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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland is inching forward on possibly developing an independently run, city-sanctioned homeless encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council’s Life Enrichment Committee on Tuesday asked city staff to continue working with community members on the idea, which is gaining steam as Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/26/alameda-countys-homeless-population-climbs-dramatically-over-two-years/\">homeless population\u003c/a> increases — a problem that has become much more visible around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intention here is that we would move forward as quickly as possible,” said City Councilwoman Annie Campbell Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push for an independently operated encampment came as the city is also working to find a separate site for a city-run outdoor operation similar to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/navigation-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navigation Centers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the public who spoke Tuesday pushed for an independent community-run site similar to “The Village,” which was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/03/oakland-dismantles-tiny-houses-at-homeless-village/\">dismantled by the city\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to implement that all across Oakland because we have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Homeless-count-in-Alameda-County-finds-5-629-11173433.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2,761 homeless\u003c/a> folks that we need to house,” said activist Jonah Strauss with the Oakland Warehouse Coalition. “There’s no way that we’re going to cover it with one navigation center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists said the costs to run an independent site like “The Village” would be significantly lower than what the city will spend — and it could be set up faster, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need any funding. We’ve got everything. We’re just waiting for the land,” said activist Anita de Asis, known as “Needa Bee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report, city staff said a community-run site would not have the same social services that are needed to get people into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just untrue,” said de Asis. “If you look at the program design, you’ll see that we’ll have all sorts of services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also wants staff to move quickly to secure land needed for the city-run housing navigation site that’s called “Safe Haven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council allocated $450,000 in the latest budget to run a single Safe Haven site for two years. That site could consist of sturdy “Tuff Shed” shelter units, replacing tents that currently make up encampments. It would include portable toilets, wash stations, garbage pickup and social services to help get people off the streets. The end goal would be to help 40 people at a time find more permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough money in the $450,000 to fully do all of this,” said assistant city administrator Claudia Cappio, adding the philanthropic community would help pick up the tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the council listened to a staff presentation on three potential locations to stage a Safe Haven site: 3831 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, East 12th Street and 23rd Avenue, and Sixth Street from Castro to Brush streets, each of which already has an existing encampment nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some council members expressed interest in exploring all available sites and requested city staff report back on other parcels that may be available for homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really do want to be able to move forward with multiple sites,” said at-large City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee requested that the city continue working to secure land for the Safe Haven site and to keep working with community members to develop an independent location. The item moves to the full council next week.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An outbreak of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hav/afaq.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hepatitis A\u003c/a> in San Diego County that has killed 16 people and sickened hundreds of others since November \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/community_epidemiology/dc/Hepatitis_A.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continues\u003c/a> unabated, as health officials rush to deploy containment strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an unprecedented outbreak,” said Dr. Wilma Wooten, the public health officer for San Diego County. “This is new territory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 444 people in San Diego County known to have contracted the liver‐attacking virus since November, about 65 percent are homeless or use illicit drugs, according to Wooten. She declared a public health emergency on Sept. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hepatitis A is an acute illness of the liver, but it does not cause chronic liver disease (as is the case with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/resources/professionals/pdfs/abctable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hepatitis B and C\u003c/a>.) Hepatitis A isn't normally fatal, but it can be if the patient has other infections, including hepatitis B or C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health says the spread of the virus in San Diego County is the largest outbreak in the U.S. that is unrelated to a contaminated food product since 1995 (when a vaccine for hepatitis A was introduced in the United States).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other California communities are grappling with outbreaks of hepatitis A as well. The disease has sickened 69 people in Santa Cruz County since last April. Many affected there are homeless or use illicit drugs, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzhealth.org/HSAHome/HSADivisions/PublicHealth/Communi%20cableDiseaseControl/HepatitisA.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency\u003c/a>. On Sept. 19, the County of Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/Diseases/HepA.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> a local outbreak after 10 cases were identified among its homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health officials linked four of the L.A. cases to the San Diego outbreak and one to the Santa Cruz County outbreak. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_361174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-361174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents set up by homeless residents crowd portions of downtown San Diego, where a hepatitis A virus has killed 16 people and sickened nearly 450 others. \u003ccite>(Alan Horowitch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hepatitis A is usually spread when a person ingests fecal matter -- even in microscopic amounts -- from contact with objects, food or drinks contaminated by feces or stool from an infected person,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as the “fecal‐oral” route of spread, this typically occurs when an infected person doesn’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom and then touches objects or food. In crowded homeless communities -- many of which lack public restrooms and sinks -- the virus is often spread through such person‐to‐person contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can also spread through sexual contact with an infected person, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the California counties now grappling with outbreaks, slowing the spread isn’t easy. The long incubation period of the virus -- between 15 to 50 days -- and the transient nature of the homeless population make it challenging for public health agencies to find, educate and vaccinate people after an outbreak begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, the California Department of Public Health said it has no protocol to guide cities and counties on how best to deal with outbreaks associated with poor or limited sanitation, because those routes of transmission are “very rare” in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state said it it's working on gathering information from the CDC, and is working with the San Diego public health authorities to identify effective strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wooten said San Diego is using a variety of approaches to stem the spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This outbreak has really resulted in us needing to be creative,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One approach: pairing public health workers with homeless outreach teams who have long‐established ties to those living on the streets, in the canyons and in the wildlands of San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_361172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-361172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larissa Wimberly, supervisor of outreach for the nonprofit Alpha Project in San Diego County, at a homeless encampment along a riverbed in National City. \u003ccite>(Alan Horowitch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We go into the canyons, we go everywhere,” said Amy Gonyeau, chief operating officer for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alphaproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alpha Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides homeless services. “We go out every day. We have our own vehicles and vans … we educate people on what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, an Alpha Project team delivered hygiene kits -- consisting of soap, hand sanitizer and other toiletries packaged in a large plastic bag -- to a crowded encampment in downtown San Diego’s East Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a war zone,” said Alpha Project's outreach supervisor, Larissa Wimberly. “There’s people out here with HIV, people out here with cancer, there’s people out here with heart issues. There are people who are just old and feeble and they’re not eating right. It’s really sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tents and shopping carts crowded the sidewalks in this section of downtown, one largely hidden from the city’s tourists and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wimberly explained that many who live here relieve themselves among the tents and carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everywhere,” she said of the human excrement. “It’s just really bad right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So bad that the city -- under the direction of the county health department -- has begun power-washing heavily soiled sections of downtown sidewalks and streets with a bleach solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That follows the installation, earlier this month, of about 40 portable hand‐washing stations throughout the downtown areas hardest hit by the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the county’s public health workers have been coming to the encampments to offer the hepatitis A vaccinations to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie, a 42‐year‐old homeless woman, was among the victims of the virus. She asked that her last name not be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie said she's been camping out on San Diego’s streets for five years and became ill last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was awful,” she said. “My skin was yellow, my pee -- my urine -- it looked like chocolate milk. And everything just hurt. I was achy all the time and tired. I couldn’t sleep enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie was hospitalized and it took more than two months for her to fully recover, but she said she’s grateful to have escaped with her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the more than two-month delay between the county announcing plans for hand-washing stations in downtown areas where the homeless live, and their eventual installation earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Since that announcement, 11 people are dead and the number of hepatitis A cases has more than doubled,” the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board wrote on Sept. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Well you know, we can’t just roll them out because we don’t have jurisdiction over city property,” Wooten said of the sinks installed in downtown. “So we had to work through that process.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wooten said the county made a decision to first test a few sinks in a small pilot program, and that was necessary. “We wanted to see if people would use them,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Diego, too, denied any unnecessary delays in handling the outbreak and is now working to expand the number of available public restrooms downtown, said Katie Keach, spokeswoman for the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Countywide, nearly 23,000 people have received vaccinations against the virus, including about a third who are homeless or use illegal drugs. Vaccination is considered the key line of defense against hepatitis A -- normally a mild illness that can become severe in those who are already suffering from other health problems, Wooten said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends all children receive the two-part hepatitis A vaccine at 1 year of age. But California and most other states \u003ca href=\"https://www2a.cdc.gov/nip/schoolsurv/schImmRqmtReport.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">do not include\u003c/a> it in the required vaccinations for children entering kindergarten. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other California communities are grappling with outbreaks of hepatitis A as well. The disease has sickened 69 people in Santa Cruz County since last April. Many affected there are homeless or use illicit drugs, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzhealth.org/HSAHome/HSADivisions/PublicHealth/Communi%20cableDiseaseControl/HepatitisA.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency\u003c/a>. On Sept. 19, the County of Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/Diseases/HepA.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> a local outbreak after 10 cases were identified among its homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health officials linked four of the L.A. cases to the San Diego outbreak and one to the Santa Cruz County outbreak. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_361174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-361174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-13-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents set up by homeless residents crowd portions of downtown San Diego, where a hepatitis A virus has killed 16 people and sickened nearly 450 others. \u003ccite>(Alan Horowitch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hepatitis A is usually spread when a person ingests fecal matter -- even in microscopic amounts -- from contact with objects, food or drinks contaminated by feces or stool from an infected person,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as the “fecal‐oral” route of spread, this typically occurs when an infected person doesn’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom and then touches objects or food. In crowded homeless communities -- many of which lack public restrooms and sinks -- the virus is often spread through such person‐to‐person contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can also spread through sexual contact with an infected person, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the California counties now grappling with outbreaks, slowing the spread isn’t easy. The long incubation period of the virus -- between 15 to 50 days -- and the transient nature of the homeless population make it challenging for public health agencies to find, educate and vaccinate people after an outbreak begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, the California Department of Public Health said it has no protocol to guide cities and counties on how best to deal with outbreaks associated with poor or limited sanitation, because those routes of transmission are “very rare” in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state said it it's working on gathering information from the CDC, and is working with the San Diego public health authorities to identify effective strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wooten said San Diego is using a variety of approaches to stem the spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This outbreak has really resulted in us needing to be creative,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One approach: pairing public health workers with homeless outreach teams who have long‐established ties to those living on the streets, in the canyons and in the wildlands of San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_361172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-361172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/09/SD-homeless-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larissa Wimberly, supervisor of outreach for the nonprofit Alpha Project in San Diego County, at a homeless encampment along a riverbed in National City. \u003ccite>(Alan Horowitch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We go into the canyons, we go everywhere,” said Amy Gonyeau, chief operating officer for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alphaproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alpha Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides homeless services. “We go out every day. We have our own vehicles and vans … we educate people on what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, an Alpha Project team delivered hygiene kits -- consisting of soap, hand sanitizer and other toiletries packaged in a large plastic bag -- to a crowded encampment in downtown San Diego’s East Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a war zone,” said Alpha Project's outreach supervisor, Larissa Wimberly. “There’s people out here with HIV, people out here with cancer, there’s people out here with heart issues. There are people who are just old and feeble and they’re not eating right. It’s really sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tents and shopping carts crowded the sidewalks in this section of downtown, one largely hidden from the city’s tourists and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wimberly explained that many who live here relieve themselves among the tents and carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everywhere,” she said of the human excrement. “It’s just really bad right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So bad that the city -- under the direction of the county health department -- has begun power-washing heavily soiled sections of downtown sidewalks and streets with a bleach solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That follows the installation, earlier this month, of about 40 portable hand‐washing stations throughout the downtown areas hardest hit by the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the county’s public health workers have been coming to the encampments to offer the hepatitis A vaccinations to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie, a 42‐year‐old homeless woman, was among the victims of the virus. She asked that her last name not be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie said she's been camping out on San Diego’s streets for five years and became ill last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was awful,” she said. “My skin was yellow, my pee -- my urine -- it looked like chocolate milk. And everything just hurt. I was achy all the time and tired. I couldn’t sleep enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie was hospitalized and it took more than two months for her to fully recover, but she said she’s grateful to have escaped with her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the more than two-month delay between the county announcing plans for hand-washing stations in downtown areas where the homeless live, and their eventual installation earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Since that announcement, 11 people are dead and the number of hepatitis A cases has more than doubled,” the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board wrote on Sept. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Well you know, we can’t just roll them out because we don’t have jurisdiction over city property,” Wooten said of the sinks installed in downtown. “So we had to work through that process.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wooten said the county made a decision to first test a few sinks in a small pilot program, and that was necessary. “We wanted to see if people would use them,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Diego, too, denied any unnecessary delays in handling the outbreak and is now working to expand the number of available public restrooms downtown, said Katie Keach, spokeswoman for the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Countywide, nearly 23,000 people have received vaccinations against the virus, including about a third who are homeless or use illegal drugs. Vaccination is considered the key line of defense against hepatitis A -- normally a mild illness that can become severe in those who are already suffering from other health problems, Wooten said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We’ve reached the home stretch of the legislative year at the state Capitol, with hours left until tonight’s midnight deadline to pass bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means hallways packed with fretting lobbyists, hundreds of rapid-fire votes and late-night debates on the Senate and Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been updating this post throughout the week as bills are passed, killed or changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:40 a.m. Friday: No Later Start Time for Middle and High Schoolers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments after passing a series of landmark housing bills, the State Assembly threw cold water on a measure that would given given middle and high schoolers a little more sleep, by pushing back school start times in California to at least 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 328 was defeated Thursday night on a 26-29 vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have found that adolescents \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/08/24/should-school-start-later-with-lesson-plan/\">require more sleep\u003c/a> as they develop, but the idea of a single, state-mandated start time drew bipartisan opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each local district should be able to incorporate what are the local pressures on young people’s schedules,” said Assemblyman Matthew Harper (R-Huntington Beach).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average high school start time in the state is currently 8:07 a.m. SB 328, carried by Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Pasadena), would have enacted the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/08/07/bill-for-late-school-start-passes-senate-heads-to-assembly/\">first such statewide start time\u003c/a> in the country, beginning in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”4LSMzH9HV5TSmVBXP8vkWqXiRYKps5td”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a lengthy floor debate in the Assembly, members with experience on local school boards argued that the bill would create a logjam of early morning school bus pickups, and inconvenience parents who need to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the measure said the focus should be squarely on the kids who need the sleep, not parents or administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that we’re really thinking about what’s beneficial for our children,” said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber said leaving the decision to districts would be fruitless, as individual school boards would have to contend with angry parents and the difficulty of synchronizing extracurricular activities with neighboring schools that remained on a different schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Friday: Bridge Toll Measure Would Raise Billions for Bay Area Transportation; Passes Over Objections from East Bay Legislators\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in the Bay Area, you’ll be hearing a lot about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 595\u003c/a> over the next year or so. The bill by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-Campbell, won final Senate passage Thursday and now awaits the governor’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 595 provides for a vote in the nine Bay Area counties next year to raise tolls on the region’s state-owned bridges — that’s all of them, except the Golden Gate — by as much as $3. If the Bay Area Toll Authority, the agency that oversees the bridges, seeks that maximum $3 increase, tolls on the bridges would be $8 to $9. (We still wouldn’t be in Verrazano-Narrows Bridge territory, though; the cash toll on the span between Brooklyn and Staten Island rose to $17 earlier this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher tolls would raise something like $375 million a year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the latest legislative analysis\u003c/a>, and pay for nearly three dozen transit and highway projects totaling $4.45 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-800x460.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backs up at the Bay Bridge toll plaza.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617220\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-800x460.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-1020x587.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-1180x679.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-960x553.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-240x138.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-375x216.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-520x299.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART would get $500 million to help pay for its expanded fleet of new-generation rail cars, and $50 million for preliminary design and engineering work on a second transbay crossing. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority would get $375 million, part of what it needs to build a planned BART extension to downtown San Jose. Some $325 million would go to a long-dreamed-of Caltrain extension from San Francisco’s far-South of Market to downtown. The Bay Area’s Water Emergency Transportation Authority would get $300 to pay for new boats and dock facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the highway side, $300 million in toll proceeds would go to building new paid express lanes on Bay Area freeways, and another $1.1 billion would go to rebuilding interchanges and improving the most heavily traveled highway corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major feature: In a provision put forward by longtime BART critic Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, the measure creates a new inspector general position that would have sweeping authority to watch over the agency’s finances and performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long list of local officials, unions, business and urban planning groups supported SB 595 as crucial for dealing with current and future transportation challenges in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill gives the Bay Area the bold plan it needs for the future,’’ Sen. Beall, the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement after the proposal finally made it through the Assembly on Wednesday. He added that the measure is especially important in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On weekdays, an average of 602,000 vehicles enter and exit the Bay Area,” Beall said. “With the expansion of tech firms, such as Google and Apple, those numbers will grow. Let’s take action now to curb traffic before it becomes worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what’s not to like in this picture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Contra Costa County legislators — Assemblymember Tim Grayson and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier among them — opposed SB 595, saying that it’s 1) a regressive tax and 2) a ripoff for the residents of the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their main argument — both \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/01/desaulnier-bridge-toll-plan-fails-east-bay-commuters-miserably/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeSaulnier\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/07/opinion-toll-increases-are-not-the-answer-we-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grayson\u003c/a> penned op-ed pieces for the East Bay Times — is that residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties will pay significantly more in increased tolls than their communities will get back in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson said after SB 595 passed the Assembly that while he understood the need for infrastructure upgrades in the Bay Area, “there is a fundamental lack of equity in this proposal. … East Bay commuters deserve a better and far more just measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, who has vowed to fight the toll increase when it appears on the ballot, said he feels the long shopping list of projects in SB 595 is the result of what he termed a politically driven planning process on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating that such an innovative area is so backward when it comes to transportation,” DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14: Bill to Seal Court Records of the Unconvicted\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that could help thousands of Californians overcome a persistent obstacle to getting a job or housing is heading to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB393\">SB 393\u003c/a> aims to address problems faced by people\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who were arrested but not \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">convicted\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of a crime, yet still find that potential employers, landlords and others have access to their court records.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Senate Bill 393, the so-called California Arrest Record Equity (CARE) Act, most of these people will be able to file a petition asking the court to seal their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was sponsored by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. The measure’s author, Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Los Angeles, says people who were not convicted deserve a chance to live life free from the stigma of prior arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This now creates a clear uniform process to allow the judge to finally once and for all seal this record so that people can move on with their lives and not be trapped in this paper jail,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 393 is one of several criminal justice bills heading to the governor’s desk this session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, Noon Thursday, Sept. 14: Bill to House Homeless Medi-Cal Recipients Heads to the Governor\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state Legislature considers a number of high-profile bills to address the state’s affordable housing crisis, a measure to help house chronically homeless Californians is heading to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 74, from San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, would provide rental assistance to homeless Medi-Cal recipients. It passed out of the state Assembly on Wednesday on a 60-18 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is home to 20 percent of the nation’s homeless population and one-third of the nation’s chronically homeless population,” Chiu said in a statement. “We need to bring significant and innovative solutions to address this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation takes a ‘housing first’ approach, with the idea that permanent housing will \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/03/california-taps-health-care-money-to-pay-for-homeless-services/\">provide a stable setting\u003c/a> where homeless Californians can access medical and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”gKvrpDsnMiCODbIy8Ktt5uGTsE2VVWaJ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill initially sought to use state general fund money to pay for the rental assistance, but that Assembly proposal didn’t survive negotiations with the governor and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, funding in the bill will come from the federal Housing Trust Fund program, which could place the initiative on shakier ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Trust Fund sent $10.1 million to California last year, but the Trump administration has proposed \u003ca href=\"https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=SOHUDtestFY18Budget_House.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminating the program\u003c/a> from the Housing and Urban Development Department budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates remained optimistic that the bill will promote the cooperation between housing and health care agencies that they believe will benefit homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a home of their own will provide the stability they need to pursue regular, preventive and effective care and that means healthier people and lower costs,” said Sharon Rapport, Associate Director at the Corporation for Supportive Housing, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Wednesday: Landmark Prescription Drug Measure Heads to Governor’s Desk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill to increase transparency on prescription drugs passed out of the Senate over the strong objections of the pharmaceutical industry and now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Brown signs Senate Bill 17, it will require drug makers to give advance notice before they raise prices and force health plans to report how much they spend on prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Sen. Ed Hernandez’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2017/04/07/california-presses-forward-in-fight-to-regulate-pharma/\">second run at the issue\u003c/a>; a similar measure was changed so dramatically in the Assembly last year that Hernandez abandoned his own bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, on the heels of public outrage over soaring drug prices — including the EpiPen — the powerful drug lobby was unable to stall the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think the biggest difference [this year] is the consumer is concerned about the costs of prescription drugs and they’re telling their elected officials,” Hernandez said shortly after the bill cleared the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Ed Hernandez\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Ed Hernandez \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pharmaceutical industry representatives said the bill will do nothing to drive down prices and accused Hernandez of making false promises. His response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, if it’s not going to do anything to impact drug prices, why do they fight so hard against it?” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said having an even better sense of how drug prices are impacting healthcare costs could put pressure on the market. And, he’s hopeful that California’s lead could help consumers in other states as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope it spreads to the federal government,” Hernandez said, but he added that even if Congress doesn’t act, “I think this is going to make a national impact because California, being such a big market, it will send shock waves throughout the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3:45 p.m. Wednesday: Bills to Expand ID Options for Nonbinary Californians Pass Assembly\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of bills aiming to make life easier for Californians who identify as neither male or female sailed to passage in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 179 would allow Californians to have a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/05/30/california-bill-would-recognize-a-nonbinary-third-gender/\">“nonbinary” designation\u003c/a> displayed on state identifications like drivers licenses and birth certificates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California joins Oregon as the only states to allow this third gender on drivers licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”v6pa7MbBBfa209nJ9xgb7fnl4pCXofZP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to keep California on the leading edge when it comes to the LGBTQ rights movement,” said Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters said the option will help transgender and nonbinary residents avoid delay and harassment when using their identification on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was opposed by conservative groups like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafamily.org/2017/bill-to-make-gender-a-personal-choice-in-hearing-tomorrow/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>, which argued that gender is a medical fact, not a choice. Only Democrats supported the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly later passed a separate bill, also by San Diego Senator Toni Atkins, that will make it easier for California prisoners to change their name and gender while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills head back to the Senate for a final concurrence vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 p.m. Tuesday: Senate Rejects Safe Injection Sites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate voted down \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/27/spurred-by-drug-deaths-legislature-advances-idea-of-supervised-injection-sites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation\u003c/a> that would have allowed cities and counties to create “safe-consumption sites” for drug users, in an effort to address the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/18/the-california-report-1262/\">opioid epidemic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-in-the-nation idea was modeled after a program in Vancouver, where users of drugs such as heroin can shoot up under the supervision of trained staff in a designated facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of Assembly Bill 186 was to connect users in the “consumption sites” to medical treatment and other social services, while making sure they are not overdosing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-800x694.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, the Stockton Democrat who carried the bill, once worked as a drug treatment counselor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, the Stockton Democrat who carried the bill, once worked as a drug treatment counselor. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To opponents, the measure was little more than a step toward supporting illegal drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we condoning the illegal drug use of heroin, which leads to other opiate addiction problems?” asked Jeff Stone R-Temecula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which is expected to be taken up on a reconsideration vote later this week, would have allowed local governments in Alameda, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Mendocino, San Francisco and San Joaquin counties to establish four-year trial runs of the consumption sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senators in both parties criticized that provision for not weighing the desires of the local governments chosen in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”dQckkjvpUAAxKQQWV0ZBHrmPRTf4L2rt”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Coast Democrat Mike McGuire said Humboldt County was not consulted before they were included in the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in Fresno also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article165602407.html\">chafed at the idea\u003c/a>, leading to the county being removed from the list of potential pilot sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, 4,000 people in the state ended up in the emergency room because of an opiate overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The approach we’ve been using, it’s a failure,” said Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco. “Why wouldn’t we want to try new things?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Tuesday: Effort to Lower Voting Age Fails in Assembly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposal to lower California’s voting age from 18 to 17-years-old failed to pass on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Constitutional Amendment 10, from Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), did not receive the two-thirds vote it needed to advance towards a future statewide ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would have become the first state in the country to allow 17-year-olds to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a bold idea,” said Low. “But bold ideas are required to make significant change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Pasadena in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-960x604.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-240x151.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-375x236.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-520x327.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Pasadena in 2014. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proponents of ACA 10 argued that high school seniors are well-positioned to take on the responsibility of voting. Many are enrolled in history or civics classes, and unlike some college freshmen, they don’t have to vote as absentees from other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics pointed out that California has already settled on 18 as an age of responsibility for other thresholds, such as getting married and entering into contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This schizophrenic lawmaking does not make any sense,” said Assemblyman Matthew Harper (R-Huntington Beach).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lengthy floor debate on the idea saw several members call on personal experience to inform their decision on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) indicated that the thought of her own 17-year-old child was enough to make her vote against the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher said Melendez doesn’t speak for all mothers in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a 17-year-old who, unlike other people on this floor, I actually would very much trust to vote,” she responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low’s office says he plans to bring the measure back on a reconsideration vote later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m., Tuesday: Assembly OKs Parental Leave Law Extension\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Assembly has passed legislation to expand parental leave law to cover California businesses with between 20 and 50 employees. Other states including New York, Oregon and Washington have protections similar to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 63\u003c/a>, which guarantees a worker’s employment upon return from leave but does not provide pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moms are only trying to bring their baby into the world and stay home for a certain amount of time,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego. “We need to catch up to the rest of the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed on a 45-12 vote, with five Republicans voting in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier version of SB 63 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/30/california-senate-votes-to-expand-parental-leave-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed the state Senate in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”D84HNq0BgcFHEEzwTMVosYmZQHzHByLP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Santa Barbara Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson pushed for a similar expansion of the state’s current law, which only applies to businesses with more than 50 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who was concerned that small businesses couldn’t afford to defend potential lawsuits brought by workers who could claim that they were not given proper pay or returned to a similar position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations with the governor’s office this year resulted in the creation of a proposed mediation pilot program, in which disputes can be heard before they end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amendment — added to the bill last week — was not enough to stave off opposition from the measure’s most powerful opponent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://blob.capitoltrack.com/17blobs/8f89c461-defa-4c50-8d28-b6858546bf3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> says the mediation program is toothless, because an employee has the option of terminating the process and heading straight to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill now heads \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/30/california-senate-votes-to-expand-parental-leave-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">back to the State Senate\u003c/a> for a final concurrence vote.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 328 was defeated Thursday night on a 26-29 vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have found that adolescents \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/08/24/should-school-start-later-with-lesson-plan/\">require more sleep\u003c/a> as they develop, but the idea of a single, state-mandated start time drew bipartisan opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each local district should be able to incorporate what are the local pressures on young people’s schedules,” said Assemblyman Matthew Harper (R-Huntington Beach).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average high school start time in the state is currently 8:07 a.m. SB 328, carried by Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Pasadena), would have enacted the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/08/07/bill-for-late-school-start-passes-senate-heads-to-assembly/\">first such statewide start time\u003c/a> in the country, beginning in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a lengthy floor debate in the Assembly, members with experience on local school boards argued that the bill would create a logjam of early morning school bus pickups, and inconvenience parents who need to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the measure said the focus should be squarely on the kids who need the sleep, not parents or administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that we’re really thinking about what’s beneficial for our children,” said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber said leaving the decision to districts would be fruitless, as individual school boards would have to contend with angry parents and the difficulty of synchronizing extracurricular activities with neighboring schools that remained on a different schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Friday: Bridge Toll Measure Would Raise Billions for Bay Area Transportation; Passes Over Objections from East Bay Legislators\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in the Bay Area, you’ll be hearing a lot about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 595\u003c/a> over the next year or so. The bill by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-Campbell, won final Senate passage Thursday and now awaits the governor’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 595 provides for a vote in the nine Bay Area counties next year to raise tolls on the region’s state-owned bridges — that’s all of them, except the Golden Gate — by as much as $3. If the Bay Area Toll Authority, the agency that oversees the bridges, seeks that maximum $3 increase, tolls on the bridges would be $8 to $9. (We still wouldn’t be in Verrazano-Narrows Bridge territory, though; the cash toll on the span between Brooklyn and Staten Island rose to $17 earlier this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher tolls would raise something like $375 million a year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the latest legislative analysis\u003c/a>, and pay for nearly three dozen transit and highway projects totaling $4.45 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-800x460.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backs up at the Bay Bridge toll plaza.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617220\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-800x460.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-1020x587.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-1180x679.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-960x553.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-240x138.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-375x216.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-520x299.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART would get $500 million to help pay for its expanded fleet of new-generation rail cars, and $50 million for preliminary design and engineering work on a second transbay crossing. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority would get $375 million, part of what it needs to build a planned BART extension to downtown San Jose. Some $325 million would go to a long-dreamed-of Caltrain extension from San Francisco’s far-South of Market to downtown. The Bay Area’s Water Emergency Transportation Authority would get $300 to pay for new boats and dock facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the highway side, $300 million in toll proceeds would go to building new paid express lanes on Bay Area freeways, and another $1.1 billion would go to rebuilding interchanges and improving the most heavily traveled highway corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major feature: In a provision put forward by longtime BART critic Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, the measure creates a new inspector general position that would have sweeping authority to watch over the agency’s finances and performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long list of local officials, unions, business and urban planning groups supported SB 595 as crucial for dealing with current and future transportation challenges in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill gives the Bay Area the bold plan it needs for the future,’’ Sen. Beall, the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement after the proposal finally made it through the Assembly on Wednesday. He added that the measure is especially important in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On weekdays, an average of 602,000 vehicles enter and exit the Bay Area,” Beall said. “With the expansion of tech firms, such as Google and Apple, those numbers will grow. Let’s take action now to curb traffic before it becomes worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what’s not to like in this picture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Contra Costa County legislators — Assemblymember Tim Grayson and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier among them — opposed SB 595, saying that it’s 1) a regressive tax and 2) a ripoff for the residents of the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their main argument — both \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/01/desaulnier-bridge-toll-plan-fails-east-bay-commuters-miserably/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeSaulnier\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/07/opinion-toll-increases-are-not-the-answer-we-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grayson\u003c/a> penned op-ed pieces for the East Bay Times — is that residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties will pay significantly more in increased tolls than their communities will get back in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson said after SB 595 passed the Assembly that while he understood the need for infrastructure upgrades in the Bay Area, “there is a fundamental lack of equity in this proposal. … East Bay commuters deserve a better and far more just measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, who has vowed to fight the toll increase when it appears on the ballot, said he feels the long shopping list of projects in SB 595 is the result of what he termed a politically driven planning process on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating that such an innovative area is so backward when it comes to transportation,” DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14: Bill to Seal Court Records of the Unconvicted\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that could help thousands of Californians overcome a persistent obstacle to getting a job or housing is heading to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB393\">SB 393\u003c/a> aims to address problems faced by people\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who were arrested but not \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">convicted\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of a crime, yet still find that potential employers, landlords and others have access to their court records.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Senate Bill 393, the so-called California Arrest Record Equity (CARE) Act, most of these people will be able to file a petition asking the court to seal their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was sponsored by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. The measure’s author, Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Los Angeles, says people who were not convicted deserve a chance to live life free from the stigma of prior arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This now creates a clear uniform process to allow the judge to finally once and for all seal this record so that people can move on with their lives and not be trapped in this paper jail,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 393 is one of several criminal justice bills heading to the governor’s desk this session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, Noon Thursday, Sept. 14: Bill to House Homeless Medi-Cal Recipients Heads to the Governor\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state Legislature considers a number of high-profile bills to address the state’s affordable housing crisis, a measure to help house chronically homeless Californians is heading to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 74, from San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, would provide rental assistance to homeless Medi-Cal recipients. It passed out of the state Assembly on Wednesday on a 60-18 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is home to 20 percent of the nation’s homeless population and one-third of the nation’s chronically homeless population,” Chiu said in a statement. “We need to bring significant and innovative solutions to address this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation takes a ‘housing first’ approach, with the idea that permanent housing will \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/03/california-taps-health-care-money-to-pay-for-homeless-services/\">provide a stable setting\u003c/a> where homeless Californians can access medical and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill initially sought to use state general fund money to pay for the rental assistance, but that Assembly proposal didn’t survive negotiations with the governor and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, funding in the bill will come from the federal Housing Trust Fund program, which could place the initiative on shakier ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Trust Fund sent $10.1 million to California last year, but the Trump administration has proposed \u003ca href=\"https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=SOHUDtestFY18Budget_House.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminating the program\u003c/a> from the Housing and Urban Development Department budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates remained optimistic that the bill will promote the cooperation between housing and health care agencies that they believe will benefit homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a home of their own will provide the stability they need to pursue regular, preventive and effective care and that means healthier people and lower costs,” said Sharon Rapport, Associate Director at the Corporation for Supportive Housing, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Wednesday: Landmark Prescription Drug Measure Heads to Governor’s Desk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill to increase transparency on prescription drugs passed out of the Senate over the strong objections of the pharmaceutical industry and now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Brown signs Senate Bill 17, it will require drug makers to give advance notice before they raise prices and force health plans to report how much they spend on prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Sen. Ed Hernandez’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2017/04/07/california-presses-forward-in-fight-to-regulate-pharma/\">second run at the issue\u003c/a>; a similar measure was changed so dramatically in the Assembly last year that Hernandez abandoned his own bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, on the heels of public outrage over soaring drug prices — including the EpiPen — the powerful drug lobby was unable to stall the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think the biggest difference [this year] is the consumer is concerned about the costs of prescription drugs and they’re telling their elected officials,” Hernandez said shortly after the bill cleared the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Ed Hernandez\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Ed Hernandez \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pharmaceutical industry representatives said the bill will do nothing to drive down prices and accused Hernandez of making false promises. His response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, if it’s not going to do anything to impact drug prices, why do they fight so hard against it?” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said having an even better sense of how drug prices are impacting healthcare costs could put pressure on the market. And, he’s hopeful that California’s lead could help consumers in other states as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope it spreads to the federal government,” Hernandez said, but he added that even if Congress doesn’t act, “I think this is going to make a national impact because California, being such a big market, it will send shock waves throughout the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3:45 p.m. Wednesday: Bills to Expand ID Options for Nonbinary Californians Pass Assembly\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of bills aiming to make life easier for Californians who identify as neither male or female sailed to passage in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 179 would allow Californians to have a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/05/30/california-bill-would-recognize-a-nonbinary-third-gender/\">“nonbinary” designation\u003c/a> displayed on state identifications like drivers licenses and birth certificates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California joins Oregon as the only states to allow this third gender on drivers licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to keep California on the leading edge when it comes to the LGBTQ rights movement,” said Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters said the option will help transgender and nonbinary residents avoid delay and harassment when using their identification on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was opposed by conservative groups like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafamily.org/2017/bill-to-make-gender-a-personal-choice-in-hearing-tomorrow/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>, which argued that gender is a medical fact, not a choice. Only Democrats supported the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly later passed a separate bill, also by San Diego Senator Toni Atkins, that will make it easier for California prisoners to change their name and gender while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills head back to the Senate for a final concurrence vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 p.m. Tuesday: Senate Rejects Safe Injection Sites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate voted down \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/27/spurred-by-drug-deaths-legislature-advances-idea-of-supervised-injection-sites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation\u003c/a> that would have allowed cities and counties to create “safe-consumption sites” for drug users, in an effort to address the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/18/the-california-report-1262/\">opioid epidemic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-in-the-nation idea was modeled after a program in Vancouver, where users of drugs such as heroin can shoot up under the supervision of trained staff in a designated facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of Assembly Bill 186 was to connect users in the “consumption sites” to medical treatment and other social services, while making sure they are not overdosing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-800x694.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, the Stockton Democrat who carried the bill, once worked as a drug treatment counselor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, the Stockton Democrat who carried the bill, once worked as a drug treatment counselor. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To opponents, the measure was little more than a step toward supporting illegal drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we condoning the illegal drug use of heroin, which leads to other opiate addiction problems?” asked Jeff Stone R-Temecula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which is expected to be taken up on a reconsideration vote later this week, would have allowed local governments in Alameda, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Mendocino, San Francisco and San Joaquin counties to establish four-year trial runs of the consumption sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senators in both parties criticized that provision for not weighing the desires of the local governments chosen in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Coast Democrat Mike McGuire said Humboldt County was not consulted before they were included in the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in Fresno also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article165602407.html\">chafed at the idea\u003c/a>, leading to the county being removed from the list of potential pilot sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, 4,000 people in the state ended up in the emergency room because of an opiate overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The approach we’ve been using, it’s a failure,” said Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco. “Why wouldn’t we want to try new things?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Tuesday: Effort to Lower Voting Age Fails in Assembly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposal to lower California’s voting age from 18 to 17-years-old failed to pass on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Constitutional Amendment 10, from Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), did not receive the two-thirds vote it needed to advance towards a future statewide ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would have become the first state in the country to allow 17-year-olds to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a bold idea,” said Low. “But bold ideas are required to make significant change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Pasadena in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-960x604.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-240x151.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-375x236.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-520x327.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Pasadena in 2014. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proponents of ACA 10 argued that high school seniors are well-positioned to take on the responsibility of voting. Many are enrolled in history or civics classes, and unlike some college freshmen, they don’t have to vote as absentees from other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics pointed out that California has already settled on 18 as an age of responsibility for other thresholds, such as getting married and entering into contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This schizophrenic lawmaking does not make any sense,” said Assemblyman Matthew Harper (R-Huntington Beach).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lengthy floor debate on the idea saw several members call on personal experience to inform their decision on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) indicated that the thought of her own 17-year-old child was enough to make her vote against the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher said Melendez doesn’t speak for all mothers in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a 17-year-old who, unlike other people on this floor, I actually would very much trust to vote,” she responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low’s office says he plans to bring the measure back on a reconsideration vote later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m., Tuesday: Assembly OKs Parental Leave Law Extension\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Assembly has passed legislation to expand parental leave law to cover California businesses with between 20 and 50 employees. Other states including New York, Oregon and Washington have protections similar to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 63\u003c/a>, which guarantees a worker’s employment upon return from leave but does not provide pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moms are only trying to bring their baby into the world and stay home for a certain amount of time,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego. “We need to catch up to the rest of the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed on a 45-12 vote, with five Republicans voting in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier version of SB 63 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/30/california-senate-votes-to-expand-parental-leave-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed the state Senate in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Santa Barbara Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson pushed for a similar expansion of the state’s current law, which only applies to businesses with more than 50 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who was concerned that small businesses couldn’t afford to defend potential lawsuits brought by workers who could claim that they were not given proper pay or returned to a similar position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations with the governor’s office this year resulted in the creation of a proposed mediation pilot program, in which disputes can be heard before they end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amendment — added to the bill last week — was not enough to stave off opposition from the measure’s most powerful opponent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://blob.capitoltrack.com/17blobs/8f89c461-defa-4c50-8d28-b6858546bf3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> says the mediation program is toothless, because an employee has the option of terminating the process and heading straight to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Diego has started washing its downtown streets with bleach in an effort to combat an outbreak of Hepatitis A that has killed at least 15 people and infected nearly 400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infectious disease has largely infected homeless people in the city, and part of the issue is an apparent shortage of public restrooms in areas where the population congregates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hepatitis A was first identified in the area in early March, \u003ca href=\"http://www.countynewscenter.com/local-public-health-emergency-for-hepatitis-a-outbreak-ratified-by-board-of-supervisors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the county\u003c/a>, and was declared a public health emergency earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter from San Diego County health officials stated that Hepatitis A is being spread though contact with a “fecally contaminated environment,” as well as person-to-person transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county issued a directive on Aug. 31 demanding that the city carry out street washing and expand public restroom access, adding that “failure to immediately follow this directive will endanger public health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”z1sdVpe9e2hm3H4stsxaL4zLyWelG9VJ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the city said it would “fully comply with the directive,” targeting areas in downtown frequented by homeless people at risk of contracting Hepatitis A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contractors started spraying down areas Monday with the diluted household bleach solution, continued Wednesday, and are set to hit the final zone of downtown by Friday, according to a city spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The procedure, as prescribed by the county, involves first spraying down hazardous items such as human waste or needles, waiting 10 minutes, removing the contaminated items, then spraying the area again with bleach. After that, it calls for pressure-washing the area with water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is set to be repeated every two weeks, with weekly “spot maintenance,” according to county guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County did not immediately respond to an NPR query about whether it is satisfied with the city’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Saag, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uab.edu/medicine/id/staff/faculty/73-michael-s-saag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham \u003c/a>focused on infectious diseases, tells NPR that he finds San Diego’s street washing approach reasonable for stemming the spread of Hepatitis A: “If there’s a sanitation problem, then the thing to do is clean up the area, and bleach is probably the best disinfectant that we have for this type of viral infections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that “once Hepatitis A starts to be transmitted in a community like this, it’s kind of hard to stop.” The most effective tactic is immunization, he says, and San Diego County says it is has provided at least 19,000 immunizations against the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is getting people, especially those who might be living on the street, into care and getting the series (of shots),” Saag adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ZKQKEPM8yVaN5ZOTBF6lHxh3IhRZ1uqE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have also been more than 250 mass vaccination events and nurses have deployed to areas with large homeless populations, according to the county. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tysonia Tyson was forced to move her tent from Grand Avenue in West Oakland on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was among a number of homeless people living in several encampments cleared by city crews. Oakland officials want to move them across the street to San Pablo Avenue where garbage cans, wash stations and portable toilets were installed that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson said the bathrooms will be helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have buckets inside our tent and then we come and pour it out in the drain,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Tyson looks across the street — under a freeway overpass — where the new services are located, tents have already begun to appear. She said she’s concerned there won’t be enough room for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us can’t pile over there,” she said. “Don’t just throw us over there and bunch us up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is expected to provide similar sanitation services at four more homeless encampments by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, with some tents blocking public sidewalks and city residents complaining, city officials are also closing some encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson worries her new site will be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness in Oakland grew by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/26/alameda-countys-homeless-population-climbs-dramatically-over-two-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 25 percent\u003c/a> over the last two years, while the city experienced a 600 percent increase in complaints about homelessness between \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/31/oakland-residents-say-tent-encampments-threatening-neighborhoods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2011 and 2016\u003c/a>. In response, the City Council allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars in the budget for improving conditions at homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city chose to provide sanitation services on San Pablo Avenue, hoping to move people and tents away from the Veterans Affairs building nearby, according to Joe DeVries, assistant to the city administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re hoping to do is clear the areas that most impact the staff and patients,” DeVries said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA is also providing a case manager to serve some of the unsheltered people around the clinic and help them find housing, said DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615141\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Oakland has installed bathrooms, garbage bins and wash stations at the homeless encampment on San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While homeless advocates have been pushing the city to provide sanitation services for encampments, some are now upset that Oakland is simultaneously clearing encampments that have existed for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was never our intention or our suggestion that in order for encampments to have these basic services, [it] would mean the shutting down of larger encampments,” said Anita De Asis, a homeless advocate who is better known as “Needa Bee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area where the city hopes to send homeless people is known to have rats living in ivy bushes leading to the freeway, said De Asis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These rats are the size of possums,” she said. “It’s devastating and it’s inhumane,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has cleared some of the ivy. DeVries said rat traps and poison have been laid down with follow-up inspections. But that hasn’t calmed any nerves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Is Starting to Close Some Encampments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVries said the city closed three encampments last month. Two of the sites were in West Oakland on 29th and 30th streets near Martin Luther King Jr. Way, one of which was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/31/oakland-residents-say-tent-encampments-threatening-neighborhoods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">profiled by KQED\u003c/a>. The other encampment was located in East Oakland on 84th Avenue and International Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11614922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11614922 size-medium\" title=\"Devin Katayama/KQED\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosella Renee-Flemings stands with a shopping cart of her belongings. She was forced to move from her homeless encampment near 84th Avenue and International Boulevard on Aug. 2, 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rosella Renee-Flemings lived at the East Oakland encampment. While standing by a shopping cart filled with her belongings, she said the encampment looked “junky,” which was part of the reason why so many people complained. Don’t just blame the people who were living in the encampment for that, she said. Illegal dumping also took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they see a pile of trash, they come and add their trash to it,” said Renee-Flemings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVries can’t remember the last time the city permanently closed an encampment, noting that closures are different from an abatement where a site is cleared and cleaned — after which people often move back in. Police are tasked with enforcing closures by blocking the homeless from returning, DeVries said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to do this sparingly, but we’re going to do it where we feel that it has to be done,” said DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decisions on which sites to close are based on a number of factors, including pedestrian access, traffic concerns, calls for service and proximity to schools, according to DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city reached out to the encampments at 29th and 30th streets 15 times in the last few weeks, offering to help people sign up for social services they might be eligible for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them actually declined service,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main problem is that the city lacks affordable housing — especially for those with the lowest incomes. While creating new affordable housing could take years, Oakland has a couple of other projects in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council allocated $14 million from a bond measure passed by voters last fall to purchase at least one building to provide transitional housing for more than 100 people at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also allocated $450,000 to create a Safe Haven site, which will provide temporary shelter on a vacant lot while helping people find more permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether there are locations or a timeline for either of these projects, DeVries said, “We’re working on it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us can’t pile over there,” she said. “Don’t just throw us over there and bunch us up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is expected to provide similar sanitation services at four more homeless encampments by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, with some tents blocking public sidewalks and city residents complaining, city officials are also closing some encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson worries her new site will be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness in Oakland grew by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/26/alameda-countys-homeless-population-climbs-dramatically-over-two-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 25 percent\u003c/a> over the last two years, while the city experienced a 600 percent increase in complaints about homelessness between \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/31/oakland-residents-say-tent-encampments-threatening-neighborhoods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2011 and 2016\u003c/a>. In response, the City Council allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars in the budget for improving conditions at homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city chose to provide sanitation services on San Pablo Avenue, hoping to move people and tents away from the Veterans Affairs building nearby, according to Joe DeVries, assistant to the city administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re hoping to do is clear the areas that most impact the staff and patients,” DeVries said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA is also providing a case manager to serve some of the unsheltered people around the clinic and help them find housing, said DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615141\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2921-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Oakland has installed bathrooms, garbage bins and wash stations at the homeless encampment on San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While homeless advocates have been pushing the city to provide sanitation services for encampments, some are now upset that Oakland is simultaneously clearing encampments that have existed for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was never our intention or our suggestion that in order for encampments to have these basic services, [it] would mean the shutting down of larger encampments,” said Anita De Asis, a homeless advocate who is better known as “Needa Bee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area where the city hopes to send homeless people is known to have rats living in ivy bushes leading to the freeway, said De Asis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These rats are the size of possums,” she said. “It’s devastating and it’s inhumane,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has cleared some of the ivy. DeVries said rat traps and poison have been laid down with follow-up inspections. But that hasn’t calmed any nerves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Is Starting to Close Some Encampments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVries said the city closed three encampments last month. Two of the sites were in West Oakland on 29th and 30th streets near Martin Luther King Jr. Way, one of which was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/31/oakland-residents-say-tent-encampments-threatening-neighborhoods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">profiled by KQED\u003c/a>. The other encampment was located in East Oakland on 84th Avenue and International Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11614922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11614922 size-medium\" title=\"Devin Katayama/KQED\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2250-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosella Renee-Flemings stands with a shopping cart of her belongings. She was forced to move from her homeless encampment near 84th Avenue and International Boulevard on Aug. 2, 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rosella Renee-Flemings lived at the East Oakland encampment. While standing by a shopping cart filled with her belongings, she said the encampment looked “junky,” which was part of the reason why so many people complained. Don’t just blame the people who were living in the encampment for that, she said. Illegal dumping also took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they see a pile of trash, they come and add their trash to it,” said Renee-Flemings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVries can’t remember the last time the city permanently closed an encampment, noting that closures are different from an abatement where a site is cleared and cleaned — after which people often move back in. Police are tasked with enforcing closures by blocking the homeless from returning, DeVries said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to do this sparingly, but we’re going to do it where we feel that it has to be done,” said DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decisions on which sites to close are based on a number of factors, including pedestrian access, traffic concerns, calls for service and proximity to schools, according to DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city reached out to the encampments at 29th and 30th streets 15 times in the last few weeks, offering to help people sign up for social services they might be eligible for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them actually declined service,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main problem is that the city lacks affordable housing — especially for those with the lowest incomes. While creating new affordable housing could take years, Oakland has a couple of other projects in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council allocated $14 million from a bond measure passed by voters last fall to purchase at least one building to provide transitional housing for more than 100 people at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also allocated $450,000 to create a Safe Haven site, which will provide temporary shelter on a vacant lot while helping people find more permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether there are locations or a timeline for either of these projects, DeVries said, “We’re working on it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Unlike many things from the Summer of Love, the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic survived. The clinic still operates out of a second-floor office overlooking Haight Street. You enter by way of a steep wooden staircase, which leads to a warren of small rooms. One exam room still has a wall covered by a faded psychedelic mural, featuring a collage of famous rock stars, naked bodies and peace signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decor used to be even more colorful, according to lab manager Pam Olton. She has worked at the Free Clinic for more than 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pink, aqua, Day-Glo orange … all of these exam rooms were painted in those Day-Glo colors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olton explained the colors helped the hippies feel welcome, easing their drug-induced paranoia or reassuring them that the clinic was a safe space. In the summer of ’67, and for years after, the Free Clinic treated the countercultural denizens of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. They were often the patients that nobody else wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/08/TCRMag20170811a.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26136_HAFMC-2-qut-800x494.jpg\" Title=\"How a 'Hippie Clinic' in the Haight-Ashbury Started a Medical Revolution\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a big flash mob of kids coming to this neighborhood, from all over, from everywhere in America,” Olton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most were uninsured, and some were living in parks, on the street, or sharing crowded apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re kids, they’re dirty, they’re a mess and they’re addicted, but we have to take care of their medical needs first,” Olton said. “And we have to be nonjudgmental. They’re human beings, they’re somebody’s kid and we need to take care of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Olton, a lab manager and accupuncturist, has worked at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics for more than 40 years. An exam room at the original location in the Haight still has a mural created by a grateful patient. \u003ccite>(Carrie Feibel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. David Smith was a young faculty member at UCSF when he started the free clinic 50 years ago. He’s now 78, but still works in addiction medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11611306 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Smith stands outside the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic circa 1975. The clinic still provides treatment today, and the iconic sign remains. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were kind of the caregivers to the love generation,” he said. At the beginning of 1967, Smith had one foot in the world of academic medicine and one foot in the burgeoning counterculture. He lived in the Haight and had experimented with drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had an LSD spiritual experience, and a vision that denial of health care to one segment of the population is a denial to all,” Smith recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there was a transformation of me in that period, in ’67, like what happened to so many young people. I just happened to have a medical skill when that transformation occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Smith knew that thousands of young adults would flood into San Francisco that summer, and he was worried not only about who would treat them, but how these young people would be treated by people in mainstream medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of us went to the city and said there’s going to be a huge problem this summer, and we need what we called then ‘a hippie clinic,’ ” Smith said. “And it was soundly rejected by the health department. They had no interest in this. They said, ‘We don’t want to take care of them. We want them to go away.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith and his colleagues, along with residents of the Haight, started getting ready anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was during one of their planning meetings when Smith stood up and declared: “Health care is a right, not a privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as he knows, Smith coined the phrase right then and there. “It became the founding slogan of our Haight Ashbury Free Clinic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11611312 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Smith (C), Dr. George ‘Skip’ Gay (R) and an unidentified man look over papers in an office at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The clinic opened on June 7, 1967, to a line of people stretching down the block. As Smith recalls, the team treated 250 people and worked through the night. The next day, the staff treated 350 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, the staff was entirely volunteer — a mix of sympathetic doctors, progressive nurses and politically driven students from the medical and pharmacy schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping the clinic going was a struggle. Public health officials opposed it. Money, for rent and supplies, was in short supply. Police officers would frequently show up and search the rooms, looking for illicit drugs and underage runaways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith was determined to keep the clinic open. The established medical institutions had made their disdain for the counterculture quite clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Free of Charge, Free From Judgment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If hippies hurt themselves, for example, lots of doctors thought they got what they deserved. Sometimes hospitals turned them away. And when they got sick from taking illegal drugs, or overdosed, or became psychotic, they were often shamed, restrained or thrown in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Free Clinic offered a safe space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were taken to the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, you would be put into a room with a tie-dye, and a talk-down guide, and a lava lamp,” he said. “You’d be examined by a physician to see if you needed medication to help you come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was free. Not only free of charge, but also free from hierarchy, moral judgment and condescension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11611309 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980.jpg 1756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Smith (second from left) helps a young woman by bandaging her feet as part of the clinic’s street medicine in 1968. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the Summer of Love, the clinic continued to function as a medical refuge, offering help to alienated and traumatized Vietnam veterans, hard-core addicts, AIDS patients and the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith remembers visiting the Free Clinic about 15 years ago. He was living on the streets of San Francisco and using heroin. He can’t remember why he went there for care, but he does remember what it felt like to be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went in there, there was a whole bunch of people hanging out. It was cool,” he said. They asked him, “How can we help you out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were eating,” he said. “Some girl asked if I was hungry. She brought me a vegetarian burrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very welcoming and I didn’t feel nervous or ashamed being in there. You know? I felt like these are my people, they’ll help me out. I can be honest with them. I think that carries on right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Meeting Modern Challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith eventually got sober, and for the last two years has worked for the clinic as a patient coordinator. He is usually based at the clinic’s second location, a larger building in the Mission District of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When patients come to the clinic, Eric makes sure they are connected to the services they need — whether that’s medical or dental care, therapy, detox or a drug recovery program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also walks the neighborhood, doing outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You want the best for everybody, but you can’t really push yourself too hard on them. You’ve got to meet them where they’re at.’\u003ccite>Eric Smith, Haight Ashbury Free Clinic\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He brings Narcan for opioid overdoses and a CPR mask. He has a big backpack full of snacks to hand out, along with gloves, socks, condoms and toothbrushes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615319\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Smith shares socks, snacks and advice with Kat and Sean, who recently moved to San Francisco from Ukiah, in Mendocino County. “There’s businesses that will absolutely refuse to serve you if you’re homeless,” Sean said, explaining why they left Ukiah. “It’s actually nicer down here than it is up there. The homeless community is actually somewhat being taken care of.” \u003ccite>(Carrie Feibel/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the day I joined him for his rounds, Eric stopped by a row of tents on Folsom Street. Men gathered around as he passed out supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys know who I work with, right?” he asked as he handed out socks and granola bars. “So you guys need any services at all? Is there anything you need?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the men were interested in visiting the clinic that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric just smiled and moved on. He told me no encounter is ever wasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to build a trust and rapport with the individual, so they know no matter what they tell me, that it’s safe,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want the best for everybody, but you can’t really push yourself too hard on them,” he added. “You’ve got to meet them where they’re at, and in their time they’ll come around eventually, you hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611310\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11611310\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut.jpg 355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut-160x361.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut-240x541.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This painted door marked the entrance to the detox clinic across the street from the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erie Street is just one block from the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic’s location in the Mission. District. It’s a long alleyway of sharp shadows and slants of sunlight. There was a tent at the far end, and a guy on a stepladder, spray-painting a mural on a large blank wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s heartbreaking,” Eric said. “I used to get high in this alley, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He nodded to a spot on the curb. “Right here.” He pointed to another: “Right here. So for someone who’s come from the pit, I actually really care. I feel for these individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was no time to dwell on that past, because Eric had spotted some new faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, guys,” he boomed, smiling and striding over. “You need any socks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man and a woman were cuddling together sleepily with just thin sleeping bags against the hard sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby was a shopping cart stuffed with belongings and a cooler. A pit bull puppy flopped across their legs. They sat up and happily accepted everything Eric offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, so you guys, you guys need any medical attention at all?” Eric asked. “Do you got Medi-Cal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean and Kat are from Ukiah, in Mendocino County, and had been in San Francisco for only a month. They needed advice, and Eric had plenty: They talked about places to get day-old pastries, charities that offered free breakfast or lunch, or even showers. Eric pointed out the clinic. They discussed getting the puppy fixed at the SPCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys use?” Eric asked. “I mean I’m an old junkie, all right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working on quitting,” Kat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh what, heroin?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No,” said Sean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meth?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slamming it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smoking?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, we smoke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kat told Eric she used to slam, meaning she used to inject it. But after meeting Sean, she was able to stop that. He helped her “get off the needle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric jumped on this: “Really? So you guys are together. And you’re supporting one another, all right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving up the needle is a small step, but a positive one. It’s a little less harmful. Eric wanted them to know he gets it: They’re \u003ci>trying\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you guys, come and talk to me, OK?” he told them. “Seriously, if you want help at all. I don’t care if you don’t want recovery or not, but just to know that there’s someone out there. I used to get high right here in this alley, dude, back in the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of care Eric is offering — nonjudgmental, patient, compassionate — goes straight back to the earliest days of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an unremarkable approach these days, common in social services. But 50 years ago, before the Summer of Love, it was radical and new.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Survival in Consolidation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Today, the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics are part of an umbrella organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthright360.org/\">HealthRIGHT 360\u003c/a>. It’s a large network of social service agencies, tackling a variety of problems besides health care: domestic abuse, rehabilitation for ex-inmates, gay, lesbian and transgender health, and addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consolidating with other agencies helped the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, in 2010, it was struggling financially. Some staffers had been caught embezzling, and the clinic couldn’t afford the transition to electronic medical records, a new requirement of the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the Free Clinic joined forces with \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthright360.org/agency/walden-house\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walden House\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nearby addiction recovery center. Other nonprofits soon joined as well, and HealthRIGHT 360 became the umbrella brand, allowing the smaller agencies to pool resources for administration, electronic records and fundraising.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”NckxdwUTJRX5RxeRAHpp4vO0ZfgWRb0b”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. David Smith, who started it all, applauds the decision to consolidate with other nonprofits. But he does miss the intimacy of those early days, when volunteers from the neighborhood worked at the clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When money got tight, there were benefit concerts featuring local bands like Big Brother and the Holding Company, during the time Janis Joplin was the lead singer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Smith lived in the Haight, and so did Janis Joplin. He remembered the night he saved her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was somebody at our clinic that was close with her — her name was Sunshine,” he recalled. “It was near the Grateful Dead house, and we got a call that she’d overdosed. So we zipped up there with the Narcan and reversed her overdose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a wonderful woman, a great singer, very involved in the community,” Smith said. “But she had a very serious addiction problem, bounced back and forth between heroin and alcohol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Summer of Love, free clinics opened in Seattle, L.A. and Berkeley. By the end of the ’60s, the U.S. had dozens of free clinics, a third of them in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All were founded on that simple principle Dr. Smith first articulated 50 years ago: Health care is a right, not a privilege. No matter how you look, dress or act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In other words, when you get treated in a humane way in the medical system, the spirit of the Summer of Love lives on,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most were uninsured, and some were living in parks, on the street, or sharing crowded apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re kids, they’re dirty, they’re a mess and they’re addicted, but we have to take care of their medical needs first,” Olton said. “And we have to be nonjudgmental. They’re human beings, they’re somebody’s kid and we need to take care of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Pam-and-Mural-e1504305340780-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Olton, a lab manager and accupuncturist, has worked at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics for more than 40 years. An exam room at the original location in the Haight still has a mural created by a grateful patient. \u003ccite>(Carrie Feibel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. David Smith was a young faculty member at UCSF when he started the free clinic 50 years ago. He’s now 78, but still works in addiction medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11611306 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26134_HAFMC-4-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Smith stands outside the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic circa 1975. The clinic still provides treatment today, and the iconic sign remains. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were kind of the caregivers to the love generation,” he said. At the beginning of 1967, Smith had one foot in the world of academic medicine and one foot in the burgeoning counterculture. He lived in the Haight and had experimented with drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had an LSD spiritual experience, and a vision that denial of health care to one segment of the population is a denial to all,” Smith recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there was a transformation of me in that period, in ’67, like what happened to so many young people. I just happened to have a medical skill when that transformation occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Smith knew that thousands of young adults would flood into San Francisco that summer, and he was worried not only about who would treat them, but how these young people would be treated by people in mainstream medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of us went to the city and said there’s going to be a huge problem this summer, and we need what we called then ‘a hippie clinic,’ ” Smith said. “And it was soundly rejected by the health department. They had no interest in this. They said, ‘We don’t want to take care of them. We want them to go away.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith and his colleagues, along with residents of the Haight, started getting ready anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was during one of their planning meetings when Smith stood up and declared: “Health care is a right, not a privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as he knows, Smith coined the phrase right then and there. “It became the founding slogan of our Haight Ashbury Free Clinic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11611312 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26140_HA2-qut.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Smith (C), Dr. George ‘Skip’ Gay (R) and an unidentified man look over papers in an office at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The clinic opened on June 7, 1967, to a line of people stretching down the block. As Smith recalls, the team treated 250 people and worked through the night. The next day, the staff treated 350 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, the staff was entirely volunteer — a mix of sympathetic doctors, progressive nurses and politically driven students from the medical and pharmacy schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping the clinic going was a struggle. Public health officials opposed it. Money, for rent and supplies, was in short supply. Police officers would frequently show up and search the rooms, looking for illicit drugs and underage runaways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith was determined to keep the clinic open. The established medical institutions had made their disdain for the counterculture quite clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Free of Charge, Free From Judgment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If hippies hurt themselves, for example, lots of doctors thought they got what they deserved. Sometimes hospitals turned them away. And when they got sick from taking illegal drugs, or overdosed, or became psychotic, they were often shamed, restrained or thrown in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Free Clinic offered a safe space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were taken to the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, you would be put into a room with a tie-dye, and a talk-down guide, and a lava lamp,” he said. “You’d be examined by a physician to see if you needed medication to help you come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was free. Not only free of charge, but also free from hierarchy, moral judgment and condescension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11611309 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26137_HAFMC-1-qut-e1502472021980.jpg 1756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Smith (second from left) helps a young woman by bandaging her feet as part of the clinic’s street medicine in 1968. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the Summer of Love, the clinic continued to function as a medical refuge, offering help to alienated and traumatized Vietnam veterans, hard-core addicts, AIDS patients and the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith remembers visiting the Free Clinic about 15 years ago. He was living on the streets of San Francisco and using heroin. He can’t remember why he went there for care, but he does remember what it felt like to be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went in there, there was a whole bunch of people hanging out. It was cool,” he said. They asked him, “How can we help you out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were eating,” he said. “Some girl asked if I was hungry. She brought me a vegetarian burrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very welcoming and I didn’t feel nervous or ashamed being in there. You know? I felt like these are my people, they’ll help me out. I can be honest with them. I think that carries on right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Meeting Modern Challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith eventually got sober, and for the last two years has worked for the clinic as a patient coordinator. He is usually based at the clinic’s second location, a larger building in the Mission District of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When patients come to the clinic, Eric makes sure they are connected to the services they need — whether that’s medical or dental care, therapy, detox or a drug recovery program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also walks the neighborhood, doing outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You want the best for everybody, but you can’t really push yourself too hard on them. You’ve got to meet them where they’re at.’\u003ccite>Eric Smith, Haight Ashbury Free Clinic\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He brings Narcan for opioid overdoses and a CPR mask. He has a big backpack full of snacks to hand out, along with gloves, socks, condoms and toothbrushes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615319\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Free-Clinic-Eric-Smith-at-work-e1504304263652-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Smith shares socks, snacks and advice with Kat and Sean, who recently moved to San Francisco from Ukiah, in Mendocino County. “There’s businesses that will absolutely refuse to serve you if you’re homeless,” Sean said, explaining why they left Ukiah. “It’s actually nicer down here than it is up there. The homeless community is actually somewhat being taken care of.” \u003ccite>(Carrie Feibel/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the day I joined him for his rounds, Eric stopped by a row of tents on Folsom Street. Men gathered around as he passed out supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys know who I work with, right?” he asked as he handed out socks and granola bars. “So you guys need any services at all? Is there anything you need?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the men were interested in visiting the clinic that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric just smiled and moved on. He told me no encounter is ever wasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to build a trust and rapport with the individual, so they know no matter what they tell me, that it’s safe,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want the best for everybody, but you can’t really push yourself too hard on them,” he added. “You’ve got to meet them where they’re at, and in their time they’ll come around eventually, you hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611310\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11611310\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut.jpg 355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut-160x361.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut-240x541.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This painted door marked the entrance to the detox clinic across the street from the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erie Street is just one block from the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic’s location in the Mission. District. It’s a long alleyway of sharp shadows and slants of sunlight. There was a tent at the far end, and a guy on a stepladder, spray-painting a mural on a large blank wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s heartbreaking,” Eric said. “I used to get high in this alley, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He nodded to a spot on the curb. “Right here.” He pointed to another: “Right here. So for someone who’s come from the pit, I actually really care. I feel for these individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was no time to dwell on that past, because Eric had spotted some new faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, guys,” he boomed, smiling and striding over. “You need any socks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man and a woman were cuddling together sleepily with just thin sleeping bags against the hard sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby was a shopping cart stuffed with belongings and a cooler. A pit bull puppy flopped across their legs. They sat up and happily accepted everything Eric offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, so you guys, you guys need any medical attention at all?” Eric asked. “Do you got Medi-Cal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean and Kat are from Ukiah, in Mendocino County, and had been in San Francisco for only a month. They needed advice, and Eric had plenty: They talked about places to get day-old pastries, charities that offered free breakfast or lunch, or even showers. Eric pointed out the clinic. They discussed getting the puppy fixed at the SPCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys use?” Eric asked. “I mean I’m an old junkie, all right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working on quitting,” Kat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh what, heroin?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No,” said Sean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meth?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slamming it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smoking?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, we smoke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kat told Eric she used to slam, meaning she used to inject it. But after meeting Sean, she was able to stop that. He helped her “get off the needle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric jumped on this: “Really? So you guys are together. And you’re supporting one another, all right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving up the needle is a small step, but a positive one. It’s a little less harmful. Eric wanted them to know he gets it: They’re \u003ci>trying\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you guys, come and talk to me, OK?” he told them. “Seriously, if you want help at all. I don’t care if you don’t want recovery or not, but just to know that there’s someone out there. I used to get high right here in this alley, dude, back in the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of care Eric is offering — nonjudgmental, patient, compassionate — goes straight back to the earliest days of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an unremarkable approach these days, common in social services. But 50 years ago, before the Summer of Love, it was radical and new.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Survival in Consolidation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Today, the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics are part of an umbrella organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthright360.org/\">HealthRIGHT 360\u003c/a>. It’s a large network of social service agencies, tackling a variety of problems besides health care: domestic abuse, rehabilitation for ex-inmates, gay, lesbian and transgender health, and addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consolidating with other agencies helped the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, in 2010, it was struggling financially. Some staffers had been caught embezzling, and the clinic couldn’t afford the transition to electronic medical records, a new requirement of the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the Free Clinic joined forces with \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthright360.org/agency/walden-house\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walden House\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nearby addiction recovery center. Other nonprofits soon joined as well, and HealthRIGHT 360 became the umbrella brand, allowing the smaller agencies to pool resources for administration, electronic records and fundraising.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. David Smith, who started it all, applauds the decision to consolidate with other nonprofits. But he does miss the intimacy of those early days, when volunteers from the neighborhood worked at the clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When money got tight, there were benefit concerts featuring local bands like Big Brother and the Holding Company, during the time Janis Joplin was the lead singer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Smith lived in the Haight, and so did Janis Joplin. He remembered the night he saved her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was somebody at our clinic that was close with her — her name was Sunshine,” he recalled. “It was near the Grateful Dead house, and we got a call that she’d overdosed. So we zipped up there with the Narcan and reversed her overdose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a wonderful woman, a great singer, very involved in the community,” Smith said. “But she had a very serious addiction problem, bounced back and forth between heroin and alcohol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Summer of Love, free clinics opened in Seattle, L.A. and Berkeley. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Hilary Nevis bought her house last year on 29th Street in Oakland’s Hoover-Foster neighborhood, she remembers a single person sleeping under the freeway overpass a few dozen yards from her front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a really small footprint. He didn’t bother anyone. He very much felt like my neighbor,” Nevis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the homeless encampment has grown to about a dozen tents — a sight familiar to many Oaklanders. Nevis feels like the city has become too lenient about responding to homelessness, and she’s not alone. Complaints about homelessness grew 600 percent between 2011 and 2016. The city is planning to roll out relief for some tent encampments, but isn’t planning to help them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’re Not in This Together\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s unsheltered homeless population grew \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/28/fires-at-oaklands-homeless-camps-point-to-growing-homelessness-crisis/\">37 percent\u003c/a> over a two-year period and has become the city’s most visible problem. Those with and without homes feel like the city hasn’t done nearly enough to solve the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Nevis moved into her house last year, she would come home and find people sitting on her porch and using her outside electrical outlets to charge cellphones and other electronics. She decided to let this go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That always just kind of made me feel uncomfortable and I know some of my neighbors agree with that,” Nevis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11597364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbors have sent Oakland many complaints about a homeless encampment underneath the freeway on 29th Street in the Hoover-Foster neighborhood. The city has struggled to serve its homeless population, which grew about 26 percent between 2015 and 2017. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, on a recent spring night, someone pounded on her door looking for a stolen phone, she said. Nevis can’t confirm who the person was, but it flipped an emotional switch. She began trading stories with her neighbors about how bold homeless people in her neighborhood had become. Nevis went from believing she could live together with her homeless neighbors to feeling threatened by them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were like, oh hey, we can be a community, like work together. And then one of those people tried to break into my house. I’m like, no, we’re not in this together,” said Nevis, who has aired her concerns on SeeClickFix, Oakland’s citizen complaint website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevis started calling Oakland’s public works department and she eventually got Joe DeVries, an assistant city administrator who has overseen a lot of the city’s homeless initiatives. DeVries discussed ways Nevis could better protect her home, and he requested that Oakland’s police department enforce the “No Blocking Sidewalk/No Loitering” signs and asked police to “direct the encamped to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevis also tried to superglue her outside outlets shut, but on a recent morning she found the plugs had been pried off. Since the incident, Nevis says she has become overly sensitive to the encampment; she wants to feel safe in her home, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the lines have not been drawn very clearly for the people who live under there,” Nevis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Helping Some Encampments, Closing Others\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who feel Oakland has been slow to respond to its emerging homeless crisis are some at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our response is slower than we’d like it to be and it’s not as thorough as we would like it to be,” DeVries said. “Hopefully with the new budget, that’ll change. But it’s not going to change as quickly as anyone would like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council got a lot of pressure from activists to allocate an additional $3 million a year for homelessness, but the \u003ca href=\"https://beta.oaklandca.gov/issues/budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adopted budget\u003c/a> fell well short of that. The budget does include extra money for wash stations, portable toilets and garbage pickup at some encampments, but DeVries guesses only between 10 to 15 encampments will be served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An encampment management team made up of staff from the public works, fire and police departments has been meeting to discuss which encampments will get the extra help, DeVries said. The decisions will be based on a number of factors, such as encampment size, ability to manage and location, he said. When asked whether a high number of neighbor complaints would play a role, DeVries said not necessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a responsibility to go out and evaluate each encampment compared to other encampments and then prioritize our work based on that evaluation, not based on 50 people complained and they used really colorful language or they jammed up my email,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[homelessOaklandMap]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also allocated $450,000 to develop a “safe haven” site, where people could live in temporary structures while they get help finding housing. DeVries said that would likely be in West Oakland, where a concentration of encampments exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with efforts to keep some encampments operating in place, the city could also decide to close some encampments, DeVries said, adding that the encampment near Nevis’ home would likely be considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That particular encampment is so close to residential property and close to a school corridor where a lot of children walk. Those would be the ones that I personally think we need to evaluate for closure,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Neighborhood Buy-In Is Important\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing a camp \u003ca href=\"https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/page/15-13160_-_Goldman_Student_Report_-_Final_Draft_-_May_11_2015_reduced_size.pdf.pdf\">doesn’t do much\u003c/a> to solve homelessness unless there’s a long-term plan for where people can go. A lot of attention will likely be paid to how Oakland works with sheltered and unsheltered residents to address encampments in neighborhoods; and the city isn’t starting off with a great track record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists protested in February when the city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/03/oakland-dismantles-tiny-houses-at-homeless-village/\">dismantled an encampment\u003c/a> at 36th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way known as “The Village.” Some neighbors in West Oakland were upset after the city promised to end a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/08/oaklands-sanctioned-homeless-camp-project-ends-on-sad-note/\">pilot project\u003c/a> serving a homeless encampment earlier this year, only to have more people move into the space after the city’s services stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that this failure has damaged the city’s credibility to the extent that they will have to demonstrate one or two successful sanctioned encampments before most neighborhoods would be willing to discuss supporting a proximate sanctioned encampment,” said Ray Kidd, a member of the West Oakland Neighbors group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other neighborhood groups are asking the city for whatever services it can provide now. The Allen Temple Baptist Church in East Oakland hosted a number of city and county officials this month to discuss a response to an encampment nearby known as the “Living Room.” The city promised to provide bathrooms and washing stations as well as health services by Aug. 22, according to a church spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11597452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man who calls himself “Akie” says the encampment at 29th Street underneath the freeway overpass should not be closed down because it provides a quiet and safe place for him to be. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the freeway overpass on 29th Street, a man who calls himself “Akie” is sitting on a twin mattress reading a newspaper. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Nevis moved into her house last year, she would come home and find people sitting on her porch and using her outside electrical outlets to charge cellphones and other electronics. She decided to let this go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That always just kind of made me feel uncomfortable and I know some of my neighbors agree with that,” Nevis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11597364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2863-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbors have sent Oakland many complaints about a homeless encampment underneath the freeway on 29th Street in the Hoover-Foster neighborhood. The city has struggled to serve its homeless population, which grew about 26 percent between 2015 and 2017. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, on a recent spring night, someone pounded on her door looking for a stolen phone, she said. Nevis can’t confirm who the person was, but it flipped an emotional switch. She began trading stories with her neighbors about how bold homeless people in her neighborhood had become. Nevis went from believing she could live together with her homeless neighbors to feeling threatened by them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were like, oh hey, we can be a community, like work together. And then one of those people tried to break into my house. I’m like, no, we’re not in this together,” said Nevis, who has aired her concerns on SeeClickFix, Oakland’s citizen complaint website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevis started calling Oakland’s public works department and she eventually got Joe DeVries, an assistant city administrator who has overseen a lot of the city’s homeless initiatives. DeVries discussed ways Nevis could better protect her home, and he requested that Oakland’s police department enforce the “No Blocking Sidewalk/No Loitering” signs and asked police to “direct the encamped to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevis also tried to superglue her outside outlets shut, but on a recent morning she found the plugs had been pried off. Since the incident, Nevis says she has become overly sensitive to the encampment; she wants to feel safe in her home, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the lines have not been drawn very clearly for the people who live under there,” Nevis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Helping Some Encampments, Closing Others\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who feel Oakland has been slow to respond to its emerging homeless crisis are some at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our response is slower than we’d like it to be and it’s not as thorough as we would like it to be,” DeVries said. “Hopefully with the new budget, that’ll change. But it’s not going to change as quickly as anyone would like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council got a lot of pressure from activists to allocate an additional $3 million a year for homelessness, but the \u003ca href=\"https://beta.oaklandca.gov/issues/budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adopted budget\u003c/a> fell well short of that. The budget does include extra money for wash stations, portable toilets and garbage pickup at some encampments, but DeVries guesses only between 10 to 15 encampments will be served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An encampment management team made up of staff from the public works, fire and police departments has been meeting to discuss which encampments will get the extra help, DeVries said. The decisions will be based on a number of factors, such as encampment size, ability to manage and location, he said. When asked whether a high number of neighbor complaints would play a role, DeVries said not necessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a responsibility to go out and evaluate each encampment compared to other encampments and then prioritize our work based on that evaluation, not based on 50 people complained and they used really colorful language or they jammed up my email,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[homelessOaklandMap]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also allocated $450,000 to develop a “safe haven” site, where people could live in temporary structures while they get help finding housing. DeVries said that would likely be in West Oakland, where a concentration of encampments exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with efforts to keep some encampments operating in place, the city could also decide to close some encampments, DeVries said, adding that the encampment near Nevis’ home would likely be considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That particular encampment is so close to residential property and close to a school corridor where a lot of children walk. Those would be the ones that I personally think we need to evaluate for closure,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Neighborhood Buy-In Is Important\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing a camp \u003ca href=\"https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/page/15-13160_-_Goldman_Student_Report_-_Final_Draft_-_May_11_2015_reduced_size.pdf.pdf\">doesn’t do much\u003c/a> to solve homelessness unless there’s a long-term plan for where people can go. A lot of attention will likely be paid to how Oakland works with sheltered and unsheltered residents to address encampments in neighborhoods; and the city isn’t starting off with a great track record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists protested in February when the city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/03/oakland-dismantles-tiny-houses-at-homeless-village/\">dismantled an encampment\u003c/a> at 36th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way known as “The Village.” Some neighbors in West Oakland were upset after the city promised to end a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/08/oaklands-sanctioned-homeless-camp-project-ends-on-sad-note/\">pilot project\u003c/a> serving a homeless encampment earlier this year, only to have more people move into the space after the city’s services stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that this failure has damaged the city’s credibility to the extent that they will have to demonstrate one or two successful sanctioned encampments before most neighborhoods would be willing to discuss supporting a proximate sanctioned encampment,” said Ray Kidd, a member of the West Oakland Neighbors group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other neighborhood groups are asking the city for whatever services it can provide now. The Allen Temple Baptist Church in East Oakland hosted a number of city and county officials this month to discuss a response to an encampment nearby known as the “Living Room.” The city promised to provide bathrooms and washing stations as well as health services by Aug. 22, according to a church spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11597452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_2840-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man who calls himself “Akie” says the encampment at 29th Street underneath the freeway overpass should not be closed down because it provides a quiet and safe place for him to be. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the freeway overpass on 29th Street, a man who calls himself “Akie” is sitting on a twin mattress reading a newspaper. 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