles. But in the mountains of Madera County, it's a lingering problem. And as the short-term rental market grows, some fear the housing shortage in the communities just outside Yosemite National Park will only get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serenity Village is a seven-unit affordable apartment complex in Oakhurst, 14 miles south of the entrance to Yosemite. It's targeted at helping homeless people get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is furnished when they move in,” says Jody Ketcheside, who oversees a number of government-run homeless facilities in Madera and Fresno counties, including Serenity Village. \"There’s a microwave, there’s a dining table, couches, a bed, nightstand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ketcheside says every week her team has to turn away homeless people, due to a program requirement that states a person must be homeless for a year and have a disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eWSF8jiSzCTvFYfyrPvHN6iDSCZx7iF1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The case manager for this particular program is seeing more people that haven’t been on the streets longer than a year,” says Ketcheside. \"That’s somebody new then from when we counted in 2016. She has to tell them what nobody ever wants to tell anyone. They haven’t been homeless long enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She blames the lack of affordable housing and jobs in the region. When her team can’t help they often point homeless people to Matt Mellon with Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church in Oakhurst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon runs a ministry that employs homeless people for $10 an hour, for up to 12 hours a week. He says homeless people are attracted to Oakhurst because of the ease of life here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear of people who have been on the street down in Bakersfield or Fresno and they come here because they feel like they don’t have to worry as much about getting in fights or having somebody attack them in the middle of the night,” says Mellon. “The drawback is that we have fewer resources to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Mellon runs the Jubilee Ministry in Oakhurst. 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They hire homeless people for up to 12 hours a week at $10 an hour. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people the church hires for the Jubilee Ministry answer calls, clean the church and keep the acreage around the church fire-ready. Mellon says he is beginning to see families become affected by the lack of affordable housing. He says one family lost their home when the owner sold it and it was converted it into a short-term rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were evicted and now they have nowhere to go,” says Mellon. “They were living in a tent trailer for a while. Now they have to move off that property. They have a little girl who is 6 years old. She’s in first grade right now. They’re trying to [figure out] how do I be homeless with a first-grader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon is in a bind himself. He can’t find a rental in Oakhurst, so he commutes from Fresno. 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He says homeless people are attracted to Oakhurst because of the ease of life here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear of people who have been on the street down in Bakersfield or Fresno and they come here because they feel like they don’t have to worry as much about getting in fights or having somebody attack them in the middle of the night,” says Mellon. “The drawback is that we have fewer resources to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Mellon runs the Jubilee Ministry in Oakhurst. They hire homeless people for up to 12 hours a week at $10 an hour.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Mellon runs the Jubilee Ministry in Oakhurst. They hire homeless people for up to 12 hours a week at $10 an hour. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people the church hires for the Jubilee Ministry answer calls, clean the church and keep the acreage around the church fire-ready. Mellon says he is beginning to see families become affected by the lack of affordable housing. He says one family lost their home when the owner sold it and it was converted it into a short-term rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were evicted and now they have nowhere to go,” says Mellon. “They were living in a tent trailer for a while. Now they have to move off that property. They have a little girl who is 6 years old. She’s in first grade right now. They’re trying to [figure out] how do I be homeless with a first-grader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon is in a bind himself. He can’t find a rental in Oakhurst, so he commutes from Fresno. Justin Bales just began his first week back at the Jubilee Ministry. He moved back to Oakhurst after spending time in jail and a period of being homeless in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is like a little slice of heaven, I’ll be honest to you,” says Bales. “I’ve been all around California -- Sacramento, L.A., Fresno. In Bakersfield I was in the mission, and it was as ghetto as can be. People shooting up drugs right outside the gate. You don’t see that right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bales isn’t couch surfing, he’s living on the streets. He’s looking for a more permanent job, and even though work is scarce, he says he wanted to move home near family. He says the community needs more services for the homeless population, such as a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get out on the streets and you’re like, OK, even if I’m not a drug user you end up using drugs because you’re going to be cold at night. But if you’re using drugs you’re going to be warm at night,” says Bales. “I really wish Madera County would open up some kind of shelter for people that tried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Bales has been homeless off and on for about a decade. 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