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"content": "\u003cp>The Wood Street encampment in West Oakland was at one point the largest homeless encampment Northern California. In 2023, the city of Oakland completed its final evictions of the unhoused residents living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Wood Street residents ended up at a city-funded shelter site where part of the encampment used to be. It includes an RV park and a “community cabins” site. Now, this shelter site is scheduled to close on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Oakland journalist and filmmaker Caron Creighton tells us about the cabin sites, and introduces us to two unhoused people who have been living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7837568161&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] So the city of Oakland built a cabin site at Wood Street. They’ve definitely improved their tiny cabins. It’s one person or you can choose to have a roommate. There was laundry on site, there were showers, there were toilets, there was a small kitchen, a little bit of a space for people to sit and hang out. But I still wouldn’t call it a home. I mean, people can’t have keys to their own space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] But basically what they were offered were these tiny homes with showers and a kitchen, not a key, but a roof over their heads. What exactly were people promised when they moved into these tiny home? Because they weren’t necessarily expected to live there forever, right? They were supposed to be temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:03:11] When folks moved into these tiny homes, they were told that they could stay for 90 days with the option to extend for another 90 days. And some folks have stayed there for the entire two years they’ve been open. The city of Oakland often does not have enough shelter beds available, so this site was created for the people at Wood Street. They were essentially told that this is the way that you get into permanent housing is by moving into this cabin site, and then if you get your documents ready, if you work with us, we can get you in the pipeline for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] How did the people that you met at these tiny homes describe what it was like to live at these tiny homes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:03:54] I spoke with a couple of different folks who are currently living at the cabins. One of those people was Larry Coke. He’s someone who kind of keeps to himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] Well, I’ve been in this one, Wood Street encampment for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:04:09] He was okay with living at the cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:04:11] It’s not bad because we have showers and stuff, you know, so that was a plus they tried to help us, you know with as far as getting also security cards and stuff like that all our documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:04:22] He didn’t mind not having a key. I think he mentioned not liking places that have a lot of rules that kind of feel infantilizing, but he was definitely happier to be in the cabins than on the street, for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:37] And I know you met one woman who had a sort of less positive experience. Tell me about Tamra Lynn Rosselli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] So I spoke with Tamara Rosselli, who I had met from living at the 1707 Wood Street lot before it was evicted. Tamara has a very typical experience to, I think, what a lot of unhoused folks have, which is, you know, she was living at The Cabins for what she said was 16 months, and she was informed by another housing service provider, folks who were not running the cabin site that she was not on the list for housing yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] And I’m like, excuse me? She was like, no. She’s like, you’ve been doc ready since the second week you were there, correct? I said, yes. She said, they never put you in the housing queue. So all that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:05:22] One time I sat there for nothing, you know. And so that person helped her get on the housing list. Eventually she moved into another apartment, but she felt like, you know, she didn’t really like this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:34] I had crazy neighbors that broke our glass windows in front. She knocked on my doors and windows all night long, screaming, and their answer is call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:05:43] You know, she didn’t like her neighbors there. She said that someone tased her dog, like it was not a space where she really felt like she wanted to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] I mean, it was more uncomfortable than the encampment. It was just, that place, it just wasn’t for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:06:00] And so she eventually left that placement and came back to the cabin site. But at that point, I think she couldn’t get an official cabin there, so she kind of ended up just squatting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] And I say, I’m not leaving, you do what you have to do, but this is a place for homeless people that need housing and I’m homeless and I need housing. You’re asking me to go live on the streets so that you can hold this empty until you guys leave? That’s insane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] I’d also like to say, like, it wasn’t necessarily, like permanent housing. Like, she was moved into, you know, a housing spot for domestic violence survivors. She had also been offered SROs. I don’t think these are things that you or I would consider permanent housing. It’s still kind of a transitional space. Even the way she talked about, you know, being kicked out of the cabin site now was that, you know, she really stressed out about it at first, but she, I think she’s experienced so much. Instability in her life that she can handle it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:06:56] I’ve learned in the last five years not to become attached to things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] Coming up, why the cabins are closing down, and why the process has been so messy. Stay with us. I mean, now these cabins are closing sort of officially, right? What does it mean now that these are closing? What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:07:30] Yeah, so what I can gather from what the cities told me is that, you know, they need to close the cabins because they have to clear the site to give it back to the actual landowner. The city’s leasing it from a private developer. And so they need have a certain amount of time to clear a lot again, get everything off of it before the end of the year when it has to go back to them. So the cabs were definitely set to close at the end June. It was really just the there was a lot of back-and-forth about when that would happen and whether the service provider, BOSS – Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency, would stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:11] For the last few months, people living at the cabins have been jerked around by the timeline of its closure. First, the cabin’s nearly shut down in March, three months early, because of several missed payments from the city of Oakland. The service provider, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency or BOSS, said it wasn’t until it started sending out layoff notices that the city sat down with its CEO, promising to make good on its debts. So BOSS rescinded its layoff notice with the intention of closing down as planned at the end of June. But then, at the end of May, people living at the Wood Street cabins got another piece of unexpected news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:09:05] BOSS pulled out of the cabins last month because they said they weren’t being paid by the city of Oakland. They said they would lose $400,000 if they had to spend another month working there unpaid. On May 30th, folks at the cabins got notices on their doors that said 24-hour notice, no trespassing. And that was kind of the big indicator. That was when Boss stepped out. The city says that they think BOSS put up the signs. BOSS says they think the city put up signs. I know a lot of folks who live at the cabins were pretty disturbed when they got those notices. It didn’t state a time of day when they would have to leave. And then, of course, the city came by and took down the notices, said, you don’t have to live now, but you do have to on June 30th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:48] What has it meant that BOSS has been unpaid for the last couple of months? What has that meant for the services that this provider is supposed to offer and also the timeline of how this closure even happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Since BOSS has pulled out, there are other people who’ve kind of moved into the cabin site and are maybe squatting there. Those folks probably won’t get a placement even though they’re still homeless. Over time, residents complained about the toilets and bathrooms not being cleaned up. The photos looked really disgusting. And so I think it’s just created a lot more chaos for folks who were really hoping to kind of get rid of some of that chaos in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] Here, we were never like really informed of much, you know? They weren’t really telling us anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:10:33] When folks got those notices. I think they were pretty stressed out for about 24 hours and then realized they’d been abandoned by the service provider. And that’s when Tamara tried to step up and help take care of her friends who were living there and kind of tried to organize people to keep things clean together while they were kind of waiting to see what their next steps would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] I know a lot of people from when I lived in the encampment, I used to be really involved and maybe this is my time to get re-involved. And I said, I’ll make some phone calls tomorrow and see if I can get us some resources. And so that’s when I started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:09] I mean, that sounds so chaotic. How does Larry describe what it was like to get that notification and what has been explained to him about what is even happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] Yeah, I spoke with Larry the day that they that the notices had been put up and has anybody like come to talk to you in person about the notice?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] No, they just taped a piece of paper on the door and that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] He was pretty confused. We were heading into a weekend. It was a Friday. He wasn’t sure if he would, I mean, he assumed that he’d be able to stay the weekend at least, but you know, he thought maybe he’d be kicked out on Monday. But I think like so many unhoused people who face such instability, again, like he was just like, well, whatever it is, I’ll deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] I’ll take anything really, as long as I’m by myself, not sharing spaces with anybody. But, you know, I just need a place that’s decent and I can have my dog with me that allows animals and stuff like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] Caron reached out to BOSS, the service provider for the cabins, but didn’t get a reply to calls or emails. The City of Oakland provided a written statement and did not respond to follow-up questions. In their statement, the city says that as of May 30, there were roughly 37 residents in the Safe RV and cabin sites. The statement also said that the city is providing, “short-term emergency support” through June 30. But it’s still unclear just how many former Wood Street residents will be permanently housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:56] Going back to two years ago when the Wood Street encampment folks were told that this was the only pathway to housing, if you move into these tiny homes, I mean, how many people actually got that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:13:09] When I asked the city about how many folks had moved into permanent housing this year, reporting for this story, they said basically that since the spring, more than 50 people had either left the program or transitioned into alternative programs. So, you know, that’s not information on how many people had moved into permanent house, that’s just, you now, 50 people went somewhere. So, as you can see, it’s kind of tough to get this information from the city. I spoke with someone at Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless who told me that they’re working with the City of Oakland. To try to get folks into placements, but getting folks into permanent placements can take a long time. I don’t know how many people have moved into permanent housing from this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:50] So, I mean, now that the cabin sites are closing, Caron, what are the plans for this specific location at Wood Street for this land?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:14:00] The neighborhood has been changing a lot since the Wood Street encampment’s been evicted. There’s the Prescott Market, there’s the Ballers Stadium, there’s some new housing developments, there’s plans to build a new beer garden up there. So I don’t know what’s happening at 2601 Wood Street where the cabins are. I would assume, based on everything else that’s happening in that neighborhood, that they’re probably going to build housing, but I couldn’t say exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:31] I mean, you’ve been covering Wood Street for a long time now. What do you make of this latest chapter, I guess, in the Wood Street saga?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:14:42] It really feels kind of like, you know, the perfect ending for the Wood Street saga. I mean, it was really disorganized when the city was talking to folks and trying to get them to come to the cabins. When they first started evicting people off of the lot on state land, the cab ins didn’t even exist. There was nowhere for them to go. And when they talked to people, there was so much miscommunication about what would be at the site. Would they have kitchens? Would they had bathrooms? Would they get keys? It’s clearly still very disorganized. 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Tell me about Tamra Lynn Rosselli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] So I spoke with Tamara Rosselli, who I had met from living at the 1707 Wood Street lot before it was evicted. Tamara has a very typical experience to, I think, what a lot of unhoused folks have, which is, you know, she was living at The Cabins for what she said was 16 months, and she was informed by another housing service provider, folks who were not running the cabin site that she was not on the list for housing yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] And I’m like, excuse me? She was like, no. She’s like, you’ve been doc ready since the second week you were there, correct? I said, yes. She said, they never put you in the housing queue. So all that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:05:22] One time I sat there for nothing, you know. And so that person helped her get on the housing list. Eventually she moved into another apartment, but she felt like, you know, she didn’t really like this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:34] I had crazy neighbors that broke our glass windows in front. She knocked on my doors and windows all night long, screaming, and their answer is call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:05:43] You know, she didn’t like her neighbors there. She said that someone tased her dog, like it was not a space where she really felt like she wanted to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] I mean, it was more uncomfortable than the encampment. It was just, that place, it just wasn’t for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:06:00] And so she eventually left that placement and came back to the cabin site. But at that point, I think she couldn’t get an official cabin there, so she kind of ended up just squatting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] And I say, I’m not leaving, you do what you have to do, but this is a place for homeless people that need housing and I’m homeless and I need housing. You’re asking me to go live on the streets so that you can hold this empty until you guys leave? That’s insane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] I’d also like to say, like, it wasn’t necessarily, like permanent housing. Like, she was moved into, you know, a housing spot for domestic violence survivors. She had also been offered SROs. I don’t think these are things that you or I would consider permanent housing. It’s still kind of a transitional space. Even the way she talked about, you know, being kicked out of the cabin site now was that, you know, she really stressed out about it at first, but she, I think she’s experienced so much. Instability in her life that she can handle it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:06:56] I’ve learned in the last five years not to become attached to things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] Coming up, why the cabins are closing down, and why the process has been so messy. Stay with us. I mean, now these cabins are closing sort of officially, right? What does it mean now that these are closing? What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:07:30] Yeah, so what I can gather from what the cities told me is that, you know, they need to close the cabins because they have to clear the site to give it back to the actual landowner. The city’s leasing it from a private developer. And so they need have a certain amount of time to clear a lot again, get everything off of it before the end of the year when it has to go back to them. So the cabs were definitely set to close at the end June. It was really just the there was a lot of back-and-forth about when that would happen and whether the service provider, BOSS – Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency, would stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:11] For the last few months, people living at the cabins have been jerked around by the timeline of its closure. First, the cabin’s nearly shut down in March, three months early, because of several missed payments from the city of Oakland. The service provider, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency or BOSS, said it wasn’t until it started sending out layoff notices that the city sat down with its CEO, promising to make good on its debts. So BOSS rescinded its layoff notice with the intention of closing down as planned at the end of June. But then, at the end of May, people living at the Wood Street cabins got another piece of unexpected news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:09:05] BOSS pulled out of the cabins last month because they said they weren’t being paid by the city of Oakland. They said they would lose $400,000 if they had to spend another month working there unpaid. On May 30th, folks at the cabins got notices on their doors that said 24-hour notice, no trespassing. And that was kind of the big indicator. That was when Boss stepped out. The city says that they think BOSS put up the signs. BOSS says they think the city put up signs. I know a lot of folks who live at the cabins were pretty disturbed when they got those notices. It didn’t state a time of day when they would have to leave. And then, of course, the city came by and took down the notices, said, you don’t have to live now, but you do have to on June 30th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:48] What has it meant that BOSS has been unpaid for the last couple of months? What has that meant for the services that this provider is supposed to offer and also the timeline of how this closure even happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Since BOSS has pulled out, there are other people who’ve kind of moved into the cabin site and are maybe squatting there. Those folks probably won’t get a placement even though they’re still homeless. Over time, residents complained about the toilets and bathrooms not being cleaned up. The photos looked really disgusting. And so I think it’s just created a lot more chaos for folks who were really hoping to kind of get rid of some of that chaos in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] Here, we were never like really informed of much, you know? They weren’t really telling us anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:10:33] When folks got those notices. I think they were pretty stressed out for about 24 hours and then realized they’d been abandoned by the service provider. And that’s when Tamara tried to step up and help take care of her friends who were living there and kind of tried to organize people to keep things clean together while they were kind of waiting to see what their next steps would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tamara Rosselli \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] I know a lot of people from when I lived in the encampment, I used to be really involved and maybe this is my time to get re-involved. And I said, I’ll make some phone calls tomorrow and see if I can get us some resources. And so that’s when I started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:09] I mean, that sounds so chaotic. How does Larry describe what it was like to get that notification and what has been explained to him about what is even happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] Yeah, I spoke with Larry the day that they that the notices had been put up and has anybody like come to talk to you in person about the notice?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] No, they just taped a piece of paper on the door and that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] He was pretty confused. We were heading into a weekend. It was a Friday. He wasn’t sure if he would, I mean, he assumed that he’d be able to stay the weekend at least, but you know, he thought maybe he’d be kicked out on Monday. But I think like so many unhoused people who face such instability, again, like he was just like, well, whatever it is, I’ll deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Coke \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] I’ll take anything really, as long as I’m by myself, not sharing spaces with anybody. But, you know, I just need a place that’s decent and I can have my dog with me that allows animals and stuff like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] Caron reached out to BOSS, the service provider for the cabins, but didn’t get a reply to calls or emails. The City of Oakland provided a written statement and did not respond to follow-up questions. In their statement, the city says that as of May 30, there were roughly 37 residents in the Safe RV and cabin sites. The statement also said that the city is providing, “short-term emergency support” through June 30. But it’s still unclear just how many former Wood Street residents will be permanently housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:56] Going back to two years ago when the Wood Street encampment folks were told that this was the only pathway to housing, if you move into these tiny homes, I mean, how many people actually got that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:13:09] When I asked the city about how many folks had moved into permanent housing this year, reporting for this story, they said basically that since the spring, more than 50 people had either left the program or transitioned into alternative programs. So, you know, that’s not information on how many people had moved into permanent house, that’s just, you now, 50 people went somewhere. So, as you can see, it’s kind of tough to get this information from the city. I spoke with someone at Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless who told me that they’re working with the City of Oakland. To try to get folks into placements, but getting folks into permanent placements can take a long time. I don’t know how many people have moved into permanent housing from this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:50] So, I mean, now that the cabin sites are closing, Caron, what are the plans for this specific location at Wood Street for this land?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:14:00] The neighborhood has been changing a lot since the Wood Street encampment’s been evicted. There’s the Prescott Market, there’s the Ballers Stadium, there’s some new housing developments, there’s plans to build a new beer garden up there. So I don’t know what’s happening at 2601 Wood Street where the cabins are. I would assume, based on everything else that’s happening in that neighborhood, that they’re probably going to build housing, but I couldn’t say exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:31] I mean, you’ve been covering Wood Street for a long time now. What do you make of this latest chapter, I guess, in the Wood Street saga?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:14:42] It really feels kind of like, you know, the perfect ending for the Wood Street saga. I mean, it was really disorganized when the city was talking to folks and trying to get them to come to the cabins. When they first started evicting people off of the lot on state land, the cab ins didn’t even exist. There was nowhere for them to go. And when they talked to people, there was so much miscommunication about what would be at the site. Would they have kitchens? Would they had bathrooms? Would they get keys? It’s clearly still very disorganized. So yeah, it makes sense to me that it would end this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:19] Well, Caron Creighton, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caron Creighton \u003c/strong>[00:15:30] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the city of Berkeley ordered the clearing of RV encampments on Second Street, the city began offering cash to people living in their RVs in addition to a room at a motel shelter. Most accepted the offer, and city leaders are hopeful that this approach can expand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7936715503&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:42] Your story focused on this concentration of RVs on Second Street in Berkeley. Tell me a little bit more about this area and why it was such an area of interest for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:01:55] Yeah, this is an industrial area on the western edge of the city. It attracted people living in RVs over the past few years, but eventually got to the point where there were RVs, cars, broken down busses, tents and structures that people built just for blocks and blocks along Second Street and some of the cross streets there. Trash started piling up. There were problems with rats. There was rotting food. There was feces. The data I saw was that in 2023, police were called to the area about 250 times. And there were 20 fires reported to the fire department. Eventually city officials declared this area an imminent health hazard and the city council actually directed staff to focus on cleaning up this area and another large RV encampment nearby that’s on Harrison Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] I know you met some people who were living on Second Street before the city decided that they wanted to clear it. Who did you meet and how did they describe life on Second street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:19] I met Fannie Hall when I was down there early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Yeah, all these little guys. Plus I got my daughter’s dog. He’s a little smaller. So I got 11, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:31] She was poking her head out of this vintage blue and white RV that she has. She shares it with her adult daughter and granddaughter and so many Chihuahuas, nine puppies and two adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Oh, my goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Her son was also living across the street in another camper that she has. She said that she’d been there about six years and the family ended up there. After this house they were renting in San Pablo got red tagged for code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] My landlord was one of those landlords that tried to do everything cheaply and it cost me my home and I had to move out with them. They came on a Monday, I had to be out by Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:04:18] She claims that they were some of the first people down on Second Street, that it was quiet at first, and she tried to keep the area where she was clean and keep a low profile. She works three days a week as a home health aide, and she has a car, so she said she would use that to haul garbage to a dumpster down the street. But over time, more and more people moved in, trash started piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Rats became a problem. I’ve had my camper chewed on and I’ve killed multiple rats up in my camper and I keep a clean camper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] So it became increasingly difficult, but she seemed to like the independence and she’d been there for quite some time, you know, so while it was certainly not ideal and she talked about wanting housing, I think she had figured out a fairly manageable life for herself and her family under really hard circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:22] Yeah, and I imagine her family unit, it’s very important for her to keep them all together and that they were, it sounds like they were really able to do that. And then I know you met someone who moved to Second Street a little bit more recently. Tell me about Elvia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:38] Elvia Guzman told me that she and her husband ended up on Second Street last year after bouncing around a couple different RV encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there, so we just came down here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:56] Briefly been around Harrison Street in that big encampment in Berkeley, recently got swept. Before that, they were in Richmond, where she had lived for a long time. And they ended up in an RV there until the area, the encampments they were living in there got cleared. Then she came to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:19] Police wasn’t moving us as much and they weren’t really bothering us over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] In general, she made it sound like she never felt fully safe or comfortable living in an RV. She talked about how they always had to park in sort of sketchy areas. She also talked about ways in which life was just hard in an RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:49] Everything is like ten times harder. Sometimes you don’t have water. Sometimes, you know, it’s too cold or too hot not enough space and I Think it’s frustrating a little bit for like it was frustrating a lot a little it for me because I get anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:06] She seemed much less comfortable than Fannie living in an RV, although she was really grateful for the shelter it provided and the security, you know? To the extent that it provided security, she was very grateful for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] How long was Elvia living in an RV on Second Street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] Elvia and her husband moved to 2nd Street around six months before the city started moving in earnest to close down this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] I want to talk more about the city’s effort to close down this encampment. Tell me about what the city began offering to people living in these RVs on Second Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:59] So what they did is offer people cash for their RVs. So if participants agreed to move indoors into this motel shelter they were offering, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV. That pencils out to about $6,000 for a 35-foot RV. And the way it would work is that people would get some of that money when they first moved into the motel. Then they do this trial period. To see if they felt comfortable at the shelter, if they wanted to stay. And if they decided they wanted to stay, they’d get their RV towed. And at that point, they got the rest of the money. If they decided to leave, they would keep the initial 15% of the payout that they’d already gotten, and they got to keep their RV. RV encampments are hard to deal with because people are reluctant to leave their RV for shelter. And that had been the case on Second Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] And so, we’re just giving folks another choice in their choice set, right? About how to navigate this reality that we had to close this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Peter Radu, who oversees the city’s homeless response team, told me that he saw it as a way to build trust with people and overcome some of that reluctance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Anything interim or anything time-limited, I think they were very rationally and rightly afraid that if they moved in and that didn’t work out, they would be back out on the street, but this time without their largest remaining asset, which is their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:38] They were out there for about three months, hearing them out about their concerns and trying to find ways to accommodate their individual needs, right? So some people, initially, I was told the motel was gonna only accept one dog per room. It quickly became clear that that wasn’t gonna work because so many people had. Dogs. So they found ways to accommodate more dogs. They found ways to place people together in rooms, not just couples, but friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] And I mean, that’s pretty unique, Vanessa, I feel like you don’t often hear of efforts like this that feel and sound very individual. Usually it feels like a one-size-fit-all sort of solution, just throw folks into shelters, but it seems like there was a real effort here to accommodate people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] That’s right, but I think Peter Radu would say that they’ve known for a long time that a low barrier model, right, which is what they would call this shelter, is crucial. But what really made the difference in this case was really the buyback program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] The hypothesis, I suppose, in wanting to pilot this is what if we could liquefy that asset for them? What if we can buy it for them, would that change their decision-making, and would that changed their willingness to engage with us in the homeless system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] I think it’s more than just an incentive, I think that it’s building trust by promising these people a bit of a safety net. People are very distrustful that they will actually end up getting permanent housing. So if they give up their RV but they at least have a few thousand dollars in their pocket, that’s a big difference, right? I mean, I talked to multiple people who told me that. That gave them a bit of reassurance and made them feel more comfortable taking the city up on this shelter offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:01] It sounds like a really big decision to make for many of the folks living on Second Street. How many people were offered this buyout program and how many took it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] So Radu told me that outreach workers encountered 32 vehicles out there during the closure process. In all, 36 people and 26 dogs ended up moving into this motel. Of those 32 vehicles they encountered, only three of them are still on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] The housing market is not great. That’s the reason why I’m still where I’m at, because who can afford the high cost of living?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] Fannie’s two RVs, hers and her sons, are among those three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:03] I’m one of the people that can go in, but I don’t want to go in. I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with, and I want to do the RV buyback, but I think they could come up with a little bit better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Fannie told me she was worried about the unknowns at the shelter, so would she feel safe there? Who would be there? She worried about restrictions, not being able to cook in her motel room, not be able to have guests. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the city of Berkeley ordered the clearing of RV encampments on Second Street, the city began offering cash to people living in their RVs in addition to a room at a motel shelter. Most accepted the offer, and city leaders are hopeful that this approach can expand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7936715503&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:42] Your story focused on this concentration of RVs on Second Street in Berkeley. Tell me a little bit more about this area and why it was such an area of interest for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:01:55] Yeah, this is an industrial area on the western edge of the city. It attracted people living in RVs over the past few years, but eventually got to the point where there were RVs, cars, broken down busses, tents and structures that people built just for blocks and blocks along Second Street and some of the cross streets there. Trash started piling up. There were problems with rats. There was rotting food. There was feces. The data I saw was that in 2023, police were called to the area about 250 times. And there were 20 fires reported to the fire department. Eventually city officials declared this area an imminent health hazard and the city council actually directed staff to focus on cleaning up this area and another large RV encampment nearby that’s on Harrison Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] I know you met some people who were living on Second Street before the city decided that they wanted to clear it. Who did you meet and how did they describe life on Second street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:19] I met Fannie Hall when I was down there early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Yeah, all these little guys. Plus I got my daughter’s dog. He’s a little smaller. So I got 11, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:31] She was poking her head out of this vintage blue and white RV that she has. She shares it with her adult daughter and granddaughter and so many Chihuahuas, nine puppies and two adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Oh, my goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Her son was also living across the street in another camper that she has. She said that she’d been there about six years and the family ended up there. After this house they were renting in San Pablo got red tagged for code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] My landlord was one of those landlords that tried to do everything cheaply and it cost me my home and I had to move out with them. They came on a Monday, I had to be out by Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:04:18] She claims that they were some of the first people down on Second Street, that it was quiet at first, and she tried to keep the area where she was clean and keep a low profile. She works three days a week as a home health aide, and she has a car, so she said she would use that to haul garbage to a dumpster down the street. But over time, more and more people moved in, trash started piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Rats became a problem. I’ve had my camper chewed on and I’ve killed multiple rats up in my camper and I keep a clean camper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] So it became increasingly difficult, but she seemed to like the independence and she’d been there for quite some time, you know, so while it was certainly not ideal and she talked about wanting housing, I think she had figured out a fairly manageable life for herself and her family under really hard circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:22] Yeah, and I imagine her family unit, it’s very important for her to keep them all together and that they were, it sounds like they were really able to do that. And then I know you met someone who moved to Second Street a little bit more recently. Tell me about Elvia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:38] Elvia Guzman told me that she and her husband ended up on Second Street last year after bouncing around a couple different RV encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there, so we just came down here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:56] Briefly been around Harrison Street in that big encampment in Berkeley, recently got swept. Before that, they were in Richmond, where she had lived for a long time. And they ended up in an RV there until the area, the encampments they were living in there got cleared. Then she came to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:19] Police wasn’t moving us as much and they weren’t really bothering us over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] In general, she made it sound like she never felt fully safe or comfortable living in an RV. She talked about how they always had to park in sort of sketchy areas. She also talked about ways in which life was just hard in an RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:49] Everything is like ten times harder. Sometimes you don’t have water. 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About how to navigate this reality that we had to close this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Peter Radu, who oversees the city’s homeless response team, told me that he saw it as a way to build trust with people and overcome some of that reluctance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Anything interim or anything time-limited, I think they were very rationally and rightly afraid that if they moved in and that didn’t work out, they would be back out on the street, but this time without their largest remaining asset, which is their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:38] They were out there for about three months, hearing them out about their concerns and trying to find ways to accommodate their individual needs, right? So some people, initially, I was told the motel was gonna only accept one dog per room. It quickly became clear that that wasn’t gonna work because so many people had. Dogs. So they found ways to accommodate more dogs. They found ways to place people together in rooms, not just couples, but friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] And I mean, that’s pretty unique, Vanessa, I feel like you don’t often hear of efforts like this that feel and sound very individual. Usually it feels like a one-size-fit-all sort of solution, just throw folks into shelters, but it seems like there was a real effort here to accommodate people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] That’s right, but I think Peter Radu would say that they’ve known for a long time that a low barrier model, right, which is what they would call this shelter, is crucial. But what really made the difference in this case was really the buyback program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] The hypothesis, I suppose, in wanting to pilot this is what if we could liquefy that asset for them? What if we can buy it for them, would that change their decision-making, and would that changed their willingness to engage with us in the homeless system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] I think it’s more than just an incentive, I think that it’s building trust by promising these people a bit of a safety net. People are very distrustful that they will actually end up getting permanent housing. So if they give up their RV but they at least have a few thousand dollars in their pocket, that’s a big difference, right? I mean, I talked to multiple people who told me that. That gave them a bit of reassurance and made them feel more comfortable taking the city up on this shelter offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:01] It sounds like a really big decision to make for many of the folks living on Second Street. How many people were offered this buyout program and how many took it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] So Radu told me that outreach workers encountered 32 vehicles out there during the closure process. In all, 36 people and 26 dogs ended up moving into this motel. Of those 32 vehicles they encountered, only three of them are still on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] The housing market is not great. 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Now, some farmers on the Central Coast are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-06-13/researchers-got-millions-to-incentivize-sustainable-farming-in-the-salinas-valley-the-trump-administration-might-take-it-away\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">trying to find ways\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to keep their land nourished despite precarious funding. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A federal appeals court \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles-appeals-court/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">will hear arguments Tuesday\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on President Donald Trump’s decision to send armed troops to Los Angeles in response to immigration protests.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Governor Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/06/california-homelessness-funding-budget/\">are proposing to gut\u003c/a> California’s main source of homelessness funding.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-06-13/researchers-got-millions-to-incentivize-sustainable-farming-in-the-salinas-valley-the-trump-administration-might-take-it-away\">\u003cstrong>Researchers Got Millions To Incentivize Sustainable Farming In The Salinas Valley. But That Money May Be Going Away\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Celsa Ortega walks up and down the rows of her 4.25-acre farm in Aromas in Monterey and San Benito counties on a cloudy morning in early June. She’s been farming for five years, but has only had her own plot for about a year. She’s currently growing lettuce and three different varieties of onion. “My biggest dream in agriculture is to understand the earth,” Ortega said, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federally funded grant project aimed to foster that. Researchers at Cal State Monterey Bay \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2024-12-17/cal-state-monterey-bay-researchers-are-expanding-climate-smart-practices-through-a-partnership-with-local-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>got $5 million\u003c/u>\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.usda.gov/climate-solutions/climate-smart-commodities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (PCSC) program last year to test the effectiveness of three climate-smart practices on farmland in the Salinas Valley: adding compost, planting cover crops, and reducing the amount of applied nitrogen fertilizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “climate-smart” refers to strategies farmers use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from crop production and to make their operations more resilient to climate change. The grant was initially supposed to fund five years of research. But in April, researchers got a letter from the USDA stating their grant was getting cancelled—and not just theirs. The whole nationwide program was getting axed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA has since announced it was changing course. Instead of a full-blown termination, the PCSC program is getting revamped under a new name—Advancing Markets for Producers. Current grant recipients might be able to keep their funding as long as they comply with the new requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles-appeals-court/\">\u003cstrong>Can Trump Keep Troops In LA? Appeals Court To Hear Case Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Governor Gavin Newsom had a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/los-angeles-marines-newsom-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fleeting win against President Trump\u003c/a> last week when a federal judge handed down an order that would have halted Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. Within hours of that decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the ruling, allowing the troops to remain under Trump’s control. On Tuesday, the appeals court is scheduled to pick up where it left off in Newsom’s challenge to Trump’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrow focus of the hearing — and the expected order from the judges sometime this week — has massive implications for California. Namely: Can Newsom reclaim command of the National Guard against Trump’s wishes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arguments will play out in front of a three-judge panel, two of whom \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/judicial-council/judges-seniority-list/\">were appointed by Trump\u003c/a> and one by former President Joe Biden, a Democrat. This isn’t the only hearing that’ll determine who gets control of the 4,000 guard members Trump deployed since June 7, after protests in the Los Angeles area erupted in response to federal immigration officers raiding work sites and arresting individuals they say are in the U.S. without authorization. Those protests \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/no-kings-california-protests/\">were in full force over the weekend\u003c/a>. On Friday, the lower court judge who initially sided with Newsom’s lawyers is expected to hold a hearing on whether to issue a preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s deployment of military personnel, including the Guard, to Los Angeles. For Newsom’s legal team to prevail in that hearing, they’ll have to clear a higher threshold of scrutiny. That’s because anyone seeking a preliminary injunction must demonstrate that the merits of their arguments will likely prevail \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/los-angeles-marines-newsom-lawsuit/#:~:text=Breyer%E2%80%99s%20order%20was,appeal%20his%20ruling.\">in the full trial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/06/california-homelessness-funding-budget/\">\u003cstrong>Proposed Budget Eliminates Funding For Homelessness\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State leaders have been talking a lot lately about cleaning up California’s homeless encampments and moving people indoors. But the tentative budget they’ve drawn up for the upcoming year has many asking: With what money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Gov. 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But officials moved forward anyway — citing political pressure, optics and infrastructure plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg']“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. 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"content": "\u003cp>Medical debt. Messy divorce. Wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When hard life moments meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s sky-high housing costs, homelessness can quickly become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case for Nina, a mother who sought legal aid at the nonprofit Open Door Legal two years ago after facing domestic abuse by her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for them, realistically, my daughter and I would have probably been evicted, and we would have ended up living on the streets or in a shelter,” said Nina, who lives in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina, who did not use her full name for safety reasons, told KQED she was trying to get child support when her husband refused to pay “even a single penny” after he left her and her daughter, who has a disability. Legal aid helped her navigate restraining orders, threats of eviction, and obtain child support, keeping her and her daughter housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an effort to direct more dollars toward temporary shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is proposing to shift funding away from programs that help lower-income residents fight costly legal cases and other homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Tirtanadi stands outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nasicmento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will affect residents all over the city. Homeowners who suffer wrongful foreclosures, domestic violence survivors and much more,” said Adrian Tirtanadi, executive director of Open Door Legal, which is slated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043582/he-says-legal-aid-fights-poverty-in-sf-now-hes-starting-a-hunger-strike\">to lose nearly half of its city-supported funding\u003c/a> under Lurie’s budget proposal. He’s since started a hunger strike to stress the urgency of the budget cuts. “It will especially, or maybe most profoundly, make the homeless crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">Lurie has warned tough cuts lie ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now proposing significant cuts across the board to balance the budget, which include eliminating about 1,400 mostly vacant positions and roughly $100 million in grants and contracts. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is slated to be hit hardest with cuts of about $83.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his budget announcement. “The budget I’m introducing today faces the $800 million deficit head-on.”[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. We really need more housing exits,” said Christin Evans, a small-business owner in San Francisco and vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “The population of people that are on the waitlist for family shelter has been growing substantially, and it’s outpacing the ability to provide adequate shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget invests $91.2 million over three years to open and operate about 630 new shelter beds, plus an additional $31.6 million to maintain the city’s current shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for prevention, the mayor’s budget preserves existing funding for right-to-counsel programs aimed at tenants facing eviction and other housing stabilization programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to pioneer a right-to-counsel program in 2019, after voters passed the No Eviction Without Representation Act that gave all residents facing eviction the right to legal defense.[aside postID=news_12042895 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-29-BL-KQED.jpg']Between 2005 and 2019, San Francisco’s homeless population grew nearly 49%, according to federal data, fueled in part by soaring home prices. But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As budget negotiations continue this month, Tirtanadi of Open Door Legal is preparing to lose about 44% of the center’s operating budget. He has started the process of laying off nearly 15 staff members, which he estimates will translate to serving roughly 900 fewer families annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that could mean turning away clients like Nina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does the city expect us to do? We have ongoing cases, some of them have trials coming up,” Tirtanadi said. “It’s like being in the middle of surgery and putting down the tools and saying, ‘Ah, we ran out of money.’ You know? It’s just not ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San José City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">approved a controversial plan\u003c/a> to potentially arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter — part of a series of votes on Tuesday that delivered a sweeping victory for San José Mayor Matt Mahan and his agenda for reducing homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With city finances on a stable course, Mahan used the budget process to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">advance ambitious policy priorities\u003c/a>, particularly a more aggressive, shelter-focused approach. That included the shelter-or-arrest plan and an effort to prioritize city homeless funding for temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will help us end the era of encampments,” Mahan told KQED. “It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s a step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The votes came as the council balanced a $1.7 billion general fund budget without large workforce cuts, and made a historic investment in legal defense in preparation for increased federal immigration enforcement. Mahan didn’t win support for his entire agenda, as his push to tie a portion of council and mayoral pay to the city’s performance on a variety of metrics was rejected by the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cities across California are weighing more aggressive action on homelessness after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">U.S. Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> gave local officials more powers to sweep encampments, Mahan pitched his Responsibility to Shelter plan as a more humane alternative to simply clearing camps without offering shelter.[aside postID=news_12042370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which passed the council on a 9–2 vote, would add an expectation of accepting shelter to the city’s Code of Conduct for Encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s humane or compassionate to allow people to live or die on our streets when they are unable or unwilling to accept the help the city is able to offer,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s police chief said violations of the code, which include camping near a shelter site, would guide police to prioritize specific encampments for outreach, and eventually arrests, such as for trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure will also create new police and housing units for outreach and enforcement. Mahan said he hoped to use arrests to compel unsheltered residents into court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responsibility to Shelter faced widespread skepticism from Santa Clara County officials — including members of the board of supervisors, the district attorney and the county sheriff — who argued the measure will push unhoused people into the criminal justice system without adding more housing for them while they receive treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a rally outside the Regional Medical Center in East San José on May 24. Ortiz opposed the shelter enforcement plan, joined by Councilmember Pamela Campos. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who joined Councilmember Pamela Campos in opposition to the shelter enforcement plan, said the measure unfairly assumes that everyone who refuses shelter is suffering from addiction or mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone who simply declines shelter could be susceptible to being arrested, when many reasons for denying [shelter] are relevant and should be taken into consideration,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enforcement plan is likely to be carried out primarily in areas around interim housing sites, where the city has established no-encampment zones. Mahan argued that compelling unhoused people to accept shelter will help improve conditions on the streets around new shelters, which he views as key for maintaining political support for the interim housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for that program’s ongoing costs, the council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">permanently\u003c/a> earmark the lion’s share of tax revenue raised through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">Measure E\u003c/a>, a tax on property sales, for temporary housing and shelter. The new Measure E spending plan sets aside 90% for shelter costs ($47 million in 2025–26) and 10% ($5.2 million) for homeless prevention programs such as rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos pushed to increase the prevention funding to 15%, but a majority of the council rejected that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you are put in this predicament of having to do a lot with less, prevention just makes sense,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clusters of tents belonging to unhoused residents line the banks of Coyote Creek near Tully Road in San José on Jan. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By covering interim housing costs with the Measure E fund, rather than the general fund, the council erased a $35.6 million budget shortfall — and avoided the need for the large staffing cuts needed to balance municipal budgets in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It preserves our staffing, which is really, really important,” Councilmember Pam Foley said. “Because they’re the ones who provide the services that we need to do the work in the city that our residents depend upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the added fiscal breathing room, the council approved a memo from Ortiz to spend at least $1 million on immigration services, including on-call lawyers and programs to educate undocumented residents about their rights.[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing our families being unfortunately hunted down by the federal government,” Ortiz said. “This is more than a budget line, it’s recognition of the vital role our undocumented neighbors play in the vibrancy and resiliency of the city of San José.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council also set aside $27 million in reserves to reduce an anticipated shortfall in the 2026–27 fiscal year from $52.9 million to $25.9 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan found little support for his idea to withhold 5% of mayor and council pay, dispersing the money only if the city achieved council-approved goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan argued the proposal would drive greater council focus to achieve benchmarks such as lower crime and homelessness rates. But many council members said the goals could be easily manipulated to achieve success — or alternatively push council members to pursue goals not supported by their district’s constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job performance is judged by the ballot box,” Councilmember Bien Doan said. He said the plan “hands decision-making power to whoever controls the metric, not the people we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Ortiz opposed the shelter enforcement plan, joined by Councilmember Pamela Campos. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who joined Councilmember Pamela Campos in opposition to the shelter enforcement plan, said the measure unfairly assumes that everyone who refuses shelter is suffering from addiction or mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone who simply declines shelter could be susceptible to being arrested, when many reasons for denying [shelter] are relevant and should be taken into consideration,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enforcement plan is likely to be carried out primarily in areas around interim housing sites, where the city has established no-encampment zones. 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"content": "\u003cp>Facing mounting pressure from residents, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced a plan on Tuesday to ban large vehicles and RVs from parking for longer than two hours on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which is part of his March “Breaking the Cycle” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-unveils-breaking-the-cycle-vision-for-tackling-san-franciscos-homelessness-and-behavioral-health-crisis\">initiative\u003c/a>, would subject unauthorized oversized vehicles to citations and towing if not moved within the new time limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No child should grow up in San Francisco forced to live in a car,” Lurie said at a press conference on Tuesday. “And no parent should have to raise their children in those conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the program, Lurie is proposing to devote nearly $13 million to enforcement, outreach and housing subsidies, with city workers offering residents living in large vehicles the chance to receive stable housing. Lurie also intends to offer RV dwellers a “vehicle buyback” incentive — essentially a cash offer to encourage residents to relinquish their large vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes just six months after former Mayor London Breed’s own plan for banning RV street parking was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">reversed\u003c/a> by the Board of Supervisors, due to mounting criticism from homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a line of RVs in a car mirror\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members look for vehicles and RVs serving as shelters, but many have to make judgment calls as they count. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s plan would have allowed officials with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to tow vehicles if RV dwellers rejected the city’s offers of shelter or services. However, the End Poverty Tows Coalition successfully \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appealed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of that coalition are blasting Lurie’s current plan, while others say it has some merit, but lacks clarity about who specifically should be prioritized for rehousing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleana Binder, the director of public policy at the GLIDE Center for Social Justice and a member of the coalition, said the most troubling part of the plan is the city’s estimate that it could provide funding to rehouse only 115 families, or roughly a quarter of the 437 households estimated to live in large vehicles citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference between 115 and 437 is concerning,” Binder said. “Those who are not immediately connected with housing subsidies will have some protection from the two-hour parking restrictions, but we’ll still be at risk of ticketing and towing for other violations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017544 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal includes some exceptions for residents actively awaiting their placement into housing; they’ll be eligible for a temporary permit that allows them to remain parked until they can relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binder said she believes this plan could make it harder for people who are already in the queue for housing to get the resources they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those folks might experience further bottlenecking in the system if the few resources that are available are dedicated only to families who are living in RVs,” Binder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Binder said the coalition isn’t staunchly opposed to what Lurie has proposed so far. Still, she would like to see changes to the vehicle buyback program, which she said “needs to be actually adequate and a true recognition of the value of the vehicle\u003cem>.\u003c/em>” The city did not immediately respond to a question about how much money would be offered for each vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lukas Illa, a human rights organizer with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, however, called Lurie’s plan “draconian” and described the buyback program as “coercive in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] being framed as a benevolent act, but with the threat of towing and impounding and scrapping of their vehicle if they refuse the ‘services’ they’re being offered,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Lurie said his proposal has the support of five county supervisors, the majority needed for the board to approve his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will likely take its first vote on the proposal in September, according to Emily Cohen, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Witnesses say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley-police\">Berkeley police\u003c/a> threatened residents with less lethal weapons during a cleanup on Wednesday of an encampment that has been the source of conflict for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampment at Harrison and Eighth streets, which is home to roughly 40 people, is the subject of multiple lawsuits. Business owners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004348/berkeley-moves-to-expand-homeless-encampment-sweeps-in-more-aggressive-approach\">sued last year\u003c/a> to force the city to clean it up, while camp residents have multiple suits pending against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DKfUK7aSel5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MXJqY213amMxcXY2Zg%3D%3D\">Video of the sweep\u003c/a> posted by the publication \u003ca href=\"https://thestreetspirit.org/\">Street Spirit\u003c/a> shows an officer pointing a less lethal rifle at a tent and saying, “Get out now. You’re going to be shot with less lethal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesica Prado, who took the video and has been living at the encampment for seven years, said the incident happened shortly after officers showed up around 6 a.m. She said police officers were dropping smoke-emitting devices into the areas where people were sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man was “really, really scared and worked up, and he was just trying to stay inside,” Prado said. “And I think that’s when a bunch of cops just started swarming around his tent and telling him that he needed to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042928\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prado, who is also a representative with the Berkeley Homeless Union, said the officers threw one of the smoke devices into the man’s living area, and he threw it back at them. At that point, an officer pointed a non-lethal weapon at him, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first sweep that I’ve seen them come with such force,” Prado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another video, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKglqBmOwwe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=cnQzbWM4b29zb3Ns\">posted by Berkeley Copwatch\u003c/a>, shows the same man pushed to the ground and pinned by officers after crossing a police line, seemingly inadvertently, during an altercation later that morning. “I did nothing wrong, you backed me into here,” the man said, while the police pleaded with him to cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more cops came. We counted 10 on top of him at one point,” said Andrea Prichett of Copwatch, who shot the video. “He was saying he couldn’t breathe.”[aside postID=news_12041026 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-HUD-FUNDS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']A spokesperson for the police department confirmed one person was arrested during the sweep, but directed all questions about use of force to the city, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Mayor Adena Ishii said, though the details are still emerging, “the video circulating on social media is upsetting, particularly during such a traumatic moment for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she is “committed to ensuring that our city approaches clearings of encampments with as much care and empathy as possible while ensuring everyone’s safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had moved to close the encampment earlier this year, citing health hazards and public nuisance, including rodents, loose syringes, rotting food and human waste, but the Berkeley Homeless Union and residents sued and won a temporary restraining order. That order expired on May 23, after an attorney for the union missed a filing deadline for a preliminary injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, several hours after the city started dismantling the camp, Senior District Judge Edward Chen ordered the city to stop, citing due process concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg\" alt=\"tents along a street\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents on Eighth Street at a homeless encampment near Harrison Street in Berkeley in June 2023. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, whose district includes Harrison Street, expressed support for the city’s action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Homeless Union is exploiting the legal system to keep the dangerous, unsafe encampment on Harrison Street open, which is a known magnet for criminal activity and open illicit drug use,” she wrote in an email to KQED. ”I applaud our city staff who conducted vital, difficult work on Wednesday to close the Harrison encampment after we were legally cleared to do so and had issued notice for closure in January before litigation delayed the closure process. The city will now follow the restraining order issued by Judge Chen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brigitte Nicoletti, an attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center who represents some camp residents, said residents had been caught off guard. The city did not provide advance notice of the sweep and gave people less than 30 minutes to retrieve their belongings before heavy machinery moved in to crush and remove what remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wouldn’t even let me cross the lines to talk to clients,” Nicoletti added, referring to a large area cordoned off by the police. “It’s very, very concerning and a real escalation in tactics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t take all that,” said Shareef Muwwakkil, who’d been living in a tent in the area for a couple of years. “Most people out here are malnutritioned; they don’t even have the energy to put up significant resistance. It’s just overkill. It’s showboating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the scene were handing out new tents and sleeping bags to residents who’d lost theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just knocks the wind out of me,” Muwwakkil said of losing books, audio equipment, clothes and other belongings. “This is not OK for me to go through anymore. It’s wearing me out.”[aside postID=news_12042370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']At an emergency hearing on Wednesday, Chen asked lawyers for the city why they hadn’t provided notice ahead of the sweep. “What was the problem with giving reasonable notice?” he said. “Was it to avoid any possible intervention by this court?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has consistently stated it intends to proceed with this abatement,” Deputy City Attorney Laura Iris Mattes said. “We’ve given them five months’ worth of notice … folks have the opportunity to leave at any time …They have had since the city posted this notice in January to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen didn’t buy that. “Anybody would have expected there would be some notice … It just seems like, as a matter of fairness and due process, there’d be notice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In asking the judge to halt the sweep, Anthony Prince, the attorney representing the Berkeley Homeless Union, acknowledged the harm was already done. “The toothpaste is out of the tube,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can do is halt this now,” Chen said. “I’m not in a position to put the toothpaste back in the tube.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen ordered the city to pause abatement until further notice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesica Prado, who took the video and has been living at the encampment for seven years, said the incident happened shortly after officers showed up around 6 a.m. She said police officers were dropping smoke-emitting devices into the areas where people were sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man was “really, really scared and worked up, and he was just trying to stay inside,” Prado said. “And I think that’s when a bunch of cops just started swarming around his tent and telling him that he needed to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042928\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prado, who is also a representative with the Berkeley Homeless Union, said the officers threw one of the smoke devices into the man’s living area, and he threw it back at them. At that point, an officer pointed a non-lethal weapon at him, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first sweep that I’ve seen them come with such force,” Prado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another video, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKglqBmOwwe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=cnQzbWM4b29zb3Ns\">posted by Berkeley Copwatch\u003c/a>, shows the same man pushed to the ground and pinned by officers after crossing a police line, seemingly inadvertently, during an altercation later that morning. “I did nothing wrong, you backed me into here,” the man said, while the police pleaded with him to cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more cops came. We counted 10 on top of him at one point,” said Andrea Prichett of Copwatch, who shot the video. “He was saying he couldn’t breathe.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That order expired on May 23, after an attorney for the union missed a filing deadline for a preliminary injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, several hours after the city started dismantling the camp, Senior District Judge Edward Chen ordered the city to stop, citing due process concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg\" alt=\"tents along a street\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents on Eighth Street at a homeless encampment near Harrison Street in Berkeley in June 2023. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, whose district includes Harrison Street, expressed support for the city’s action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Homeless Union is exploiting the legal system to keep the dangerous, unsafe encampment on Harrison Street open, which is a known magnet for criminal activity and open illicit drug use,” she wrote in an email to KQED. ”I applaud our city staff who conducted vital, difficult work on Wednesday to close the Harrison encampment after we were legally cleared to do so and had issued notice for closure in January before litigation delayed the closure process. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode contains explicit language.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, San Jose City Council will vote on a controversial plan that would threaten unhoused people with arrest if they refuse multiple offers of shelter. Mayor Matt Mahan says this approach could help open paths to treatment and increase support for more shelter construction. But Santa Clara County officials are skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">In San José, a Controversial Choice for Unhoused: Shelter or Arrest?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">Mahan’s Final San José Budget Focused on Controversial Homelessness and Pay Plans\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8586606765&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:05] I know you went to an encampment in San Jose. What did it look like and who did you meet when you were out there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] So this is an encampment off of Cherry Avenue in South San Jose. It’s underneath Highway 85, kind of right on the banks of the Guadalupe River, and it’s behind this big Almaden Ranch shopping center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:31] What really interested me about this encampment is right next to it, San Jose’s building a new tiny home community. And anyone who’s living in the encampament is getting offered kind of first dibs for moving into the site when it opens later this year. And so it raises the question of like, are people gonna take the offer? Why or why not? Since I first started visiting this camp, probably back in January, it has gotten in smaller and smaller. People have taken up offers of shelter, but some folks are still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] Have they said anything to you guys about giving you a spot there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:02:09] No, they said it was backed already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:11] Butch Larson and David Garcia are among them, and they’ve both been living at this camp near Cherry Avenue for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Yeah, I mean, do they have any interest in the tiny homes being built, the stone throw away?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:26] They don’t. They like to do repairs. They have a lot of tools with them. They’re concerned that they won’t be able to bring the tools into the tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] Yeah, they tried to give me a tiny home. That was bulls–t. Couldn’t have any visitors, most of all, right? Even in jail, you get visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] They don’t really feel comfortable moving in. And I think, look, the tiny homes are pretty low barrier. They don’t do drug testing there. You can bring in pets, you can come in and out. But at the end of the day, comfort is a feeling and they don’t feel comfortable making that move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:03:12] I’ve been telling everybody out here about how you’re the first person to go to jail over this s–t, and I’ve been out here the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] And others I’ve talked to at the encampment feel differently. They want a spot in the interim housing, but there are some folks like, like Butch Larson and David Garcia who say, no, they’re not going to accept that offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:35] And it’s really that slice of folks who have come into focus for Mayor Matt Mahan in recent months, right? How has the city tried to answer this hesitation that we’re seeing from people like Butch and David to accept these sort of interim shelter offers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Yeah, it’s been a balance of kind of carrots and sticks. Like I said, you know, there’s this outreach and the people who are encamped immediately around these shelter sites are getting first priority. But they’re also setting up the city as a no encampment zone around the shelter sites. So ultimately these are the encampments that are going to be cleared first. And it’s really what’s at the center of this policy that the mayor is rolling out now, this responsibility to shelter policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:04:25] I’ve come to believe that it is ineffective, politically infeasible, and frankly, cruel to those suffering from addiction and mental illness to only focus on the people who want help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:37] He’s saying once we offer people shelter, heated times, multiple times, and they’re still turning it down, that’s when we’re gonna bring in the police to potentially make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:04:48] I actually think the person who’s saying, no, I don’t want to come indoors, I don’t wanna help, I’d rather move down the block to the next neighborhood than come indoors is a real problem. Those are the folks who most need our help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] And this is sort of a way of like forcing people’s hands to accept this interim shelter, right? Why this approach? Why the threat of arrest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:11] Yeah, I think he sees it as kind of a middle path between letting encampments proliferate in the city, but then also not the approach pursued by other Bay Area cities like Fremont, for example, or elsewhere in California, like in Fresno, cities that have banned camping without offering housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] We don’t want to be cruel. The goal here is not to send anyone to jail, nor will that be the outcome of enforcing responsibility to shelter. The only point is when we’re doing everything we can and asking our community to invest millions, and ultimately, actually, it’s been billions of dollars statewide to end homelessness, people have got to, at a minimum, agree to come indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:49] Mahan has tried to pitch responsibility to shelter. It’s like a middle ground between that. They’re gonna clear encampments, but they’re always gonna proceed that with an offer of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:59] I mean, which kind of raises the question, does San Jose have enough shelter to offer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:05] It doesn’t. There’s a city report that was out on this earlier this year that I think has a few really pertinent statistics. One is just the raw number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, which this report pegged at 5,477 people in San Jose. When you combine city shelter, interim housing, county shelter, there’s probably a little more than 3,000 units. There is not enough shelter for every person who is experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The second data point that I think is relevant here is how many people are actually resisting shelter and services. And this report says in San Jose, that’s around 10% of people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Now, it’s a moving number, right? At some encampments, you’ll have a 20% of people say no, or 30, but I think this is really at the heart of the discussion here. And it’s difficult number to pin down because these are humans. There was a guy I talked to at the Cherry Ave encampment who said, you know, he’s been battling depression and an outreach worker came to him, offered a spot in interim housing, and he turned it down. And he said, I’ve regretted that ever since. Like I was just having a really bad day. And I told that person, I’m not interested, go away. And ever since then, I’ve been regretting that. And if they came back, I would say yes. So it’s a really difficult statistic to pin down, but I think it’s at the heart of this question of, how many people are actually refusing shelter and would be impacted by this initiative?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] Right, and I feel like what’s interesting is that this policy that city council is voting on really puts to the center of the photo, I feel, like of what’s happening here. The people who aren’t accepting shelter, when it seems like there’s, I mean, there’s a demand issue, but also a supply issue here. If the stated goal is to try and compel unhoused people to accept help. Say you are arrested. I mean, what would happen to you next under this plan in an ideal world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:17] Depends on whose ideal world, but I would say like the way the mayor has crafted this is once, you know, someone is arrested. The city’s plan is to take that person to this mission street recovery station. It’s a 24 hour drop off site. It’s run by the county for people who are having like a mental health crisis or honestly just for people to sober up. But there’s no agreement for that right now. So as of now, San Jose police would take this person experiencing homelessness to the county jail. Give them a citation, and then the sheriff’s office says they’ll be released right there. They’re not going to lock people up for this. Then this person would, you know, come back to court for their arraignment or for their first court appearance. You’d have someone from the San Jose City Attorney’s Office asking the judge, hey, can we place this person in a diversion court, court order treatment? You’d the public defender there, maybe they’re pushing back against the terms of a treatment plan or asking for the case to be dismissed. But if the person does make it that far, they’re gonna be in this rigorous behavioral health court. And I actually spent some time in one of those courts this week. And you know, clients there, they’re getting support from a judge, they’re get support from caseworker, but they have to show up to their appointments, to their counseling, and they have these constant check-ins with the judge to make sure that’s happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:44] And there’s some people who don’t see that as a very realistic scenario, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:50] Yeah, that’s absolutely right. I mean, first of all, I think we should just predicate this with like, not everyone who’s refusing shelter has a behavioral health issue. If people are being routed in that direction, is that even going to capture the needs of everybody who is refusing shelter? I heard some skepticism on that front. There’s a lot of skepticism among people who work in county government. And ultimately, once someone is arrested by San Jose police, they’re then transferred over to the hands of the county government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:10:19] I am quite kind of skeptical of the use of the criminal legal system to address the homelessness problem our community is kind of wrestling with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] When I talked to, for example, the acting public defender in Santa Clara County, Damon Silver, he said, you know, after that person is arrested, taken to the jail, and then immediately released, he basically said, like, it’s wildly optimistic to expect them to then show up to even their first court hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] They’re struggling to survive. For us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is, and then successfully arriving at court, I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure to appear rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] And then if they don’t show up, the judge can say, no more citations, this person needs to be brought into custody. So then that does increases the chances that someone will spend time in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] So what you create is this kind of negative cycle of arrest, re-arrest, detention, loss of property, loss of connection, and then all the resources it’s consuming to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] Fundamentally, everyone I talked to who’s involved in this behavioral health treatment program said, if you don’t have housing, your treatment is not going to work. And Damon Silver, the public defender, says the county just doesn’t have enough of that housing for treatment right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:11:47] It will ultimately, in our opinion, result in a lot more harm and be counterproductive to the goals, which is, in essence, get people out of homelessness, than achieve what the stated goal is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] Coming up, why Mayor Matt Mahan thinks this policy will help unlock the rest of his homelessness agenda. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:20] How am I supposed to make sense of all of this, Guy? I mean, if this policy that the city council is voting on next week is really about compelling people to accept help, but there’s actually not even enough help to offer, I mean what really is the goal here then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:41] Yeah, I mean, I would lay out two other big pieces of this that I think is kind of through the lens that the mayor is thinking of it. One is to use these arrests to force action by the county government, to push judges to order people into mental health or substance use treatment, to push the county, the board of supervisors to build more housing for people who are going through treatment. I think Mahan sees like, look, the city is spending a lot of money and doing a lot to stand up these shelters. And for the people who are not accepting those, he wants the county to take on a greater role to provide that kind of housing. So part of this is a forcing function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:13:19] I don’t control what happens on the county side, and much of that is determined by the state. Counties are essentially subsidiaries of the state, but I’m not going to be silent on what’s needed there either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:31] The other I would say is political. It’s been hard historically to get neighborhoods to accept homeless housing. It’s a big part of Mahan’s time as mayor to try to do that, to try and expand the shelter system, the interim housing system in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] The deal we’re making with the community is, if you allow us to build these solutions with your tax dollars, you are going to see a meaningful improvement. In fact, in the vicinity of the site, we’re going to end the era of encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:01] And he’s saying if we spend the money and we open this interim housing and there’s still an encampment right outside of the interim housing, there’s no way that people are gonna continue to support these shelter sites being built in their neighborhoods. So that political piece I think is also key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:14:17] When you get that kind of thing that comes in your neighborhood, you say, what’s going on? But okay, they said they’re gonna spread it out through the rest of the city. Here we go, what, five years later, we have 50% of the tiny homes and the safe parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:30] One of the people I think has a real stake in this is this guy Issa Ajilouny. He lives in a South San Jose neighborhood that has taken on a lot of the shelter sites, a good proportion of the sites that the city has set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] We want to be treated well and we don’t appreciate when they’re moving people in and then they’re taking from the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:49] Issa Ajlouny is the head of this local committee that was set up to kind of be a go between from the city to the neighborhoods around these shelter sites. And Issa says since the site has opened, you know, he does hear complaints from neighbors about there’s still encampments around or we’re hearing issues from going on at the\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:15:10] I’m trying to be the person that says, hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to them and try to help them. But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:15:23] He feels like neighbors are not completely satisfied with how things have gone since the site has opened. And in his opinion, it’s really incumbent upon the city to, in his words, like throw them a bone. And so he supports the mayor’s plan to kind of step up enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:15:43] I’m one of those that feel like it’s okay to push someone a little bit to get help. Just like we do with our kids, we push them a little, we discipline them to help them grow up in the right way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:56] The final vote on this policy is coming soon. Obviously, Matt Mahan is for it. What would need to happen next? And who else has come out in support?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:08] Yeah, so the final vote is Tuesday, alongside the San Jose city budget. And in addition to his allies in the council, Mahan also has gotten the support of the police union in San Jose, the fire union in Santa Jose, and their leaders have argued that, you know, clearing encampments, getting people into the care of the county is gonna ease the burden on the work that kind of their officers have to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] And who’s come out against this proposal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:35] So you have some progressives on the city council who are opposed, and really, all of the county government leadership has been the biggest opponents of this plan. From the board of supervisors, then you have the sheriff, the district attorney, the county executive, they’ve all weighed in with criticism of Mahan’s plan, basically saying it’s not gonna be workable. They don’t feel like this is, A, the best use of law enforcement resources to have, you know, be arresting people, bringing them into the jail. Um, and they pointed back to the fact that the shortage of housing is ultimately going to be a factor that’s going to, you know, hurt any, any kind of effort. And nothing is going to successful until you have more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:18] I mean, what am I supposed to make of that Guy? The fact that the city and county officials are really split on whether this is the best and most effective way to address homelessness. I mean it kind of feels like a little bit of hot potato going on here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:17:35] Yes, I mean, part of it is political, like on the council, you have a moderate more kind of business aligned majority led by mayhem. On the board of supervisors, it’s more of a progressive labor supportive majority. But I think also you have the fact that the homelessness crisis has blurred the traditional lines of responsibility between city government and county government. Historically it’s city deals with housing, county deals with health and human services. But this crisis clearly is an overlap between those two areas and so it’s jarring when you have, in this case, the city and county government at such loggerheads. Whether or not those two groups can work together and work it out, I think is gonna kind of play a key role in the success of this initiative and also future initiatives that overlap between housing and behavioral health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:31] And I mean, Guy, if this passes, how would we know if it’s working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:18:37] I asked Mahan about this, like, what would success look like for responsibility to shelter? And he said, you know, getting everyone indoors is the goal, but specifically for people who are turning down shelter, getting them into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:18:50] If we intervene earlier and get people connected to appropriate services, we have a much better shot at helping them turn their lives around and better manage an addiction or a mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:19:03] As we explored, that’s a complicated path. Will that happen? We’ll have to see. And then on the second piece of the political support for future interim housing, we’ll have see whether this can help the shelter program expand. If clearing encampments and showing to neighborhoods that have accepted shelter, that their neighborhood is gonna look a lot different and better after this plan goes into place, will that help the city expand interim housing into other areas? Does this help Mahan go to the whole West side of the city, which has no shelter and say, look, here’s my pitch for why you should accept it. Because I also think the other side of that coin is the people who live near shelters right now do feel like they’re taking on an outsized burden as far as having interim housing in their neighborhood. And if those projects and those facilities are spread out more throughout the city maybe you won’t have as much of a dynamic of residents feeling like I need something in return. For accepting this interim housing nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:20:03] I mean, it does seem worth pointing out that some of those metrics, like whether a neighborhood is open to shelter or whether someone who’s living on the streets eventually gets into more sort of permanent, stable housing, those are still going to take a lot of time, even if maybe someone is, in the immediate term, swept off of the streets and into jail for a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:20:33] Yeah, and like treatment, you know, the judge at the treatment court said like, this is not a linear process, there’s going to be ups and downs and, you know, people missing counseling and then coming back or maybe being arrested again. So that that part of it certainly is a long process. Even the encampment clearing is not just a one-off thing. You’ve seen the examples we have in San Jose where there have been RVs or encampments cleared is that oftentimes, yes, the immediate area where the clearing happens looks a lot different, but then a mile away, a few blocks away, then the encambment moves over there, the RVs move over there. So I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that this is gonna be like an overnight fix.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:05] I know you went to an encampment in San Jose. What did it look like and who did you meet when you were out there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] So this is an encampment off of Cherry Avenue in South San Jose. It’s underneath Highway 85, kind of right on the banks of the Guadalupe River, and it’s behind this big Almaden Ranch shopping center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:31] What really interested me about this encampment is right next to it, San Jose’s building a new tiny home community. And anyone who’s living in the encampament is getting offered kind of first dibs for moving into the site when it opens later this year. And so it raises the question of like, are people gonna take the offer? Why or why not? Since I first started visiting this camp, probably back in January, it has gotten in smaller and smaller. People have taken up offers of shelter, but some folks are still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] Have they said anything to you guys about giving you a spot there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:02:09] No, they said it was backed already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:11] Butch Larson and David Garcia are among them, and they’ve both been living at this camp near Cherry Avenue for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Yeah, I mean, do they have any interest in the tiny homes being built, the stone throw away?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:26] They don’t. They like to do repairs. They have a lot of tools with them. They’re concerned that they won’t be able to bring the tools into the tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] Yeah, they tried to give me a tiny home. That was bulls–t. Couldn’t have any visitors, most of all, right? Even in jail, you get visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] They don’t really feel comfortable moving in. And I think, look, the tiny homes are pretty low barrier. They don’t do drug testing there. You can bring in pets, you can come in and out. But at the end of the day, comfort is a feeling and they don’t feel comfortable making that move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:03:12] I’ve been telling everybody out here about how you’re the first person to go to jail over this s–t, and I’ve been out here the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] And others I’ve talked to at the encampment feel differently. They want a spot in the interim housing, but there are some folks like, like Butch Larson and David Garcia who say, no, they’re not going to accept that offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:35] And it’s really that slice of folks who have come into focus for Mayor Matt Mahan in recent months, right? How has the city tried to answer this hesitation that we’re seeing from people like Butch and David to accept these sort of interim shelter offers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Yeah, it’s been a balance of kind of carrots and sticks. Like I said, you know, there’s this outreach and the people who are encamped immediately around these shelter sites are getting first priority. But they’re also setting up the city as a no encampment zone around the shelter sites. So ultimately these are the encampments that are going to be cleared first. And it’s really what’s at the center of this policy that the mayor is rolling out now, this responsibility to shelter policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:04:25] I’ve come to believe that it is ineffective, politically infeasible, and frankly, cruel to those suffering from addiction and mental illness to only focus on the people who want help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:37] He’s saying once we offer people shelter, heated times, multiple times, and they’re still turning it down, that’s when we’re gonna bring in the police to potentially make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:04:48] I actually think the person who’s saying, no, I don’t want to come indoors, I don’t wanna help, I’d rather move down the block to the next neighborhood than come indoors is a real problem. 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The only point is when we’re doing everything we can and asking our community to invest millions, and ultimately, actually, it’s been billions of dollars statewide to end homelessness, people have got to, at a minimum, agree to come indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:49] Mahan has tried to pitch responsibility to shelter. It’s like a middle ground between that. They’re gonna clear encampments, but they’re always gonna proceed that with an offer of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:59] I mean, which kind of raises the question, does San Jose have enough shelter to offer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:05] It doesn’t. There’s a city report that was out on this earlier this year that I think has a few really pertinent statistics. One is just the raw number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, which this report pegged at 5,477 people in San Jose. When you combine city shelter, interim housing, county shelter, there’s probably a little more than 3,000 units. There is not enough shelter for every person who is experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The second data point that I think is relevant here is how many people are actually resisting shelter and services. And this report says in San Jose, that’s around 10% of people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Now, it’s a moving number, right? At some encampments, you’ll have a 20% of people say no, or 30, but I think this is really at the heart of the discussion here. And it’s difficult number to pin down because these are humans. There was a guy I talked to at the Cherry Ave encampment who said, you know, he’s been battling depression and an outreach worker came to him, offered a spot in interim housing, and he turned it down. And he said, I’ve regretted that ever since. Like I was just having a really bad day. And I told that person, I’m not interested, go away. And ever since then, I’ve been regretting that. And if they came back, I would say yes. So it’s a really difficult statistic to pin down, but I think it’s at the heart of this question of, how many people are actually refusing shelter and would be impacted by this initiative?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] Right, and I feel like what’s interesting is that this policy that city council is voting on really puts to the center of the photo, I feel, like of what’s happening here. The people who aren’t accepting shelter, when it seems like there’s, I mean, there’s a demand issue, but also a supply issue here. If the stated goal is to try and compel unhoused people to accept help. Say you are arrested. I mean, what would happen to you next under this plan in an ideal world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:17] Depends on whose ideal world, but I would say like the way the mayor has crafted this is once, you know, someone is arrested. The city’s plan is to take that person to this mission street recovery station. It’s a 24 hour drop off site. It’s run by the county for people who are having like a mental health crisis or honestly just for people to sober up. But there’s no agreement for that right now. So as of now, San Jose police would take this person experiencing homelessness to the county jail. Give them a citation, and then the sheriff’s office says they’ll be released right there. They’re not going to lock people up for this. Then this person would, you know, come back to court for their arraignment or for their first court appearance. You’d have someone from the San Jose City Attorney’s Office asking the judge, hey, can we place this person in a diversion court, court order treatment? You’d the public defender there, maybe they’re pushing back against the terms of a treatment plan or asking for the case to be dismissed. But if the person does make it that far, they’re gonna be in this rigorous behavioral health court. And I actually spent some time in one of those courts this week. And you know, clients there, they’re getting support from a judge, they’re get support from caseworker, but they have to show up to their appointments, to their counseling, and they have these constant check-ins with the judge to make sure that’s happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:44] And there’s some people who don’t see that as a very realistic scenario, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:50] Yeah, that’s absolutely right. I mean, first of all, I think we should just predicate this with like, not everyone who’s refusing shelter has a behavioral health issue. If people are being routed in that direction, is that even going to capture the needs of everybody who is refusing shelter? I heard some skepticism on that front. There’s a lot of skepticism among people who work in county government. And ultimately, once someone is arrested by San Jose police, they’re then transferred over to the hands of the county government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:10:19] I am quite kind of skeptical of the use of the criminal legal system to address the homelessness problem our community is kind of wrestling with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] When I talked to, for example, the acting public defender in Santa Clara County, Damon Silver, he said, you know, after that person is arrested, taken to the jail, and then immediately released, he basically said, like, it’s wildly optimistic to expect them to then show up to even their first court hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] They’re struggling to survive. For us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is, and then successfully arriving at court, I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure to appear rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] And then if they don’t show up, the judge can say, no more citations, this person needs to be brought into custody. So then that does increases the chances that someone will spend time in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] So what you create is this kind of negative cycle of arrest, re-arrest, detention, loss of property, loss of connection, and then all the resources it’s consuming to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] Fundamentally, everyone I talked to who’s involved in this behavioral health treatment program said, if you don’t have housing, your treatment is not going to work. And Damon Silver, the public defender, says the county just doesn’t have enough of that housing for treatment right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:11:47] It will ultimately, in our opinion, result in a lot more harm and be counterproductive to the goals, which is, in essence, get people out of homelessness, than achieve what the stated goal is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] Coming up, why Mayor Matt Mahan thinks this policy will help unlock the rest of his homelessness agenda. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:20] How am I supposed to make sense of all of this, Guy? I mean, if this policy that the city council is voting on next week is really about compelling people to accept help, but there’s actually not even enough help to offer, I mean what really is the goal here then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:41] Yeah, I mean, I would lay out two other big pieces of this that I think is kind of through the lens that the mayor is thinking of it. One is to use these arrests to force action by the county government, to push judges to order people into mental health or substance use treatment, to push the county, the board of supervisors to build more housing for people who are going through treatment. I think Mahan sees like, look, the city is spending a lot of money and doing a lot to stand up these shelters. And for the people who are not accepting those, he wants the county to take on a greater role to provide that kind of housing. So part of this is a forcing function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:13:19] I don’t control what happens on the county side, and much of that is determined by the state. Counties are essentially subsidiaries of the state, but I’m not going to be silent on what’s needed there either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:31] The other I would say is political. It’s been hard historically to get neighborhoods to accept homeless housing. It’s a big part of Mahan’s time as mayor to try to do that, to try and expand the shelter system, the interim housing system in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] The deal we’re making with the community is, if you allow us to build these solutions with your tax dollars, you are going to see a meaningful improvement. 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He lives in a South San Jose neighborhood that has taken on a lot of the shelter sites, a good proportion of the sites that the city has set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] We want to be treated well and we don’t appreciate when they’re moving people in and then they’re taking from the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:49] Issa Ajlouny is the head of this local committee that was set up to kind of be a go between from the city to the neighborhoods around these shelter sites. And Issa says since the site has opened, you know, he does hear complaints from neighbors about there’s still encampments around or we’re hearing issues from going on at the\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:15:10] I’m trying to be the person that says, hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to them and try to help them. 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And who else has come out in support?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:08] Yeah, so the final vote is Tuesday, alongside the San Jose city budget. And in addition to his allies in the council, Mahan also has gotten the support of the police union in San Jose, the fire union in Santa Jose, and their leaders have argued that, you know, clearing encampments, getting people into the care of the county is gonna ease the burden on the work that kind of their officers have to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] And who’s come out against this proposal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:35] So you have some progressives on the city council who are opposed, and really, all of the county government leadership has been the biggest opponents of this plan. From the board of supervisors, then you have the sheriff, the district attorney, the county executive, they’ve all weighed in with criticism of Mahan’s plan, basically saying it’s not gonna be workable. They don’t feel like this is, A, the best use of law enforcement resources to have, you know, be arresting people, bringing them into the jail. Um, and they pointed back to the fact that the shortage of housing is ultimately going to be a factor that’s going to, you know, hurt any, any kind of effort. And nothing is going to successful until you have more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:18] I mean, what am I supposed to make of that Guy? The fact that the city and county officials are really split on whether this is the best and most effective way to address homelessness. 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Whether or not those two groups can work together and work it out, I think is gonna kind of play a key role in the success of this initiative and also future initiatives that overlap between housing and behavioral health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:31] And I mean, Guy, if this passes, how would we know if it’s working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:18:37] I asked Mahan about this, like, what would success look like for responsibility to shelter? 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"content": "\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan on Wednesday unveiled his final city budget plan, setting up a handful of contentious votes next week on city spending, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031266/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahans-aggressive-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\">homelessness \u003c/a>and council pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his June Budget Message, the mayor asked the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">shift city funds\u003c/a> toward interim housing and shelter, in order to fill a $35.6 million budget shortfall in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The council will vote on that idea on Tuesday, along with a pair of ambitious Mahan proposals: one to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">potentially arrest\u003c/a> unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter and another that would tie the pay of city leaders to a series of performance metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget message is all about focusing on the basics and increasing accountability for results,” Mahan told KQED. “I think accountability for the leadership at city hall is important, I’m calling on the city and county to be accountable for expanding shelter … and I’m saying that individuals in our community should be held accountable for coming indoors when there’s an appropriate shelter or treatment placement that is repeatedly offered to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s budget is in relatively good shape compared to the large deficits faced by city leaders in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">Oakland\u003c/a>. As a result, Mahan wrote that the balancing plan “avoids virtually all layoffs,” and adds five new positions to the city workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan also sets aside $27 million in reserves, in anticipation of a larger $52.9 million deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balanced budget this year was largely achieved by using revenue raised from a tax on property sales of $2 million or more — approved by voters through Measure E in 2020 — to pay for the interim housing the city uses to shelter people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By default, three-quarters of the money raised through Measure E goes to build new permanently affordable housing. Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">successfully\u003c/a> pushed to shift more of that money toward temporary housing in his first two budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he proposed to spend up to 90% of Measure E revenue on shelter — a nearly $40 million shift that will cover the ongoing costs of the city’s interim housing units and erase the deficit — and to make that change permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move has drawn criticism from affordable housing advocates and some council members who argue a permanent funding shift will make it harder for new affordable apartments to get off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we create opportunities for folks to come indoors through shelter, we need a place for folks who have stability to then transition and move forward,” Councilmember Pamela Campos told KQED. She called for investments “both in creating shelter opportunities and creating the outflow of affordable housing that allows people to continue on their journey to improving their lives.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Campos also said the city should be spending more on programs that prevent homelessness (which receive 10% of Measure E funds ), such as rental assistance. She said that revenue would be a targeted investment to reduce the “hidden homelessness” experienced by 2,200 students in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prevention dollars are one of the most impactful ways that we can stop the inflow of individuals, families, young adults and seniors on a limited income who are becoming homeless,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will also vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">Mahan’s plan\u003c/a> to arrest people experiencing homelessness who have turned down multiple offers of shelter. The mayor has said the plan would open pathways for unhoused people into court-ordered treatment and encourage people experiencing homelessness near shelters to come indoors. County leaders have come out against the idea, arguing it will lead to a revolving door of citations and releases given the local shortage of shelter, affordable housing and treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan is also asking the council to withhold 5% of the mayor and council members’ salaries, to be paid or proportionally reduced based on whether the city meets a series of council-approved goals, such as reducing homelessness or crime. Mahan has billed the idea as building a greater level of accountability into city leadership, while some council members say it will restrict their flexibility and incentive to respond to emerging issues such as a wildfire or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure E allocation and Mahan’s Responsibility to Shelter and Pay for Performance initiatives will each be voted on separately from the overall budget at Tuesday’s meeting. 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San Francisco gets about $50 million annually. However, that funding is now at risk as the Trump administration moves to impose new conditions on the federal money. It’s part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026179/san-francisco-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-threats-to-punish-sanctuary-cities\">broader pattern of the Trump administration seeking to withhold money\u003c/a> to pressure democratically led cities and counties to change policies the administration doesn’t like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, when HUD sent out grant applications, local officials balked. Under the new rules, local governments must certify that they do not have diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, don’t promote “gender ideology,” and don’t have sanctuary immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Santa Clara joined six other counties in suing the Trump administration over these new conditions. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2025/05/08/federal-court-blocks-trump-administrations-illegal-conditions-on-hud-grants/#:~:text=The%20HUD%20Continuum%20of%20Care,and%20anti%2Dequity%20policy%20preferences.\">Earlier this month,\u003c/a> they won a temporary restraining order halting the new grant conditions. On Wednesday, the counties return to court where the same judge will consider a permanent injunction as the case moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-05-20/court-halts-temecula-school-boards-crt-ban\">\u003cstrong>Court Halts Temecula School Board’s CRT Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A California Appeals Court has ruled that Temecula Valley Unified School District’s ban on Critical Race Theory is unconstitutionally vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/01/1222380424/what-changed-after-a-california-school-district-banned-teaching-critical-race-th\"> banned the teaching of critical race theory, or CRT, in 2022.\u003c/a> A group of parents and teachers sued, and the Fourth Appellate Court said the district has to put its ban on hold while the lawsuit continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Kathleen O’Leary wrote the board’s definition of CRT seemed subjective and there are no guidelines for how a teacher should modify their curriculum. “The court’s decision makes very clear that California courts also do not stand for ideological censorship, especially censorship that restricts students’ right to learn key moments in the history of racial inequity in this country,” said Amanda Mangaser Savage, who represents the parents and teachers. The Temecula school board’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996916/california-delta-leaders-blast-newsoms-push-to-fast-track-20-billion-water-tunnel\">California Delta Leaders Blast Newsom’s Push To Fast-Track $20 Billion Water Tunnel\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Less than a week after Gov. 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They also accused Newsom of favoring agricultural interests and Southern California over the needs of Northern California communities, and said the project will harm fish species, the environment and local economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project will devastate the delta’s ecosystem and place an enormous financial burden on ratepayers at a time when Californians are already struggling with the cost of living,” said Assemblymember Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, who represents communities throughout the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email Tuesday afternoon, the Newsom administration disputed the caucus members’ comments, saying they demonstrate “why this fast track is necessary, as it is clear that misinformation will continue to delay and obfuscate this critical project.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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