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"content": "\u003cp>In the same affluent suburban city where Google built its headquarters, Tes Saldana lives in a crowded but tidy camper she parks on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes it’s “not a very nice living situation,” but it also is not unusual. Until authorities told them to move, more than a dozen other RVs filled with people who can’t afford rent joined Saldana on a tree-lined street in Mountain View, parked between a Target and a luxury apartment complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates and city officials say it’s outrageous that in the shadow of a booming tech economy — where young millionaires dine on $15 wood-grilled avocado and think nothing of paying $1,000 for an iPhone X — thousands of families can’t afford a home. Many of the homeless work regular jobs, in some cases serving the very people whose sky-high net worth is the reason housing has become unaffordable for so many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street from Saldana’s camper, for example, two-bedroom units in the apartment complex start at $3,840, including concierge service. That’s more than she brings home, even in a good month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saldana and her three adult sons, who live with her, have looked for less rustic accommodations, but rents are $3,000 a month or more, and most of the available housing is distant. She said it makes more sense to stay in the camper near their jobs and try to save for a brighter future, even if a recent city crackdown chased them from their parking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need to eat,” said Saldana, 51. “I still want to bring my kids, once in a while, to a movie, to eat out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cooks and serves food at two hotels in nearby Palo Alto, jobs that keep her going most days from 5 in the morning until 10 at night. Two of her sons, all in their 20s, work at a bakery and pay $700 toward the RV each month. They’re all very much aware of the economic disparity in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How about for us people who are serving these tech people?” Saldana said. “We don’t get the same paycheck that they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all part of a growing crisis along the West Coast, where many cities and counties have seen a surge in the number of people living on the streets over the past two years. 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. 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>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZGVcAyZvxyAKxZG2NMSr9aRKHr8kbSj2\"]\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. 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He recently landed back in Oakhurst and is couch surfing. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So is the homeless problem getting worse because of the short-term rentals? It's hard to get a definitive answer, but there is a long-term rental shortage in the area. Everyone I spoke with says they’ve noticed new homeless faces in the area, but the actual number hasn’t officially grown. In 2016, 43 homeless people were counted in the Oakhurst area, but that number dropped to around 35 in this year’s count. Officials say the number is low because there weren’t many volunteers this year for the 2017 count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Tom Nicolulis with Manna House -- a food pantry, free thrift shop and job training facility in Oakhurst -- doesn’t think the homeless problem is large enough in the area for a shelter. 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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. He recently landed back in Oakhurst and is couch surfing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-960x660.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Bales has been homeless off and on for about a decade. 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"content": "\u003cp>When you’ve lived without the basics for so long, something as simple as washing and folding clothes can feel like a luxury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you're out on the street it's like, OK, I've got one clean set of clothes. I've got to go find a place to do laundry, I've got to find money to put in the machines,\" says Steve Kraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly a year, Kraft slept in the alley behind the Starbucks in downtown San Mateo. He ended up there, he says, by drinking himself out his job, and then out of an apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I ended up losing pretty much everything,\" Kraft says. Today, he lives in a dorm-size room at the Vendome. He still remembers his first night here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first thing I did, I went and took a shower because living on the streets you don't get that option every day,\" Kraft says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a solution to homelessness is a struggle for every Bay Area city, from large to small. San Mateo says it has found a way to help get its chronically homeless residents off the street by giving them a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vendome is an old hotel the city of San Mateo bought 10 years ago and converted into an apartment building. It was created for people who have been homeless for a decade or more -- some causing problems downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These people were extremely problematic,\" says Steve Carey, project manager of the Vendome. \"One lady would literally shower in front of the movie theater. Take off her clothes and take a shower.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carey says that before the city took on the problem, there were about 30 chronically homeless people within a four-block radius. Today that number is more like two or three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They lost some dignity, they've lost who they are, and we get to give that to them. It starts with a room, but that's just the start,\" Carey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627047\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vendome Place Apartments, a former hotel now used to house the city's chronically homeless. \u003ccite>(City of San Mateo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 16 residents who live at the Vendome have access to health care and counseling through the homeless outreach organization LifeMoves. And they can live there for the rest of their lives if they want. The residents pay rent based on their income, but most of the cost is subsidized by the federal government and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vendome also works in partnership with the Police Department and other city services. San Mateo police Officer David Johnson is one of four officers who walk the streets every day, identifying people they can direct to services -- like the Vendome. Jail or a psychiatric ward is a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know a lot of times when you're on patrol you're just kind of a Band-Aid,\" Johnson says. \"With this position, I was given the time I need to actually make long-term solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Greenberg, LifeMoves vice president of programs and services, says that while the Vendome is a great example of a solution, fighting homelessness is not a one-size-fits-all solution. San Mateo is relatively small in comparison to places like San Francisco, and the Vendome specifically houses chronically homeless individuals in the downtown core. But Greenberg believes there is still a lot that other cities can learn from what works here. A decade ago it was a contentious idea -- the City Council had to get buy-in from residents and business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's a model for each community really taking proprietorship over their unsheltered population,\" Greenberg says. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you’ve lived without the basics for so long, something as simple as washing and folding clothes can feel like a luxury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you're out on the street it's like, OK, I've got one clean set of clothes. I've got to go find a place to do laundry, I've got to find money to put in the machines,\" says Steve Kraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly a year, Kraft slept in the alley behind the Starbucks in downtown San Mateo. He ended up there, he says, by drinking himself out his job, and then out of an apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I ended up losing pretty much everything,\" Kraft says. Today, he lives in a dorm-size room at the Vendome. He still remembers his first night here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first thing I did, I went and took a shower because living on the streets you don't get that option every day,\" Kraft says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a solution to homelessness is a struggle for every Bay Area city, from large to small. San Mateo says it has found a way to help get its chronically homeless residents off the street by giving them a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vendome is an old hotel the city of San Mateo bought 10 years ago and converted into an apartment building. It was created for people who have been homeless for a decade or more -- some causing problems downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These people were extremely problematic,\" says Steve Carey, project manager of the Vendome. \"One lady would literally shower in front of the movie theater. Take off her clothes and take a shower.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carey says that before the city took on the problem, there were about 30 chronically homeless people within a four-block radius. Today that number is more like two or three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They lost some dignity, they've lost who they are, and we get to give that to them. It starts with a room, but that's just the start,\" Carey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627047\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/vendome-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vendome Place Apartments, a former hotel now used to house the city's chronically homeless. \u003ccite>(City of San Mateo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 16 residents who live at the Vendome have access to health care and counseling through the homeless outreach organization LifeMoves. And they can live there for the rest of their lives if they want. The residents pay rent based on their income, but most of the cost is subsidized by the federal government and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vendome also works in partnership with the Police Department and other city services. San Mateo police Officer David Johnson is one of four officers who walk the streets every day, identifying people they can direct to services -- like the Vendome. Jail or a psychiatric ward is a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know a lot of times when you're on patrol you're just kind of a Band-Aid,\" Johnson says. \"With this position, I was given the time I need to actually make long-term solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Greenberg, LifeMoves vice president of programs and services, says that while the Vendome is a great example of a solution, fighting homelessness is not a one-size-fits-all solution. San Mateo is relatively small in comparison to places like San Francisco, and the Vendome specifically houses chronically homeless individuals in the downtown core. But Greenberg believes there is still a lot that other cities can learn from what works here. A decade ago it was a contentious idea -- the City Council had to get buy-in from residents and business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's a model for each community really taking proprietorship over their unsheltered population,\" Greenberg says. It's something that NIMBYism doesn’t always make possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenberg says that in Silicon Valley a significant portion of the homeless population travels from city to city in search of services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more communities step up and say we're going to find the right solution for our city, then you can really positively and visibly impact homelessness,\" Greenberg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be Steve Kraft's third year living at the Vendome, and now, he says, he has the clarity to think about his future. Maybe one day, he’ll move to Reno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's cheaper up there, they've got baseball up there,\" Kraft says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting off the streets, he says, has opened his mind up to think beyond day-to-day survival.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I noticed the first couple of tents near KQED’s Los Angeles bureau several months ago on a busy thoroughfare connecting downtown to Koreatown and MacArthur Park. That’s around the time Arnell Lee staked out the area and pitched camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I was like the first one that stayed right here, right there next to the palm tree,” says Lee leaning up against a retaining wall awash in graffiti behind a tent belonging to Jeremy Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a friend of mine, told him, 'man don't tell nobody about this spot,' it's a good area you know what I mean,” says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People just don't take care of the spot and there are too many people,” says Thompson from his tent, wrapping grip tape around a pair of handlebars. There are stacks of bicycle tires, frames, tools and other parts behind and inside the tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626198\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626198\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Oh I was like the first one that stayed right here,' says Arnell Lee of a small homeless encampment that sprung up at the edge of downtown L.A. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thompson says police confiscated some older bike parts a while ago, suspecting it was all stolen. He insists he’s no thief. He’s just good with his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were fine with everything, and the next day they came back and did bulk property removal and threw out about $4,000 worth of frames, just drug ‘em off threw them away,” says Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says he used to run his own bike shop and other businesses back in the Midwest where he’s from. He’s vague about what brought him to L.A., why things took a turn in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chasing a woman,” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I make next to nothing off this,” he says of his makeshift bike repair. “I don't even break even it's just a labor of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-960x665.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New 'micro' homeless encampments have been popping up more and more around L.A. including this one near KQED's L.A. bureau. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's a little unusual about this encampment is that it's only about a 20-minute walk from the heart of L.A.'s Skid Row, the largest concentration of homeless people in the nation. Skid Row also has the biggest concentration of homeless services, supportive housing and shelter space -- when there’s vacancy that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why pitch camp on this patch of sidewalk down the hill from a public school and across the street from a pair of vehicle maintenance yards?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before here I was just bouncing around from place to place,” says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can't stand Skid Row, I can't stand it man. It's too cluttered, too many people, it smells, too much drama,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cannibalistic and parasitic,” chimes in Thompson. “We all have each other’s back right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Measure H aims to raise millions for homeless services through a hike in L.A. County’s sales tax. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An ever tightening housing market, a shortage of low income housing and finite public services for the homeless spurred Los Angeles city and county to declare a ‘homeless emergency’ last year. And to push hard for passage of two landmark, voter-approved funding efforts \u003ca href=\"http://homeless.lacounty.gov/measure-h/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure H\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://cao.lacity.org/Homeless/PropHHHAOC-20170223b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition HHH \u003c/a>to bankroll homeless services and supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so our goal is providing integrated services to our homeless brothers and sisters along with the resources to succeed and to thrive,” declared \u003ca href=\"http://ridley-thomas.lacounty.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. County supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas \u003c/a>earlier this month during a news conference in the parking of the non-profit Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System or HOPICS in South Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thrive,” says Ridley-Thomas. “That's what we're here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas at a recent in event in South L.A. trumpeting an increased outreach effort to bring the homeless off the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas at a recent in event in South L.A. trumpeting an increased outreach effort to bring the homeless off the street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ridley-Thomas trumpeted a renewed effort to partner with community groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopics.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOPICS\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesoh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanctuary of Hope \u003c/a>youth services to create a virtual army of street outreach teams with the aid of Measure H money. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim is to steer people living on the streets to services, find temporary shelter and hopefully put them on a path to permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a residential street abutting the 110 Freeway in South L.A., there’s a settlement of tarps, tents and small RVs that stretches for two city blocks. A couple of outreach workers with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. County Homeless Services Authority\u003c/a> knocked on RV doors and called into open tent tent flaps to check in on people and offer a menu of possible services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street team with L.A. County’s Homeless Services Authority visits with residents of a sprawling sidewalk encampment in South Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626292\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street team with L.A. County’s Homeless Services Authority visits with residents of a sprawling sidewalk encampment in South Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The encampment is a mix of single women, white men, black millennials and Latino immigrants. It sprung up about 18 months ago or so says LAHSA outreach worker Crystal Clarke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw encampments definitely grow, and we're also seeing it move into areas it never was before,” says LAHSA’s outreach coordinator Colleen Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is community pressure, law enforcement pressures where encampments will start one place and then move. So we have to stay on our toes and know where that's happening and then move our services there,” says Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With Measure H we have a lot more resources flowing down the pike, whether it's rapid re-housing, more shelter beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tell Murphy about Arnell and Jeremy, the guys I met living in tents near my office, about how they stay away from Skid Row, and are leery of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those folks don't have to go to a shelter, we can work with them straight from their encampments,” says Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the block, street outreach volunteer Reba Stevens is working alongside a team from Sanctuary of Hope youth services. Stevens was homeless for years herself she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there was nothing like this,” she says referring to the street outreach teams. Had there been, she might have gotten off the streets sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"A promotional illustration mapping out L.A. County’s multi-teared approach to getting the homeless housed and connected to the services they need.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626297\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-960x676.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A promotional illustration mapping out L.A. County’s multi-teared approach to getting the homeless housed and connected to the services they need. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stevens speaks to a tall, trim young black man with an orange bandana around his neck named Craig. He doesn’t want to give his last name. Craig is 25. He says he used to live around here, with a godmother. He moved in with her after his mom died years ago. Then there were conflicts over his sexuality and apparent substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could get you into a shelter today, would you go,” asks Stevens leaning in close to Craig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he wants to but he’s unsure. The shelters are crowded, big, no privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig is eventually persuaded to take a spot at a youth shelter. At 25 he just qualifies. Someone calls to arrange a pickup. It’s the kind of breakthrough you hope for everyday says Colleen Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't give up that's our mantra,” says Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do whatever it takes, we don't give up and we may get ‘NO’ ten times and we will just keep coming back until we get the ‘YES’.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, they’ll probably have to come back and ask Craig again too. In the time it took for Murphy and I to reach the end of the block and walk back, he’d changed his mind. He’s not ready to come in off the streets just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I call out to him as he heads off down the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, are you going?” I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shrugs his shoulders and smiles sheepishly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you,” he says and walks on.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I noticed the first couple of tents near KQED’s Los Angeles bureau several months ago on a busy thoroughfare connecting downtown to Koreatown and MacArthur Park. That’s around the time Arnell Lee staked out the area and pitched camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I was like the first one that stayed right here, right there next to the palm tree,” says Lee leaning up against a retaining wall awash in graffiti behind a tent belonging to Jeremy Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a friend of mine, told him, 'man don't tell nobody about this spot,' it's a good area you know what I mean,” says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People just don't take care of the spot and there are too many people,” says Thompson from his tent, wrapping grip tape around a pair of handlebars. There are stacks of bicycle tires, frames, tools and other parts behind and inside the tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626198\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626198\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arnell-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Oh I was like the first one that stayed right here,' says Arnell Lee of a small homeless encampment that sprung up at the edge of downtown L.A. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thompson says police confiscated some older bike parts a while ago, suspecting it was all stolen. He insists he’s no thief. He’s just good with his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were fine with everything, and the next day they came back and did bulk property removal and threw out about $4,000 worth of frames, just drug ‘em off threw them away,” says Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says he used to run his own bike shop and other businesses back in the Midwest where he’s from. He’s vague about what brought him to L.A., why things took a turn in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chasing a woman,” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I make next to nothing off this,” he says of his makeshift bike repair. “I don't even break even it's just a labor of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-960x665.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/2nd-street-camp-wide-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New 'micro' homeless encampments have been popping up more and more around L.A. including this one near KQED's L.A. bureau. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's a little unusual about this encampment is that it's only about a 20-minute walk from the heart of L.A.'s Skid Row, the largest concentration of homeless people in the nation. Skid Row also has the biggest concentration of homeless services, supportive housing and shelter space -- when there’s vacancy that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why pitch camp on this patch of sidewalk down the hill from a public school and across the street from a pair of vehicle maintenance yards?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before here I was just bouncing around from place to place,” says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can't stand Skid Row, I can't stand it man. It's too cluttered, too many people, it smells, too much drama,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cannibalistic and parasitic,” chimes in Thompson. “We all have each other’s back right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/meas-H-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Measure H aims to raise millions for homeless services through a hike in L.A. County’s sales tax. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An ever tightening housing market, a shortage of low income housing and finite public services for the homeless spurred Los Angeles city and county to declare a ‘homeless emergency’ last year. And to push hard for passage of two landmark, voter-approved funding efforts \u003ca href=\"http://homeless.lacounty.gov/measure-h/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure H\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://cao.lacity.org/Homeless/PropHHHAOC-20170223b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition HHH \u003c/a>to bankroll homeless services and supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so our goal is providing integrated services to our homeless brothers and sisters along with the resources to succeed and to thrive,” declared \u003ca href=\"http://ridley-thomas.lacounty.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. County supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas \u003c/a>earlier this month during a news conference in the parking of the non-profit Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System or HOPICS in South Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thrive,” says Ridley-Thomas. “That's what we're here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas at a recent in event in South L.A. trumpeting an increased outreach effort to bring the homeless off the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-RT-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas at a recent in event in South L.A. trumpeting an increased outreach effort to bring the homeless off the street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ridley-Thomas trumpeted a renewed effort to partner with community groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopics.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOPICS\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesoh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanctuary of Hope \u003c/a>youth services to create a virtual army of street outreach teams with the aid of Measure H money. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim is to steer people living on the streets to services, find temporary shelter and hopefully put them on a path to permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a residential street abutting the 110 Freeway in South L.A., there’s a settlement of tarps, tents and small RVs that stretches for two city blocks. A couple of outreach workers with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. County Homeless Services Authority\u003c/a> knocked on RV doors and called into open tent tent flaps to check in on people and offer a menu of possible services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street team with L.A. County’s Homeless Services Authority visits with residents of a sprawling sidewalk encampment in South Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626292\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/lahsa-workers-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street team with L.A. County’s Homeless Services Authority visits with residents of a sprawling sidewalk encampment in South Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The encampment is a mix of single women, white men, black millennials and Latino immigrants. It sprung up about 18 months ago or so says LAHSA outreach worker Crystal Clarke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw encampments definitely grow, and we're also seeing it move into areas it never was before,” says LAHSA’s outreach coordinator Colleen Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is community pressure, law enforcement pressures where encampments will start one place and then move. So we have to stay on our toes and know where that's happening and then move our services there,” says Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With Measure H we have a lot more resources flowing down the pike, whether it's rapid re-housing, more shelter beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tell Murphy about Arnell and Jeremy, the guys I met living in tents near my office, about how they stay away from Skid Row, and are leery of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those folks don't have to go to a shelter, we can work with them straight from their encampments,” says Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the block, street outreach volunteer Reba Stevens is working alongside a team from Sanctuary of Hope youth services. Stevens was homeless for years herself she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there was nothing like this,” she says referring to the street outreach teams. Had there been, she might have gotten off the streets sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"A promotional illustration mapping out L.A. County’s multi-teared approach to getting the homeless housed and connected to the services they need.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626297\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-960x676.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/OUTREACH-ILLUSTRATION-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A promotional illustration mapping out L.A. County’s multi-teared approach to getting the homeless housed and connected to the services they need. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stevens speaks to a tall, trim young black man with an orange bandana around his neck named Craig. He doesn’t want to give his last name. Craig is 25. He says he used to live around here, with a godmother. He moved in with her after his mom died years ago. Then there were conflicts over his sexuality and apparent substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could get you into a shelter today, would you go,” asks Stevens leaning in close to Craig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he wants to but he’s unsure. The shelters are crowded, big, no privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig is eventually persuaded to take a spot at a youth shelter. At 25 he just qualifies. Someone calls to arrange a pickup. It’s the kind of breakthrough you hope for everyday says Colleen Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't give up that's our mantra,” says Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do whatever it takes, we don't give up and we may get ‘NO’ ten times and we will just keep coming back until we get the ‘YES’.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, they’ll probably have to come back and ask Craig again too. In the time it took for Murphy and I to reach the end of the block and walk back, he’d changed his mind. He’s not ready to come in off the streets just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I call out to him as he heads off down the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, are you going?” I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shrugs his shoulders and smiles sheepishly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A plot of dry grass is now fenced on one side of the BART tracks between Alcatraz Avenue and 63rd Street in South Berkeley. “No Camping” signs have been posted around the fence by transit agency police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the tracks, alongside Adeline Street, a separate encampment featuring a couple of dozen tents is still bustling. People sit in chairs around a communal table where watermelons and other food is available. Residents will tell you the encampment is safe and drug-free and that decisions are communal. It’s a model encampment, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very forward-thinking, very structured,” said Trevor “T-Rex” Sullivan, who has lived at the encampment for about a month. “We show love and support to everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After posting notices to vacate both camps over the weekend, BART cleared the one east of the tracks Wednesday morning. But a federal judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/10/24/south-berkeley-homeless-camp-earns-temporary-reprieve-bart-eviction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">granted a temporary restraining order\u003c/a> on Tuesday blocking the transit agency from removing the encampment on the west side, named “Here There” after an art installation at the site. The camp’s residents will get a chance to argue their case next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2948-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Here There” encampment has been established in South Berkeley since early 2017. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents are part of a group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/firsttheycameforthehomeless/\">First They Came For The Homeless\u003c/a>, which has protested against criminalizing homelessness in Berkeley the last couple of years. The “Here There” camp was established in December, according to a complaint that was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp residents are asked to attend a meeting and go through a two-week probation period, said Sullivan. The site has solar panels for electricity and a neighborhood group has helped get a portable bathroom installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city spokesman told \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/06/28/berkeleys-homeless-protest-camp-puts-roots/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> in June the encampment was allowed to stay because there hadn’t been complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a different story with the camp on the other side of the tracks, which adjoined a residential neighborhood. Among the reported problems was a fatal drug overdose and an assault with a deadly weapon, BART says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.jessearreguin.com/blog-1/2017/10/23/no-easy-answers-when-it-comes-to-solving-homeless-crisis\">statement on his website\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most of the year, it has been my position that the encampment at HERE THERE, should be allowed to remain. For most of its existence, it was a well-run intentional community, supported by local residents and businesses. But there have also been problems and complaints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says there have been “over 50 complaints about unsafe and dangerous activity from nearby neighbors and school parents,” but it’s unclear how many of those incidents are attributed to the “Here There” site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here There” residents are quick to say their encampment is different from others nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first showed up here, it was a savior,” said Sam Clune, who says he was staying in a Shattuck Avenue doorway. He said the first night he stayed at “Here There,” he cried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a relief,” said Clune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626050\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Clune lives at the Here There encampment with his dog Trouble. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The residents’ case, which argues that evicting them will violate their civil rights, will be heard next Tuesday. The law firm Siegel, Yee & Brunner, which represents encampment residents, will file an amended complaint on Thursday to flesh out some of the resident’s basic arguments, said attorney EmilyRose Johns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing the encampment will be arguing for its right to stay in the next week makes some residents, like Adam Bredenberg, anxious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still under a lot of stress and fear,” said Bredenberg. “The case is very much up in the air. We don’t know how it will turn out.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp residents are asked to attend a meeting and go through a two-week probation period, said Sullivan. The site has solar panels for electricity and a neighborhood group has helped get a portable bathroom installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city spokesman told \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/06/28/berkeleys-homeless-protest-camp-puts-roots/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> in June the encampment was allowed to stay because there hadn’t been complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a different story with the camp on the other side of the tracks, which adjoined a residential neighborhood. Among the reported problems was a fatal drug overdose and an assault with a deadly weapon, BART says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.jessearreguin.com/blog-1/2017/10/23/no-easy-answers-when-it-comes-to-solving-homeless-crisis\">statement on his website\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most of the year, it has been my position that the encampment at HERE THERE, should be allowed to remain. For most of its existence, it was a well-run intentional community, supported by local residents and businesses. But there have also been problems and complaints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says there have been “over 50 complaints about unsafe and dangerous activity from nearby neighbors and school parents,” but it’s unclear how many of those incidents are attributed to the “Here There” site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here There” residents are quick to say their encampment is different from others nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first showed up here, it was a savior,” said Sam Clune, who says he was staying in a Shattuck Avenue doorway. He said the first night he stayed at “Here There,” he cried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a relief,” said Clune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626050\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_2963-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Clune lives at the Here There encampment with his dog Trouble. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The residents’ case, which argues that evicting them will violate their civil rights, will be heard next Tuesday. The law firm Siegel, Yee & Brunner, which represents encampment residents, will file an amended complaint on Thursday to flesh out some of the resident’s basic arguments, said attorney EmilyRose Johns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing the encampment will be arguing for its right to stay in the next week makes some residents, like Adam Bredenberg, anxious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still under a lot of stress and fear,” said Bredenberg. “The case is very much up in the air. We don’t know how it will turn out.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dressed in jeans and carrying a backpack, 21-year-old Santa Monica College freshman Japheth Craig Dyer looks like a typical college kid who might have just pulled an all-nighter. But he wasn’t up late studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t have nowhere to sleep last night,” he says. “So … kind of tired, but I’m not too worried about it. I’ll just make sure I get some rest whenever I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s sitting on a bench in the shade — just inside, the cafeteria teems with students eating, chatting and studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer is part of a homeless population that’s been invisible for a long time. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vchcorp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-Homeless-Count-Results.pdf\">The latest homeless count in Los Angeles showed a 64 percent increase\u003c/a> in the number of 18- to 24-year-olds on the streets since last year, to a total of nearly 6,000. But experts say that dramatic rise is largely due to the fact that authorities got better at counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”HjFtUsWVHLbosTQ03QasPLW3z5x4x3FH”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Bedrossian, the \u003ca href=\"https://covenanthousecalifornia.org/\">CEO of Covenant House California\u003c/a>, a nonprofit specifically serving homeless 18- to 24-year-olds, says the latest number “is the number we’ve been saying for the last five to six years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless people in this age group are frequently hidden from plain sight, Bedrossian says. Instead of sleeping on sidewalks or in shelters, they often stay with friends or keep odd hours. This year, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority took that into account and surveyed young people about where to find their peers before the annual count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really talked to young people about how, when and where to count them,” Bedrossian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Better counting could also explain why other communities around the country have seen similar increases, like San Diego, Atlanta and Seattle. Still, the uptick isn’t entirely due to better counting. It also reflects a real problem that’s getting worse. Bedrossian says Covenant House has seen more young men and women seeking help in recent years, though it’s difficult to quantify exactly how many more. About half are former foster kids, like Japheth Craig Dyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer lived in foster care until he was 18 and then stayed with his grandmother for a short time, but says they didn’t get along. He ended up on the street about two years ago. Sometimes he stays with friends, but he spends a lot of nights aimlessly riding the bus, which he describes as “demoralizing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/scott-encampment-1_wide-48099f9e7d750d2c4f0a92c29eb9b22536d9436b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A bike, sofa and other belongings are stored in this makeshift shelter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bike, sofa and other belongings are stored in this makeshift shelter. \u003ccite>(Anna Scott/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bedrossian says Dyer isn’t alone, and that foster care often doesn’t provide the stability people need to successfully step into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not in homes long enough to really develop family relationships when they turn 18,” Bedrossian said. “The design of the foster care system is to keep your children safe. It’s not to raise children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl points out that California does offer some services to young people for three years after leaving foster care. But she agrees with Bedrossian that it only goes so far. Once somebody turns 18, she says, “We can’t tell you what to do. We can’t order people to take you in, because you’re an adult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”vdbFsNNIQqZdkIGSnC9SKqjOL6GADF53″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuehl says the city and county recently adopted several new measures aimed at stopping former foster youth from slipping through the cracks after turning 18, including more temporary shelters for young people and help for colleges to identify and track homeless students. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally aired on \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/oakland-unified-struggles-help-homeless-students-numbers-soar#stream/0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KALW’s Crosscurrents\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being homeless takes a big toll on kids in the classroom. Today, about 1.3 million children and youth across the country fit that legal definition, the majority of them staying temporarily with friends or family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little-known federal law — the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act — is tailored to helping those kids succeed, and this year its provisions got even stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the law has been chronically underfunded for decades. Oakland Unified School District is no exception, even though a red-hot housing market contributed to a huge boost in homeless students last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/10/HomelessKidsSchool.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO2.jpg\" Title=\"No Easy Road for Homeless Kids to Stay in Familiar Schools\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Up Before Dawn\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem Bennett is getting ready for his first day of fifth grade. He can’t find his bubblegum toothpaste, so he has to use the adult stuff. He swirls his toothbrush in the clogged bathroom sink to take the edge off. It doesn’t help much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ahhhh,” he says, “that really stings the mouth!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a typical domestic scene, but this isn’t Naseem’s home. He and his mom, Rachael Allamby, 41, sleep in his great-grandmother’s living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 6 a.m., Naseem’s red air mattress is propped against the wall. The couch where his mother sleeps is tidied. And all their bedding and other belongings are tucked in a tight heap in the corner, under a blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Naseem lived in North Oakland with his mother, Mr. Spooky the cat and Kudjo the chihuahua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, last fall, they got evicted from their duplex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby says it was a wrongful eviction, that she always paid her rent on time, but that when she was late coming up with some money for repairs, the landlord booted her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They became homeless — a word that's hard for her to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her son had no other choice but to come here, to this small one-bedroom apartment near a leafy park in South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s great-grandmother is sleeping with her door propped open. He and his mom try not to wake her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Naseem is the main one I worry about, because I know when he’s stressed out, \" Allamby says in a whisper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His living circumstances have taken a toll. He’s had anxiety attacks, temper tantrums, lots of stress eating, “and then traveling from here all the way to Oakland” and back again, Allamby adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that travel? That’s so Naseem can stay in the same school where he’s been since kindergarten. Where they know him, and care about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of \u003ca href=\"http://www.americaspromise.org/report/hidden-plain-sight\">research\u003c/a> shows that students who lose their housing, even briefly, perform more poorly in school. They’re often \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/chron-absent.pdf\">late or miss days\u003c/a>. They’re less likely than any other group to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining stability at school after a child loses his or her home, it turns out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139923/\">can be key to educational success.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it makes for long days for Naseem. His school is 22 miles and three counties away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem stuffs a bag of Dum Dums in his pocket and scrounges for his Pokémon cards, a recent gift. By 6:30 am, Allamby announces it’s time to hit the road. Naseem responds with a loud sigh that borders on a groan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pops,” she reminds him in an urgent whisper, “you need your jacket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grabs a black zip-up hoodie and fetches what he calls his “car,” a scooter with beat-up handlebars and busted front brakes. The BART station is more than a mile away — and the whole trip to Naseem’s Oakland school will take nearly two hours — so the scooter helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He drags it down the stairs as dawn's light bleeds into morning. “She’s not bad,” he says, almost to himself, “but neither she’s not good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Commute\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Allamby and Naseem take a jogger’s path to the station, teasing and goofing along the way. Mom tosses out the first joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the name of the vegetable kung fu master?” she asks. Naseem’s right on it with the answer: “Brock Lee,” he squeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby knows how to prioritize her kids’ education. Naseem’s eldest sister just started at UC Berkeley. His mom has big hopes for Naseem, too, which is why she really wants him to maintain some continuity at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be integrating Naseem into the schools here and then we gotta transfer again,” she explains, as Naseem trundles along next to her, gleefully pointing out a cat they often run into, and a duck feeding on weedy muck in the nearby canal. “I want him to keep the same friends and associates at the school as long as he can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping Naseem in the same school? It turns out that’s actually Allamby’s legal right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades ago, President Ronald Reagan signed the \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/legis/mv.php\">McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act \u003c/a>into federal law. The big-picture idea: to provide stability. The law \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlchp.org/documents/McKinney-Vento_FAQs\">guarantees \u003c/a>that kids who have lost their fixed housing can stay at the school they’ve been attending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It guarantees other rights too — like the right to enroll immediately at a new school without proof of residence or immunization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most critically for many parents who wish to keep kids in their original school, the act in most circumstances \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/transportation.pdf\">pledges help with transportation costs \u003c/a>to get there and back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby and Naseem could really use that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-960x686.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-520x371.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachael Allamby leans in to talk to Naseem, 10, during their nearly two-hour commute to his Oakland elementary school. They spend much of it on BART. Allamby says their fares cost her nearly $400 a month. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transit Costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When they get to BART, it’s time for an uncomfortable ritual. Allamby has scrounged up two BART tickets. But the combined value isn’t enough. She needs Naseem to run through the emergency gate -- again. She knows she keeps saying it’s the last time, she tells him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem listens. “But it’s never the last time,” he points out quietly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby says transit costs alone run her nearly $400 per month, so it’s a problem. Naseem makes it through without getting stopped, and when he and his mom arrive at Oakland’s MacArthur station, Allamby explains to the station agents that they are just a bit short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They let mother and son exit. These two know her, Allamby says. They saw her bring Naseem to school a lot before summer break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone does.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Need Is Great\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s situation is not unusual. In the 2016-17 school year, the Oakland Unified School District saw an increase of more than 50 percent in its homeless student tally – to nearly 1600 kids, according to data provided by the district’s McKinney-Vento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the families the district knows about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish Anderson is the district’s new McKinney-Vento liaison. She took over this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, she says, is full of families who’ve been pushed out of stable housing. Many are invisible, doubled up like Naseem is with relatives or friends. Others are living in cars, shelters or motels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about the number of people in that situation in Oakland right now with the housing crisis, that number is bound to be larger than it was in the past,” Anderson says in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney-Vento \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/new-liaisons.pdf\">mandates\u003c/a> that districts work with schools to identify students who’ve lost their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District liaisons are also supposed to spread the word at soup kitchens, shelters, motels and laundromats — so that families know that they're entitled to stay in their home school, enroll without proof of an address, get transportation help, access support for school supplies and clothes, and referrals to dental care, housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a big gap between what the law promises and what it delivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is just one person, with a caseload of 1,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s funding for homeless students? It’s stayed flat for the past three school years, at $230,885, and isn’t projected to grow this year either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education doles out federal McKinney-Vento grants to districts to help them comply with the law — but there isn’t enough to go around, and the three-year grants are competitive: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r16/homeless15results.asp\">Fewer than half of the 131 districts that applied in the most recent cycle, in 2015, received one.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified wasn’t among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it hasn’t received any federal grant money through the state since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though a fifth of the nation’s homeless students live in California, the state receives just one-tenth of the funding, according to Leanne Wheeler, the homeless education coordinator for the California Department of Education. And she alone is charged with ensuring that 1,800 districts, county educational offices, and privately-funded charter schools are complying with the law. In contrast, Texas and New York have half a dozen or more such staffers on hand, Wheeler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/es/documents/draftmckinneyvento.doc\">changes to the federal law\u003c/a> require Wheeler to step up training for district liaisons such as Anderson. And Anderson, in turn, is now required to do more to make sure Oakland school personnel — from principals on down — get trained in the law too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, every single school district in the country is now mandated to publicly report achievement, suspension and graduation rates for homeless students, to shine a brighter light out how they’re doing and whether they’re getting the support they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, plenty fall through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621057\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621057\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naseem Bennett, 10, finds his name on the wall on his first day of 5th grade at Oakland's Emerson Elementary School. Naseem and his mom lost their housing in North Oakland last year. He now commutes across three counties so he can maintain some educational stability. It’s his legal right. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How to Spot the Signs \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem and his mom arrive at Emerson Elementary School, in Oakland’s Temescal district, not long before the 8:30 a.m. bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi Miss Brook!” Naseem yells as he waits for his mother to fill out forms. Allamby recently scored a full-time job as a janitor in San Francisco, so she wasn’t able to register him on time. She catches up now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the staff here know Naseem’s situation. They figured it out last year when he started showing up late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They offered him counseling, and a coach brought Naseem clothes and a new Xbox, since he lost a lot of stuff in the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Heather Palin says a team that includes teachers and counselors know how to spot the signs that a student might have lost his or her housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even at community schools like Emerson, which make a holistic effort to help kids and families, many employees aren’t that familiar with the McKinney-Vento law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palin’s not sure whether the information on a student’s housing status gets back to the district’s McKinney-Vento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t say necessarily that there’s a lot of training” in the law, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem. Palin couldn’t talk about the specifics of Naseem’s case, for privacy reasons. But it turns out, he wasn’t included in the district’s homeless student tally last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cases like this mean that Oakland’s numbers aren’t accurate, which can affect funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, it means no one really spelled out for Allamby her rights under federal law or the services that the district can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, it’s not uncommon for parents and youth to hide their circumstances, due to embarrassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because they don’t fully understand their rights, they’re fearful, too, that their kids might be told that they can’t stay in their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby knows the school has been supportive. But she’s still nervous. When she fills out the registration form for the district, she uses her old Oakland address -- “just to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-960x576.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-520x312.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naseem Bennett, 10, sits in his classroom at Emerson Elementary School on the first day of fifth grade. He’s been in good spirits all morning but his mood shifts once school starts. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First Day Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s been in high spirits all morning. But his mood starts to shift when it’s time to file into his classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, he puts his head on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How're you doing, Naseem,” Miss Grill murmurs to him, leaning in close. “You don’t know? Is today feeling a little hard?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem says he’s hungry. But he turns down the yogurt and apple that the school has provided this morning to all students for breakfast. So Miss Grill reaches into her personal snack bag and gives Naseem a banana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Drop-in Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Parents and youth who have lost their fixed housing are sometimes identified during Oakland Unified’s centralized enrollment process, when they can’t come up with proof of a current address — or if they \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/159/FINAL%20ENROLLMENT%20FORM%20ENG_FILLABLE.pdf\">check a small box on the registration form\u003c/a> that asks whether they are homeless or doubled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re then told to drop by the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Domain/153\">Transitional Students & Families Unit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Families are described as “in transition” rather than “homeless,” to reduce stigma.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first week of school, Anderson says, her drop-in center was packed. She fixed it up with a donated sofa and comfortable chairs, decorated the walls, and got to work writing letters --to tap private companies, faith-based groups and the nonprofit sector for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is hoping to team up with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mynewredshoes.org/\">My New Red Shoes\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization, to secure shoes for kids and possibly gift cards, too, that families can use to buy school uniforms and other back-to-school clothing. Other nonprofits -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.feedthechildren.org/\">Feed the Children \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandpromise.org/programs/k2c/\">Kindergarten to College\u003c/a> --provide her office with backpacks and school supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the district’s crippling budget crisis in mind, Anderson is now pitching a host of other area businesses, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, oh, don’t think I haven’t thought about approaching Uber or Lyft, the new transportation experts, to ask about donations from them,” she adds. “I’m on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many districts, that community help is the best hope to comply with the McKinney-Vento law, which is clear about \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/transportation.pdf\">transit help.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent chooses to keep their child in the school of origin, the law spells out, Oakland Unified under nearly all circumstances must pay for transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the student is temporarily residing within another district’s boundaries, as Naseem is, the two districts are supposed to share the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transit Troubles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But Oakland Unified doesn’t offer BART cards, Anderson said. It’s never had the resources to make that happen. So it doesn’t coordinate with districts outside Alameda County to help get kids to school here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, other than salaries and overhead, Oakland Unified's entire budget for homeless students goes toward AC Transit bus passes. And even there, it falls short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Around April,” Anderson said, “we’re running out of funding for transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Anderson learned from a reporter about Naseem’s circumstances, she arranged to have some passes dropped off at Emerson for him and his mom, since Allamby can’t easily get to the drop-in center. It’s all Anderson can offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby is grateful. But the bus system only covers western Alameda and Contra Costa counties. For her core commute costs on BART, she’s out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Long Day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the time she and Naseem get back to South San Francisco, it’s almost 8 p.m. They’ve been out of the house for more than 13 hours. They’re exhausted. Allamby worries that her son is not getting enough sleep to focus in school or on homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s trauma that’s harder to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we lost our home, Naseem lost his peace and quiet, his privacy, our pets, so it was just really hard for him,” Allamby says as Naseem eats popcorn and zones out on YouTube videos on her phone. “I don’t think he will ever feel comfortable at someone else’s house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby loves to dream about the home she’ll share with Naseem again one day. She wants him to have his own room, with a loft bed and a desk where he can do his homework. Even his own TV and a mini-fridge, so he can bask in his privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Naseem doesn’t seem to want to play that game. Asked what he misses about Oakland, he breathes heavily. He pauses. He sighs. He doesn’t answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom thinks he just can’t go there right now, that he’s not confident he’ll ever have his own space again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ahhhh,” he says, “that really stings the mouth!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a typical domestic scene, but this isn’t Naseem’s home. He and his mom, Rachael Allamby, 41, sleep in his great-grandmother’s living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 6 a.m., Naseem’s red air mattress is propped against the wall. The couch where his mother sleeps is tidied. And all their bedding and other belongings are tucked in a tight heap in the corner, under a blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Naseem lived in North Oakland with his mother, Mr. Spooky the cat and Kudjo the chihuahua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, last fall, they got evicted from their duplex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby says it was a wrongful eviction, that she always paid her rent on time, but that when she was late coming up with some money for repairs, the landlord booted her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They became homeless — a word that's hard for her to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her son had no other choice but to come here, to this small one-bedroom apartment near a leafy park in South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s great-grandmother is sleeping with her door propped open. He and his mom try not to wake her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Naseem is the main one I worry about, because I know when he’s stressed out, \" Allamby says in a whisper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His living circumstances have taken a toll. He’s had anxiety attacks, temper tantrums, lots of stress eating, “and then traveling from here all the way to Oakland” and back again, Allamby adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that travel? That’s so Naseem can stay in the same school where he’s been since kindergarten. Where they know him, and care about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of \u003ca href=\"http://www.americaspromise.org/report/hidden-plain-sight\">research\u003c/a> shows that students who lose their housing, even briefly, perform more poorly in school. They’re often \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/chron-absent.pdf\">late or miss days\u003c/a>. They’re less likely than any other group to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining stability at school after a child loses his or her home, it turns out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139923/\">can be key to educational success.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it makes for long days for Naseem. His school is 22 miles and three counties away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem stuffs a bag of Dum Dums in his pocket and scrounges for his Pokémon cards, a recent gift. By 6:30 am, Allamby announces it’s time to hit the road. Naseem responds with a loud sigh that borders on a groan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pops,” she reminds him in an urgent whisper, “you need your jacket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grabs a black zip-up hoodie and fetches what he calls his “car,” a scooter with beat-up handlebars and busted front brakes. The BART station is more than a mile away — and the whole trip to Naseem’s Oakland school will take nearly two hours — so the scooter helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He drags it down the stairs as dawn's light bleeds into morning. “She’s not bad,” he says, almost to himself, “but neither she’s not good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Commute\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Allamby and Naseem take a jogger’s path to the station, teasing and goofing along the way. Mom tosses out the first joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the name of the vegetable kung fu master?” she asks. Naseem’s right on it with the answer: “Brock Lee,” he squeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby knows how to prioritize her kids’ education. Naseem’s eldest sister just started at UC Berkeley. His mom has big hopes for Naseem, too, which is why she really wants him to maintain some continuity at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be integrating Naseem into the schools here and then we gotta transfer again,” she explains, as Naseem trundles along next to her, gleefully pointing out a cat they often run into, and a duck feeding on weedy muck in the nearby canal. “I want him to keep the same friends and associates at the school as long as he can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping Naseem in the same school? It turns out that’s actually Allamby’s legal right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades ago, President Ronald Reagan signed the \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/legis/mv.php\">McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act \u003c/a>into federal law. The big-picture idea: to provide stability. The law \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlchp.org/documents/McKinney-Vento_FAQs\">guarantees \u003c/a>that kids who have lost their fixed housing can stay at the school they’ve been attending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It guarantees other rights too — like the right to enroll immediately at a new school without proof of residence or immunization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most critically for many parents who wish to keep kids in their original school, the act in most circumstances \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/transportation.pdf\">pledges help with transportation costs \u003c/a>to get there and back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby and Naseem could really use that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-960x686.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-520x371.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachael Allamby leans in to talk to Naseem, 10, during their nearly two-hour commute to his Oakland elementary school. They spend much of it on BART. Allamby says their fares cost her nearly $400 a month. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transit Costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When they get to BART, it’s time for an uncomfortable ritual. Allamby has scrounged up two BART tickets. But the combined value isn’t enough. She needs Naseem to run through the emergency gate -- again. She knows she keeps saying it’s the last time, she tells him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem listens. “But it’s never the last time,” he points out quietly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby says transit costs alone run her nearly $400 per month, so it’s a problem. Naseem makes it through without getting stopped, and when he and his mom arrive at Oakland’s MacArthur station, Allamby explains to the station agents that they are just a bit short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They let mother and son exit. These two know her, Allamby says. They saw her bring Naseem to school a lot before summer break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone does.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Need Is Great\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s situation is not unusual. In the 2016-17 school year, the Oakland Unified School District saw an increase of more than 50 percent in its homeless student tally – to nearly 1600 kids, according to data provided by the district’s McKinney-Vento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the families the district knows about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish Anderson is the district’s new McKinney-Vento liaison. She took over this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, she says, is full of families who’ve been pushed out of stable housing. Many are invisible, doubled up like Naseem is with relatives or friends. Others are living in cars, shelters or motels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about the number of people in that situation in Oakland right now with the housing crisis, that number is bound to be larger than it was in the past,” Anderson says in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney-Vento \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/new-liaisons.pdf\">mandates\u003c/a> that districts work with schools to identify students who’ve lost their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District liaisons are also supposed to spread the word at soup kitchens, shelters, motels and laundromats — so that families know that they're entitled to stay in their home school, enroll without proof of an address, get transportation help, access support for school supplies and clothes, and referrals to dental care, housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a big gap between what the law promises and what it delivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is just one person, with a caseload of 1,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s funding for homeless students? It’s stayed flat for the past three school years, at $230,885, and isn’t projected to grow this year either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education doles out federal McKinney-Vento grants to districts to help them comply with the law — but there isn’t enough to go around, and the three-year grants are competitive: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r16/homeless15results.asp\">Fewer than half of the 131 districts that applied in the most recent cycle, in 2015, received one.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified wasn’t among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it hasn’t received any federal grant money through the state since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though a fifth of the nation’s homeless students live in California, the state receives just one-tenth of the funding, according to Leanne Wheeler, the homeless education coordinator for the California Department of Education. And she alone is charged with ensuring that 1,800 districts, county educational offices, and privately-funded charter schools are complying with the law. In contrast, Texas and New York have half a dozen or more such staffers on hand, Wheeler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/es/documents/draftmckinneyvento.doc\">changes to the federal law\u003c/a> require Wheeler to step up training for district liaisons such as Anderson. And Anderson, in turn, is now required to do more to make sure Oakland school personnel — from principals on down — get trained in the law too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, every single school district in the country is now mandated to publicly report achievement, suspension and graduation rates for homeless students, to shine a brighter light out how they’re doing and whether they’re getting the support they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, plenty fall through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621057\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621057\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naseem Bennett, 10, finds his name on the wall on his first day of 5th grade at Oakland's Emerson Elementary School. Naseem and his mom lost their housing in North Oakland last year. He now commutes across three counties so he can maintain some educational stability. It’s his legal right. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How to Spot the Signs \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem and his mom arrive at Emerson Elementary School, in Oakland’s Temescal district, not long before the 8:30 a.m. bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi Miss Brook!” Naseem yells as he waits for his mother to fill out forms. Allamby recently scored a full-time job as a janitor in San Francisco, so she wasn’t able to register him on time. She catches up now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the staff here know Naseem’s situation. They figured it out last year when he started showing up late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They offered him counseling, and a coach brought Naseem clothes and a new Xbox, since he lost a lot of stuff in the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Heather Palin says a team that includes teachers and counselors know how to spot the signs that a student might have lost his or her housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even at community schools like Emerson, which make a holistic effort to help kids and families, many employees aren’t that familiar with the McKinney-Vento law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palin’s not sure whether the information on a student’s housing status gets back to the district’s McKinney-Vento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t say necessarily that there’s a lot of training” in the law, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem. Palin couldn’t talk about the specifics of Naseem’s case, for privacy reasons. But it turns out, he wasn’t included in the district’s homeless student tally last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cases like this mean that Oakland’s numbers aren’t accurate, which can affect funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, it means no one really spelled out for Allamby her rights under federal law or the services that the district can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, it’s not uncommon for parents and youth to hide their circumstances, due to embarrassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because they don’t fully understand their rights, they’re fearful, too, that their kids might be told that they can’t stay in their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby knows the school has been supportive. But she’s still nervous. When she fills out the registration form for the district, she uses her old Oakland address -- “just to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-960x576.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-520x312.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naseem Bennett, 10, sits in his classroom at Emerson Elementary School on the first day of fifth grade. He’s been in good spirits all morning but his mood shifts once school starts. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First Day Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s been in high spirits all morning. But his mood starts to shift when it’s time to file into his classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, he puts his head on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How're you doing, Naseem,” Miss Grill murmurs to him, leaning in close. “You don’t know? Is today feeling a little hard?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem says he’s hungry. But he turns down the yogurt and apple that the school has provided this morning to all students for breakfast. So Miss Grill reaches into her personal snack bag and gives Naseem a banana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Drop-in Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Parents and youth who have lost their fixed housing are sometimes identified during Oakland Unified’s centralized enrollment process, when they can’t come up with proof of a current address — or if they \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/159/FINAL%20ENROLLMENT%20FORM%20ENG_FILLABLE.pdf\">check a small box on the registration form\u003c/a> that asks whether they are homeless or doubled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re then told to drop by the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Domain/153\">Transitional Students & Families Unit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Families are described as “in transition” rather than “homeless,” to reduce stigma.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first week of school, Anderson says, her drop-in center was packed. She fixed it up with a donated sofa and comfortable chairs, decorated the walls, and got to work writing letters --to tap private companies, faith-based groups and the nonprofit sector for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is hoping to team up with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mynewredshoes.org/\">My New Red Shoes\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization, to secure shoes for kids and possibly gift cards, too, that families can use to buy school uniforms and other back-to-school clothing. Other nonprofits -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.feedthechildren.org/\">Feed the Children \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandpromise.org/programs/k2c/\">Kindergarten to College\u003c/a> --provide her office with backpacks and school supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the district’s crippling budget crisis in mind, Anderson is now pitching a host of other area businesses, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, oh, don’t think I haven’t thought about approaching Uber or Lyft, the new transportation experts, to ask about donations from them,” she adds. “I’m on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many districts, that community help is the best hope to comply with the McKinney-Vento law, which is clear about \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/transportation.pdf\">transit help.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent chooses to keep their child in the school of origin, the law spells out, Oakland Unified under nearly all circumstances must pay for transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the student is temporarily residing within another district’s boundaries, as Naseem is, the two districts are supposed to share the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transit Troubles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But Oakland Unified doesn’t offer BART cards, Anderson said. It’s never had the resources to make that happen. So it doesn’t coordinate with districts outside Alameda County to help get kids to school here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, other than salaries and overhead, Oakland Unified's entire budget for homeless students goes toward AC Transit bus passes. And even there, it falls short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Around April,” Anderson said, “we’re running out of funding for transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Anderson learned from a reporter about Naseem’s circumstances, she arranged to have some passes dropped off at Emerson for him and his mom, since Allamby can’t easily get to the drop-in center. It’s all Anderson can offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby is grateful. But the bus system only covers western Alameda and Contra Costa counties. For her core commute costs on BART, she’s out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Long Day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the time she and Naseem get back to South San Francisco, it’s almost 8 p.m. They’ve been out of the house for more than 13 hours. They’re exhausted. Allamby worries that her son is not getting enough sleep to focus in school or on homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s trauma that’s harder to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we lost our home, Naseem lost his peace and quiet, his privacy, our pets, so it was just really hard for him,” Allamby says as Naseem eats popcorn and zones out on YouTube videos on her phone. “I don’t think he will ever feel comfortable at someone else’s house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby loves to dream about the home she’ll share with Naseem again one day. She wants him to have his own room, with a loft bed and a desk where he can do his homework. 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